Above-the-Law Barry Defends Omar

In a long-winded and tone-deaf diatribe against the Trump administration’s investigation of Ilhan Omar, Barack Obama trots out the usual outrages and obfuscations.

Barack Obama, Catherine Engelbrecht would like a word with you.

You’re forgiven for having long ago forgotten her name, but Engelbrecht was the small-business woman and law-abiding patriot who in 2009 founded an election-integrity organization called True the Vote and then endured a years-long campaign of vicious and unrelenting harassment from Obama’s jack-booted alphabet agencies — his IRS and DOJ, of course, but also his FBI, ATF, and OSHA.

Then, of course, there were all the Tea Party types who felt the wrath of Obama’s IRS henchwoman, Lois Lerner, who took the Fifth rather than coming clean about all those meetings she had with Obama’s DOJ, and those 118 eye-popping visits her boss, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, paid to the White House in 2010 and 2011.

I regurgitate all this because it’s important to remember those “scandal-free” days of yore, especially in light of what Obama said on Sunday in a fable-filled broadside aimed at Donald Trump. “It is a basic principle of American democracy,” Obama began, “that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.”

Obama’s defense of Omar is predictable, if not coherent. He keeps using the word “unsubstantiated,” for example, in referring to the charges against Omar — from immigration fraud in the form of a suspiciously changed birth date, to more immigration fraud in the form of a marriage to her brother — but I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means. Indeed, Obama doesn’t even mention the financial facts of the Omar investigation — namely, the head-snappingly strange disclosures she recently made about her financial worth, in which she went from claiming around $30 million in assets to around $125,000 in assets within the space of a year.

Obama says “it’s important to know the facts” of the Omar case, and yet he conveniently omits the fact that the investigation into Omar’s financial, er, irregularities began during the Autopen administration. Even the leftist lickspittles at The New York Times know that.

Obama’s rant continues: “Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.”

Heavens to Murgatroyd. Here, Obama conveniently omits the fact that a Democrat DC judge — a Hillary Clinton donor named Matthew Sharbaugh — is the one who signed off on the search warrant for Omar’s DC home.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good narrative, right, Barack?

Last week, in a piece about the DHS raid of her DC home, I thought it might help to remind our Democrat friends of the broken-record refrain from their ongoing lawfare campaign against Trump: No one is above the law, they prattled, and now we’re seeing that what they meant was: No one except Democrats are above the law.

My colleague Nate Jackson delved into the birth-date specifics of the case against Omar, and they’re very serious. As National Review’s Andrew McCarthy noted, there are some statue-of-limitations issues with some of the dated charges against Omar, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t merit investigation. Otherwise, we might as well come right out and say that there’s a different standard for Beltway elites and schlubs like the rest of us.

As for Obama’s claims that Trump is targeting his political opponents, puh-leeeze. It was Obama and his henchmen, after all, that launched Crossfire Hurricane and targeted Donald Trump during his 2016 political campaign, and continued to spy on him after Trump improbably beat Obama’s hand-picked successor, Hillary Clinton. This is all part of The Big Lie that Obama and his fellow Democrats keep foisting upon the American people.

That Obama is defending Omar shouldn’t surprise us. “The original community organizer rushes to the defense of one of his protégés,” writes Dinesh D’Souza. “Both of them are part of a deliberate scheme to ‘decolonize’ America by uprooting its western and Christian roots.”

Indeed, as to the supposed breakdown of political decorum here, columnist David Harsanyi turns it back on Barry and company: “When you spend your time stripping away norms, you can’t expect the other side to unilaterally disarm.”

This lengthy statement from Obama, then, is classic Baghdad Barack. This is the guy who keeps telling us there’s nothing to see here except the evil that Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans perpetrate.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/1002047-above-the-law-barry-defends-omar

Woke French student mocked owners who lost stores in riots — then her jet-set life was revealed: ‘Your little shops, that’s cute’

 Let them eat snark.

A woke French student has become the běte noire of the protests after she mocked business owners who lost their stores in the riots.

Lola-Fleur Whittaker, a leftist political influencer who studies at the prestigious Sciences Po Paris, appeared on a TV show Monday to defend the rioters.

“Your little shops, that’s real cute,” she said during an argument about who was to blame for the weekend’s violence on her appearance on La Grande Confrontation.

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French student Lola-Fleur Whittaker mocks business owners who lost stores in riots.

But the privileged student was confronted by Khemima Sheilha, owner of a chain of bakeries who had seen her businesses looted.

“It’s my life, Lola,” Sheilha said. “We’ve had to see our businesses smashed. What justifies terrorizing people’s lives?”

Whittaker subsequently tried to paint herself as a poor victim, claiming that her mother is a teacher who eats cookies for lunch because she can’t “pay for the cafeteria.”

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Lola-Fleur Whittaker is a political influencer who studies at the prestigious Sciences Po Paris.

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Whittaker’s Instagram shows her jet-set lifestyle, with vacations in exotic locales around the world.

But she was quickly outed for a social media profile that revealed she’s more bourgeoisie than proletariat.

She regularly shares pictures of vacations in exotic locations around the world, including Sicily, Greece, Malaysia, Egypt and Oman.

Whittaker, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, previously stood as a candidate for the far-left political party France Unbowed in Paris and is also a prominent leftist influencer.

During Monday’s heated debate, she also appeared to bizarrely suggest a link between the recent rioting and the attacks on Algerian immigrants by French police back in October 1961, La Depeche reported.

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She previously stood as a candidate for the far-left political party France Unbowed in Paris.

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Curfews were imposed on Monday in multiple French cities after a weekend of rioting.

Whittaker was not immediately available for comment.

Around 2,500 arrests were made over the weekend, as violent mobs ran amok, looting luxury stores and torching historical monuments.

Curfews were implemented in multiple French cities on Monday “for as long as necessary,” in response to the country’s worst riots in years, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced.

On Tuesday, he praised the curfews for helping to keep the peace overnight.

France is set to deploy the military on the streets to help the police ahead of further planned protests this weekend, which coincide with an NFL game in Paris between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/world-news/french-student-lola-fleur-whittaker-mocks-owners-who-lost-stores-in-riots/

Breaking: DOJ Sends Subpoenas to Soros-Backed DA Amid Criminal Investigation

A grand jury issued subpoenas to the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who won election with the help of funds provided by George Soros.

Fox News reported on Tuesday that the grand jury is investigating “potential obstruction of justice relating to the handling of cases before federal judges.”

As noted by WHYY-TV, Krasner’s initial campaign for his office benefited from $1.7 million in spending from Soros. According to the Daily Signal, Krasner was reelected in 2021 with more Soros funds assisting the campaign. Krasner was decisively reelected to a third term in 2025.

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond said that amid internal backbiting and feuding in the district attorney’s office, Krasner may be guilty of conspiracy or obstruction of justice, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” Diamond wrote, as noted by Fox News.

Diamond wanted federal prosecutors to sift through testimony to determine what actions were taken in the district attorney’s office after a man sought to have his murder conviction overturned, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Former Assistant District Attorney Jaclyn Mason initially handled the case, but after a spat with supervisors who said the brief she filed contained errors, she quit and said former supervisor Matthew Stiegler pressured her to file a faulty brief.

The supervisors testified that Stiegler wanted to frame Mason as an error-prone “rogue” and that Krasner called that a “really good idea.”

The supervisors rejected the plan, and in the battle over next steps, Krasner reportedly wanted no outside involvement to “protect the office” and “control the proceedings.” He also threatened “consequences” if they revealed what was taking place.

Diamond equated such comments with obstruction of justice and said that Stiegler may have committed perjury, calling his testimony “often contradictory, evasive, or outright dishonest.”

“Like Stiegler, Mr. Krasner wanted the DAO to submit a false narrative to the Court,” Diamond wrote, referring to the district attorney’s office.

He said supervisors “roundly rejected” the proposal, with one calling it “tremendously inappropriate.”

Diamond found that Krasner “was not interested in talking about the merits of the case,” and had called the attorney general’s lawyers “Nazis.”

“The prosecutor’s duty is to vindicate the interest of the Commonwealth, not the interest of any particular individual,” Diamond wrote.

https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-doj-sends-subpoenas-soros-backed-da-amid-criminal-investigation/

European Cell Phone Companies Realize Elon Musk Is About to Eat Their Lunch

The story of Starlink is very similar to the story of SpaceX itself. Elon Musk created a company that revolutionized moving satellites, and astronauts, into orbit and monopolized the industry. Other players both at home and abroad have been doing their best to catch up, but Musk has a big head start at this point.

Starlink is another business that, just a few years ago, many people were claiming would never work. But by leveraging his access to low-Earth orbit, Musk has put up more than 11,000 satellites. In addition to providing an important backup to easily blocked GPS satellites, Musk has also gathered 13 million paying customers, including a lot of people who never had reliable internet service before.

How many years have the telecoms spent claiming to have the largest network? But no one has a larger network than Starlink. You can use it Antartica and in the middle of the ocean if you have one of their terminals. Most of the major air carriers are already on board. And, thanks to a partnership with T-Mobile, users can now use Starlink for direct-to-cell service with no extra hardware. But there is a limitation. Because regular phones have a limited radio range, it requires special satellites to be able to hear them from space. Generally, the handsets can only be used this way outside in an area free of obstacles.

However, earlier this month Starlink announced that it was making plans to expand direct-to-cell service on its own.

SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio of up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band. This prime low-band spectrum addresses one of the key remaining technical gaps that will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US.

Once we receive final FCC approval, Starlink Mobile will deploy a flexible architecture combining our satellite-to-mobile constellation in space with an advanced terrestrial deployment that can seamlessly connect devices everywhere. While Starlink Mobile’s global 2 GHz mid-band spectrum will provide high-bandwidth capacity in the United States, this new low-band spectrum will provide a coverage layer that ensures Starlink Mobile’s signal penetrates through obstacles, such as walls, and can provide service to customers’ devices even when they are in buildings. Critically, most existing mobile devices already support this underused band.

So the big picture is that Starlink is moving into the cell service game in a big way and today a group of cell providers in Europe teamed up to try to compete with what Musk is offering.

Four of Europe’s biggest telecom companies are joining forces to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX as European leaders push to reduce the continent’s reliance on American tech.

Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, France’s Orange, the United Kingdom’s Vodafone Group, and Spain’s Telefónica announced Monday that they signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum. These radio frequencies connect mobile phones directly to satellites instead of relying on cell towers...

Under the proposed partnership, the four companies would establish ground infrastructure and operations in Europe while teaming up with a satellite provider. Other mobile carriers across Europe would also be able to use the network to offer satellite-to-phone services to their customers.

Basically, they're building out the ground service to try to compete with Starlink but the satellite part of the service is still pretty vague. Here's what the joint press release said.

As part of the project, the four operators plan to establish key ground network infrastructure as well as critical coordination and monitoring functions in Europe, without investing directly in a satellite constellation. This will be provided by a satellite partner still to be selected.

That seems like a pretty big hole in their plan. The Financial Times suggests a French company may be their best option.

...instead of developing their own satellite constellation, they would partner with an existing provider, which is yet to be selected.

This could pose challenges for the proposal, with most satellite constellations being operated by US or Chinese companies. French satellite operator Eutelsat has developed a large-scale constellation but the company is far behind Starlink, which has more than 11,000 satellites in orbit.

According to Google, Eutelsat Group has 634 Gen 1 satellites in orbit but all of them require a terminal system. So that's the buildout the European telecoms are talking about. They'll add terminals to existing towers or create new towers to allow for use of the satellites. But they won't be able to offer direct-to-cell service of the kind Starlink is already offering. 

Of course Eutelsat could launch new satellites given enough time, but once again Elon Musk's company has a big head start. The only way the Europeans are going to be able to catch up is by protecting their markets. That's something the EU has already talked about doing.

In May, the European Commission proposed reserving the part of its spectrum band that allows smartphones to connect directly to satellites for European players. The so-called 2 GHz frequency band is currently used by two American companies, Viasat and EchoStar, whose licences expire next year...

The Commission’s plans have been fiercely criticised by SpaceX, which operates the Starlink platform.

So we'll have to wait and see how this all works out.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/10/19/european-cell-phone-companies-realize-elon-musk-is-about-to-eat-their-lunch-n3820109 

Fairfax Co. Exec Learns the Hard Way Cop Does NOT CARE Who 'HE IS' in Traffic Stop and LOL

Fairfax County Executive Bryan Hill apparently believes the Commonwealth of Virginia’s license-plate laws come with an asterisk for Very Important County Officials who get annoyed when a cop fails to recognize their exalted status on sight. 

Body-cam footage and internal emails obtained by a local reporter show the top bureaucrat, during a routine stop, pivoting straight to the classic “do you know who I am” routine, complaining that the officer was disrespectful, noting that he had no idea who he was dealing with, and suggesting things would have gone differently if Hill had been flashing a badge of his own. 

The police chief reviewed the entire interaction, found the young officer professional and polite throughout, and took zero action against him; a deputy county executive even apologized for the boss’s behavior. In other words, the only person treating a simple traffic stop like an insult to the natural order of things was the one who gets paid to enforce the rules for everyone else.

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... the officer’s defense in an email to the Deputy County Executive: 

“Per our conversation, please see the below link to the traffic stop this afternoon involving County ExecutiveBryan Hill. County Executive Hill called me during and after the traffic stop and relayed the following:

“There’s a lot going on, but if this is what you guys want to do…”
“My front tag is on my dashboard…”
“I don’t mind him doing his job, but he was disrespectful. That’s my issue.”
“He had no idea who I was…”
“If I had a badge, he would’ve let me go.”

As you watch the BWC, you will hear the County Executive say the following to our officer:

“Did you hear who I told you I am?” 

I told the County Executive that the requirement to have a front license plate affixed to the front of a car is a Commonwealth statute, and not a Fairfax County rule. I also told him his allegation the officer was“disrespectful” is something I will review immediately and take seriously. 

I have reviewed the BWC in its entirety. The young officer was 100% professional, cordial, and polite at all times. There will be no internal action taken against the officer whatsoever. I called the officer on his cell afterwards and told he performed in an exemplary manner consistent with our expectations and training. In short, he did a great job under a tough circumstance that was not created by him.” 

Deputy County Executive Thomas Arnold replied, “My apologies for the behaviors of the County Executive. I will review this tonight and then have a follow-up with him and discuss an apology for both you and the officer. Circle back with you soon.”

Well, well, well, sounds like the cop was right and the snotty, smug 'official' was wrong. Color us shocked.

DON'T YOU KNOW WHO HE IS?!

And Bingo was his name-o.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/10/20/fairfax-dem-pulls-the-dont-you-know-who-i-am-card-when-pulled-over-and-weve-got-it-recorded-n2433499

OUTRAGEOUS! Oregon High School Football Player Cheap-Shots Patriotic Rival Carrying American Flag on the Field

An Oregon High School football players attacks a rival player carrying an American flag onto the field. 

A viral video showing a Portland, Oregon high school football player attacking a rival performing a patriotic act prior to their game last Friday is speaking outrage across the country.

As The Daily Mail reported, video footage has emerged showing the moment Grant football players run onto the field behind a teammate who was waving a large American flag prior their game against rivals Jefferson High School before an ugly scene unfolds.

As one will see in the video, a Jefferson player races toward the flag-bearer and levels him. This causes the Grant player to fall to the ground.

Grant players then charge toward the violent thug to confront him.

The account which shared the video (which is not officially affiliated with Jefferson High School) openly CELEBRATED this gross attack.

While the account was later deleted, Taren Feist, an Oregon-based campaign manager, saved the screenshots.

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The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the state school athletic governing body, released a statement to OutKick saying that “is aware of the pre-game incident.”

The organization also said that the player was ejected and didn’t play in the game.

“Rivalry game or not, there’s no place for this behavior before, during, or after an interscholastic contest,” the OSAA added.

There is no word on whether the Jefferson player faced further punishment, however.

The now-deleted account which shared the video posted a statement claiming that the the attack was not intended as disrespect toward the US flag, but was a reaction to Jefferson being ‘mistreated’ on senior night.

The video was not intended to disrespect the American flag. However, there was disrespect shown toward Jefferson by Grant players and members of their coaching staff before the game, and if you were there to witness what happened, you would understand the full context.

There was an option to go around the field, but they chose not to. This was our last game ever on Jefferson Field, our Senior Night, and Homecoming. This was a special and emotional night for our school, our seniors, our players, and our community.

What happened before the game was not appropriate, especially given the significance of the occasion. If you have an issue with the video or with me personally for posting it, you can address that with me directly.

“At Jefferson, we are proud of who we are. We are Black, Hispanic, white, and people from many different backgrounds who come together as one school and one community. Our diversity is something to be proud of, not something to attack.”

As far as the game, Jefferson High School received the beating they so richly deserved.

Grant prevailed 35-14, causing Jefferson’s record to drop to 1-6. Grant moved 6-1 on the season.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/outrageous-oregon-high-school-football-player-cheap-shots/