An innocent Florida father is under attack by left-wing activists and local agitators after stepping in to defend his son from a violent bully at a school bus stop in Indiantown.

Despite law enforcement confirming that the father acted completely within the law to protect himself and his child, outraged activists, including local branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), are demanding that the father be locked up for assault with a deadly weapon.

According to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, the dispute began Thursday, September 17, on a Martin County school bus headed toward South Fork High School, WPBF reported.

A 16-year-old boy boarded with a pizza. A 14-year-old got on after him, demanded a piece, threatened him, and then smacked him in the head when the older boy would not hand it over.

The 16-year-old did what parents tell their kids to do. He went home and told his father.

That afternoon, the father went to the bus stop and spoke with the driver. She said she would try to handle it.

Friday morning, the father drove his son to the stop himself. The 14-year-old was already on the bus. As the boy boarded, the father again spoke with the driver, and the 14-year-old got off the bus to confront a grown man.

Other students started calling people to the scene. A 16-year-old who had been suspended from school showed up. Sheriff Budensiek said the two teens “look like grown men” as they walked up on the father, yelling.

The father put his hand up and told them to stay back.

“They got all the way up on him before he pulled out a concealed weapon and told them get back, which he’s legally allowed to do,” Budensiek said. “He’s legally allowed to stand his ground.”

The teens backed off. Not a shot was fired.

The father put the gun away, drove around the corner, flagged down a deputy, and reported the encounter himself. Detectives interviewed students on the bus and the people involved.

The sheriff said they got a consistent story. He also said investigators would have sought warrants on the 14-year-old and the 16-year-old who went after the dad, except the father declined to press charges.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek made it clear during a press briefing that the father committed no crime and acted entirely within his constitutional rights under Florida law, according to WPFB.

“To recap it, the individual with the gun was the victim in this case,” Budensiek said. “He just wants to be left alone. He wants his son to be left alone.”

“You are allowed to stand your ground whether the person coming after you is 16 or 24 or 34… He’s legally allowed to stand his ground.”

The boy has since been pulled from the school and is being homeschooled. The father, according to the sheriff, is a security guard who was wearing a badge and was legally carrying.

WPFB reported:

The two students involved, Trevor Ivory and RJ McIntyre, shared their perspective on the incident.

“I feel like under any circumstance, however you felt, no firearms should be displayed at a bus stop where there’s a bunch of kids on a bus looking forward to going to school,” Ivory said. “Instead, they had to see a man with a gun on two teenagers that they know ride the bus in the morning.”

The confrontation was a key topic during an NAACP community meeting held Tuesday night. The two students and their families attended the meeting, where emotions ran high.

“The dad had a thousand options. He chose the wrong option,” said Pam Ivory, Trevor’s aunt.

Jimmy Smith, president of the NAACP Martin County Branch, also addressed the situation.

“We know guns aren’t allowed on school property. They also shouldn’t be allowed in school bus stops,” Smith said.

Smith added that he plans to meet with the school board and the sheriff to discuss the incident further.

“We shouldn’t be pointing a gun at our children,” he said.

WATCH:

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The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back after Clancy’s defense asked a judge to investigate his conduct and obtain cellphone records from the jury’s deliberations.

Edward Paltzik, attorney for juror Michael Desronvil, blasted the motion as “Looney Tunes” and a “full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution.” He warned that investigating jurors for standing by their views could threaten the independence of jury deliberations, CT Insider reported.

Below is the full statement from Paltzik:

“The Looney Tunes motion filed yesterday by Kevin “Shooter McGavin” Reddington to investigate Michael is not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror. Reddington’s motion is actually a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution. Because if the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye.

To anyone who thinks that Reddington’s motion is OK, just remember that the tables will inevitably turn. Imagine a similar trial sometime in the not too distant future where it is the reverse scenario: 11-1 in favor of guilty, with one holdout favoring not guilty by reason of insanity. I doubt you folks would be alright if the District Attorney then filed a motion to investigate that lone holdout standing in the way of a conviction.

That’s why this is actually not a partisan issue. Really, this is a “do we still want to have a Sixth Amendment” issue. If you are like me and believe steadfastly in the Constitution, it’s easy to see how, regardless of your party affiliation, this is an absolutely terrible path of ruin Reddington wants to take us down.

If we follow his destructive proposal to its logical conclusion, we’re going to have an endless cycle of prosecutors investigating holdouts who oppose “guilty” and defense attorneys investigating holdouts who oppose “not guilty.” Pretty soon we’ll end up with with a retrograde justice system that will look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy Feud: a cycle of carnage so malignant that its origins will fade in importance, replaced by the hopeless death spiral of the cycle itself.

Kevin Reddington’s disgusting motion to investigate Michael is worthy of nothing but universal condemnation. This is certainly not the final word from us on this subject, but merely our first words. It’s all going to backfire spectacularly on sore loser Reddington.”

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s attorney, asked Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to investigate holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil, the same juror Reddington publicly smeared after the mistrial as a man with an “agenda” who “robbed” the other 11 jurors.

The filing, obtained by the New Haven Register, claims Desronvil may have given incomplete or inaccurate answers on jury questionnaires and during selection. It also asks the judge to dig into reported domestic-violence history and alleged cellphone use during deliberations.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked the court to examine whether Desronvil used his phone during deliberations and whether he answered jury-selection questions truthfully.

The motion also seeks cellphone records and other information about the juror. Phone use during deliberations is prohibited in Massachusetts, but the allegations have not been proven.

The jury deadlocked 11–1, and the judge declared a mistrial on September 4.

Eleven jurors reportedly supported finding Clancy not criminally responsible because of her mental condition; Desronvil maintained that the prosecution’s evidence showed she knew what she was doing.

Clancy admitted killing her three children, but the trial did not produce a verdict on her criminal responsibility.

Desronvil had already disputed other jurors’ accounts of deliberations. In a statement reported by NewsNation, he said he had no doubts and believed the evidence showed Clancy knew what she was doing.

The case is scheduled to return to court on September 29. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek a retrial.

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Guest Post by Attorney Peter Tictin and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

We have developed a methodology that can provide indisputable proof, well before Election Day, that in the upcoming November midterm elections, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is in the process of delivering mail-in ballots to hundreds of thousands of illegal locations (i.e., addresses that are not domiciles of registered voters). The result will be enough fraudulent votes will be counted for the Democratic Party to gain a majority in the House and possibly in the Senate as well.

The detection methodology uses an AI computer model that compares time-series snapshots of state voter rolls with USPS “Change of Address” data and county property tax records to flag addresses that cannot legally house a voter. A continuously updated database of every parcel and structure drawn from roughly 3,200 county property rolls, integrated with building permit data, determines the USPS regularly delivers mail-in ballots to addresses not classified as a residential domicile (i.e., the address is a vacant building or an empty lot that has no bedroom facilities).

The computer model also demonstrates that the USPS regularly delivers mail-in ballots illegally to bulk-drop addresses, including local U.S. post office boxes, FedEx locations, UPS offices, and other “virtual mailbox locations.” These locations are anomalous voter registrations because they obviously are not residential addresses if they are receiving mail-in ballots in bunches. Instead, these virtual mailbox locations are ideal for illegal bulk drop-offs of mail-in ballots, designed to be picked up, filled out, and returned by locally operating NGOs.

If President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to prohibit the USPS from delivering ballots to addresses deemed “ineligible” by state law, he would stop the 2026 steal in its tracks. If a court tried to enjoin President Trump or the DOJ from doing so, that court would be complicit in allowing the USPS to deliver ballots illegally to addresses the state government defines as ineligible to receive ballots.

Applying the methodology to the Georgia presidential election in 2020 (see: https://rumble.com/v59qdot-who-won-georgia-2020-longer-fractal-video.html), we believe that thousands of mail-in ballots were sent to illegal addresses, including warehouses with no domiciled residents, various business locations, bulk mail addresses, and industrial facilities (e.g., a peanut farm with no residential facilities).

The conclusion is obvious: in detecting voter fraud, addresses are more important than voter ID. The voter ID may tell us that Bill and Sally are registered voters who live at 509 Elmont Street. The critical fault is that we have no information about the address. Addresses don’t move. Addresses don’t change their name. Addresses don’t have lawyers or rights. Addresses contain the most powerful unused data in election analysis.

Every address in America—in often granular detail—is reflected on official property tax rolls that are updated constantly because they are the tax base for the county. Property tax rolls do not reflect residents; they reflect address attributes—like an address with 21 registered voters with one bedroom, one bath, and 1,200 square feet of living space. An ineligible alien can cast one illegal ballot. An ineligible address can collect hundreds of loose ballots, with zero chain of custody—collected by NGOs and voted—and not for Republican candidates.

Posting poll watchers and DOJ attorneys at the voting place completely misses this steal. Once the envelope containing voter information, including address, is removed from the page with the vote, election officials will be unable to collect and disqualify mail-in ballots illegally cast. Because state officials conduct no outreach investigations to verify that mail-in ballots are delivered to, and voted on by, eligible registered voters, the mail-in ballots the USPS delivers to and receives from these anomalous locations are never revealed to be fraudulent.

The solution is simple, clear, inexpensive, and compelling—and the courts cannot intervene, at least not without looking preposterous. Compare the voter roll for each state with the property tax rolls for that state—and focus only on the urban areas. The voter roll tells you five registered voters reside at 330 Bridge Avenue. The property tax roll tells you 330 Bridge Avenue is a coffee shop with no bedrooms or other living accommodations. You just stopped five illegitimate votes from being cast.

Our research has proven that in 2024, the USPS delivered 250,000 mail-in ballots to illegal addresses in each of three states—Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia. In 2004, the USPS delivered mail-in ballots to over 1.25 million illegal addresses in each of two states—Pennsylvania and Texas —plus over 100,000 in Arizona and Nevada. Elections are often won by 17,000 to 25,000 ballots, yet nobody monitors addresses.

The point is that the fraud capable of swinging an election is detected by addresses, not by scrubbing voter registration files. Since it is a crime for the USPS to deliver and receive illegal ballots, the USPS must be stopped from aiding and abetting criminal mail-in ballot harvesting. Policing mail-in voting to prohibit the USPS from delivering mail-in ballots to illegal addresses has a better chance of avoiding politically motivated court challenges since addresses are unlikely to be deemed to have legal status, since addresses are not “persons” under the law. Addresses have no rights, no attorneys, no sob stories in the leftist press about someone not allowed to vote.

If radical leftist insurgents win the battle over the rules under which the 2026 midterm elections are conducted, we risk turning over the Republic to those determined to alter our Constitution beyond recognition. Stimulating turnout to create an election “too big to rig” will not work—not as long as the current mail-in ballot rules remain in place. With close elections decided by one or two percent differences, election fraudsters need only determine how many fraudulent mail-in ballots will be needed to steal the election. With the current mail-in ballot rules, the left is planning to make the 2026 midterm elections into a coup d’état. We will be watching a “Truman Show” psy-op with the population pre-conditioned to support a Democratic Party sweep by rigged polls that show voters willing to elect DSA-supported communis majorities in the House and Senate.

While the time is short, President Trump still has time to issue a National Security Emergency under the National Emergencies Act (NEA, 1976) to set election rules that will prevent election theft from foreign enemies as well as enemies within. Wayne Allyn Root is right: Every GOP candidate is about to become Spencer Pratt unless Trump acts.

Peter Ticktin, Esq., is a Senior Partner in The Ticktin Law Group in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He is the author of the 2020 book, What Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present.  GodsFiveStones.com is a tax-deductible 501(c)3 foundation created by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., and Karladine Graves, M.D., managed by Capstone Legacy Foundation. As reported on GodsFiveStones.com, As reported on GodsFiveStones.com, Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered cryptographic algorithms in the State Board of Elections voter registration databases in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, and Oklahoma. Dr. Paquette has argued that the algorithms permit the creation of millions of false voter records in the state boards of election that are yet given legitimate state Voter IDs for to facilitate clandestine mail-in voter fraud.

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Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-bodyguard and admitted lover is now facing a felony after deputies say he broke into her Cave Creek home, ransacked it, and destroyed more than $200,000 in property.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Sinema admitted in sworn court papers that her relationship with Matthew Ammel, 39, became “romantic and intimate” in May 2024, while she was still serving in the U.S. Senate and while he was still married. She detailed encounters in Sonoma/Napa, New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen, and Phoenix.

In April, newly released texts showed Ammel’s then-wife, Heather Ammel, confronting Sinema directly: “Are you having an affair with my husband? You took a married man away from his family.”

Heather’s lawsuit accuses Sinema of destroying a 14-year marriage under North Carolina’s alienation-of-affection statute.

Earlier this month, a federal judge in North Carolina denied Sinema’s motion to dismiss, found her testimony “has not been credible” on several points, and allowed the homewrecker case to proceed.

Ammel is a retired Army veteran who joined Sinema’s security detail in 2022. Court records in the North Carolina case describe him as a troubled veteran with brain injuries who struggled after leaving the military.

Sinema’s campaign and related committees paid him more than $100,000 after she left office. His ex-wife has alleged Sinema showered him with gifts, concert tickets, and even encouraged psychedelic drug use.

Now the same man is accused of turning Sinema’s Arizona house into a crime scene over a refused social-media post.

Matthew Ammel was taken into custody last week and charged with criminal damage as a class 4 felony.

According to court documents first reported by AZFamily, Ammel entered Sinema’s home on August 30 while she was out of town and demanded that she post a video to her X account.

He allegedly threatened to destroy one of her paintings every 10 minutes until she complied. Sinema refused.

Investigators say Ammel then pulled about 22 paintings off the walls and threw them into her swimming pool. One additional painting was found near the front entrance, spray-painted.

He also smashed expensive liquor bottles and hurled a glass bottle at a wall-mounted mirror, shattering it. Deputies later found paintings floating in the pool and at the bottom.

The artwork alone was valued at $123,015. Combined damage to the home and pool is estimated at more than $200,000.

Sinema turned over text messages, recordings, and surveillance video. Deputies say the footage identified Ammel.

He was picked up from a behavioral health facility after a petition for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation and booked on the damage charge. He has since been released with an electronic monitor. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October 5.

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Manhattan prosecutors walked into Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing hearing Wednesday and dropped a claim they had been sitting on: they say they have jailhouse recordings of the disgraced Hollywood mogul offering an unnamed podcaster $1.75 million to release videos meant to “contaminate the jury pool” and reach jurors before and after trial.

They refused to name the podcaster. They did not say anyone took the money.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years on Wednesday by Justice Curtis Farber on the 2025 conviction for a first-degree criminal sex act against former Project Runway production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley in 2006.

The 74-year-old, rolled in by wheelchair from Rikers, pleaded for mercy, called himself “not a violent man,” and said he had “remorse” for Haley. The judge called him a “sexual predator” who threw away a titan’s legacy.

The Gateway Pundit reported the 15-year sentence earlier on Wednesday.

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg told the court the recordings captured Weinstein offering the money so videos of witnesses could be released “to contaminate the jury pool and to reach the jurors before and after the trial.”

She accused him of a “scheme to disrupt the trial and instill fear in his victims.” She still would not identify the host.

According to The New York Post, there is only one podcaster who is publicly known to have conducted on-camera interviews with Weinstein from Rikers Island and released a series built around those jailhouse videos: Candace Owens.

Her 2025 Harvey Speaks series featured Weinstein insisting he was “wrongfully convicted,” attacking the #MeToo payout culture, and claiming the difference between “immoral” and “illegal.”

The interview is here:

Candace Owens pushed back on X, calling the speculation an “intentional smear.” She said she “was not paid or even offered payment” for her interview with Weinstein and denied receiving money from him or anyone associated with him.

Owens wrote:

“Would appreciate a community note on this intentional smear. For the record, I did not accept nor would I have ever accepted one red cent to cover this case.

I was not paid by Harvey Weinstein, or any Harvey Weinstein friend, business associate, corporation, PR firm or otherwise.

So that we are beyond clear here— I was not paid or even offered payment for my interview. I cover cases that I am interested in and I do it entirely for free, always.

And if any lawyer suggested otherwise, they are lying to cover for their lying ass clients. Any other questions?”

Would appreciate a community note on this intentional smear.

For the record, I did not accept nor would I have ever accepted one red cent to cover this case.
I was not paid by Harvey Weinstein, or any Harvey Weinstein friend, business associate, corporation, PR firm or…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 23, 2026

Weinstein’s spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, called the prosecutors’ framing “patently untrue.” He said Weinstein “never offered or paid anyone $1.75 million to influence a jury,” that “no money was paid, no such deal was made,” and that treating jailhouse talk about media coverage as a criminal “scheme” was “inflammatory and misleading.”

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According to a bombshell report from Semafor, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is actively considering tapping tech visionaries and wealthy investors, including free-speech champion Elon Musk, to build a powerhouse investor syndicate for Paramount’s massive takeover merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

If completed, this game-changing deal would bring both CBS and the ultra-left propaganda outlet CNN under the exact same corporate umbrella, with Musk holding significant backing and ownership stakes.

Larry Ellison, David’s father and the Oracle billionaire who personally guaranteed more than $40 billion of the equity financing for the deal, has a long relationship with Musk.

Larry Ellison put $1 billion into Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter, now X. He also invested in Tesla and served on its board.

The same family that bought Paramount, installed Bari Weiss at CBS News, and spent the last year ripping the activist rot out of “60 Minutes” is now looking at bringing in the man who bought Twitter and ended the old regime’s censorship operation.

The merger itself is nearly across the finish line. After a year of bidding wars, shareholder votes, Trump DOJ approval, and a last-ditch lawsuit from California AG Rob Bonta and a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general, the sides reached a settlement this week. The deal is expected to close in early October, according to The New York Times.

The Gateway Pundit has tracked this fight from the beginning.

In February, Paramount won the bidding war after Netflix walked away. Warner Bros. shareholders later approved the sale despite the usual Hollywood tantrum about “narrowing the range” of films, which in practice meant fewer lectures and more movies people actually want to watch.

In July, a Biden-appointed judge in Oakland issued a temporary restraining order after Bonta and 11 other mostly Democrat AGs sued to kill the deal. The Gateway Pundit reported that Paramount was already looking at packing up and leaving California over Bonta’s lawfare.

TMZ later reported that L.A. and state officials were told Paramount planned to announce it was leaving California. Ellison had already moved headquarters from New York to Los Angeles after buying Paramount. Bonta’s lawsuit was the thanks he got.

Meanwhile, Bari Weiss, brought in after Paramount bought The Free Press, has been doing exactly what the old CBS newsroom feared. She fired the far-left executive producer of “60 Minutes,” dumped anti-Trump correspondents, and started treating the show like a news program instead of a Democratic Super PAC.

CNN staffers have already been bracing for the same treatment. Reports earlier this year said Ellison and his team were considering giving Weiss some oversight of CNN after the merger. Mark Thompson, CNN’s editor-in-chief, reportedly told Paramount he would not share control. The newsroom is not happy.

Now add Musk’s name to the conversation and watch the panic intensify.

Semafor reported:

Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash. Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate of equity investors into Paramount, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The size of a potential Musk investment could not be determined. A spokesperson for Paramount declined comment. Musk did not return a request for comment.

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