President Donald Trump blasted New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron after an appeals court threw out Engoron’s $364 million penalty for Trump in the civil fraud case.

Trump took to Truth Social to share a pair of lengthy posts regarding the appeals court ruling on Thursday, which found the penalty against Trump in the Empire State cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment:

TOTAL VICTORY in the FAKE New York State Attorney General Letitia James Case! I greatly respect the fact that the Court had the Courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful Decision that was hurting Business all throughout New York State. Others were afraid to do business there. The amount, including Interest and Penalties, was over $550 Million Dollars. It was a Political Witch Hunt, in a business sense, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. This was a Case of Election Interference by the City and State trying to show, illegally, that I did things that were wrong when, in fact, everything I did was absolutely CORRECT and, even, PERFECT. Every single Dollar was thrown out, even the penalties imposed on us by the Corrupt Judge, one of the most overturned in History, Arthur Engoron. I wasn’t given a Jury and, during the course of the Trial, which lasted a long time, was not given one Ruling in my favor by this Political Hack, but worse than him, if that’s possible, was Letitia James, a Corrupt and Incompetent Attorney General who only brought this Case in order to hurt me politically. She is a Trump Deranged Lunatic! They made me bond the outrageous sum, which never happened before, and which cost me Millions of Dollars a month. It should have never been allowed to happen, and everyone knew it! Importantly, the Vote was 5 to 0. I am so honored by Justice David Friedman’s great words of wisdom, which should be read by everyone. I would also like to thank the Court for having the Courage to make this Decision, which is already going down as one of the worst business persecutions in the History of our Country.

The ruling Wednesday upheld Engoron’s finding that Trump exaggerated his fortune, per the Associated Press. Trump also called out Judge Juan Merchan and Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the business records case and the E. Jean Carroll case, respectively. Both cases are on appeal:

Sadly, there are other Cases against me that are equally disgraceful, including those headed up by Corrupt Judges, like Juan Merchan, whose daughter collected Millions of Dollars in Fees from Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, while her father shockingly REFUSED TO RECUSE himself from a vicious and corrupt trial, which is also under Appeal, one in which every Legal Pundit in New York said, “THERE WAS NO CASE!” — Even Editorial Boards said, “DO NOT DO THIS!” Judge Merchan gave me an unprecedented Gag Order, not letting me talk about him or his daughter, or the fact that the Appellate Judges thought he should not be doing the Case, but he did it anyway. Many Lawyers said that his daughter and him created the Greatest Conflict of Interest they had ever seen. Judge Lewis Kaplan, the other remaining Case, whose wife, family, and friends attended his two trials, is as mean and nasty as anyone I have ever met. That Case, also on Appeal, should also never have been brought, and he should be admonished for Abuse, and every other thing that can be thrown at a Corrupt Judge. He loved the publicity, and would not let us present the irrefutable evidence that we wanted to present. This Clinton appointed Judge should not be allowed to get away with this SCAM…

He continued his message in a second post, saying the cases brought against him were in coordination with then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaigns:

These were all Political Trials in an effort to destroy my viability as a Presidential Candidate before, during, and after the Election. They were strongly coordinated with the Biden/Harris Campaign, and will go down in History as among the most Corrupt Cases ever brought. These two Cases are even more ridiculous than the Corrupt Letitia James Case, and will be found out to be so in the very near future. All of these Judges should be ashamed of themselves for allowing them to happen. They are Political Hacks who did everything possible to hurt me as a Candidate. This was an attack by the Biden/Harris Administration on their Political Opponent, ME. It is such an Honor to have withstood it, thrived, and even become President of the United States despite the horrible things that were done to me. I’d like to thank and congratulate my son Eric Trump, and all of the many people in the Trump Organization, that fought so strongly for Justice. My Legal Team refused to give up against heavy odds. This is a Great Day for New York City and State!

A jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million before it was appealed. Meanwhile, Merchan upheld the conviction in the business records case, which remains on appeal, but did not impose a penalty on then-president-elect Trump.

President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to rescue California from its incompetent one-party government, led by podcaster and aspiring 2028 Democrat Party presidential primary candidate Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

“Gavin Newscum is way down in the polls. He is viewed as the man who is destroying the once Great State of California. I will save California!!! President DJT,” Trump posted on his TruthSocial platform.

It is not clear what polls Trump was referring to. Newsom has, in fact, sunk in the highly respected Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll, which showed him enjoying 55% approval among likely voters in February — even after the Los Angeles wildfires — but only 46% in June, after his administration began clashing with Trump. Newsom had a net positive rating of 10% in February, but a net negative of -7% in June.

The Hill estimated Newsom in even bigger trouble, at -22.2%, with a mere 27% favorable rating nationwide.
Another poll found that Newsom was enjoying a “bump” over potential rivals such as former Vice President Kamala Harris, thanks to his recent trolling of President Trump, and his push to gerrymander California’s congressional districts in response to Republican redistricting in Texas.

But Californians, reeling from the wildfires, budget deficits, and the nation’s highest unemployment rate, may be less impressed — especially since Democrats would lost more seats if every Republican state were to retaliate against Newsom’s gambit.

Trump owns property in California, including the highly esteemed Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, and visited the state in his first week in office in a show of solidarity with local wildfire victims.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

The bloody results of the Biden administration’s open borders just keep getting worse. Especially heinous crimes like the murders of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Joselyn Nungary have shocked the nation. They were completely preventable, and all three should still be alive. But the policies of blue states that encourage and normalize illegal immigrants are being felt in other ways as well. One of those polices is issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, many of whom can’t speak or read English. One recent incident is now highlighting just how dangerous this is, and the Department of Transportation has launched an investigation.

The entire nation was horrified at the now-viral video of the driver of an 18-wheeler, who attempted to make an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway that resulted in a horrific crash killing three people. The driver, Harjinder Singh, is an illegal immigrant from India who entered the U.S. from Mexico in 2018. He has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. However, how Singh came to be on a Florida highway where he killed three people involves several blue states and their coddling of illegal immigrants. 

READ MORE: Newsom Tries to Weasel Out of Alleged Role in Fatal Florida Semi-Truck Incident, DHS Is Having None of It

In 2024, Singh was issued a limited-term/non-domiciled CDL, a permit that would be issued to someone who can legally work in the U.S. but is not a citizen. So, even though he is here illegally, he is deemed by the state of California to be eligible for this license. It gets better. A year earlier, the state of Washington issued Singh a regular full-term commercial driver’s license (CDL). Department of Transportation rules state that asylum seekers and those without legal status are ineligible for this type of license.

There’s still more. On July 3, about a month before the Florida crash, Singh was stopped for speeding in New Mexico, where State Police gave him a roadside inspection. There is nothing to suggest that Singh was given an English language proficiency (ELP) test when he was stopped. In an interview with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCS), Singh was given an ELP test and failed, getting only two of twelve verbal questions correct and identifying just one of four highway traffic signs. Two days after the crash, the FMCS began an on-site compliance investigation into Singh’s employer, White Hawk Carriers in California.

On Tuesday, the Department of Transportation announced the investigation into the crash. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a statement, saying,

“If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles. We will use every tool at our disposal to hold these states and bad actors accountable. President Trump and I will restore safety to our roads. The families of the deceased deserve justice.”

ALSO READ: I Voted for This: The Trump Administration Just Massively Raised the Bar on Who Can Become a U.S. Citizen

Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, and with the possible exception of Virginia, every one is a blue state. And since late June, more than 1,200 truck drivers have been taken off America’s highways for failing to adequately speak or read English. But maybe the most chilling thing about this is the fact that Harjinder Singh was able to travel across the country, not being able to read road signs. 

Makes you wonder even more, just who is traveling down the highway alongside you.

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RedState reported on Wednesday about the announcement from Bed Bath and Beyond executive chairman Marcus Lemonis that his company had no plans to open locations in California.

“We will not open or operate retail stores in California,” Lemonis wrote. 

In addition to pointing out that the decision wasn’t “about politics,” Lemonis went on to note that “California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America. It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.”

READ MORE: Bed, Bath, and Beyond Takes a Shocking Stand and Outright Nukes Gavin Newsom’s California

Other businesses in California have either scaled back, closed down, or left the state for similar reasons in what some political observers and business commentators have called a mass exodus.

Lemonis’s remarks were made amid an attempt at a comeback of sorts for the online home goods retailer after the original Bed Bath and Beyond chain shuttered its brick-and-mortar locations in 2023 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rebranded by owners Beyond Inc. as Bed Bath & Beyond Home, its first location opened this month in Nashville, and the company has plans to open hundreds more stores in the coming months.

Instead of acting like a real leader who was eager to work with the company to bring much-needed jobs to his state, Newsom and his unhinged social media team have posted some pretty imbecilic – and rather revealing – responses on X.

“The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store across the country two years ago? Ok,” Newsom said in one tweet.

In another, he bashed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) criticism of his reaction, writing that “Next, he’s going to announce that Blockbuster wants to move back to California too.”

His press office posted this:

After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed.  

We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.

Dumb, clueless, and childish are just some of the words that came to mind when I read this stuff, but it was Lemonis himself who had the best comeback of all, suggesting in so many words that it was pretty astonishing that instead of looking for ways to attract investment and capital, Newsom was rejecting it:

“Well, I think the thing that was surprising to me was that I tried to articulate, in a non-aggressive way, exactly why our company wasn’t going to reinvest capital in California. What I found out this afternoon was that Governor Newsom had enough time to respond to a tweet to remind everyone in America that in 2023 the company went out of business. Now we’re trying to make a comeback, and I would think that a governor would want to attract investment and attract capital into the state. In fact, he did the opposite; he rejected it.”

Watch:

FLASHBACK –>> Newsom: “I know folks are saying, ‘Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.’ That’s true because it’s true…”

While the governor and his staff mock the company as it tries to bounce back, here are some additional things to keep in mind about the Golden State under Newsom’s “leadership” just to emphasize the outright jacka**ery of their responses (language warning):

But keep “slay, kween, slaying” on social media, governor. You’re doing just great. Yep.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated post-publication for clarity.

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Israeli opposition parties said Wednesday and Thursday that they would join, or at least vote with, a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enable him to pass a potential hostage and ceasefire deal.

The pledge could be crucial, as some right-wing parties have said that they will leave the government if it agrees to a deal that stops short of a complete victory over Hamas, potentially triggering new elections.

The Times of Israel reported Thursday:

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid pledges that his Yesh Atid party will support any hostage deal, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right partners vow to oppose the ceasefire agreement presented to Israel.

Lapid’s party, the Knesset’s second-largest, has 24 seats. The opposition leader says he will not demand anything in return from the premier for approving the truce.

…

Yesterday, the Kan public broadcaster reported that Benny Gantz’s centrist opposition party, Blue and White-National Unity, is considering joining the government to support a hostage deal.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing an all-out assault on Gaza City, particularly on the few areas that have been relatively untouched by the fighting, and where the remaining 50 Israeli hostages (20 living) are thought to be held.

Israel’s military pressure appears to be encouraging Hamas to return to negotiation — after French, British, Canadian, and Australian promises of recognizing a Palestinian state apparently convinced the terrorists that they were winning the war and did not need to make compromises.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

The Democrat Party is hemorrhaging support with no end in sight, according to a shocking analysis of new voter registrations.

Fueled by President Donald Trump’s gains among men, younger voters, and Latinos in 2024, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats for the first time since 2018, according to a report from the New York Times which relies on voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.

Perhaps more troubling for Democrats, the data suggests Democrat Party activists can no longer rely on the party’s tried-and-true methods to reverse the trend, leaving panicked party leaders and pundits unsure how to resurrect the party’s electoral prospects.

The numbers are staggering.

“Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot,” the report reads. “That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.”

No states – red, blue, or purple – are immune to the trend.

More voters are choosing to be Republicans.

“All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party,” the report adds. “(In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.”

Many blue states, like massive California, register voters by party while many red states, including Texas, do not, so the number of nationwide registered voters by party does not tell the full story. But in those 30 states with partisan voter registration, Democrats’ eleven-point edge over Republicans on Election Day 2020 plummeted to just over six points in 2024, an alarming trend for Democrats.

“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” Michael Pruser, director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the Times. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”

More trends paint a similarly dire picture for Democrats.

By 2024, the Republican party’s share of new registered voters nationwide “had overtaken Democrats’,” rising by nine points compared to 2018, the report details, while Democrats’ fell by almost eight percent.

The shift from 2020 to 2024 was prevalent in the four swing states with partisan data available as well – North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada.

Identifying the problem is likely to be far easier than fixing it.

Due to the makeup of Trump’s new Republican Party coalition, achieved through gains across multiple demographics, Democrats are unable to go back to the well of recruitment of racial minorities to reverse their downward trajectory. The Times report reads:

For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits — which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democratic.

Mr. Trump upended that calculation with the inroads he made with working-class nonwhite voters.

While blind registration of young people and minorities – assumed to lean Democrat – through nonprofits is relatively easy and inexpensive, identifying and targeting potential Democrat voters is incredibly more difficult and exponentially more expensive.

Donors to left-leaning nonprofits pursuing blanket registration of young and racial minorities get significant tax breaks, while those donors giving money to PACs and partisan political groups are not eligible for such write-offs.

Besides the additional fundraising hurdles faced by political groups compared with nonprofits, donors to those group see less return on their investment. The surgical work of searching, identifying, contacting, registering, and mobilizing voters by partisan political groups is wildly expensive, with the amount of money to successfully secure one Democrat vote running into the hundreds of dollars.

Dumping money into the existing framework is not a solution for Democrats, but no easy – or difficult – fix is apparent. Compounding the party’s problems is the lack of a leader or message.

If Trump and his movement’s heirs continue expanding the MAGA coalition, Democrats’ problems will grow with it.

Bradley Jaye is Deputy Political Editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter and Instagram @BradleyAJaye.

In a show of solidarity and support today, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller personally visited our National Guard troops in D.C. The men brought hamburgers to the guardsmen to lift their spirits and remind them of just how important their work in securing the capital is to the American people. Vance quickly highlighted how the gesture pales in comparison to what they truly deserve: 

We wanted to bring you guys some burgers. We appreciate everything that you’re doing. So, you know, you guys bust your ass all day, and we give you a hamburger. Not a fair trade, but we’re grateful for everything you guys do. 

Since President Trump sent the National Guard into the District, ridiculous protests have been ongoing. The presence of the guardsmen has already dropped crime throughout the city, with robberies and carjackings declining significantly. One can only assume that the liberal protestors would rather have homeless encampments and drugs in the street? Seems like a losing issue, but it’s hard when many on the left make their living by becoming paid protestors. 

VP Vance had a special message for the protesters, specifically:

It’s bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.

Not to be outdone, White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller went scorched earth on the protestors: 

The voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots, no connection to this city, no families they’re raising here. They have no jobs in this city. But they’re the ones advocating for the 1% — the criminals, the killers, the rapists, the drug dealers…We’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies. They all need to go home and take a nap, because they’re all over 90 years old. And we’re gonna get back in the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, D.C.

READ MORE: Kash Patel: Work Will Continue in D.C. Until ‘Every Community Is Safe’

HOT TAKES: Wolf Blitzer Unintentionally Proves Trump Made the Right Decision With D.C. Crackdown

This is the JD Vance and Stephen Miller we all know and love. To Miller’s point, it’s the families and historical residents who are robbed (both figuratively and literally) when the city they live in is not safe. For the elite, crime of course is not an issue. When you live off of Foxhall Road, dine at the nicest restaurants, and take jogs through the narrow streets of Georgetown, crime and filth are not something you notice. For the rest of us, however, it’s a constant concern.

One thing is clear: President Trump made the right decision by bringing the National Guard into the city. Residents on the ground are already feeling the positive impact. Joining VP Vance, Secretary Hegseth, and Stephen Miller, we give a special thank you to our National Guard troops and leadership for your service and work in the nation’s capital—Americans see the value of what you’re doing, and we are grateful. 

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Tulsi Gabbard has announced plans to reduce the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) staff by nearly half. The move will result in annual savings exceeding $700 million.

Gabbard, in a statement released Wednesday, notes that the ODNI’s initial mission was established in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was designed to integrate information across the intelligence communities into a “timely, accurate, and apolitical” intelligence report to be used by the President and lawmakers.

They have failed in that regard.

“Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence,” Gabbard stated. 

“ODNI and the IC must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers.”

She added, “Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust, which has long been eroded.”

DIVE DEEPER: Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Security Clearance From 37 Intel Officials Who ‘Abused the Public Trust’

Biden Adm. Rebrands ‘Scary Poppins’ Disinformation Governance Board With New Free Speech ‘Oversight’ Agency

A fact sheet provided by the Director of National Intelligence’s office notes that they have already reduced the ODNI by 30 percent, removing over 500 staffers from the books since Gabbard took the helm.

One of the primary targets of the restructuring at the ODNI is the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), which was found to have coordinated with social media giants to help censor the Hunter Biden laptop story and influence the 2020 presidential election.

“ODNI uncovered evidence of a multi-year relationship between FMIC and social media companies that was not based on scientific or objective metrics and may have been used to weaponize intelligence against Americans, undermining civil liberties,” the fact sheet explains.

They report that the FMIC, in its earlier incarnation as the Election Threats Executive, worked with Twitter, Facebook, and Google to interfere in the election by squashing a significant story that would have been detrimental to Joe Biden’s campaign “all under the guise of combating foreign influence activities.”

The intelligence community engaged in a widespread, coordinated effort to peddle the very real Hunter Biden laptop as a figment of Russian disinformation imagination.

While the media will no doubt Jedi mind trick their viewers into believing that this is an effort to eliminate groups monitoring foreign interference in our elections, it is, in reality, a commonsense purge of a department that itself engaged in election interference.

It’s also eliminating redundancy, as the fact sheet notes that “elements within the National Intelligence Council and National Counterintelligence and Security Center already monitor efforts by foreign entities to influence the American public.”

Therefore, no, the Trump administration is not wantonly slashing efforts to monitor foreign influence on elections.

“ODNI 2.0” comes just 24 hours after Gabbard announced she was ripping security clearances of 37 current and former officials within the intelligence community, reportedly involved in the Russia collusion hoax.

“Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right,” she said in a statement announcing the move. “Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold.”

“In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people, and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.”

Earlier this year, Gabbard announced that security clearances of 51 intelligence officers who signed a letter portraying Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ had officially been revoked.

For too long, the intel community has brazenly lied to the American people and helped boost Democrat causes by interfering in elections. That is going to end under Gabbard’s tenure.

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Two Palestinian terrorists who were released by Israel during temporary ceasefires with Hamas are set to address a pro-Palestinian conference in Detroit, Michigan, in late August, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The Post reported Tuesday:

Two Palestinian terrorists are set to speak at the Detroit People’s Conference for Palestine at the end of August, including a Tanzim operative who was released in February in return for hostages held by Hamas and a former Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) official.

…

Once a leader and international coordinator for Fatah’s youth movement, [Hussam] Shaheen later became involved in the factions’ military wings. In the book The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967, it was detailed how Shaheen established an al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade cell in Jebl Mukaber and procured firearms for an aborted 2001 attack.

…

Another speaker at the Detroit conference is Omar Assaf, who, according to Haaretz and Al Araby, was an official in the DFLP terrorist organization. An Omar Assaf is listed by the PLO website as one of the founders of the Marxist faction. Assaf is now the coordinator of the executive committees of the Palestinian Popular Conference, which seeks to reform the PLO into, among other things, a more radical militant organization.

A campaign on behalf of Shaheen refers to him as a “political prisoner.”

Pro-Palestinian conferences have a history of celebrating terrorists. In 2017, terrorist Rasmea Odeh received a standing ovation at a conference in Chicago. She was later deported for lying to immigration officials.

A post-October 7 rally in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn saw an Arab speaker who simply used the word “peace” heckled mercilessly by the audience even though he was just as anti-Israel as anyone else on the stage.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and his continued support for sanctuary policies after an illegal alien trucker, who was given a driver’s license in California, was charged with making an illegal U-turn that killed three Americans this month,

As Breitbart News reported, Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, was driving a semi truck in St. Lucie County, Florida, when he made an illegal U-turn that ultimately left three Americans dead.

Singh has since been arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.

Video footage posted online of the fatal crash shows Singh making the U-turn and having no reaction once the vehicle with the three passengers hits the semi truck.

In the sanctuary state of California, Singh was able to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) despite being an illegal alien thanks to a law passed in 2013 and expanded by Newsom in 2022.

By 2023, as Breitbart News detailed, California officials had issued driver’s licenses to more than a million illegal aliens since 2015.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin blamed Newsom for supporting the state’s sanctuary policies that ultimately led to Singh getting a driver’s license and allegedly killing three Americans in Florida.

“Three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom’s California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License — this state of governance is asinine,” McLaughlin said:

How many more innocent people must die before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with the safety of the American public? We pray for the victims and their families. Secretary Noem and DHS are working around the clock to protect the public and get these criminal illegal aliens out of America.
[Emphasis added]

Newsom’s office claimed that the Trump administration in 2018 is responsible for Singh securing a commercial driver’s license in California, but McLaughlin shot back to correct the record.

“Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump Administration on September 14, 2020,” McLaughlin wrote on X. “It was later approved under the Biden Administration June 9, 2021. The state of California issues Commercial Driver’s Licenses. There is no national [commercial driver’s license].”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have issued a detainer on Singh to ensure he remains in custody pending the vehicular homicide charges against him.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.