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Via David Strom, searches for "Criminal Defense Attorney" have been soaring in the DC area:

Tom Homan has referred AOC to the DOJ for possible charges after Donkey-Chompers told illegal aliens to "resist" ICE during raids.

President Donald Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan, accused New York Democrat Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of impeding U.S. immigration law enforcement efforts after she was caught advising illegal aliens on how to avoid deportation.

Homan told Fox News, "Impediment is impediment in my opinion," when asked if her actions were "crossing the line" and noted that he was "working with the Department of Justice to find out."

According to 8 US Code 1324 1/A/iv: "Any person who-- encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts, shall be punished."

AOC hosted the "Know Your Rights With ICE" webinar live on her Facebook page on Feb. 12, which provided illegals in her NY congressional district with information on how to handle Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent search requests at their homes or workplaces.

She told illegals viewing the webinar, "When one of these things [raids] comes to your backyard, you can resist, and when that happens over millions of people, is that you generate enough friction that they cannot go as fast as they want to go," so it slows down ICE raids.

"Believe it or not, in America, EVERYONE has rights," Ocasio-Cortez later posted on her X account.

Homan questioned whether AOC's behavior constituted obstruction of immigration enforcement and asked the DOJ for clarification on whether her acts could be considered unlawful interference.

"I sent a letter today to the deputy attorney general. At what level is that impediment? Is that impediment? I'm not an attorney. I'm not a prosecutor. Is that impeding our law enforcement efforts? If so, what are we going to do about it?" asked Homan.

Yesterday we talked about the EPA clawing back $20 billion that EPA officials admitted they were just shoveling out the door to unqualified recipients to make sure the money was given to Democrat cronies before Trump could review the disbursements. The EPA goon described this as being like "throwing gold bars off the Titanic before it sank."

Real Clear Investigation's Jim Varney was all over this story back in October.

Although there isn't much public information available about the Justice Climate Fund, it appears to have been an overnight success.

After gaining nonprofit status i August 2023, the organization was awarded $940 million by the Biden administration just eight months later in connection with the White House's $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which aims to provide financial assistance to reduce carbon emissions and reduce pollution.

So it was a pop-up NGO that quite fortunately popped up just months before Biden gave it nearly a billion in taxpayer dollars.

Say, did any of you get a heads-up to quickly file paperwork for "non-profit" so that you could receive a billion dollars?

Or was it just Biden's cronies and donors?

The Justice Climate Fund is not the only nonprofit newcomer suddenly made rich by the GGRF. Within a month of gaining nonprofit status from the IRS, Power Forward Communities, which reported 2023 revenues of $100, was awarded $2 billion.

They went from having total revenues of ONE HUNDRED (100) DOLLARS to being awarded $2 billion.

That tracks.

The awards were made by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is new to the world of major grantmaking. The agency acknowledges it has never handed out such gigantic sums of money, and its inspector general told Congress last month it marked a "fantastically complex" and "unusual" setup that his small staff would be hard-pressed to follow.

Critics note that many of the awardees are run by politically connected figures. The single biggest winner in the awards, which were announced in April, was the Climate United Fund, which is slated to receive $6.97 billion. The fund's directors include prominent Democrats, such as Phil Angelides, a former California State Treasurer. After this article was published Climate United told RCI that Anthony Foxx, who served as Transportation Secretary in the Obama administration, was "listed as a board member for our [grant] application but did not commit to serving post award." A press release on the group's website names Foxx as a member of its "Inaugural Board of Directors."

The unprecedented nature of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created as part of 2022's Inflation Reduction Act, is raising concerns about the Biden administration's efforts to spend tens of billions of dollars in its final months, a gusher of taxpayer money that will flow into a poorly understood, untested, and difficult to audit format. The tremendous sums involved, the novelty of the program, and the EPA's lack of experience in the field, as well as the unproven track record of some of the newly hatched recipients, have drawn the attention of lawmakers and others uncertain about how the taxpayers' billions will ultimately be spent and who will keep track of it all. <

"These groups are political front groups that are simply created to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Democrat campaigns under the guise of doing something good," said Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff in the Trump administration.

Daren Bakst, director of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment and a sharp critic of the Biden administration's climate change spending splurge, said, "It's worse than a slush fund -- it's a slush fund to create non-profit slush funds."

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Neither the Justice Climate Fund nor Power Forward Communities responded to questions about their plans to spend the close to $3 billion in public funds they had received.

Kaitlin Collins, the Witch-Schnozzed Imbecile from CNN, attempted to shame Trump into talking badly about Mitch McConnell by shrieking "he had polio!" (Um, what?) The EU acknowledges they must "grow up" and pay their own way for defense.

Politico:

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, [EU Commission chairpyrsyn] von der Leyen said she wanted to trigger an emergency clause that would allow governments greater leeway so that military expenditure would not show up in the tightly controlled budget deficit limits.

"I will propose to activate the escape clause for defense investments," she said. "This will allow member states to substantially increase their defense expenditure."

The idea would allow governments to increase their defense spending substantially without violating the EU's budget rules.

Highly indebted European countries, such as Italy and Greece, have supported this option, arguing that it would allow them to significantly increase defense spending without making other budget cuts.

I used to be very skeptical of Trump's instincts to push NATO to spend more, and to threaten to abandon them if they didn't. I'm no longer skeptical. The EU is a hostile bloc and is my enemy. It's not Russia that is attempting to steal my right to speech and my right to profit from my speech by draining me of any advertising revenue -- it's the EU.

Meanwhile, Adam Kinzinger, who is stupid, has a great plan to really stick it to Trump.

He thinks Trump would be very, very upset if Europe finally put on its big boy pants and took over all funding for the War in Ukraine.

posted by Ace at 06:26 PM

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