The California Marxist Government’s Incompetence and the Burning Down of Los Angeles

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The incompetent, borderline criminal acts of Governor Newsom and his Communist California legislators have literally by executive order and signed legislation burned down a significant portion of Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods.

The voters in California legal and illegal should pay close attention to the low IQ zero bottom feeding leadership they have put into office in Sacramento and Los Angeles.

Take in point- During the massive fires spreading across Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades local residents Patrick and Evan Golling saved their house and their neighbors home by using their swimming pool water.

They purchased a new small gasoline powered pool pump and used it to draw water from their pool and spray it over their surrounding property.

They actually broke the law with this purchase because Governor Newsom recently signed into law (October 9th 2024) banning the sale of such gasoline -powered small-motorized equipment.

This bill AB1346 was written by Assemblyman Marc Berman which ordered the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to ban the sale of such motorized engines / pool pumps.

Now we wait and see if this family get prosecuted for using an illegal gas powered pool pump which saved their home and most likely their neighbors homes too.

Governor Newsom also signed an executive order that banned the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 making it impossible to evacuate in a future fire without a zero emissions vehicle.

The power lines were shut off in the Pacific Palisades to prevent them from falling and creating more problems. This would thus make it impossible to charge an Electric Vehicle if this unconstitutional ban on new gasoline powered vehicles stands.

Let’s not exclude the fact the water reservoirs were empty in the Pacific Palisades and the fire department had minimal water pressure to discharge from their firehoses.

The Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass (born in Los Angeles) was on a boondoggle back to her imaginary roots trip to celebrate the swearing in ceremony of the new president of Ghana when the wild fires broke out. I wonder who paid for this trip?

Seriously? It’s amazing the number of these self proclaimed African-Americans who have never been to Africa with zero ties to Africa so she made the trip.

The Mayor of Los Angeles gets an annual salary of $269,365, plus free housing and utilities at the Getty House so hopefully the tax payers did not fund this irrelevant trip. She is living the Socialist Stalinist dream.

There are also news reports stating Governor Newsom cut over $100 million dollars from the wildfire and resilience programs in California but this needs to investigated further with an audit in my opinion.

The state of California used to be the poster child of free market capitalism with entrepreneurs building a strong economy and expanding job creation.

Now California and in particular Los Angeles is a burning ember of failed leadership, unprecedented homeless camps filled with meth addicts and human despair.

Millionaires and the Hollywood elite are crying like babies over their losses which was created by the incompetent government they elected supported by their clown in the White House Joe Biden.

The failure to clear away dead brush close to these million dollar homes, the failure to fill the water reservoirs, the idiotic relocation of fresh mountain water run off into the Pacific, the failure to build fire breaks, the failure to prepare for such disasters and the massive assault on fossil fuels which is the lifeline and economic heartbeat of our nation implemented by these incompetent Marxists has come home to roost.

Let’s hope the citizens of California finally wake up and remove this criminal corrupt government from Sacramento and the local governments across the state.

When we suffer from hurricanes here in Florida we don’t need Mexican firefighters helping us nor do we need Canadian fire equipment.

We do have to contend though with the Biden Marxists refusing FEMA Aid to Florida homes with Trump signs after hurricanes though but that’s ok. We are totally self sufficient here, we don’t need the federal Commies in DC helping us.

Governor Newsom needs to be prosecuted for criminal conduct which resulted in the deaths of Americans he was elected to protect.

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MYSTERY DRONES: Trump promises to release information on ‘day one’

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WATCH: Americans take aim at “Mystery Drones” while Biden falters

President-elect Donald Trump recently promised to release information the Biden administration is concealing regarding the drone sightings all across the East Coast “about one day into the administration.”

OAN — “I’m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration, because I think it’s ridiculous that they are not telling you about what is going on with the drones,” Trump stated at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday evening.

“They don’t want to talk about it, and nobody knows why they don’t want to talk about it. That could be us sending drones—I hope that’s the case. Us doing it and doing research. Maybe they don’t want to talk about it from that standpoint,” he continued, adding that there have been numerous drone sightings over his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The Biden administration previously faced criticism for keeping the public in the dark regarding the mass amount of drone sightings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut towards the end of 2024.

Users took to social media to share videos of the mysterious drones and speculate the possible origins, raising questions of national security concerns due to the federal government keeping the public in the dark.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) previously attempted to downplay the sightings, further fueling internet conspiracy theories.

“Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones,” the government agencies wrote in a joint statement.

Drones have also been reportedly seen flying over restricted airspace, including military facilities, nuclear reactors and airports.

Trump’s comments came during a meeting with Republican Governors Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and Ron DeSantis of Florida.

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Poll: Majority of Americans Say Biden Is Worst President Since Nixon

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According to a newly released Gallup poll, Americans rate President Joe Biden as the second worst U.S. president since the 1960s, just barely above Richard Nixon.

The survey, released Tuesday, asked respondents to rate how 10 presidents from the last 60 years will go down in history. The presidents included JFK, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump’s first term, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, and Richard Nixon.

Just 6% of respondents gave Biden an “outstanding” rating, with 13% giving him an “above average” rating, 26% giving him an “average” rating, 17% giving him a “below average” rating, and 37% giving him a “poor” rating. Cumulatively, Biden scored a net positive rating of -35 percentage points — only Richard Nixon fared worse, with -42. Biden’s 37% “poor” rating was the highest of any of the 10 presidents in that category.

Overall, a majority of Americans — 54% — said Biden will be remembered as “below average” or “poorly.”

Under Biden’s four-year term, America has experienced a series of disastrous outcomes across a wide array of fronts.

On the economic front, a recent Economist report found that the U.S. currently ranks 20th in the world on a combined scale over the past year of gross domestic product growth, stock market performance, core inflation, change in unemployment rate, and government deficits. Despite this, Biden claimed last month that “we’ve entered a new phase of our economic resurgence.” He also stated, “I believe the economy I’m leaving at the moment … [is] the best economy, strongest economy in the world and for all Americans, doing better.”

But American voters did not appear to share the president’s enthusiastic economic outlook. After experiencing record-high inflation on food, gas, and housing prices and significant spikes in homelessness under Biden’s watch, almost 70% of Americans characterized the nation’s economy as “not so good” or “poor” in exit polls following the November election.

On America’s borders, a true crisis emerged after Biden reversed President Donald Trump’s border security policies shortly after taking office in February 2021. As a result, 10 million illegal border encounters occurred (compared to 2.4 million under Trump’s first term), child sex-trafficking more than tripled, and fentanyl trafficking increased, with over 250,000 Americans dying from fentanyl overdoses (an 80% increase since Trump’s first term). In addition, violent crime spiked significantly across the country under the Biden administration.

Regarding foreign affairs, global stability unraveled drastically following Biden’s decision to abruptly withdraw American troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, resulting in the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers from a suicide bomber outside Kabul Airport and the deaths of an unknown number of American allies in the country (in addition to $7 billion worth of military equipment left behind, which the Taliban acquired). Six months later in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of approximately 80,000 Ukrainian troops and 200,000 Russian troops and a combined 800,000 wounded. In addition, approximately 12,100 Ukrainian civilians have also been killed, and there is currently no end in sight to the conflict, with North Korean troops joining the war in October 2024. A year and a half after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in October 2023, the terrorist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, resulting in 1,200 Israeli deaths. This engulfed the Middle East in widespread conflict between Israel and the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others. The Iranian regime also launched direct attacks against Israel.

On the domestic policy front, Biden made highly polarizing and controversial issues the focal point of his administration, including completely unrestricted abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, the targeting of pro-life advocates and political opponents through the Department of Justice, the promotion of gender transition procedures for minors, and more.

“I think the American people are very kind to only give the outgoing administration the second worst grade of any administration since JFK,” Matt Carpenter, director of FRC Action, told The Washington Stand. “To my knowledge, the Nixon administration didn’t publish guidelines for biological males to ‘chestfeed’ their infants, subsidize abortion in the Pentagon, promote dangerous and irreversible gender transitions for minors, flood the country with millions of illegal aliens, and so forth. In my mind, Biden was the worst president since JFK and it’s not even close.”

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Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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From Tariffs to Territory: Trump’s Expansionist American Vision

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Over the past month, President-elect Donald Trump has proposed annexing Greenland, admitting Canada to the American union, and reassuming control of the Panama Canal. To some, these proposals are jarring or confusing, and the left-wing media is only too happy to frame Trump — per usual — as a power-hungry, wannabe dictator. To find the truth, we must dig deeper.

Threats

When Donald Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, he will inherit a more dangerous world than he did in 2017. Not only are America’s adversaries more aggressive, but President Joe Biden has retreated from many of Trump’s foreign policy successes, leaving America weaker on the world stage.

Eight years ago, the only pressing threat was ISIS, which the Trump administration dismantled in 18 months. Today, Russia is in a hot war with a European democracy, China and North Korea are stronger and more belligerent than ever, and Iran is likely to develop a nuclear weapon at any time.

Meanwhile, America has fumbled its dominance in Afghanistan and the Red Sea, seen its military dwindle due to stupid social crusades, renounced the energy independence of 2019, and — from Trump’s perspective, at least — failed to benefit from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada [trade] Agreement (USMCA) that replaced NAFTA in 2020.

Now, as Trump thinks seriously about overcoming these challenges, he is proposing bold and creative solutions. But not every utterance of Trump’s public brainstorming session is wise, likely, or final. “What the president is doing is thinking long-term about our safety and security here in the United States,” explained Senator Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) on “Washington Watch” Wednesday.

Some of the criticism directed at Trump’s suggestions is due to a failure by the mainstream media and others to see how different policy issues are interconnected. Progressivism tends to rely too heavily on narrowly defined siloes of expertise. The Biden administration, in particular, often erred by failing to recognize how its decision in one area would have negative consequences somewhere else.

Canada

At least chronologically, Trump’s current train of thought seems to begin with ruminations on how to achieve his objectives on immigration and trade policy (his favorites). Trump was looking for a way to cajole Canada and Mexico into taking more responsibility for border security, as well as address what he perceives as a trade deficit with America’s northern and southern neighbors.

In November, Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico unless they stopped the cross-border traffic of drugs and migrants. Although dwarfed by southern border crossings, America’s porous northern border has still seen an unprecedented number of crossings under the Biden administration. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol recorded nearly 190,000 migrant encounters at the northern border in fiscal year (FY) 2023 and nearly 200,000 migrant encounters in FY2024.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded by warning that Canada would retaliate against the proposed tariffs by cutting off energy exports to the northern U.S. “We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin,” he declared in December.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has more experience dealing with Trump, chose to avoid a confrontational standoff. Instead, he traveled to Mar-a-Lago to placate Trump and find out what Trump really wanted from the negotiations.

The visit was disastrous. At first, Trump described it as “a very productive meeting,” but he soon raised the temperature, publicly trolling Trudeau and openly contemplating the possibility of turning Canada into America’s “51st state.” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from Trudeau’s cabinet on December 16 over disagreements about how to handle Trump’s threatened tariffs, disagreements which continued to simmer within Canada’s governing Liberal Party. On Monday, January 6, Trudeau himself resigned as leader of the Liberal Party “due to internal battles.” Trudeau likely never suspected that his visit to Mar-a-Lago would end his political career.

As for making Canada the 51st state, both Canada and Congress would have to agree. Canadians may object to losing their public benefits, exchanging their parliamentary system for the American division of power, or combining their 10 separate provinces into one state.

For their part, U.S. representatives would likely balk at admitting a state with a population slightly larger than California, which would take approximately 50 seats from other states through reapportionment (the U.S. House is capped at 435 members). Democrats would be reluctant to follow Trump’s lead, while Republicans would be nervous that Canada’s progressive tendencies would swing the balance of power to the Left.

It’s difficult to see how Trump’s threat to use “economic force” (a.k.a. tariffs) against Canada would overcome these systemic obstacles. Although he will have no personal role in preventing it, Trudeau said there is “not a snowball’s chance in hell” Canada will join the U.S.A., and he’s probably right.

However, it is possible that the U.S. and Canada — who already share defensive and economic treaties — can reach new agreements to bring the two nations closer together, and this may be Trump’s real goal. “Trump is a negotiator, and he’s a disrupter. So, we shouldn’t be surprised that his negotiating style is very disruptive,” Ricketts pointed out. “Trump is certainly not going to give up anything in his hand before the negotiations have even begun.”

One possible Trump objective is to make Canada meet its defense spending obligation as part of NATO. “The president knows that Russia and increasingly China have been involved in the Arctic, and that we need to secure that northern flank,” said Ricketts. “Also, he knows that Canada has not been pulling its weight with regard to its defense spending. I think last year it spent 1.3% of its GDP on its defense, when it’s supposed to be spending 2%.”

Greenland

Trump’s interest in Greenland also flows from his concern about U.S. national security to attacks from the north. Earlier this week, Trump expressed an interest in the U.S. acquiring Greenland as well. “I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA,’” Trump said Monday on Truth Social. “Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation. … Make Greenland Great Again!” Donald Trump, Jr. flew to Greenland Tuesday to emphasize this point.

Greenland enjoys a strategic location on the Arctic Ocean and has large deposits of minerals such as cobalt, copper, and nickel. “It would be a way for us to help secure the northeast United States by making sure we would be able to put up our military bases there,” Ricketts explained.

The U.S. currently operates one airbase in northwest Greenland, but that may not be enough to counter a growing Chinese presence.

“We should be very concerned about what the Chinese are doing in the Arctic,” Ricketts added. There are “Chinese ships that are there that are dual purpose. They’re supposed to be doing research, but we know that there’s nothing in the Chinese Navy that … is just purely civilian. … They’ve all got [a] dual purpose. They all report to the same dictator who tells them what to do.”

After Trump’s comments, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (Denmark owns Greenland) responded that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders” and that “Greenland is not for sale.” But Ricketts noted that “the negotiations for Greenland … haven’t even started yet.”

The proposal to furnish Greenland is probably the Trump proposal that seems furthest afield for many Americans. This proposal neither featured in his campaign nor expresses a deep-seated desire of ordinary citizens. In fairness to Trump, however, it is not unprecedented; the U.S. occupied the island during World War II to preempt a Nazi invasion after the Danish government capitulated, and President Truman made a secret offer to buy the island in 1947.

It seems that America’s interest in Greenland is primarily related to security, and leasing more military bases may be satisfactory alternative to outright purchasing the land.

Panama

Going from north to south, on December 22, Trump set his sights on the Panama Canal, complaining that “The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, highly unfair.”

Trump’s concern about Panama is also related to security. “In the event of a conflict with Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Republic of China, we’re going to have problems because … one Chinese company owns a port on both ends of that canal,” Ricketts explained. “And you bet that they will try to shut that down if there’s a conflict and harm us from being able to respond to anything going on in the Pacific.”

The U.S. finished construction of the Panama Canal in 1914 to more quickly move naval assets from the East Coast to the West Coast. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty to surrender control of the canal to Panama, a process which was completed in 1999. “On the Panama Canal, we should have never given that back to Panama,” declared Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “We should have retained control of that.”

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino responded that “every square metre” of the canal belongs to Panama, and that the country’s sovereignty and independence were not negotiable.

Trump has tussled with Panama before. In 2018, during his first term in office, a legal dispute resulted in Panamanian authorities forcibly seizing a 70-story Trump hotel in Panama City. How Panama and Trump might resolve this most recent dispute is not clear.

Doubling Down

During a Tuesday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump made comments that his critics will distort to monger fear. When asked whether he would rule out the use of military force in relation to Greenland and Panama, Trump responded, “I’m not going to commit to that. It might be that you’ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country. We need Greenland for national security purposes.”

It’s not difficult to imagine how a skeptical media will use this statement as evidence that Trump is about to embark upon wars of conquest. But there is a far more reasonable interpretation.

Trump stated that controlling Greenland and Panama is vital to U.S. national security. This remark surely anticipates a possible confrontation with China or Russia that spans the globe, not an isolated squabble with either country. In the event of a war with, say, China, neither Panama nor Denmark could defend themselves against a Chinese invasion, which would then use their territory as a forward base for launching attacks against the U.S. homeland.

In such a situation, a U.S. president would be forced to choose between allowing China to set up shop in Panama and Greenland to attack our homeland, or preemptively occupying these strategic chokepoints ourselves — as the U.S. did with Greenland during World War II.

This wartime scenario is the likeliest interpretation for Trump’s statement, “It might be that you’ll have to do something.” Trump is prudently keeping his options open. The breaking news here is not that Trump is about to embark upon a crusade against smaller nations who share our hemisphere, but that America is about to once again have a president who recognizes the dangerous world we find ourselves in and is willing to do whatever is necessary to keep Americans safe.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Trump after sentencing: I will appeal ‘this hoax’

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President-elect Donald Trump took to social media shortly after being sentenced in his New York criminal case Friday and said he will appeal and seek a dismissal of the entire “hoax.”

NEWSMAX — Trump appeared remotely with his attorney and was formally sentenced Friday on his felony conviction of falsifying business records, but Democrat Judge Juan M. Merchan declined to impose any punishment.

The outcome cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED.”

Trump then added that the “real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History.”

“As the American People have seen, this ‘case’ had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference,” Trump wrote.

“Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Trumps sentence of an unconditional discharge caps a case that saw the former and future president charged with 34 felonies, put on trial for almost two months and convicted on every count. Yet, the legal detour — and sordid details aired in court of a plot to bury affair allegations — didn’t hurt him with voters, who elected him to a second term.

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The 20+ Safest Online Communities for Kids

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Children and the internet are a complicated combination. According to a survey by Internet Matters, children spend an average of 4.4 hours per weekday online. Parents want to know that their children are safe when using the internet, especially unsupervised.

To help, I’ve combed through the internet to find online communities for children that are safe places for them to socialize, express themselves, and learn how to use online services. Each resource has strict security protocols that ensure user safety, including moderating the use of banned words and phrases, chat restrictions, parenting oversight, and controls.

If you are a parent, you can feel your child is safe when they access any of the 23 online communities in this article.

Games

1. Animal Jam

URL: https://www.animaljam.com/

Specialty: Online game

Age Appropriate for: 7+

Price: Free (Premium Items)

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android, Amazon

Animal Jam is an online space where kids can interact and play with friends in a safe and educational environment. Players can personalize their animal avatar, decorate their den, play mini games, and explore the game’s lush virtual world.

Online safety is a primary concern, with active chat filters and in-game moderators ensuring kids have a friendly and clean online experience. Animal Jam’s developers work closely with the Children’s Advertising Review Council (CARU) and are certified under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Animal Jam uses its platform to educate children on the dangers associated with being online and empower them to explore the internet safely. They also learn about real animals and their natural habitats. Users can create and accessorize their avatars, as well as their avatar’s homes (aka, dens). The game is free to play but also offers paid subscriptions.

2. Franktown Rocks

URL: https://www.franktownrocks.com/

Specialty: Online Games

Age Appropriate for: 10+

Price: Free

Franktown Rocks is a free-to-play online multiplayer game aimed at children ages 8 to 12. Young gamers get to create their own characters and interact with the online world of Franktown. Users can play games, watch videos, make music, and explore the world using their avatars and a range of vehicles.

Customization of avatars and homes allows young minds to express their creativity in a free and safe space. The game enables users to make friends with other gamers and socialize through shared online activities and experiences.

Franktown Rocks uses human and automated moderation to keep its site safe and enforce a no-bullying policy. The entire Franktown Rocks platform is COPPA compliant, meaning no personal information is collected at any time.

3. Home Base by Scholastic

URL: https://kids.scholastic.com/kid/homebase/

Specialty: Book-based games

Age Appropriate for: All ages

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android 

Scholastic: Home Base is a free-to-use 3D world that keeps children engaged through interactive stories. The platform uses storytelling to help children improve key education-based skills including  geography, astronomy, physics, spelling, and writing. Users are encouraged to learn how to express themselves through writing stories and creating comics that bring their imagination to life.

Scholastic: Home Base also has over 20 single-player and eight multiplayer minigames that cover a range of styles, from action and strategy to puzzles and word games. The different book-based games are all set within recognizable worlds such as the Marvel Universe, Geronimo Stilton, and The Baby-Sitters Club.

To keep its platform safe, Scholastic Home Base offers 24/7 human moderation and a sophisticated automated filter to ensure content safety. The platform offers two levels of chat capabilities, global and local, for more private conversations between existing friends.

4. Minecraft

URL: https://www.minecraft.net/

Specialty: Gaming platform

Age Appropriate for: 7+

Price: $5.04/Year (Minecraft Education), $6.99 (Minecraft Pocket), $29.99 (Minecraft Desktop)

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android, Console

Minecraft is an online sandbox game in which the only limits to creativity and exploration are the players’ own imaginations. It is the best-selling video game of all time, with over 300 million copies sold, and is available on all gaming platforms, tablets, PCs, and mobile devices.

As a playable experience, Minecraft is suitable for all ages; however, it does include some combat elements. Players can play the game in two modes: creative and survival. While there is a storyline of sorts that players can complete, many gamers prefer the creative aspect of the game, building complex structures and complete towns and worlds that they can then share with other players.

The concept of Minecraft is simple. Players create and place different blocks of the same size and shape to create whatever they can imagine. The game also has chat filters and a reporting system that helps to control and mitigate inappropriate conduct on the game servers. Accounts also have parental controls, so parents of younger gamers have better oversight of their children’s gaming activities.

Alongside the standard game, Minecraft Education is an alternative version designed to teach users about AI, computer science, and digital citizenship. It helps gamers learn about problem-solving, collaboration, and empathy.

5. Moshi Monsters Rewritten

URL: https://moshirewritten.com/

Specialty: Online game

Age Appropriate for: All ages

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC/Linux)

Moshi Monsters Rewritten is a model of the original game recreated by fans. It gives kids a fun place to explore and collect Moshi monsters. Users must care for their monsters while engaging in social interactions with other players and taking part in a range of educational activities.

The world of Moshi Monsters offers a range of varied activities. In addition to adopting and caring for their monsters, users can customize their monster pets, play games with them, decorate their virtual rooms, engage with others via the Friends Tree and Pinboard, or visit other players’ virtual homes.

Moshi Monsters is a vivid and colorful world, and the central news hub is a newspaper called The Daily Growl. The information displayed is easy to read, perfect for the age demographic of its primary user base.

To keep children safe, the platform monitors and moderates chat rooms using patented filtering technology. Players also have the option to report and block users who violate the game’s code of conduct.

Moshi Monsters Rewritten is not associated with Moshi Monsters or the development studio, The Mind Candy Company.

6. New Club Penguin

URL: https://newcp.net/

Specialty: Online game

Age Appropriate for: 6-14

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC/Linux)

New Club Penguin is a wintery MMORPG set on Penguin Island. Players can customize their penguin avatar and igloo. The island offers 25 minigames in which players earn coins, rewards, and stamps. Coins can then be used to purchase new outfits and decoration items.

New Club Penguin is targeted toward younger gamers aged 6 to 14. Users can connect with others around the world. Maintaining a safe space is essential with such a young player base, and New Club Penguin is moderated 24/7. As a secondary safety measure, players cannot type numbers into the game.

New Club Penguin provides children with a fun and safe online environment to play and explore.

7. PK XD

URL: https://en.playpkxd.com/

Specialty: Games

Age Appropriate for: 9+

Price: Free (In-App Purchases)

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android

PK XD is an online open-world multiplayer experience aimed at kids aged nine and above. The PK XD universe is a place filled with unbelievable adventures where young gamers can connect with friends and let their imaginations flourish by designing and accessorizing their own avatars and pets.

PK XD also offers users a host of entertaining minigames to play alone or with friends, as well as a myriad of cool vehicles that gamers can use to navigate the PK XD universe.

While players can socialize with one another in the game, the developers of PK XD understand the need for safety; all chatting is done through pre-written phrases. This means no manual text can be entered or sent, keeping the tone of conversations safe and appropriate for the target age group.

8. Roblox

URL: https://www.roblox.com/

Specialty: Gaming platform

Age Appropriate for: All ages

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android, Console

Roblox is a global platform hosting an estimated 40 million game experiences. While gamers of all ages use the platform, it primarily targets children, typically nine and up.

Users can build their own games and share them with others, or play existing games that others have made. All of the games offer an immersive 3D experience with a design style best described as a mash-up of Minecraft and Lego.

Roblox offers a place for young gamers to meet and explore a range of games, including racing, fashion design, and obstacle courses, as well as hangouts and even concerts. With over 79.5 million daily users, the platform understands the need for rigorous safety mechanics especially given the in-game chat feature, which allows any user to talk to another.

Given Roblox’s huge player base, we recommend parents enable the game’s most stringent safety controls. This includes removing in-game chat options completely or controlling who is allowed to chat with your child’s account. Roblox also offers robust chat filters with human and AI moderators, age-based permissions, spending limits, a built-in reporting system, and even avatar clothing detection to ensure that digital characters remain age-appropriate.

While Roblox is free-to-play, users can purchase premium in-game content. Parents who are concerned about microtransactions may want to monitor or restrict their child’s spending.

9. Stardoll

URL: https://www.stardoll.com/

Specialty: Fashion community 

Age Appropriate for: 13-18

Price: Free 

Stardoll is an online community for teenagers with an eye for fashion and creativity. With almost 500 million players from over 200 countries, it is the largest online community of its kind. Members can create their avatars and let their creativity shine as they clothe their characters, decorate their homes, and socialize with others.

Stardoll members can strike up friendships and spend time together online chatting, playing games, and creating clubs. Stardoll is used by players of all ages; however, accounts for people under 13 have additional restrictions to keep them safe.

Beyond that, Stardoll constantly monitors its platform and has clear rules and codes of conduct. Name-calling and inappropriate language are not tolerated, and those who break the rules risk having their accounts terminated.

10. ToonTown Rewritten

URL: https://www.toontownrewritten.com/

Specialty: Online game

Age Appropriate for: All ages

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC/Linux)

Toontown Rewritten is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It offers a safe online space for children, teens, and adults. The game has an endless storyline, which is the battle against the cogs, a corporate villain intent on turning the town into a new business.

ToonTown Rewritten offers a wealth of activities, from relaxing to action-packed. Gamers can participate in races, unlock bigger and better karts and new tracks, or go fishing to catch all the different fish species. Other activities include gardening, golfing, hosting parties, and adopting and caring for ToonTown’s native pets, Doodles.

ToonTown Rewritten is presided over by a team of moderators who check every single report that comes through to ensure ToonTown remains a safe online world for players of every age. The game also has measures in place to prevent the use of inappropriate words and phrases in chat sessions and stop the sharing of personal information.

11. Webkinz

URL: https://www.webkinz.com/

Specialty: Online game

Age Appropriate for: 6+

Price: Free (membership options) 

Market(s): Desktop (PC/MAC), iOS, Android 

Webkinz is a bright and colorful virtual world for children aged six and over. Webkinz is a safe and educational platform where users can adopt, care for, and customize their own pets and homes, and can also engage with their friends through a variety of chat areas.

Webkinz provides children with a fun space to express themselves online. Safety is paramount for Webkinz, and all chat areas are heavily moderated while parents are also given additional chat controls, including permission management and third-party ad exposure.

Webkinz claims to be the original toy-to-life game, meaning that many of the playable pets in the game are also available as plush toys in the real world. This allows children to expand their roleplay in real life, encouraging creativity and imaginative play.

Social Media & Forums

12. Azoomee

URL: https://www.azoomee.com/

Specialty: Games and Videos

Age Appropriate for: 5-10

Price: Free

Market(s): iOS, Android 

Azoomee is a BAFTA-nominated app bursting with all the things kids love and designed for children aged 5 to 10. Azoomee provides children with a safe and positive online experience, giving them a platform filled with games, videos, TV shows, activities, and more.

Azoomee’s creators worked with education and children’s media experts to collate a library of shows, videos, and games that aim to engage with children and help aid their development. This includes games that build problem-solving and strategy, as well as videos that fill young minds with wonder and introduce them to topics such as science and the natural world.

The app also has a chat feature, but all friend connections must be vetted and approved by a parent or guardian before communication starts. All parental controls and settings are PIN-protected to ensure child safety is maintained.

Additionally, Azoomee helps educate children on being smart and staying safe online through its series Search It Up, which earned a BAFTA nomination.

13. Grom

URL: https://www.gromsocial.com/

Specialty: Social Media app

Age Appropriate for: Exclusively for kids under 13

Price: Free

Market: iOS

GROM is a child-focused social media platform designed for children aged under 13. The platform is COPPA-compliant and recognized by the CARU Safe Harbor program. GROM provides children with the ability to connect with new and existing friends, share photos, and interact in a moderated environment.

To keep the platform safe, GROM has a 5-layer safety system that uses video-based age recognition, content filtering, human moderation, user reporting, and parental monitoring.

Parental monitoring features include content oversight for all posts, comments, and messages, along with customizable screen times and account settings.

14. KidzSearch

URL: https://www.kidzsearch.com/

Specialty: Search engine/forum

Age Appropriate for: 9-13 

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop, iOS, Android

KidzSearch is a specialized internet search engine for children. All results are safe and filtered for ages 13 and under. KidzSearch uses Google’s search settings as a base with additional age-appropriate filtering. Kids can customize the background of their search experience on KidzSearch and are encouraged to engage with others in a safe introduction to the online world.

Within the engine, KidzSearch also offers a social media platform designed for children called KidzNet, and an informative Q&A portal called KidzTalk. Both are heavily moderated, and all content is reviewed before being published.

KidzTalk encourages children to ask and answer questions and offers polls, blogs, and quizzes. There are over eighteen thousand questions and more than fifty-one thousand answers currently on the site, and all users are encouraged to submit both whenever they can.

15. Kidzworld

URL: https://www.kidzworld.com/

Specialty: Social hub

Age Appropriate for: 9-16

Price: Free

Kidzworld is a social networking platform created for children and teens aged 9 to 16. The platform offers users a safe and moderated online forum to make friends, socialize, and learn how to express themselves in an online world.

Kidzworld complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and works hard to maintain a platform that protects its members from bullying, inappropriate language, and anyone who doesn’t belong on the platform.

Kidzworld provides an array of online activities to keep users entertained, including chat rooms, forums, quizzes, games, and articles on a wide range of interesting and informative topics.

16. Kinzoo Messenger

URL: https://www.kinzoo.com/kinzoo-messenger

Specialty: Social Media app

Age Appropriate for:  6+

Price: Free

Market(s): iOS, Android 

Kinzoo is a child-focused messaging platform that lets young friends keep in touch through voice and video calls, as well as chat windows that allow the sharing of photos and videos in a safe and secure environment.

Kinzoo also offers a number of free games. When accounts are created, mobile users can select several games for free, with others available for purchase. Providing their friends have the same game, they can play through the app. Mobile users get to choose free games, but tablet users have to pay for any game they play.

Kinzoo holds certifications from kidSAFE+ and COPPA and works in a similar fashion to standard messaging services, but all contacts are controlled through a central parental account.  All incoming friend requests must be approved by the parent on their device before children can chat. Parents can also change PINs and report inappropriate content to the Kinzoo team.

17. LEGO® Play

URL: https://kids.lego.com/en-gb/play-app

Specialty: Creative social app

Age Appropriate for: All ages

Price: Free

Market(s): iOS, Android 

LEGO® Play is a new kid-safe platform that combines the creativity of LEGO with the convenience of technology. LEGOPlay allows users to let their ideas run wild and share their creations with others via a kid-friendly social media feed.

The entire social space is well-moderated, granting children the freedom to explore and connect with new friends. Users can leave comments on other people’s work and build personalized profiles with avatars and nicknames to protect their identities.

The app also offers a range of minigames and LEGO videos for users to fully immerse themselves in the world of LEGO.

18. TrevorSpace

URL: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorspace/

Specialty: Supportive social community  

Age Appropriate for:  13-24

Price: Free

TrevorSpace is an inclusive online platform for young members of the LGBTQ+ community. A social platform targeted toward teens and young adults aged 13 to 24, TrevorSpace provides a safe and supportive space for people exploring their identity and working to understand their sexuality and true self. Users can connect with friends worldwide by joining clubs and sharing their interests to connect with like-minded individuals.

TrevorSpace understands the need for security in the online sphere and maintains its platform by using online moderators and AI technology, ensuring it always offers a safe platform that encourages self-expression free from judgment or harassment.

Educational Platforms

19. Khan Academy & Khan Academy Kids 

URL: https://khanacademy.org/

Specialty: Educational

Age Appropriate for: All ages (2-8 for Khan Academy Kids)

Price: Free (accepts donations)

Market(s): Desktop, iOS, Android

Khan Academy Kids is a child-focused offshoot of Khan Academy, a non-profit organization that offers free, high-quality educational resources without advertisements to children aged 2-8. Older children will find similar resources on the main Khan Academy site.

Khan Academy and Khan Academy Kids offer lessons on a wide range of subjects and allow students to learn at their own pace. The app and website enable kids to satisfy their curiosity about a subject, bolster existing knowledge, and supplement ongoing studies.

All lessons available on Khan Academy or Khan Academy Kids are delivered through a combination of practice exercises and instructional videos. The program also offers a personalized learning dashboard so students can track their progress and adjust their learning to their own pace and capabilities.

20. Scratch 

URL: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Specialty: Coding community

Age Appropriate for: 8-16

Price: Free

Market(s): Desktop, iOS, Android

Scratch is the world’s largest free coding community designed for children aged 8 to 16. Scratch uses a simple visual interface and drag-and-drop features to help young minds build animations, games, and stories. Scratch helps children develop computational thinking and problem-solving skills through creative teaching methods, encouraging self-expression and collaboration. Scratch is free and available in over 70 languages.

The Scratch community is a safe space for people to discuss and share their work with others. Basic private data is taken during sign-up and securely kept; it is never sold or passed on to third parties. The community itself is moderated and has active filters on chat messages to ensure appropriateness at all times.

21. The Open Canopy 

URL: https://learn.outofedenwalk.com/

Specialty: Educational/cultural 

Age Appropriate for: 3-19

Price: Free

The Open Canopy is a fun and engaging online forum for children and young adults aged 3 to 19. The Open Canopy offers students a range of ”learning journeys,’’ 8-12 week curriculum-styled programs. Students from all over the world undertake these journeys and are encouraged to share their efforts on The Open Canopy’s online platform to help young people learn about different cultures.

Seeing the same assignment completed by people of different faiths, races, and geographical locations is an educational and eye-opening experience. The intention is for students to talk to one another and open dialogues that supplement the cultural learning experience offered by the various programs.

Community belonging and accountability are key to the ongoing safety of The Open Canopy students. Participants are reminded to be respectful and reflective, and they are encouraged to speak up and be compassionate, attentive, and brave. There are also clearly written community guidelines outlining what types of posts and language are inappropriate.

22. Tynker

URL: https://www.tynker.com/

Specialty: Coding community 

Age Appropriate for: 5+

Price: Subscription (Quarterly, Yearly, Lifetime)

Market(s): Desktop, iOS, Android

Tynker is an online educational platform that aims to teach children as young as five about coding. It offers a wide range of courses, apps, and lessons that help children develop an interest and gain experience in writing code. The lessons are fun and include teaching children how to create their character skins in Minecraft.

Children get to share their coded games and other projects with fellow users. Tynker uses this sharing capability to motivate children to grow their coding skills. The Tynker platform teaches children how to code in real-world applicable languages such as Python and Java, helping to prepare them for school and the world beyond education.

In dealing with such a young user base, Tynker prioritizes online safety and has moderators checking and approving every project that is published before it becomes available to users. This helps ensure that no age-inappropriate content is shared on the site. The platform has also taken the step to remove messaging and commenting, instead using heart reactions to show support for other coders.

23. Write the World

URL: https://writetheworld.org/

Specialty: Creative writing

Age Appropriate for: 13-19

Price: Free

Write the World is a free online community for young writers looking to find their voice and grow their critical thinking, reading, and general communication skills. The Write the World organization is targeted at people aged 13-19.

On the Write the World platform, young voices can develop in writing, editing, and publishing their work among their peers. They can also learn how to receive criticism and handle feedback. The different educational programs offered on the site incorporate virtual class groups, writing prompts, lesson plans, educational resources, college essay programs, and writing workshops.

Write the World keeps the community safe by monitoring accounts and ensuring registration information is checked and verified. If moderators feel a user infringes on the site’s policies, they will terminate access to the website and groups. Similar steps are taken against accounts that upload inappropriate work or do not comply with the platform’s terms of service and general purpose.

Conclusion

Safety and security are paramount for young people who spend time online. Most of the resources I’ve listed are solely for children and young teens, where they can safely spend creatively and socially. Knowing there are online communities where they can spend their time, with no risk of being exposed to inappropriate material, offers parents invaluable peace of mind.

These online communities offer children a safe space, and many also help teach children about the dangers of the internet and how to stay safe online.

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Gay Choirs, Trans Cafes And Social Justice Art: What LA Spent Money On While Cutting Its Fire Budget

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The City of Los Angeles cut funding for its fire department and allocated thousands of dollars to various progressive programs, including a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe” and a Gay Men’s Chorus.

Fires swept through Southern California on Wednesday, destroying hundreds of homes in Los Angeles County, and high winds only fueled the destruction. The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was slammed for slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) budget by $17.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to 2025, Fox 11 reported, citing LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia.

Bass claimed in a press conference that none of the reductions made “would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.” She added that the city is “in tough budgetary times.”

Los Angeles allocated $100,000 to the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,” according to its 2024 to 2025 budget. The funding’s purpose is to “support a safe haven for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood,” the document noted.

Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards.

The budget also appropriated $8,670 for the “One Institute the International Gay and Lesbian Archives.”

The ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries currently has an exhibit titled “Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation,” which focuses on the occult and “the LGBTQ movement.”

The budget also allocated $13,000 for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month Programs” and $14,010 to the “Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.”

Los Angeles’ African American History Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month and Asian American History Month Programs were each allocated $13,000. 

The budget also appropriated $170,000 in total for “Social Justice Art-Worker Investments.”

The LAFD was blasted for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and its 2023 to 2026 strategic plan stated that DEI was one of its “key goals.” A stated priority of the city’s first “LGBTQ” and woman fire chief, Kristin F. Crowley, is “promoting a culture that values [DEI].”

The Daily Caller reached out to the Los Angeles city controller, the city administrative officer and the mayor’s office, but has not heard back as of publication.

AUTHOR

Eireann Van Natta

Intelligence state reporter.

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Critically Thinking about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Healthcare

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There is now an unprecedented opportunity that Critical Thinkers (that’s us) should take advantage of.

Arguably, for the first time in modern U.S. history, the federal government is:

  1. open to making radical changes in government agencies,
  2. has the right political perspective, and
  3. is receptive to citizen inputs.

Yes, there are always reasons to be skeptical — but the upside is so great that we should assume the best, and offer assistance. For those who are incurably cynical and say no, then you are foregoing your future rights to complain!

I’m polling my Critical Thinking Substack readers as to their best ideas regarding the Department of Health and Human Services (FDA, CDC, etc.), Department of Education, Department of Energy, EPA, and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). [I have a connection with RFKjr, but if you have any good relations with the upper echelon of any of the other Departments, please email me.]

Let’s say that this is the scenario:

a) we are given five (5) minutes for a face-to-face meeting with the Secretary of each of these Departments, and 

b) we are asked to limit our suggestions to three (3) items. Due to these rules, we need filter out many ideas so that we are left with just three (3) succinct, important, doable recommendations.

Since we’re starting off a New Year, I’ll dedicate upcoming commentaries to each of the above-mentioned Departments, one at a time. In each commentary, I’ll propose MY suggested three (3) recommendations for a specific Department, and then Critically Thinking readers can constructively weigh in with support or any improvements on what I’ve proposed…

Then we’ll try to get each end product to each Department’s Secretary.

To get the ball rolling, I’ve drafted up three (3) recommendations for DHHS (RFK Jr.). Feel free to suggest edits of mine, or better ideas, in the Comments, below…

Recommendation #1 —

Bobby should formally adopt the slogan: “Real Science, not political science,” or something akin to that.

That should be the umbrella of his campaign to reform US health policies: he wants to root out the political science that has infested many US healthcare agencies. It’s important to specifically spell this out as most citizens are technically challenged and are not aware that this is what is transpiring.

IMO, this is the core health issue, as Big Pharma and other self-serving parties are aggressively pushing political science. As a result, the FDA, CDC, AMA, etc., have completely lost touch with their mission statements, statutory obligations, etc.

For example, the FDA’s use of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) of Paxlovid and formal Approval of Remdesivir is simply putrid. On the other hand, the FDA’s resistance to such therapies as Ivermectin (e.g., here) is criminally incompetent.

See the unique side-by-side comparison I put together of these two options, plus every other major pre- and post-COVID treatment. To my knowledge, no one else in the country has published this type of analysis. This powerful (but easy to understand) table quite clearly exposes which COVID-19 treatment options are Real Science and which are political science.

Recommendation #2 —

The FDA’s drug, etc. Approval process (particularly EUAs), needs to be radically upgraded.

The objective would be to change Approvals/EUAs so that they are genuinely Science-based — not due to politics. Tackling this critically important part of the FDA’s incompetence would be a wise and powerful strategy, as fixing the FDA’s therapy Approval process would have enormous ramifications across the rest of the FDA and the medical establishment in general. This would profoundly benefit American citizens.

Since the objective here is to cut to the chase, I wrote out a two-page summary of major changes that the FDA should be mandated to make, regarding their awarding of any medical product an EUA or the more formal Approval.

Since Bobby will have some power over the FDA, these very specific — and scientifically justified — reforms should be able to be mandated on the FDA. Accomplishing these would be among the most significant US medical changes over the last 50 years…

Recommendation #3 —

The public needs to be re-educated about the extreme importance of maintaining good health.

Prevention is a hundred times better than experimenting with ailment cures. This includes basics, like: balanced nutrition, proactive care (e.g., exercise, good sleep, etc.), and maintaining a strong immune system. These are low-cost, mostly simple efforts that almost every American would benefit from fairly quickly.

Note: the fact that Fauci, Birx, et al stunningly didn’t say a word about any of these regarding COVID-19, is proof positive of their estrangement from real Science.

Yes, I am fully aware that there are a multitude of other healthcare related issues — and several of them are significant. The question is, if you only had five minutes to speak to RFK Jr., and were limited to your three (3) best recommendations, what would they be?

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Trump Is A Deal Man’: Wife Of American Hostage Ryan Corbett Explains Why She Flew To Mar-A-Lago

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President-elect Donald Trump shared Thursday, surrounded by Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, that he was being briefed on a potential deal to bring home three Americans held hostage by the Taliban. About 12 hours later, Anna Corbett, the wife of one of those hostages, Ryan Corbett, was on a plane headed towards the “winter White House.”

In a tweet Thursday night, Anna announced that she was packing her bags and heading down to the president-elect’s residence.

Anna has no real plan and, at the time of publication, no meeting on the books with Trump. She’s armed only with the mission of doing anything she can to get her husband home.

“It’s been going on very, very long for our family — 883 days today — and I have been begging and asking for a meeting with President Biden and hopeful that this situation would be resolved during this administration, and have not been given a meeting with the president yet. Anna said in an interview with the Daily Caller as she waited for her connecting flight down to Palm Beach. “In desperation, I decided with the children to plan a trip to Mar-a-Lago in the hopes of meeting with President Elect Trump.”

Anna told the Caller that several politicians are working on trying to get her a meeting with the president-elect.

“I think it would be totally amazing if I had a meeting with him within a day of asking for one, after waiting this long for a meeting with President Biden, and I am desperate,” Anna said.

Anna is packing, kissing her kids goodbye, and heading to Mar A Lago to try to get a meeting with President Trump because we know he can bring Ryan home. Help us make sure he sees this video. We can’t thank you enough for your support. #freeryancorbett #trump #bidenpic.twitter.com/vLf5nttcSX

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) January 10, 2025

Ryan Corbett, a U.S. citizen from upstate New York, previously lived in Afghanistan with his family from 2010 to 2021, according to a website dedicated to bringing him home. Corbett was running local NGOs in Afghanistan before starting a microloan and consulting business in the country.

Corbett left Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover but made the decision to go back to get his business visa renewed and visit his staff in January 2022. During a second visit using his business visa in August 2022, Corbett was captured by the Taliban.

Over the last two years, Anna Corbett has made 16 trips to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to meet with President Joe Biden about a potential deal to rescue her husband, she previously told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). But in all 16 trips, Biden has never met with Anna.

But Anna is is hopeful that Trump can help her get something done.

“President Trump is a deal man. He has a strong track record of making really tough and significant deals,” a spokesperson for Anna told the Caller.

“The president of the United States, their job is to make the hardest decisions. That’s the stuff that gets to the desk. And for 883 days, Anna has been trying to get President Biden to make those hard decisions, and he hasn’t been willing to do it. And we’re hopeful that this will be different,” the spokesperson added.

With his term coming to an end, Biden reportedly has a deal on the table to rescue Corbett. Biden’s administration has been in talks with the Taliban about an agreement since at least July, and proposed in November that the group release three Americans — George Glezmann, Ryan Corbett and Mahmoud Habibi — in exchange for Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, an Afghan who the U.S. government claims was a high-ranking al Qaeda aide, sources told the WSJ.

Almost 800 days without Ryan. Please @POTUS bring him home #freeryancorbett pic.twitter.com/mSBv356lno

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) October 15, 2024

The Taliban countered the Biden administration’s deal the same day it was offered, the WSJ reported. The Taliban proposed receiving Rahim and two others for Glezmann and Corbett. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in December that Biden has yet to decide on the deal.

“President Biden’s term is almost over. Before he goes there is talk that he may trade a Guantanamo, al Qaeda detainee for three American hostages held by the Taliban. Should he do that?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump on Thursday.

“Well I haven’t looked at it, I will be looking at it. They are showing me tomorrow morning, they are showing me the trade … I haven’t been in favor of the trades they have made, but I am taking a look tomorrow. We will have something to announce tomorrow,” Trump answered.

Anna wants to make the pitch directly to Trump to get her husband home for her family. Captured for nearly two and a half years, Anna explained that Ryan has missed their three kids, Ketsia, 19, Miriam, 17 and Caleb, 14, grow up.

“We’re really close to family, and we’ve done everything together. Living overseas together had a lot of challenges. The children having to transition back to a new life in Western New York, without Ryan, going through so many changes and opportunities, and having Ryan miss all of that has just been very, very difficult for us,” an emotional Corbett told the Caller.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

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‘We Are Ready To Talk’: Greenland Reportedly Communicating With Trump Team About Cooperating With U.S.

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Leaders in Denmark and Greenland have been communicating with President-elect Trump, expressing an openness to allow an increased U.S. military presence on the world’s largest island, according to a Saturday report from Axios.

Danish leaders reportedly expressed to Trump’s team that Greenland is not for sale but they are willing to discuss a host of other possibilities, Axios reported.

Denmark’s government is keen on avoiding a public showdown with Trump and sought clarification from him about his plans for Greenland, the outlet also reported.

Trump has renewed previous interest in the massive island, over which Denmark maintains security control, in recent weeks.

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” Trump wrote in a December post on Truth Social while announcing his selection of PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark.

Greenland’s prime minister Mute Egede said he’s ready to speak with Trump during a Friday joint press conference with Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen. The pro-independence Egede also, however, expressed that Greenland doesn’t want to be Danish or American.

“We have a desire for independence, a desire to be the master of our own house … This is something everyone should respect,” Egede said Friday. “Greenland is for the Greenlandic people. We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic.”

Some of Greenland’s citizens expressed intrigue and even excitement at the specter of joining the American fold.

“See you soon Donald,” one resident, sporting a red Make America Great Again hat, told a cameraman associated with a delegation led by Trump’s eldest son Don Jr.

Trump’s renewed calls are an echo of his 2019 attempts to purchase the island from Denmark, which he ultimately abandoned in his first term after Prime Minister Frederikson shot him down.

His latest salvo for the resource-rich island involved national security concerns. “We need Greenland for national security reasons,” he said during a Tuesday press conference at Mar-A-Lago.

When asked in the same press conference if he could rule out using military or economic coercion in Greenland he said “I can’t assure you of either of those two.”

He also referenced global security in the presser, citing the growing influence of Russia and China in the region and the need to combat it.

“You don’t even need binoculars, you look outside you have China ships all over the place, you have Russian ships all over the place. We’re not letting that happen, we’re not letting it happen.” he said.

He threatened Denmark with tariffs if they tried to impede a potential Greenland decision to join the U.S.

Greenland voted to move towards independence in a 2008 referendum and with the 2009 Self-Government Act.

An increased U.S. military presence would add to the already American manned Pittufik U.S. Space Base. The base includes a radar station which is part of the U.S. ballistic missile early warning system, according to the Department of Defense.

The Daily Caller contacted members of Trump’s team for confirmation but did not hear back by publication.

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‘Excuses Go Up In Flames’: California Dems Paved The Way For Los Angeles To Be Consumed By ‘The Big One’

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Southern California was known for years to be vulnerable to potentially devastating wildfires, but Democratic officials did not take sufficient action before proceeding to botch the response to fires currently devastating the Los Angeles area.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to follow through on a signature 2019 initiative to revamp the state’s approach to wildfires and neglected to adequately manage wildfire kindling while a key reservoir reportedly sat empty in the lead-up to the fires that have rocked Southern California this week. While there is nuance to these shortcomings, the results of the crisis makes clear that California’s top officials failed to effectively handle a predictable and dire emergency, according to emergency management and policy experts.

“We saw this coming, and we have said, ‘I told you so’ every time there’s been a super fire. This time, the super fire happens to be even more catastrophic, because it’s happening in one of the most densely-populated areas in the United States,” Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s the same message, which is that we have neglected our water infrastructure. We have mismanaged our forests and chaparral in the name of environmentalism, and we’re paying the price.”

“Anybody who says this is being politicized should be ashamed of themselves, because every time this happened in the past, the people defending the policies blamed it on climate change, which is a completely politicized issue,” Ring added. “And instead of making the hard decisions that might challenge environmentalist priorities, they did things like outlawing gasoline engines and mandating electric cars. Things like that have nothing to do with land management, they have absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem that needs to be solved.”

Ring said that inadequate use of prescribed burns and the regulation-induced decline of timbering in California have increased the density of vegetation available to fuel fires, making “the whole state a tinderbox.”

Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy, who has fought wildfires in the past, also said in a Wednesday Fox News interview that “the big one” was foreseeable, adding that the devastation unfolding in Southern California is largely attributable to government mismanagement of the emergency. Some forecasts, including those issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the California Office for Emergency Services, warned that Southern California was at high risk for serious fires in January before the fires began ravaging Los Angeles.

Joe Rogan also recounted in July 2024 that a Southern California firefighter once told him that the area had been fortunate to avoid a massive fire emergency, but that the region’s luck would run out one day when the conditions were right for a devastating blaze that could threaten the entire city.

Newsom launched a $1 billion executive order in 2019 to bolster the state’s preparedness and resiliency for wildfires. However, a 2021 investigation by CapRadio — a California-focused National Public Radio outlet — concluded that Newsom’s administration was falling short on some key facets of the program while embellishing its success publicly. Specifically, the report found that “Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns” in forestry projects identified as critical for wildfire preparedness.

The 2019 executive action was taken in response to the Camp Fire of 2018, a massive fire started by downed power equipment that ravaged Northern California and killed 84 people. In response to that fire and others, news outlets and subject matter experts repeatedly pointed out that California’s lax approach to forest management creates danger by allowing fire fuel to accumulate too much.

Additionally, California’s water infrastructure has attracted scrutiny for its role in the ongoing crisis amid multiple reports that fire hydrants in some of the hardest-hit areas failed to dispense water for firefighters battling the flames. A huge spike in water demand reportedly overwhelmed underground water storage tanks and their pumping systems in higher-elevation areas as fires jumped through neighborhoods.

“The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” Izzy Gardo, Newsom’s communications director, said in a statement provided to the DCNF.

The state has dealt with water scarcity issues for years, and it has not built a new major reservoir since 1979 despite major population growth over the same period of time. California also allows billions of gallons of runoff water to enter the Pacific Ocean each year instead of harnessing a portion for use because the state lacks sufficient infrastructure to capture meaningful volumes of stormwater, The Los Angeles Times reported in March 2024.

However, the fire hydrants failing happened primarily because the city’s water infrastructure could not handle a massive demand spike rather than a lack of available water in the wider system, according to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones. Additionally, a large reservoir in the vicinity of Pacific Palisades — one of the hardest-hit communities — was empty and offline when the fires exploded into a full crisis, The Los Angeles times reported Friday.

In 2014, California voters chose to enact Proposition 1, which authorized a $2.7 billion bond that would be used to fund new water storage, reservoir and dam projects. Not only did this funding fail to result in any new major reservoirs in the state, but officials actually moved in 2022 to get rid of Northern California’s Klamath River dams in order to protect salmon and steelhead.

Newsom announced Friday that he is calling for an investigation probing the factors that led up to fire hydrant failure and the reported unavailability of that articular reservoir.

Rick Caruso, a former Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor and former head of the LADWP, said in a Thursday interview that there is ultimately no excuse for crucial infrastructure to fail when it is needed most.

“I think that career politicians have making excuses down to a fine art, and you see it rolling out and trying to explain why there wasn’t water,” Caruso said during the interview with Fox 11 Los Angeles. “Nobody wants to hear an excuse for why they lost their home, why they lost their business. The reality is, they were not prepared enough … The preparation just wasn’t right. It wasn’t enough.”

Notably, Quiñones was hired in May 2024 to run the LADWP and take home a $750,000 salary, according to local outlet ABC7. Her salary is significantly higher than that of her predecessor, and the city council said at the time that the compensation increase for the position was meant to attract top-tier talent from the private sector.

Apart from Quiñones, eight of the top ten highest-paid Los Angeles city employees in 2023 worked for the LADPW, according to analysis by OpenTheBooks, a government transparency group.

Other municipal officials have also received sharp criticism for their actions before and during the crisis. As of Friday morning, at least ten people have died, while early projections for total damages from the fires range from about $50 billion to as much as $135 billion.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana when the fires broke out as part of a delegation sent to the country by President Joe Biden. On her way back to the U.S., a Sky News reporter confronted Bass at an airport with basic questions about the disaster, but Bass ignored the questions until she was able to get away from the journalist. (RELATED: Citizens Arrest Arson Suspect Possibly Connected To Los Angeles Fires: REPORT)

Bass addressed the fire in public remarks delivered on Wednesday night in the city, though she received criticism for making a gaffe that indicated her prepared comments had not been adequately edited before she got up to the podium.

Additionally, Bass approved a budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) for the current fiscal year that contained $23 million less than the prior year’s amid ongoing negotiations between the city and the firefighters’ union, according to The New York Times. The city set aside unappropriated cash expecting that a deal would eventually be reached — which eventually happened in November 2024 — before moving the funds over to the fire department’s accounts, with LAFD ultimately receiving $53 million more than last year all in.

Either way, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley complained about the budgeting issue — including reductions in funding available for overtime pay — in December 2024, writing in a memo that the cuts presented “unprecedented operational challenges ” for her department.

Crowley’s leadership of LAFD has also been scrutinized in light of the unfolding disaster. She took over the top job in 2022, with her official LAFD bio page and media reports touting her sexual orientation as a key credential.

Throughout her tenure atop LAFD, Crowley has emphasized the importance of fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in her department to complement the LAFD’s official 2021 “racial equity action plan” suggesting that a demographically diverse fire department is an effective one.

“Politicians and officials can spin whatever narrative they want to cover their tracks,” Frank Ricci, a former fire department battalion chief in Connecticut who now works as a fellow for the Yankee Institute, told the DCNF. “But, when it comes to emergency management, the brutal truth is this: your preparation is only as good as its performance in a crisis. If your systems fail when they’re needed most, all your excuses go up in flames.”

Representatives for Bass and the LADWP did not respond to requests for comment.

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Yes, Greenland is Strategic

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I love it when Donald Trump makes the media talking heads explode.

If you believed their hyperventilating reaction to this week’s masterful press conference at Mar-a-Lago, the United States Navy was getting warships out of mothballs in preparation for a little gunboat diplomacy in Greenland and the Panama Canal.

And it wasn’t only in the U.S.

French foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, puffed up like a peacock and beat his tiny chest on hearing the news. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders,” the little Frenchman sniffed. “We are a strong continent.”

Outgoing German chancellor Olof Scholz backed up his French bud with words of his own, with talk of “the principle of the inviolability of borders.” Those would be Denmark’s borders, not Germany’s.

The Danish foreign minister, while telling reporters that Greenland “has its own ambitions” and could become independent in the future, was more level-headed in acknowledging America’s very real national security concerns.

“We are open to dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely than we do to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled,” he said.

Guess what? Greenland is indeed strategic.

FDR realized that at the onset of World War II when he ordered the U.S. Army to establish an air base in the south-east of the country once Denmark had been invaded by the Nazis in 1940. My Dad commanded the coastal artillery unit at the base, known as Bluie-West One – later renamed Narsarsuaq Air Base – as a 29-year old US Army Major.

In this early panoramic photo, stitched together from a series of stills taken in June 1942 from a nearby hill, you can see how bleak the area was.

The men on the base bathed in wooden washtubs, and whiled away the long arctic nights playing cards inside Quonset huts (My Dad is on the left). And they thanked their lucky stars to have those huts, because when they first arrived they slept in tents that regularly got swept away by the Arctic winds!

President Truman negotiated a Treaty with Denmark in 1951 that guaranteed the United States’s right to build and maintain military bases on the island and to move forces freely on its territory. Under President George W. Bush, the United States agreed to amend and supplement that treaty in 2004, limiting the U.S. presence to Thule Air Base.

President Trump wants to renegotiate the deal. Why? Because Russia and China pose a real and present threat to Greenland, and from Greenland, to the North American continent.

China, which has no territories above the 54rd parallel, is now claiming to be a “near-Arctic power.” This July, the U.S. Coast Guard encountered Chinese navy ships in the Bering Sea. China has been sending ice-breakers to the Arctic for five years, and more recently has started using the Northern Sea Route to receive crude oil shipments as an alternative to sending its tankers through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

Neither Denmark nor the European Union can defend against Russian or Chinese aggression against Greenland or the Arctic. Only the United States can — but that protection comes at a cost. Serious European thinkers understand this. The French and German puff-pastry politicians do not.

But much worse for the Euros than U.S. designs on Greenland is the way Trump has simply sidelined the EU, showing them to be irrelevant in world affairs. He has his sights focused on serious countries such as Russia and China, and on containing potentially serious threats such as North Korea and Iran.

I suppose that’s why Trump was chatting away with Obama during Jimmy Carter’s funeral service at the National Cathedral, while neither of them deigned to even acknowledge the presence of Kamala Harris, who was scowling away just in front of them. Obama is a serious politician. Harris is not.

In Iran this week the top military official in charge of the Syria debacle, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati, actually admitted that Iran had been thrown back on its heels. “We were defeated and defeated very badly,” he said, in remarks that traveled the world via social media but never appeared in Iran’s state-run media.

Meanwhile, in California Governor Gavin Newsom’s phony environmentalism is burning down the house to save the smelt, while in Washington, Biden is breaking the toys like a kid who has been kicked out of kindergarten.

Hey Gavin, wanna know what real men do on their vacation? They cut brush.

I discuss this as well as China’s COSCO invasion of the United States on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss us live, you can listen to the podcast here.

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Victor Davis Hanson on California Wildfires: “A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb — The Alarming Symptoms of a Society Gone Mad.”

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“It’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.” — Victor David Hanson

WATCH: Victor David Hanson: LA fires are ‘the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad’

VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.”

Posted By Ian Schwartz

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the government’s response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: So it was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention, and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy. You put it all together and it’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. Gavin Newsom was fiddling.

He’s almost Nero Newsom, and this has been something that is just unimaginable, this systems breakdown. And to finish, what we’re seeing in California is a state with 40 million people, and yet the people who run it feel that it should return to a 19th century pastoral condition. They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state, but they’re not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century when you had no protection from fire, you didn’t have enough water in California, you didn’t have enough power, you didn’t pump oil.

So we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not to protect houses and property, and we’re doing it in almost a purely nihilistic fashion. And Karen Bass should resign. She came to the airport back from Africa.

She had nothing to say. She was confronted at the airport. Why were you in Africa?

Why did you cut the fire department? They cut the fire department by almost 18 million dollars. They gave fire protective equipment to Ukraine’s first responder, and she had nothing to say.

She had nothing to say because she couldn’t say anything. I don’t want to be too pessimistic or bleak tonight, but this is one of the most alarming symptoms of a society gone mad, and if this continues, and if this were to spread to other states, we would become a third world country if we’re not in parts already.

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Pamela Geller

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House Passes Bill to Sanction ICC for Arrest Warrant Against Benjamin Netanyahu

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243 members of Congress voted to sanction the ICC for it’s outrageous attacks against Israel. However, 140 Democrats voted against sanctioning the anti-Semitic ICC. Among them was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Shame on any Jewish American who votes Democrat.

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The House of Representatives green-lit a bill Thursday that would slap sanctions against foreigners who attempt to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Illegitimate Court Counteraction (ICC) Act was approved 243-140, with 45 Democrats joining 198 Republicans to back the measure.

All 140 “nay” votes came from Democrats, including “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), also voted against the bill.

The act would compel the president to enforce punishments — including the revocation of visas — against ICC officials pursuing Netanyahu, 75, and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, 66, over the conduct of Israel’s war against Hamas.

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BREAKING: Trump Receives an ‘Unconditional Discharge’ in the NYC Lawfare Case—No Jail Time, No Fine, No Penalties

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It was all just to ruin him. They just wanted him to be labeled a felon, like King George did to our founding fathers, who  signed our Declaration of Indenpence.

WATCH: Trump Receives ‘Unconditional Discharge’ in the NYC Lawfare Case

President Trump on Truth Social:

The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE. That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED. The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History. As the American People have seen, this “case” had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference. Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Sentenced for Felony Judge hands down a sentence of unconditional discharge, which carries no punishment

Trump Becomes First Former President Sentenced for Felony

Judge hands down a sentence of unconditional discharge, which carries no punishment

By Corinne Ramey and James Fanelli, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 10, 2025 10:26 am ET

A defiant Donald Trump was sentenced to no punishment for covering up hush money paid to a porn star, cementing his status as a felon on the cusp of his return to the White House.

The proceeding took place in the same drab New York state courtroom as his more than monthlong criminal trial. The president-elect and his lawyer, Todd Blanche, were in Florida, sitting with American flags behind them. The judge, Manhattan prosecutors and one of Trump’s lawyers sat in the courtroom. The packed gallery was filled largely with reporters.

The court hearing was unprecedented, making Trump not only the first former president to be found guilty of a crime, but the first president to be sentenced for one. It was also a formality.

Before handing down an unconditional discharge, which carries no punishment, Justice Juan Merchan said the sentence was appropriate because of the extraordinary protections of the presidency.

“Donald Trump, the ordinary citizen, Donald Trump, the criminal defendant, would not be entitled to such considerable protections,” Merchan said. But, he added, those protections “do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way.”

Trump in rambling remarks told the judge the business records in question were accurately marked as legal expenses. “It’s been a political witch hunt,” Trump said, wearing a dark suit and striped red tie. “It was done to damage my reputation so I would lose the election.”

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that he supported the expected sentence because of the coming inauguration. But he said Trump was being far from remorseful, and engaging in a coordinated effort to attack and retaliate against the prosecutors and judge.

“This defendant has caused enduring damage to the public perception of criminal justice,” Steinglass said.

An unconditional discharge is a rare sentence for someone convicted at trial of even a low-level felony, lawyers said. Merchan must recognize the impracticality of probation officers searching the White House or ordering a sitting president to do community service, said Effie Blassberger, a former state prosecutor who isn’t involved with the case.

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Pamela Geller

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