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April 9, 2024
Immigration
Politics

Here’s Why The GOP Is Delaying the Alejandro Mayorkas Impeachment.

House Republicans have delayed submitting the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week. The decision comes amidst concerns about the timing of an impeachment trial that Senate Democrats are expected to move to dismiss.

“To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week,” said Speaker Mike Johnson’s spokesman in a statement.

Speaker Johnson and the 11 impeachment managers originally told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer they intended to present the impeachment articles on Wednesday, April 10.

The Republicans’ hesitation appears to stem from potential GOP absences for what could be a late vote on Thursday. Senate Democrats control 51 seats, including Democratic-leaning independents, and may dismiss or delay the proceedings with a simple majority vote.

Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee revealed that the articles will travel from the House to the Senate on Monday. “We don’t want this to come over on the eve of the moment when members might be operating under the influence of jet-fume intoxication,” Lee said. GOP Senate Whip John Thune told journalists that Republicans wish for a “more fulsome discussion” once the articles arrive from the House.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer, however, expressed his desire to resolve the matter swiftly, saying, “We’re going to try and resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”

Mayorkas faces impeachment for his role in the Biden government’s willful mishandling of the border crisis. Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the impeachment proceedings against him.

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House Republicans have delayed submitting the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week. The decision comes amidst concerns about the timing of an impeachment trial that Senate Democrats are expected to move to dismiss. show more
Willis
April 8, 2024
Politics

Fani Willis Struggles to Raise Campaign Cash, Now Relies on Out-of-State Donors.

Campaign finance data indicates Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has seen little political boost from her RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 14 other co-defendants over allegations they attempted to interfere in the state’s 2020 presidential election. Between August 15, 2023, and the end of this past January, Willis raised just $84,758 — well below the over $130,000 she raised in July of 2022 alone. The Fulton County District Attorney appears to have struggled to pull in cash in the months after she indicted the former President, having raised $326,042 since May of 2022.

Willis’s campaign also saw a drop in contributors following the RICO indictments. Over July and August of 2022, Willis received over 600 contributions, more than double what she’s received since the indictments. In addition to the lackluster fundraising and donor dropoff, the District Attorney‘s re-election campaign has increasingly relied on out-of-state money. Georgia campaign finance data shows that about 70 percent of her donors are located outside the state and hail from liberal locales like California, Maryland, and New York.

The weaker-than-expected fundraising and her controversial prosecution of former President Trump have resulted in Willis drawing a Democrat primary challenger in her bid for re-election this fall. Christian Wise Smith — a former Fulton County prosecutor — previously challenged Willis in the 2020 Democratic primary, coming in third place with 22 percent of the vote. He also ran in the 2022 Democrat primary for Attorney General, placing in second — again with 22 percent of the vote.

The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Courtney Kramer in November’s general election. Kramer — formerly an executive with True the Vote — previously served as a litigation consultant on former President Trump‘s 2020 re-election campaign and as special counsel for the Georgia Republican Party.

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Campaign finance data indicates Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has seen little political boost from her RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 14 other co-defendants over allegations they attempted to interfere in the state's 2020 presidential election. Between August 15, 2023, and the end of this past January, Willis raised just $84,758 — well below the over $130,000 she raised in July of 2022 alone. The Fulton County District Attorney appears to have struggled to pull in cash in the months after she indicted the former President, having raised $326,042 since May of 2022. show more
Joe Biden image by Gage Skidmore
April 8, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

Ex-DNC Chair Savages Biden: ‘When He Speaks, Nobody Listens.’

Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile expressed dissatisfaction over media coverage of Joe Biden, suggesting that no one seems to pay attention when Biden speaks. Brazile made her remarks on ABC’s “This Week” during a discussion about U.S. policy toward Israel and whether Biden needs to communicate more directly about events like the conflict in Gaza.

“Absolutely. Not just in Israel, Ukraine. We are a superpower. He is the Commander In Chief. Absolutely, he should speak out more,” she said. “Also we should cover what he’s saying because often when he speaks, nobody listens.”

Brazile’s comments come amidst ongoing complaints from the White House about the media’s reporting on Biden’s age and cognitive decline. Washington reporters covering the Biden government have expressed increasing fatigue over what many are interpreting as unjustifiable criticism from the White House.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha responded to Brazile’s criticism by suggesting that Biden’s heavily scripted persona might contribute to the lack of attention he receives. Former ESPN host Sage Steele recently revealed that network executives entirely scripted her interview with Biden.

Concha also raised concerns over Biden’s tendency to blunder when speaking spontaneously, often leading to awkward, puzzling statements, or even outright inaccuracies, thus necessitating follow-up clarifications from his communications team.

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Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile expressed dissatisfaction over media coverage of Joe Biden, suggesting that no one seems to pay attention when Biden speaks. Brazile made her remarks on ABC's "This Week" during a discussion about U.S. policy toward Israel and whether Biden needs to communicate more directly about events like the conflict in Gaza. show more
April 8, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

Democrat Abigail Spanberger Complains About Having to Talk to Constituents for 30 Minutes.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spook, has complained about having to talk to her constituents, according to a recent interview.

“Conversations become very lengthy… We ended up spending 30 minutes inside my constituent’s home,” Spanberger lamented, noting some issues she’s run into while campaigning alongside Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

Raskin, one of the chief Trump critics among Congressional Democrats and propagators of the Russia Collusion hoax, has hit the national campaign trail to help boost the electoral prospects of Democrats like Spanberger by energizing the anti-Donald Trump vote in their races. In Spanberger’s case, the Virginia Democrat is foregoing re-election in Congress and instead seeking her party’s nomination for Virginia governor in 2025.

Some have seen Spanberger’s move as a tacit admission that she would be unable to hold her vulnerable House seat in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. While the district went to President Joe Biden by nearly seven points in 2020, Spanberger’s lack of responsiveness to her constituents and out-of-step liberal voting record on immigration has led to the partisan-lean narrowing. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) won the district by five points in 2021.

Spanberger’s background as a CIA officer made her an appealing candidate in 2018 — especially as national Democrats hyped up conspiracies about then-President Donald Trump and Russian collusion in the 2016 election. However, voters across the spectrum have increasingly tuned out the Russia conspiracy theories as real-life concerns regarding unfettered illegal immigration mount. Spanberger has left herself increasingly vulnerable on this issue, most recently voting against the Laken Riley Act.

While Spanberger and Virginia Democrats appear to have recognized her elite and globalist politics made the former CIA spook unpopular among constituents in her Congressional District, it isn’t clear what they think changes regarding her appeal to Virginians at large.

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Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spook, has complained about having to talk to her constituents, according to a recent interview. show more
April 7, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

Trump Camp Rips POLITICO’s ‘Laughable’ Claim That China Prefers Him to Biden.

Donald Trump’s campaign has poured scorn on German-owned insider media outlet POLITICO for suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would prefer a second Trump administration to Joe Biden continuing in the White House.

“In Politico’s Nightly newsletter, Catherine Kim makes a harebrained assertion that China would prefer President Trump to return to the White House,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.

“The same President Trump who made China submit to pro-America trade and tariff regulations, called them out for exporting the Coronavirus that killed millions across the world, and stood tough against Chinese economic aggression throughout his first term,” he continued.

“For a media outlet and its reporter to peddle lies and feature commentary from a ‘China expert’ named Rorry Daniels — who by the way is a Democrat donor — is laughable at best.”

In its newsletter, POLITICO peddled commentary produced by the aforementioned Daniels, director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Jacob Stokes — a staffer at the White House when Joe Biden was Vice President.

It was argued that “Trump’s willingness to be seen as a dealmaker” would be exploited by China — but Cheung argued it is the media that China is exploiting, via its chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome.

“The fact is that China has grown stronger under a weak Biden presidency, and our allies are even more in danger as China builds up its economic and military power,” Cheung said.

He added that “Politico’s official media partner in Asia is the South China Morning Post, widely considered to be the mouthpiece of the CCP.”

POLITICO denied this in a statement to Fox, although an article announcing a content partnership with SCMP published in 2018 remains live on the POLITICO website as of the time of publication.

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Donald Trump's campaign has poured scorn on German-owned insider media outlet POLITICO for suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would prefer a second Trump administration to Joe Biden continuing in the White House. show more
April 5, 2024
Politics
War
World

Trump Warns Israel is ‘Losing the PR War,’ Urges End to Gaza Conflict.

Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is “losing the PR war.”

“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people. And that’s a very simple statement,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. “They have to get it done. Get it over with and get it over with fast because we have to — you have to get back to normalcy and peace.”

Trump specifically called out Israel for releasing video footage of its military actions against the Palestinians. “They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that,” he said. “That’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”“They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”

Once supported staunchly in its conflict against Hamas by both Trump and Joe Biden, Israel has seen its support across the world dwindle as humanitarian concerns in Gaza grow. Trump earlier warned that Israel must “finish up” the conflict amidst waning support.

Support for the Jewish state has declined even more since then, following a seemingly intentional attack against foreign aid workers in Gaza this week. The attack marked a major turning point for Israel’s relationships with Western powers, as calls in the U.S. and the UK to stop sending arms to Israel are increasingly gaining support.

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Former President Donald Trump said Israel must quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza as he warned the Jewish state is "losing the PR war." show more
April 5, 2024
Lawfare
Politics

FBI Orchestrated Jan 6 Riots ‘to Entrap MAGA Americans,’ Explains Congress’ Homeland Security Chief.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.

According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by “ghost buses” filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.

“The whole thing was a nefarious agenda to entrap MAGA Americans,” the Congressman said. He added: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI-embedded agents in those groups.”

While there has been no conclusive evidence that the FBI instigated the January 6 riot, several law enforcement officials have admitted that federal agents were among the crowd on that day. The National Pulse reported in August of last year that former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund had told Tucker Carlson in an unaired Fox News interview that “there was a fair amount of law enforcement” in the January 6 crowd. Sund said in the days after the riot, he discovered that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd.

In May of last year, an FBI whistleblower told the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the bureau withheld further CCTV footage from the riot over fears of outing “undercover” agents present in the crowd. In January 2022, FBI Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn refused to deny the FBI’s involvement in the January 6 violence.

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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee's border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter. show more
April 5, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

RFK Apologizes After Briefly Appearing to Back J6 Defendants.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as “activists” was an error.

The email, titled “We Must Free Assange!”, stated, “This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their Constitutional liberties.”

Following a corporate media backlash, the campaign blamed the issue on an external marketing contractor whose contract it terminated. The email’s statement “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views,” clarified Stefanie Spear, Kennedy’s spokesperson. The campaign has not disclosed the identity of the vendor responsible for this newswire misstep.

TRUMP BLASTS BIDEN DOJ.

On Thursday, the former president blasted the Biden government on his Truth Social account over the case of 71-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz. A jury found Lavrenz guilty on four counts after praying inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lavrenz faces three years in jail and up to $250,000 in fines.

SCOTUS TO THE RESCUE?

The Capitol riot defendants face charges under the novel legal application of The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The act overhauled regulatory provisions dealing with financial record keeping and reporting for corporations. The DOJ contends that the “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding” felony provision found in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) — and enacted under Sarbanes-Oxley — permits the prosecution of crimes besides those of a financial nature.

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the “official proceeding” provision can be applied to crimes outside the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley. It is expected to rule by the end of June.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as "activists" was an error. show more
April 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
TECH
World

EU Mobilizes Online Censorship Plan for Upcoming Elections.

The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), initiated in late August, could severely curtail free speech in Europe and even worldwide ahead of the European Parliament elections in June.

To comply with the DSA, so-called Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Search Engines (VLSEs) with over 45 million monthly users in the EU are required to monitor and censor content deemed harmful by EU officials.

This can include so-called hate speech, supposed disinformation and misinformation, and content alleged to cause harm to people’s physical or mental well-being.

If platforms refuse to adhere to DSA diktats, they face severe economic penalties, including fines of up to six percent of their global revenue. Even the ostensibly pro-free speech Elon Musk seems to be complying to avoid these heavy fines for content posted to his X platform, formerly Twitter.

The European Commission, an unelected body that initiates most EU-level legislation and serves as the bloc’s executive, previously launched formal proceedings against Musk under the DSA.

This followed Commissioner Thierry Breton having expressed his displeasure at the South African tech mogul for dropping a supposedly voluntary EU code of conduct, which required Twitter to boost “authoritative sources” and “empower the fact-checking community.”

Social media firms have also been pressured into censoring users on the other side of the Atlantic, with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) having people censored for questioning mail-in voting.

Joe Biden’s White House also pressured Facebook to take down posts containing accurate information about COVID-19 vaccine side effects or suggesting COVID-19 was made in or leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

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The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA), initiated in late August, could severely curtail free speech in Europe and even worldwide ahead of the European Parliament elections in June. show more
April 4, 2024
William Upton
Politics
War

Obama’s Speechwriter Admits Biden ‘Looks Weak.’

Jon Favreau — a former speechwriter in the Obama White House — says President Joe Biden‘s refusal to increase pressure on Israel to stop its military from killing civilians in Gaza makes him look “weak.” The former Obama speechwriter and host of the liberal Pod Save America podcast has joined a growing list of influential Democrats who have publicly criticized Biden for what they see as a soft response to an Israeli military strike that killed seven humanitarian aid workers earlier this week.

“The President doesn’t get credit for being ‘privately enraged’ when he still refuses to use leverage to stop the IDF from killing and starving innocent people,” Favreau wrote Wednesday in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He added: “These stories only make him look weak.”

On Tuesday, President Biden said those responsible for the Israeli strike and civilian deaths should be held accountable. “Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians,” the President said in a statement. He continued: “Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen. Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians.” On background, White House officials insisted to the corporate media that Biden was “angry.”

For an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill, however, the statement by Biden wasn’t enough. Over the past two days, several of the President’s top allies in the Senate called for a shift in his approach to Israel. On a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned the White House: “The polling is very clear: The Democratic base wants to stop funding Netanyahu’s war machine.” Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Coons told CNN on Thursday that he was open to conditioning any further aid to Israel on the reduction of civilian casualties.

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Jon Favreau — a former speechwriter in the Obama White House — says President Joe Biden's refusal to increase pressure on Israel to stop its military from killing civilians in Gaza makes him look "weak." The former Obama speechwriter and host of the liberal Pod Save America podcast has joined a growing list of influential Democrats who have publicly criticized Biden for what they see as a soft response to an Israeli military strike that killed seven humanitarian aid workers earlier this week. show more