Read Why Charlie Crist is Joe Biden’s ‘Lap Dog’

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Well, well, well. Since the 2022 primary elections are over we the people of Florida know who’s the Democrat nominee to run against Top-Gov Ron DeSantis for governor of the sunshine state.

My, my, my! It’s our former governor, you know that former republican, then independent and now Democrat, who’s representing Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and his policies in D.C. and in the sunshine state — Charles Joseph Crist, Jr.

You know that lawyer who now works for both Obama and Biden supporter John Morgan from the Morgan & Morgan law firm in Tampa.

Right after winning the nomination Charlie proudly declared he thinks Joe Biden is doing a “remarkable” and “phenomenal” job as president.

It seems as though Charlie doesn’t want your vote because his statement sends a clear message to the majority of Florida voters that he doesn’t care about you, your family, your children and your economic state of wellness, given that Joe and Charlie, by design, have now put America and Florida into an economic recession.

According to Charlie, anyone who supports our current Governor Ron DeSantis’ freedom-first, anti-woke, pro-parental rights, pro-business, pro-law enforcement, pro-law and order and pro-life/pro-family agendas has “hate in their heart.”

Crist stated, “Those who support DeSantis should stay with him and vote for him and I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there.”

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Wow, what a way to start a campaign.

It appears that Charlie, like Joe, passionately hates Ron DeSantis. Add to this list California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsome who also hates Top-Gov Ron DeSantis.

Gavin Newsom’s obsession with Florida and Governor DeSantis continues to grow as he pledges $100,000 to Charlie Crist — the man who has already declared he doesn’t want your vote.

Given his statements and record of voting for every Democrat policy since going to Washington, D.C. we can see that Charlie is:

  1. Anti-American and thereby anti-Florida being a free state.
  2. Anti-securing our borders to stop the invasion of illegal aliens.
  3. Pro-grooming Florida’s children for sex with perverts, pederasts and pedophiles.
  4. Pro-Black Live Matter and Antifa, which means pro-violence.
  5. Pro-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which means he hates whites and anyone else who doesn’t support Biden, his administration and extremist policies.
  6. Anti-Self Defense/Second Amendment. He voted yes on: the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022
  7. Anti-law enforcement.
  8. Anti-parents.
  9. Pro-tax and spend.
  10. Pro-ecofascist, he voted for the Green New Deal.
  11. Pro-abortion.
  12. Anti-Jew, Christian, Muslim and Amish. Note Muslims, per the Quran, hate sodomites.
  13. Pro-LGBTQ+. He voted for the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act.
  14. etc. etc. etc.

Therefore, Florida voters can only come to one and only one conclusion.

Charles Joseph Crist, Jr. is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s lap dog.

BYW, on October 13th, 2014 in a column titled Charlie Crist Concedes Election Finance Violations, Forced To Refund Donations we wrote,

Republicans filed a complaint against Team Crist for “repeated” finance violations. After the complaint was filed, Crist & Co. refunded thousands of dollars to donors who exceeded the legal limit of $3,000.

On April 23rd, 2012 The Center for Public Integrity article titled Ex-GOP Gov. Crist’s law firm donates to pro-Obama super PAC Michael Beckel reported,

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist made his name in the Republican Party, but his new employer — a personal injury law firm [Morgan & Morgan] — leans the other way, as evidenced by a $50,000 donation it made to the pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA Action.

Orlando, Fla.-based law firm Morgan & Morgan, known for its slogan “representing the people, not the powerful” and its ubiquitous advertising, made the donation March 31. The gift was disclosed in documents filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.

It is one of only a handful of companies to donate to the super PAC, which is allowed to accept unlimited amounts of money from individuals, unions and corporations thanks to legal changes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and a federal court ruling called SpeechNow.org.

Crist, a Republican who served as the Sunshine State’s moderate governor until January 2011, joined Morgan & Morgan after placing second in Florida’s 2010 U.S. Senate race. He works in the firm’s Tampa office handling class action lawsuits.

It seems that while Charlie’s been in D.C. he has diligently been working with and for Joe Biden, while, on the other hand, Governor Ron’s been in Tallahassee working for everyday Floridians.

Last but not least, while in Florida Charlie is working diligently with his boss John Morgan to make recreational marijuana legal by putting an amendment on the ballot in 2024 to amend the Florida Constitution. We know this will lead, as it has in all states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use, to more addiction in young children, more addicts and more crime and abuse of other illegal drugs including fentanyl, cocaine, heroine and ecstasy. While in Congress Charles Joseph Crist, Jr. voted for the: Medical Marijuana Research Act and Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.

Wow! Does this get any worse?

Get it? Got it? Good!

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©Dr. Rich Swier.

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Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis Sweeps School Board Elections with 25 Wins!

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The endorsement of Ron DeSantis for school board candidates has created a “red wave for parents rights” in the Sunshine State.

The Washington Stand’s Marjorie Jackson reported,

Just as school bells across the country begin ringing for another semester of class time again, Florida conservatives are running another victory lap around the school yard.

Tuesday night’s Florida primaries handed victories to 25 of the 30 school board candidates backed by the state’s Governor Ron DeSantis (R), and 35 of 49 candidates endorsed by school board-challenging 1776 Project PAC, flipping several school boards to have conservative majorities.

“It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work,” Meg Kilgannon, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for Education Studies, told The Washington Stand. “It’s a reflection of Florida citizens’ anger at the school boards in red counties and a red state acting like they live in blue counties and blue states. A lot of these places very publicly and strongly pushed back on implementing the governor’s recommendations on masking for students and following the federal guidelines. This is a big part of why you’re seeing this big turnout right now.”

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Florida Research Council Action’s Matt Carpenter stated,

“The most important government is the government closest to home, so when parents stream to the polls to toss recalcitrant ideologues off their local school board they are sending a clear message: teach our children to read and write, not gender ideology or dividing them by race.”

According to an October 21st article in the Tampa Bay Times reporter Jeffrey S. Solochek wrote,

In October 2021 the National School Boards Association sent a letter to Biden raising concerns about “domestic terrorism” targeting boards. Although the association did not mention parents, and the Justice Department did not call for investigations, DeSantis and others have framed the issue as a federal attempt to curtail parental rights.

[ … ]

DeSantis said Wednesday that federal officials were trying to intimidate parents from speaking their minds on controversial issues at board meetings.

“As we continue to see the use of fear and intimidation to suppress opposition to the regime, we’re going to find new ways to be able to empower parents’ rights to decide what is best for their children,” DeSantis said. “Parents across the state should know that their freedoms are going to be protected here, and that the state of Florida has your back.”

Governor DeSantis kept his word and helped elect candidates to school boards in Florida that are dedicated to empowering parents’ rights to decide what is best for their children.

For example in Sarasota County DeSantis endorsed three pro-parental right to choose candidates for the school board and all three won, giving parents a voice on matters concerning how and what their children are being taught.

Public schools statewide are under the microscope in Florida and Governor Ron DeSantis is leading the charge to make sure the the voices of parents are heard, loud and clearly, by each and every school board.

Parental rights is now the key issue in Florida with Democrats saying parents have no rights and Governor DeSantis clearly supporting the rights of parents in their child’s education. This issue was a factor in the primaries and will be again in the midterm election for Governor of Florida.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Muriel Bowser, Oh Pobrecito!

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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks the illegal aliens bused to the nation’s capital from Texas and Arizona are in her city temporarily.  Boy, is she in for a rude awakening.  The aliens have nowhere else to go and say they want to stay.

The aliens are placed in hotels instead of the city’s homeless shelter system.  All they get is a hotel room – which they and their children can’t leave – and three meals a day.  No city services of the kind typically offered to the homeless in D.C.  The new arrivals are not allowed visitors or even to go to each other’s rooms, which is a problem for large families spread across multiple rooms.  They’re not given keys, but have to ask to be let in.  There are no translators and the security guards, who don’t speak Spanish, are aggressive in enforcing the rules, leading to fights.  Welcome to Muriel Bowser’s America.  I can’t wait for the first class-action lawsuit naming her as a defendant.

“The city promotes the narrative that they’re only here temporarily,” a volunteer said.  “However, the families are staying…. They have no contacts in the United States and they have nowhere else to go.”  We can blame the Biden administration for letting them into the country in the first place and the Bowser administration for trying to handle the situation on the cheap.  Her solution?  Keep asking the National Guard to take care of the problem, even though they keep telling her ‘no’.  Oh, pobrecito!  After years of promoting D.C. as a sanctuary city, she just can’t believe Biden’s border problem has landed in her lap and blown up in her face.  Careful what you wish for.

But if she’s looking for sympathy, she won’t find any among mayors of towns along the border.  “If we can do that, they can too,” one mayor, who has had deal with as many as a thousand new arrivals a day, said. “Their numbers [of illegal immigrants] are pretty low. I know they can do it.”  A spokesman for Arizona said the state’s “hospitals, community organizations, [and] nongovernmental organizations are being strained tremendously. So, the goal here is to alleviate the burden for Arizonans.”  Seven more Texas counties just declared an invasion at the southern border, bringing the total to 17.

Bowser shouldn’t look for sympathy in the Biden administration, either.  The administration is still bending over backwards to pack the country with as many illegal aliens as it can.  The latest policy changes opening the border and welcoming illegal aliens include final rules preserving the unconstitutional DACA program.  Why do I say unconstitutional?  Because Barack Obama said many times he didn’t have the authority to create the DACA program, but he did it anyway.  DACA is part of a web of Biden rules intended to cut the number of deportations of illegal aliens as much as possible.

Biden’s relaxed border rules for children have led to a number of older illegal aliens posing as children to avoid expulsion.  Border agents just caught ten in El Paso.  More than 650 have been caught in the El Paso sector in just the last fiscal year, alone.  Agents warn many more pretenders get through because the government does a bad job of screening them at the border.

In previous commentaries, I’ve documented numerous other policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border.  I love immigration, but I’m not for shredding the Rule of Law in the process.  I’m also on record calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden and his partner in crime DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws – laws passed by your duly elected representatives in Congress and signed by former presidents.

So you can criticize me all you want, but let’s see what tune you sing after Texas or the feds send hordes of illegal aliens on buses or midnight flights to your town.

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It’s Official: Revised GDP Numbers Show The Economy Is Definitely Shrinking

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The Department Of Commerce revised the estimate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Thursday morning, finding similarly to July’s estimate that real GDP contracted in the second quarter of 2022.

The revised estimate for the second quarter finds that real GDP decreased annually at a rate of 0.6%, slightly less than the July 28 estimate of a 0.9% decrease, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

This matches the expectations of economist E.J. Antoni, who told the Daily Caller News Foundation in advance of the results that it was unlikely that the revised estimate would significantly change from the July estimate.

One well-known rule of thumb for defining a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction, a measure that the Biden administration has repeatedly attempted to argue is not necessarily accurate. The White House has typically deferred to the National Bureau of Economic Research to officially declare a recession, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressing the health of the labor market ahead of the July GDP estimates as an example of why the U.S. is not in a recession.

“We are already in a corporate earnings recession,” Antoni told the DCNF. “Many corporations have only met or beat earnings estimates last quarter because those estimates were revised down from previous quarters.”

Since the last GDP estimate, a series of high-profile retail companies, including Target, Best Buy and Walmart, have been forced to cut earnings estimates, joined Tuesday by Macy’s and Nordstrom. As companies struggle with inventory overflow, some have even turned to storing inventory in truck trailers or parking lots as temporary storage facilities in lieu of potentially expensive investments in more traditional warehouse facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Shipping industry insiders believe that this practice is adding to existing strain on the shipping industry, taking up shipping containers that could otherwise be used to transport goods, according to the WSJ.

“When a trailer is being used for storage, it can’t be used for transporting other goods,” said Miami University professor of supply chain management Lisa Ellram, to the WSJ.

Since the last GDP estimate, the July Consumer Price Index indicated inflation seen by consumers was 8.5% year-on-year in July, remaining historically high despite being below the June peak of 9.1%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The July Producer Price Index was similar, estimating inflation seen by producers was 9.8% year-on-year, down from a peak of 10.3% in June, according to data from the BLS.

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The Real Problem with Greta Thunberg Is Not Her Age

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Greta Thunberg first came into the public light in 2018 when she started a school strike on climate in front of the Swedish parliament.

March 15th saw enthusiastic worldwide school student protests inspired by passionate appeals from 16-year-old Swedish school girl-turned-global-leader Greta Thunberg. Thunberg first came into the public light last year when she started a school strike on climate in front of the Swedish parliament. She rose to worldwide fame in January when she addressed the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Predictably, a lot of the reactions from those who are skeptical of climate change alarmism seem to focus on Thunberg’s age. Even Bjorn Lomborg seems to have alluded to her in his remark about how the predominant narrative about climate change makes children scared.

I disagree with this perspective. I believe that 16-year-olds have as much intellectual capacity as legal adults to understand the issues related to climate change and the potential measures that could be taken to mitigate it. However, if 16-year-olds desire to seriously contribute to important political debates, they should, like anyone else, do it without engaging in demagoguery and scaremongering.

It is here that Greta Thunberg—in spite of all her genuine sincerity and passion—has failed spectacularly and made the legions of her fans, as well as people who may face the consequences of the panicky measures she advocates, a great disservice.

To get a taste of the content of Thunberg’s preachings, let us consider her recent remarks to European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker:

We have to focus every inch of our being on climate change. Because if we fail to do so then all our achievements and progress have been for nothing. […] According to the IPCC report, we are about 11 years away from being in the position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control. To avoid that, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place within this coming decade.

There is no place for nuance here, no trace of uncertainty, no appeal to actual facts or pragmatics of politics—only the demand for total commitment and sacrifice because the absolute urgency of our predicament is supposed to be self-evident since none other than IPCC purportedly said so.

I would wager that it would be pointless to ask Thunberg any serious questions about the actual science underlying the climate change issue—to ask her how much the Earth has warmed so far since 1979 compared to computer model predictions; that the bulk of the recent warming occurred during the El Niño stages of the ENSO climate oscillation; or whether she is aware that the doubling of CO2 can only in itself cause only about 1°C of warming and that to postulate alarmist scenarios one needs to postulate uncertain positive feedbacks, whereas, in reality, the net feedback may be zero or negative; that a lot more people die from cold temperatures than from hot ones and that it is not extreme cold temperatures that are the most deadly; that increased CO2 concentrations are good for plant life, and so on.

Let us focus on an easier issue and ask whether the latest IPCC report even in the (as usual) distorted summary for policymakers says anything remotely similar to Thunberg’s 11-years-left-till-Apocalypse-unless-we-act claim. Unsurprisingly, the summary—biased as it is in favor of alarm—says no such thing. Thunberg seems to be wildly misinterpreting the statement on page 6 of the summary that “global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 (till which date 11 years remain) and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate.” There is no implication in the summary that this extent of warming may cause catastrophic planetary consequences.

Even if we take what Thunberg claims about the inevitable impacts of an unaddressed climate change at face value, she does not appear to be cognizant that the only viable way of reducing CO2 emissions is switching to nuclear power. Writing for that famous den of climate change deniers, MIT Technology Review, last July, James Temple cited an estimate that if even California, with its abundant sunshine, were to switch to 100 percent renewables, that would make the price per megawatt-hour skyrocket to $1612.

Instead, we hear from her the usual platitudes that massive emissions reductions should be made immediately using renewable energy sources. Added to this are calls to abandon the focus on competition and focus on equity as if that clearly had anything to do with climate change or handling it.

We must also reflect on the fact that Thunberg is considered by many people to be a global hero. She has even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But is it really brave or enlightened to advocate a cause that has long enjoyed the status of conventional wisdom? To which one can only sadly hear widely disseminated public objections from the likes of President Trump, who is admittedly as clueless on the issue as the most religious alarmists are and who does not care about the outrage his remarks can cause?

It is sad if this is what is taken for Nobel-worthy heroism these days. Countless Venezuelans, for instance, risk their freedom, health, and lives every day, protesting against the Maduro regime that has lost any semblance of connection to reality and plunged the formerly richest country in Latin America into the literal darkness of the pre-industrial age. It is people like them who should be invited to global fora to tell their tale. Them, not a girl from one of the richest and most comfortable countries on Earth who is in too much of a panic because she cannot make herself actually read up on the actual science about climate change and the real state of the potential solutions.

The real problem with the climate change activist sensation Greta Thunberg is not that she is 16 years old. Rather, it is that she is a clueless fanatic who is considered brave and enlightened for promoting a cause that almost everyone agrees with without any study or reflection. And it is the duty of anyone who does not want clueless fanaticism to determine policies affecting billions to call it out as such.

This article is republished with permission from Medium.

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Daniil Gorbatenko

Daniil Gorbatenko is a free-market economist living in Aix-en-Provence, France. He obtained his PhD in economics from Aix-Marseille University in 2018.

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The Australia Model for Gun Control Is Useless

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The case of gun control advocates for the U.S. to move to the Australia model for gun ownership is faulty at best.

In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, a great number of people have laid the blame on America’s relatively lax gun laws and alleged unwillingness to adopt “common sense” gun control.

In particular, gun control advocates tell us America could eliminate mass shootings if only we followed Australia’s lead.

The Australia Model

In Australia, after a horrific mass shooting in 1996, the national government introduced a mandatory buyback program which forced gun owners to sell certain firearms (mainly semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns) to the state, who promptly destroyed them.

This program, which resulted in the stock of civilian firearms in the country being reduced by approximately twenty percent, was effectively large-scale gun confiscation, as gun owners would have become criminals were they to withhold their firearms from the state.

Since the introduction of these measures, Australia’s firearm homicide rates have fallen and it has yet to witness a mass shooting. Because of these “results,” Australia has been constantly cited as a successful example of gun control in action.

But the reality is much less simplistic than the narrative being promoted by gun control advocates.

Sure, there have been no mass shootings in Australia since it enacted gun control, but that hardly proves anything by itself. A 2011 study published in Justice Policy Journal compared the trends in mass shootings before and after 1996, when gun control was enacted, in Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand is Australia’s neighbor and is very similar to it socioeconomically, but unlike Australia, it retained the legal availability of guns that were banned and confiscated in Australia in 1996. It thus served as a useful control group to observe whatever effects gun control had on mass shootings.

The authors of the study found that, after taking into account difference in population size, Australia and New Zealand did not have statistically different trends in mass shootings before or after 1996. Indeed, New Zealand has not had a mass shooting since 1997, “despite the availability in that country of firearms banned in Australia.”

Well, what about firearm homicides in general? Or firearm suicides?

View Firearm Homicide Deaths by Calendar Year — 1979-2009

These questions were answered by a 2016 American Medical Association (AMA) study, which examined trends in firearm homicides and suicides before and after the adoption of gun control in Australia in 1996. The authors found no evidence of a statistically significant effect of gun control on the pre-existing downward trend of the firearm homicide rate.

This is in accordance with past research. For example, the authors of a paper published in the International Journal of Criminal Justice report that, “Although the total number of published peer-reviewed studies based on time series data remains relatively small (fewer than 15 studies, at the time of writing), none of these studies has found a significant impact of the Australian legislative changes on the pre-existing downward trend in firearm homicide.”

The authors of the AMA study did find that the decline in firearm suicide rates accelerated in the wake of gun control, but concluded that “it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms” because the “decline in total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths were of greater magnitude.”

In other words, since non-firearm suicide rates were reduced to an even greater extent than firearm suicide rates in the wake of gun control, one cannot firmly conclude that gun control is the reason firearm suicide rates fell.

Basically, gun control advocates have built their entire case about Australian gun control on lazy data analysis, or perhaps no data analysis at all. If anything, Australia proves the complete opposite of what advocates of gun control want.

A national gun confiscation scheme which reduced the civilian firearm stock by an astounding twenty percent and nobody can seem to find any clear evidence it caused a meaningful effect on the firearm murder rate? That’s not only embarrassing, it goes against everything they believe about the nature of the relationship between guns and murder rates.

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Corey Iacono

Corey Iacono is a Master of Business graduate student at the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Science and a minor in Economics.

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The Comeback of God in Some Texas Schools?

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Is God making a comeback in some of the public schools of Texas? A news item last week gives a glimmer of hope that it may be so.

60 years ago this summer, the Supreme Court effectively banished God from the public schools. They did this in the first anti-school prayer case.

On June 17, 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the Supreme Court ruled this harmless prayer as supposedly being unconstitutional: “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country.”

At that time, only one Supreme Court Justice, Potter Steward, dissented. He said: “I think this decision is wrong….[I don’t see how] an official religion is established by letting those who want to say a prayer to say it.”

Stewart pointed out that even the Supreme Court opens with a type of invocation: “God save the United States and this honorable Court.” He also quoted a decision from the 1950s, Zorach v. Clauson, in which the Supreme Court declared, “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”

As the executive director of Providence Forum, I have been working on a series of films called the Foundation of American Liberty, which is our nation’s Judeo-Christian roots.  I was privileged to interview Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, for these documentaries.

Prager told our viewers, “The Supreme Court changed America… with the 1962 decision that prayer in school was unconstitutional. That was the decision that began the end of America as we knew it….And as I often point out, within one generation, kids went from blessing their teachers to cursing their teachers.”

And then came school shootings. Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver observes, “We should not be surprised when we see violence and suicides in public schools.…because once we have removed transcendent moral principles… then we see the destructive behavior that we, unfortunately, experience today.”

But perhaps God is making a comeback, even in some public schools in Texas. There is a new “In God We Trust” law.

The Texas Tribune notes (8/18/22):  “The ‘In God We Trust’ law was authored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes….Texas public schools or colleges must display the national motto in a ‘conspicuous place’ but only if the poster is ‘donated’ or ‘purchased by private donations.’”

Hughes spoke to the Northwest Austin Republican Women’s Club last week and tweeted, “The national motto, In God We Trust, asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God…I’m encouraged to see groups like the Northwest [Austin] Republican Women and many individuals coming forward to donate these framed prints to remind future generations of the national motto.”

The motto is derived from the last stanza of Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner (our national anthem), written in 1814 when the British unsuccessfully tried to invade Baltimore. It says: “Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! / Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, / And this be our motto – “In God is our trust.”

During the Civil War, the Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase directed his department that: “No nation can be strong except in the strength of God or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition.”

On March 3, 1865, the U. S. Congress agreed with Secretary Chase’s suggestion to have our coins inscribed with the motto, “In God We Trust.”

In fact, the last official act that President Lincoln signed into law before he was killed was this one—that our coins would say “In God We Trust.”

It would not be until the 1950s that these words would then grace our paper money.

And in 1956, during the height of the Communist threat, which was atheistic to the core, our national government adopted “In God We Trust” as our national motto. It still is to this day.

But why does this matter? God is not a magic panacea. But people live differently when they recognize that the Almighty will hold us all accountable.

I read recently about a robber who held up the great preacher John Wesley 200 years ago. Wesley gave him his money, paltry as it was, but he also sowed seeds in the man’s heart to turn his life over to Christ. Eventually, the thief did and, by God’s grace, made something of his life.

We took God out of our schools and reaped chaos, but perhaps now we can restore Him to His rightful place and bring peace. This Texas law seems to be a step in their right direction.

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Complaint Filed against Florida Magistrate Bruce E. Reinhart who Approved Warrant on President Trump

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Tea Party Patriots Action has filed a complaint for “unethical and prejudicial conduct” against Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, the judge who approved the warrant on President Trump’s residence. The complaint accuses Judge Reinhart of having a “conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump.”

In a press release Tea Party Patriots Action stated,

Judge Reinhart Had a Conflict of Interest & a Pattern of Bias, Should Be Removed as a Federal Magistrate

Atlanta, GA – –Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) announced today that it filed a complaint for “unethical and prejudicial conduct” against Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, the judge who approved the warrant to search President Trump’s residence. The complaint accuses Judge Reinhart of having a “conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump.”  The complaint then lists seven “undisputed facts” supporting the accusation.  The complaint was filed in the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit. To read it, click here. Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement:

“Judge Reinhart acted unethically in approving the warrant to search President Trump’s residence. Judge Reinhart is a Democrat who donated to former President Obama.  The judge publicly denigrated former President Trump in social media posts. Just two months ago, he recused himself from a lawsuit involving President Trump in his suit against Hillary Clinton, citing a ‘conflict of interest.’ He has a history of ethical issues, most notably his conduct during the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and prosecution. He should be disciplined and removed as a federal magistrate. The entire episode involving the search of former President Trump’s home threatens the principle of ‘equal justice under law’ and the confidence of the American people in an unbiased judiciary.”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL COMPLAINT

The Washington Examiner exclusively covered the complaint filing in their news outlet.

Tea Party seeks removal of anti-Trump raid judge

by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist

Tea Party Patriots Action, the long-influential conservative group, has filed a federal complaint against the Obama-appointed magistrate who approved the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s winter home, the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

In a long complaint filed in the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit, Tea Party Patriots CEO Jenny Beth Martin’s argument was to the point: Florida-based Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had it out for Trump.

“Judge Reinhart has a conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump,” said the filing, which listed several examples including social media attacks and donations to anti-Trump critics, such as former President Barack Obama and 2016 GOP foe Jeb Bush.

Martin’s legal complaint, provided to Secrets, seeks to have the judge removed from the case and even dumped from the bench.

“Judge Reinhart should be disciplined and removed as a federal magistrate because of his failure to meet the standards of ethical conduct and character necessary for the public to have confidence in the nonpartisan role of a judge in a matter of this extreme public interest,” the sixth of seven charges in the ethics complaint said.

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Taxpayer Lawsuit Filed over Racially Discriminatory Minneapolis Teachers’ Contract

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Minneapolis taxpayer over a teachers’ contract that provides discriminatory job protections to certain racial minorities. The lawsuit was filed against the superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, the Minneapolis Public Schools, and the Minneapolis Board of Education for violating the Equal Protection Guarantee of the Minnesota Constitution (Clapp v Cox et al. (No. 27-CV-22-12454))

The controversial contract was agreed to in March 2022 to end a 14-day teacher strike. The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers ratified the contract shortly after the agreement was reached. The Minneapolis Board of Education ratified it in May of this year.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit states:

Among other things, the contract provides preferences, protections, and privileges for MPS teachers of certain races and ethnicities under a section entitled “ARTICLE 15. PROTECTIONS FOR EDUCATORS OF COLOR.” There is no similar provision covering educators who are not “of color.”

Under the contract, teachers of color are exempt from Defendant MPS’s seniority-based layoffs and reassignments, which means, when layoffs or reassignments occur, the next senior teacher who is not “of color” would be laid off or reassigned. In addition, the contract mandates that Defendants reinstate teachers of color over more senior teachers who are not “of color.”

Upon information and belief, prior to the contract, teachers were laid off or reassigned in order of seniority, with the least senior teachers laid off or reassigned first, without regard to race or ethnicity. Similarly, teachers were reinstated in order of seniority, with the more senior teachers reinstated first, without regard to race or ethnicity.

Article 15’s preferences, protections, and privileges for certain public-school teachers on the basis of race and ethnicity violates Minnesota’s Equal Protection Guarantee, which states that “no member of this state shall be disenfranchised or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.” Minn. Const. art. 1, § 2. The Equal Protection Guarantee is analyzed under the same principles and mandate as the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit asks the court to enter a judgement that will declare that all actions taken to implement the racial and ethnic preference provisions of Article 15 of the contract to be illegal. They are also asking that the court declare it illegal to use any taxpayer dollars to implement these provisions of the contract, and the defendants be prohibited from taking any actions to implement these racial and ethnic provisions.

“It is incredible that in this day and age a school system would engage in blatant racial discrimination in employing teachers,” stated Judicial Watch Tom Fitton. “The courts can’t move soon enough to shut down this extreme leftist attack on the bedrock constitutional principle that no one can be denied equal treatment under law on account of race.”

Judicial Watch is being assisted in the lawsuit by Daniel N. Rosen of Rosen LLC in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In a separate case, the city of Asheville, NC, in January 2022 settled a Judicial Watch federal civil rights lawsuit after agreeing to remove all racially discriminatory provisions in a city-funded scholarship program. Additionally, the city also agreed to remove racially discriminatory eligibility provisions in a related program that provides grants to educators.

In May 2022, Judicial Watch won a court battle against California’s gender quota law for corporate boards. The verdict came after a 28-day trial. The verdict followed a similar ruling in Judicial Watch’s favor in April finding California’s diversity mandate for corporate boards unconstitutional.

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Equity: Nice Smile, Teeth of Iron

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The Minneapolis Public Schools and school board just got sued over a teacher contract exempting minority teachers from seniority-based layoffs and favoring them in reinstatement.  The lawsuit cites the Equal Protection clause of the Minnesota state constitution which is analyzed the same way as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The teacher contract is a perfect summary of the shift in civil rights thinking from ‘equality’ to ‘equity’.  Under equality, an objective standard like seniority would generally carry the day. But under ‘equity’, disadvantaged groups always win, objective standards be damned, no matter who gets hurt in the process.  This is basically communist thinking.  Declare certain groups to be class enemies who always lose, henceforth, and other groups who automatically win, regardless of the merits of the case.  Under Lenin, the Soviet Union confiscated houses from class enemies and gave them to the hero worker class.  Maybe you like that idea, but Lenin also killed peasant land owners by the thousands just because they were land owners, class enemies.  If you can’t see the injustice in that, you are very far gone and there’s no hope for you.   Lenin called them bloodsuckers, vampires, and plunderers.  Today, class enemies are called racists, bigots, and homophobes in a similar effort to justify injustice.

Hopefully, you can see the shift in civil rights thinking to ‘equity’ is poisonous and manifestly unjust.  The lawsuit against Minneapolis schools is new, so we’ll have to wait awhile to see what happens, but Judicial Watch – the group that brought the suit – has prevailed in Equal Protection cases in the past.  Asheville, North Carolina settled one case by removing racial favoritism from scholarships and teacher grants.  Judicial Watch also won in California, knocking down gender quotas for corporate boards.

I’ve commented on other situations where the poisonous diversity narrative ran smack-dab into Equal Protection principles.  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot only gave interviews to “black and brown” journalists and doubled down when criticized, but eventually backed down entirely.  A U.S. civil rights official warned two colleges that segregated graduation ceremonies for Black, LGBTQ, and other minority students violate federal anti-discrimination laws.  A Texas law requiring out-of-state students to pay higher tuition than illegal aliens was knocked down.  But justice doesn’t always prevail in these situations.  Utah public health officials were warned dispensing COVID drugs based on race was illegal, but did it anyway with the Biden administration cheering them on.

Other instances where equality under law is threatened have come up, recently.  Another watchdog group that opposes “radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” in healthcare brought a civil rights complaint against the Emory University med school for granting scholarships to students who “self-identify as an under-represented minority.”

The American Bar Association abandoned a plan to yank accreditations from law schools that failed to boost enrollment of ‘underrepresented groups’ to the ABA’s satisfaction, that is, schools that failed to meet the ABA’s totally subjective diversity standards.

A New Jersey parent took dead aim at the Woke policies at her son’s school and sued the school for creating a hostile environment for whites with its programs to indoctrinate students about institutional racism and white privilege.  The suit argues such indoctrination is straight out of totalitarian reeducation camps, which reinforces my point about all of this going back to communist thinking.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration is institutionalizing racism, racial payback, and so-called ‘equity’ in every corner of the government.  It is favoring racial and LGBT groups with quotas and other goodies in contracts, grants, benefits, hiring, apprenticeships, and in a dozen other ways, regardless of individual qualification or merit.  All this is being done on the sly to avoid legal challenges.

Whatever you call this, you can’t call it equal protection of the laws.  Class enemies everywhere, beware, Lenin lives.  Kill the Kulaks!  But before you sign up to pull the trigger, you should know Lenin had to reverse himself and let peasants own land again after communism wrecked the economy.  Poisonous policies have a way of self-destructing, so can we get through the Wokism phase quickly, please?  We need to get back to the thinking that made the Civil Rights Era great – true equality before the law – before civil rights thinking went off the rails.

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Never Forget That on August 25th, 2020 Kenosha, Wisconson Was Burning and Kyle Rittenhouse Was There Defending It!

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August 25th, 2020 is a date that changed the lives of Kyle Rittenhouse and his family forever. Here’s why.

It’s the date, two years ago, that Kenosha was incinerated by a violent mob and Kyle Rittenhouse almost lost his life trying to protect property and innocent life.

After barely escaping alive that night, each and every moment since was spent fighting for Kyle’s freedom.

Against a corrupt, broken news media which lied to your face and seemed intent on fueling a race war for ratings and political vendettas.

Against left-wing political arsonists who were happy to see the country burn as long as they could rule over the ashes.

Against Big Tech tyrants whose obsession with absolute control would make the CCP blush.

With the support of countless patriots in every corner of this country, Kyle beat the odds and won his freedom.

But now, with the civil battle officially underway, he finds himself with his back up against the wall once again. So with this week’s very grim two year anniversary, I ask two things of you.

First, we ask you to leave him a very short note of support for Kyle as I know how deeply the experiences of that night must have impacted him. Hearing something positive from those who’ve had his back would mean a great deal.

And second, we are still short of our first big civil fundraising goal, so his mother Wendy Rittenhouse asks you to help us raise another $20,000 by the end of the weekend. Even if it’s just a few dollars, we would deeply appreciate it.

Kyle’s mother Wendy Rittenhouse writes,

“Obviously, Kyle’s fight has been as personal as it gets for me. But this became bigger than just Kyle. It’s about ensuring that America is a place of fairness. Of justice. Where the powerful cannot defame, censor and crush the everyday citizen. Where we have the right to defend ourselves, and in doing so not lose our reputation, our assets and the chance to live a normal life. This is a big week for Kyle, and I hope you will help make it a good one.“

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Left-Wing ‘Green’ Energy Proves Useless

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Europe’s attempted transition to so-called “Green” energy has been a massive fail.

Wind and solar have proven too inefficient and unreliable to meet the continent’s needs, leaving it dependent on fossil fuels from, of all places, Russia.

Now, with Russian supplies partially cut off, Europe faces what French President Macron called, “the end of abundance.”

The folks handling President Biden’s energy policy have learned nothing.  They remain fully determined to force America into the same energy mistakes Europe made.

Meanwhile, autocracies such as China and Russia, and emerging economies such as India, are basing their energy economies on the efficiency of fossil fuels and nuclear.  China’s greenhouse gas emissions now exceed those of the entire rest of the developed world, COMBINED!

CFACT’s team of energy scholars have done their usual thorough and compelling job of exposing the Left’s energy incompetence in a series of fact-filled articles at CFACT.org.

David Wojick delved deep into the inherent flaws in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA), saying: “The Democrats writing the IRA decided that since tax credit subsidies do a good job of promoting renewables and electric vehicles, they should do more. They should promote things like union wages, mining and manufacturing, which have nothing to do with climate.

“Think of it as social engineering squared. In the vernacular this is called ‘mission creep.’ A program designed to do one thing tries to do something very different, often unsuccessfully.”

Bonner Cohen, meanwhile, exposed the roadblocks popping up in local communities for Biden’s “incredible transition” to renewables. Cohen writes: “President Biden’s ‘incredible transition’ to what he assures us will be a clean-energy future is not going down well with residents and public officials in south-central Idaho, who are up in arms over a proposed wind power project that will have as many as 400 giant turbines marring the picturesque countryside.

“Commissioners in Lincoln and Minidoka counties on August 15th independently adopted resolutions opposing the project that would go up on 73,000 acres of federal land under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM).”

The free world’s energy economy is too important to subjugate it to Left-wing groupthink.

For nature and people too.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

President and C0-Founder of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.

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WATCH: Biden Regime Targets Amish Organic Farmer for ‘not using GMO drugs’ in Armed Raid

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Amos Miller has been farming for 25 years. No electricity, no fertilizer, and no gasoline. He has tremendously impressive crop yields using only the only the oldest of methods, totally organic.

The U.S. Marshall Service raided this farm under the guise of ‘not using GMO drugs’ to raise their vegetables and livestock.

VIDEO: Feds target Amish farmer in armed raid.

Amish farmer fighting U.S. government for right to sell his all-natural food to private buyers

Jeremy Loffredo joins Sheila Gunn Reid to provide an update on the fight one Amish farmer from Pennsylvania has with the U.S. government for the right to sell his all-natural produce to whomever he wishes.

By Rebel News, August 19, 2022

Miller’s Organic Farm is located in the remote Amish village of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. The farm supplies everything from grass-fed beef and cheese, to raw milk and organic eggs, to dairy from grass-fed water buffalo and all types of produce, all to roughly 4,000 private food club members who pay top dollar for high quality whole food.

The private food club members appreciate their freedom to get food from an independent farmer that isn’t processing his meat and dairy at U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities, which mandates that food be prepared in ways that Miller’s Organic Farm believe make it less nutritious.

Amos Miller, the farm’s owner, contends that he’s preparing food the way God intended — but the U.S. government doesn’t see things that way. They recently sent armed federal agents to the farm and demanded he cease operations. The government is also looking to issue more than $300,000 in fines — a request so steep, it would put the farm out of business.

On last night’s episode of the Ezra Levant Show, Rebel News USA reporter Jeremy Loffredo (@LoffredoJeremy) joined guest host Sheila Gunn Reid to provide an update on Amos Miller’s fight with the government for the right to sell his produce to whomever he wishes.

Explaining the current situation with Miller’s Organic Farm, Jeremy told Sheila:

There’s this farmer named Amos Miller and he’s been farming for 25 years. No electricity, no fertilizer, no gasoline. He has really, really impressive crop yields using only the only the oldest of methods, totally organic. He has milk, he has beef, he has different types of sheep. He has chicken, all types of vegetables. And he has a private buyers club of about 4,000 people all across the country that pay him top dollar for his food.

And the government doesn’t like this idea of a private buyers club. They have raided his farm with armed federal agents and they have said he needs to stop selling his meat until he gets regulated by the federal agencies whose job it is to, you know, regulate food. And he says, “you know, the way you guys regulate it, it kind of hurts the nutrition of the food — you know, you wash it in these things, you’ve given these vaccines and the cows get all types of medicine, I don’t do any of that. So I think going through your regulatory process will actually hurt the quality of my food and that’s what I’m being paid top dollar for, it is this high quality food.”

So they are fining him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they’ve actually sent armed federal agents there to take inventory of his meat, of his dairy, and they visit him to make sure that he’s not selling anything and that he’s not ramping up his production in any way. So that’s where he is now. He’s figuring out how to fight the federal government, what he’s going to do. And you know, he’s been put in this really tight spot along with the people who, you know, look to him for this food. They’re not getting their meat and dairy right now because of the government.

If you would like to support Amos Miller in his fight with the U.S. government, sign our petition at LeaveThemAlone.com.

This is just a clip from the full episode of the Ezra Levant Show.

To watch the whole thing, become a subscriber to RebelNews+.

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Famed Hacker Blows Whistle on Twitter, App is Risk to National Security

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The nation owes an immeasurable debt to Elon Musk for pulling back the curtain on this nefarious enterprise….

It’s even worse than we thought – spying and sabotage from hostile foreign actors.

Famed hacker blows whistle on Twitter, claims app is risk to national security

By Ariel Zilber, NY Post,  Aufust 23, 2022:

A well-known “ethical hacker” who was hired by Twitter to overhaul its cybersecurity alleged that the social media giant has become a security risk for the US after it reneged on a deal with the federal government to set up a system that adequately protects user data.

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — a software engineer who became a star in the hacker community after leading a 1990s-era group called “Cult of the Dead Cow” — filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging widespread dysfunction at Twitter.

Zatko was named head of security by Twitter two years ago after the company was victimized by embarrassing glitches, including the commandeering by hackers of high-profile accounts belonging to the likes of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and Mike Bloomberg.

But in a filing with the federal government which was first obtained by The Washington Post and CNN, Zatko alleges that Twitter has failed to adhere to a deal with the Federal Trade Commission to plug the cybersecurity holes that led to the hacks.

Zatko accused Twitter of failing to upgrade its server infrastructure, most of which he says is out of date — thus leaving it vulnerable to severe breaches.

He also said that Twitter’s failure to safeguard the data of its 238 million users — among them government agencies, heads of state, and defense officials — poses a national security risk.

Twitter often loses track of user data even when accounts are deleted, Zatko alleges — a violation of a pledge the company made to the FTC more than a decade ago.

Zatko also accused Twitter of allowing low- and mid-level workers access to the company’s most sensitive controls — potentially making the firm vulnerable to spying and sabotage from hostile foreign actors.

He claims he was fired by the San Francisco-based company early this year after he flagged these issues to superiors.

Zatko alleges that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal discouraged him from providing an accurate account of the web site’s cybersecurity lapses in his reports to the board of directors.

Zatko describes a tense relationship with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who is accused of discouraging the then-executive of giving the company board a full accounting of the site’s security flaws.

Instead, Zatko alleges, he was told to give a misleadingly glowing report to the board in order to deceive it into thinking the company was addressing its safety lapses while concealing the true scope of the problem.

Zatko also appears to back Elon Musk’s claim that the company is not making adequate efforts to crack down on the proliferation of automated “bot” and spam accounts.

Keep reading…..

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Biden Reclassified the Russia Collusion Docs That Trump Declassified To Aid/Abet DOJ’s ‘Criminal’ Probe Against Trump

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“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” — Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe …

‘Show me the man, and we’ll create the the crime.‘ — Democrats in post-Trump America.

The Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents and still  Biden’s spokeswoman has repeatedly claimed Joe Biden had no knowledge of the raid and that he found out about it in the media.

Biden White House facilitated DOJ’s criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos

“I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege,” acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote Trump’s team in May.

By: John Soloman, Just The News,  August 22, 2022:

Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump’s estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president’s claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.

The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home.

By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor’s claims to executive privilege, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.

The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump’s Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.

The most complete summary was contained in a lengthy letter dated May 10 that acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent Trump’s lawyers summarizing the White House’s involvement.

“On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes,” Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.

That letter revealed Biden empowered the National Archives and Records Administration to waive any claims to executive privilege that Trump might assert to block DOJ from gaining access to the documents.

“The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,’” Wall wrote. “… I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.”

The memos provide the most definitive evidence to date of the current White House’s effort to facilitate a criminal probe of the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election and may face again as a challenger in 2024. That involvement included eliminating one of the legal defenses Trump might use to fight the FBI over access to his documents.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and the committee’s likely chairman if the GOP win control of Congress in November, called the Biden White House’s involvement and privilege waiver “amazing news” with implications for past and future presidents.

“Look, the left, they’ve been out to get President Trump because President Trump’s a threat to the clique, to the swamp, to the bureaucracy, to the deep state,” Jordan told the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show Tuesday night. “Whatever term you want to use. And they all know it.

“That’s why they were out to get him before he was in office, and they set up the whole Russia collusion hoax. It’s why they tried to get him while he was in office. And of course, obviously they continue to do so now that he’s left. It’s just never going to end.”

Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus and lifelong Democrat, reviewed some of the correspondence at Just the News’ request. He said the Biden White House’s eagerness to waive Trump’s claims of privilege could have future implications for generations of presidents to come.

“I was very surprised,” Dershowitz said after reading the text of Wall’s letter. “The current president should not be able to waive the executive privilege of a predecessor, without the consent of the former president. Otherwise, [privilege] means nothing. What president will ever discuss anything in private if he knows the man who beat him can and will disclose it.”

While some courts have upheld the notion of a successor president waiving privilege for a predecessor, Dershowitz said the matter remains to be decided definitively by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The best thinking is that an incumbent president cannot waive the right of the previous president,” he said in a phone interview with Just the News. “It would make a mockery of the whole notion of privilege.”

In her letter, Wall told Corcoran the Biden administration believes a Watergate era ruling suggested Biden had the authority to waive Trump’s privileges.

“The Supreme Court’s decision in Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977), strongly suggests that a former President may not successfully assert executive privilege ‘against the very Executive Branch in whose name the privilege is invoked,’” she wrote. That ruling, however, was issued under an earlier predecessor law for presidential records and in the immediate aftermath of one of America’s worst presidential scandals.

The correspondence reviewed by Just the News also provides a contemporaneous window into what the National Archives (NARA) found when it first got boxes of documents returned from Trump’s compound in February 2022. Those boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration as Trump was leaving the White House on Jan. 20, 2021.

“In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials,” Wall wrote. “NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them.”

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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