Tenacious D Cancels Tour After Urging Second Gunman to Target Trump
Acoustic comedy rock duo Tenacious D announced they would cancel the rest of their tour after one of its members appeared to urge a second shooter to take a shot at former President Donald Trump.
The abrupt stop in their “Spicy Meatball Tour” came as band member Kyle Gass during a show in Sydney, Australia, Sunday made an obscene birthday wish on stage, telling a future assassin, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
Tenacious D “Don’t miss miss Trump next time”
— ? Josh Lekach ? (@JoshLekach) July 15, 2024
These people are sick and want you dead pic.twitter.com/3qaVioquGu
Following the controversial statement, an Australian senator called on the band to be deported, arguing, “Anything less than deportation is an endorsement of the shooting and attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, the 45th and soon-to-be-47th president of the United States.”
There is no place in Australia for those who wish for the assassination of others. pic.twitter.com/wuvgQxeeDS
— Senator Babet (@senatorbabet) July 16, 2024
“I condemn in the strongest possible way the call to political violence by Tenacious D in Sydney on Sunday,” United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet said in a statement. “To advocate and or wish for the assassination of a President is egregious, disgusting, filthy, evil, and not acceptable in any way, shape or form. This was not a joke, he was deadly serious when he wished for the death of the President.”
“Tenacious D should be immediately removed from the country after wishing for the assassination of Donald Trump at their Sydney concert,” he added.
Tenacious D frontman and actor Jack Black – who appeared at a star-studded fundraiser for Democrat President Joe Biden last month – issued a statement condemning his bandmate’s comment and confirming the tour’s cancellation.
“I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday,” Black said in his statement. “I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form.”
“After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.”
Gass also claimed his comments were a “mistake.”
“The line I improvised onstage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake,” Gass said. “I don’t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologize to those I’ve let down and truly regret any pain I’ve caused.”
The fallout over the comment comes as the left grapples with how to “lower the temperature” of their violent rhetoric, as they suppress their joy and try not to appear too happy that their worst political enemy was nearly decapitated publicly.
Dem Senator Bob Menendez Found Guilty Of Accepting Cash, Gold, Benz Bribes
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was convicted on all 16 counts in a sweeping pay-for-play scheme to sell his office to foreign powers and shady businessmen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, solid gold bars, and a Mercedes Benz.
A jury of 12 convicted him on charges including wire fraud, bribery and extortion – making Menendez the seventh sitting US senator to be convicted of a federal crime, placing pressure on him to resign before his term expires at year-end.
Menendez and his wife Nadine were accused by prosecutors of orchestrating a bribery scheme while he was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he acted as an agent of Egypt, and intervened to quash a separate criminal prosecution in New Jersey in exchange for payoffs – and then tried to cover it up.
“It wasn’t enough for him to be one of the most powerful people in Washington,” said federal prosecutor Paul M. Monteleoni in his closing argument. “But he also wanted to use it to pile up riches for himself and his wife.”
Menendez’s attorney, Adam Fee, suggested that the senator’s actions had been “100 percent appropriate,” and accused the government of using “half-truths” to misrepresent the case. Fee also argued that the cash and gold weren’t bribes, but instead generous gifts to Ms. Menendez during “lean times.”
- The other defendants: Mr. Menendez stood trial alongside Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, New Jersey businessmen charged with bribing him. A third co-defendant pleaded guilty and testified that he bribed the Menendezes with a Mercedes-Benz.
- The senator’s wife: Nadine Menendez was also charged. But her trial was postponed indefinitely while she undergoes treatment for cancer and she did not show up in court. –NY Times
Menendez is set for sentencing on Oct. 29.
Meanwhile, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has called on him to resign.
?SCHUMER CALLS ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN pic.twitter.com/55Nb4Ykjxz
— Sam Lisker (@slisker) July 16, 2024
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Former Top Biden Staffer & CNN Contributor: ‘Democrats Have to Turn Their Fire on Trump’
A CNN contributor who previously served as Joe Biden’s communications director had to stop and apologize after she used loaded terminology to discuss how Democrats should attack Trump following the attempt on his life.
Telling a CNN panel during RNC coverage Monday night that Democrats need to get behind Biden and collectively come after Trump, former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield stopped mid-sentence after commenting they should “turn their fire” at the former president.
“He has said many, many times, after having been questioned many times about this, that he’s not stepping down and he’s going to be the nominee. So, at some point, Democrats have to decide that they want to try to win this election and turn their fire on Donald Trump,” Bedingfield said.
“I think there is… ‘I shouldn’t have said ‘turn their fire,’” she quickly added, apparently realizing the connotation of her words, as nervous laughter broke out among the panel.
Former top Biden staffer and current CNN contributor Kate Bedingfield just said Democrats need to “turn their fire on Donald Trump” — days after a deranged lunatic shot him in a failed assassination attempt.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 16, 2024
Democrats just can’t help themselves. pic.twitter.com/aXFTWnUChu
“I apologize,” Bedingfield continued. “That was not the phrase that I meant. Uh, they need to turn their focus on Donald Trump.”
Bedingfield served as White House Communications Director for Biden from 2021 to 2023.
Embed from Getty ImagesThe faux pas comes as Democrats have pushed to “lower the temperature” of rhetoric following the assassination attempt, with shows like MSNBC’s Morning Joe temporarily taken off the air to avoid guests or hosts making lewd or inappropriate comments divulging their actual joy at Trump being shot.
Police: ‘Intentional Cover-Up’ of Illegal Alien Crime Wave Sweeping NYC
Gangs of violent illegal aliens are sowing chaos across New York City — and police say the powers-that-be are actively covering it up, according to reports.
Citizen journalist Oren Levy, who runs Viral News NYC, has been documenting a surge of crime that has coincided with an influx of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens during the Biden administration.
“Highly-organized” groups of illegals, some in their early teens, are roaming in “packs” around the Big Apple — and little is being done to stop them.
These criminals are “robbing people throughout New York City,” often targeting small shops and delis in “high-traffic areas,” Levy explained in a recent post on X.
When confronted, the thieves frequently resort to violence.
“What begins as shoplifting can quickly escalate to armed robbery or even stabbing,” a police source told Levy.
?Escalating Crime Pattern : Migrant Gangs Target NYC Shops and Residents?
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) July 16, 2024
Police sources in midtown Manhattan have reported a troubling trend of migrant gangs operating in packs. These groups start with petty crimes like shoplifting, quickly escalating to more serious offenses… pic.twitter.com/d4ZSq63lWm
Some ‘migrants gangs’ use stolen scooters or “Citi Bikes” — communal-use bicycles shared by riders via Lyft — in the commission of crimes.
Midtown has a problem with a different migrant crew. They’re young and use stolen Citi Bikes or scooters.
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) July 16, 2024
They are getting really cocky and literally robbing people left and right. Someone must be coaching them that nothing will happen to them when they get caught. I’m hearing…
“Cops tell me, it’s like no one cares about what’s going on with these migrant gangs. They tell me people are intentionally covering it up,” Levy reports.
NYPD officers give chase to Motorcycle crew someplace in NYC .
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) July 12, 2024
Some of these bikes have been linked to robberies and other crimes all around NYC
How do you think the NYPD can get these illegal bikes off the streets? pic.twitter.com/7VyK8PRL5S
Recently, a man who frequently donates food at the Roosevelt Hotel — now a ‘migrant intake center’ — was attacked by a mob of illegals.
“The situation escalated quickly, with the migrants turning their aggression towards the man’s car. In a state of fear, he attempted to drive away, narrowly avoiding the barriers outside the hotel,” Levy reported following the harrowing incident.
“In the chaotic aftermath, the migrants began to fight among themselves, adding to the already tense atmosphere.”
⚠️Chaos Erupts at Roosevelt Hotel: Man Who Donates Food Attacked by Migrants
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) July 12, 2024
A few days ago, a charitable individual who frequently visits the Roosevelt Hotel Migrant Intake Center to provide free food to migrants found himself the victim of an unexpected attack. This man, known… pic.twitter.com/w0mjH60aWk
While officials claim between 150,000 and 200,000 illegals have arrived in NYC over the past two years, Levy believes that number could be “way over 400k.”
InfoWars has been documenting mounting chaos in New York City caused by the recent flood of illegal aliens.
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Questions Swirl About How Law Enforcement Had Trump Shooter’s DNA for ID Match
Social media users are raising questions about how the FBI was able to identify the shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump on Saturday in Pennsylvania via his DNA. There are a few ways this may have worked.
“Thomas Crooks had not been carrying ID, so investigators used DNA and facial recognition technology to identify him, the FBI said,” wrote the BBC.
BREAKING: According to the New York Times Thomas Matthew Crooks has no criminal record but according to the FBI he had no ID so they identified him using DNA and biometric data. Why and how does the government have access to the DNA and biometric data of someone that isn’t a… pic.twitter.com/36x3IBW71f
— Tom Renz (@RenzTom) July 16, 2024
Nearly all states, including Pennsylvania, have facial recognition capabilities with state issued ID card photographs.
“To further mitigate the risk for fraud, including identity theft, PennDOT issues temporary driver’s licenses and photo identification cards, which are valid for 15 days, to individuals who have never held a Pennsylvania driver’s license or photo ID, i.e. new drivers, new photo ID card holders and new residents. During that 15-day period, PennDOT utilizes state-of-the-art facial recognition technology, FaceEXPLORER, to validate the individual’s photograph does not match another photograph in our database under a different name(s),” the Pennsylvania DMV site said. “FaceEXPLORER is utilized by PennDOT, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) and Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s Office. PennDOT utilizes it to mitigate the risk of license fraud/identity theft. PSP and the Attorney General’s Office utilize FaceEXPLORER for criminal investigative purposes.”
This method may explain the use of facial recognition to establish a name and address. Once that information is known, a DNA sample to match against the suspect’s body can be attained in a number of various ways.
USA Today reported that Crooks does not have a criminal record in Pennsylvania, a state, among many others, which takes DNA from certain felony convicts. Since this would not apply, there are other methods.
Perhaps the quickest and easiest way to get a DNA sample to match against is to go to the address of the suspect and attain DNA from a toothbrush, hairbrush or other various household item that contains genetic information.
Another method which may possibly be employed is the controversial infant DNA databank program. The program has been established in all 50 states and throughout the Western world as a whole over the last half century.
Some states have opt-out procedures and ways to get a previously collected DNA sample destroyed. Since the state health department is often over the collection program it is often that agency that deals with these requests.
Promoted under the guise of checking for genetic diseases, infants have blood taken via a heel prick at birth. Some of those ‘blood spots’ are tested for genetic disorders while others are stored in government databases and used for scientific research and more recently, law enforcement investigations.
Another method which could perhaps be employed is utilizing DNA from private genetic history companies, such as was used to catch the Golden State Killer.
There are also programs that enroll students into genetic databases as well.
Perhaps most shockingly is that in order to get a match, the target individual’s DNA need not be in a database so long as a close relative’s DNA is, as familial relations can be ascertained, such as was done in the Golden State Killer’s case.
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Inside Job? Rep. Tells CNN Trump Assassination Attempt Was ‘Intentional’
The attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life was likely “intentional” due to the tremendous amount of security lapses that day, Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) told a bewildered CNN anchor on Tuesday.
Discussing various failures to secure the perimeter ahead of an assassin taking a failed shot at Trump, Rep. Mills said all signs seemed to point to an inside job.
“The amount of negligence, the amount of mistakes that was made here, I have a very difficult time not leaning myself towards this was intentional as opposed to fecklessness,” Mills told anchor Kate Bolduan during RNC coverage in Milwaukee.
Asked what he meant by “intentional,” Mills went on to say he wasn’t trying to be a “conspiracist… but you look at it and you go, ‘How could this have gone so far?’”
Calling for an investigation, Mills elaborated:
You know, it almost seems to me, I think that an investigation is necessary at this point within Congress, not just the FBI, not just others.
You know, I look back at it and I’m thinking, alright, you know, for an individual, if you look at the escalations and how they try to approach him [Trump], let’s just say that it was like, okay, first we want to censor and silence you, then we want to indict and imprison you, now we’re attempting to kill you and take you out on stage.
At this point Bolduan attempted to stop Mills from proceeding, falsely claiming Trump’s campaign had told people, “Dial it back. Do not blame this on Joe Biden.”
“Oh, well, actually, I didn’t say Joe Biden,” Mills responded, going to explain the different elements that led him to the conclusion.
“So you’re saying, you are saying this is so basic that how big the screw up was, that’s what’s leading your brain down this road?” Bolduan asked.
“That’s exactly right,” Mills responded.
Mills’ comments come as other experts have also concluded the attempt on the former president’s life was a planned and coordinated attack involving insiders within the government, local police, or Secret Service.
In a TikTok post over the weekend, retired Green Beret Matthew Murphy, a certified level one sniper with extensive Special Operations training, also asserted the failed assassination attempt was likely an inside job.
Wow.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 15, 2024
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This clip needs maximum push now. The sniper was inside the police command headquarters. He took the shot from the roof of their HQ. He was aided and all of the surveillance footage inside the building must be reviewed now by the Trump team. Alejandro Mayorkas was in control of… https://t.co/FOL6dR0ZlD
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 16, 2024
This is a breaking story… More on this as it develops…