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Steve Bannon Received Apple Watch From Disgraced Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Emails Show
Disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein gifted podcaster Steve Bannon an Apple Watch in 2019, according to a message from Bannon’s nephew to an Epstein associate.
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Unsealed indictment against Don Lemon cites his own comments on livestream from ‘takeover’ at church
The allegations against former CNN anchor Don Lemon were unsealed Friday from an indictment over his participation in a protest at a church that terrified churchgoers.
The document, screenshots of which were shared by CNN’s Jake Tapper, sets out the evidence against Lemon and the other defendants in the “takeover” of the Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18 at about 10:30 a.m.
He referred to the experience as ‘traumatic and uncomfortable’ … and admitted that was the purpose of the takeover.
Lemon has claimed that he was in attendance at the incident only as a journalist, but the indictment sets forth evidence that he participated as an aggressor to threaten and intimidate church members and clergy.
“After the service commenced, a group of approximately 20-40 agitators, including all of the defendants named in this Indictment, entered the Church in a coordinated takeover-style attack and engaged in acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction alleged herein,” prosecutors said.
The indictment said that church leaders were forced to shut down the church service as some congregants fled, but others “took steps to implement an emergency plan.”
Those acts by the defendants deprived the church members of their constitutional right to religious freedom, according to prosecutors.
Lemon was present at a briefing before the incident and began streaming live online on his channel but took steps to conceal information of the plot, livestream video showed.
“We’re going to head to the operation. Again, we’re not going to give any of the information away,” he is quoted as saying in the indictment.
“Don’t give anything away,” he said to one of the other defendants on the livestream. “We can’t say too much. We don’t want to give it up.”
Lemon said to his audience that he saw a “young man” who was “frightened,” “scared,” and “crying.” He referred to the experience as “traumatic and uncomfortable” for those Christians attending the service and admitted that was the purpose of the takeover, according to screenshots of the indictment.
He also questioned the church’s pastor while other defendants “largely surrounded” the pastor in an attempt to “oppress and intimidate him,” the indictment claimed. They “physically obstructed his freedom of movement while Lemon peppered him with questions to promote the operation’s message,” it added.
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Lemon was arrested by federal agents on Thursday evening, leading to wide condemnation from many on the left who repeated his claims that he was merely acting as a journalist during the incident.
“Don Lemon is an accomplished journalist whose urgent work is protected by the First Amendment. There is zero basis to arrest him and he should be freed immediately,” wrote House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “The Trump Justice Department is illegitimate and these extremists will all be held accountable for their crimes against the Constitution.”
The charges against Lemon were rejected by a Minnesota federal magistrate judge before he was charged with federal civil rights violations.
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Sydney Sweeney spurns Cosmo girl’s desperate ‘MAGA Barbie’ bait
Feminist glossy “Cosmopolitian” could use a reminder: No means no.
When it comes to the media’s attempts to use Sydney Sweeney as a political pawn, the star has made it clear that she does not consent.
‘I’ve never been here to talk about politics.’
From claims that a jeans ad is a product of white supremacy to outrage over her use of a firearm, the 28-year-old is asked by reporters to reveal her politics nearly every time she is put in front of a camera.
And every time, she refuses.
Private parts
That didn’t stop a pushy writer from Cosmopolitan — single gal lifestyle mag turned leftist propaganda organ — from doing her best to wear Sweeney down.
After discussing body image and Sweeney’s new lingerie line, writer Alexandra Whittaker took an abrupt turn toward politics by bringing up what she called the star’s “charged nickname”: MAGA Barbie.
“I see it in Instagram comments constantly. How do you understand this label, given that you’ve been private about your politics?” Whittaker asked.
“I’ve never been here to talk about politics,” Sweeney plainly replied. “I’ve always been here to make art, so this is just not a conversation I want to be at the forefront of. And I think because of that, people want to take it even further and use me as their own pawn. But it’s somebody else assigning something to me, and I can’t control that.”
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Party lines
The reporter then asked why Sweeney would not want to correct any untrue labels.
“Where is the line for you?”
“I haven’t figured it out. I’m not a hateful person. If I say, ‘That’s not true,’ they’ll come at me like, ‘You’re just saying that to look better.’ There’s no winning. There’s never any winning. I just have to continue being who I am, because I know who I am. I can’t make everyone love me. I know what I stand for.”
Trying a different angle, Whittaker — executive director of Cosmopolitan’s website — asked Sweeney to define some of her values, “not party affiliations,” that she wants people to understand.
Sweeney simply described leading with “love” and being “kind to whoever you meet.”
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Despite Sweeney’s clear lack of interest, the reporter kept on pressing, asking Sweeney about not talking about politics and if she ever will.
“You don’t speak to your fans directly about your political beliefs. … Is there a future in which people will get to see what you believe, politically?”
The Spokane, Washington, native completely shut the idea down.
“No. I’m not a political person. I’m in the arts. I’m not here to speak on politics. That’s not an area I’ve ever even imagined getting into. It’s not why I became who I am.”
Readers will have to check out the full interview to see other attempts to discuss the “culture war” and separate online narratives that Sweeney is asked to answer to.
The actress was consistent in saying she does not have any control over what others print, say, or claim about her for their own gain.
“It’s been a weird thing having to navigate and digest, because it’s not me. None of it is me. And I’m having to watch it happen. I’m online and I see things, but I’m slowly pulling myself away,” she explained.
‘Completely false’: Bill Gates fires back after Russian prostitute-STD accusation released in Epstein files
The millions of pages from the Epstein files released on Friday include a salacious accusation against billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
An email released by the DOJ includes claims that Gates begged Epstein to provide him with antibiotics to secretly dose his wife to conceal STDs he had contracted from “Russian girls.”
‘From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilictating his illicit trysts, with married women.’
“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” reads the email in Epstein’s account from July 2013.
It appears to be sent from and to Epstein’s own account as a way of documenting the claims and is reportedly written on behalf of Boris Nikolic, a science adviser to Gates.
“In my role as his right hand I had been asked on mulitple occasion[s] and in hindsight, wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate,” the email continues, “to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal. … From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilictating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide Adderall [for] bridge [tournaments].”
In another draft email, Epstein writes as Nikolic accusing Gates of coordinating a “cover up [sic] so that you can maintain the reputation that you have worked so hard to achieve.”
The email went on to say, “[You] implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std [sic], your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis.”
The Gates Foundation denied the accusations in an email statement to Blaze News.
“These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” said a spokesperson for Bill Gates.
Melinda Gates later divorced Bill Gates and admitted in 2022 that his relationship with Epstein was one of the reasons for the split.
“He was abhorrent, evil personified,” she said of Epstein after meeting him once. “I had nightmares about it afterwards. That’s why my heart breaks for these young women. That’s how I felt, and I am an older woman. He was awful.”
Gates has previously said that his friendship with Epstein was a “huge mistake.”
Melinda Gates went on to suggest that her billionaire ex-husband cheated on her numerous times during their 27-year marriage.
Blaze News reached out to Nikolic for comment.
The Justice Dept. released more than 3.5 million pages from the Epstein files Friday, including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos.
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Don Lemon remains defiant after being released over church takeover arrest: ‘I will not stop ever!’
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon gave a defiant statement after he was released from custody over his participation in a church takeover to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Lemon was released on his own recognizance without bond and spoke to reporters in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles.
‘The First Amendment of the Constitution protects that work for me and for countless … other journalists who do what I do. I stand with all of them and I will not be silenced.’
“I want to thank everybody for their support. It truly means the world to me. I have no idea what’s going on because obviously I haven’t seen anything,” Lemon said.
“I have spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now,” he added to cheers from some in the crowd. “In fact, there is no more important time than right now, this very moment, for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those in power accountable.”
Lemon added, “Again, I will not stop now. I will not stop ever!”
He went on to make the same defense he made before his arrest that he was merely present at the protest as a journalist documenting the demonstration.
“Last night, the DOJ sent a team of federal agents to arrest me in the middle of the night for something that I’ve been doing for the last 30 years, and that is covering the news,” he continued. “The First Amendment of the Constitution protects that work for me and for countless … other journalists who do what I do.”
The unsealed court documents outlined the actions Lemon took that infringed upon the churchgoers’ right to religious expression, according to the Justice Dept.
“I stand with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court. Thank you all!” he added.
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The indictment was unsealed earlier in the day and included statements Lemon made on his channel as he livestreamed the activist protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul.
“After the service commenced, a group of approximately 20-40 agitators, including all of the defendants named in this Indictment, entered the Church in a coordinated takeover-style attack and engaged in acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction alleged herein,” prosecutors said in the indictment.
Critics of Lemon say journalists are not above the law, while his supporters claim that his arrest was a totalitarian assault on the press and the administration’s political opponents.
Video of his comments was posted to social media.
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