One thing is clear from Thursday’s broadcast of weeping dissident Belarusian journalist and opposition activist Raman Pratasevich declaring his respect for dictator Alexander Lukashenko: He was plainly tortured into doing it.

“They beat him — you can see the marks,” Pratasevich’s father, Dmitry, said. “All his words are the result of psychological and physical violence.”

On a state-TV program June 3, Pratasevich praised Lukashenko and said he “immediately confessed to organizing mass disorder.”

Back on May 23, Lukashenko’s goons faked a bomb threat and deployed a fighter plane to force down a jet owned by Irish-based Ryanair (en route from Greece to Lithuania) to kidnap Pratasevich in flagrant defiance of all international air conventions.

Pratasevich fled Belarus in 2019 out of fear that authorities would abduct him. He was plainly right. . . .

Soros backed Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone begged the Arizona Senate to end their audit of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County.  Now it looks like he will soon be charged with contempt in a different case where he has delayed providing data to the court. 

We’ve recently reported on the Sheriff of Maricopa County who was backed by George Soros in the 2016 election.  Sheriff Paul Penzone was with the Maricopa Board of Supervisors when they begged the Arizona Senate to stop the audit they were in the process of executing in the County.

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Soros-Backed Sheriff Beg AZ Senate to End Election Audit “For the Good of the Country”

Then at one point during the audit, it was uncovered that the Maricopa Board of Supervisors refused to provide information requested for review.  This was unheard of in any audit.  The Board claimed that providing router data posed a threat to the Sheriff’s office.  The router information would have shown where items were sent and at what time and the size of the transfer of information.

Is Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Covering Up for Soros Connected Sheriff’s Communications As Much As for 2020 Election Activity?

Now in a different case Penzone is likely facing contept charges for committing similar inactions.  A federal judge signalled on Thursday that he will find Sheriff Paul Penzone in contempt for taking too long to investigate charges of misconduct among officers.

In a pointed rebuke after the U.S. Department of Justice asked U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow in March to order a contempt hearing, Snow said Penzone’s department is “clearly” out of compliance with his 2016 court order to overhaul the investigation process.

“Even if I believe everything in the brief is true, which I don’t, I would still find the sheriff in contempt,” Snow told the attorneys early in the hearing, referring to Penzone’s response to the Justice Department’s request for an order to show cause.

The Justice Department and the sheriff’s lawyers should focus on negotiating remedies, not the moot merits of a potential contempt case, Snow said.

Why does this surprise no one?

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Key players in the establishment media floated a conspiracy theory former President Donald Trump (R) wore his pants “backwards” Saturday and it was proof he has “dementia.”

New York Daily News columnist and “Obama guy” Brandon Friedman got the conspiracy theory revved up by posting on Twitter a poor quality video someone shot of a television screen of Trump standing near the podium in Greenville, North Carolina Saturday night:

Others are noting this, but it can’t be shared enough: Donald Trump gave his big speech today with his pants on backwards. Look close and tell me I’m wrong.pic.twitter.com/sRsoJVfyf8

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 6, 2021

Friedman said it “can’t be shared enough” and added definitively Trump “gave his big speech today with his pants on backwards.”

To date, Friedman’s video has over 6.2 million views.

Twitter declares access to its platform a ‘human right’ despite banning Trump and conservatives for their views

• Twitter’s statement came as a response to Nigeria’s decision to ban the social media giant from the country
• Twitter had deleted a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that was seen as threatening separatist movements
• President Buhari’s tweet reportedly referenced the bloody civil war in Nigeria’s Biafra region in the late 1960s, during which a million people were killed
• Some had considered Buhari’s tweet a veiled threat to modern day separatists
• Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Culture then tweeted on Friday that the social media account would be banned across the country
• Conservatives in the United States then ripped into Twitter, on Twitter, for its statement declaring the platform a human right

Supposed pro-Trump Republican New York Mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo in February bashed him as “arrogant” and praising mass amnesty, newly surfaced clips reveal.

Mateo, a community activist and business owner, is currently running in the New York Mayoral race, and is touting himself as the pro-Trump candidate. This week, he met with President Trump, and was endorsed by his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who claimed that Mateo “supports and embraces President Trump’s America First agenda.” Mateo even suggested that President Trump may be soon to endorse him in the race too.

However, an appearance on Hot 97’s “Ebro in the Morning” from February this year has recently resurfaced that contradicts his apparent America First credentials. One clip, initially posted on Twitter by Gavin Wax, the current President of the New York Young Republican Club, shows Mateo bashing President Trump, saying that he “had issues” and was “arrogant” with no “humility:

“You know what? I knew that Donald Trump had issues… He had bad issues and he had good issues,” said Mateo. “The good issues were the economy, he kept us out of a war, you know he basically helped the brown and black people probably more than any other president that I know of, but you know what? He was arrogant. He didn’t have humility. He was not a president for all the people. But you know what, that’s that. New York City is my life man…” . . .