Howard Frankland stabbing suspect is former federal prosecutor | Tampa Bay Times
By Tony Marrero Times staff
Patrick Douglas Scruggs, who worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa for about a decade, is accused of stabbing another motorist after a crash.
Patrick Douglas Scruggs, 38, of Tampa, was arrested and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday. He faces charges of aggravated battery, aggravated assault and armed burglary after authorities say he repeatedly stabbed a driver on the Howard Frankland Bridge after the driver struck Scruggs’ sedan. [ Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office ]
Patrick Douglas Scruggs, 38, of Tampa, worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office from September 2012 until April of this year, according to his LinkedIn page. His time there included appearing on behalf of the federal government during hearings for Florida residents accused of taking part in the riots at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.
In May, he joined Barnes and Thornburg, an Atlanta-based private law firm, as an “of counsel” attorney, the page says. The page describes Scruggs as “a seasoned litigator and investigator with experience in various practice areas of criminal law.”
Now Scruggs faces his own legal trouble stemming from a bizarre chain of events that unfolded on the Howard Frankland as rush hour was winding down on Tuesday morning.
According to a news release issued Tuesday by the Florida Highway Patrol, a 40-year-old Tampa man was driving a sedan south on Interstate 275 when he and his 43-year-old wife noticed a vehicle that was stopped in the travel lanes of the bridge shortly before 9:24 a.m. The 35-year-old driver, also of Tampa, was slumped over inside his sedan, troopers said, so the couple pulled over in front of the car to help.
The 40-year-old man was unable to get inside the other sedan, so he walked back to his car to get something that could break the window. While he was doing that, the 35-year-old man woke up and accelerated forward, crashing into the couple’s sedan. He shifted into reverse and then tried to get around the couple’s sedan, according to troopers, but at that point, he struck Scruggs’ sedan as he was driving by the scene.
Scruggs pulled over, got out and walked up to the driver of the vehicle that hit his car. According to the Highway Patrol, Scruggs broke a window and started stabbing the 35-year-old man with a pocketknife.
The couple returned to the vehicle to help the man being stabbed, but Scruggs then tried to stab them and they fled, troopers said. . . .
Days after the riots at the U.S. Capital in 2021, Scruggs appeared on behalf of the U.S. Attorney’s Office during the bond hearing of Adam Johnson, the Parrish man who became one of the most prominent symbols of the riots that engulfed the U.S. Capitol when he was photographed carrying a lectern from the House of Representatives. Scruggs asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Tuite to order certain restrictions while Johnson was on release, including drug testing, the surrender of his passport and a nightly curfew.
“This is a serious case,” Scruggs told the judge. “Everyone involved in the storming of the Capitol last week needs to be held accountable for their actions, including Mr. Johnson.”
Another judge in 2022 sentenced Johnson to 75 days in jail.
Meet the guy who prosecuted me in Tampa for walking in a building on January 6th.
My crimes were so egregious that he demanded I wear an ankle monitor, be drugged tested at random, surrender my passports, be restricted to middle district of Florida, and given a nightly curfew.…
— The Lectern Guy🇺🇸 (@lecternleader) September 27, 2023
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Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2211 | Evening Edition | Recorded October 7, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2211: Blake Masters Comes Out Swinging In Debate; Employment Numbers Cause Stock Free Fall.
The New York Times, One Of The Greatest Tools Of The Anti-American And Anti-Election Integrity Movements, Gets Caught With Its Pants Down | “New York Times Mocks Concerns About a Voting Software Company and Then The CEO is Arrested The Next Day” | Frank Speech
As usual, fact is stranger than fiction, unless you understand how the Establishment works to gaslight the American people in order to stay in power. The New York Times published the following article on October 3, writing a sympathetic piece on the software election company, Konnech, and its CEO:
How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target
Election deniers catapulted a Michigan firm with just 21 U.S. employees to the center of unfounded voter fraud claims, exposing it to vicious threats. | New York Times
The next day, CEO Eugene Yu was arrested. Chalk up another one for the ‘conspiracy theorists’, including one of the biggest names leading the integrity movement, Mike Lindell of Frank Speech.
The New York Times Cannot Fall, It Was Born Fallen and Has Never Gotten Up | The Perjorative Way The New York Times’ Ad Placements Refer To The Irish, and today, how many New York Times’ writers refer to Trump Supporters and Those With Election Integrity Concerns, Is How Its Culture Has Always Treated Those Not of Their Ilk | “New York Times finds ‘no Irish need apply’ in classified ads” | Irish Times
The New York Times has proved definitively that the phrase “No Irish need apply” (NINA) was in widespread use in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.
The newspaper has identified at least 29 examples of the phrase in its classified advertisements. A variation, “Irish need not apply,” turned up at least seven times, and there were other examples, from “No Irishman need apply” to “Irishmen need not apply” to the phrase “No Irish.”
One advertisement was for a “young girl, 14 or 15 years old, either American or German, to take care of a young child. No Irish need apply.”
The paper identified a row of classified advertisements from May 1st, 1855 all of which requested a Protestant for housekeeping duties. These were seen at the time as specifically excluding Irish Catholic immigrants.
New York Times finds ‘no Irish need apply’ in classified ads | The Irish Times
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2210 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 7, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2210: We Have The Issue Sets, The Candidates, And We Connect To The American People.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2209 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 7, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2209: Thousands Migrant Get Asylum Though COVID Procedures.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | October 6, 2022 | Video: 26 Minutes 58 Seconds
The Justice Department indicted 11 pro-life activists on Oct. 6 for allegedly blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. President Joe Biden is pardoning all federal offenses for simple marijuana possession.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2208 | Evening Edition | Recorded October 6, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2208: Violence Continues On Border; Twitter Hates Conservatives They Refuse To Sell To Elon.
The Most Secure Elections In The History Of The World | “Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China” | Epoch Times
The head of Konnech Corp., a Michigan-based software company, was arrested on Oct. 4 for allegedly stealing and storing personal data of Los Angeles County election workers on servers in China.
Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Michigan on charges of stealing “the personal identifying information” of Los Angeles County election workers, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Investigators also seized computer hard drives and other digital data relevant to the case. The office stated that it would seek Yu’s extradition to Los Angeles.
According to the office, Konnech won a five-year, $2.9 million contract with Los Angeles County in 2020 for an election worker management system—named PollChief software—that was used by the county in the last California election.
The software was designed to assist with poll worker assignments, communications, and payroll, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
Under the contract, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and only provide access to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. But investigators found that the company stored the data on servers in China.
“In this case, the alleged conduct had no impact on the tabulation of votes and did not alter election results,” Gascón said. “But security in all aspects of any election is essential so that we all have full faith in the integrity of the election process.”
Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China | Epoch Times
Democrats Have Known All Along | Then They Partnered With The Chinese Communist Party | Video: 2 Minutes 40 Seconds
True The Vote is one of the organizations that has exposed election corruption and has been working diligently to bring integrity back to U.S. elections. The Democrat, Big Tech, and Corporate Establishment are out of control, and their adversary is the average, hardworking American.
True the Vote: Nearly 104K Wis. Ballots Were Trafficked in 2020 | True The Vote
Representatives from election integrity group True the Vote, testified before the Wisconsin Campaigns and Elections Committee, revealing explosive numbers about drop boxes. One America’s Daniel Baldwin has more in Washington.
True the Vote Issues Statement Regarding the Arrest of Konnech CEO Eugene Yu | True The Vote
True the Vote is honored to have played a small role in what must have been a wide ranging and complex investigation. The organization is profoundly grateful to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office for their thorough work and rapid action in this matter.
True the Vote was sued last month by Konnech to try to silence our organization, including obtaining an ex-parte TRO, conducted in secret so that True the Vote had no opportunity to contest it. This TRO limited True the Vote’s ability to speak on the litigation. Today Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested based on alleged evidence of the very activities he and his organization attempted to suppress. Konnech was assisted by many reporters who unblinkingly accepted their now discredited claims as fact, and simply repeated them.
According to True the Vote Founder Catherine Engelbrecht, “Election integrity should not be a partisan issue, nor should media try to suppress all conversation about it in a way that benefits one party. We will continue to report evidence of threats to our election process and work with law enforcement to ensure our elections are a secure space for all American voters.”
Shh | “Ivermectin, Russel Brand Warning Rationalle” | Dr. John Campbell | Video: 15 Minutes 35 Seconds
In this video, Dr. John Campbell shows what censorship is currently in place and how to get good information out to the public while staying clear of the Establishment censors with a very dry sense of humor. 🙂
Direct from official FDA site
- Ivermectin is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug, used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.
- For these indications, ivermectin has been widely used and is generally well-tolerated.
- Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of any viral infection.
- Proposed Mechanism of Action and Rationale for Use in Patients With COVID-19 (in vitro studies) suggest that ivermectin acts by inhibiting host importing nuclear transport proteins.
- Interferes with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein attachment to the human cell membrane.
- Some studies of ivermectin have also reported potential anti-inflammatory properties.
- Shown to inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2207 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 6, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2207: What Really Happened With The DNC Pipebomb Threat; New York Is Leaning MAGA.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2206 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 6, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2206: Uvalde Left Out To Dry After Used By Mainstream Media; The Energy Market Is About To Crater.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2205 | Evening Edition | Recorded October 5, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 59 Seconds
Episode 2205: Trump Live From The Hispanic Leadership Conference; You’re Losing Your Energy Security.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | October 5, 2022 | Video: 27 Minutes 1 Seconds
A secret list detailing some of the documents seized from former President Donald Trump was released online overnight, even though a judge ordered the list to remain under seal. Gas prices are expected to go up again after the the OPEC+ group announced on Oct. 5 that it is cutting oil production.
Since Biden and The Democrat Party Took Over America, By Hook Or By Crook, It Seems The World Has Gradually Been Falling Apart | “Kabul airport attack shows Afghanistan is still a terror hotbed that the Taliban will struggle to control ” | CNN
We heard of these atrocities in the past, such as British couple beaten to death and fed to crocodiles.
Couple Beaten To Death By ISIS and Fed To Crocodiles
- Rod, 74, and Rachel Saunders, 63, were renowned botanists and seed hunters
- They vanished in 2018 heading to Ngoye Forest Reserve after filming with BBC
- They were allegedly targeted, kidnapped, beaten to death and then put in their sleeping bags and thrown into a river infested with man-eating crocodiles
- A married couple and their lodger all deny kidnap, murder, robbery and theft
- It has now been revealed the suspects had links to terrorist group Islamic State
- Detectives found ISIS pamphlets and flags, and messages discussing killings
The alleged killers of a British couple who were brutally murdered before their bodies were fed to crocodiles had suspected links to ISIS, according to reports.
However, the “Kabul airport attack shows Afghanistan is still a terror hotbed that the Taliban will struggle to control,” even according to CNN. On August 27, 2022, as a bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan was being organized by Joe Biden and General Milley, a
devastating bomb attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday is a brutal reminder that Afghanistan remains fertile territory for jihadi terrorism and that ISIS remains a resilient presence far beyond its birthplace.
The attack was claimed – remarkably quickly – by ISIS-Khorasan, the ISIS “province” active in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
As the Biden administration recognized even before the attack, ISIS-K had both the capability and motivation to target the airport – and it fitted a modus operandi which the group’s Kabul cells have perfected over the past five years: complex suicide attacks against static, poorly defended civilian gatherings.
In the next few days US forces will pack up at the airport and the curtain will fall on a 20-year mission in Afghanistan. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the US led a coalition into Afghanistan to decapitate al Qaeda and drive the Taliban from power. As it leaves, al Qaeda in Afghanistan is much diminished but not eradicated, the Taliban are back in power and other jihadi groups – ISIS included – have a foothold.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2204 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 5, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2204: Attacks Against Walker Mount In Georgia; The Coming War Between Taiwan And China.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2203 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 5, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2203: Elon Buys Twitter; Auditing The Voter Rolls BEFORE The Election.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | October 4, 2022 | Video: 26 Minutes 36 Seconds
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4 to intervene in the fight over classified documents seized during an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is planning to move forward with his deal to buy out Twitter.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2202 | Evening Edition | Recorded October 4, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2202: Lawsuits, Washington State, The Great Reset, And Unjust HHS Mandates.
Long Form Analysis Of Pfizer Documents Released Under FOIA Request | “DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Update” | Daily Clout | Video: 1 Hour 28 Seconds
Pfizer and the U.S. government tried to keep the studies and reports Pfizer created when rolling out the mRNA COVID shots ‘classified’ and locked away from the American people. Pfizer and the CDC claimed the shots were safe, while requiring that all the data be hidden from the public for 75 years.
Judge scraps 75-year FDA timeline to release Pfizer vaccine safety data, giving agency eight months
Below is the latest review of the findings with the following objectives:
- Overview of known vaccine harms being experienced.
- Overview of key findings of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis volunteers thus far.
- Overview of legal efforts resulting from the findings in the Pfizer documents.
WATCH NOW: WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Update | Daily Clout
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2201 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 4, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2201: They Fear The Populist Uprising In Nevada; Crisis At The Border.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2200 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 4, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2200: Where Are We As We Head Into November.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | October 3, 2022 | Video: 25 Minutes 53 Seconds
The Supreme Court on Oct. 3 rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s petition to review a defamation lawsuit related to the 2020 election. As search and rescue missions continue in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, officials in Florida and North Carolina say more than 100 people died.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2199 | Evening Edition | Recorded October 3, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2199: Big Tech Censorship, Populism Taking Over In The Netherlands.
Trust The Science, Trust the science, trust the science . . . | “Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings” | Retraction Watch
‘After months of investigation that identified networks of reviewers and editors manipulating the peer review process, Hindawi plans to retract 511 papers across 16 journals, Retraction Watch has learned.
The retractions, which the publisher and its parent company, Wiley, will announce tomorrow in a blog post, will be issued in the next month, and more may come as its investigation continues. They are not yet making the list available.
Hindawi’s research integrity team found several signs of manipulated peer reviews for the affected papers, including reviews that contained duplicated text, a few individuals who did a lot of reviews, reviewers who turned in their reviews extremely quickly, and misuse of databases that publishers use to vet potential reviewers.
Richard Bennett, vice president of researcher and publishing services for Hindawi, told us that the publisher suspects “coordinated peer review rings” consisting of reviewers and editors working together to advance manuscripts through to publication. Some of the manuscripts appeared to come from paper mills, he said.
We asked what prompted the investigation. Bennett told us:
In April 2022, Hindawi’s Research Integrity team led an initial investigation into a single Special Issue (SI) after a Chief Editor raised concerns about some of the papers published in it. The team decided to investigate the content of the journal further. Through this investigation, the team highlighted a pattern of irregular and concerning reviewer activity and identified potential ‘bad actors’ that were present across many of these publications.
These concerns prompted the Publishing Insights and Research Integrity teams, enabled by recently enhanced analytic capabilities and newly developed dashboards providing views across all reviewer activity, to conduct a wider investigation to determine whether these same bad actors were involved in peer review manipulation elsewhere in the Hindawi portfolio.
Following the discovery that these bad actors were present in other journals, the Hindawi leadership team put in place a cross-functional working team combining the manual and data-driven investigation which resulted in the identification of further published articles.
In early August, Hindawi expanded the investigation under a combined investigation team comprising Research Integrity experts, data and analytics experts, publishing and operational teams, and legal counsel from both Wiley and Hindawi. This team evaluated in depth review activity across all potentially impacted articles and manuscripts. This resulted in a list of ‘compromised’ reviewers and editors in addition to the bad actors already discovered, identification of networks that exist between them, patterns of review activity, and insight into published articles and manuscripts at each stage in the review process that we could initially label as ‘compromised’. On September 6, the combined investigation team began assessing published articles which led to the initial recommendation to retract 511 articles that are compromised based on reviewer activity alone. We expect ongoing investigations to result in further retractions.’
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2198 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 3, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2198: Pure Politics Against DeSantis And The Hurricane In Florida; How The Vaccine Effects Men And Their Reproduction; How To Continue Momentum Into November.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2197 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 3, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2197: The Global Stakes Of The Brazil’s Election; How The Desecration Of Our Southern Monuments Lead To Lower Enlistment Numbers; Hispanics Are The Next Wave For Populist America.
COVID Had Nothing To Do With Money. Oh, Wait. | “Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million (2019-2021)” | Open The Books
BREAKING: Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million (2019-2021).
Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million (2019-2021) | (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
While millions of Americans suffered under his pandemic policies, Fauci’s personal profits soared.
Last night, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes of Health.
The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the Fauci household’s net worth now exceeds $12.6 million – up $5 million from 2019 through 2021.
Download: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 OGE Form 278e Public Financial Disclosure Report.
In January 2022, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall forced open Dr. Anthony Fauci’s unredacted FY2019 and 2020 financial disclosures. The release followed a heated Senate exchange between Fauci and Marshall that concluded with Fauci calling the senator a “moron.”
It was Fauci’s ‘code red moment’ when America’s ‘top doctor’ melted down on national television in the Senate hearing. (When Marshall cited “Forbes,” that was our research on Fauci’s financials published in my then-column at Forbes.)
It’s been a dogfight to open the books on the Fauci finances. For example, our organization has filed four federal lawsuits versus NIH to open the books.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2196 | Saturday Edition Hour 2 | Recorded October 1, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2196: Koffler, Beattie, Tyrmand: Russian Annexations; The Rise Of Elon Musk’s AI.
Joe Biden, the Perfect Face of the Democratic Party | Bill Maher and Guests | Video: 1 Minute 42 Seconds
There are times in history, when things become crystal clear. The decrepit nature of the Democrat Party’s Establishment has never been more apparent, even to many Tools of the Left. Well-known Democrats, Bill Maher and guests, expose the absurdity of the current occupant of the White House, Mr. Joe Biden, in one particularly troubling exchange. In a failed attempt to rescue his reputation within his own ranks, they made the unmistakable case that an incorrigible, bumbling, and befuddled Joe Biden is in fact the perfect face for the Democrat Party.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2195 | Saturday Edition Hour 1 | Recorded October 1, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 57 Seconds
Episode 2195: Live Updates From The Globalist Puppetmasters Event, Pennsylvania, And Michigan; The Looming Energy Crisis Come Winter.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | September 30, 2022 | Video: 28 Minutes 48 Seconds
Ian was downgraded to a tropical cyclone after making landfall as a hurricane in South Carolina on Sept. 30. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by Moscow’s forces.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2194 | Evening Edition | Recorded September 30, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 57 Seconds
Episode 2194: The Posse Sells Out The Box Office For Spiritual Films; How We Take Back The Senate.
Did Merrick Garland Become Head of China’s Justice Department? | “Beijing Arrested 1.43 Million People in a 100-Day Security Campaign Ahead of National Meeting” | Epoch Times
Beijing has detained 1.43 million Chinese in a three-month security campaign ahead of the Party’s national meeting. However, not all those arrested were criminals.
Tightened security is required as the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), scheduled for October, approaches. The regime set up a “100-day Operation” that started on June 25.
In a press conference on Sept. 27, the Ministry of Public Security touted the campaign’s success: To date, the operation has resolved more than 640,000 criminal cases and arrested more than 1.43 million people.
However, many so-called suspects are simply ordinary Chinese citizens, such as, dissidents, activists, petitioners, Christians, and Falun Gong followers….
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Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2193 | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded September 30, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2193: 3 In 5 Americans Say Inflation Is Getting Worse; Housing and Energy Crises Continue to Spiral: Chinese Police Surveil Our Police.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2192 | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded September 30, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2192: 60 Percent Of Americans Live Paycheck To Paycheck; Moms Across America Harassed For Defending Children.
Nightly News Rebroadcast | September 29, 2022 | Video: 27 Minutes
Former President Donald Trump does not have to say whether the U.S. government’s list of property seized from Mar-a-Lago is accurate, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 29. Forecasters say Ian, now a tropical storm, could strengthen into a hurricane again and hit the coast of South Carolina on Friday.
Bannon’s War Room | Episode 2191 | Evening Edition | Recorded September 29, 2022 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 2191: Crime Is Rampant In Philadelphia; Fauci Earned Millions Off Of The Pandemic.