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Steve Bannon greeted by his daughter, Maureen, following release from FCI Danbury

Former Trump Chief Strategist and War Room host Steve Bannon will hold a press conference this afternoon in New York City after being released from the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, this morning.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Steve made his highly anticipated return to the War Room this morning after serving four months in the penitentiary for defying a congressional subpoena from the sham House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.

Steve Bannon’s daughter, Maureen Bannon, celebrated his release this morning by sharing a photo of herself greeting Steve as he walked out of Danbury prison and commenting, “LET’S F*CKING GO!!!!”

LET’S FUCKING GO!!!! pic.twitter.com/LOkm4HKYlQ

— Maureen Bannon (@maureen_bannon) October 29, 2024

During his first show out of prison, Steve was ON FIRE. During his opening monologue, he ripped Nancy Pelosi a new one.

“Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things: to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me. Nancy Pelosi, take out your number 2 pencil and write this down: This show has never been more powerful,” Bannon declared.

WATCH:

STEVE BANNON RETURNS TO WAR ROOM – COMES OUT FIGHTING! – SLAMS PELOSI! – “The 4 Months in Prison DID NOT Break Me, They Empowered Me! We Have Never Been More Powerful!” (VIDEO)

Bannon will speak to the press today at 3 pm at the Lowes Regency Hotel in New York City.

Watch live below:

Steve Bannon To Address The Nation | Live At 3 PM https://t.co/BTMftEsPDQ

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) October 29, 2024

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Steve Bannon greeted by his daughter, Maureen, following release from FCI Danbury

Former Trump Chief Strategist and War Room host Steve Bannon will hold a press conference this afternoon in New York City after being released from the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, this morning.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Steve made his highly anticipated return to the War Room this morning after serving four months in the penitentiary for defying a congressional subpoena from the sham House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.

Steve Bannon’s daughter, Maureen Bannon, celebrated his release this morning by sharing a photo of herself greeting Steve as he walked out of Danbury prison and commenting, “LET’S F*CKING GO!!!!”

LET’S FUCKING GO!!!! pic.twitter.com/LOkm4HKYlQ

— Maureen Bannon (@maureen_bannon) October 29, 2024

During his first show out of prison, Steve was ON FIRE. During his opening monologue, he ripped Nancy Pelosi a new one.

“Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things: to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me. Nancy Pelosi, take out your number 2 pencil and write this down: This show has never been more powerful,” Bannon declared.

WATCH:

STEVE BANNON RETURNS TO WAR ROOM – COMES OUT FIGHTING! – SLAMS PELOSI! – “The 4 Months in Prison DID NOT Break Me, They Empowered Me! We Have Never Been More Powerful!” (VIDEO)

Bannon will speak to the press today at 3 pm at the Lowes Regency Hotel in New York City.

Watch live below:

Steve Bannon To Address The Nation | Live At 3 PM https://t.co/BTMftEsPDQ

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) October 29, 2024

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Nevada County, California ballot issues

Another day, another issue with ballot counting machines.

A ballot printing error in Nevada County, California caused scanning issues with 77,000 mail-in ballots.

According to election officials, there were imperfections in the barcodes which prevented the ballot scanners from counting the ballots properly.

They diagnosed the issue as an ink overspray on some of the barcodes.

CBS News reported:

Nevada County is having trouble with their mail-in ballots due to a printing error. With Election Day nearing, county officials are working around the clock to fix the problem.

Nevada County’s elections office first realized something was wrong on Monday. The next day, they diagnosed the problem, and the error was specific to vote-by-mail ballots. They’re not sure exactly how many of the 77,000 ballots issued were affected, but they have a plan to rescan the ones that are.

“A lot of the public is very nervous about the process, about the results,” said Penn Valley resident Leilani Vevang.

The county’s machines weren’t properly reading all the ballots, so they called the California Secretary of State’s Office. The printing service then diagnosed the issue as an ink overspray on some of the bar codes.

“Some of our ballots, if you look really closely and use a magnifying glass, you will see that there is imperfections in the bar codes,” said Nevada County Clerk Recorder Natalie Adona. “We will use a report and say, ‘OK, which pages did not go through?’ We’ll pull those out and we’ll mark them as to be rescanned, and we will rescan them with a piece of paper where the bar code is very clear.”

Sounds legit!

Watch:

ALERT: A ballot printing error in Nevada County, CA, has caused scanning issues with 77,000 ballots, preventing the ballot counting machines from reading them properly. pic.twitter.com/aYqzVWdtGn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 29, 2024

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Nevada County, California ballot issues

Another day, another issue with ballot counting machines.

A ballot printing error in Nevada County, California caused scanning issues with 77,000 mail-in ballots.

According to election officials, there were imperfections in the barcodes which prevented the ballot scanners from counting the ballots properly.

They diagnosed the issue as an ink overspray on some of the barcodes.

CBS News reported:

Nevada County is having trouble with their mail-in ballots due to a printing error. With Election Day nearing, county officials are working around the clock to fix the problem.

Nevada County’s elections office first realized something was wrong on Monday. The next day, they diagnosed the problem, and the error was specific to vote-by-mail ballots. They’re not sure exactly how many of the 77,000 ballots issued were affected, but they have a plan to rescan the ones that are.

“A lot of the public is very nervous about the process, about the results,” said Penn Valley resident Leilani Vevang.

The county’s machines weren’t properly reading all the ballots, so they called the California Secretary of State’s Office. The printing service then diagnosed the issue as an ink overspray on some of the bar codes.

“Some of our ballots, if you look really closely and use a magnifying glass, you will see that there is imperfections in the bar codes,” said Nevada County Clerk Recorder Natalie Adona. “We will use a report and say, ‘OK, which pages did not go through?’ We’ll pull those out and we’ll mark them as to be rescanned, and we will rescan them with a piece of paper where the bar code is very clear.”

Sounds legit!

Watch:

ALERT: A ballot printing error in Nevada County, CA, has caused scanning issues with 77,000 ballots, preventing the ballot counting machines from reading them properly. pic.twitter.com/aYqzVWdtGn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 29, 2024

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President Thomas Jefferson, without a shred of exaggeration, described his first election to the presidency as the “revolution of 1800.” And now, 224 years later, we find ourselves on the brink of something similar.

Sunday in New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden, at a rally in support of former President Donald Trump, entrepreneur and patriot Elon Musk electrified rallygoers by pledging to slash trillions of dollars from the federal government’s budget during a second Trump presidency.

“Your money is being wasted,” Musk said, “and the Department of Government Efficiency is gonna fix that!”

The crowd then erupted in cheers.

“We’re gonna get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” Musk added moments later.

In August, Trump endorsed the idea of a government efficiency commission headed by Musk.

Since then, D.O.G.E.-related ideas and accounts have proliferated on Musk’s social media platform X.

Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, spoke immediately before Musk on Sunday, then introduced the X owner to the rally crowd.

“We set up D.O.G.E.,” Lutnick said to Musk. “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?”

“Well I think we could do at least $2 trillion,” the X owner replied.

Having pledged to tame the federal leviathan, Musk earned raucous chants of “E-lon! E-lon!”

In fact, to illustrate the D.O.G.E. idea’s popularity on X, here is a shorter clip of the same exchange from an account called “DogeDesigner,” which, as of Monday morning, had more than 935,000 followers:

Elon Musk on D.O.G.E:

“I think we can reduce the annual federal budget by atleast $2 trillion per year. Your tax money is being wasted and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that.” pic.twitter.com/isu5ZHOaGz

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 27, 2024

In an 1819 letter, Jefferson referred to his first election as the “revolution of 1800.”

At the turn of the 19th century, voters overwhelmingly rejected a Federalist program of aristocratic governance, censorship, war and consolidation. Nowadays, we would characterize consolidation as “big government.”

Thus, Jefferson called the voters’ rejection of Federalism “as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 76, was in it’s form; not effected indeed by the sword, as that, but by the rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.”

A Trump victory, featuring a Musk-led assault on federal spending, would qualify as an 1800-style revolution in government principles.

Of course, no one would resist that assault with more ferocity than the bureaucrats of the deep state.

Last year, U.S. News & World Report ranked America’s 15 wealthiest counties by median household income. Incredibly, suburbs of Washington, D.C., occupied five of the top ten spots on the list.

In other words, deep-state actors have grown rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary Americans.

A transfer of wealth on that scale can only happen through criminal levels of confiscation. After all, people connected to the federal government can only get rich via taxation or inflationary spending.

Americans have had enough. Now, Trump and Musk stand poised to carry out another peaceful revolution.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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U.S. Capitol as Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” (Screenshot: Penguin6)

The U.S. Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” Monday night, just over a week before Election Day.

In a public notice, the U.S. Capitol Police stated, “EXERCISE: This evening, the United States Capitol Police & our federal partners are conducting a routine training exercise on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Please do not be alarmed if you see emergency vehicles and low flying helicopters.”

EXERCISE: This evening, the United States Capitol Police & our federal partners are conducting a routine training exercise on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Please do not be alarmed if you see emergency vehicles and low flying helicopters. pic.twitter.com/nLWgwMQONg

— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) October 28, 2024

This exercise took place one week after the Capitol Police conducted a campus-wide evacuation drill.

“EXERCISE: This morning, at approximately 10:00 am, we will have a campus-wide evacuation exercise. The routine drill is in coordination with our Legislative Branch partners. Expect temporary street closures to include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, and D Street, NE,” Capitol police wrote on Monday, October 21.

EXERCISE: This morning, at approximately 10:00 am, we will have a campus-wide evacuation exercise. The routine drill is in coordination with our Legislative Branch partners. Expect temporary street closures to include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, and D Street, NE. pic.twitter.com/UQRH7DlszL

— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) October 21, 2024

The timing of this exercise, coming just as the 2024 elections approach, has raised alarms among some conservative leaders, including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene has issued a stark warning about what she believes is a calculated move by Democrats to secure control over the Capitol ahead of January 6, the date designated for certification of the presidential election.

In a statement to her supporters, Greene argued that the Democrats are ramping up security measures in Washington, not to protect the people, but to further entrench their hold on the government should they lose seats in the House.

U.S. Capitol as Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” (Screenshot: Penguin6)

Read Rep. Greene’s statement below:

Capitol Police hold “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” at the Capitol with multiple helicopters last night.

Stay with me on this.

Trump told us to make it to big to rig and we are on our way to making that happen as long as everyone votes for Trump, but we are in danger of losing the House with approximately 20 House seats literally too close.

Without the House, we can not pass critical legislation to bring forward our MAGA agenda.

But also, if Democrats control the House, they will refuse to certify President Trump’s election on January 6th. They’ve already said they won’t certify.

Leading into this election just in the past few months, Democrats are making big moves to secure the Capital in January for certification on the 6th.

Last night, Capitol Police conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” on the East Front with multiple helicopters.

This comes after the DoD signed off on military force to be used to assist police against the American people, Mayorkas designating Jan 6th as a “Special Security Event” through Homeland Security, Mayor Bowser of DC requesting security for Jan 6th, and announcement of fencing to be erected Jan 5-21st.

While security is always important, Democrats are the party of riots, violence, and destruction. If they lose, they don’t care about securing anything. They nearly burned down Washington on Trump’s inauguration in 2017, rioted nightly during 2020, called us all Nazi’s and Trump Hitler for years, and shot Trump in the face.

But they are ramping up mass security for the Capitol because they are planning to maintain control of the Capitol by winning the House.

Trump’s momentum is too big to stop and we are watching the polls stopping the steal for Trump, but we are not doing the same thing for critical House races.

And if Trump wins the WH, Republicans win the Senate, but we lose the House, Democrats will build a fortress of resistance in the House.

They will stop everything, they will impeach Trump again, and they will abuse every ounce of power that comes with the House of Representatives.

And Democrats see all of us as the enemy.

Make sure you VOTE all the way down ballot for Republicans and don’t skip voting just because you are in an unwinnable Democrat state or a solid Republican state and you don’t think your vote matters that much.

You voting for Trump AND that RINO Congressman you can’t stand is actually the key right now to saving this country!!

We have to win the Presidency, the House, and the Senate!!!

GO VOTE AND WIN IT ALL!!!

Capitol Police hold “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” at the Capitol with multiple helicopters last night.

Stay with me on this.

Trump told us to make it to big to rig and we are on our way to making that happen as long as everyone votes for Trump, but we are in danger of… pic.twitter.com/ybKDqkjJdj

— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) October 29, 2024

WATCH:



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Until a few months ago, the war in Ukraine was basically a static trench war reminiscent of WW1, and sieges to take towns were endlessly long and bloody.

Now, with Ukraine’s defenses decaying in numbers and capabilities, as well as materials and ammunitions, and with Russian forces probing myriads of places in the front at the same time, the attackers are taking up territory faster than ever since the first month of the war.

German, Pro-Ukraine Bild analyst Julian Röpke reported that from 24 to 26 October alone – three days – the Russian army had captured eight settlements: Bogoyavlenka, Katerinovka, Izmailovka, Aleksandropol, Gornik, Selidovo, Shakhtyorskoye, and Vishnevoye.

And in the last three days, the pace hasn’t subsided.

There’s now talk of a multi-pronged cascade offensive’ towards this immediate objective of Pokrovsk.

Besides being a key transportation hub, the city also holds in its environs a unique feature: the last coking coal mine in Ukraine.

Coal mine in Pokrovsk.

Slavyangrad reported:

“The Russian Armed Forces are seeking to establish control over the only Ukrainian mine for coking coal production. If the Russians succeed, steel production in Ukraine will be reduced by more than half.

This industry is the second most profitable in the country after agriculture. Therefore, the release of the mine will significantly harm the economy of Kiev.”

This comes as more and more sources from within the Ukrainian army are sharing the real dire situation of the pro-Kiev troops.

Watch – Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko: ‘Our front has collapsed’

29.10.2024
Kyiv, Ukraine.

Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko:

Our front has collapsed . Firstly, there is a shortage of ammunition and weapons. Secondly, there are people, no people, no reinforcements. People are very tired, they simply cannot… pic.twitter.com/QmG139JGlZ

— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) October 29, 2024

Kiev, Ukraine – Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko:

“Our front has collapsed. Firstly, there is a shortage of ammunition and weapons. Secondly, there are people, no people, no reinforcements. People are very tired; they simply cannot pull the fronts they are on. And, thirdly, there is an imbalance in management.”

After the fall of Selidovo, there are no large cities on the Russian army’s route, and the troops can focus all their attention on Pokrovsk and Mirnograd.

But as has been the case, no one should expect the Russians to clash head on with the defenses in these places.

The tactics have been the same – moving forward, probing up weak defenses everywhere, flanking the big centers, circling it until you put the defenders into a cauldron and they have to flee or die.

It’s a boa constrictor strategy that is working.

Read more:

Russian Forces Conquer Selidovo After Short Siege, Signaling Deteriorating Ukrainian Defenses in the Fight for Donetsk Region (Videos)

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BEK TV owns three broadcast stations in North Dakota. It is based out of Steele, North Dakota, which is 45 minutes east of Bismarck in roughly the center of the state.

BEK is a media cooperative, serving both telecom services and broadcasting to 11,000 of the state’s residents, and is digitally available statewide. Its most recent annual report shows $150 million in assets.

The broadcaster employs as their key talent, Lori Hinz. Hinz has been voted “Best TV Personality” around Bismarck in years past. Hinz is a National Committeewoman for the Republican National Committee and an executive with the North Dakota GOP.

Lori Hinz, RNC National Committeewoman for North Dakota

BEK TV cultivated a conservative customer base, encouraging deplatformed and dispossessed conservatives to come on their shows and host their programs. BEK wanted to be a right-wing version of Fox News for North Dakota.

But recordings released exclusively to the Gateway Pundit appear to show Hinz agreeing to suppress news content and coordinate likely illegal payments in order to keep a brewing state scandal out of public view.

Hinz was given several hundred megabytes worth of data and documents supporting the claims of a whistleblower alleging systemic corruption and fraud in North Dakota, including accusations of politically-motivated murders. Hinz reportedly promised the whistleblower that she would report the story.

But instead, Hinz, who is close personal friends for several decades with one of the subjects involved, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, allegedly attempted to set up a deal by which the whistleblower would stay silent and get paid, and the story would not get reported. The whistleblower was not asking for compensation, but on the tapes it sounds like Hinz was arranging it anyway over his protests.

MEDIA OUTLET BROKERS DEAL WHERE U.S. SENATOR PRESSURES STATE TO PAY OFF SOURCE, AGREES TO BURY THE STORY

U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)

On the audio, Hinz is overheard apparently coordinating and negotiating an alleged extortion deal for a tipster and source who is not even asking for money. Hinz appears to be offering to compensate the source and keep his life safe, while simultaneously explaining why she is not going to publish the story.

The sources for this story says Hinz and others offered to let the source name their own price, and prodded him to ask for any amount in payment.

Government sources claim that BEK TV head Derrick Bulawa told a working group, “This story doesn’t have to get out” and that those in attendance expressed concern that the situation felt like extortion, to which they were told, “this is the way things get done.”

Hinz tells the Gateway Pundit that the whistleblower is merely “impatient” and she was willing to write the story, and is even still working on it, but could not say when the story was set to be published. She referenced stories she worked on for six months or more, and offered that as a timeline.

The story involved, still developing, involves billions of dollars of malfeasance in the nation’s supply chain putting airline travel at risk.

Hinz had no coherent response when it was pointed out to her that she felt confident enough in the story to broker a multi-million dollar payment to the source, but did not have enough confidence to publish a single story on the topic.

BEK TV THREATENS TO SUE GATEWAY PUNDIT FOR DEFAMATION

Hinz also repeatedly kept threatening the Gateway Pundit with libel and defamation lawsuits during the phone call, suggesting that “you better get everything right” and that things should be “viewed from a perspective of how it will look as defamation.” Hinz and BEK TV appear to be circling the wagons, as similar threatening language was expressed by BEK TV CEO Derrick Bulawa to the Gateway Pundit.

Hinz’s threats to the Gateway Pundit included this statement: “Well, I certainly hope you take into consideration that there may be defamation issues involved with this, and I think that it would be a really good idea for you to pause, much like we did, and get more information.”

These delays are at the core of what the whistleblower says is the payoff scheme he was being offered: name your price but the cost was that the news, and the full story of what happened to him, would never get out.

The audio evidence shows the whistleblower challenging Hinz for even trying to set up this alleged extortion deal, stating: “You also told me that you were somehow brokering on my behalf, and it makes me very uncomfortable to call them, because you’re doing something that, I am questioning even as to the ethics of it.” Without missing a beat, Hinz replies, “I understand.”

Hinz tells the whistleblower on the tapes: “I, we’re just doing one step at a time. We kinda have to do one step, and then the next step, and the next step. This is the first step. The first step is to make sure that you’re protected, and that you get your money. And that’s, that is the absolute most imperative thing. It is not gonna help our, our State, if you are… It’s not gonna help you, it’s not gonna help our St – it’s not gonna help anybody if, if something happens to… [Hinz stops speaking mid-sentence for about 5 seconds] So, I want you to have plausible deniability.”

BUT THE GATEWAY PUNDIT HAS THE AUDIO TAPES

You can listen to the audio files here (7:32), here (3:29) and here (10:49) for these calls from mid-September 2024. We have posted the full-text transcripts of these clips at the bottom of this story.

The transcripts appear to show that Lori Hinz was not operating as a journalist, but instead it appears she was trying to broker a financial deal for a source to protect North Dakota’s political class, and suppress the explosive news story.

The whistleblower claims they never asked Hinz to assist with money. Rather, the whistleblower claims she and BEK’s CEO pursued the extortion deal independently even after receiving a concerned email from the whistleblower clarifying that in no way was BEK authorized to act as the whistleblower’s “agent, representative, negotiator.” The whistleblower was clear in writing that he was only working with BEK “as a media organization who has an interest in reporting this”.

Legal experts say that this situation appears to amount to a possible form of extortion, where Hinz, acting as the journalist, crafted herself as a middleman to negotiate a multi-million dollar ‘deal’ with U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) to keep the story out of the news.

Those who know Lori Hinz say it is completely out of character for her, and they suspect that she is being pressured to comply and cooperate.

Corruption in North Dakota is, according to insiders, rampant and chronic, covered by a cultural desire not to spread negative gossip and also not to smear the name of the state known mostly for farming, missiles, and oil.

Yet despite that reputation, storms of scandal have been brewing.

ONGOING SCANDALS PLAGUE NORTH DAKOTA

North Dakota’s last two Attorney Generals died suddenly, aged 68 and 48 – both involved in an investigation into an ongoing child sex trafficking ring involving former State Senator Ray Holmberg. Holmberg was originally charged with flying abroad for underage sex with boys and child pornography. The child porn charges have been dropped and Holmberg has been released with no bail bond, just a promise to be good. Insiders say others were clearly involved, but only Holmberg has been indicted.

Former ND State Senator Ray Holmberg, indicted for child sex trafficking

The Gateway Pundit reported last week on major financial problems alleged at the Bank of North Dakota, where the Governor-controlled bank is likely writing down $475 million each year in bad investments.

The whistleblower on the audio tapes lives in fear of his life, and those of his family.

FRIENDS OF HINZ EXPRESS SHOCK, OUTRAGE AT TAPES

Friends of Lori Hinz believe that she was pressured into playing this role. A conservative activist in the state, Jerol Gohrick who runs a group called Sons of Liberty tells the Gateway Pundit, “I want to know who got to Lori, and what pressure those RINOs used to take such an upstanding, respectable, God-fearing woman, and bring her to this – to turn her against an incredibly brave whistleblower whose life has been turned upside down and under threat by corrupt politicians for two years now. Sons of Liberty is investigating those treasonous RINO bosses for other serious crimes; they appear to have no limits on their willingness to extort in this state. I directly confronted [North Dakota Attorney General Drew] Wrigley in his office last week, after he refused my calls for 5 months, and told him, ‘Drew, everyone’s pointing at you on this.’”

“She’s trying to push her own personal agenda. She was trying to keep the Senators out of this mess, to help position herself in all of this. I have known her for several years, and to better her career, she was trying to set up this extortion ring. I don’t get it. Maybe Senator Cramer was going to pay her off, who knows how high this all goes,” continued Gohrick.

Friends of Lori Hinz claim she is very loyal to Senator Cramer, knowing him for 42 years since she was 18, since she was in college. The transcripts appear to show Hinz agreeing to protect Cramer prior to the election, by suppressing bad news stories that might hurt him or implicate him, in exchange for Cramer helping to secure major payments and benefits to the whistleblower.

Hinz challenges that characterization of the excerpts. While confirming the accuracy and authenticity of the recordings, she claims she was merely assisting the whistleblower, and it was not a financial transaction in exchange for not running a story. Hinz said that the longer recordings were relevant, but could not clarify what was left out of the extended versions. The Gateway Pundit has reviewed the longer audio and there is nothing relevant missing from the excerpts. Hinz said her primary goal was the safety of the source and ensuring that the state government fulfilled on their promises. Hinz also protested that she was recorded without her knowledge, though that is legal in North Dakota.

Independent Governor candidate Michael Coachman tells the Gateway Pundit this mafia-style leadership approach in North Dakota is the very thing his candidacy intends to change, and that he has been active in trying to solve this problem without resorting to extortion. “When I first met the whistleblower, I prayed with his family, and they were scared. I reassured them, ‘This is what they want. They want you to feel alone. They want you to feel isolated. They want you to feel like you’re on your own. But you’re not. We’ve got your back.’”

North Dakota billionaire Governor Doug Burgum has been the state’s 33rd top Executive, serving since 2016. Burgum was pushed by some as a potential Vice Presidential candidate alongside Donald Trump. Burgum and his team, say state insiders, were involved in this brewing scandal from the start.

The Gateway Pundit reached out to the Office of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and that of Gov. Doug Burgum (R) by phone and email and did not hear back.

The Gateway Pundit will update this article if any subject offers additional quotes, statements, or facts.

 

 

TRANSCRIPT 1: (duration: 3:29) – Sept. 11, 2024 – LISTEN HERE

Whistleblower: If I may ask. I mean, none of this seems to be related to media reporting or building a story. Is it just simply that truly the weight of the evidence, if accurately told, puts a permanent mark on these people. I mean, what is the reason of calling Cramer? I guess

Lori Hinz: The reason for calling Cramer is to allow an opportunity for them to do the right thing by you, and that’s first and foremost you need to be you need to be protected, and you need to be made whole with what they have promised you that needs to happen first, anything else that happens after that is going to be on whoever perpetrated the malfeasance.

Whistleblower: So, I mean… Agent Breijo is on trial for murder, who partnered in a cover-up effort on my site with North Dakota BCI… is there any possible way you can fix that?

Lori Hinz: That I don’t know. We’re just doing one step at a time. We kind of have to do one step and then the next step. And the next step, this is the first step. The first step is to make sure that you’re protected and that you get your money. And that’s that is the absolute most imperative thing. It is not going to help our our state if you’re it’s not going to help you? It’s not going to help it’s not going to help anybody. If something happens to… I want you to have plausible deniability. Can We? We? Can, you know, I, I know it wasn’t your idea, and I know it wasn’t your your your stated preference. I know that. I am I’m aware of that, but I also know that this is literally the best option to keep you safe.

Whistleblower: Ok. Multiple people helping me said they thought a call like that would get me killed.

Lori Hinz: No, I don’t think it will. I do think that he’s going to go and he’s going to go and he’s going to have a talk with Commerce. He had already said that he thinks that Commerce is sketchy, and, yeah, he’s not even that’s an understatement. The problem is, is that they have to somehow come up with some answer to him now of why they are cutting off your money. So even if he knows more, which we are pretty sure he does, even if he knows more, it is in his best interest, particularly politically, before his election, to not have this exposed immediately.

TRANSCRIPT 2: (duration: 7:32) – September 11, 2024 – LISTEN HERE

Lori Hinz: Hi Charles!

Whistleblower: Hey, how’s it going?

Lori Hinz: Hi, how are you? So I actually finally got ahold of Senator Cramer today. He had been in Europe and that was the problem. But he got back to Congress. And I texted him again a couple of times. He finally got back to me today, so I just got off the phone with him, probably 35-40 minutes ago, and had a little conversation with him. So it’s good. It went very well. I was very… uh, measured, and let him speak a lot, and didn’t say a whole lot, but I, I just said, I need some help here. I think, because I think you can help solve this issue. I said, I, it is about Dunseith, and that’s all I said. And then I just waited, and it was dead silent. He goes “okay,” which told me that he might know what Dunseith meant. So that was good, and I did my best to try to discern from his voice what he was when he was saying. But he said, I said, I said, um, I have knowledge of a very important story from there, and it deals with a gentleman who has a business there. He was brought in by Commerce, and now suddenly he is in default for no reason whatsoever of his own for anything that he has done, I said, and these people lured him here, and he started a business, did a great remodel. I said, I have been there. I have seen all sorts of evidence, and I think you can help solve this problem. And he said, “Hmm, can you tell me a little bit more about the story and refresh my memory?” I said, well, Commerce, got him to come here and then Commerce got him to hire a guy, and the guy was lousy and corrupt, and so he fired him, and now Commerce is pulling his funding, and that is… it’s not right. I said, I have two goals. I do not want to run with the story. I don’t want to do the story because I am afraid that somebody, I’m afraid this gentleman is going to get killed, and he goes: “understood.” And I said, my first number one goal is that this gentleman is safe and that his family is safe. That’s my number one goal. My second goal is that he is given what he was promised, and he’s able to do his business. He goes, “Okay”, I said. And I think the problem stems from Commerce, because Commerce got him here, and then now suddenly is acting like he’s some kind of criminal, and that is not the case, and I think Commerce needs to make this right, and Commerce seems very sketchy to me. And he said, “I agree with you. I think Commerce is sketchy also.” He said, “This is not a federal issue. This is a state issue.” I said, it sounds like a state issue. He said, I’m going to contact my people who might know more about this, who have been keeping up with it? He said, Lisa. I said, Gibbons? And he said, Yes, Lisa Gibbons. And he said, Chris Moreau. He said he they’re in different offices, but he said, those are the people who would know about this issue in this story. I said, I have somebody. I said, state Senators know about this, they were there with me. We went to the site. We spent some time there. I said they know about it, and a gentleman last night told me. I didn’t tell them who it was, but I said a gentleman last night told me that he was itching, he wanted to call [North Dakota Attorney General] Drew Wrigley. And [Senator] Kevin [Cramer] said, “Well, that might not be a bad idea. That could probably be a good idea bringing Drew in.” And then he says, Let me see what I can do. I said, I’m just wondering if there is a way that we can get Commerce to do what they promised and get him his money. And he said, “Well, how much?” And I said, Well, I think there are two things. I said, the gentleman can tell you the numbers exactly, but I think there are two things that they promised him that they are not delivering on, and you need to get those numbers from him. But I said, um, this needs to be this needs to be solved and made right by Commerce. And he said, “Well, I will tell you. I will see if I can persuade someone at Commerce to do the right thing.” That’s what he said, and that sounded very… positive to me.

Whistleblower: Okay… How is an issue that’s under federal investigation, not a federal issue?

Lori Hinz: I agree. I agree, but I am happy that he is considering this a state issue, which means that he wants to make it right. If he would have said, and put his hand that he knew that it would be, I think he knew after I said that I’d seen all the evidence that I knew that he knew that I knew that his staffers were on those, all of those phone calls. All of those Zoom meetings… so he knows that now.

Whistleblower: Ok…

Lori Hinz: I agree with you, I think it’s a federal issue. He said, two times he said, this is not a federal issue this is a state issue. And I thought, well, if you want to keep it a state issue and make it a Commerce issue and blow up Commerce because of it, I am totally okay with that. Now I don’t have to do the story, but he knows that it is about to come out and you [North Dakota State Senator] Kent Weston tell me that you have talked to some other media people, which is great. I think that is just fine, but they may want to just wait a little bit before blasting stuff out so that Kevin can, uh, solve this issue.

Whistleblower: Okay, you don’t… go ahead.

Lori Hinz: I got your email about you and not wanting to have anything to do with this, and you don’t have to have to face this. This is on us. This is on Derek and me, and our goal is to keep you safe. Not get you killed. And we’ll be able to get your money. You need to get you need to get your financing so that you can get back up in business. So I do think that Kevin is capable of doing that. I do think that he’s able to exert some sort of leverage on Commerce to do what they need to do the right way and to make you whole. I think he’s capable of that.

Whistleblower: You didn’t just put a target on my back?

Lori Hinz: I didn’t just put a target on your back. I did not. No, no.

TRANSCRIPT 3: (duration: 10:49) – September 18, 2024 – LISTEN HERE

Lori Hinz: Hey Charles.

Whistleblower: Hey,

Lori Hinz: How are you doing?

Whistleblower: Good. Sorry, I just had to wrap a call.

Lori Hinz: No worries. I totally get it. So since I don’t have any new updates for you, I just wanted to check in and see how you’re doing. I have pinged the Senator [Kevin Cramer] again, and I’m just keeping on it and just trying to, like, send him occasional text so I’m not bombarding him, but he knows that I have not remotely forgotten about it, so that’s where I’m at right now. And I just wanted to kind of give you an update and let you know that.

Whistleblower: Okay, I haven’t asked you to do that. I’m looking forward to accurate reporting of the story.

Lori Hinz: Yep, I know. I… I have to do this first.

Whistleblower: And what is the reason?

Lori Hinz: The reason is because this is the best way to get a good result, and then we can go great guns with the story, but first we have to protect you, and also your assets that are owed to you by the state. So we’ll do that first, and then you will go great guns after that. That first thing we need to do is make sure that you are covered.

Whistleblower: I don’t see how this approach is helpful.

Lori Hinz: I understand that. I understand you don’t see that, but this is literally the best way. And I am convinced there I wouldn’t have gone this direction. I was great guns at first, but I think that would have just put you in great peril. I really do. I truly feel like that would have put you in much, much more great danger, grave danger. So this is a lot more comfortable with this way, because I do think that there may be some downward pressure to get Commerce to do the right thing, and in so doing also protect you and your family.

Whistleblower: I think you guys are actually just amping up pressure against our business with your tactics, because it’s gotten to Commerce, it’s gotten to the Governor, and they’re digging their heels in against us.

Lori Hinz: Even talked to who has gotten to Congress and who’s gotten to the governor?

Whistleblower: Gonna leave it at that.

Lori Hinz: Okay.

Whistleblower: There’s no help. I think you’re making things worse.

Lori Hinz: I don’t I don’t think we’re making things worse. I think we’re being prudent in order to protect you.

Whistleblower: I think you have a story that needs to be told in order to protect me.

Lori Hinz: I think that you are concerned about getting the bigger story of the danger to airlines out, and that needs to be on the back burner a little bit. That has to be the result that people come to on their own, rather than the flash in the pan first story, I really do.

Whistleblower: You’re putting words in my mouth because I told you, since the beginning, I have been sabotaged since the start of this. And the state issues alone are a story the way they targeted a recruited business.

Lori Hinz: Yeah, I agree. I think that that is a big story then, so when we have to fix first, yeah, I agree with you.

Whistleblower: Okay, we are definitely not on the same page, but I do thank you for giving me a call to let me know where you’re at.

Lori Hinz: And I know you’re frustrated. I totally get it. After years of this bullshittery, I totally get it. I really do. I just want you to remain calm and let you know that if we can sit tight little on this I do. I am very encouraged by the initial contact I had, and I am very encouraged that that will be a motivator for this individual to get some relief for you from the state. I really am. I’m very confident I would not be taking this path if I didn’t think it was going to be appropriate, safe for you, and also give you these needed results. And down the line, yes, we can absolutely blow the story up. I just don’t want to do it and and then put you in danger. And I really, really, really worried about that part. And so that’s that’s why the delay. And I know everybody wants to go great guns great guns. I will tell you that I’m having good conversations with legislators about this. I’ve had some really good conversations with multiple people. I’m keeping in touch with [State Senator] Kent Weston and keeping in touch with all of the, all of the players I just texted with [State Senator] Judy Estonson in a little while, though, Andrea Thomas, no big deal. I can call her back. Um, I just, I just want you to know that I have not just let it lay, I have absolutely kept in touch with the people and the players, including Coach and everybody else. So…

Whistleblower: And you’ve caused problems for me because you’ve told them you’re going forward with a story, and instead, you have this other thing that you’re doing, and then they have talked to me and said, Well, this is what’s happening, but you’re doing this other thing.

Lori Hinz: Well, we are going to do the story, and I just told you that again, that’s the plan, is to do the story, but only after you get your required money. It’s the worst thing that we could do, is pull it up and then you end up with nothing. And I do not want that to happen to you and your family. I think that’s ridiculous.

Whistleblower: I don’t believe that by protecting the state in this that they’re going to somehow do the right thing for me, because they’ve done the wrong thing for two straight years. I think by letting the public know that they are targeting us, have done so egregiously. Have actually you heard testimony from an officer who was instructed not even to assist if we made distress calls.

Lori Hinz: I know.

Whistleblower: I don’t believe waiting is the appropriate way at all, nor was that the agreement under which I provided the thumb drive to you. I’m making my position very clear.

Lori Hinz: I know.

Whistleblower: I feel that I was betrayed.

Lori Hinz: Well, I am so sorry. I certainly didn’t mean to betray you. I do want to protect you, however, please be advised and know that for a fact, that I’m not holding back purposely to hurt or harm you in any way, but rather to get you what you need. I am I am, I’m going about this little I’m just going to try it first, if it is, if it is not working, and if nothing happens. Or worse, something gets even wonky or goes sideways, then… all bets are off. But as of right now…

Whistleblower: You guys are causing wonky I can tell you that, and I’m not going to go into the details, but it’s not getting better. It’s getting worse.

Lori Hinz: Are you being threatened more?

Whistleblower: I’m not going to go into the details.

Lori Hinz: If you can’t give me details, and that’s that’s fine. I can’t, I can’t help you any further with that.

Whistleblower: The Reason I’m not giving me details is because you’re having, instead of setting up a meeting for me and a legislator, you’re having meetings supposedly on my behalf, which I haven’t authorized.

Lori Hinz: Did you talk to the contact that I gave you? Have you talked to them?

Whistleblower: No.

Lori Hinz: Okay, well, you asked for a contact in his office, and I gave that to you, and I gave you his scheduler’s cell phone number.

Whistleblower: You also told me that you were somehow brokering on my behalf, and it makes me very uncomfortable to call them, because you’re doing something that I am questioning, even as to the ethics of it.

Lori Hinz: I understand.

Whistleblower: Put me in a very uncomfortable position.

Lori Hinz: You are already in a terrible position.

Whistleblower: And you guys have a media platform that can assist telling the truth about how the state train wrecked us and then made up allegations in order to try and get rid of us, and now doesn’t know what to do, because we’re still here and we have growing support.

Lori Hinz: Exactly right, and I will continue to help that support grow. I have already done that. I will continue to do that.

Whistleblower: But when you tell legislators that you know you’re working on the story, but you tell me that you’re not working on the story. I mean, last week, you told me the story doesn’t need to go out. You can get this fixed. Different people, different things, and then it confuses everybody, and it makes it more complicated for the group that’s trying to help me. I’m sharing my position. I’m sharing what is happening and that you’re not doing good, you are not helping.

Lori Hinz: I understand that you view it that way. I do understand your frustration, and I understand that you feel like people are being confused

Whistleblower: Because I trusted you. I trusted you to do it one way,

Lori Hinz: You still can, you still can and I just telling you I am doing this methodically, rather than jumping both feet in right off the bat. I’m trying to be prudent rather than imprudent. I am trying to be methodical rather than not thinking things through, and I hope that is helpful. I don’t think that it’s a good idea to do knee jerk things, and so I am taking an approach that is allowing us to be as careful as possible with your and your family’s lives and also with your financial future for your company.

Whistleblower: I have partners that will take us forward. They simply need the state to stop sabotaging us in the background,

Lori Hinz: And that’s exactly what we’re taking care of and working on right now. That’s exactly right. That’s exactly the tact we’re trying to make sure that the that the state and commerce is no longer sabotaging. That’s the goal.

Whistleblower: And it’s gotten worse.

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PA GOP Committeewoman Val Biancaniello taken away in handcuffs in Delaware County, PA

As previously reported, Pennsylvania GOP Committeewoman and RNC delegate Val Biancaniello was taken away in handcuffs for telling voters at a polling place in Delaware County to stay in line and vote on Monday.

According to Val Biancaniello, the Democrats were discouraging voters from in-person voting on Monday in Delaware County so she encouraged voters to stay in line.

“I was just taken away in handcuffs at the Delaware County, Pennsylvania Government Center for encouraging people to stay in line and vote,” Val Biancaniello said.

WATCH:

A supporter of President Trump’s was arrested today for encouraging people to stay in the early voting line and cast their ballots freely in Pennsylvania.

This follows reports from across the commonwealth that voters are being turned away in conservative areas.

This is voter… pic.twitter.com/ye4qTcfEn5

— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) October 28, 2024

Val Biancaniello told The Gateway Pundit that she was cuffed to a bench in a holding room and cited for disorderly conduct.

“They patted me down and handcuffed me to a bench in a holding room. They let me go after a bit (they had no choice!) walking me out of the building,” Biancaniello said in a statement to TGP. “I was told I was receiving a disorderly conduct citation in the mail. I was not disorderly and I broke ZERO laws. I was encouraging people (largely Republicans in the long line) to stay in the line and vote.”

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley urged immediate intervention to address reports of widespread issues at polling sites across Pennsylvania.

Biancaniello said a Democrat election worker steered Republican voters to a satellite office to vote where they were told they ran out of voter applications.

“In fact, the election worker told people in line to go to the Chester Heights satellite office because the line was shorter there. Do you know what happened when they got to the Chester Heights office to vote in person? They were told that they ran out of mib applications. This is voter suppression in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. I did nothing wrong except encourage people to stay in line and vote. So they arrested me. VOTE!” Val Biancaniello said on X.

“With only eight days until Election Day, Pennsylvanians across the commonwealth deserve every option available to exercise their civic duty. But voters are being turned away, given faulty information, and told their ballots will not be counted. This is nothing short of voter suppression, and we demand immediate action to ensure every legal vote can be cast and counted properly,” RNC Chairman Whatley said in a statement.

According to the press release:

We have received numerous concerning reports from Pennsylvania voters that computers are down, polling sites are closing early and are not accepting any more voters, and that mail ballots will not be counted.
This is especially alarming considering the state’s Governor, Josh Shapiro, posted on “X” that he cast his mail ballot at a Montgomery County Satellite Office without a problem.
Pennsylvanians deserve the same effortless experience boasted about by Governor Shapiro, but county offices appear unable or unwilling to provide it.
Tomorrow, October 29, 2024, is the last day to request a mail-in ballot in person at a county election office. No voter should be turned away, told an office is closing early, or told they cannot be accommodated if they appear during the posted business hours.
We are asking Secretary Schmidt to provide relief immediately – supporting a “free, fair, safe, and secure” election as he promised.

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Credit: Only in Dade

A box containing hundreds of ballots from Miami-Dade County was discovered on the side of Florida’s Turnpike after reportedly falling from an unsecured county truck.

The alarming event, confirmed by the Miami-Dade Elections Department, occurred late Monday night, prompting immediate concerns over election security.

Dashcam footage and cellphone videos captured by concerned citizens reveal the containers strewn across the roadway at Exit 11, near Cutler Bay.

The footage shows the clearly labeled parcels, complete with county barcodes and tracking paperwork meant for managing paper ballots.

A vigilant driver who stumbled upon the abandoned ballots took it upon himself to deliver the items directly to a county police station.

WATCH:

Last night, an individual came across a box full of ballots and other documents on exit 11 of the Turnpike, at the intersection of 211th St. in Cutler Bay. He immediately picked them up and took them to the police station, where they have been properly secured. No information yet… pic.twitter.com/HQP6glsm9b

— ONLY in DADE (@ONLYinDADE) October 29, 2024

Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, stated that the mishap was due to a failure on the part of the county worker responsible for transporting the ballots, according to the Miami Herald.

“The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out,” Christina White said on Tuesday.

White maintained that both containers were sealed upon inspection and that no tampering had occurred, asserting that the ballots had already been scanned and counted.

“Upon arrival at the police department, Election staff verified all seals were intact and nothing was tampered with or damaged,” White told Miami Herald.

“Thankfully, this was observed in real time by upstanding citizens who did the right thing and turned the bin and bag into the police department,” White said.

White quickly announced the dismissal of the employee responsible, stating, “While unintentional, the Elections Department has zero tolerance for error and therefore the employee was terminated.”

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