When one examines the American political left, there is one name that keeps popping up. This name is never found on a ballot or on a roster of campaign workers and advisors, but like the proverbial bad penny, the name keeps coming up. The people who bear that name dump millions into leftist causes. They get catch-and-release judges and prosecutors elected. They fund the campaigns of leftist municipal and state candidates. There’s no left-wing cause so crazy, so lunatic, that they won’t pour money into it.

That name: Soros. Now we learn that old George Soros is dumping $10 million into supporting Governor Gavin Newsom’s redistricting scheme.

Billionaire left-wing donor George Soros contributed $10 million to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot initiative to redistrict the state, the New York Times reported Friday. 

Soros, who has funded left-wing campaigns stretching from district attorneys to federal elections, contributed the single largest donation amount to Newsom’s effort to redraw the state’s congressional lines, according to the outlet, which cited two sources with direct knowledge. 

Soros is the founder of the Open Society Foundations, which is a massive $25 billion nonprofit. His son Alex succeeded him as chair of the board of directors of the Open Society Foundations in 2022. 

Old George’s son Alex runs the foundation now, but old George is responsible for much of that $25 billion bank balance. He built his fortune by currency manipulation, including a 1992 effort that nearly drove the Bank of England into insolvency.

This is a man who accumulated wealth through manipulating markets. He has never produced a product that consumers wanted to buy. He has never run a business that had to worry about a bottom line. He is a manipulator and a schemer, and he and now, his son Alex, dump millions into liberal and socialist causes.

Now the Soros family enterprise (I use the term “enterprise” in the broadest possible sense) is helping Gavin Newsom carve up California, in an attempt to gerrymander that state even more ridiculously than it already is.

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Make no mistake: The Soros donation is going to help Newsom quite a bit.

The donation has helped build Newsom’s war chest for a redistricting effort to roughly $70 million, according to the Times. Newsom launched the redistricting effort, Proposition 50, early in 2025 to counter the Trump administration’s promotion that Republicans in states such as Texas redistrict its own lines.

“We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what’s happening in Texas, and we will nullify what happens in Texas,” Newsom said in August of Proposition 50.

Of course, Republican legislatures in various places are undertaking similar redistricting efforts, most notably in Texas. But there seems to be one jarring difference; a look at district maps in red states as opposed to blue states is pretty stark. In red states, some district boundaries are dividing around urban areas, but in blue states? Look at Illinois Districts 13 and 17, which wander like snakes across the state. Look at a district map of Maryland for an even more stark example.

This is what the Soros family and their foundation support. Now they’ve stuck their oar into California. This isn’t the first time. It won’t be the last.

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As the 2026 midterm elections get closer, the Democrat Party continues to flail about like a dead fish. The dinosaurs of the party refuse to relinquish power, and the up-and-comers are basically socialists who will only make the party less viable and less popular. There are also rumblings about who the candidates for the 2028 presidential election might be. Some recent revelations from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s book, and her thought process for choosing a running mate, have raised the eyebrows of one of those who was on her short list, and Democrats might want to pay attention to what he has to say.  

Recently, my colleague Nick Arama reported that in her book, as she mulled over her choices for vice president, Harris stated that her first choice was former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. She says that he “would have been an ideal partner—if I (Harris) were a straight white man,” but that adding Buttigieg, who is gay, to the ticket would have been “too big of a risk.” She writes in the book:

“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”

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On Thursday, while in Bloomington, Indiana, Buttigieg responded to Harris’s passage from the book, saying:

“My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories. You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them. Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.”

On the surface, it appears that Buttigieg is blowing up Kamala Harris’s assumptions that all Americans are as obsessed with identity politics as the Democrat Party is, and also for being a bit smarter than Harris gives them credit for. And he is half right on how you earn the trust of voters. It’s not about what they think you are going to do for them, but what you say you are going to do and then actually do it. But like a broken clock, maybe even Pete Buttigieg is kind of right twice a day.

Buttigieg may be sincere about his feelings towards voters, but he may also have another motive. Both his and Harris’s names are being tossed around as possible 2028 Democratic presidential contenders, so this may be just an early swipe at Harris. But could Buttigieg, a member of one of the Democrat Party’s favorite oppressed groups, be trying to get the party to think beyond the box-checking?  

Back in August, a memo from a left-leaning think tank called Third Way suggested that Democrats might want to think about speaking to Americans the way those Americans actually speak, and ditch some of the woke leftist code words like “microaggression,” “cultural appropriation,” “birthing person,” and “Latinx.” 

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Whether Democrats will take the suggestion to lay off the woke words is up in the air, but after the 2024 election, the growing futility of identity politics should be glaring for them by now. In 2024, Donald Trump got a 12 percent increase in the Hispanic vote, from 36 percent in 2020 to 48 percent in 2024. Among black voters, Trump won 15 percent of voters, up from just 8 percent in 2020.  

Democrats need to face reality about a lot of things, and one of those things is that Americans are tired of being put into, as Pete Buttigieg put it, “categories.” 

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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation that seeks to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) funding for “transgender apps” and other “woke nonsense” from a key defense tech program.

“The SBIR-STTR programs are supposed to help develop critical technology supporting our national security, not fund woke nonsense,” Ernst said in a written statement to Breitbart News. “Funding transgender apps instead of game-changing innovation is exactly why I have said the status quo of the SBIR-STTR programs is unacceptable. My INNOVATE Act institutes long-overdue reforms by eliminating DEI, safeguarding American intellectual property from Chinese espionage, and most importantly, prioritizing our warfighters.”

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Techno0logy Transfer (STTR) programs are often considered “America’s seed feed” and are designed to provide awards or grants across many government agencies, including the Department of War, to small businesses that are developing cutting-edge technology to advance America’s lethality.

Under the Biden administration, ten percent of the applications review process weighted the grants’ “promoting inclusive & equitable research.”

Some particularly controversial grants include a nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a “Mobile App Promoting Sexual Health for Young Black Men who Have Sex with Men.” A prior grant of nearly $225,000 went to the same recipient to conduct “Formative Research for Mobile App Promoting Sexual Health for Young Black Men who Have Sex with Men.”

A $1.6 million grant was awarded to conduct research on “Trans Women Connected: a mobile app delivered sexual health promotion program.” A prior grant of roughly $225,000 focused on developing “Transwomen Connected a mobile app delivered HIV prevention program.”

A $283,526 grant from the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department went to this project:

People who identify as LGBTQ+ and whose relationships do not fit within heterosexual and/or cisgender norms—are increasingly having children or considering having them. LGBTQ+ parents generally experience similar parenting problems as heterosexual, cisgender parents, but they also face unique challenges related to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. LGBTQ+ parents need effective, evidence-based training to address their unique needs and develop skills to mitigate external stressors and facilitate resilience and empowerment.

Another $406,092 grant was awarded to this project:

Research has consistently demonstrated that there are racial inequities in mental health with Black Americans experiencing worse depressive symptoms and psychological distress compared with White Americans…TheraGroup is the solution to leverage innovative group technology to provide Guided Group Therapy (GGT) in which students receive evidenced-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) coping skills training to address the high demand for mental health services and bridge the gap in services for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) populations on an HBCU college campuses.

Funding for SBIR-STTR programs expire on September 30, and legislation must be passed to reauthorize the program.

Ernst has proposed the INNOVATE Act, which would reform the SBIR-STTR programs to eliminate DEI considerations or awards and instead focus on funding small businesses across rural America. The Hawkeye State conservative tried to advance the legislation on the Senate floor; however, Democrats blocked the bill to favor a “clean” one-year extension that would allow for more DEI funding:

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Giant projections of President Donald Trump alongside convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein were beamed onto Windsor Castle late Tuesday night leading to the arrest of four people.

The arrests were made on “suspicion of malicious communications” after a selection of images featuring the two appeared on the historic landmark ahead of Trump’s arrival for his unprecedented second state visit, Thames Valley Police said.

Trump is the only president to be invited for two state visits, the first being in 2019. The year before that, he met the late Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle during a working visit.

The BBC reports those arrested were a 60-year-old from East Sussex, a 36-year-old and a 50-year-old from London alongside a 37-year-old from Kent.

The force said an investigation was under way afterofficers responded “swiftly” to stop the projection on the castle, where Trump will meet King Charles during the first full day of his state visit on Wednesday.

The president arrived in London late on Tuesday and stayed at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in the capital overnight before beginning a long list of engagements crucial to the visit.

Trump and First Lady Melania will take lunch with members of the Royal Family, visit the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II, and address a traditional state banquet at the castle.

We have to suppose that it is a natural offshoot of a severe act taking place, that some people would tread into the landscape of conspiracies. It is not unexpected, but we seem to be experiencing an elevated level of this activity today. In the wake of the grievous murder of Charlie Kirk, there has been a flurry of these instances, but the sourcing of this may have much to do with the added aspect of political tribalism.

While conspiracy theories are not a new phenomenon, what is notable now is how many who claim to have elevated thinking are instead descending into the fever swamps. An application of pragmatism is not only absent, it is resisted, and that is the tell. And the denials of the motives behind the shooting seen in the press are only feeding this hysteria.

Currently on social media, two such prevailing theories are floated: That the presented text messages between Kirk’s assassin and his lover are fabricated, and that at least one lynching has boldly taken place on a college campus. These are cases that beg for clarity and evidence, and the absence of such is held up as proof.

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Regarding the texts presented by the authorities, the prevailing theory is that nobody of the shooter’s age fashions their texts in the manner seen in these exchanges. The concept is that these were crafted by out-of-touch law enforcement figures. When I asked one such true-denier on social media where the evidence exists that these were fake messages, I was told that it is found on social media posts. (Naturally, the next step was not showing these examples but the instruction that it was incumbent upon me to seek out their proof.)

This is the first step down the rabbit hole; we need to distrust law enforcement and instead take as gospel the postings seen on TikTok. Next, when told of the fact that these text messages could be verified via cell phone companies and the metadata tracking, we hear how the Feds can compel the companies to manufacture that data; those rabbit-hole steps then become a slide.

Now we have the theory of rampant coordination taking place ahead of the shooting, and the vast conspiracy defies all disqualifying details. How do you explain the tracking of the shooter using the very same phone? It was hacked! How do you explain his DNA in the sniper’s nest? He was a patsy plucked from the Republican family! None of it holds up to scrutiny, while the disconnected aspects serve as some kind of verification.

In an unrelated event, but one somehow brought up as connected, this weekend, a young black male was found dead on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi. Demartravion Reed’s body was discovered hanging in a tree, and the natural tendency of minds was to surmise this could be a case of lynching. The unnatural response? Declaring definitively that this was a lynching, with wild claims.

Many are stating definitively that a lynching took place and even attribute details of physical attacks, such as broken limbs and other signs of abuse. The problem? A lack of evidence, once again. The Coroner’s Office has disputed that there was any sign of broken bones, issued a preliminary report that no signs of distress existed, and believed preliminary evidence indicated self-harm was a cause. 

Further examination is taking place, yet the family and many conspiracists are calling for a secondary independent autopsy to be performed, as there is, again, the implication of authorities obfuscating the truth. It also leads to questions the ardents do not want to address.

For this lynching accusation, we first ask who would be behind it and why they would target this individual? No sign of racist messaging has been shown. The next question is regarding the implication of a cover-up, which would be, why the black police chief and the black coroner would be working to hide evidence of a lynching? Now, this also does not disprove anything, but waiting for all of the facts is not permissible.

This mindset behind these claims is fueled, at least indirectly, by a very obvious tendency in the press to avoid key facts in the Charlie Kirk case. Repeatedly, we have seen the press dodging key details, promoting false leads, or provoking theories while denying other key provable pieces of evidence. 

Note that Charlie’s shooter has been implicated as a Republican, with photos of him at 12 years old with guns, which is held up as proof that is supposed to eclipse the contemporary evidence of what he was doing as an adult. Note too the numerous claims of Kirk being a racist, an antisemite, and/or anti-gay based on out-of-context brief clips and quotes, only to be retracted. A Washington Post editor has been let go for attributing false racist quotes to Charlie.

While maybe not pushing these conspiracy theories directly, this behavior in the press feeds this mentality, and much of it rests on a need to have this assassination blamed on the right. As they lose that narrative, conspiracies become a means to keep the claims alive, and media denials substantiate the theories.

At MSNBC, their online guru, Brandy Zadrozny, came forward to deny that anyone on the left was cheering the death of Charlie Kirk.

Not only did the Bluesky social media site have to come forward and actively tamp down the unhinged, gleeful reactions on its platform, but Brandy’s own network had to dismiss pundit Matthew Dowd for blaming Kirk for his own death. What depth of denial does she exist in, and at what level does she place the gullibility of their audience?!

This avoidance of facts seen across the press sphere only feeds the randos on social media to push these claims, and just that easily, all of the crowd who claim to despise fake news are seen marinating in misinformation. These days, clinging to the facts and evidence can be seen as an act of rebellion.

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FBI Director Kash Patel recounted the numerous accomplishments the agency has had in the last seven months as he shone a glaring light on the epic failures of former President Joe Biden’s FBI to keep Americans safe, and it’s so much worse than we ever could’ve dreamed.

On Wednesday, Patel appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the annual FBI oversight hearing and shared the shocking amount of arrests and successes the FBI has had while comparing it to what was done under Biden’s FBI. 

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“Under this administration, the FBI has arrested more than 23,000 violent criminals,” Patel said. “Twenty-three thousand in seven months. That’s twice as many year to date last year. We’ve taken over six thousand firearms off the streets. Six thousand guns are no longer in the hands of criminals in seven months.”

“We’ve identified and found and located 4,700 child victims, that is a 35 percent increase year to date, last year,  he added. “We’ve arrested 1,500 child predators, that is a 10 percent increase year to date last year in just seven months. We’ve assisted our partners with countless counter-terrorism operations around the world. We’ve captured at the FBI four of the most top 10 wanted fugitives in the world in seven months.”

“To put that in perspective, that’s as many as my predecessor nabbed in the entirety of the Biden administration,” Patel continued. “On top of that, thanks to the help of the CIA, we collected and captured one of the individuals responsible for the horrific Abbey Gate bombing that led to the murder of 13 service members. We did that in two weeks. They didn’t do it in the four years of the prior administration.”

The FBI director talked about what he called “Operation Summer Heat,” in which the agency has cracked down on crime in places like Seattle, Miami, Charlotte, Memphis, Chicago, and New Orleans. 

“To specifically highlight New Orleans and Nashville, there has been a 250 percent increase in violent crime arrests in those cities alone,” Patel said.

“Maybe the most important stat for Americans to realize, in just seven months, we are on track to produce the lowest murder rate in modern U.S. history by double digits,” he added. “Those are results, not of mine, those are results of the men and women in the FBI.”

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He later provided the number of drugs the FBI had kept off the streets, and again, the numbers are shocking. 

-Seized 1,600 kilograms of Fentanyl off the streets so far, YTD, that’s a 25 percent increase in seizures.

-100,000 kilograms of cocaine and meth.

So, let me get this straight: not only was Biden allowing criminals to flood into our country by utterly refusing to secure the border, but the FBI, under his leadership, failed to arrest violent criminals, get guns out of the hands of criminals, arrest child predators, and get dangerous drugs off our streets. This leaves one to wonder if this was incompetence or on purpose.

And what did the Biden FBI do instead? They targeted Catholics and Conservative groups like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. 

Patel’s testimony is another reminder of just how dangerous the Biden administration was to our country.

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Socialism is becoming mainstream in the Democratic Party, according to a new survey funded by socialists.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Fund paid for a survey conducted by Data for Progress, which shows that a majority of Democrats prefer socialism over capitalism and back far-left candidates like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Politico first reported. 

“What the mainstream of the party wants is both democratic socialism as a value system and democratic socialist politicians,” claimed Gabe Tobias, executive director of the Democratic Socialists of America Fund, which is the 501(c)(3) political education arm of Democratic Socialists of America.

The survey found that more than half (53 percent) of likely Democrat voters prefer socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democrat New York mayoral candidate Mamdani, while 33 percent back establishment Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), according to the report. Fourteen percent did not choose either option.

The survey reportedly found that Democrats view elected officials who describe themselves as democratic socialists almost as positively as those who say they are Democrats. They also prefer the definitions of democratic socialism to capitalism when the definitions of each are read aloud, according to the report.

The survey defined democratic socialists as believing “that the government should take a more active role to improve Americans’ lives. They generally support higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners, support regulations that protect workers and consumers, and want more public ownership of key industries like housing, health care and utilities.”

They survey defined capitalists as believing “that the private sector is best equipped to make improvements to Americans’ lives. They generally support lower taxes, oppose government regulations of businesses, and want the private sector to own key industries like housing, health care and utilities.”

Upon hearing each description, 74 percent of Democrat voters said democratic socialism most closely aligns with their views, while 16 percent say capitalism better reflects their opinion. 

Unsurprisingly, the survey found that socialism is largely toxic to Republicans and many independents, explaining why far-left Democrats have had more success in places like New York City but have struggled in red and battleground areas. The poll also found that a plurality of independent voters and Republicans prefer capitalism. 

The survey is the first formal poll released by the DSA Fund. The survey was conducted with 1,257 likely voters between August 22-24 and has a ±3 percentage point margin of error.

Beni Rae Harmony, a reporter with WICS ABC Newschannel 20 in Illinois, resigned from her job this week after being suspended for paying a non-partisan tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination.

Beni Rae Harmony identified Charlie Kirk as her “former mentor” in her tribute to him, holding back tears in remembering her former boss.

“Lean on your neighbors. Speak up for what you believe in. I don’t care what it is,” she said.

Beni Rae Harmony said she later resigned after being suspended.

“Effective immediately, I have resigned,” she said in a social media post, “after being SUSPENDED for airing a non-partisan tribute to Charlie Kirk this past Friday.”

“Many in the mainstream media have been fired or punished for mocking his assassination. I believe I am the first to be targeted for honoring him on ai,” she continued. “My resignation is guided by values that are essential to who I am, which I refuse to set aside in order to keep a job. I choose my faith and love of country, and always will. Thank you, Springfield. My home. My community. My people.  God Bless Charlie Kirk and his beautiful family, and God Bless these United States of America.”

Social media users immediately expressed an outpouring of support.

“Thank you for standing up for what you believe in and giving an amazing and heartfelt tribute. Your path forward will be a great one. Whatever you do next, I’ll be ready to share and support you. Proud of you,” said one user.

“I’m sorry this happened. You deserved better! Proud of you for standing up for your beliefs. If I can help, let me know!” another user said.

“Hey fellow Illinois resident! You’ve got this. God is with you. You will never regret standing up for your values. God Bless,” said another.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James has a new strategy to combat credible allegations that she committed mortgage fraud. Appearing with racist lunatic and former MSNBC host Joy Reid, James explained that the Department of Justice should back off because their pursuit of her is “baseless.”

Is it baseless because she didn’t do it? That’s the wild part. James essentially admits she did the deed, but then settles on claiming the DOJ can’t prove she meant to do it, so it’s fine. 

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JAMES: Donald Trump said that he wanted, he said that I was, he called me all kind of names, and he basically directed the DOJ to investigate my affairs. And they’re using mortgage fraud as the vehicle upon which they are investigating myself, Adam Schiff, Mrs. Cook, Lisa Cook, and countless others, and it is, most of it, as you know, is frivolous, it’s baseless because in order to prove mortgage fraud, one has to prove intent, and that’s a very hight standard, high bar to meet.

Well, at least the DOJ now knows what her defense will be if they ever get around to pressing charges (that’s another complaint for another day). It’s not that she’s technically wrong, but openly taunting prosecutors by excusing her alleged criminality on the basis of saying “whoops” is a choice, I guess. Yes, intent will need to be proven, but James is misleading when she suggests that what she did was obviously an accident and that there’s no evidence of intent. 

It belabors belief that she had no idea what she was doing when she listed her father as her husband on a mortgage. That’s not an accident people make. I’ve never been tempted to list a parent as my spouse on any of my mortgage documents because that would be ridiculous. 

Further, when it comes to proving intent, patterns of illegality help testify to it. James went on to misrepresent a New York City rental property as being four bedrooms instead of its actual five. That cut-off just so happened to secure her a much lower interest rate. Then in 2023, she claimed a house in Virginia as a primary residence, again securing a lower interest rate in the process. 

So either James is the most careless, stupid attorney general in American history, or she was doing what it looks like she was doing, which is gaming the system multiple times to secure lower interest rates and save money. And while stupidity can be a defense, the idea that it’s impossible to prove intent is silly. By that logic, every single person who has ever committed fraud could simply say “oops” and never be convicted. But we know people do get convicted of fraud, and it doesn’t require a written confession to prove intent. The DOJ seemingly will have ample material to work with to show James knew what she was doing. 

James needs to be held accountable. She has weaponized the law against her political opponents in grotesque ways and now believes she is above it. That’s a dangerous standard to let lie. The DOJ needs to make hay here. 

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In all the fire-hose flood of information and revelations in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it’s easy to forget that first suspect, the older man near the stage that we saw arrested in real time. He was quickly cleared of any direct involvement and released. As it turns out, though, he may be in some legal trouble after all; on Tuesday, reports surfaced that he may have drawn the police’s attention to himself deliberately. Why? To help buy time for Charlie’s murderer to escape. 

If this is true, then all I can say is, what a despicable piece of filth.

The NewsNation article linked in that X post has more details:

The first man arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of Charlie Kirk yelled, “I shot him, now shoot me” immediately after the shooting in an attempt to help the shooter escape, according to newly filed documents.

George Zinn, 71, was taken into custody following the shooting, but he was later cleared on having any direct involvement with the shooting. He was arrested on suspicion of obstruction of justice.

Currently, investigators have a suspect in custody for the shooting. Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on September 11 after he told a family member that he was the one who shot and killed Charlie Kirk.

According to the affidavit of probable cause that was filed today, immediately after the shooting, Zinn allegedly walked up to a police officer and started yelling, “I shot him, now shoot me.” The officer could not see a weapon in his hands and placed him in handcuffs. The officer asked him where the gun was, and he reportedly said, “I am not going to tell you.”

This seems right for federal charges of being an accessory after the fact. 18 U.S. Code § 3 – Accessory after the fact states in part:

Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.

That implies that, if an offender, say, Charlie Kirk’s murderer, is charged with any federal crime, then anyone who assists that person, by, say, drawing law enforcement attention away, could be charged under this statute.

To which I can only say, let’s get after it. There are new revelations almost by the hour in this case, implications that other people knew what Tyler Robinson was planning, and other people knew just afterwards that he had carried out his crime. Now there’s George Zinn, who reportedly deliberately tried to draw police attention away from Robinson, not because he knew about the act in advance (that we know of), but simply seizing the opportunity to be a scumbag.

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It turns out George Zinn has a history of being a scumbag.

A man who prosecutors say asked Salt Lake City Marathon organizers if he could help set up bombs at the finish line now faces a criminal charge.

George Hodgson Zinn, 59, told investigators “he didn’t mean anything” by sending an email to the marketing director of the marathon asking, “I was wondering if you needed anybody to help place bombs near the finish line on Saturday???,” according to court documents. But Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said given the level of concern around the country following the bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 170 earlier that week, all allegations are taken seriously.

It’s time for George Zinn to “find out.” Let him be charged. Let him be tried. If he’s found guilty, let him be imprisoned. Let him serve as an example, pour encourager les autres.

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