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‘A Hotbed Of Anti-Semitism’: Jewish Professors Take Their Case To The Supreme Court

'A Hotbed Of Anti-Semitism': Jewish Professors Take Their Case To The Supreme Court

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Rumors are swirling that ex-New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace three years ago, may run for mayor of New York City.
Cuomo has long told insiders he wouldn’t run for the position because he didn’t want to run against current NYC mayor Eric Adams, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/cuomo-mayor-adams-indictment-00181288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The two share a similar base of moderate, black Democrat voters.
But Adams was indicted this week, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-democrat-mayor-eric-adams-charged-with-bribery-fraud-acting-as-foreign-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, charged with bribery, fraud, and acting as a foreign agent. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
That indictment may have changed the game for Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 following allegations of sexual misconduct by nearly a dozen female staffers. But with Adams’s legal troubles, some insiders are suggesting Cuomo may run for mayor.
“I think he’s going to run,” Chris Coffey, a former adviser to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Yang’s 2021 mayoral campaign, told POLITICO. “He was probably going to run no matter what, and a weakened, or out-of-the-race Eric Adams is a better bet for him.”
Cuomo also reached out to New York business and labor leaders last year to gauge interest in a potential mayoral run. But his spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, says that’s not going to happen.
“Governor Cuomo has spent a lifetime in public service fighting and delivering for the people of New York — that said, the speculation is premature as Governor Cuomo believes Mayor Adams is entitled to due process,&#8221; Azzopardi told The Daily Wire.
But, POLITICO reported, Cuomo’s political team is trying to create an aura of inevitability, even after the ex-governor testified before Congress about his disastrous COVID policies, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-to-defend-nursing-home-covid-policy-as-congress-demands-accountability-for-13000-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Shortly before he testified, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a report that found Cuomo “edited” a state report that minimized the deaths that occurred in New York nursing homes during the pandemic, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-edited-report-that-minimized-covid-deaths-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“They [Cuomo and his then-staff] want to assert that that order is exactly the same as the federal CMS, which it is not,” Rep. Marc Molinaro <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/cuomo-grilled-by-house-panel-over-nys-covid-nursing-home-deaths-dont-see-a-lot-of-remorse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The state order says, ‘You shall take back individuals and you cannot deny them solely on the basis of COVID,’ which left them no option but to accept individuals that we knew would cause risk to the other patients.”
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“Andrew Cuomo was attempting to shift blame for what was a clear directive,” Molinaro continued. “When they identified and knew that the order was causing great loss, they subsequently cooked the books to suggest that the numbers of those who died in nursing homes were much less than we knew.”
His handling of COVID is not the only baggage Cuomo would carry in a mayoral election. He ultimately resigned after multiple female staffers, including former adviser Lindsey Boylan, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-accused-andrew-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment-finally-details-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> him of sexual harassment. Boylan claimed in 2021 that Cuomo sexually harassed her “for years” and that “many saw it, and watched” and that she “could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks.”
“Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman,” she continued. “I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.”
Boylan is now speaking out about a potential Cuomo mayor candidacy, saying, “There is no fight I will not take on if this monster thinks he can slime himself into power once again.”
“It already is retraumatuzing (sic),” she said in a post on X. “Frankly it never stopped being traumatizing legally because he never stops abusing. But he didn’t just abuse his women staffers. New Yorkers, Andrew Cuomo abused you too. He abused you with his constant lies, bullying, and self-promotion. For years.”
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There is no fight I will not take on if this monster thinks he can slime himself into power once again.
I would stand alone in front of millions of people. But luckily I do not have to. I have many good friends in the fight &#8211; millions of people I know and don’t know.
— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1839639006008508562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Insiders Say Andrew Cuomo May Reconsider NYC Mayoral Bid After Eric Adams Indictment

Insiders Say Andrew Cuomo May Reconsider Mayoral Bid After Eric Adams Indictment

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Former President Donald Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday, just one day after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the European leader and announced an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-vows-to-send-billions-more-to-ukraine-after-zelensky-accused-of-election-interference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional $8 billion</a> in military assistance for Ukraine.
The meeting also comes days after Zelensky called Trump&#8217;s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), &#8220;too radical&#8221; and expressed doubt that Trump has a plan for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. The conflict is now in its 31st month as Russian and Ukrainian soldiers continue to fight over Ukraine&#8217;s southern and eastern territory.
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Donald Trump meets Zelensky in New York.
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Trump has promised to end the bloodbath in Ukraine if he becomes president. Before meeting with Zelensky, Trump told reporters, &#8220;We’re going to work very much with both parties to try and get this settled,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4903365-zelensky-trump-ukraine-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“We have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin. And I think if we win I think we’re going to get it resolved very quickly,” Trump added before Zelensky chimed in, saying, &#8220;I hope we have more good relations.&#8221;
&#8220;But it takes two to tango, you know, and we’re going to have a good meeting today,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And I think the fact that we’re even together today is a very good sign.&#8221;
Zelensky told <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/volodymyr-zelensky-has-a-plan-for-ukraines-victory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Yorker</a> earlier this week, &#8220;Trump doesn&#8217;t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.&#8221;
&#8220;With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand,&#8221; Zelensky added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow, and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it&#8217;s not that simple.&#8221;
The Ukrainian president also said Vance is &#8220;too radical,&#8221; arguing that the Republican vice presidential candidate&#8217;s message &#8220;seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice.&#8221;
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Trump <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lashes-zelenskyy-after-ukraines-leader-questioned-claim/story?id=114115473" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Zelensky at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday for &#8220;making little nasty aspersions&#8221; toward him. The former president also called Zelensky the &#8220;greatest salesman on Earth,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Those buildings are down. Those cities are gone. They&#8217;re gone. And we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal.&#8221;
Some conservatives accused Zelensky of &#8220;election interference&#8221; after he appeared with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) at a factory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania earlier this week. During their visit to the factory, Shapiro signed an artillery shell that was being shipped to Ukraine.
“The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because – on purpose – no Republicans were invited. The tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote in a letter to Zelensky.

Ukrainian President Zelensky Meets With Donald Trump In New York City

Trump Meets With Zelensky After Leaders Trade Digs Over Plan To End War

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) made his first remarks in public on Thursday after the federal indictment against him was unsealed and law enforcement officials raided his home.
Adams, who faces decades behind bars if convicted, was charged in a sprawling corruption probe that alleged he acted as an official of a foreign power, accepted bribes, committed fraud, and conspired to commit all the crimes.
&#8220;I want to thank you for being here this morning, and I want to thank the supporters of all ethnic groups that are here, particularly the men and women of the clergy that&#8217;s here that have joined me here today,&#8221; he told a group of supporters at a press conference. &#8220;And we are not surprised. We expected this. This is not surprising to us at all. The actions that have unfolded over the last 10 months, the leaks, the commentary, the demonizing. This did not surprise us that we reached this day.&#8221;
He asked that New Yorkers wait to pass judgment until they have heard his side of the story.
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&#8220;From here, my attorneys will take care of the case so I can take care of the city,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My day to day will not change. I will continue to do the job for 8.3 million New Yorkers that I was elected to do. And the 300,000 plus employees of our city government will continue to do their jobs, because this is what we do as New Yorkers.&#8221;
He said that it was an insult to the people of the city that people were claiming that he and his administration would be unable to do their jobs while the case moves forward.
&#8220;They are dedicated public servants, and I have been one of them for many years, and they are going to continue to do their job, moving the city forward every day,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s an unfortunate day and it&#8217;s a painful day.&#8221;
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&#8220;I ask to wait and hear our side to this narrative.&#8221;
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— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1839327641276740046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Eric Adams Responds After Indictment Unsealed

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New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on multiple federal corruption charges in an indictment that was unsealed on Thursday.
Adams, whose residence was raided on Thursday morning, was indicted on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Federal Program Bribery, and to Receive Campaign Contributions By Foreign Nationals; one count of Wire Fraud; one count of Bribery, and two counts of Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National.
The indictment says that Adams began soliciting and accepting improper benefits as a public official dating back to 2014, including luxury international travel from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him.
Adams &#8220;not only accepted, but sought illegal campaign contributions to his 2021 mayoral campaign, as well as other things of value, from foreign nationals,&#8221; the indictment said.
Prosecutors said that those who had illegally donated to Adams&#8217; campaign sought to cash in on their investment and were rewarded with &#8220;favorable treatment.&#8221;
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Adams &#8220;sought and accepted illegal campaign contributions in the form of &#8216;nominee&#8217; or &#8216;straw&#8217; contributions, meaning that the true contributors conveyed their money through nominal donors, who falsely certified they were contributing their own money,&#8221; the indictment said.
He allegedly compounded his corrupt gains by using them to defraud the city and steal from public funds.
&#8220;New York City has a matching funds program that matches small-dollar contributions from individual City residents with up to eight times their amount in public funds, to give New Yorkers a greater voice in elections,&#8221; the indictment said. &#8220;Adam&#8217;s campaigns applied for matching funds based on known straw donations, fraudulently obtaining as much as $2,000 in public funds for each illegal contribution.&#8221;
Adams sought and received improper benefits from some of the foreigners who were illegally funding his campaign, court documents alleged, including paying for numerous luxury travel benefits that totaled $100,000.
The mayor &#8220;and others working at his direction, repeatedly took steps to shield his solicitation and acceptance of these benefits from public scrutiny,&#8221; the indictment said. &#8220;Adams did not disclose the travel benefits he had obtained in annual financial disclosures he was required to file as a New York City employee. Sometimes, Adams agreed to pay a nominal fee to create the appearance of having paid for travel that was in fact heavily discounted. Other times, Adams created and instructed others to create fake paper trails, falsely suggesting that he had paid.&#8221;
One of the Turkish officials who gave to Adams told him in September 2021 that it was his turn to repay the illegal donations he received by &#8220;pressuring the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) to facilitate the opening of a new Turkish consular building &#8211; a 36-story skyscraper &#8211; without a fire inspection, in time for a high-profile visit by Turkey&#8217;s president.&#8221;
&#8220;At the time, the building would have failed an FDNY inspection,&#8221; the indictment said. &#8220;In exchange for free travel and other travel-related bribes in 2021 and 2022 arranged by the Turkish Official, Adams did as instructed. Because of Adams&#8217;s pressure on the FDNY, the FDNY official responsible for the FDNY&#8217;s assessment of the skyscraper&#8217;s fire safety was told that he would lose his job if he failed to acquiesce, and, after ADAMS intervened, the skyscraper opened as requested by the Turkish Official.&#8221;
If convicted on all charges, Adams faces up to 45 years in prison.

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NYC Democrat Mayor Eric Adams Charged With Bribery, Fraud, Acting As Foreign Agent

New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a defiant message Wednesday night after news broke that he has been charged in a federal corruption investigation.
&#8220;My fellow New Yorkers, it is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes,&#8221; Adams said in a one-minute video.
&#8220;If so, these charges will be entirely false, based on lies,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;But they would not be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target, and a target I became.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Full statement from New York City Mayor Eric Adams after being indicted by a federal grand jury. <a href="https://t.co/t9U5IhfRYN">pic.twitter.com/t9U5IhfRYN</a>
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1839137475203105064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
The indictment remains under seal, the New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-democrat-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-in-federal-corruption-case-report?topStoryPosition=2">reported,</a>  but the investigation into Adams initially centered around allegations that the Democrat accepted illegal foreign campaign contributions from the Turkish government in exchange for favors performed as mayor. In recent months, prosecutors have subpoenaed Adams and his campaign for materials related to other countries, including Qatar and China.
&#8220;For months, leaks and rumors have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility and paint me as guilty,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Just this past week, they searched the home of our new police commissioner, looking for documents from 20 years ago. Just one week after he joined my administration. Enough. I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit. If I&#8217;m charged, I know I am innocent.&#8221;
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Federal officials have investigated several people in Adams&#8217;s orbit, including Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks and former NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, who resigned from his post last week. Shortly thereafter, the FBI raided the home of Caban&#8217;s successor, interim Commissioner Thomas Donlon.
Adams said he would request an immediate trial so New Yorkers can &#8220;hear the truth&#8221; quickly and the city can get on with its business.
&#8220;I have been fighting injustice my entire life. That fight has continued as your mayor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Despite our pleas, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, if I am charged, many may say I should resign because I cannot manage the city while fighting the case,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I can also understand how everyday New Yorkers will be concerned that I cannot do my job while I face accusation, but I have been facing these lies for months since I began to speak out for all of you and their investigation started, yet the city has continued to improve.&#8221;
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams is expected to announce the charges against Adams when the indictment is unsealed Thursday, according to the New York Post. Sources told the paper that Adams will turn himself in early next week.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press during the weekly

WATCH: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Addresses Federal Indictment

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New York City Democrat Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> has reportedly been indicted in the federal criminal corruption investigation that has cast a dark cloud over his administration for nearly a year.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-indicted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk4.s7KS.JHndOiMOhIs6&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb&amp;cbgrp=p" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the indictment remains under seal and it is unclear what charges he faces, but once it&#8217;s unsealed, he will be the first NYC mayor to be charged while in office.
&#8220;I always knew that If I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target—and a target I became,&#8221; Adams said in a statement. &#8220;If I am charged, I am innocent and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.&#8221;
The investigation had initially centered around whether he conspired with the Turkish government to funnel illegal foreign contributions to his campaign in exchange for actions that he took as mayor. Investigators were also looking at whether he got free flight upgrades from an airline owned by the Turkish government.
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The Times reported earlier this week that prosecutors subpoenaed City Hall, Adams, and his campaign two months ago for additional information related to China, Qatar, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and Israel.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-historic-federal-probe-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that U.S. Attorney Damian Williams is expected to announce the charges tomorrow when the indictment is unsealed, and sources told the publication that Adams will turn himself in early next week.
&#8220;I do not see how Mayor Adams can continue governing New York City,&#8221; said far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a statement earlier in the day.
&#8220;The flood of resignations and vacancies are threatening gov function. Nonstop investigations will make it impossible to recruit and retain a qualified administration,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;For the good of the city, he should resign.&#8221;
Adams has seen numerous people in his orbit come under criminal investigation over the last year.
The FBI executed search warrants earlier this month at the home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks and a home shared by First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and Schools Chancellor David Banks. Investigators seized phones belonging to then-NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and Timothy Pearson, a senior adviser to the mayor. A consultant, Terence Banks, brother of Philip Banks and David Banks, was also searched.
The feds raided the home of Adams’ director of Asian Affairs, Winnie Greco, earlier this year as part of a criminal probe run by the Eastern District of New York, the Times said. His former buildings commissioner, Eric Ulrich, faces bribery charges, and several donors to Adams’ campaign have been charged in a straw-donor scheme.
Caban resigned from his post last week and his successor, interim Commissioner Thomas Donlon, was raided by the FBI late last week.

NYC Democrat Mayor Eric Adams Indicted In Federal Corruption Case: Report

U.S.

Shortly after the two ABC moderators entered the presidential debate on the side of Kamala Harris, there was a brief moment when Donald Trump pushed back. It happened when David Muir finished one of his drive-by &#8220;fact-checks,&#8221; concerning the crime rate in this country. The moderator intended to immediately ask Kamala Harris a question, so that Trump couldn&#8217;t respond. But Trump did respond, and the moderator had no answer to what he said. Watch:
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If you&#8217;re going to debate a candidate, when you&#8217;re really supposed to be the moderator, then you should at least be able to debate. But Muir had no answer when Trump refuted his canned talking point about FBI data. He sheepishly had to pivot to Kamala, who started laughing awkwardly.
That&#8217;s because what Trump said was true.
This summer, when the FBI released its Quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing that crime was down, they didn&#8217;t <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2561552.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include</a> data from New York or Los Angeles. The NYPD and LAPD are the two biggest police forces in the entire country, but they didn&#8217;t report their data at all, apparently because they couldn&#8217;t comply with the FBI&#8217;s new data-tracking requirements in time. And that wasn&#8217;t particularly unusual. Back in 2022, roughly <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2561552.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-third</a> of the country&#8217;s 6,000 police agencies didn&#8217;t report crime data to the FBI. This isn&#8217;t some partisan point I&#8217;m making. The FBI admitted all of this.
Yesterday, though, the FBI released its latest updated annual report. And the agency claims that this time around, the report comprehensively documents violent crimes that occurred in 2023 because the data comes from law enforcement agencies that cover more than 95% of the country&#8217;s population — including the NYPD and LAPD. According to the new data, car thefts went up by around 20% from 2022 to 2023. So that&#8217;s a massive increase. But violent crime was supposedly down overall by 3%, while &#8220;murder and non-negligent homicide&#8221; were down more than 10%. Reported rapes were down nearly 10% as well, and property crimes dropped 2.5%.
As you&#8217;d expect, Left-wing media outlets celebrated the news. They portrayed it as vindication for Kamala Harris and her debating partner, David Muir. Watch:
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A few things about this report. First of all, several large police departments — including the NOPD and LAPD — didn&#8217;t report demographic data about these crimes to the FBI. If you pull up these police departments on the FBI&#8217;s website, you won&#8217;t be able to see the race and gender of assailants or their victims, for example. On social media yesterday, a lot of people interpreted this as proof that the NOPD and LAPD didn&#8217;t report violent crimes at all, but that&#8217;s not true. They did report violent crimes, but they left out information about who&#8217;s committing them, and who the victims are.
That&#8217;s still a notable omission — especially when the Biden administration and Kamala Harris are claiming that we live in a white supremacist hellscape, where it&#8217;s not safe for black people to go about their lives. And it&#8217;s an unexplained omission, too. My producers reached out to the FBI, LAPD and NOPD to ask why this data was missing, and we didn&#8217;t hear back.
But in general, the FBI&#8217;s numbers are being accurately reported by MSNBC and other mainstream outlets. If you think the FBI&#8217;s data captures all the crime that&#8217;s occurring, then yes, the data is a sign that this country is safer than it was a year ago. And that would be a good thing. The problem is that this data doesn&#8217;t, in fact, capture all the crime that&#8217;s occurring — or anywhere close to it. As even that MSNBC report conceded, the only way for the FBI to hear about crimes is if someone reports them to a police department in the first place. And that may not be happening as much as it should be, because people don&#8217;t have any confidence that police or prosecutors will do anything if they report a crime. Unless we&#8217;re talking about homicides — which are usually reported because it&#8217;s hard to conceal a body — this is a significant problem with the data.
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And the Biden administration itself acknowledges that. Earlier this month, the DOJ released a report <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/us-news/violent-crime-has-increased-doj-report-says-after-david-muir-disputed-trumps-claim-that-crime-is-through-the-roof/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;utm_source=pasteboard_app" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entitled</a>, &#8220;Criminal Victimization, 2023.&#8221; The report is unique in that it doesn&#8217;t rely on police department data. Instead, it captures non-fatal crimes that weren&#8217;t reported to law enforcement, using something called the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) which is administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Census Bureau.
As the DOJ puts it:
<blockquote>The NCVS collects information on whether crimes were reported or not reported to police and on the reasons why the crime was reported or not reported. Victims may not report a crime for a variety of reasons, including fear of reprisal or getting the offender in trouble, believing that police would not or could not do anything to help, and believing the crime to be a personal issue or too trivial to report.</blockquote>
The reason the DOJ collects this data is that, as it turns out, there are a lot of crimes that aren&#8217;t reported — far more than you might think. Quoting from the report:
<blockquote>Approximately 45% of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2023, which was not significantly different from 2022. The percentage of rape or sexual assault victimizations reported to police increased significantly, from 21% in 2022 to 46% in 2023. A lower percentage of robbery victimizations were reported to police in 2023 (42%) than in 2022 (64%). During this period, the percentage of overall property crime victimizations reported to police decreased from 32% to 30%, due in part to a decline in the reporting of motor vehicle thefts to police (from 81% to 72%).</blockquote>
So when you hear that the FBI reports that property crimes were down 2% in 2023, you have to keep in mind that according to the DOJ&#8217;s crime survey, only around a third of property crimes were reported to police in the first place. And the majority of other non-fatal violent crimes aren&#8217;t reported either. 
The exception appears to be &#8220;motor vehicle thefts,&#8221; which are reported at a rate of more than 70%. And that just so happens to be the same category that, according to the FBI data, increased from 2022 to 2023. Although even 70% might seem remarkably low. How could 30% of car theft victims not even report it to the cops? Well, I actually have some personal experience here.
I had my car stolen out of a parking lot downtown a couple of years ago. I did report it to the police — and precisely nothing happened. A detective followed up a few days later, but that was it. I never heard another word about it. In fact I was told that they had eye witnesses and video of the perpetrators, but they were “a bunch of kids” and there wasn’t much that could or would be done. So if my car is ever stolen again, my incentive to report it will be much lower. I still will report it, because I need to report it in order for insurance to cover it. But that would be my only incentive. It’s also probably why car theft reports are so much higher, relative to other types of crime. In any case, the point is that a lack of enforcement has a very demoralizing effect on victims of crime.
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The takeaway from the DOJ&#8217;s survey is that, under the Biden administration, crime has increased across the board. Here&#8217;s how the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/contrary-to-media-myth-u-s-urban-crime-rates-are-up-violence-cities-9ce714f6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summarized the survey</a> data:
<blockquote>The NCVS report for 2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping in America. Excluding simple assault—the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony—the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund-the-police movement swept the country.</blockquote>
The problem is particularly severe in major cities. This is something that&#8217;s also not captured by the reporting we&#8217;re hearing about the FBI&#8217;s data, but it&#8217;s true. Major cities are completely unrecognizable from what they were just a few years ago — and there&#8217;s no sign that this trend is going to change. 
Again from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/contrary-to-media-myth-u-s-urban-crime-rates-are-up-violence-cities-9ce714f6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Journal</a>:
<blockquote>According to the NCVS, the urban violent-crime rate increased 40% from 2019 to 2023. Excluding simple assault, the urban violent-crime rate rose 54% over that span. From 2022 to 2023, the urban violent-crime rate didn’t change to a statistically significant degree, so these higher crime rates appear to be the new norm in America’s cities.</blockquote>
Of course, there are reasons to be skeptical of survey data in general. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just admitted they overestimated job growth in this country by something like 800,000 jobs, and that was because the surveys they used — evidently — aren&#8217;t very reliable. But in this case, the DOJ&#8217;s survey has a few advantages over the FBI&#8217;s data. As I mentioned, it captures crimes that aren&#8217;t reported to the police. Additionally, the DOJ has been running this survey since the Nixon administration. But the FBI recently overhauled its data collection methods in 2022, which makes it very hard to compare year-to-year changes in crime. And that&#8217;s a major problem because it&#8217;s essentially impossible to establish a baseline for comparison with the FBI data. By contrast, with the survey data, we can get a broader look at the overall increase in crime under the Biden-Harris administration — not just looking at 2022 to 2023.
More to the point, there are plenty of other indicators that the DOJ&#8217;s survey is correct, and that America has become a more dangerous place to live under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
For one thing, you could go to any major city in the country and visit a C.V.S. or a Rite Aid, and see how many items are hidden behind glass. You can look at how police departments have <a href="https://www.nycpba.org/news-items/post/2023/nypd-cops-leave-force-in-alarming-rate-over-2-500-turned-in-badges-so-far-in-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shrunk</a> all over the country, from New Orleans to New York. You can also look at some other indicators that no one&#8217;s talking about. For example, the &#8220;homicide victimization rate&#8221; in this country increased by 19% from 2019 to 2023. That&#8217;s a nearly 20% increase in the rate of people getting killed by other people, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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That seems like a significant jump, to put it mildly. But this is data that no mainstream media outlet will report. It&#8217;s only because of an account on X called DataHazard — which came up with the numbers by looking at death certificates — that we have this information at all. Think about that — we have a 20% increase in the &#8220;homicide victimization rate&#8221; in just four years. Any other country, at any other time in history, would call that a crisis.
But using that kind of language wouldn&#8217;t play well for Kamala Harris. So instead, her promoters are resorting to a familiar tactic. They&#8217;re selectively relying on data that helps their candidate, while ignoring the data that contradicts or complicates the narrative. It&#8217;s all part of an effort, once again, to convince you to ignore what&#8217;s happening right in front of you.
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They don&#8217;t care that more people are dying since 2019, or that most violent crimes are still going unreported. They only care about one thing, which is winning in November. So they&#8217;re disregarding all nuance in their reporting on this. But the rest of us — people who actually want to live in this country, regardless of who the president is — can&#8217;t accept that.
A government that will lie about the deaths of its own citizens will lie about anything. And after the one-sided, misleading response we saw to the FBI&#8217;s data yesterday, it&#8217;s clear that&#8217;s exactly the kind of government that Kamala Harris&#8217; supporters want.

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The leftist New York City Council passed legislation on Thursday that pushes the largest city in the U.S. closer to a program that would hand out reparations to black residents.
The passage of two bills sponsored by Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Farah Louis means NYC taxpayers will now fund a &#8220;Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Commission&#8221; along with a reparations task force, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-council-passes-slavery-reparations-legislation-yield-material-solutions-from-us-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The legislation will also require information signs to be posted at the site of New York City&#8217;s &#8220;first slave market,&#8221; according to a <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/press/2024/09/12/2692/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the city council.
&#8220;The legacy of slavery and systemic racism has impacted all facets of our society today, and it’s important that our city recognizes and takes steps to redress these longstanding harms,” NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said. &#8220;By creating new processes to fully examine the present-day impacts of injustices inflicted on Black New Yorkers and communities, we are advancing necessary efforts to consider potential remedies that can lead to healing and reconciliation.&#8221;
Hudson, who sponsored one of the bills, said the passage of her legislation is a major step in her &#8220;Black Agenda for New York City.&#8221; She added that &#8220;it is [her] hope that as the nation’s largest city––with the biggest municipal budget––our truth, healing, and reconciliation process will work; it will identify racist, anti-Black policies at the foundation of our city’s institutions, and it will yield material solutions to address these foundational cracks.&#8221;
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Louis, whose bill focused on starting a reparations task force, said, &#8220;Throughout my tenure in the Council, we have heard countless testimonies and conducted numerous hearings revealing the ongoing impacts of historical injustices. Black women, in particular, continue to be disadvantaged in both public and private sectors, facing systemic inequities that hinder their progress and well-being. Addressing these compounded injustices is essential to forming a more just municipality and society.&#8221;
Republican City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli blasted the legislation, telling <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/11/us-news/nyc-council-expected-to-back-taskforce-to-study-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Post</a> that he would move out of the city before paying reparations.
&#8220;If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in.&#8221;
Numerous cities — and the states of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> — have created reparations task forces in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death and the protests and riots in the summer of 2020. Many of the task forces have failed to yield any significant results, and two members of Detroit&#8217;s reparations task force <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/members-resign-from-detroits-reparations-task-force-over-lack-of-progress-no-broad-strategic-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> last year after expressing frustration over the lack of &#8220;progress.&#8221;
Even though slavery was never legal in California, the state&#8217;s exploration into slavery reparations has seen the most success, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a state budget in July that included <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$12 million</a> for reparations legislation.
Vice President Kamala Harris has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-now-mum-reparations-she-signaled-support-2020-white-house-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed her support</a> for reparations, saying in 2019, &#8220;I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow.&#8221;
She also said as a candidate in 2019 that if elected president, she would sign a bill that would provide reparations to the descendants of African slaves. The Harris campaign has not said if the Democratic nominee still supports that position.

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The widow of a fire chief — who was killed during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11 terrorist attacks</a> 23 years ago — blasted President Joe Biden for a callous and &#8220;flippant remark&#8221; about his plans to mark the anniversary on Wednesday at Ground Zero.
Joanne Barbara — widow of Gerard Barbara, an assistant chief in the New York Fire Department who died inside the World Trade Center on 9/11 — participated in Wednesday&#8217;s services but took a moment to call Biden out directly.
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Widow of 9/11 Fire Chief killed in terrorist attack CALLS OUT Joe Biden during her speech:
&#8220;The elected officials here today show their respect and reverence to the families on September 11th—or, in our president&#8217;s words, &#8216;Do 9/11.&#8217; Quite a flippant remark.&#8221;
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&#8220;The elected officials here today show their respect and reverence to the families on September 11, or in our president’s words, &#8216;do 9/11.&#8217; Quite a flippant remark. But please remember the September 11 families live it every day, not just on the anniversary,&#8221; she said.
Biden was widely criticized for his phrasing after he spoke with reporters on the White House lawn on Tuesday, first detailing his plans to watch the ABC debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and then adding an aside about attending the 9/11 memorial in New York.
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&#8220;I’m going up to my granddaughter’s birthday in New York. Then we’re going to watch the debate. Tomorrow, I’m doing 9/11,&#8221; he said.
Biden and Harris both made an appearance at the Ground Zero memorial ceremonies — standing alongside former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) — but had apparently ducked out by the time Barbara made her comments. When she called him out directly, the cameras panned to where Biden and Harris had been standing — but only Trump and Vance were still standing where they had been.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Police Department</a> Commissioner Edward Caban is reportedly expected to resign in the coming days after federal law enforcement agents searched him last week as part of an alleged corruption investigation.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/09/nypd-commissioner-caban-resign-investigation-00177951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that four people familiar with the matter say that he is expected to resign over the criminal probe that is being conducted by the Southern District of New York, which focuses on government corruption cases and the IRS.
The FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-raid-homes-of-nyc-democrat-mayor-eric-adams-top-aides" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executed</a> search warrants at the home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks and a home shared by First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and Schools Chancellor David Banks. Investigators seized phones belonging to Caban and Timothy Pearson, a senior adviser to the mayor. A consultant, Terence Banks, brother of Philip Banks and David Banks, was also searched.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/nyregion/caban-nypd-police-commissioner-resign.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the start of the week that NYC Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, who is under a federal criminal corruption investigation over matters related to the Turkish government, was seeking Caban&#8217;s resignation as there are now &#8220;several federal investigations&#8221; into his administration.
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The Feds raided the home of Adam&#8217;s director of Asian Affairs, Winnie Greco, earlier this year as part of a criminal probe run by the Eastern District of New York, the Times said. His former buildings commissioner, Eric Ulrich, faces bribery charges and several donors to Adams&#8217; campaign have been charged in a straw-donor scheme.
The investigation, at least in part, centers around a nightclub security business that is owned by Caban&#8217;s twin brother, James Caban. The probe is reportedly focusing on other police officials as well.
“I have the utmost confidence in the New York City Police Department,” Adams said this week when asked about Caban. &#8220;I don’t think anything in life is guaranteed. I would say this, when I chose Eddie, I chose him for his experience and what he brought after 30-something years of service.”

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An Islamic man from Pakistan was arrested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> this week for allegedly planning a terrorist attack against Jews in New York City.
The U.S. Department of Justice said late on Friday that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
Khan &#8220;attempted to travel from Canada to New York City, where he intended to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons to carry out a mass shooting in support of ISIS at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York,&#8221; prosecutors said.
He began posting on social media and on an encrypted messaging platform late last year that he supported ISIS and began distributing their propaganda, the DOJ said.
He allegedly told undercover law enforcement sources that he was working with a U.S.-based ISIS terrorist to carry out the attack and that he was trying to create an &#8220;offline cell&#8221; of ISIS terrorists who could launch a coordinated attack killing Jews at synagogues.
He wanted to carry out the attacks on either October 7 — the anniversary of Hamas&#8217; unprecedented terrorist attack in Israel last year in which 1,200 people were murdered — or on October 11, which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
He was originally targeting a city only referred to as &#8220;City-1&#8221; in the indictment, but changed the target to New York City.
Khan said that the Muslims were &#8220;going to NYC to slaughter them,&#8221; which he planned to do by shooting them with rifles or using knives to &#8220;slit their throats.&#8221;
&#8220;Khan repeatedly reiterated his desire to carry out the attack in support of ISIS, and discussed planning for the attack, including by identifying rental properties close to Location-1 and paying for a human smuggler to help him reach and cross the border from Canada into the United States,&#8221; the DOJ said. &#8220;During one communication, Khan noted that &#8216;if we succeed with our plan this would be the largest Attack on US soil since 9/11.&#8221;
The DOJ only charged him with a single count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.
“The defendant was allegedly determined to kill Jewish people here in the United States, nearly one year after Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel. This investigation was led by the FBI, and I am proud of the terrific work by the FBI team and our partners to disrupt Khan&#8217;s plan,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The FBI will continue to work closely with our partners to investigate and hold accountable those who seek to commit violence in the name of ISIS or other terrorist organizations. Fighting terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority.”

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Pakistani National Arrested In Canada For Allegedly Plotting Terror Attack In NYC

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