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One thing you can say about our PINC (Pedo-in-Chief) Donald Trump is that he puts his bigotry out there for all to see and his reaction to the rape allegations at Cornell University is a stark reminder that he is, first and foremost, a racist disgrace.

He wasted no time Friday in publicly proclaiming his sympathy for the seven Cornell men accused of gang-raping a co-ed at a frat house in 2024. But his feelings of good will were not limited to the seven defendants; his condolences were extended to the university, the local district attorney and university police–all of whom apparently botched the investigation in the beginning.

Why? Why, because of one person, of course. When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed New York Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the case and its apparent mishandling, Trump simply went BALLISTIC.

James, you see, successfully prosecuted PINC on those 34 counts of falsifying business records and that’s unforgivable in PINC’s eyes because everything that doesn’t go his way is either “fake news,” a “witch hunt” or a “hoax.”

“Well, Letitia James is a corrupt person. She’s totally corrupt, and I can’t imagine it,” he said. “I feel badly for whoever she’s looking at because they won’t get a fair shake.” (Feeling “badly” means your fingers are numb. To feel “bad” for someone would be the proper grammar but of course, Trump would have no way of knowing that. For his life after POTUS he does qualify for a play-by-play sports announcer, though.)

So, PINC believes the Cornell frat boys can’t get a fair shake. Oh, really? Let’s review.

In 1980, five men were arrested, tried and convicted for the alleged gang rape and beating of a woman in Central Park.

Trump immediately took out full-page ads in New York newspapers calling for their execution. “These muggers and murderers” should be “forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” said the ad, above Trump’s signature.

Two decades later, DNA evidence proved the men’s innocence and one of them, Yusef Salaam, subsequently ran and won a seat on New York City’s council.

So, did Trump walk back his initial call for reimposition of New York’s death penalty?

Hell no. He DOUBLED DOWN. That’s his style, taught by his (and the late Joe McCarthy’s) lawyer Roy Cohn. He continued after their exoneration to insist they were guilty and that a monetary settlement made by the city was a blunder.

The difference in the two cases? The Central Park Five were all black. Five of the Cornell Seven are white. Plus, the prosecutor, the aforementioned Letitia James, is black.

That makes all the difference in Trump’s poisoned mind. He is a bitter, mentally deranged man convicted of his own sexual assault (E. Jean “she’s not my type” Carroll) who has no business having access to the nuclear codes or, for that matter, a microphone. He has yet to form a single, organized strategy for any of his so-called policies, including health care, defense, the economy, diplomacy or crime prevention. Yet, he insists on envisioning himself as some sort of legal guru.

And with the Epstein files still lingering in the background, he certainly is the last person on earth qualified to speak to justice.

LouisianaVoice is in its October fundraising campaign, one of just two per year that we hold.

We don’t attempt to compete with the big boys. We’re small and we have one objective: to hold those who we elect to represent us accountable.

We didn’t elect John N. Kennedy, Mike Johnson, Bill Cassidy, et al, to go to Washington and make an absolute fool of themselves and of Louisiana in the process. But that’s what they’ve done and if others won’t point that out in spades, we certainly will.

We didn’t elect dozens of sheriffs all over the state to steal, abuse prisoners, run side hustles or to protect drug dealers and child abusers. But we found those who did and we reported on them—one of whom turned out to be an incestuous child rapist himself.

We didn’t put judges in office to use that office to benefit friendly attorneys or to punish opposing ones and their clients. Yet, only a minimal amount of digging (which other outlets appeared reluctant to do) revealed such practices which cost litigants unnecessary funds in legal fees and court costs and which kept parents and children apart.

When no one else would, we reported on those who would prey on emotions so as to groom children, encourage contributions and promote agendas that were—and are—far removed from the principles we’ve always thought our spiritual leaders represented.

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Troubles keep mounting for Allegiance Healthcare CEO Rock Bordelon and his array of hospitals and medical treatment centers scattered across the Louisiana landscape.

Two stories published by the Lincoln Parish Journal indicate Bordelon may be about to lose control over four of his hospitals in Ruston, Minden, Ville Platte and Eunice. The Minden Medical Center was sued last April for nonpayment of more than $170,000 for equipment and services.

Minden Medical Center sued for nonpayment; financial difficulties surface | Webster Parish Journal

That’s on top of the $14 million federal tax lien against Bordelon filed by the IRS for nonpayment of federal employee taxes.

More recently, several doctors have resigned from the Minden hospital.

And rumor has it that the latest blow was Bordelon’s being uninvited to participate in his former benefactor Gov. Jeff Landry’s annual alligator hunt fundraiser.

Of course, none of all that prevented Bordelon from participating in a two-day event hosted by Hunter Nation last month in Dallas. Also listed as co-hosts of that event was Donald Trump, Jr., organization founder and CEO Keith Mark along with several others. Bordelon was the event’s chairperson.

Bordelon, in addition to his myriad medical facilities, also hosts an online hunting program which, among other things, focus on his personal hunting expeditions in places like Colorado, Florida and elsewhere.

Hunter Nation hosted two separate spaces—the private Executive Suite and th public grassroots headquarters—during the Republican National Mid-term Convention in Dallas Sept. 9-10, which was held in the middle of Landry’s fundraiser alligator hunt.

The Executive Suite was a two-day, by-invitation event limited to 50 seats and priced from $5,000 per seat.

Upwards of 200 free passes wee given out for the grassroots headquarters event.

In the past, he has hunted with Donald Trump, Jr. and was the one-time beneficiary of a decision by Landry who, in the face of warnings of federal health cuts, increased Medicaid payments by $22 million to seven rural hospitals in Louisiana, including four owned by Bordelon. Bordelon, in addition to being a hunting buddy, has also contributed to Landry political campaigns, according to Louisiana Illuminator.

 Landry boosts Medicaid payments to political donor’s hospitals, despite warning of health cuts • Louisiana Illuminator

But unconfirmed reports indicate that Landry snubbed his old pal in the governor’s most recent alligator hunt Sept. 7-12, attended by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and FBI Director Kash Patel. Bordelon was supposedly on his way to join the hunt wen he got the message not to come and to turn back.

Now, in the most recent development, Malcolm Butler of the Lincoln Parish Journal has written that Bordelon’s bedeviled North Louisiana Medical Center (NLMC) in Ruston “could be headed for a change in ownership.”

NLMC ownership change could be on horizon | Lincoln Parish Journal

Butler wrote in today’s edition of the Journal that Lincoln Parish healthcare leaders confirmed last Friday they have begun a process that “could ultimately transition the Ruston hospital to a new operator.”

The Webster Parish Journal also reported that Minden Medical Center CEO Keith Cox had confirmed that Allegiance will divest itself of the Minden facility, as part of ongoing negotiations which also include Mercy Regional Medical Center in Ville Platte and Acadian Medical Center in Eunice.

“Lincoln Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 Chairman Jay Guillot told the Lincoln Parish Journal that the district has been working with the Louisiana Department of Health for months and is now engaged with Allegiance in an informal process that includes the beginning stages of due diligence, establishing a value for NLMC and preliminary discussions with potential providers,” Butler wrote.

Guillot added that Lincoln Parish officials were not involved in discussions involving any of the other three facilities and that no final agreement for the sale of NLMC is currently in place. He said while local officials would prefer a specific timeline, there was no set timeline for the NLMC negotiations.

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That is why I write about furtive agreements to locate a data center in Livingston Parish, about bone-headed senators attempting to blindside a witness with bad information (see below); about evangelicals who will turn their backs on the less fortunate in order to support a tyrant; about sheriffs who believe they are laws unto themselves and about the attempted takeover—and destruction—of our public libraries by those who would impose their own brand of morals and standards on the rest of us.

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