U.S. Officials Were Happy With Anti-Corruption Efforts Of Ukrainian Prosecutor Joe Biden Got Fired

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State Department officials and other U.S. government officials supported the anti-corruption efforts of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin before then-Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukraine into getting Shokin fired, newly released documents show.

U.S. officials believed Shokin was working to combat corruption in late 2015 and early 2016, despite assertions from Joe Biden that he pressured Ukraine into removing Shokin because of concerns about corruption, according to internal memos obtained by Just the News.

“Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee,” concluded an October 2015 memo from the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), an Obama administration task force designed to evaluate Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts.

“Ukraine has an economic need for the guarantee and it is in our strategic interest to provide one. As such, the IPC recommends moving forward with a third loan guarantee for Ukraine in the near‐term,” the memo adds.

In June 2015, then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland wrote a letter to Shokin praising his work on anti-corruption and pledging to provide American resources to support Shokin’s effort. Nuland now serves as acting deputy secretary of state in the Biden administration.

“We have been impressed with the ambitious reform and anti-corruption agenda of your government. The challenges you face are difficult, but not insurmountable. You have an historic opportunity to address the injustices of the past by vigorously investigating and prosecuting corruption cases and recovering assets stolen from the Ukrainian people,” Nuland wrote.

“The United States fully supports your government’s efforts to fight corruption. We have dedicated personnel and resources from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and Department of Justice (DoJ) to work with your office on its organizational changes and to build its capacity through training and modernization,” Nuland added.

Joe Biden later threatened to use the $1 billion loan guarantee to have Shokin removed as Shokin was investigating Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where Hunter Biden was being paid more than $80,000 per month to sit on its board.

“You remember last year I was authorized to say we’d do the second tranche of a billion dollars,” then-VP Joe Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations in September 2016. “And [then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko] didn’t fire his chief prosecutor. And because I have the confidence of the president, I was there, and I said: I’m not signing it. Until you fire him, we’re not signing, man. Get it straight. We’re not doing it.”

Shokin’s office announced a raid on Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky’s property on Feb. 4, 2016, as part of his investigation into Burisma, Ukrainian outlet Interfax reported in April 2016. Joe Biden called Poroshenko on Feb. 11, 2016, White House archives show. Poroshenko’s office confirmed Shokin’s letter of resignation Feb. 19, 2016, and a month later Shokin was removed by the Ukrainian parliament, the Kyiv Post reported.

“Viktor Shokin has managed to implement those reforms that the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has been opposing for decades: the prosecutors have been stripped of general supervision, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the State Investigation Bureau, and others have been established,” Poroshenko said about Shokin on Feb. 16, 2016, according to Ukrainian media reports. “This is on the one hand. On the other hand, the PGO has unfortunately failed to gain society’s trust. And that is why the resignation of the Prosecutor General is on the agenda.”

Shokin was considered a “threat” to Burisma’s business, former Burisma board member and Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson in August. Archer also recalled Shokin’s raid on Zlochevsky’s property, and told Carlson it was “categorically false” to claim Joe Biden was not aware of his son’s foreign business dealings.

Archer’s interview with Carlson took place after Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee in late July about how the Biden family “brand” protected Burisma and kept the business afloat.

Archer recalled how Hunter Biden “called D.C.” on Burisma’s behalf in December 2015, without confirming whether Joe Biden was on the receiving end of the phone call. A few days later, then-VP Biden’s office devised talking points for State Department officials who anticipated press inquiries regarding Burisma and Zlochevsky ahead of Joe Biden’s December 2015 trip to Ukraine. Then-VP Biden delivered a speech to Ukraine’s parliament Dec. 9, 2015, in which Biden urged the country to pursue anti-corruption measures.

“[T]he real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine b/c Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules,” U.S. official George Kent wrote to then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in a November 2016 email.

Joe Biden repeatedly insisted during the 2020 presidential campaign that he was carrying out U.S. policy by pressuring Ukraine into removing Shokin.

“I did nothing wrong,” Biden said at a 2019 CNN-New York Times debate. “I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that’s what we should be focusing on.”

“With regard to Ukraine, we had this whole question about whether or not, because he was on the board, I later learned, of Burisma, a company, that somehow I had done something wrong,” Joe Biden said at an October 2020 debate against then-President Trump, according to an official transcript. “Yet every single solitary person, when he was going through his impeachment, testifying under oath who worked for him, said I did my job impeccably. I carried out US policy.”

Archer told the House Oversight Committee that Joe Biden spoke with his son’s business partners over 20 times and specifically recalled a spring 2014 dinner with Joe Biden and Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, who wired Hunter Biden and Archer $3.5 million, according to a 2020 Senate report. Archer also testified about a spring 2015 dinner attended by Joe Biden and Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi.

House Oversight has released bank records showing the Biden family and its associates made more than $20 million from Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh and Romanian business partners.

Joe Biden said Archer’s testimony was “not true” during a confrontation with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Aug. 9. The White House has said the president was “not in business” with his son.

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JAMES LYNCH

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Biden Campaign Refuses To Commit To Debate With Trump

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The Biden campaign refused to say whether the president would commit to debating former President Donald Trump.

“To be honest with you, we haven’t really had any substantive conversations about that yet,” the Biden campaign’s Communications Director, Michael Tyler, told reporters Tuesday, according to NBC.

Biden is unlikely to debate any Democrats in the 2024 election cycle. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is not hosting any debates given that Biden is the incumbent. His challengers, Robert F. Kennedy and Marianne Williamson, have called for the president to debate them, but his campaign has not announced any plans to do so.

Trump and Biden debated twice in the 2020 election.

Trump has also bowed out of at least the first Republican debate and posted that he would not be doing “debates” — using the plural.

“The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, & much more. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” Trump announced on Truth Social.

Eight Republican candidates will be taking the stage for the first debate Wednesday in Milwaukee, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Biden’s campaign said that Trump doesn’t have to be at the debate for his “extreme agenda” to be there.

“Whether he’s on the stage or not, his extreme agenda will be,” senior Biden campaign advisor Cedric Richmond told reporters, NBC reported. “And the only thing that will be missed is the chaos, the disruption, the bullying, the name-calling of former President Trump.”

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to an inquiry from the Daily Caller.

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DIANA GLEBOVA

White House correspondent.

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America on Brink of $1 TRILLION a Year in Interest Payments

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In interest alone. This is the greatest fiscal plunder — the unimaginable transfer of wealth — for our own destruction.

The Red Line: America Is Headed Toward Annual Outlays in Interest Payments on Its Debts of $1 Trillion a Year

Can Congress muster the will to rein in outlays across the non-military budget? Go ahead, kid me.

By: Red Jahncke, NY Sun, August 22, 2023:m

After the downgrade of America’s debt by Fitch Ratings, a drumbeat of negative assessments has followed in respect of how deep in the hole our country has plunged. That’s a good thing, since net interest on the debt is escalating rapidly on a track to hit an unsustainable and crippling $1 trillion in fiscal 2025.

This fiscal year net interest is headed toward $700 billion, having already hit $561 billion in ten months, with $67 billion paid in July. Rates are at the highest levels in decades and likely to stay there, with the Federal Reserve saying it will hold rates “higher for longer.” Rates may climb further, as they have in recent days.

Most economic forecasters now see uninterrupted economic growth rather than a recession that might bring rates down. Monetary experts are considering whether current rates are a new normal and whether the neutral rate of interest and, or or, the real rate of return may be higher than previously thought.

All this implies steady or rising interest rates and increases the likelihood that net interest will hit the projected $1 trillion. The numbers bring home the reality — starting with the ongoing cost of the existing and staggering $25.8 trillion of publicly held debt that now saddles our economy.

According to the Treasury Department, the embedded interest rate on the debt at the end of July was 2.9 percent, which yields annual interest expense of $748 billion in fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2025. The next step is to calculate the increase in interest costs as existing below-market fixed-rate long-term debt matures and rolls over at prevailing rates.

In fiscal 2024, $2.7 trillion of long-term fixed-rate Treasuries will mature and roll over at current rates. Their weighted average original maturity is 4.5 years and their weighted average coupon interest rate is 1.5 percent. Rolled over at today’s 4.45 percent rate on 5-year Treasuries, they will produce in 2024 additional interest at an annual rate of $86 billion and actual interest cost of an additional $43 billion.

The third step is to calculate the cost of new debt required to fund fiscal 2024 and 2025 deficits at an assumed $2 trillion, the same as expected this fiscal year. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the deficit in the first ten months of this year, as adjusted by CBO, has surpassed $1.7 trillion, implying $2 trillion for the year.

The national debt clock is seen at midtown Manhattan on May 25, 2023.

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Pamela Geller

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Biden To Vacation With Hunter At Home Of Billionaire Climate Activist And Dem Megadonor

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President Joe Biden will be joined by his son, Hunter, as he embarks on yet another lengthy vacation at a property belonging to billionaire climate activist and Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, according to multiple reports.

Biden has faced criticism for remaining largely silent on the wildfire disaster in Maui, Hawaii, and vacationing on the beach in Delaware. The president is renting Steyer’s home at “fair market value” through the remainder of the week, with Hunter and multiple other family members in attendance, according to multiple reports.

Steyer ran against Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and withdrew from the race in February after placing third in South Carolina’s primary. The prominent climate activist threw his support behind Biden’s presidential bid months later.

The former candidate encouraged Biden to lean into more left-wing policies to combat climate change in his presidential bid and appeal to a younger electorate concerned with such issues, according to Politico. Steyer later met with Biden’s campaign to express interest about a role in his then-potential administration.

Biden and the First Lady arrived at the Lake Tahoe home late Friday evening, but are planning to visit the Hawaiian island devastated by wildfires on Monday. The president will then return to his vacation where he and his family will remain until next Saturday, according to Bloomberg.

The president drew backlash last week after appearing to respond with “no comment” when asked about the Maui disaster while relaxing on the beach in Delaware.

The Biden family vacation comes a week after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel to continue investigating Hunter. Weiss received sharp criticism for a plea deal between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Hunter that included a pretrial diversion agreement, which would have immunized the president’s son from certain future prosecutions had it not collapsed.

Neither the White House nor Steyer immediately responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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MARY LOU MASTERS

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Watch ‘China HELPLESS Against New U.S. Strategy Littoral’—A Suicide Mission at Best!

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LITTORAL: The littoral compromises two segments of battlespace: 1. Seaward: the area from the open ocean to the shore, which must be controlled to support operations ashore. 2. Landward: the area inland from the shore that can be supported and defended directly from the sea. (JP 3-32) (US DoD)

“Littoral”=A Suicide mission at best!

This idiot idea would not have even been thought of under a real Commander-in-Chief like Donald J. Trump.

At the first sign that China is going to launch missiles at Taiwan the US Military should take out all of their missile sites in a pre-emptive first strike using our own cruise missiles launched from ships, bombers and submarines. If the Communist Chinese were still afraid of the U.S. Military there would be no need for even talk about this ridiculous FD 2030 plan.

However, under Obama clone Austin in charge of DOD and a limp wristed JCS and most current major flag rank commanders they are laughing at us.

WATCH: China HELPLESS Against New U.S. Strategy

©2023. Royal A. Brown. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: The Five Steps to Force a Nation into Communism

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“Communism must be built with non-Communist hands.” — V.L. Lenin

This is very good and very simple. May be worth watching a few times and then sending it around with a note as to how this has happened in your area.

Here are the five steps:

  1. Divide the people.
  2. Create the appearance of popular support.
  3. Neutralize the opposition.
  4. Precipitate mob violence.
  5. Create a semblance of revolution.

Sound familiar?

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Wokeness, not climate change, is to blame in Maui

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Over 111 lives have been lost in the tragic Maui fires that wiped the historic township of Lahaina off the map and have left authorities searching for another possible 1,000 victims.

Like clockwork, corporate newsrooms have concluded that a climate apocalypse is to blame. “The explanation is as straightforward as it is sobering,” the New York Times opined; “As the planet heats up, no place is protected from disasters.”

No matter that most of the experts the Times quoted said Hawaii’s dry conditions relate to El Niño — a phenomenon stretching back thousands of years — not global warming.

What the press has been slow to report is the bureaucratic bungling surrounding this disaster.

First, there are President Joe Biden’s multiple, tone-deaf “no comment” replies that he managed to mutter at journalists between a visit to his Delaware beach home and a weeklong vacation in Arizona.

Then there’s the bizarre behaviour of Maui’s chief emergency management officer, Herman Andaya. Andaya expressed “no regret” for refusing to activate Lahaina’s emergency sirens as the flames spread — sirens the locals say would have saved countless lives — but then resigned the next day, citing health reasons.

It is now clear that Andaya had no expertise in disaster management. Instead, he was a lawyer whose only apparent qualifications were a prior stint as Maui’s mayor and watching some “online FEMA trainings and workshops”.

Now there are reports that Hawaiian Electric knew its power lines posed a fire hazard, but spent next to nothing on wildfire prevention while obsessing over — and spending big on — so-called renewable energy.

If that weren’t woke enough, consider the case of M. Kaleo Manuel, the Department of Land and Natural Resource’s deputy director for water resource management. According to the Honolulu Civil Beat, Manuel refused to release water for fighting fires in West Maui until it was too late.

Manuel, who has a college degree in Hawaiian studies and is a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, has faced severe criticism on social media for his environmental philosophy, which critics suggest guided his decision-making earlier this month.

“Native Hawaiians treated water as one of the earthly manifestations of a god,” Manuel said during a Zoom interview uploaded to YouTube last year. He lamented that “we’ve become used to looking at water as something that we use, and not something that we revere,” and added that water requires “true conversations about equity”.

While the battle over traditional water use in Hawaii has been around longer than wokeness, it is a stream that now feeds the woke river.

Presidential Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy seems to think so. He wrote on X, formerly Twitter:

As wildfires raged, desperate residents petitioned state officials to send more water for firefighting & to help protect their properties from fire. That request went unanswered for hours, withholding critical aid to islanders. Now we’re learning that the official who delayed the approval is an Obama Foundation “Asia Pacific Leader” & a climate activist who believes water should be “revered” first and foremost. The DEI agenda is literally costing people their lives. Hawaii’s Democrat governor, Josh Green, says there are people “fighting against the release of water to fight fires” & that it needs to be explored further.

From the other side of the political aisle Michael Shellenberger, a passionate environmentalist, argued this week that, as his headline puts it, Renewables Mania And Woke Dogma Behind Hawaii Fire, Not Climate Change.

Pre-modern cultures, like the one M. Kaleo Manuel would resurrect, were a double-edged sword. Animistic people’s reverence for nature meant they left their environment largely untouched, and for that, we admire them. But it came at a cost.

When the trees and the mountains and the rivers are worshipped, they can hardly be investigated, managed or utilised. For all its benefits, the pre-modern mindset stood in the way of scientific and technological developments — including something as essential as firefighting.

Wokeness has a price. We cannot sow a crop of primitive beliefs and pre-modern values without reaping their harvest. We cannot eschew the glories and triumphs of the Western world without losing what makes the West so free and prosperous and safe.

As Hawaii picks up the pieces, more answers are sure to surface about what went wrong and how it can be avoided next time.

But one thing seems sure: less hot air about climate change, DEI and wokeness would be a welcome first step.

AUTHOR

BEN TERANGI

Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee.

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The Longer Republicans Do Nothing, The More Likely America’s Destruction Becomes Irreversible

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Leftists and their radical agenda are the biggest threats our self-government faces today. The GOP sits idly by…

The Longer Republicans Sit On Their Hands, The More Likely America’s Self-Destruction Becomes Irreversible

By: Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, August 15, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, who orchestrated Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal, will now serve as special counsel in the government’s probe of the Biden family business.

The blatantly partisan decision to appoint a co-conspirator in the plot to cover up the Biden family business should not go unpunished. Republicans should start by impeaching Garland, whose track record even before the recent special counsel appointment was worth immense scrutiny. Garland’s decision to bestow special privileges and status on yet another one of Biden’s corrupt deep-state attorneys only adds to the growing list of reasons why he should be prosecuted and removed.

Garland isn’t the only one who should pay. The whole DOJ, its pawns in the FBI, and whoever in the White House is giving them orders should be held to account for their travesties against the American people.

The Biden administration shouldn’t get away with its attempts to obstruct the Democrat president’s role in an international influence-peddling scheme. Unfortunately, the corrupt bureaucracy’s Biden business cover-up is only part of the downfall of the nation.

Any American can see that the biggest election-rigging plot to date is happening right under their noses. Every time there is a bombshell breakthrough in the Biden family corruption case, former President Donald Trump is punished with more concocted charges and indictments.

Now more than ever, the right must fight back. If Republicans don’t use their majority in the House and the thin margin in the Senate to curb the deep state, they may never have a chance again.

That sounds dramatic, but it’s true. One look at the actions of the Biden administration and its leftist cronies shows they want nothing more than to undercut the foundational principles of our constitutional republic and replace them with leftist fantasies.

Already, leftists have worked overtime to ensure the nation’s cities burned, hardworking taxpayers were forced out of their jobs over a jab, national security was comprised thanks to a wide open southern border, and American voters didn’t get all of the information they needed to make an informed decision during the 2016, 2020, and now 2024 election cycle.

The few institutions the left doesn’t quite dominate, such as the Supreme Court, are constantly threatened with smears and court-packing campaigns. Red states that have rejected the left’s advances face lawsuits from the feds and out-of-state-funded ballot measures designed to make them look like blue states. As I write, the unconstitutional left is trying to overturn election integrity laws so it is easier to permanently put themselves in power.

Once that is accomplished, there’s little to nothing that can be done to fight it. The authoritarian takeover is happening in plain sight, and Republicans are doing very little, if anything, to stop it.

Democrats love to use “X thing or person is a threat to democracy” as the justification for their unconstitutional actions. In reality, leftists and their radical agenda are the biggest threats our self-government faces today.

Keep reading.

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Pamela Geller

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‘It’s Over For Ron’: New Poll Shows DeSantis Drops to Third Place in 2024 GOP Primary Race

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Governor DeSantis’ presidential campaign has been nothing short of a disaster. Tragically, It was a big tactical mistake, huge. I thought he was smarter.

DeSantis listened to the Trump-hating Republican Party establishment, and launched a presidential campaign against President Trump.

Governor DeSantis was once considered the future of the Republican Party. Today, DeSantis is being overtaken by someone no one had even heard of a year ago.

If DeSantis wants to rebuild trust with Conservative voters, he needs to suspend his presidential campaign and endorse President Trump.

‘It’s over for Ron’: Trump cheers new poll showing Vivek Ramaswamy overtaking DeSantis for the number two spot in the 2024 GOP primary

  • Former President Donald Trump cheered a poll that showed Vivek Ramaswamy in second place ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 
  • The RMG survey showed Trump at 60 percent, Ramaswamy at 13 percent and DeSantis at just 8 percent 
  • ‘Go home to Florida, Ron,’ Trump said on Truth Social  

By Daily Mail, August 16th, 2023

Former President Donald Trump cheered a new poll on Wednesday that showed entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy had leapfrogged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis into second place among Republican 2024 hopefuls.

Both candidates lagged way behind the ex-president.

On Truth Social, Trump pointed to an RMG Research survey that showed him garnering the support of 60 percent of Republican voters, followed by Ramaswamy with 13 percent and DeSantis at just 8 percent.

Read more.

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Geller Report Staff

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Biden Falls Asleep During Maui Fire Victims Meeting

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UPDATE 8/24/2023:

Well it seems that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. just isn’t up to the task of the office he holds.

We’re guessing that he didn’t get his nap on Air Force 1 enroute to Maui.

But what is worse is that he actually fell asleep at a meeting with the victims of the Maui wildfires.

WATCH:

American Action News‘ Alexander J. Williams reported,

Reflecting on his trip to Maui, several noteworthy moments emerged. Upon his arrival, Biden lightheartedly commented on the heat of the ground. As the visit progressed, Biden once again mentioned his late son, Beau Biden, and shared a debunked story about a house fire that had reportedly endangered his Corvette; however, this narrative was later found to have been ’embellished’ according to information provided by the fire department.

This entire situation has proven to be a significant setback for Biden. To begin with, he took several days before finally addressing the fire, even resorting to moments of “no comment.” It wasn’t until a complete two weeks had passed that he eventually made the trip to Maui. Yet, what is currently gaining the most attention from his Maui visit is the instance where Biden seemed to briefly doze off. This moment is now circulating widely, underscoring the series of unfortunate events during the 81-year-old President’s appearance in Maui, making it an overall disastrous showing.

Discover the Networks in an article titled ‘Go F*** Yourself’: Critics Blast Biden After Insensitive Maui Speech reported,

After President Joe Biden traveled to Maui and cited his own personal history in a disastrous bid to comfort the grieving residents of the island, where at least 115 people have been declared dead from the fire that engulfed the town of Lahaina, he was blasted on social media for his colossal insensitivity.

Biden compared the fire to a small kitchen fire in his home nearly two decades ago, saying, “I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home. Years ago — now 15 years ago — I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that’s outside of our home — not a lake, a big pond — and hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts — the air conditioning ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat.” A report from the Associated Press at the time said the fire was “a small fire that was contained to the kitchen.”

“Hearing you talk about your house that had a little fire, you ‘almost lost your house and your Corvette,’ there were children that were incinerated to ash, you f***king old man, you vile human being,” one man said in a viral video.

“You’re so out of touch with the common man, you don’t even know how to speak to them,” he continued. “The only way you think you can establish commonality with them is to lie, ‘The same thing happened to you no matter what the tragedy is.’ He referenced Biden attempting to commiserate with Gold Star Moms who lost their son in action by citing his son Beau’s death from brain cancer: “Your son wasn’t killed in action, by the way,” adding furiously, “Your house didn’t burn down. Your children weren’t burned to death.”

“How dare you get up there and speak this way?” he snapped. “Your job is to go there and assuage them in a way that you talk to them about their loss, that you can’t imagine what it’s like, that you can’t imagine what it’s like never to find the bodies of the poor children who were sent home from schools. They died alone! Alone. In fear. Without their parents or guardian. The most abhorrent thing happened. You’re a disgusting, despicable bastard.”

“You ‘almost lost your cat?’ Go f*** yourself,” he concluded.

©2023. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Trump Announces He Will Skip GOP Debates

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Former President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday he will skip the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary debates.

“The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, & much more. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” Trump announcedon Truth Social.

The former president hinted previously that he might not join in on at least the first debate in Milwaukee. Trump told Fox News host Brett Baier in June that, though he likes to debate, he didn’t see the point given his polling. Speaking of his rival candidates who are currently polling well below him, Trump asked, “Why would I allow people at 1% and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night?”

Trump further accused his low-polling rivals of wasting everyone’s time at the debates as they aren’t popular and therefore “shouldn’t be there.”

Instead of joining his GOP rivals in a debate, Trump has reportedly been considering an alternate method of discussing his positions with a wider audience. Trump plans to sit down for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the New York Times reported Aug. 18.

That report followed another statement by the former president on his Truth Social account in which he referenced his high poll numbers over a “wonderful field of Republicancandidates.”

“People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate? I’M YOUR MAN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he stated.

Trump has been consistently polling double-digits over his closest rivals, despite the four indictments against him. In a CBS pollconducted between Aug. 16 and Aug. 18, Trump polled at 62% among likely GOP voters, his largest lead yet. His closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, came in at 16%.

Of the Republican debates, the poll revealed that 91% of likely voters wanted the GOP candidates to use the debates to make a case for themselves as opposed to 9% who want the candidates to use the platform to make a case against the former president.

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Trump Plans to Skip Fox News Debate, Sit for Tucker Carlson Interview: Report

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Bravo.

I wouldn’t give Fox News the sh*t off my shoe. Snakes.

Why would President Trump participate in such a debate, when he is 45 plus points ahead of every other candidate? It will be much more productive for President Trump to discuss how he plans to win in 2024 with Tucker Carlson. Expect horrible viewership for the Fox debate.

The people want President Trump. The other Republican Party presidential candidates need to suspend their campaigns immediately.

Trump plans to skip Fox News debate, sit for Tucker Carlson interview: report

By The Hill, August 18th, 2023

Former President Trump plans to skip next week’s first Republican presidential primary debate and instead sit for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to a new report.

Trump has made the decision to skip the debate and is currently planning to sit for an interview with Carlson, The New York Times reported, noting the former president has spent the last several days soliciting feedback from aides and allies on whether to participate in the debate.

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U.S. Court of Appeals Strikes Down Use of Jail and Probation for Jan. 6 ‘Parading’ Misdemeanor, A Basic American Right

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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled defendants convicted of “petty misdemeanors” cannot be sentenced to both jail *and* supervision — a ruling with implications for many Jan. 6 defendants who pleaded guilty and were sentences to both.

Finally. Righting this horrible wrong took too long. Way too long.

US Court of Appeals Strikes Down Use of Jail and Probation for Jan. 6 ‘Parading’ Misdemeanor

Three-judge panel rules out ‘split sentence’ for petty Capitol offense

By: Epoch Times, August 19, 2023:

A federal appeals court on Aug. 18 struck down the use of so-called “split sentences” in Jan. 6 cases—imposing both prison and probation for petty-offense misdemeanors such as the often-used charge of “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.”

The 2–1 ruling (pdf) by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit could affect a large number of Jan. 6 cases where the U.S. Department of Justice recommended—and district judges imposed—sentences with jail and probation for “parading” convictions.

The appeal involved the conviction of James Leslie Little, 52, of Claremont, North Carolina, on a single count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

In March 2022, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Mr. Little to 60 days in jail, followed by three years of probation.

Mr. Little told the FBI he didn’t have any intention to go into the Capitol “but that he got caught up in the moment.”

The statement of facts in the case said Mr. Little walked around the Capitol, “smiling and fist-bumping other people,” and eventually went into the Senate Chamber and took photos of himself.

He sent a text to the person who later reported him to the FBI that read, “We just took over the Capital (sic).”

The recipient wrote back and accused him of treason. “If you don’t condemn this, never bother speaking to me again!”

The Court of Appeals said the split sentence is not allowed.

“The only question on appeal is whether that sentence is authorized by statute. It is not,” wrote Circuit Judge Justin R. Walker for the appeals court majority. “Probation and imprisonment are alternative sentences that cannot generally be combined. So the district court could not impose both for Little’s petty offense.”

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Too Many Women in the U.S. Military? Here are the numbers.

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Women now comprise nearly 19% of our total military force and 17% of active duty force. Breakdown by service follows from highest to lowest %.

  1. Air Force — 21.3%
  2. Navy — 20.5%
  3. Space Force — 19.7%
  4. Army — 15.5%
  5. USMC — 9.1%

This US Military Branch Has the Most Women

By Josie Green

Total DOD military force

  • Women in the total DOD military force: 401,651
  • Men in the total DOD military force: 1,728,001
  • Share of women in the total DOD military force: 18.9%
  • Total DOD military force personnel: 2,129,656

Active duty members

  • Women active duty members: 231,741 (including 45,371 officers)
  • Men active duty members: 1,104,106 (including 191,017 officers)
  • Share of women active duty members: 17.3%
  • Total active duty personnel: 1,335,848

Army

  • Women in the Army: 74,873 (including 17,275 officers)
  • Men in the Army: 407,543 (including 76,495 officers)
  • Share of women service members in the Army: 15.5%
  • Total Army personnel: 482,416

Navy

  • Women in the Navy: 70,252 (including 11,444 officers)
  • Men in the Navy: 272,971 (including 44,600 officers)
  • Share of women service members in the Navy: 20.5%
  • Total Navy personnel: 343,223

Marine Corps

  • Women in the Marine Corps: 16,301 (including 1,981 officers)
  • Men in the Marine Corps: 163,377 (including 19,720 officers)
  • Share of women service members in the Marine Corps: 9.1%
  • Total Marine Corps personnel: 179,678

Women have increasingly joined the U.S. Armed Forces over the last 50 years. Before the country ended military conscription in 1973, women made up about 1% of active-duty personnel. As of 2021, the share of women on active duty in the military had increased to 17.3%. The percentage of women serving as commissioned officers also rose accordingly, from 4% in 1973 to 20% in 2021. (A few nations have a much higher share of women service members. These are the countries with the most women serving in the military. )

As women began establishing themselves in diverse roles and leadership positions in the ‘80s and ‘90s, debates about women in combat took the floor. In 1994, President Clinton took a small step and rescinded a 1988 “Risk Rule,” essentially allowing women to serve in all roles except for direct ground combat. And in 2015, the historic ban on women serving in combat positions was lifted, opening the doors for them to serve in almost any military role.

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Biden Regime Tells Families of Victims that 9/11 Jihad Plotters Could be Spared Death Penalty

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No surprise here. Biden’s handlers likely want this whole thing to go away, as does everyone else, which is why it has gone on so long without these jihadis being tried or sentenced. No one wants to deal with jihadis; they’d rather pretend they don’t exist.

Biden administration tells 9/11 families that attack mastermind, 4 others could be spared death penalty

by Victor Nava, New York Post, August 16, 2023:

The Pentagon and FBI have notified some of the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks that suspected terrorist mastermind Kalid [sic] Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants could be spared the death penalty under plea agreements being considered by the Biden administration.

The notice came in the form of a letter, obtained by the Associated Press, that was sent to 9/11 families as the government explores how to resolve the more than decade-long prosecution of the alleged terrorists.

“The Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements,” the letter informs families, adding that while no plea agreement “has been finalized, and may never be finalized, it is possible that a [pre-trial agreement] in this case would remove the possibility of the death penalty.”

The Associated Press reports that in the letter, dated Aug. 1, military prosecutors pledge to consider the views of the 9/11 families before accepting any plea deals, and the note asks recipients to respond to the FBI’s victim services division by Monday with any comments or questions about the potential agreements.

The case involving Mohammed and the four others currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been mired in legal disputes and delays, particularly concerning the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by CIA operatives after the men were apprehended….

No trial date has been set for the five suspected 9/11 conspirators.

The Trump administration had previously ruled out any plea bargains with the suspected terrorists, who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006….

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