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iowa
July 7, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
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Politics

WATCH LIVE: Trump Set to Blast DeSantis at Iowa ‘Farmers for Trump’ Launch.

Former President Donald J. Trump launches his Farmers for Trump group in Iowa, and is expected to insist on his status as “the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had in the White House,” while touting the achievements from his first term, when the “Department of Agriculture cut seven old regulations for every one new regulation, saving farmers and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.”

Trump is also expected to blast his primary opponent Ron DeSantis, at length, referring to him as a “globalist sellout and Paul Ryan acolyte who’s in the pocket of his Wall Street donors at the Club for No Growth,” according to remarks seen by The National Pulse, ahead of the speech.

“DeSanctus opposed my China tariffs, and he heartlessly opposed my $28 billion dollars in relief payments to protect our farmers from Chinese abuses. While DeSanctus sided with the Communists in China, I sided with the Farmers in America,” the former President is expected to say.

“Every Iowan also needs to know that Ron DeSanctimonious totally despises Iowa Ethanol. He has been fighting for years to kill every single job supported by this vital industry.”

In juxtaposition, Trump will tout his record repealing Obama’s Waters of the United States rule, as well as his achievements killing NAFTA as well as pointing out Joe Biden’s record which he will call “a non-stop war on American Agriculture.”

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Former President Donald J. Trump launches his Farmers for Trump group in Iowa, and is expected to insist on his status as "the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had in the White House," while touting the achievements from his first term, when the "Department of Agriculture cut seven old regulations for every one new regulation, saving farmers and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year." show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
This is an important moment, given that Iowa is one of the only places left where DeSantis is polling consistently above 20 percent
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big tech
July 7, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
TECH

Big Tech Spent $250M to Buy Off The U.S. Congress.

Big Tech corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook spent at least a quarter a billion dollars killing legislation aimed at regulating their censorship of conservatives, as well as generally reining in their power.

Republicans concerned about censorship worked alongside Democrats championing unions to pass bills with bipartisan majorities. None of them made it to the floor of either chamber of Congress, despite public support for regulating Big Tech.

Democrats are reluctant to aggravate Silicon Valley at a time when Big Tech continues to toss cash at the party and wage and ideological war on alleged “hate speech” and “misinformation”. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised millions from tech bosses before breaking a promise to put the bills before the full House of Representatives as Speaker. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately assured tech donors that the Senate bills could not overcome filibustering – possibly influenced by the employment of one of his daughters by Facebook and another by Amazon, for whom she is a registered lobbyist.

Congressional Republicans display compromised, too. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top fundraiser and confidante Jeff Miller counts Amazon and Apple as two of his biggest clients. One of McCarthy’s first acts upon replacing Pelosi was to demote Rep. Ken Buck, who had led Republican efforts on Big Tech regulation, in favor of Rep. Thomas Massie, a “libertarian” who insists Big Tech should not be subject to “Big Government”.

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Big Tech corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook spent at least a quarter a billion dollars killing legislation aimed at regulating their censorship of conservatives, as well as generally reining in their power. show more

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It doesn’t stop there, either! It’s not just the politicians being bought off by Big Tech (alongside Big Pharma, by the way)
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It doesn’t stop there, either! It’s not just the politicians being bought off by Big Tech (alongside Big Pharma, by the way) show more
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hunter
July 6, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

DATA: Majority Disapprove of Hunter’s Sweetheart Plea Deal.

A majority of likely US voters – 55 percent – disapprove of Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal reached with the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to data published by Rasmussen Reports.

Of the 55 percent who disapprove, 41 percent “strongly disapprove” of the deal that saw President Biden’s son avoid jail time for misdemeanor federal tax charges of up to $1.2 million and for illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user after lying on a federal firearms purchase form. A further 14 percent answered they “somewhat disagree[d].”

Only 37 percent of Americans approve of the plea bargain, including 19 percent – around one in five voters – who “strongly approve.”

Favorable Treatment?

More than two-thirds of the American electorate – 67 percent – believe that it is likely Hunter received favorable treatment from federal prosecutors as a result of being the son of the President of the United States, including 49 percent who believe that it is “very likely.”

Less than a third of voters – 28 percent – thought otherwise, believing Hunter’s plea deal had little to do with nepotism, though only 13 percent answered: “Not at all likely.”

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A majority of likely US voters – 55 percent – disapprove of Hunter Biden's 'sweetheart' plea deal reached with the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to data published by Rasmussen Reports. show more
desantis
June 29, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Gave $92M in COVID Funds for His Iranian Donor’s Gated Community.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used $92 million of coronavirus stimulus funding from the U.S. tax payer for an interchange that will greatly enhance the value of a gated community being developed by one of his major donors, the Iranian-born, British-educated ICI Homes owner Morteza ‘Mori’ Hosseini.

Hosseini has dished out at least tens of thousands to DeSantis’s campaigns, as well as loaning him a golf simulator worth $30,000, and providing private jets for the use of the Governor and his wife Jill, who prefers to go by Casey. Hosseini and the Republican presidential hopeful have “a long, close relationship” due in no small part to the Iranian-American’s willingness to make his jet available at short notice.

Conveniently, Hosseini was also appointed to the University of Florida Board of Trustees, while his sister Maryam Ghyabi-White was appointed by Governor DeSantis to the same St. John’s River Water Management District Governing Board which approved the interchange costing federal tax payers $92 million. Morteza’s wife, Forough Hosseini – a senior vice president at ICI Homes – was also appointed to the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet, completing a DeSantis donor swamp hat-trick with the Hosseini family.

Asked about the near $100M injection from Governor DeSantis, Hosseini said he would’ve gone through with the plan anyway, but “it certainly helps.”

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used $92 million of coronavirus stimulus funding from the U.S. tax payer for an interchange that will greatly enhance the value of a gated community being developed by one of his major donors, the Iranian-born, British-educated ICI Homes owner Morteza 'Mori' Hosseini. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
For a man trotting around the country in his high heeled boots insisting he’s going to “break the swamp” (a terrible and clumsy adaptation of Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, by the way) Ron DeSantis sure looks like he’s created his own in Florida
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For a man trotting around the country in his high heeled boots insisting he’s going to “break the swamp” (a terrible and clumsy adaptation of Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, by the way) Ron DeSantis sure looks like he’s created his own in Florida show more
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June 29, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Biden Suffers ‘Shallow or Paused Breathing’ During Sleep & Needs Machine to Help, White House Admits.

President Joe Biden suffers from shallow or paused breathing in his sleep and requires a “continuous positive airway pressure” (CPAP) device in order to assist him with his “sleep apnea,” the White House admitted after reporters noticed the President had indentations on his face, caused by the straps of the device being tightened around the President’s head during the night.

The news comes shortly after a new poll determined that a whopping 83 percent of Americans admitted to having “concerns” about whether Biden has the necessary mental or physical health to be running the country.

Those suffering from sleep apnea can even stop breathing for up to a minute while sleeping, before gasping or snoring themselves awake. A CPAP machine pumps air into a mask over the mouth and nose during sleep, keeping airways open.

This is merely the latest example of the President’s physical and mental health being called into question, and once again contradicts his physician’s claim that Biden is “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency.”

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President Joe Biden suffers from shallow or paused breathing in his sleep and requires a "continuous positive airway pressure" (CPAP) device in order to assist him with his "sleep apnea," the White House admitted after reporters noticed the President had indentations on his face, caused by the straps of the device being tightened around the President's head during the night. show more
paul ryan
June 28, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

WATCH: Paul Ryan Says ‘Never Again’ to Trump, Yet Admits He CAN Beat Biden?

Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker turned Fox News executive, says he will “never again” support Donald Trump, despite admitting the former president could win back the White House.

“[L]ook, it’s a disaster if we nominate Trump, you know I think that, I’ve been saying this for a long time,” he told CNBC on Wednesday. “But Liz [Cheney] is right: he could win.”

Ryan’s interview, below, is likely to add fuel to the dumpster fire at Fox News, which has cratered in viewership since unceremoniously turfing our prime time host Tucker Carlson, as well as turning its back on Donald Trump.

“I’m for anybody not named Trump,” Ryan said – correcting himself, when pressed, to say he meant any Republican not named Trump. “I think we lose with him,” the former Speaker continued. “We haven’t won anything with him since he first won in 2016. We lost the House in ’18, the presidency in ’20, the Senate in ’20, and we could have won the Senate in 2022 but for him,” he added – failing to mention that Republicans won back the House that same year.

Asked if he thought the Republicans could win without America First conservatives brought aboard by Trump, Ryan admitted that as a “Never Again Trumper,” a large portion of U.S. conservatives now despise him.

Speaking on Tuesday in New Hampshire, Trump blasted the D.C. uniparty, and asserted that the Republican Party is “never going back to the days of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”

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Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker turned Fox News executive, says he will "never again" support Donald Trump, despite admitting the former president could win back the White House. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
Ryan’s intervention on CNBC was both confused and counterproductive to his thesis
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slavers
June 27, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

America’s Living Presidents Are All Descendants of Slavers… Except Trump.

It’s a small club, and you ain’t in it. And neither is Donald J. Trump. But every other living President of the United States is. The club in question? Being a former President and a direct descendent of slave owners. That includes Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama through his mother’s side of the family.

A total of 28 percent of Republicans and eight percent of Democrats in the last sitting of Congress have slavers in their ancestries, too. “The preponderance of Republicans reflects the party’s strength in the South, where slavery was concentrated,” Reuters claims.

Some of the more notable non-presidential figures include Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, and Tammy Duckworth, who described the revelations as “gut-wrenching.”

Former President Donald Trump is one of the only significant political figures in American politics not to be tied to “America’s original sin,” as Reuters describes it. Trump’s grandfather on his father’s side emigrated to the United States from Germany after the American Civil War, and his mother was born in Scotland, explaining the absence of slave owners in his family.

The news is unlikely to sit well with the same mainstream media that regularly lambasts Trump’s “long history of racism.” But it does perhaps go some way to explaining why they protest too much. And why they want to keep him out, again.

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It's a small club, and you ain't in it. And neither is Donald J. Trump. But every other living President of the United States is. The club in question? Being a former President and a direct descendent of slave owners. That includes Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama through his mother's side of the family. show more
audio
June 27, 2023
News
Politics

AUDIO: Trump Talks ‘Secret Info’ In DOJ Clip Leaked to CNN, But 45 Calls it ‘Exoneration’.

A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley’s eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to “secret information” at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence.

The 45th president can be heard referring to “secret information” as the papers are discussed, with a staffer joking that Hillary Clinton would print such information out regularly. “[S]he’d send it to Anthony Weiner, the pervert,” Trump responds, prompting laughter.

The entire clip appears to be jocular in nature – a fact left out by CNN in its previous characterizations of the audio – which could only have been leaked to the network by the U.S. government itself, namely the Justice Department (DOJ) or Obama-linked prosecutor Jack Smith directly. Last week, a judge ordered that while Biden’s weaponized DOJ had leaked against Trump, that Trump was not allowed to leak to the press in return.

In the audio (below), Trump can be heard discussing with staff something referred to in or on one of the documents, stating: “[A]s president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

But it is still not clear whether Trump is talking about the documents themselves, in the audio, or something the documents may be referring to. As a result, a statement from the former President on Tuesday morning called the audio leak “an exoneration”:

The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and “spun” a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe. This continuing Witch Hunt is another ELECTION INTERFERENCE Scam. They are cheaters and thugs!

– Donald J. Trump, TruthSocial, June 26th.

The case is ongoing, as America draws closer to an election, with an unprecedented campaign from the government against one of its political opponents.

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A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley's eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to "secret information" at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
Flatly, I was expected “worse” from this audio, given how much CNN has been hyping it, at the demands of the DOJ, for the past several months
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Flatly, I was expected “worse” from this audio, given how much CNN has been hyping it, at the demands of the DOJ, for the past several months show more
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June 25, 2023
Jake Welch
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Politics

Whopping 83% Concerned for Biden Health, 74% Say Country on Wrong Track.

An outright majority of two-thirds of Americans – 74 percent – believe that the United States is headed in the wrong direction under President Biden, according to a recently conducted NBC News survey. Only 20 percent of Americans think that “things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction.”

Before President Biden, dissatisfaction among the American public had not been higher since September 2013 under Barack Obama at 78 percent. Yet, Biden’s disapproval figures have consistently been high and worsening as more than 70 percent of Americans have believed the country is on the wrong track in all the last four quarters of his presidency.

State of Biden’s Health.

The survey also asked the 1000 registered voters whether they were concerned about “Joe Biden not having the necessary mental and physical health to be president.”

A combined 83 percent of Americans have concerns about whether Biden has the necessary mental and physical health, with 55 percent of Americans having “major concerns,” 13 percent having “moderate concerns,” and another 15 percent having “minor concerns.”

Only 17 percent of respondents told the pollsters that they have “no real concerns” about Biden’s health.

 

 

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An outright majority of two-thirds of Americans – 74 percent – believe that the United States is headed in the wrong direction under President Biden, according to a recently conducted NBC News survey. Only 20 percent of Americans think that "things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction."

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desantis
June 23, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

As Congressman, DeSantis Would Call Trump ‘An Idiot.’

The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, called Donald Trump ‘an idiot’ before relying on the former President to get him elected as the Governor of Florida in 2018, according to a feature piece published on Ron and his wife Jill “Casey” DeSantis.

During his unremarkable, five-year stint as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives between 2013 and 2018, DeSantis would spend his time talking to his staff about “the Constitution, baseball, and golf.”

The only times DeSantis joked around with his former staffers were apparently at Trump’s expense: “The one thing they joked about, the former staffer said, was Trump.”

“Ron always said this guy was just an idiot.”

Despite this, Governor DeSantis went on to beg for Trump’s endorsement in the run-up to the Florida gubernatorial election in November 2018, meeting the former President “with tears in his eyes” before asking for “a favor.”

The full feature, which has been described as a “hit piece” by Ron DeSantis’s staffers, can be read here. The campaign, nor the Governor, have denied the allegations.

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The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, called Donald Trump 'an idiot' before relying on the former President to get him elected as the Governor of Florida in 2018, according to a feature piece published on Ron and his wife Jill "Casey" DeSantis. show more