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April 18, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

Biden Staffers Have a Nickname for Trump… And It’s Shit.

Younger staff in President Joe Biden‘s White House have taken to derisively referring to former President Donald Trump as “Hitler pig.” The moniker appears to be an attempt to emulate the former President’s penchant for effectively neutralizing opponents by assigning them nicknames and is just the latest in a pattern of the Biden government attempting to connect Trump with the genocidal German dictator, despite the public mostly seeing the comparison as absurd.

This isn’t the first time the Biden White House has made the ludicrous claim. The National Pulse reported in early January that aides with Biden’s re-election campaign often joke about when they will go “full Hitler” and make a stark comparison between Trump and the German war criminal and dictator.

Biden’s campaign aides, at the time, signaled they thought the President needed to push the envelope and not simply accuse Trump of parroting language similar to the leader of the German Nazi Party.

In another incident, the corporate media attempted to smear the former President with the Hitler comparison after he told The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, that illegal aliens were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) pushed back against the media attacks on Trump, noting: “First of all he didn’t say immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country. He said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of the country, which is objectively and obviously true.”

“You guys seem far more upset about the guy who criticized the problem than you do about Joe Biden who’s causing this problem,” Vance continued.

“White House nickname for Trump is ‘Hitler Pig.’ How humorless and pathetic is that?” said Marc Thiessen, a former George W. Bush White House speechwriter, in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

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Younger staff in President Joe Biden's White House have taken to derisively referring to former President Donald Trump as "Hitler pig." The moniker appears to be an attempt to emulate the former President's penchant for effectively neutralizing opponents by assigning them nicknames and is just the latest in a pattern of the Biden government attempting to connect Trump with the genocidal German dictator, despite the public mostly seeing the comparison as absurd. show more
Johnson Ukraine Funding
April 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
War

Speaker Johnson’s Policy Chief Worked as Lobbyist for Pro-Ukraine Firms.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s top policy adviser, Dan Ziegler, previously lobbied for corporations that have taken a clear interest in the Ukraine war. Ziegler was a lobbyist with Williams & Jensen, a firm with a clients list including Amgen, Eli Lilly & Co, Visa, Vanguard Group, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck, which have all issued statements in support of Ukraine and, in many cases, eliminated or curtailed their business activities in Russia.

Among Ziegler’s reported former clients is Bloom Energy Corp., which provides energy services to Lockheed Martin. The U.S. arms supplier could benefit from further U.S. aid to Ukraine via increased military contracts, boosting Bloom, in turn. The impact of the war and associated sanctions on the traditional energy market has also benefited Bloom, which specializes in renewable energy.

Ziegler’s connections to businesses with interests in Ukraine emerge as Speaker Johnson is controversially paving the way for more Ukraine aid. This has angered America First conservatives, but he has insisted he will “do the right thing and… let the chips fall where they may.”

“If I operated out of fear of a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job. History judges us for what we do. This is a critical time right now,” he added — although before becoming Speaker, he voted against bills including further Ukraine aid.

SEPARATE BILLS. 

Johnson is allowing separate bills funding aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to go before the House, having previously rejected a Senate bill that combined aid for all three with a border security package that could have made immigration worse.

Allowing a standalone Ukraine aid bill to go forward and likely pass with the help of Democrat lawmakers is widely regarded as a U-turn. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have expressed support for removing Johnson from the Speaker’s chair.

However, both previously supported Kevin McCarthy, who also supported Ukraine aid, and it is unclear who might replace Johnson.

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Speaker Mike Johnson's top policy adviser, Dan Ziegler, previously lobbied for corporations that have taken a clear interest in the Ukraine war. Ziegler was a lobbyist with Williams & Jensen, a firm with a clients list including Amgen, Eli Lilly & Co, Visa, Vanguard Group, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck, which have all issued statements in support of Ukraine and, in many cases, eliminated or curtailed their business activities in Russia. show more
Hannah Fraher Senior Staffer for Speaker Mike Johnson
April 18, 2024
William Upton
Politics

REVEALED: Mike Johnson Staffer Threw Anti-Trump Tantrum.

The Director of House Operations, hired by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), threw a tantrum when the D.C. Young Republicans Club (DCYRs) endorsed former President Donald Trump in May last year, according to a report from Breitbart News. Hannah Fraher responded to an email announcement from the group, alleging they violated their bylaws by making the endorsement during the Republican presidential primary and demanded they refund her dues or else she’d quit the club.

Late on May 24, 2023, the DCYRs emailed their membership, stating, ” We need a President that puts America First. We need Donald J. Trump in 2024.” The endorsement came just hours after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign in a glitch–filled event hosted by David Sacks and Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter).

At 10:03 PM, Fraher responded to the DCYRs endorsement, whining, “Given this is in violation of the bylaws, I would like a refund of my dues.” She added the snarky rejoinder, “Let me know however it is easiest for you to make that happen.”

After the Young Republicans Club informed Fraher they would not issue her a refund, she replied in an outburst: “That’s fucking ridiculous. You’re a joke.” The club responded, “Don’t care, loser.”

The exchange allegedly resulted in Fraher engaging in several anti-Trump tirades while discussing the exchange with other Congressional staff on Capitol Hill in the days following the endorsement. According to Breitbart News, Speaker Johnson‘s staffer — at the time serving as a senior counsel — would routinely express criticism of the former Republican President. However, they report that she now has expressed a desire to seek a job should Trump recapture the White House in November.

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The Director of House Operations, hired by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), threw a tantrum when the D.C. Young Republicans Club (DCYRs) endorsed former President Donald Trump in May last year, according to a report from Breitbart News. Hannah Fraher responded to an email announcement from the group, alleging they violated their bylaws by making the endorsement during the Republican presidential primary and demanded they refund her dues or else she'd quit the club. show more
April 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
TECH

China’s DC Embassy is Directly Lobbying for TikTok.

The Chinese Embassy is directly lobbying congressional staff to oppose a bill forcing ByteDance to sell its TikTok app or be banned in the U.S., despite the Chinese government claiming it does not control the company.

The House of Representatives has already passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications bill with broad bipartisan support. It must still pass the Senate, however, where it is opposed by lawmakers such as Rand Paul, who has received multi-million-dollar donations from ByteDance investor Jeff Yass.

It is not only Yass lobbying against the bill’s passage but also the Chinese government itself. At least three congressional aides, two from the Senate and one from the House, have held meetings or been invited to hold discussions with the Chinese Embassy, initiated by the Chinese.

Revealingly, Chinese diplomats suggested at the meetings that TikTok was being mistreated because it is Chinese, despite the company officially disclaiming links to China and stressing that it is registered in Singapore and the U.S.

China hawks argue that the embassy’s lobbying efforts prove TikTok is viewed as an essential tool of influence by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), underscoring the need for a ban.

“By lobbying congressional staff to protect TikTok’s relationship with ByteDance, [People’s Republic of China] officials are revealing how valuable TikTok is to the Chinese Communist Party. Losing control of the app would neuter Beijing’s most potent weapon against Americans,” argued American Foreign Policy Council fellow Michael Sobolik.

The embassy, however, argues it “tries to tell the truth about the TikTok issue to people from all walks of life in the U.S.” and insists its actions are “not about lobbying for a single company but about whether all Chinese companies can be treated fairly.”

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The Chinese Embassy is directly lobbying congressional staff to oppose a bill forcing ByteDance to sell its TikTok app or be banned in the U.S., despite the Chinese government claiming it does not control the company. show more
John Eastman Bank Account Closures
April 18, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

Trump Lawyer John Eastman Has Been DEBANKED.

Constitutional law professor John Eastman, a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, says his bank accounts with two major U.S. financial institutions were abruptly closed in the course of two months in late 2023. This phenomenon, known as “de-banking,” has targeted conservatives in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In June of 2023, Brexit leader Nigel Farage was informed that several of his UK bank accounts would be closed without explanation.

According to Eastman, Bank of America informed him in September 2023 that it would be closing his banking and other financial accounts. The second-largest banking institution in the U.S. offered the former Trump legal advisor no indication of why his account was being closed.

Following the notice from Bank of America, Eastman says he moved his accounts to USAA, a financial services and banking institution that serves military members, veterans, and their families. After just two months with USAA, the legal scholar received a notice that it would also close his accounts in November 2023. The bank cited its “Depository Agreement” as grounds for severing its business relationship with Eastman. Eastman was found preliminarily culpable on 11 charges related to advice he gave former President Trump on the 2020 election just several weeks prior to his de-banking by both institutions.

Bank of America has received tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through federal bailouts. The financial institution received an initial $15 billion in 2008 after the financial crisis. An additional $20 billion — along with a federal guarantee of $100 billion to help cover potential toxic asset losses from its absorption of Merrill Lynch & Co. — was awarded to Bank of America in early 2009. Both Bank of America and USAA also benefit from federal insurance programs.

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Constitutional law professor John Eastman, a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, says his bank accounts with two major U.S. financial institutions were abruptly closed in the course of two months in late 2023. This phenomenon, known as "de-banking," has targeted conservatives in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In June of 2023, Brexit leader Nigel Farage was informed that several of his UK bank accounts would be closed without explanation. show more
Mike Johnson Foreign Aid Packages
April 18, 2024
Wake Up Right
Politics

Here’s What YOU Can Do About Speaker Johnson’s Betrayal of America.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing to drop a massive foreign aid package, comprised mostly of money for Ukraine, that ignores the wishes of GOP voters and delivers a giant win to Joe Biden.

The details: The House Appropriations Committee released a memo yesterday unveiling three bills that Johnson will package into a single rule totaling $95 billion.

  • Ukraine gets $60.84 billion in taxpayer dollars to replenish weapons & services and fund U.S. military operations in the region.
  • Israel gets $26.38 billion to replenish the Iron Dome missile defense system and other defensive and offensive weapons.
  • Indo-Pacific gets $8.12 billion to build up our defensive and offensive capabilities in the region to counter China. This includes $2 billion for Taiwan.

Joe Biden immediately endorsed this plan.

The backstab: When Johnson became Speaker, he supported the position, widely held by Republican voters, that Congress should not allocate a single dollar for a foreign country until Joe Biden agreed to secure the border.

  • In January, Johnson said: “Before we even talk about Ukraine… We have to take care of our own house. We have to secure our own border before we talk about doing anything else.”

The pattern: Unfortunately, this foreign aid vote is not the first time Johnson has ignored the will of Republican voters.

  • He pushed FISA re-authorization, which allows the Biden Department of Justice to spy on American citizens without a warrant.
  • He allowed Congress to pass the Democrats’ spending bill.
  • He let Democrats raise the debt ceiling, digging us deeper into national debt.

What do Americans think? A new poll found that just 11 percent of Americans say Ukraine funding is more important than securing the border, while 50 percent put the border first.

Big picture: Senator Rand Paul sums up the situation best: “As I see it now, I’m not so sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge.”

The House will vote on the foreign aid bill on Saturday. Readers are encouraged to call Speaker Johnson and politely let him know how they feel.

  •  D.C. office: 202-225-2777
  •  Louisiana office: 318-840-0309

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing to drop a massive foreign aid package, comprised mostly of money for Ukraine, that ignores the wishes of GOP voters and delivers a giant win to Joe Biden. show more
UK Taxpayers
April 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
UK

Taxpayers Fund ‘Research’ on ‘Transphobia’ in Archaeology, Whiteness, and Gay Porn.

Taxpayers are funding researchers to produce extremist left-wing ‘academic’ work, including anti-“whiteness” projects and papers claiming archaeology is transphobic and proposals to reinvent the field as “fully transgender inclusive.”

One researcher at the University of York created a presentation titled Bones Don’t Care About Your Feelings: Challenging Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology in (Social) Media. He is receiving a stipend of £18,622 a year (~$23,205) from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a government body funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Another UKRI-funded research project focused on archaeology and transgenderism seeks to “establish a framework for a fully transgender inclusive archaeology that tackles normative interpretations of the past and supports the transgender community in a period of heightened attacks in the present.” Its abstract pledges to build on “queer theories of gender” and “reframe archaeology as a safe, inclusive space.”

UKRI has been exposed as funding a variety of woke research projects of questionable value in recent days. Several anti-“whiteness” projects are being funded, including one titled The unbearable whiteness of class: towards an intersectional reading of poverty discourses in Brexit Britain, and another titled Bordering on whiteness: Exploring the racialised subjectivities of Italian women in post-Brexit London.

Some projects focus on sexual deviance rather than race, such as ‘Playing’ with Gay Sex: Exploring Sexual Play in Queer Pornographic Video Games Through Sexual Scripting and The Europe that Gay Porn Built — which received an astonishing £841,830 (~$1,048,330) in taxpayer funding.

A spokesman for UKRI insisted the government body “invests in a diverse research and innovation portfolio” after “a rigorous peer review process by relevant independent experts from across academia and business.”

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Taxpayers are funding researchers to produce extremist left-wing 'academic' work, including anti-"whiteness" projects and papers claiming archaeology is transphobic and proposals to reinvent the field as "fully transgender inclusive." show more
Adriano Espaillat
April 17, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

REVEALED: U.S. Congressman Who Blasted Trump’s Bodega Visit Entered America Illegally.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) first came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as an illegal alien with his parents, overstaying tourist visas and living in the country illegally for around a year before securing a green card. This fact was noted by The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, in a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier on Wednesday. The progressive New York Democrat attacked Donald Trump in a social media post on Tuesday over the former President’s visit to a Harlem bodega — a neighborhood in Espaillat’s district.

“Donald Trump didn’t do his homework. My district is progressive and my constituents are honest hard working New Yorkers who don’t have time for Trump’s division, hate, and chaos,” Espaillat, the first former illegal alien to serve in Congress, said. He added: “Trump has no place in my district.”

Despite the claims by the pro-open borders Democratic lawmaker, residents of Harlem flocked to the bodega location — cheering on Trump. The former President had spent much of Tuesday confined to a Manhattan courtroom where he faces prosecution by District Attorney Alvin Bragg over spurious allegations in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial. Harlem residents chanted “Four More Years!” among other political slogans.

On Wednesday, the Bodega and Small Business Group (BSBG), which represents thousands of bodegas in New York City, issued a statement backing former President Trump, slamming local District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and criticizing local politicians who have ignored the widespread criminality in the city. BSBG’s president, Fransisco Marte, said Trump’s visit “highlights just how much we have lost the way in New York,” adding that he hoped the president’s “support for stronger laws and enforcement will spur our own elected officials to action.”

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Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) first came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as an illegal alien with his parents, overstaying tourist visas and living in the country illegally for around a year before securing a green card. This fact was noted by The National Pulse's editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, in a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier on Wednesday. The progressive New York Democrat attacked Donald Trump in a social media post on Tuesday over the former President's visit to a Harlem bodega — a neighborhood in Espaillat's district. show more
April 17, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Senate Dems End Mayorkas Impeachment Trial, Allowing Biden’s Border Carnage to Continue Without Comeuppance.

Senate Democrats voted late on Wednesday to declare the two sets of articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden‘s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayokras to be “unconstitutional.” This move ended the Senate’s impeachment trial before lawmakers could hear evidence presented by House impeachment managers.

The two votes, orchestrated by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), were adopted along party lines—except for the first set of articles on which Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) abstained. Schumer’s procedural move marked an anti-climatic end to the Mayorkas impeachment process, which began in February of this year when the House of Representatives adopted the two formal articles against Biden‘s Homeland Security Secretary.

Republican members of the Senate attempted to head off – or at least drag out – the Democrat’s maneuver to end the trial with a series of procedural votes and constitutional points of order. Despite the efforts of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), John Kennedy (R-LA), and even Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to shame Democrats into allowing a trial to move forward, Schumer held his caucus together and defeated the Republican procedural moves.

Among the Democrats backing Schumer’s votes to deem the articles of impeachment as “unconstitutional” were vulnerable Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

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Senate Democrats voted late on Wednesday to declare the two sets of articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayokras to be "unconstitutional." This move ended the Senate's impeachment trial before lawmakers could hear evidence presented by House impeachment managers. show more
Migrants March NYC
April 17, 2024
Immigration
Politics

WATCH: Illegals March On City Hall Demanding More Taxpayer Cash.

Hundreds of illegal aliens marched through New York City on Tuesday, eventually massing in front of City Hall. The protestors demanded the city extend a program housing illegal immigrants in hotels instead of temporary shelter facilities and provide them with work permits. According to a report from Savanah Hernandez, who was present at the protest, the crowd was composed largely of French-speaking single males who appeared to be from Haiti and Africa.

The protest was in response to a New York City Council oversight hearing, which aimed to address the quality of life and experiences of Black immigrants in the city. Council member Alexa Avilés echoed the protestors‘ calls in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating: “We must uproot the anti-Blackness that plagues our systems of care—this work requires dedication, creativity, and a city willing to fund our short, mid, and long-term needs.”

Protestors expressed their discontent with a recent city decision to relocate them from luxury hotels, where they had previously been accommodated, to city shelters. Additionally, the illegal immigrants claimed the city’s 30-day limit on shelter access would leave many of them without housing options in the near future. New York City, which currently provides housing and other services for around 67,500 illegal immigrants, has struggled with the financial costs caused by the Biden government’s border crisis.

Work permits were also a top issue for the demonstrators. Democrat politicians on both the local and federal levels have pushed for increasing work permits as a partial solution to the ballooning taxpayer burden that providing food and shelter for illegal immigrants has brought. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has pushed the Biden White House to begin issuing additional permits. Meanwhile, several Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing legislation to grant permits to illegal immigrants working in agriculture.

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Hundreds of illegal aliens marched through New York City on Tuesday, eventually massing in front of City Hall. The protestors demanded the city extend a program housing illegal immigrants in hotels instead of temporary shelter facilities and provide them with work permits. According to a report from Savanah Hernandez, who was present at the protest, the crowd was composed largely of French-speaking single males who appeared to be from Haiti and Africa. show more