According to those governments/entities, the only “positive use” for AI as far as social media and online discourse go, would be to power more effective censorship (“moderation”).

A new report from the US House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government puts the emphasis on the push to use this technology for censorship as the explanation for the often disproportionate alarm over its role in “disinformation.”

We obtained a copy of the report for you here.

The interim report’s name spells out its authors’ views on this quite clearly: the document is called, “Censorship’s Next Frontier: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Control Artificial Intelligence to Suppress Free Speech.”

The report’s main premise is well-known – that AI is now being funded, developed, and used by the government and third parties to add speed and scale to their censorship, and that the outgoing administration has been putting pressure on AI developers to build censorship into their models.

What’s new are the proposed steps to remedy this situation and make sure that future federal governments are not using AI for censorship. To this end, the Committee wants to see new legislation passed in Congress, AI development that respects the First Amendment and is open, decentralized, and “pro-freedom.”

The report recommends legislation along four principles, focused on preserving American’s right to free speech. The first is that the government cannot be involved when decisions are made in private algorithms or datasets regarding “misinformation” or “bias.”

The government should also be prohibited from funding censorship-related research or collaboration with foreign entities on AI regulation that leads to censorship.

Lastly, “Avoid needless AI regulation that gives the government coercive leverage,” the document recommends.

The Committee notes the current state of affairs where the Biden-Harris administration made a number of direct moves to regulate the space to its political satisfaction via executive orders, but also by pushing its policy through by giving out grants via the National Science Foundation, once again, aimed at building AI tools that “combat misinformation.”

But – “If allowed to develop in a free and open manner, AI could dramatically expand Americans’ capacity to create knowledge and express themselves,” the report states.

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This marks a $5 trillion increase since 2023 alone. Looking ahead, debt levels are projected to increase faster than previously expected as government policies fail to address debt risks amid aging populations and increasing healthcare costs. Going further, rising geopolitical tensions could lead to higher spending on defense, adding strain to government budgets.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows government debt by country in 2024, based on data from the IMF’s October 2024 World Economic Outlook.

Ranked: Government Debt by Country

As the world’s largest economy, the U.S. debt pile continues to balloon, accounting for 34.6% of the world’s total government debt.

Overall, net interest payments on the national debt soared to $892 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. By 2034, these costs are forecast to reach $1.7 trillion, with total net interest costs amounting to $12.9 trillion over the next decade. A rising mountain of debt and higher interest rates are among the primary factors driving up net interest costs.

Below, we show the gross government debt of 186 countries worldwide in 2024:

*The above table uses IMF data from October 2024, however, the most current up-to-date number for U.S. government debt is $36.1 trillion based on data from the U.S. Treasury for December 12, 2024.

China, ranking second globally, holds 16.1% of the world’s government debt.

Over the next five years, China’s debt to GDP ratio is projected to hit 111.1% of GDP, up from 90.1% in 2024. Going further, Chinese officials recently stated they are prepared to deploy stimulus measures to support the economy if Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on goods imported from China. As a result, China’s debt to GDP could rise even faster than current projections.

India, ranked seventh globally, has amassed $3.2 trillion in debt, an increase of 74% since 2019. However, thanks to its strong economic growth and fiscal policies that are increasing government revenues, debt as a percentage of GDP is projected to fall gradually from 83.1% in 2024 to 80.5% by 2028.

In Europe, the UK has amassed the most debt, about $3.65 trillion, equal to 101.8% of GDP. This is far higher than the regional average, standing at 77.4% of GDP in 2024. Europe has a lower debt to GDP than North America and the Asia-Pacific, but European budgets likely face increasing pressures looking ahead, due to sluggish economic growth, trade wars, and aging populations.

A Regional Outlook for Global Debt

Below, we show how government debt by region is projected to change over the next five years:

As we can see, average debt by country in North America is set to swell to 125% of GDP, the highest across global regions.

With governments increasingly using stimulus measures to boost the economy, it poses a greater threat to fiscal sustainability. In order to stabilize debts, the IMF stated that major spending cuts and tax hikes are needed over the next five to seven years.

Like North America, debt to GDP ratios are set to increase across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Overall, world government debt is projected to exceed 100% of global output by 2029, driven by several large countries including the U.S., China, Brazil, and France, among others.

To learn more about this topic from a forward-looking perspective, check out this graphic on G7 government debt projections over the next five years.

Genesis Gold Group took a very different approach. They aren’t just a faith-driven precious metals company. They were unabashed supporters of Donald Trump’s election campaign and fully expected him to win which is why they’re uniquely positioned to help Americans take advantage of the coming administration’s economic policies.

“Everything has played out how we anticipated, from Trump’s historic victory to the immediate drop in precious metals prices to the surge that we’re seeing now,” said Jonathan Rose, CEO of Genesis Gold Group. “The mix of metals that we prepared for our clients is ideal to hedge against the geopolitical upheaval that is coming.”

As America First policies take shape, it’s important for patriots to position their wealth and retirement to take full advantage of what’s to come. But before things stabilize, it seems clear the Biden-Harris regime’s “landmines” are having their toll.

President Trump’s policies, particularly tariffs, combined with likely interest rate cuts are poised to make gold and silver prices soar. Gold is coming off one of its strongest weeks in over a year. Turbulence in Ukraine is among the reasons, but Rose is looking at a variety of scenarios that can benefit Americans who engage in tax-free rollovers and transfers into a Genesis Gold IRA. […]

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The Legacy Media’s Descent into Propaganda

The legacy media, once a bastion of journalism, has devolved into a propaganda machine for the political left. With declining influence and revenue, these outlets have abandoned any semblance of objectivity, opting instead to push pre-packaged narratives that serve the interests of the establishment. During the 2024 election cycle, networks like CNN, MSNBC, and ABC provided Kamala Harris with 78% positive coverage, while former President Donald Trump was subjected to 85% negative coverage. This blatant bias was not just a failure of journalism; it was a deliberate effort to manipulate public opinion.

The media’s obsession with framing Trump as a “threat to democracy” and a “Putin puppet” was nothing more than a smokescreen to distract from the real issues — inflation, illegal immigration, and a failing economy. Yet, when Trump won, the media’s response was not introspection but a desperate attempt to blame alternative media for their own failures. The truth is, Americans have rejected the legacy media’s lies, turning instead to alternative sources for truthful information.

Government and Big Tech’s Collusion to Censor Truth

The collusion between government agencies and Big Tech has reached unprecedented levels. The American First Legal team’s litigation against Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has exposed the chilling extent of this partnership. Facebook employees trained CDC officials on how to censor Americans, creating a portal titled “COVID & Vaccine Misinformation.” Through this system, the CDC censored over 16 million pieces of content, silencing dissent on critical issues like COVID-19 lockdowns, masks, and the dangers of the vaccines.

The Biden administration’s pressure on social media companies to eliminate “misinformation” was a thinly veiled attempt to control public discourse. Facebook, under Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership, caved to this pressure, allowing the government to wield unprecedented power over online speech. This censorship not only violated the First Amendment but also harmed countless lives by suppressing the truth about the vaccines’ adverse effects, including spike protein shedding and increased miscarriage risks.

The Congressional report on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveals an even more sinister plot: the collaboration between federal agencies, universities, and private firms to censor Americans’ political speech. The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), funded by the Department of Homeland Security, worked with organizations like the Atlantic Council, Stanford Internet Observatory, and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public to target conservative voices. These groups used sophisticated algorithms to shadow-ban, de-platform, and defame individuals who dared to question the official narrative.

The Atlantic Council, for example, employs former intelligence officials to “expose falsehoods and fake news,” but in reality, they are censoring the truth and promoting government propaganda. The Stanford Internet Observatory and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public have built psychological profiles on dissenters, isolating them from public discourse and destroying their reputations. This coordinated effort to control information is not just anti-democratic; it is a direct attack on the First Amendment.

The fight for Free Speech and truth must continue

The Censorship-Industrial Complex has shown its true colors: a network of government agencies, Big Tech corporations, and left-wing organizations working together to silence dissent and maintain control over public discourse. This collusion is not just unethical; it is unconstitutional. The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech, yet this right has been systematically undermined by those in power.

It is time to demand accountability. Congress must investigate the collusion between government agencies and social media companies. The Supreme Court must uphold the First Amendment and strike down any laws that seek to regulate “misinformation.” And most importantly, the American people must reject the legacy media’s propaganda and seek out alternative sources of information. It is time to dismantle the Censorship-Industrial Complex and restore the First Amendment to its rightful place as the bedrock of the American republic.

Sources include:

• AMGreatness.com
• Censorship.news
• Censorship.news

The aim of the LCFS is to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels in California, but there have been protests over the past few months about the potential environmental and fiscal impacts of the amendments.

“The amendments channel global, national and local private sector investment towards increasing cleaner fuel and transportation options for consumers, accelerating the deployment of zero-emission infrastructure, and keeping the state on track to meet legislatively mandated air quality and climate targets,” reads a statement from Dave Clergan, CARB public information officer.

However, the petitioners of the lawsuit – Defensores Del Valley Central Para El Aire Y Agua Limpio, Food & Water Watch and the Animal Legal Defense Fund – are alleging that CARB has skirted its responsibilities under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to disclose, analyze and mitigate significant environmental impacts caused by the LCFS. Most notable to the petitioners is the financial incentive for farmers to collect “biogas.”

Biogas is produced from manure which creates the gas most dangerous to polluting the ozone layer and causing health issues for those who live nearby – methane. This incentive from CARB would go to operators of large dairy farms with industrial scale manure management systems, encouraging them to expand their operations and install anaerobic digesters to collect the methane and convert it into fuel.

“Factory farms are large-scale industrial operations that generally confine thousands—if not tens of thousands—of cows, hogs, or other animals,” reads the lawsuit. “This extreme concentration results in many severe human health and environmental impacts. Factory farms emit large quantities of methane and nitrous oxide, greenhouse gases far more potent than carbon dioxide, as well as multiple forms of air and odor pollution, and cause severe water contamination.”

These farms most often utilize industrial-scale manure management systems which flushes the waste into large manure pits and then that waste is applied to fields and biogas is captured. However there is so much manure that nitrate will leach into the groundwater, contaminating water resources and ecosystems. The effects of this can be found most obviously in San Joaquin Valley where the majority of the state’s dairy farms are located.

“CARB must acknowledge the environmental and public health harms caused by its prioritization of pollution-heavy practices over sustainable solutions,” said Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Limpio representative María Arévalo. “In the Central Valley, we live near 90% of cows in California and some of the largest dairy operations in the entire world. We raise time and time again that the conditions and impacts in our communities are getting worse as dairies are getting bigger and dairy digesters are installed. Despite our ongoing advocacy from the local to the federal level, but more than anywhere at CARB, our concerns have been ignored.”

These among other environmental complaints came up during the public comment period, but CARB responded by saying that considering a potential increase in livestock operations is too “speculative” to address as a negative impact and that they cannot propose mitigation measures efforts if that does happen because they do not have “direct authority” over those operations.

“Several comments also raised concerns that avoided methane crediting for biomethane captured from livestock manure may lead to additional greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the state from meeting its climate goals,” reads CARB’s master response. “However, capturing methane from California’s methane sources (including, landfills, dairies, and wastewater) is critical for achieving the state’s 2030 methane reduction and 2045 greenhouse gas reduction targets.”

CARB has taken the stance that the amendments would not encourage the expanding production of methane, but incentivize the construction of the infrastructure required to collect biogas.

“The Proposed Amendments aim to capture biogas from dairy and swine facilities, food processing, and other organic waste management facilities that is otherwise released to the environment,” reads the response. “Capturing biogas reduces the climate impacts of fugitive methane emissions. This recovered methane from biogas can then provide energy for electricity, heating, or transportation fuel.”

The petitioners ask that CARB delay moving forward with the proposed amendments until a prevention and mitigation plan can be put into action. CARB refused to comment on pending litigation.

“Increasing data supports what CARB refuses to acknowledge — perverse incentives in the LCFS for fuel derived from manure at factory farms exacerbates severe environmental impacts, causing cascading harm to communities in California and beyond,” said Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability co-director, Phoebe Seaton. “State law requires CARB to analyze, evaluate, and mitigate these impacts, which it has failed to do despite numerous warnings from environmental justice and environmental groups through the LCFS rulemaking process and numerous calls from communities to correct course.”

— Read More: valuetainment.com

Shocking Whistleblower Claims: Near-Fatal Attack, Government Secrets, and the Fight for Disclosure

In a shocking revelation, a trauma doctor recounts a near-fatal mountain biking accident that serves as a gateway to his troubling discoveries about government cover-ups. This story dives deep into a world of secrets, betrayal, and courageous whistleblowers eager to expose the truth.

The October Attack and its Implications

The Near-Fatal Mountain Bike Incident: Details and Suspicions

In October, the doctor faced a harrowing incident while mountain biking. His bike’s seat snapped off unexpectedly, leading to an accident that left him severely injured. With a fractured foot and dislocated shoulder, he underwent four surgeries in just three months. The suspicious nature of this malfunction raises questions about tampering and intentions.

The Aftermath: Trust, Security, and the Circle of Confidence

After such a traumatic event, trust becomes paramount. The doctor reflects on his circle of trust, which includes his wife, lifelong friends, and dedicated colleagues. He emphasizes the value of loyalty, particularly with a team comprising Special Forces members who are equally frustrated by the state of secrecy surrounding crucial information.

The Whistleblower Network

Key Players: Military, Intelligence, and Corporate Insiders

A network of whistleblowers has started to form, including decorated military veterans and insiders from Fortune 500 companies. Their motivations are strong—they want to expose wrongdoing and bring eye-opening information to the public. However, they face significant challenges that include targeting and intimidation.

The Information: Classified Programs and Advanced Technologies

These whistleblowers are ready to reveal classified programs involving advanced technologies, including zero-point Quantum energy devices. Such information could shift paradigms, but the risks are high.

The Risks: Threats and Intimidation Tactics

The threats experienced by these whistleblowers are severe. They often face public humiliation and financial ruin, along with direct physical threats. A particularly alarming tactic includes the planting of illicit material to discredit and silence them.

The Nevada Test Range and Extraterrestrial Encounters

Retrieval Operations: Triangular UFOs and Extraterrestrial Entities

Reports from those involved in retrieval operations at the Nevada Test Range suggest encounters with both man-made and extraterrestrial crafts. Whistleblowers recount their experiences with triangular UFOs and strange biological entities.

Alien Abduction Attempt and Technological Implications

One whistleblower described an attempted abduction involving advanced technology that defies current understanding. Its implications challenge everything we think we know about technology and life beyond our planet.

Protecting Whistleblowers and Securing Information

The Challenges: Protecting Witnesses from Retaliation

Protecting those who come forward presents its own set of challenges. The fear of retaliation looms large, necessitating secure measures that can shield whistleblowers from harm.

The Dead Man’s Switch: Ensuring Disclosure

A “dead man’s switch” is put into place to protect sensitive information. If something happens to the doctor, crucial files will be released, ensuring that vital truths come to light.

The Death of William Colby and its Significance

The Case of William Colby: A Warning

The tragic death of former CIA Director William Colby serves as a stark reminder of the risks whistleblowers face. His demise, shrouded in secrecy, underscores the dangers of revealing classified information.

Conclusion

This narrative highlights troubling claims about government secrets and the perilous path of whistleblowers. Their courage in the face of such threats is commendable and essential for transparency. The risks are real, but so is the urgent need for accountability. Explore these topics further, and support the efforts for greater disclosure in our world.

What the flag symbolizes for the millions who revere, cherish, or love it, however, is the heroism of those who fought and died under it….

Vilification of that battle flag and the Confederacy is part of the cultural revolution in America that flowered half a century ago. Among its goals was the demoralization of the American people by demonizing their past and poisoning their belief in their own history.

This cultural revolution—in which historical events are wielded as weapons in a contemporary culture war—has been described as a form of cultural Marxism. But progressives sneer at the very label, denying that there is an ongoing culture war. They argue that the destruction of Confederate monuments, desecration of Confederate graves, and banning of the Confederate battle flag are motivated purely by a belief in racial equality and a desire to promote what they often describe as “accurate, nuanced, and complete” history. They insist that there is no political or ideological agenda behind their interpretation of history. The New York Times published an opinion piece describing the notion of cultural Marxism as “the phantasmagoria of the alt-right” brewed in “global sewers of hatred,” insisting that it is all a figment of a “delirious” and “paranoid” right-wing imagination.

Responding to such claims, Allan Mendenhall explains the origins of cultural Marxism. He “shows not only that cultural Marxism is a nameable, describable phenomenon, but also that it proliferates beyond the academy.” He adds that:

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Frankfurt School popularized the type of work usually labeled as “cultural Marxism”.…

Dissatisfied with economic determinism and the illusory coherence of historical materialism—and jaded by the failures of socialist and communist governments—these thinkers retooled Marxist tactics and premises in their own ways without entirely repudiating Marxist designs or ambitions.

The British journalist Janet Daley also identifies the central role played by Marxist ideology and tactics in the culture wars, arguing that although European socialism failed, “the dream itself did not disappear, it took another shape. It was in the business of transforming itself from an economic revolution into a cultural one even before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of communist governments.” Daley also explains how the cultural revolution unfolded, as socialists modified the methods of revolution from economic to cultural. The left realized that,

…instead of revolutionary takeover by an armed mob seizing the levers of government, there would have to be a gradual usurpation making use of the existing institutions which the Left rightly understood to be the true sources of power in society.

Herbert Marcuse’s “long march through the institutions” was well underway before the fall of the Soviet empire but its technique of activist infiltration has since taken off in ways that are truly breathtaking.

The South through a Neo-Marxist Lens

The takeover by cultural Marxists of many academic fields, including history, has indeed been nothing short of breathtaking. The South is depicted through a neo-Marxist lens as a defender of slavery (the wrong side of history) with the North viewed as some sort of abolitionist messiah (the right side of history). Within this framework, it is deemed to be self-evident that Confederate generals are oppressors, symbols of “white supremacy.” The implication is that Buchanan’s reference to “the millions who revere, cherish, or love” the Confederate battle flag, for the “heroism of those who fought and died,” is simply cover for promoting racism. This interpretation is now deeply entrenched, not because people are persuaded by the reasons given for it, but precisely because no reasons need be given for it. Sufficient explanation is deemed to be embedded within the theoretical framework of cultural Marxism itself—that those who reject the mythology are on the wrong side of the culture war, and are presumptively as “racist” as those they are trying to defend.

In the federal court decision which gave permission for the Reconciliation Memorial to be removed from the Arlington National Cemetery, the judge observed, almost parenthetically, that the Memorial does not seem to offer any reconciliation because it depicts slavery:

He noted that the statue depicts, among other things, a “slave running after his ‘massa’ as he walks down the road. What is reconciling about that?” asked Alston, an African American who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump.

The same judge also depicts defenders of the Memorial as desirous of safeguarding “the virtues, romanticism and history of the Old South,” without giving reasons why he framed the case in that way. It appears that the effort to conserve historic monuments, deemed to be important by a majority of people in the South, is treated by courts as nothing more than cover for the romanticism of a bygone oppressive era.

In addition to vilification of the battle flag, the Confederate Generals are casually described as symbolic of racism. A typical example appears in this commentary:

Nothing symbolizes better the continued inferior social status of African Americans in the United States than a statue of a wise-looking Jefferson Davis or a thoughtfully posed Robert E. Lee in a public square of an American city.

No reasons are ever given as to why a statue of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee symbolizes the inferiority of African Americans—these assertions are simply treated as so obviously and self-evidently true as not to require substantiation.

Similarly, it is often asserted without any reasons being given that slavery in the American South was uniquely evil. But W.E.B. DuBois—a civil rights activist from Massachusetts who is as safe from being mistaken for trying to defend slavery as it is possible for anyone to be—wrote that, “The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system…. The victims of Southern slavery were often happy; had usually adequate food for their health, and shelter sufficient for a mild climate.”

Moreover, if the demonization of the South described by Buchanan had been a genuine attempt to express principled opposition to slavery and servitude, we would expect to hear similar denunciation of slavery and servitude in the North, and indeed in all other societies where slavery occurred including Africa and the Arab world. But such universal denunciations are rarely, if ever, forthcoming from those whose attention is focused on destroying the historical heritage of the South. On the contrary, we are urged to admire Ulysses Grant for “working alongside” slaves and eventually freeing his own slave rather than selling him. As Thomas Hubert observes, “The phenomenon of the North’s inconsistency in such matters is what I would call pathological hypocrisy, all the more striking in being utterly unrecognized by those who suffer from it.” So much for principled opposition to slavery.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody alleged that the Department of Justice informed the state that it had to suspend its investigation into Routh, citing a federal law about prosecuting crimes against significant public figures.

“It was made known that they intended to shut down our investigation and invoke federal jurisdiction in doing so,” Moody said Dec. 18 at a press conference. “We didn’t believe it should be interpreted in the way that they suggested.”

At the same time, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote that the federal government has “stonewalled Florida’s investigation of the Trump assassination attempt at every turn” and that he supports Moody’s attempts to move forward in their case against Routh.

“The tide will turn on January 20th and we fully expect that the federal roadblocks will be removed,” he wrote on social media, referring to the date that Trump will take office. “The would-be assassin needs to face the full force of justice and the people deserve the truth about the defendant’s history, motivations and plan.”

The Department of Justice did not respond to an Epoch Times request for comment on Dec. 19.

At the same time, Moody’s office obtained a warrant for Routh’s arrest in mid-September, hours after he was allegedly discovered lying in wait for Trump armed with a rifle in Palm Beach County, Florida. After reportedly being shot at by a Secret Service agent, he fled and was arrested on Interstate 95 in Martin County.

After his arrest, a car crash occurred that injured a 6-year-old girl traveling with her family, Moody said during a press conference. The crash occurred in connection with the pursuit of Routh along the interstate, according to officials.

“As a result of that [accident], we felt compelled to seek justice on her behalf and her family that will never be the same as they cope with her injuries,” she said at a press briefing on Dec. 18.

Moody said the crash occurred after officials shut down traffic on I-95 as they tried to apprehend the suspect. A spokesperson for Moody said prosecutors will file the new charge when Routh is in state custody.

The multi-vehicle crash happened about 30 minutes after Routh’s arrest on I-95, according to the state’s investigation, but Moody alleged it was a result of his actions as he was attempting to evade capture. The girl suffered serious injuries, Moody’s office stated.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit for Routh, the accident occurred while authorities were apprehending him, about three or four miles south of where they stopped his vehicle.

Northbound traffic along the major interstate was halted because of the risk of the traffic stop and because it was not clear whether any weapons or explosives were inside Routh’s car, according to the affidavit. Southbound traffic was also halted as officials attempted to investigate his vehicle.

On Sept. 15, the Secret Service stated that one of its agents allegedly discovered Routh with his gun barrel sticking through Trump’s course perimeter fence as the then-former president was playing a round of golf. The agent opened fire on Routh, prompting him to flee in his vehicle before sheriff’s officials and other law enforcement arrested him along I-95 later that day.

Federal prosecutors said that Routh, whose residence is listed in Hawaii, allegedly waited for the president for about 12 hours and that cellphone data revealed he was in the area around Trump’s golf course and Mar-a-Lago for a month before the alleged assassination attempt.

Later, prosecutors said they discovered Routh had written a note that was left with an acquaintance. The note admitted he wanted to assassinate Trump because of the decision by the first Trump administration to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal that was signed by the Obama administration. Social media accounts associated with Routh also showed he was an avid supporter of Ukraine during the Russia–Ukraine conflict and had attempted to recruit people to fight.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis Thursday, citing “an appearance of impropriety,” but decided not to dismiss the indictment against Trump entirely. Kirschner, on his YouTube channel, said their decision not to dismiss the indictment provides some justification for optimism, despite acknowledging that it would likely be difficult to find another prosecutor to take the case.

“Even if this ruling stands all the way up through the Georgia Supreme Court and DA Willis is removed from the case, which means her whole office is also conflicted out, removed from the case, the appeals court opinion says the case can continue,” Kirschner said. “It can continue to be prosecuted. However, it will have to be assigned to another Georgia county prosecutor’s office.”

“So, the good news is — we’re always looking for some good news, some reason to be optimistic, some points of light amidst the Trump-induced darkness — the good news is the case can continue to be prosecuted,” he continued. “But it will be a challenge to find another Georgia county prosecutor’s office that is up to the task and is willing to go just as aggressively against the folks who tried to overturn the election’s results down in Georgia.”

Kirschner echoed the sentiment of former President George W. Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, who expressed doubt Thursday that another Georgia district attorney would take on the case.

“It’s hard for me to see another Georgia district attorney wanting to take up this flawed case and try to prosecute Trump on these theories that his reelection campaign was some kind of criminal organized crime enterprise,” Yoo said.

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade explained Thursday that precedent exists for the case against Trump to be dropped, based on what happened to Willis’ case against Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones, from which she was also disqualified.

“What we will see is what we saw in the case of one of the defendants, Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones who you may recall, Fani Willis had held a fundraiser against his opponent and was disqualified from that case,” McQuade said. “That sent the whole case out of her office because if a prosecutor is disqualified, her whole office is disqualified.”

“That means it goes to a central Georgia coordinating counsel where it’s decided whether the case will go further, and in that case, the director of that organization said the case against Burt Jones should go no further,” she continued. “And I would expect we may see the same result with this RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] prosecution.”

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