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Detroit Mercy guard Antoine Davis finished his collegiate career as a two-time Horizon League Player of the Year and made the All-Horizon League First Team five times, but he fell just four points short of breaking Pete Maravich’s all-time scoring record. Davis had five seasons with Detroit Mercy, and in his final season, the Titans finished 14-19 missing out on a chance to make the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for the 10th consecutive season, not counting the coronavirus pandemic-impacted season of 2019-20. Davis’ chances of breaking the record ended when the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) failed to invite Detroit Mercy to its 16-team postseason tournament. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM “I’m upset about it,” Davis told the Associated Press on Monday. “I feel like I got cheated out of something that they can’t ever give back to me. I think it’s selfish — and weird — that people emailed or called the CBI to say we shouldn’t be in the tournament because they didn’t want me to break the record. “But there’s nothing to hold my head down about. I still feel like I’m the best scorer in my generation, especially finishing No. 2 behind him.” Rick Giles, the president of the Gazelle Group that runs the CBI, denied the tournament had the NCAA record in mind when deciding to leave Detroit Mercy out of the field. “We did receive unsolicited emails and voicemails about Detroit Mercy and some said we don’t ever want Pete Maravich’s record broken,” Giles told the AP. “The decision we made wasn’t based purely on whether we wanted him to break the record or not.” ST JOHN’S NAMES RICK PITINO AS HEAD COACH DAYS AFTER LOSING WITH IONA IN MARCH MADNESS Jason Maravich, the son of Pete, told the AP he had no problem with Davis breaking the record but doing it at a lower-tier tournament. “I think it’s a terrible look,” Jason Maravich said. “Your season should be over if you’re 14-19. This situation is very personal and sensitive to me. But to be clear, I’m not mad at Antoine Davis and I have nothing bad to say about Antoine Davis. My beef is with these tournaments.” Pete Maravich played three varsity seasons with LSU from 1967-1970. He broke the scoring record originally set by Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson. He tallied 3,667 points in 83 games. Davis played in 144 games and scored 3,664 points. He received an extra year of eligibility because of COVID. Titans coach Mike Davis, who is also the father of Antoine, said a postseason tournament would’ve given the chance for players previously injured during the season to play. “People were trying to paint a picture of us that wasn’t true,” Mike Davis added. “The picture painted was that we were trying to buy a record. The CBI was never going to let us in because of the backlash. The PS8 had teams pulling out, saying they wouldn’t play if we were going to be in the tournament. “It’s disappointing that people were calling our school president and athletic director and the people running these tournaments to say don’t let us in. We just had to let it go.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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Former President Donald Trump addressed his supporters in a late-night video Monday, where he maintained his innocence amid ongoing legal fights. In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the “four horrible, radical, left Democratic investigations of your all-time favorite president” just an extension of the “most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country.” The former president specifically referenced his ongoing legal fight in New York with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The possible charges stem from a $130,000 hush-money payment that then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. TRUMP PROBE: LAW ENFORCEMENT DON’T EXPECT ARRAIGNMENT UNTIL NEXT WEEK, VIRTUAL OPTION NOT CONSIDERED “It’s gone on forever with Russia, Russia, Russia; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and the Mueller hoax,” Trump said, referencing the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated his campaign for potential collusion with Russia during the same campaign. “It’s an absolute disgrace, what’s going on.” Trump added: “Remember this, with all of this work that they did on Mueller, no collusion. That’s what the answer was. It was all no collusion.” The former president also referenced the Mar-a-Lago raid, where investigators found classified material, and a congressional investigation that ultimately found Trump guilty of motivating or influencing the Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021. He also referenced a phone call he had while serving in the White House shortly after Election Day with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2020 — which he called “absolutely perfect” — and the ongoing Stormy Daniels litigation, which Trump called an “extortion plot.” MANHATTAN DA BRAGG DECRIES TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO ‘INTIMIDATE’ HIS OFFICE IN PRIVATE MEMO He called these investigations “fake news” and maintained his innocence. “Our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know we are the only ones who can stop them, and they know it strongly. Looking at the polls we’re — not me, but we — are up by so much you can’t even believe it,” he said. “We won twice, and now we’ve got to win a third time,” the former president claimed. The decision on whether Trump will be indicted over the hush money lies in the hands of a Manhattan grand jury, which has been meeting for weeks. MANHATTAN DA’S CASE MAY BE ‘WEAKEST’ ONE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, MSNBC HOSTS AND GUESTS FRET Trump announced he expected to be arrested over a potential indictment. While hosting events around the country, Trump continues to deny any wrongdoing and has criticized the Manhattan district attorney’s office investigation as politically motivated. Trump denies having sex with her or paying Daniels. Cohen pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance law in connection with the payments. Fox News’ Brooke Singman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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Charles Negy, a University of Central Florida (UCF) professor who says he was fired after speaking out against the notion of systemic racism and White privilege, doesn’t believe diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) applies to everyone.  UCF fired Negy, he claims, after he sent a pair of tweets in the summer of 2020 – at the height of racial tensions in America following the death of George Floyd in police custody – that questioned the belief of systemic racism and White privilege. He finds it odd that the university’s website claims, “Our motto is simple: Diversity includes all of us – at the same time,” because he feels there are different sets of rules for different types of peoples.  “This notion of diversity, equity and inclusion, it’s a lot to unpack. It’s not the nice sounding things that the words sound like. Diversity is pretty much anti-White and secondarily anti-Asian. Equity, of course, is showing favoritism for some racial groups at the expense of other racial groups, which is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. And inclusion. Wow. Did I feel included because they didn’t like my views? So, it seems like there are certain groups that are not included in inclusion,” Negy told Fox News Digital.  CENTRAL FLORIDA PROFESSOR FIRED FOR DISPUTING SYSTEMIC RACISM AND WHITE PRIVILEGE FIGHTS BACK, FILES LAWSUIT “Those groups tend to be White men, heterosexuals, cisgender — which is kind of a slur against those who are not transgender –Christians, Republicans, conservative,” Negy continued. “That’s a lot of groups who don’t seem to be so welcomed in this inclusivity model.” Negy, who is half White and half Hispanic, was eventually given his job back when an arbitrator ruled he did nothing wrong, and he filed a lawsuit last week accusing the university’s board of trustees of violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, along with negligence, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of severe emotional distress. “I am also gay, so I’m a minority, and boy, that doesn’t matter. It’s the ideology that one must bow down to or else you are not included and accepted at all,” he said.  He returned to campus last summer with COVID pandemic rules in place, meaning remote departmental meetings initially provided a buffer between the freshly reinstated professor and his colleagues. But in January, the meetings that feature more than 40 professors went back to being in person and Negy was able to get a sense of how his peers feel about the situation.  “They all ignored me,” Negy said.  “I’m fine with that. I’m fine with that, because I’ve lost all respect for them,” Negy continued. “They saw the university coming after me, because the university didn’t like what I said on Twitter. And instead of rallying around me in the name of free speech and academic freedom, they just sat by idly.”  ANTI-CRT FIGURE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST EQUITY DISCRIMINATION: ‘IT’S THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR TIME’ Negy believes that roughly half the professors who have given him the silent treatment were “glad” he suffered through the years-long saga. “They buy into this critical race theory/diversity, equity, inclusion, ideology,” Negy said. “The other half, who probably may not buy into that ideology, were terrified at what they saw could happen to them. So, I think they just step by and out of self-preservation.” Negy said he’s specifically lost respect for the tenured professors, because he believes the whole point of tenure is to be able to express yourself without bring fearful of termination.  “I couldn’t care less about them,” he said. “So they don’t speak to me. It’s an awkward situation, but I don’t care.” CRITICAL RACE THEORY-RELATED IDEAS FOUND IN MANDATORY PROGRAMS AT 58 OF TOP 100 US MEDICAL SCHOOLS: REPORT In 2020, Nagy asked in a tweet that is no-longer available, “If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ‘systematic racism’ exists?” The professor also tweeted, “Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback.” UCF has maintained that Negy’s firing was not because of his tweets, instead claiming he was fired because of student complaints and creating a hostile working environment.  “We are not able to comment at this time due to the litigation,” a UCF spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “The purpose of the university, for my understanding, is for us to pursue truth to whatever extent that we can. It’s always a challenge. We all have biases. But the reason we come together at university is to pursue truth related to whatever topics that interest us, and we can disagree, we can make mistakes. We can be challenged. We can challenge others, because we all share this common goal of trying to wrap our arms around truth,” Negy said. “And that has changed dramatically in the last ten years, and it just went into high gear after George Floyd’s death.” 



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All it took was a few sentences and the press of a button. Out of office, deprived of the main stage, targeted by multiple investigations, Donald Trump managed to seize control of the media narrative by declaring he will be arrested today. And calling on his supporters to protest. Whether or not today is the day – he had received no official notification – Trump upended the political universe by declaring Saturday morning on Truth Social that he is the victim of a politically motivated, out-of-control prosecutor. Most politicians facing a likely indictment would not want to play up the news. Instead, the former president made it the top story everywhere, prompting Republicans to defend him by accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of an abuse of power and portraying himself as the subject of deep state persecution.  Just yesterday, Trump further flipped the script, saying it was the DA who broke the law: “Alvin Bragg should be held accountable for the crime of ‘interference in a presidential election.’” Trump has a history of attacking his legal adversaries – Robert Mueller, judges who rule against him – and some Democrats have used similar tactics. As just about every pundit on the planet has observed, a criminal charge against Trump will cause his MAGA base to embrace him even more tightly. AXIOS REPORTER FIRED FOR CALLING DESANTIS EVENT ‘PROPOGANDA’ That is particularly true because the Stormy Daniels case is by far the weakest of the investigations he faces. And many journalists have acknowledged that the potential indictment is a legal stretch on a matter that most people don’t consider especially important. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times described it as “trivial.” But it was the last five words of his weekend post that stirred the harshest criticism: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!” The Times ran a headline saying this call to action carried “Echoes of Jan. 6.” I wondered whether this was fair, only to hear Rachel Maddow call into MSNBC during its wall-to-wall coverage, saying Trump is trying “to raise the civic cost of indicting him… He’s trying to make it so that there is a threat of uncontrollable political violence in this country that is triggered, that would be triggered by any, any act of the legal system against him.” I don’t know whether this was intended as a sequel to the Capitol riot – New York City is beefing up security – but it has Republicans unnerved. Kevin McCarthy, while slamming Bragg for pursuing the case, urged Trump supporters not to hit the streets in protest. And by the way, the only way for Trump to take the country back is to win the Republican nomination (which is likely) and the general election (which is a tall mountain to climb). There’s no mention in the Constitution of presidents being installed because of protests. The Stormy case, involving payment of $130,000 in hush money to the porn star at the end of the 2016 campaign, is a legal stretch. Falsifying business records – to cover the reimbursement to Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen – is a misdemeanor in New York. So Bragg has to upgrade it to a felony to make it worthwhile, by tying it to a violation of campaign finance law. TRUMP WANTED TO GET AHEAD OF THE NARRATIVE ON HIS ARREST: BEN DOMENECH But the twist here is there are alternate explanations. The Trump camp persuaded Cohen’s former legal adviser, Robert Costello, to testify as the final grand jury witness yesterday. He’s been quoted as saying that the hush money was paid for reasons having to do with Melania, not the campaign. His testimony, Trump writes, “WILL SUPPOSEDLY BE CONCLUSIVE AND IRREFUTABLE! WITCH HUNT!!!” Keep in mind that Bragg himself dropped the case a year ago, causing a big controversy, and that his predecessor as DA passed up the case. So, for that matter, did federal prosecutors. So why revive it now?  What’s more, these payments were made six years ago, about an alleged one-night sexual encounter (denied by Trump) 17 years ago. A conviction is hardly assured. Even more important, does this sordid matter warrant the unprecedented step of indicting a former president? SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE’S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST: A RIFF ON THE DAY’S HOTTEST TAKES It would be different if it was the Fulton County DA in Georgia, charging Trump with violating election law by pressuring state officials into overturning the results. It would be different if it was the Justice Department, charging Trump with inciting the Jan. 6 violence, or mishandling classified documents. At least these are weighty matters. But passing money years ago to an X-rated actress? No wonder Trump believes he can rile up the country before even being arrested.



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EXCLUSIVE – Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan wants to bring the GOP back to the future. The former FBI agent, who later served 14 years in Congress and grabbed plenty of attention in the nation’s capital as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, says his latest mission to come up with “real solutions” to get the country back on track could lead to a campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. If Rogers ends up running, he’ll be considered a long shot against former President Donald Trump and a large list of actual and potential candidates who enjoy much stronger name identification and better financial support than Rogers, who’s not well known outside of Michigan or the Beltway. But Rogers insisted in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Monday that “sometimes ideas and these solutions are bigger than shallow name ID.” WHAT ROGERS TOLD FOX NEWS ABOUT THE CHINESE SPY BALLOON INCIDENT Rogers and his wife formed a group called “Lead America” to try to remedy the growing discouragement with politics and find solutions to national problems. He’s pushing for greater opportunities for innovation in order to foster increase economic prosperity, and supporting families “by recognizing their needs and lowering barriers to those needs being met.” Rogers wants to put a greater emphasis on civic education to “encourage Americans of all ages to take an active interest in the success of their own communities and of our nation as a whole,” and he’s also formulating ideas to strengthen America’s standing on the global stage. He’s been road testing his message and his suggested solutions in recent months in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the first four states to vote in the Republican Party’s presidential nominating calendar. “If you want to change the narrative, and that’s what Lead America is set out to do, you have to go out to early primary states. And what we found is people have been very encouraging,” Rogers said. He said people have been telling him, “Hey love this. Would you consider taking this into 2024?” WHO’S IN AND WHO’S ON THE SIDELINES — YOUR GUIDE TO THE 2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE Rogers said, “What we have to do is decide are people are ready for hopeful, optimist, solutions-oriented candidate.” “Late spring, early summer, you would really need to drill down on firing the flare if you were going to do it,” Rogers said when asked about his 2024 timeline. If Rogers runs, he’ll face big names like Trump, who launched his third White House campaign in November, and most likely Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who remains on the 2024 sidelines but is likely to launch his own bid later this year. Other well-known actual or potential candidates include former Vice President Mike Pence, former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But Rogers says a strong showing in the early nominating states could make a difference. “I think if you win, place or show early on, you won’t have to worry about name ID. That’s going to take care of itself,” he argued. “This is not a vanity project for me,” he said. “If enough people believe that too, then I think there could be something to this.” Asked if he could compete against candidates with much larger campaign war chests, Rogers argued, “You don’t have to have $100 million in the bank to win. But you do need to have enough to get over that first hump, get known, and then go from there.” POLL SUGGESTS TRUMP WIDENING LEAD OVER DESANSTIS IN 2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE “I talk to a lot of donors, and I can just tell you I’m not discouraged,” he shared. “I certainly wouldn’t get in if I didn’t believe we could meet that financial challenge.” Rogers, who emphasizes free-market conservatism and national security, retired from politics in 2016, the same year Trump won the White House. And he’s been clear in rejecting Trump’s repeated unproven claims that his 2020 election loss to President Biden was due to a “rigged” election that was “stolen.” Pointing to the emerging 2024 GOP field, Rogers said, “I think the Trump, Trump-lite lane is pretty crowded. The lane that is not talking about Trump, that is talking about solutions and the way forward and what the real challenges we face – I just don’t find a lot of people in that lane” Asked about the looming indictment of the former president for alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016, Rogers said “as a former FBI guy, I find the timing of this indictment distasteful at best.” But he criticized Trump’s call over the week for his supporters to protest any indictment, and cited the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as a reason. “I don’t believe he should call for protesting of any sort at this point giving the sensitivities of what happened the last time. And protesting is one thing, but violence is absolutely another. And I don’t think that helps anybody,” Rogers told Fox News Digital. Rogers suggested that Trump should bow out of the 2024 race if he’s indicted. He said the former president “has lots of issues to worry about and this might be a really good time for him to stop and focus on those issues and get all of that taken care of. We have to think of a country from ’24 on that needs new direction desperately, and I just think that doubling down on chaos and confusion and acerbic conversations is not going to be the kind of America that Americans are willing to support moving forward.” “For his own well-being, I think he needs to stop and focus on this process. Being indicted – I don’t care what you say – is not helpful,” he argued. “It may galvanize a small percentage of Trump supporters, but that is going to so fractionalize the party going forward. I think it would be best that the country move on from this.”



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Fox News host Laura Ingraham slammed the Biden administration for bringing Russia and China closer together on “The Ingraham Angle.” LAURA INGRAHAM: American elites, dedicated globalists they’re directly responsible for making China rich, which gave the CCP the money to build its economy and expand its military and its leverage around the world. Now our establishment is thrilled to use Trump or any other distraction to prevent its own supporters from recognizing the calamity facing the United States under Democrat rule. Over the past two plus years now America has gotten weaker. American families have become poorer, and America’s ability to influence events around the world is collapsing. And the Biden administration seems totally comfortable with the decline of the United States.  BIDEN WARNED AS RUSSIA, CHINA FLEX MUSCLE IN MIDDLE EAST: ‘ALLIES MATTER’ Look, our banking system is failing. Inflation is out of control. The Fed is incompetent. And the Biden administration’s position on China and Russia, it makes no sense. Think about this. We consider Putin the most evil man on Earth, right? Then, President Xi, we heard him today, considers Putin his great friend. And yet the White House keeps saying that they want to work with President Xi on economic issues. This is insane.  Now, again, the money we give to China with our massive trade deficit is right now being used to prop up the man who President Biden claims should be overthrown. Obviously, I’m talking about Putin. The Biden people confirmed in a new report that Chinese ammo is being used right now by Russia, in Ukraine. Doesn’t that sound like lethal aid to you or does that not count? Now, this is why not a single government on earth takes the Biden administration seriously.



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The dominant rumor on the internet over the weekend was that Donald Trump will soon be indicted, possibly even handcuffed, on camera. Is that true? We can’t say.  We do know that Trump is the subject of a grand jury investigation in Manhattan. That’s a city that voted against Donald Trump by almost 80% in the last presidential election. We also know that the grand jury was impaneled by a Soros funded D.A. called Alvin Bragg, who looks and acts like a Tawana Brawley-era Al Sharpton. So, we would assume, on the basis of that evidence, that it’s pretty likely Trump does get charged with something at some point. But charged with what? That’s the question that should matter in a free country. Laws or universal laws apply to all citizens equally, precisely because all citizens are considered equal. For generations, this was very obvious to American liberals. In fact, it was the basis of their worldview. That was back when liberals opposed Jim Crow, and we’re not trying to reinstate it as something called equity. We’re not liberals, but we retain the traditional American view, which is that laws must be applied equally, or else they’re not laws at all. Justice must be blind, or else it is tyranny.  So, we spent the day with help of a lawyer on our staff, trying to assess the likely charges against Donald Trump and here’s what we found. Eight years ago, as he was running for president, Trump paid a porn actress called Stormy Daniels $130,000. Daniels alleged that she and Trump had at one point had sex. Trump denied that. He still denies it. But in exchange for promising not to repeat that claim in public, Trump, through his then attorney, Michael Cohen, sent Stormy Daniels a check. TRUMP LAWYERS DEMAND NARA RECORDS TO EXPOSE ‘HIGHLY-POLITICIZED’ DOCUMENTS PROBE OF FORMER PRESIDENT  Was that legal? Well, we can answer that question. Because there was a campaign in progress at the time, officials at the Federal Election Commission later examined the transaction between Trump and Stormy Daniels. Federal investigators concluded that nothing criminal had taken place and in fact, settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common both among famous people, celebrities and in corporate America. The result is usually known as an NDA, a nondisclosure agreement.  In this case, you can believe whatever side you want to believe, but paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America. According to the FEC, there was no need for Donald Trump to report his payments to Stormy Daniels. Nor was the money that he sent or through his attorney subject to campaign finance limitations. The FEC determined the entire thing was a personal expenditure. It clearly was.  So, what is the crime here? Well, the media don’t seem very interested in finding out. This is Donald Trump. He’s a criminal. Everything he does is a crime. Watch. JENNIFER RUBIN, MSNBC: Simply because he may have committed worse crimes, you don’t let him off of lesser crimes. If you are, for example, seeking a prosecution for murder, if the guy gets caught drunk driving in another context before that, you don’t just let him go because you have bigger fish to fry.  TRUMP LAWYERS DEMAND NARA RECORDS TO EXPOSE ‘HIGHLY-POLITICIZED’ DOCUMENTS PROBE OF FORMER PRESIDENT  PAUL BUTLER, MSNBC: Nobody is above the law, including Donald Trump. It doesn’t matter that this is kind of a minor crime compared to some of the other allegations.   MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: A crime is a crime is a crime is a crime. That’s what anybody prosecuting or a judge would say. JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: A crime is a crime is a crime, as Mika said. An indictment is an indictment is an indictment. When I hear people saying this is much ado about nothing, I think about all the members of Congress I served with and understanding every single one of them would have been charged and sent to jail had they done this.  AL SHARPTON, MSNBC: I was reading the Bible which said that which a man sows, that he may also reap. Joe Scarborough, ladies and gentlemen, telling us what a crime is, a crime with a woman. Look, there’s Al Sharpton lecturing us about the Bible. It’s hilarious. Oh, the hypocrisy, but it didn’t really answer the question: Why are we handcuffing Donald Trump? Liberals don’t seem to care at all as long as it happens, as long as Trump gets handcuffed, but in fact, there’s plenty of evidence that Trump committed no crime in sending money to stormy deals. We don’t have to guess. Consider the case of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. Edwards was often described as a fiery liberal, but in fact, he was a populist. He ran for president twice and in the process infuriated the leaders of the Democratic Party by talking way too much about income inequality. They really hated him for that. Long after Edwards left office, Barack Obama’s DOJ charged him with federal finance violations. The premise of the case against John Edwards was that he had received $1,000,000 in gifts and that he spent that money in hush money payments to his mistress, with whom he later had a child. Obama’s DOJ argues that the money that Edwards sent to his girlfriend amounted to campaign contributions. Edwards never reported that money, so Obama’s DOJ tried to send him to prison. Well, in the end, the case fell apart under the weight of its own incoherence. Obama’s lawyers argued that any payment that could conceivably help a political candidate politically is by definition a campaign expenditure. There’s no law that says that, by the way, they just made it up. But if you think about it for a second, it doesn’t make sense. If that were true, flip it around. It would mean that candidates could use donor money and also taxpayer money in the form of federal matching funds to pay for any personal expense, as long as that expense could conceivably benefit them politically.  Candidates could take federal matching funds, tax dollars to buy Ferraris as long as they argued those Ferraris would appear in campaign ads, etc., etc. It’s nonsensical. MANHATTAN DA GETS PUMMELED FOR POSSIBLE TRUMP INDICTMENT: ‘IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE MR. BRAGG’S BAD JUDGMENT’  So, not surprisingly, John Edwards was acquitted in that case. It was a humiliating defeat for the Obama administration, but it also sent a clear message and set a precedent, which Alvin Bragg apparently is ignoring.  We don’t know that an indictment is coming, as noted and if it does come, we’re not sure what it’s going to say. We haven’t seen it. But if Trump is indicted for sending money to Stormy Daniels, well, you’ll be watching the abuse of law enforcement power. But you can’t complain about it because as Congresswoman Maxine Waters has explained, political protests staged on behalf of Donald Trump are not constitutionally protected. They’re domestic terrorism. Watch. MAXINE WATERS: This is Donald Trump sending messages out to domestic terrorists that he’s worked with and he helped to organize for the invasion of the Capitol on January 5th. He’s sending out a message to them to get ready to protest any arrests, indictments, etc., that he may have. So, he’s basically talking to the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, QAnon and the KKK. Though January 6, the only really organized group on January 6 was the FBI, of course, but consider the idea and where it’s coming from. This is Maxine Waters. This is the lady who cheered on the L.A. race riots three decades ago. This is the very same person just a few years ago said, “If you see anybody from the Trump cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store at a gasoline station. (she’s very old) “Get out and create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore anywhere.” Basically, necklace them. Oh, yeah Maxine Waters? But she’s a Democrat. So, this is just a civil rights exercise. She’s protected from domestic terrorism charges and Alvin Bragg is, too.  He’s a Democrat and you should know we don’t want to impugn his character or anything. We don’t want to suggest that there’s a connection between politics and the indictment of Donald Trump, but Alvin Bragg did run for office, promising as a campaign promise to indict Donald Trump. We’re not guessing. He gave televised interviews about it. Watch.  REPORTER: All right. So, newspaper reports today say we could expect to see an indictment to be handed down against Donald Trump soon. Any thoughts on how you would handle such a high-profile case? ALVIN BRAGG: Certainly throughout my career, I’ve gone wherever the facts have taken me and the types of allegations that have been reported publicly, valuation of assets, perhaps the use of shell companies, tax fraud. I did. I’ve done all these sort of cases. I’ve tried a mortgage fraud case. I’ve tried one of the most significant money laundering cases in the New York region. So, of all the candidates, I sort of stand at the ready with all the tools and a tool kit. MANHATTAN DA’S OFFICE ‘ASKED FOR A MEETING’ WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AHEAD OF POSSIBLE TRUMP INDICTMENT  Yeah, we’re going to go after Trump and by the way, he listed some real crimes there, and they have spent years trying to pin those crimes on Trump, even get his tax returns illegally, and they found none of them. Not a defense of Trump, just true. So, we wind up with this, which is piddling. But what’s interesting is, even as Bragg has been single-mindedly focused (Bragg is a graduate of Harvard College) on Donald Trump and his crimes – sending money to a porn star – he has been not only ignoring real crimes, but downgrading felonies to misdemeanors and letting actual violent criminals out of jail as quickly as possible.  On his first day in office, first day, Bragg consistent with the ideas of the man who paid for his campaign George Soros, issued a memo explaining his office will “not seek a cursory sentence except in cases involving homicides, economic crimes and a small number of felonies.”  That was great news for people who commit violent felonies, including rapists like Justin Washington. Washington struck a deal with Bragg that allowed him to serve just 30 days in jail under the theory that his rape was really just second-degree coercion. So. he got out quickly and when he did, police say this same man sexually attacked five other people in the Bronx, even tried to rape a homeless woman at ten in the morning. In another case, a career criminal who was arrested three times in four months for serious crimes, including assault and aggravated harassment, skipped court and when police finally found him and hauled him to court, Bragg’s office let him go in January of last year. Guess what he did when he got out? He murdered a woman. REPORTER: A growing makeshift memorial in front of a New York City apartment building honoring Christina Yuna Lee after police say a man followed her home and attacked her, stabbing her to death. This security video obtained by NBC News appears to show Lee being followed by the suspect. When they arrived, the door was barricaded. When cops went into the apartment, investigators say they found the body of a 35-year-old woman later identified as Lee in her bathroom and the suspect covered in blood. Police say Assamad Nash was arrested and charged with Lee’s murder. This was his eighth arrest since May of 2021.   What’s interesting is that no one cares. Where’s Joe Scarborough on that? Is he upset about it? Is his wife upset? Power to women? Right. All the arch feminists who should be out there defending women, they don’t care at all.  Here you have a D.A. who treats violent felonies like they’re misdemeanors, even when it gets people killed, who’s unleashing criminals on the population, but then spending all of his time trying to destroy his political opponents, in this case, elevating a misdemeanor charge to a felony for the purpose of taking down Trump. Now, here’s what we think, if there is an indictment, will form the core of the charge. Bragg seems to be alleging that Trump violated New York’s Business Record Act by falsely reporting the payout to Stormy Daniels as “legal fees.” Now, if this were true, it would constitute a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations has already run out for that for the bookkeeping error, assuming it even happened. But Bragg apparently is thinking about charging Trump under a felony version of the Business Records Law, one that punishes businesses for falsifying records as a way to commit another separate crime.  MANHATTAN DA BRAGG DECRIES TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO ‘INTIMIDATE’ HIS OFFICE IN PRIVATE MEMO  That would be the campaign finance violation, which, as we mentioned, was not a campaign finance violation, and we know that from the FEC, which polices campaign finance violations, by the way, if it were, then that would be a federal crime, not something that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., would be prosecuting. The whole thing doesn’t make any sense at all on a legal level. On a political level, it does because Trump is running for president.  So, what’s behind this? Is he acting alone? We may soon find out. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio sits in the House Judiciary Committee, is calling on Bragg to testify before the Congress. He wants to hear Bragg explain whether or not he’s had any contact with the White House or the Biden DOJ, and if he has, maybe that will explain these charges. He also wants to know whether this prosecution will use any federal funds. Let’s hope Alvin Bragg was committed to the rule of law, complies or is forced to comply very soon. But no matter what happens if this indictment arrives, no matter who you voted for, I plan on voting for it. Make no mistake, this is a turning point for the country. Now, the headline here is not that they’re being unfair to Donald Trump again, though. Of course, they are. Or even that Trump is the former president of the United States. Who cares? I mean, though, as long as we are indicting retired presidents, where are the charges against George W Bush for invading Iraq under false pretenses and giving permanent normal trade relations to China, which completely wrecked our economy? Where are those charges?  Don’t hold your breath.In Washington, wrecking your own country is not considered a crime and of course, George W Bush knows that well, which is why he doesn’t seem worried at all. Criticizing the ruling class, that’s what they indict you for. But either way, Donald Trump’s former job as president of the United States is not really the point here. Yes, of course, you can indict former presidents if they’ve done something wrong. That’s not what this is about. The headline here is that there is, as noted, a presidential race in progress right now, and if you check the polls, you will find that Trump is leading the Republican field. That’s the unprecedented thing, taking out your opponent, using the justice system.  If the Democratic Party is allowed to do this, allowed to crush the presidential front-runner, the main threat to their power, with a bogus criminal case, where does that leave us? We’re done because that precedent will live forever and voters will never again determine the outcome of a presidential election. It’s remarkable when you think about it.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP  After all the yelling from permanent Washington about January 6 and how it was a threat to our democratic norms and the peaceful transfer of power, they’ve decided to completely short circuit our democratic norms, not to mention the peaceful transfer of power using the courts and prosecutors. What happens if they get away with this? No one seems to be thinking this through. Everyone’s all spun up, but what happens if they get away with this?  If they use the Justice Department in full view of everyone to settle a political score and to keep the White House just to take a guy out of the race who seems to be doing fairly well. We’ll destroy the justice system and that’s not a small thing. A functioning justice system has kept this country peaceful for hundreds of years. The purpose of a justice system is to administer justice so that citizens don’t have to do it themselves. You outsource that duty to the government. But what happens when you take that away, when there is no justice system?  What happens when the Department of Justice decides that its goal is not justice, but protecting the ruling class at all costs? Think about that. People are still going to demand justice. The desire for justice is an inherent human desire. We are born with it. But if there’s no neutral place to do it, some people will decide they’re going to have to do it themselves. Now, we don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like, but we can say for certain it’s going to be really ugly.  So, they hate Donald Trump. Fine, but they don’t get to destroy America’s justice system because they do. We would never recover from that.



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A man was searching for shed deer antlers in a rural part of southeast Kansas over the weekend when he discovered human skeletal remains, according to officials.  State and local authorities responded to the scene around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday near Humboldt, a small town about 110 miles south of Kansas City.  Officials were able to confirm that the remains belonged to a human, but they were so decomposed that the age and gender were not immediately apparent. An autopsy is scheduled to positively identify the remains and notify next-of-kin.  The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Allen County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the case but don’t believe there is a threat to the public.  “In these types of cases investigators typically first consider individuals who have been reported missing in the area,” a Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesperson told Fox News Digital.  IN NEVADA, $1,000 REWARD OFFERED IN SEARCH FOR SUSPECT IN DEER POACHING CASE Bucks shed their antlers annually between late winter and spring once mating season is over. February is the best time for people to search the Kansas countryside for antlers, according to the state Department of Wildlife and Parks.  Hunters and hikers have accidentally helped solve missing person cases in the past while searching for antlers.  In December 2021, a man scavenging the woods of southern Missouri for deer antlers found human remains that belonged to a mixed martial arts fighter who had gone missing nearly two years earlier. 



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Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern suggested Monday that former Daily Show host Jon Stewart would be an ideal candidate for the presidency. Stern is one of America’s most famous radio personalities, with a decade-spanning career of shock jock humor and interviews with guests such as Donald Trump before his rise to the presidency. Stern praised Stewart, who has remained a prominent political figure even after retirement from his Comedy Central show, commenting on issues ranging from legislation to debate over the COVID lab leak theory. “Over vacation, I’m watching a ton of this one guy, and I’m watching him debate all kinds of different people,” Stern recalled on The Howard Stern Show.  He added, “He knew more than any of them. And his name is Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart. Now listen, bear with me, Robin. When Jon Stewart hosted The Daily Show, they said that he was the most trusted newsman in the country. Like Walter Cronkite trustworthy.” HOWARD STERN DISTRAUGHT OVER END OF MASK MANDATES, BLAMES REPUBLICANS: ‘THE WACKOS ARE WINNING’ Stern continued, suggesting to his co-host Robin Quivers that Stewart has the necessary political knowledge, “When you hear this guy talk, whether he’s supporting army veterans or he’s talking about various – whatever it is, and I’m not going to go into everything I watch, the guy is so f—— smart and bright and also witty and really measured when he takes on a debate.” Quivers added on to Stern’s praise of the former Daily Show host, “He really cares, I mean, the reason you can debate him on any issue is because he cares about the issues.” “You know, he would work his a– off to be a good president. I’m telling you, he could also win because people like Jon Stewart,” Stern insisted. “But he gave up The Daily Show because it was too much,” Quivers recalled. COVID HYSTERIA TURNED HOWARD STERN INTO ‘EXACTLY THE PERSON HE SPENT DECADES MOCKING:’ REPORTER “Well, he owes it to his country to run,” Stern said. Quivers asked if Stewart would be willing to take up such a role even though it would be a “lot more work than The Daily Show.” “A lot more work, but the guy would be terrific and I think he’d do it. So I’m putting it out there,” Stern said, claiming he had not discussed the idea with Stewart himself. “The way Zelenskyy is doing in Ukraine, Jon Stewart would be great, and I will not accept Trevor Noah as a substitute,” he said. Before becoming president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a comedian.  He later added, “I would like Jon to come on the show and accept the nomination right here, and I would back him, and how will I back him? I’m not putting up any money because I’m very cheap.” Stern endorsed Biden in 2020 after supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016.



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President Biden on Monday signed a bill directing the federal government to declassify intelligence about the origins of COVID-19.  The bipartisan legislation allows the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The cites potential inks to research at the facility and the outbreak. “My Administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID–19’s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said in a statement. “In implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security.” FBI DIRECTOR SAYS COVID PANDEMIC ‘MOST LIKELY’ ORIGINATED FROM CHINESE LAB U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus. Experts say the true origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1.1 million in the U.S. and millions more around the globe, may not be known for many years — if ever. The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies assess at “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated due to natural transmission from an infected animal, while the CIA and another unnamed agency are undecided. “It’s been three years since COVID-19 upended our lives, and we’re still asking basic questions about the origins of this virus. That’s unacceptable,” Chairman Mike Gallagher of the newly-formed House Select Committee on China, previously told Fox News Digital. “The question of how this pandemic began is the most important question in the world, and we should not continue to waste precious time waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to suddenly cooperate with U.S. officials and open up access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he added. “It’s time for Congress to act and force the administration to declassify the relevant intelligence surrounding the pandemic.” The Associated Press contributed to this report. 



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Prince William is offering his support to a youth soccer club that has experienced racist abuse. According to Sky News, The Prince of Wales sent a letter to the team, Alpha United Juniors in Bradford, England, expressing his concern about the situation. “Racism and abuse has no place in our society,” he wrote in a letter seen by the outlet. “Abhorrent behaviour of this nature must stop now and all those responsible be held to account.” The chair of Alpha United, Mohammed Waheed, wrote to the palace in January after becoming frustrated with the local chapter of The Football Association’s investigation. The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of soccer in England. PRINCE WILLIAM CHEERS ON SOCCER TEAM FOR 10TH ANNIVERSARY, KATE MIDDLETON VISITS MATERNITY UNIT OF HOSPITAL Prince William has been the president of The FA since 2006 as a figurehead. The association has had a figurehead president since 1939, which has typically been a member of the royal family. Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, held the position from 2000 to 2006. Alpha United Juniors had previously spoken out in November of 2022, “revealing how for years players as young as seven, have been on the receiving end of slurs and even threats of violence from the sidelines,” according to Sky News. Waheed also told the outlet that since coming forward, about 40 other clubs have contacted him to share similar experiences and concerns. West Riding, the local chapter, said in a statement to the outlet, “We strongly condemn all forms of discrimination and we will always do our utmost to hold perpetrators to account.” It continues, “In order for us to gather evidence, raise charges, and issue sanctions against perpetrators, we require witnesses to engage with our judicial process. Despite our best efforts, the club did not support this process.” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The club and Naz Shah, The Member of Parliament for Bradford West, dispute The FA’s claim and lack of action. “We have made pledges and to show racism the red card, where are those pledges when it comes to grassroots football?” Shah told Sky News. Prince William has spoken out against racist comments against soccer players on professional level in the past. In 2021, he made a rare personal statement on his Instagram condemning “despicable” comments made against several notable players in England. “Racist abuse – whether on the pitch, in the stands, or on social media – is despicable and it must stop now,” he wrote at the time. “We all have a responsibility to create an environment where such abuse is not tolerated, and those who choose to spread hate and division are held accountable for their actions. That responsibility extends to the platforms where so much of this activity now takes place.” “I commend all those players, supporters, clubs and organisations who continue to call out and condemn this abuse in the strongest terms,” added William, who signed himself as “W” in the caption. At the time, the Prince of Wales was called out for not supporting his sister-in-law, Meghan Markle, against the racist comments from the media and even allegedly within the royal family. William is currently facing similar backlash with his new statement in support of the youth soccer club, with many calling him a “hypocrite.” “Wow that’s rich coming from someone who never backed his own sister in law who is biracial. Spare us this obvious PR stunt,” wrote one person on a tweet from People magazine reporting the story. “Yet he participated in the racial abuse of his sister in law, nephew, and niece. #RacistRoyalFamily,” commented another. Another noted the Sky News tweet of the story had its comments section closed. “LMAO there [sic] not even trying to hid [sic] the fact Prince William is a hypocrite look at sky news locking of the comments because even they know it’s bs,” the individual wrote. “Rightfully, Sky News disabled comments about Prince William’s ‘good deed’ because we all know he’d be torn to shreds. Prince Willy bullied his black sister-in-law and did nothing to protect his black niece and nephew from his own subjects and others abusing them on social media,” said another.



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Border Patrol agents had a busy weekend as they seized hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs and thousands of apprehensions, officials said Monday.  Raul Oritz, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, said his agents made a number of seizures in the past 72 hours, including 13,200 apprehensions, the arrests of four sex offenders, “2 murders” and 1 gang member.  Also caught a convicted felon and there were two unspecified rescues. Agents also found 111 pounds of methamphetamine, 99 pounds of fentanyl and 28.6 pounds of cocaine, Ortiz said.  Much of the fentanyl smuggled into the United States comes from Mexico, manufactured from chemicals that originate from China, officials have said.  “Amazing work this weekend!” he tweeted with three images of the drugs taken.  Last week, Ortiz testified before the House Homeland Security Committee where he disagreed with President Biden’s call to stop border wall construction, said there were policies in place that were holding agents back from doing their job, and backed agents who had falsely been accused of whipping Haitian migrants.



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Hell hath no fury like a “Wheel of Fortune” fan scorned. In Friday’s episode of the game show, fans were frustrated with the answer to a bonus puzzle question.  After netting the highest score of over $15 thousand, contestant Julie from Wylie, Texas chose the ‘person’ category, selecting letters P, G, M and O as her additional letters. She was left to solve a fairly filled-in blank; “_O_N_ _ N G P _ A R T N E R.” The correct answer was “FOUNDING PARTNER,” although Julie was left stumped.  ‘WHEEL OF FORTUNE’ ANSWER CAUSES AUDIENCE MEMBER TO SHOUT OUT:’WHAT?’ Host Pat Sajak later told Julie she had lost out on an additional $40,000.  Fans immediately took to social media to question the authenticity of the winning answer, writing things like “Founding partner is not a thing: founding fathers YES. Such BS.” Another person wrote, “Founding Partner? The writers really phoned that one in!” That tweet received a response, with someone adding, “Founding partner is an unfair terminology word usage and this type of wordplay should not be allowed. #unfairwheel” An additional person was even more critical, writing, “They’re just making up stuff now.” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER According to Capital.com, a founding partner is “the owner or owners of the initial company acquired by private equity buyers seeking to merge a number of firms in the same line of business into a larger entity. As they were in at the start of this consolidation, they are called founding partners.” Another fan tweeted their thoughts, sharing, “While founding partner is a business term, I don’t think a lot of people would’ve gotten it. It really was quite a tricky one. Just shows that WOF would use anything.” The contestant Julie, who was accompanied by her brother and 9-year-old son at the taping of the show, was still able to take home $15,000. It was a tough end to the week for “Wheel of Fortune” fans, as several local stations redirected programming to the NCAA March Madness tournament instead of airing the game show on both Thursday and Friday. The show’s official Twitter account wrote, “If you are unable to see tonight’s episode of Wheel due to NCAA March Madness or other special programming on your local station, we will accept any puzzle solution or word of your choice (please keep it clean) submitted by 2:59 p.m. PT tomorrow (Friday, March 17) as valid for the Fun & Games $10K Giveaway.” One fan took to Twitter to poke fun at the issue, writing “Somewhere, in Western Arkansas, someone’s grandmother is ticked that due to the NCAA Tournament she has to get up at 3a to watch Wheel of Fortune.”



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