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February 26, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics

OUT: Ronna McDaniel Confirms Resignation as RNC Chairwoman, Effective March 8th.

Ronna McDaniel has confirmed her resignation as Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), effective March 8th.

McDaniel, a niece of anti-Trump ex-presidential candidate Senator Mitt Romney, said the RNC has “historically undergone change once we have a nominee and it has always been my intention to honor that tradition.”

March 8th falls a few days after Super Tuesday, which will see three Republican caucuses and 13 primaries, awarding over a third of all delegates in the nomination race.

Donald Trump, who has won every caucus and primary so far, endorsed RNC general counsel and North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley to replace McDaniel. “Michael has been with me from the beginning, has done a great job in his home state of North Carolina, and is committed to election integrity, which we must have to keep fraud out of our election so it can’t be stolen,” he said.

His daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is expected to take up a “co-chairman” role in a bid to read Trump into the day-to-day activities at the headquarters in Washington, D.C.

McDaniel has been a lightning rod for the populist base in recent years, with National Pulse Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam coining the term “McLeadership” to describe the McCarthy-McDaniel-McConnell stewardship of the party.

Over half of conservatives surveyed by Turning Point’s AmericaFest straw poll say they are more likely to contribute to the RNC without her.

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Ronna McDaniel has confirmed her resignation as Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), effective March 8th. show more
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February 25, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Trump Calls On Alabama To Preserve IVF Access.

Former President Donald Trump says he “strongly support[s] the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby.” The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee pushed back against the Alabama Supreme Court decision which would make the medical procedure nearly impossible in the state.

Earlier this week, Alabama’s high court ruled that frozen embryos should be treated as children under state law, effectively exposing IVF clinics that destroy unused embryos to prosecution. The decision forced many clinics to immediately suspend their IVF services, leaving some families without options for fertility treatment.

“Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The former President made clear that Republicans who claim to be pro-family should support IVF, stating: “The Republican Party should always be on the side of the Miracle of Life – and the side of Mothers, Fathers, and their Beautiful Babies.”

He continued: “IVF is an important part of that, and our Great Republican Party will always be with you, in your quest, for the ULTIMATE JOY IN LIFE!”

Trump is not the only Republican pushing back against the Alabama court decision. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced his office “has no intention of using the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision as a basis for prosecuting IVF families or providers.” Republican and Democrat lawmakers in the Alabama legislature are already pushing for a legislative solution to counter the court ruling.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Trump’s remaining primary opponent, is one of the few national Republicans to come out in support of the unpopular Alabama decision.

Image via IncMonocle.

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Former President Donald Trump says he "strongly support[s] the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby." The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee pushed back against the Alabama Supreme Court decision which would make the medical procedure nearly impossible in the state. show more
February 23, 2024
Immigration
Politics

San Diego Migrant Center Closing After Influx Drains Funds.

A migrant center in San Diego closed on Thursday after exhausting its funds to aid the substantial number of migrants crossing illegally into the county. The center, which reportedly assisted up to 800 migrants per day, had its resources strained by a significant surge in arrivals over recent weeks. CEO of the center, Kathie Lembo, stated that the facility’s finite resources were stretched to the limit.

The closure has ignited fears in nearby El Cajon, according to Mayor Bill Wells, who voiced his concerns on Fox News. “Over the past few months, we’ve seen 100,000 migrants come across the San Diego border,” Wells said. “A lot of those have been absorbed by this county shelter that used taxpayer money. They asked for $3 million, and they spent over $6 million, and now they say they’re out of money. So we’re going to see migrants congregating in our streets,” he continued. “I think it’s going to become a pretty serious problem pretty quickly.”

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicates that nearly 140,000 illegal immigrants have entered the San Diego area since the commencement of Fiscal Year 2024 on October 1. Wells further expressed apprehensions over an increasing number of daily drop-offs, potentially rising from 300 to 1,000 after the center’s closure. He mentioned the possible recourse of housing migrants in hotels despite the negative impacts on neighborhoods and security infrastructure.

Cities across the country are increasingly suffering significant strains on resources as a result of the unprecedented influx of migrants due to the border crisis.

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A migrant center in San Diego closed on Thursday after exhausting its funds to aid the substantial number of migrants crossing illegally into the county. The center, which reportedly assisted up to 800 migrants per day, had its resources strained by a significant surge in arrivals over recent weeks. CEO of the center, Kathie Lembo, stated that the facility’s finite resources were stretched to the limit. show more
February 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics

Biden Uses Notecards, Scripted Q&As in Closed-Door Fundraisers.

Democrat donors are raising concerns about Joe Biden’s heavy reliance on notecards during closed-door fundraisers.

The 81-year-old Democrat has excluded cameras from recent fundraising events, and his team has reporters ushered out before prescreened donors question him. These reportedly involve just “two or three questions vetted by the president’s staff,” with Biden reading the responses from detailed notecards written by his staff.

Biden exacerbated the widespread concerns over his mental fitness at a previous, televised fundraiser, in which he claimed he spoke to “[President François] Mitterand from Germany, I mean France” about January 6th at the G7 summit in 2021, despite the Frenchman having been dead for close to 30 years.

He corrected himself at a subsequent fundraiser, which was not televised, identifying the French president as Emmanuel Macron, but pool reporters said he instead got the Chancellor of Germany wrong, identifying him as Helmut Kohl — out of office since the 1990s and dead since 2017.

This was followed by the release of the Hur report on Biden’s mishandling of classified material, which described him as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” unable to remember when he was Vice President or when his son Beau died in investigatory interviews.

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Democrat donors are raising concerns about Joe Biden's heavy reliance on notecards during closed-door fundraisers. show more
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February 23, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Politics

Fani Willis Sued Over Concealment Of White House Meeting Records.

America First Legal (AFL) is suing the office of Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. The lawsuit, filed by the conservative legal group, alleges the district attorney’s office illegally concealed communications with the White House regarding the state RICO prosecution against former President Donald Trump.

According to the filing, Steven Richards — an investigative reporter for Just The News — filed an Open Records Request with the district attorney’s office in mid-January. Requested were “all records of meetings between District Attorney Fani Willis, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, or any other staff of the District Attorney’s Office with any White House or federal Department of Justice officials both in Georgia and the District of Columbia from Jan. 1, 2021 to the present [and] all communications between DA Willis or special prosecutor Wade with White House or Department of Justice officials from Jan. 1, 2021 to the present.”

On February 12th of this year, Willis‘s office responded with a letter stating they “did not maintain records responsive to your request.” The letter, however, contradicts statements made by an attorney with the district attorney’s office during a January 25th hearing before Judge Scott McAfee. When asked by the judge if there were written communications between Willis’s office and the White House Counsel, the attorney acknowledged at least two letters existed.

“Georgia law recognizes that ‘open government is essential to a free, open, and democratic society.’ It encourages public access to government records so citizens may evaluate the efficient and proper functioning of its institutions,” said Reed D. Rubinstein, AFL’s senior vice president. He added, “Here there is substantial evidence that the Fulton County District Attorney’s office has ceased to function properly; the requested records must be produced.”

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America First Legal (AFL) is suing the office of Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. The lawsuit, filed by the conservative legal group, alleges the district attorney's office illegally concealed communications with the White House regarding the state RICO prosecution against former President Donald Trump. show more
February 23, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Politics

Nancy Mace: Kevin McCarthy is ‘Bored’, ‘A Complete Loser Who Needs A Job.’

Congressman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has told POLITICO that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is “a complete loser” who is “bored” and “doesn’t know what to do with himself.”

“The former speaker needs to get a job. I think that’s the problem,” Mace said during a podcast interview with POLITICO’s Ryan Lizza.

“And you know what? … He’s a complete loser,” she added. “He couldn’t keep his job as speaker, and he quit on the Republican Party. He quit his job. He put our majority at risk.”

McCarthy, she says, is going to facilitate her primary opponent spending millions of dollars against her. Mace was one of the so-called “Gaetz 8” who helped oust McCarthy from the speakership last year.

Asked for her South Carolina prediction, Mace said: “[Trump is] going to win by a huge margin. I’m going to say 25-28 [points], somewhere in there.”

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Congressman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has told POLITICO that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is “a complete loser” who is “bored” and “doesn’t know what to do with himself.” show more
February 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
UK

Was Liz Truss Really Ousted By the Deep State?

Liz Truss, the shortest-reigning British prime minister in history, claimed her 49-day tenure was terminated by “the deep state” ahead of her appearance at Matt Schlapp’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Writing for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, Truss claimed: “In too much of the free world, the left has been in charge for too long and the results are all too plain to see,” adding that the “deep state” stopped her from implementing her tax cut plan.

But Truss, 48, was hand selected by the “deep state” doyen, former Prime Minister and now Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron. Truss, originally a Liberal Democrat, has held ministerial offices in the British government since 2012, meaning she literally is “the left” that “has been in charge for too long,” in her country.

And Truss was not only a fixture within the British government for about as long as ex-PM Tony Blair, who held government office from May 2nd, 1997, to June 27th, 2007, but she also used her role to be a strong proponent of the “woke” policies she now pretends to decry during her whirlwind book tour of America.

Truss repeatedly pushed Britain’s own version of the Green New Deal, demanding her government “tackle climate change,” and forcing up energy prices for ordinary Britons. She campaigned strongly against Brexit in 2016, and served almost three years as Minister for Women and Equalities – a “woke” role at the heart of the British government.

Indeed, Truss was at the forefront of propagating gender ideology at the state level, marking “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia,” while hosting conferences on LGBT priorities, and pushing a ban on so-called conversion therapy, including “spiritual” therapies offered to willing Christians.

After her short stint as Prime Minister, Truss continued and continues to push neoconservative policy on Ukraine, declaring there must be “no concessions” and “no deals” to make peace.

So no, Liz Truss wasn’t ousted by the deep state. She is the deep state.

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Liz Truss, the shortest-reigning British prime minister in history, claimed her 49-day tenure was terminated by "the deep state" ahead of her appearance at Matt Schlapp's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Writing for Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, Truss claimed: "In too much of the free world, the left has been in charge for too long and the results are all too plain to see," adding that the "deep state" stopped her from implementing her tax cut plan. show more

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February 21, 2024
Culture
Politics

YOU Paid $8.5M for Govt-Produced Podcasts Promoting Far-Left Views.

Between February 2020 and September 2023, the federal government assigned $8.5 million to produce at least 58 podcasts, many promoting left-wing views. The finding was made by the taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, which said the amount was part of an extensive $323.7 million expenditure on overarching projects that incorporated these podcasts. Both domestic and foreign entities received the funds.

Organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were the primary funding sources. The podcasts, which covered many topics such as history, art, literature, science, and religion, received their own shares, with several promoting far-left progressive themes.

A few of the funded podcasts include a $227,420 linguistics program that delved into the use of a new gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish and a $228,546 program that discussed the recent history of Queens during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and ‘racism.’

Another project was a $5,000 podcast sponsored by the State Department that tackles issues affecting the trans and intersex community in Zimbabwe and a $556,544 initiative from the National Science Foundation featuring pandemic-related content for children.

One $370,000 podcast on Southern history featured an episode titled, “Bedfellows Forever: How 19th-century male romantic friendships queer our understanding of historical masculinity.”

Founder of OpenTheBooks.com, Adam Andrzejewski, questioned the allocation of taxpayer money to these projects, referring to it as a “podcast tax.”

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Between February 2020 and September 2023, the federal government assigned $8.5 million to produce at least 58 podcasts, many promoting left-wing views. The finding was made by the taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, which said the amount was part of an extensive $323.7 million expenditure on overarching projects that incorporated these podcasts. Both domestic and foreign entities received the funds. show more
February 21, 2024
William Upton
Media
Politics

WATCH: Tucker Carlson Says Boris Johnson Demanded $1M for Interview.

Tucker Carlson says former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded $1 million in exchange for an interview. According to the former Fox News host, he was prompted to reach out to Johnson with an interview offer after the British politician denounced Calrson for interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I’m over in Moscow, I’m waiting to do this interview, it gets out that we’re doing it and I’m immediately denounced by this guy called Boris Johnson,” Carlson said during an appearance on BlazeTV’s The Glenn Beck Podcast, adding: “Boris Johnson calls me a tool of the Kremlin or something… I was annoyed. So I put in a request for an interview with Boris Johnson.”

After working through intermediaries to contact Johnson, Carlson said he received a response from one of the former Prime Minister’s advisors stating Johnson would require $1 million in exchange for the interview. “Finally, one of his advisors gets back to me and says, ‘He will talk to you, but it’s going to cost you a million dollars,'” Carlson told Beck, noting that the advisor suggested payment in gold or Bitcoin.

He added: “And I said to the guy, you know I just interviewed Vladimir Putin – I’m not defending Putin — but Putin didn’t ask for a million dollars. So you’re telling me that Boris Johnson is a lot sleazier… than Vladimir Putin.”

Johnson is believed to have scuttled a possible early peace deal between Russia and Ukraine — allegedly at the behest of the Biden government. The allegations against Johnson were backed up by Putin, who told Carlson during their interview that Johnson allegedly dissuaded Davyd Arakhamia, leader of Ukraine’s ruling party, from signing the peace accord. He suggested a preliminary agreement had been reached in Istanbul after direct negotiations with Ukrainian officials.

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Tucker Carlson says former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded $1 million in exchange for an interview. According to the former Fox News host, he was prompted to reach out to Johnson with an interview offer after the British politician denounced Calrson for interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. show more

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February 21, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Politics

Letitia James Threatens to Seize Trump Tower.

Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James has said she will ask Judge Arthur Engoron, who has donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party, to seize Donald Trump’s assets if he does not pay a $355 million fine.

“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James told ABC.

Judge Engoron’s law clerk and “co-judge,” Allison Greenfield, attended Democrat events endorsing AG James and Joe Biden, and his wife published vulgar social media posts attacking Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, during the New York trial.

ABC posited to James that Trump’s alleged fraud had “no victim, no one got harmed, the banks got paid back, so no harm no foul.”

James had no substantive answer to this, simply stating that “financial frauds are not victimless crimes” — despite the judgment against the former president being civil, not criminal.

Trump insists there was no fraud, that he undervalued rather than overvalued his assets when applying for bank loans, and that Engoron accepted questionable valuations of his assets.

There has been heavy criticism of an $18 million valuation of his Mar-a-Lago estate — which sold for the equivalent of $70 million in 1981 — in particular.

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Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James has said she will ask Judge Arthur Engoron, who has donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party, to seize Donald Trump's assets if he does not pay a $355 million fine. show more