Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with former President Donald Trump on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida, along with unnamed wealthy Republican donors, The New York Times reported, citing three people briefed on the meeting.
Trump is courting donors as he gears up for a general election campaign against President Joe Biden. It’s not yet clear whether Musk will financially back or endorse Trump and his 2024 campaign.
Musk and a representative for Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Private jets belonging to Trump and Musk were spotted landing within less than an hour of one another at a Palm Beach airport on March 2. The planes’ whereabouts were first reported online by the service known as “Elon Jet,” which uses publicly available data to track more than 125 jets belonging to politicians, celebrities and executives.
In September 2023, Musk visited the White House to discuss artificial intelligence technology, but he didn’t meet with Biden at that time.
Musk, who owns the social media platform X and runs defense contractor SpaceX in addition to Tesla, didn’t endorse Trump in his 2016 or 2020 campaigns. — CNBC
Our Take: “The Coordination between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is so obvious at this stage of the game that to ignore it is to be a willful and habitual doomer.
Observe:
Musk bought the most powerful communications weapon of the Deep State in the midst of an overt Info War for the future of mankind. He did so at the ‘encouragement’ of Donald Trump. (h/t @Patri0tsareinContr0l.)
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was opposed by Trump enemy Prince Alwaleed bin Talal … and yet, the prominent Saudi was unable to stop the deal from going through. (This was one of the 11 Princes Mohammed bin Salman arrested and later released during the Saudi Purge.)
Musk happens to operate the largest decentralized internet infrastructure in the world, developed in concert with DoD backing under the Trump Administration. To wit, X doesn’t go down when Meta and Google do.
Musk is the biggest Mind-Mover in the world other than Trump. Their (seemingly) private partnership could be about to go public in a BIG way. OR … in keeping with Just Human’s theory, the Kayfabe will continue for Narrative Shielding purposes.” — Burning Bright
Our Take: “Of course Nikki Haley dropped out. She beat Trump by 3,000 votes in Vermont and lost the rest of the nation. Since 1900, Vermont has voted Democrat 29% of the time and Republican 71% of the time in Presidential elections… but since 2000, Vermont has voted 100% Democrat.
Side note: HAVA was passed in 2002, and Vermont voters should definitely look into their elections.
Haley never had a path because she’s an unlikable war monger, and it’s nice for her humiliating 15 minutes to reach its obvious conclusion.
It would be nicer if Mitch McConnell would reach his obvious conclusion, but apparently, he still thinks he is relevant. A March 2024 endorsement for President Trump is a bit of an after thought for the Senate Minority Leader, and at least his time in leadership is coming to a close. McConnell is a walking advertisement for age limits, term limits, trading limits, and other necessary Congressional reforms.
This week has been a whirlwind of change, and something is different. Can you feel it? Feels like winning.
Feels good.
‘We’re gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning, and you’ll say ‘Please, please, it’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore. Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more.’ – 45
New York Community Bancorp said on Wednesday it had raised $1 billion from investors including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s Liberty Strategic Capital and named a former Comptroller of the Currency its new CEO.
Investment firms Hudson Bay Capital, Reverence Capital Partners, Citadel Global Equities, other institutional investors and certain members of the bank’s management also participated in the equity investment, according to NYCB.
The bank’s stock had a rollercoaster session, falling 45% prior to the announcement, bouncing 30% higher after finally closed 7.4% higher. KBW’s analyst Chris McGratty said in a note to clients that the capital raise is painful for existing shareholders but should reduce fear of systemic risks.
“This is a good solution for the broader system, shows ability to attract private capital, and the management and board overhaul provide credibility with investors”, McGratty wrote. He believes the bank may still sell assets and transfer credit risk to further increase its capital ratio above the current 10% target.
Kevin Heal, banking analyst at Argus Research, expects the deal to allay fears for depositors and added that unlike Silicon Valley Bank, which had uninsured deposits that were “blown off the door in billions”, NYCB does not have the same level of un-insured deposits.
Joseph Otting, the new BNCY CEO, is the former Comptroller of the Currency under president Donald Trump, and had been CEO and board member of OneWest from 2010 through 2015, when the bank was sold to CIT Group. One of the founders of OneWest bank is Steven Mnuchin, one of the new investors in NYCB. “In evaluating this investment, we were mindful of the bank’s credit risk profile,” Mnuchin said in a statement. Mnuchin will join NYCB’s expanded board. — Reuters
Our Take: “There’s a metric ton of signal to be found in the above headline, which sees former Trump Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin joining together with former Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting to inject some life into the beleaguered assets of New York Community Bancorp.
On the Power Hour of late, Jon Herold, Just Human and I have been discussing just how far the civilian-military alliance implied in the drops goes when it comes to the Info War, Devolution, etc., and in addition to Stephen Miller’s America First Legal being the tip of the spear when it comes to pushing back against Deep State corruption using their own lawfare against them, the more important moves are being made in the US financial sector.
In 2023, we saw the collapse of the Silicon Valley and First Republic Banks, a mini Crisis Cascade that was kicked off by proxy of another Trump ally, Peter Thiel.
Now, we’ve got former Trump admin officials bailing out another regional bank.
Attorney Ashleigh Merchant revealed new details about how she uncovered the relationship between Georgia District Attorney Fani Willisand special prosecutor Nathan Wade, including what Wade’s former law partner Terrence Bradley thought of his divorce and why she first began investigating the two.
“Nathan was still married and Mr. Bradley was upset because of what happened in the divorce. He was upset because [Wade and his now-ex-wife] were still married,” Merchant said in her testimony Wednesday to the Georgia Senate committee investigating Willis, the Fulton County DA. Willis led the investigation in Georgia’s election interference case against Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, including Merchant’s client.
“The Wades were still married, and [Nathan] essentially just left her after meeting Ms. Willis and dropping the kids off at college,” Merchant said.
“[Bradley] did not like the way [Wade] had treated his wife,” she continued. “He didn’t like what was happening in the divorce proceedings. I remember specifically him saying, ‘I handle my business,’ things like that, like, ‘I don’t leave my wife without alimony’ because…,” Merchant continued.
“Ms. Wade had been a stay-at-home mom for—they’d been married for almost 30 years, and it was literally right after they dropped their youngest off at college that [Wade] said, ‘Move out,'” Merchant said.
Merchant, who is representing Michael Roman, a former Trump official, first revealed that Willis and Wade, whom the DA hired as the Georgia case’s lead prosecutor, are in a romantic relationship when she filed a January 8 motion seeking to disqualify Willis and her office from the case. Merchant is the first person to be subpoenaed by the legislative panel. — Newsweek
Our Take: “Episode 5 of the Fani Willis Drama took place on Wednesday morning, as Ashleigh Merchant testified before the Georgia Senate Committee on Special Investigations. We got new details, including, as this article says, details on how Ms. Merchant became aware of the relationship.
Leaning into CannCon’s skepticism about this detail, it’s a little on the nose that Newsweek drops this article immediately following the hearing. Setting that aside, let’s consider what we know from the hearing and the record as a whole. I have a much more detailed article on this drama coming soon, but here is a quick summary of what has been alleged:
According to multiple witnesses, Wade and Willis had a personal, intimate relationship since 2019.
They texted each other 12,000 times before Wade was appointed as Special Counsel.
Willis secured the funding – $780,000 – to hire Wade under the auspices of hiring 55 new employees to clear a backlog of cases, piled up during Covid.
Two weeks after securing the funding, Willis hired Wade.
Willis never had county approval to hire Wade, and Wade was unqualified to prosecute this case.
Willis paid Wade at least SEVEN TIMES more than the other prosecutors on the case, and Wade hid this income in a secret trust account.
After a year of collecting fees (for little provable work), Wade received a fee cap increase of $20,000 — right after a cruise vacation with Ms. Willis.
In September 2023, the defense found out about the improper relationship, and Ms. Merchant prepared her Motion to Disqualify.
Willis and Wade repeatedly made false representations to the court in response to Ms. Merchant’s motion.
Willis and Wade perjured themselves under oath, in an effort to cover it all up.
In a court, the judge is the fact finder. But in the court of public opinion, the public gets to decide for themselves what is true. Based on the evidence before us, my take is that Judge Scott McAfee should toss this case, sanction the offending parties, and refer Willis and Wade to the Georgia Bar. Let’s see what happens.” — Ashe in America
Pro boxer Ryan Garcia made a stunning accusation, claiming unnamed elites tied him down and forced him to watch them rape children at the infamous Bohemian Grove, he claimed in a Monday night Twitter Spaces appearance.
“Bro I don’t give a fuck bro. They held me down, they made me watch little kids get raped, I don’t give a fuck anymore,” Garcia told Andrew Tate in a Twitter Space.
“Where?” Tate asked.
“Bro they fucking took me to the fucking woods bro and they fucking tied… I’m not fucking joking bro I have fucking proof bro I don’t give a fuck. Bro I’ll fucking show you every fucking video you could ever believe. Bohemian Grove is real,” Garcia claimed in a profanity-laced tirade. — The Daily Caller
Our Take: “For those unaware, Ryan Garcia, perhaps the best young boxer in the world (at least, the most sensational,) has been going off on social media all week about the ritualized abuse of children by ‘Elites.’
Whatever you think of his specific accounts, it’s getting a LOT of traction.
Garcia claims to have been forced to watch such displays in an attempt to get him into ‘The Club’ in recent years, as his star has risen exponentially following a series of highly viral fights and a massive social media following.
This is the Darkest Path most in the Truth Community came into the movement in order to help expose, and it remains the foundation of [their] subversive, corrupt empire.
It is DEFINITELY worth taking the Garcia story with a metric ton of salt, for the reasons Jordan lays out, above.
It’s not a bad thing for these stories to be inundating the American zeitgeist, but considering the source (I’m no fan of the Tate machismo retardation,) it’s more likely to be obfuscation and fame-whoring than the genuine article.
Again, it’s difficult to know what to believe when it comes to pop culture figures, but when you focus on the Net Effects such stories visit upon the Collective Mind, you begin to see how ‘mainstream’ ritualistic abuse has gone, rendering the Potential & Narrative Actual in the mind of the observer.
Influencers might be wearing these sorts of stories like a skin suit on social media, but we know the truth that underlies them.
Hundreds of National Guard soldiers and State Police officers will patrol the New York City subway platforms and check riders’ bags beginning this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Wednesday.
A large show of force in the system, which is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, will help commuters and visitors feel safe, Ms. Hochul said.
Subway safety is a constant concern in New York City, where the system’s recovery is critical to the city’s rebound from the pandemic, and public officials can be as sensitive to the perception that mass transit is dangerous as they are to an actual rise in crime.
The additional law enforcement officers would add to an already large police presence in the subways, where Mayor Eric Adams ordered an additional 1,000 officers in February following a 45 percent spike in major crimes in January compared with the same time last year.
Grand larcenies — thefts without the use of force — were a main driver of the January spike in crime, according to the police. They are defined by the police as major crimes, along with homicides, assaults and robberies.
After crime rates retreated in February, the overall rise in major crimes for the year as of March 3 was 13 percent, Police Department data shows. — The New York Times
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More utter bullshit theater from the NY Dem elite. Just like after 9/11, when they deployed the UNARMED National Guard, to make the people “feel safer”. Fuck you Hochul. And fuck all the New Yorkers who actually voted for her. You deserve what you’re getting. (signed a former New Yorker)
I tend to believe Musk and our President have been doing some planning together much longer than the deep state would like, out of the paparazzis’ eyeballs and microphones. I have wondered if Musks’ StarLink satellites have the capability to capture the interwebz activity of voting algorithm manipulations.
The deep state disease is alive and well in Vermont. One would have to be blind – intentionally or not – to the activities of Scytyl (sp?) and the algorithmic manipulations of the voting scores.
I seriously think that the deep state believes they are getting away with using their illegal manipulation tools ( with it just used to boost Liddell Adam Shitt in the CA Senate primary — and recorded in real time ). Vermont was/is under the microscope. StarLink?
Busted.
I’m not sure how to read former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchins’ involvement in bailing out the NYC bank. The main issue is a bank crash, specifically the Wall Street banks, has been predicted to take place before the resurrection of our dollar with it being backed by precious metals.
To make the resurrection complete the Wall Street banks have to fail, since they are/have been directly responsible for the corruption.
So … what’s going on with Mnuchin? Is the inevitable being delayed?
I think at this point it’s almost a given that the bogus RICO charges will get flushed and Willis and Wades’ careers as lawyers are circling the drain, right behind those RICO charges.
Cry mohr, libturds. Spin that, Nicole Wall-ass.
Never heard of this guy, Ryan Garcia, but I have more going on in my life to waste time on an empty fad obsession. The positive in this story is the sheep and lemmings will possibly remember past the 48 hour limit of their brains’ memory capacity … that CHILD TRAFFICKING, TORTURE, and MURDER are very, very real — and the culprits are THE ELITE, with our country, the United States, being the worlds’ top market.
I’ve seen that this story has been posted by the Mockingbird Media already. I wonder how they will ultimately spin this … “Garcia is mentally unstable”??
Regardless, hopefully some of the sheep and lemmings will blink.
Then some might turn that dull light bulb on … where are all the illegal alien children?
A few might remember the effect the natural disaster had in Haiti. A few of those might remember ‘The Clinton Foundation’ and wonder why that story faded away.
Tell them to take the red pill.
Ah, our RAT-FACED Queen of the Empire of Noo Yorkistan, queen Hochul. No, Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas any more …
… as relentless advertising reminds us all to “Get your ‘Covid-19 booooster shots today” across all forms of media.
Meanwhile illegal alien gang-bangers and convicts are committing violent crimes — with a monthly debit card balance of $2,200 in their pockets ( which, I might add, is 45% more than my monthly Social Security ).
Not surprising that Kathy Hochul strips everyone of their basic rights by searching everyone – while simultaneously not forcing Leticia James to do her job of enforcing law on all the lawbreakers. Just disgusting communist like display again – bad as forced Covid mandates!
NYC looks like Nazi Germany. And the sheep keep taking it. The Guard should stand down, and be at the Border. The Guard & every cop in the city really ought to go to the statehouse & clean up a few things. Why don’t the good guys have enough guts to do the right thing? Because it will be too late sooner than we think. This crap started with Nazi Bush after 9/11.—-So we have a boxer talking about the evil some of us have known about for years, and info on P Diddy coming out from Hellywood. So who on the world stage right now has spent a lot of time rubbing shoulders with folks in the boxing world? And the same man spent time in Hellywood with his tv show. Garcia is a Hispanic name; Diddy is African American. Think somebody might be pulling strings to inform people of a few things before the election? 😉
I need to research what’s going on with Mnuchin. There is a hidden system of finance operating in the world, and one blogger I follow says Trump knows about part of it re: China & some kind of bonds. Is Mnuchin Trump’s man on the inside? Is someone deliberately trying to”break the banks”? It would not take much effort—real assets (gold) have been hypothecated way beyond the true value. (The Bush name comes to mind again.) Sometimes I think we are watching another “Worricker Trilogy” (watch this BBC series if you have a chance), one Intel group telling another, you stole our money & we want it back, & all else is a diversion.
More utter bullshit theater from the NY Dem elite. Just like after 9/11, when they deployed the UNARMED National Guard, to make the people “feel safer”. Fuck you Hochul. And fuck all the New Yorkers who actually voted for her. You deserve what you’re getting. (signed a former New Yorker)
Well, hmmm …
My take:
Yes, we are winning!
I tend to believe Musk and our President have been doing some planning together much longer than the deep state would like, out of the paparazzis’ eyeballs and microphones. I have wondered if Musks’ StarLink satellites have the capability to capture the interwebz activity of voting algorithm manipulations.
The deep state disease is alive and well in Vermont. One would have to be blind – intentionally or not – to the activities of Scytyl (sp?) and the algorithmic manipulations of the voting scores.
I seriously think that the deep state believes they are getting away with using their illegal manipulation tools ( with it just used to boost Liddell Adam Shitt in the CA Senate primary — and recorded in real time ). Vermont was/is under the microscope. StarLink?
Busted.
I’m not sure how to read former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchins’ involvement in bailing out the NYC bank. The main issue is a bank crash, specifically the Wall Street banks, has been predicted to take place before the resurrection of our dollar with it being backed by precious metals.
To make the resurrection complete the Wall Street banks have to fail, since they are/have been directly responsible for the corruption.
So … what’s going on with Mnuchin? Is the inevitable being delayed?
I think at this point it’s almost a given that the bogus RICO charges will get flushed and Willis and Wades’ careers as lawyers are circling the drain, right behind those RICO charges.
Cry mohr, libturds. Spin that, Nicole Wall-ass.
Never heard of this guy, Ryan Garcia, but I have more going on in my life to waste time on an empty fad obsession. The positive in this story is the sheep and lemmings will possibly remember past the 48 hour limit of their brains’ memory capacity … that CHILD TRAFFICKING, TORTURE, and MURDER are very, very real — and the culprits are THE ELITE, with our country, the United States, being the worlds’ top market.
I’ve seen that this story has been posted by the Mockingbird Media already. I wonder how they will ultimately spin this … “Garcia is mentally unstable”??
Regardless, hopefully some of the sheep and lemmings will blink.
Then some might turn that dull light bulb on … where are all the illegal alien children?
A few might remember the effect the natural disaster had in Haiti. A few of those might remember ‘The Clinton Foundation’ and wonder why that story faded away.
Tell them to take the red pill.
Ah, our RAT-FACED Queen of the Empire of Noo Yorkistan, queen Hochul. No, Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas any more …
… as relentless advertising reminds us all to “Get your ‘Covid-19 booooster shots today” across all forms of media.
Meanwhile illegal alien gang-bangers and convicts are committing violent crimes — with a monthly debit card balance of $2,200 in their pockets ( which, I might add, is 45% more than my monthly Social Security ).
But be ‘safe on the subway’. wow.
Eight more months …
NCSWIC
Not surprising that Kathy Hochul strips everyone of their basic rights by searching everyone – while simultaneously not forcing Leticia James to do her job of enforcing law on all the lawbreakers. Just disgusting communist like display again – bad as forced Covid mandates!
NYC looks like Nazi Germany. And the sheep keep taking it. The Guard should stand down, and be at the Border. The Guard & every cop in the city really ought to go to the statehouse & clean up a few things. Why don’t the good guys have enough guts to do the right thing? Because it will be too late sooner than we think. This crap started with Nazi Bush after 9/11.—-So we have a boxer talking about the evil some of us have known about for years, and info on P Diddy coming out from Hellywood. So who on the world stage right now has spent a lot of time rubbing shoulders with folks in the boxing world? And the same man spent time in Hellywood with his tv show. Garcia is a Hispanic name; Diddy is African American. Think somebody might be pulling strings to inform people of a few things before the election? 😉
I need to research what’s going on with Mnuchin. There is a hidden system of finance operating in the world, and one blogger I follow says Trump knows about part of it re: China & some kind of bonds. Is Mnuchin Trump’s man on the inside? Is someone deliberately trying to”break the banks”? It would not take much effort—real assets (gold) have been hypothecated way beyond the true value. (The Bush name comes to mind again.) Sometimes I think we are watching another “Worricker Trilogy” (watch this BBC series if you have a chance), one Intel group telling another, you stole our money & we want it back, & all else is a diversion.