Inflation is NOT Gone or Reduced – Just Another Biden Regime Lie

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Wayne Allen Root on his great Saturday Show Americas’ Top 10 on Real America’s Voice (a livestream program) tells the TRUTH about INFLATION — see article below.  The Biden regime is lying to us by saying inflation has gone/eased up.  Remember this as well – food & fuel costs are way undercalculated in the govt’s CSI and Inflation statistics.

Highly recommend you watch the Real America’s Voice (RAV) channel on livestream TV featuring real conservatives shows where hosts tell the truth rather than spread Obama 3/Biden lies like the LameStream media (including Fox) do every day.   All you need is your internet and a smart TV to bring up RAV or a dumb TV and a livestream device like ROKU or Firestick.  Consider saving big $$$ by getting off of cable TV (which supports many leftist apps and programs at your expense) and switching to livestream and watching only what you want to at little to no cost.

WAYNE ROOT: The Government & Media are Lying: If Inflation is Gone, I Have a Bridge to Sell You Over the Pacific…in Las Vegas!

By Wayne Allyn Root

You’ve heard it all. “Inflation has peaked.” “Inflation is no longer a problem.” “Disinflation is now a greater threat.” “Inflation is 0.” These are the greatest hits of government propaganda and misinformation.

But this is serious fake news. This kind of lie affects the lives of the entire American middle class. The middle class is being sacrificed. This is the murder of the middle class.

I’m not a politician, economist, or member of the mainstream media. I’m a businessman in the real world. And in the real world where I live inflation is alive and well. Inflation is still roaring and soaring.

Let me give you just a few examples…

*When I go grocery shopping, the bills are through the roof. It doesn’t matter if the cost of bread, butter, eggs, cream cheese, meat, chicken, fish, and a hundred other items has stopped rising. That’s where the fraud comes in. The media quotes economists who say, “inflation has peaked.” Let’s assume that’s true.

Let’s assume in the past three years a cart of groceries has risen from $80 to $120 to $180 to $220. Which it has. So, does it matter if so far this year it hasn’t gone up? None of us could afford it when the groceries were $120, or $180. We certainly can’t afford it when they sit at $220. Whether they’re up this year is of no consequence.

  • My electric bill is soaring. Last July, my electric bill was $780.13. This July my bill is $989.20. I know because just paid it today. My math says this is an increase of over 25% in one year. Isn’t green energy great! Our electric company is using more and more green energy. That’s precisely why electric bills across the country are soaring. Green energy is simply unaffordable. It will drive us all to the poor house.
  • My natural gas bill for my home is soaring.
  • My water bill is soaring.
  • My fuel bill for my car is up again.
  • My property tax bill is up.
  • Since everything I buy at the supermarket, and big box retailers, and at online stores, and all the other places I shop are up dramatically, and we all pay sales tax on every item we buy, my sales taxes are up dramatically.
  • Have you gone out to eat at a restaurant lately? I’m a businessman. I go to business lunches and dinners 10 times a week. Every one of my meals is up dramatically from three years ago. Meals that used to cost $70 to $80 three years ago, now cost $125 to $150. Sometimes at the nicer restaurants in Vegas those same meals are hitting $200. And I don’t drink.

These prices are insane. I don’t know if they’ve gone up this year. But I know A) These prices are unaffordable…and B) They are ridiculously higher than three years ago.

  • My storage unit cost $1,200 per year only three years ago. And they gave me a 13th month free. Then last year they jacked up the price to $1,920 for the same storage unit- and eliminated the 13th month free. This year they jacked the price up to $2,208 per year. My math says that’s an increase of over 80% in three years.
  • My business P.O. Box fee is up dramatically.
  • My legal and accounting fees are higher than ever.
  • My health insurance, home insurance and car insurance are all soaring.
  • And thanks to Obamacare, my health insurance SUCKS. It seems every bill is on me (for me and my children). The bills are overwhelming. Every minute there is a new medical expense. And very little or nothing is ever covered.

I already paid for two kids in college. Soon two more will be starting. College costs are up through the roof.

I haven’t even discussed rent, or mortgage, or car payments, or credit card bills. Because of much higher interest rates, those are all up too.

And I just got back from my first vacation in a year. Every year I rent a home in Park City, Utah for my big family to fly in from all over the country. The cost to rent a vacation home was up by 50% over last year.

So, explain to me how “inflation is gone”…or “has peaked”…or “is no longer a problem”…or “deflation is the bigger threat.”

Those are all lies, fraud, propaganda and misinformation to protect the biggest fraud, liar and spreader of misinformation in world history…President Joe Biden.

Only three things are fact…

1) Every bill that matters to the typical American family is sky high…and up dramatically from three years ago. Inflation is destroying the great American middle class. That’s “Bidenomics.”

2) All of these costs were dramatically lower under President Donald J. Trump.

3) We had the perfect “goldilocks economy” under Trump: inflation was close to zero…interest rates were among the lowest in history…unemployment was among the lowest in history…economic growth was soaring…stocks were fantastic…taxes were lower…and we had peace throughout the world.

I’m a businessman living in the real world. Those are the facts.

Here’s one more fact…

Now, more than ever, we need President Trump back in the White House.

Wayne Allyn Root is known as “the Conservative Warrior.” Watch Wayne’s TV shows- “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Network on Saturdays at Noon ET…and Wayne’s daily TV show on Lindell TV 2 at 7 pm ET at FrankSpeech.com. He is also host of the nationally-syndicated “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Audio Network, daily at 6 pm ET. Wayne’s latest book is a #1 bestseller, “The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book.”

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Biden DOJ Imports Ukrainian-Style Corruption

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A third felony indictment targeted former President Donald Trump Tuesday, as U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Jack Smith persuaded a D.C.-based grand jury to indict Trump on four felony counts for his actions to contest the results of the 2020 election. Trump already faces felony indictments from Smith in a Florida federal court for retaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for buying a former mistress’s silence. Both the process of indicting a former president and the charges themselves savor more of Ukrainian-style corruption than they do of American-style peaceful transition of power.

In the third indictment, Trump has been charged with four crimes: “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States,” “Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding,” “Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding,” and “Conspiracy against Rights.” But not everyone is convinced by the evidence presented. “I felt that the Mar-a-Lago indictment was strong. This is the inverse,” said law professor Jonathan Turley. “It’s 45 pages of First Amendment protected activity broken up by four captions listing conspiracy statutes that do not apply,” summarized lawyer and retired colonel Kurt Schlichter.

In fact, “It is far from clear that any law was broken,” agreed National Review’s (NR) Dan McLaughlin (who said in the same paragraph that “the Senate should have convicted him in his impeachment trial”). “But crimes,” he added, “are supposed to be about the law — which has to be plain enough to govern us all.” Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, also no Trump fanboy, said Smith “extravagantly stretched these statutes” to try and cover Trump’s behavior, and he tellingly stopped short of charging Trump with inciting a riot on January 6, 2021. “If you’ve got evidence that Trump committed incitement, then charge him with incitement,” McCarthy said. To dive deeper into the faults of the indictment, the NR editors compiled an excellent though lengthy analysis.

As many wiser heads have already noted, the exercise of jailing political opponents is a trademark of oppressive regimes with little respect for the rule of law — not an ordinary feature of American political life. In fact, it bears a striking resemblance to Ukraine’s recent history — a history which relatively few Americans know.

Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union as the autocratic federation dissolved in 1991. However, Ukraine inherited its culture of corruption and maintained close economic and political ties to Moscow for years. Had history unfolded differently, Ukraine could have resembled the neighboring Russian puppet state of Belarus. That began to change with what is known as the Orange Revolution of 2004.

In Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election, the pro-West opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko challenged the pro-Russia incumbent prime minister Viktor Yanukovich (like many parliamentary systems, Ukraine has both a popularly elected president and a prime minster chosen by the largest parliamentary coalition). At first, Yanukovich narrowly won in a run-off election, amid allegations of vote rigging and intimidation. After massive street protests, the country’s Supreme Court vacated the election results, and Yushchenko won the second run-off election. Yushchenko and Yanukovich remained the two most important figures in Ukrainian politics for the next decade.

Yanukovich won back the job of prime minister in 2006 after a minor party switched coalitions, and in 2007 President Yushchenko dissolved the parliament to stem his waning influence there. Naturally, his opponents challenged this move as unconstitutional, but when the matter came before the Constitutional Court, Yushchenko charged three of the judges with corruption and had them dismissed. This only served to drive his popularity even lower. By the 2010 presidential election, Yushchenko’s coalition had split, and his former ally Yulia Tymoshenko jumped in to make it a three-way race, and Yushchenko finished in a distant third place, while Yanukovich won.

Newly elected President Yanukovich then had his new rival, Tymoshenko, arrested in 2011 and sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office, behavior loudly condemned by Western powers. The European Union foreign office said “justice was being applied selectively in Ukraine under political motivation,” while the Obama White House responded, “The charges against Mrs. Tymoshenko and the conduct of her trial … have raised serious concerns about the government of Ukraine’s commitment to democracy and rule of law.”

In 2014, Yanukovich’s efforts to steer Ukraine away from the West and back towards Russia sparked widespread protests, leading him to flee the country (his successor as president, Petro Poroshenko, continued the pattern of corruption). Moscow then invaded and annexed Crimea and supported irregular forces in the eastern Donbas region, eight years before its attempt to invade the rest of Ukraine — and that brings us up to the present.

Does any of this sound vaguely familiar to you? Contested elections thrown to the courts, allegations of vote rigging, mass street protests, and a political opponent imprisoned due to political, selective application of justice — these are symptoms of innate Ukrainian corruption, but they also appear in the U.S.

In fact, the Ukrainian people got so fed up with the endless corruption of their political class that in 2019 they elected as president a TV star with no political experience. (I could have sworn I’ve read this script somewhere before.)

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fledgling, corrupt business world offered an enticing prospect to unscrupulous foreigners looking to make a quick buck (or rather millions of bucks). In 2014, Hunter Biden, who has no experience in energy business, joined the board of a Ukrainian oil company called Burisma and collected a monthly income of up to $50,000, nearly equal to the U.S. median annual salary.

At the time Biden joined Burisma’s board, his father, Vice President Joe, led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy, and Burisma was under investigation for corruption. Soon after, then-Prosecutor General Victor Shokin, the official investigating Burisma was fired. Joe Biden boasted in 2018 that the Poroshenko administration fired Shokin because he threatened to withhold $1 billion in foreign aid unless they did so.

As Joe Biden told the story, “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in’ — I think it was, what, six hours? — I looked, and I said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a —–, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid.”

Shokin was succeeded as Ukraine’s Prosecutor General by Yuriy Lutsenko, who had been convicted of embezzlement and abuse of office in 2012 and implicated in a poisoning attempt against Yushchenko. During his tenure as prosecutor general, he obstructed the investigation into Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman who failed to register as a foreign agent while working for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and was later convicted on money laundering charges. It’s good to know the sort of character President Biden described as “solid.”

In an ironic twist, President Trump was impeached (the first time) for a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he made as part of an effort to uncover evidence of the Biden family’s corrupt dealings in that country. The notion that a sitting president would use his official position to dig up evidence of crimes by his chief political rival seemed beyond the pale to a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives at the time. By contrast, no member of the Biden family has yet suffered any consequences for their corrupt dealings in Ukraine or any other foreign nation.

Corruption in American politics has ebbed and flowed throughout her 247-year-long history, and election tampering has too. Yet few observers would dispute that both are currently at a high tide. What other conclusion is there when, recent events in American politics mimic those of a fledgling democracy still struggling to wriggle free of Soviet-era corruption?

Fortunately, by construction and longstanding tradition, the U.S. legal system is stronger than that of Ukraine’s. There are still officials willing to stand up to defend equal justice before the law, due process, the peaceful transfer of power, and fundamental human rights. The public still, by and large, values and expects government officials to abide by these principles. So, it’s conceivable that a political prosecution that would succeed in Ukraine’s judicial system will fail — or even backfire — in the U.S. But no free and open system of government can withstand the constant abuse of those who wield power in it forever. Sooner or later, the abuse must cease, or freedom will.

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a staff writer at The Washington Stand.

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You’ve watched the film Sound of Freedom, but now what? Here’s how you can help!

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The recently released movie Sound of Freedom covers an important issue of child sex trafficking in South America. While this film has ignited conversations, there is significant work to be done to address this complex topic, and every concerned citizen can play a role in making a difference.

We at NCOSE invite you to take action and be part of the solution by focusing on mass-scale prevention.

Why Mass-scale Prevention?  

The case for Mass-scale prevention is perhaps best illustrated through the famous Parable of the River, summarized as follows:

One day a group of villagers was working in the fields by a river. Suddenly someone noticed a baby floating downstream. A villager rushed out and rescued the baby, brought it to shore and cared for it. During the next several days, more babies were found floating downstream, and the villagers rescued them as well. Before long there was a steady stream of babies floating down the river. Soon the whole village was overwhelmed, trying desperately to keep up with all the babies in need of rescue.

Finally, a villager asked: “Shouldn’t we go upstream to discover how all these babies were getting into the river in the first place? If we can find that out, we can stop the problem at the source, and no more babies will be in danger of drowning!”

Organizations who are focused on rescuing the babies in the river—or, for our purposes, helping victims of sexual exploitation—are doing extremely critical work! But if we don’t also travel upstream to address the root causes, the problem will never be stopped and there will always be a constant flow of victims that we can’t keep up with.

We can’t wait for the harm to happen. We can’t wait for people to be victimized. We must prevent victimization by going upstream.  

That’s why NCOSE’s mission is to focus on cutting off the root sources that are causing mass amounts of sexual abuse and exploitation. And we invite you to join us in this mission!

How you can help: 

STOP SEX BUYERS, THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF SEX TRAFFICKING 

Stopping sex buyers is the only way to truly prevent sex trafficking. Sex buyers are the root cause of sex trafficking. Those who seek to buy sexual access to children, women, and vulnerable individuals create the demand that motivates sex traffickers to force or coerce people into the sex trade in the first place. If there were no men willing to pay for sexual access to exploited persons, sex traffickers would have no reason to do what they do.

No buyers=No business!

ACTION: Ask your state legislators to increase accountability for sex buyers, to prevent sex trafficking! 

Contact Your Local Elected Officials RE: Demand

The only way to end sex trafficking and all exploitation is deceptively simple: we have to stop those who create the demand by buying sex.

Stop the sex buyers! No buyers = no business.

Research from around the world has shown this is not only a possibility – it’s working! By creating deterrents such as fines charged to sex buyers—even sending letters to their homes once they’re charged, we stem the endless flow of victims needed to fulfill the demand buyers create. Those fines can be used to fund programs needed for survivors.

Please take 30 SECONDS to send this email to your local elected officials, asking them to adopt policies that increase accountability for sex buyers. NCOSE can support officials with research, customized legislation, and training.

PREVENT ACCESS OF PREDATORS TO CHILDREN 

The digital age offers sexual predators and exploiters almost limitless access to children, through online platforms and communication services. An estimated 82% of child sex crimes begin with contact on social media platforms.

The only way to stop this epidemic is to move the tech industry to take responsibility for making their platforms safer. The tech industry has the power to protect children at a massive scale—when they make safety changes to their products, it immediately impacts the millions of children who use them.

Here are a few ways you can call for greater responsibility and accountability for tech companies!

ACTION: Insist Instagram & Snapchat Prioritize Child Safety! 

Instagram and Snapchat are both common platforms where sexual predators access children. For this reason, they were both placed on NCOSE’s 2023 Dirty Dozen List—an annual campaign that calls on 12 mainstream entities to change problematic policies and practices that are facilitating exploitation.

ACTION: Ask Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the EARN IT Act! 

The EARN IT Act is a crucial child protection bill that would allow tech companies to be held accountable for knowingly facilitating the distribution of child sexual abuse material. Sign this quick action asking your members of congress to support this vital legislation!

ACTION: Thank Google Chromebooks for Defaulting to Safety!

Google responded to advocacy by automatically activating high safety settings on all Chromebooks issued to K-12 students. Sign the petition thanking Google for protecting the millions of kids that use their devices!

MOVE CORPORATIONS TO REJECT PROFITS FROM SEXUAL EXPLOITATION 

Mainstream Corporations and popular brands drive culture. They influence the ways we communicate, dictate the information we receive and how we receive it, and play a significant role in shaping our value systems.

Unfortunately, many well-established, mainstream corporations are perpetuating and enabling sexual abuse and exploitation. NCOSE holds corporations accountable, pressing on them to change problematic practices and to make preventing sexual abuse and exploitation part of their business model. By doing so, we can transform them from enablers of exploitation into engaged allies in advancing a culture of dignity and safety.

ACTION: Ask Microsoft’s GitHub to Stop Creating Sexually Exploitative Technology!

Microsoft’s Github is arguably the most prolific space for Artificial Intelligence. Unfortunately, it is also a significant contributor to the creation of sexually exploitative technology. GitHub is being used to generate synthetic child sexual abuse material and image-based sexual abuse. Learn more and take action here.

ACTION: Sign the Petition to Support the Child Sex Trafficking Survivor Suing Twitter!

“Twitter was asked to take [child sexual abuse material] down and Twitter said ‘we’ve looked at it and we’re not taking it down.’” – Judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The NCOSE Law Center is suing Twitter on behalf of a child sex trafficking survivor who was exploited on the platform, with the company’s full knowledge. This case seeks not only to hold Twitter accountable, but to create better legal precedents, as a form of mass-scale prevention that will have a ripple effect across all online platforms. Learn more and take action here.

ACTION: Sign the Petition for the Pornography Industry to Verify Age & Consent!

Online child and adult sex trafficking thrives because the pornography industry has no meaningful measures for verifying the age and consent of individuals featured in their content. Sign the petition calling for this to change!

ACTION: Call on the U.S. Attorney General to Investigate OnlyFans!

OnlyFans promotes itself as being empowering to pornography performers, but in reality it empowers sex traffickers, child exploiters, and “revenge porn” posters. Learn more and take action here.

We are so glad that your heart has been stirred to care about the problem of sex trafficking. With the above strategies, we can truly end this tragedy! Thank you for taking meaningful action and joining the movement for change.

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It appears that Pfizer employees had a special batch of vaxx just for them, not the same as the public was made to take

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Thank you M: The Gateway Pundit – Pfizer Executive Can’t Provide Definitive Answer Why Its COVID-19 Vaccine Causes Myocarditis and Pericarditis During Australian Hearing

Pfizer Under Question

The company was very reluctant to attend the committee hearing and also reluctant to supply a straight answer, automatically falling back on their ‘safe and effective’ mantra to dodge answering the question.

Already, this Senate Hearing revealed that Pfizer is rewriting history on transmission of infection.

We’re supposed to conveniently forget they said “get it to protect others, to save grandma” and “when you’re vaccinated the virus stops with you”.

They’re hiding behind their indemnity contract with our government and dodging responsibility.

ATAGI and the Australian governments must stop pushing these unsafe and ineffective shots and drop the destructive mandates now.

Why Can’t Moderna Provide These Answers?

During last night’s Senate hearing into our COVID 19 Vaccine Discrimination Bill representatives from Moderna couldn’t provide the numbers of serious adverse reactions from their COVID mRNA injection.

Australia – Malcolm Roberts questioned Pfizer representatives last night in a Senate Hearing

Pfizer can’t explain why their Covid Vax causes myocarditis – Senate Estimates 3.8.23

A tough day for Pfizer Australia in Senate hearings today.

Australian politicians grill Pfizer and Moderna execs over COVID jab heart injuries

[…]Representatives from the two Big Pharma companies refused to give direct answers to questions about the vaccines causing myocarditis and pericarditis.

[…]Pfizer employees received a separate batch of Covid shots

[…]Contracts between Pfizer and Australian government ‘remain confidential’

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Gavin Newsom’s Office Funded Illegal, Secret Chinese Biolab Found With Infectious Material, Viral Agents

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“I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Nicole Sieba, Reedley City Manager, to Your Central Valley.

Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California. Covertly operating for a year, it was shut down by the Fresno County Department of Public Health. From October 2022 until the warehouse at 850 I Street in Reedley was operating a biological lab.

The CDC found infectious material and myriad diseases including malaria , Rubella, HIV, chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, and herpes 1 and 5 at the site which was listed as an empty building. Apart from vast array of diseases found, the lab also had 900 genetically engineered mice designed to catch and carry various COVID strains living in vile conditions with another 175 found dead.

Why would Gavin Newsom subsidize an illegal bioagent  lab run by a shady Chinese company?

Illegal Chinese biolab was subsidized by Gavin Newsom

BY DAVID STROM • August 03, 2023

Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California.

It was, needless to say, a disturbing story. We aren’t talking about some sterile, well-controlled biological research facility that hadn’t kept up with all its paperwork.

No, this was a hidden lab piled with chemicals, boxes, refrigerators with chemicals and 20 deadly viruses, and genetically engineered mice that had been bred to catch and spread human viruses like COVID-19. It was in an ostensibly abandoned warehouse, and when the inspectors showed up the lab equipment had been hastily turned off before whoever was working there disappeared.

The power was off, but the freezers were still cold. People disappeared quickly, leaving behind a lot of documents in Chinese and a “President” who is available only by email from China. The president claimed the lab was merely storing defunct equipment, but there were live genetically engineered mice and the viruses stored in freezers.

[ … ]

The latest twist to all this is that the company that originally owned the equipment before it was acquired by the current “owner,” Prestige Biotech, was named Universal Meditech, and Universal Meditech was subsidized by Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

[ … ]

There is remarkably little news coverage of this story–The Daily Mail did a report on the findings at the lab and printed some disturbing images gleaned from court documents. But the MSM in the United States has mostly ignored the story.

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Leftists Attack, Then Blame Responding Conservatives as Culture War Aggressors

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Old dogs sometimes do learn new tricks. And President Joe Biden is so pleased with his latest attainment — criticizing Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for delaying military promotions over the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy — that he is showing it off just about everywhere. This month, Biden has bashed Tuberville’s courageous, one-man stand at a joint press conference with the president of Finland, a speech about “Bidenomics,” and a Civil Rights Symposium.

Tuberville, the president keeps insisting, is “jeopardizing our national security over domestic social issues.” Biden also suggested Tuberville was stubbornly refusing to negotiate, saying, “I’d be willing to talk to him [Tuberville] if I thought there was any possibility he would change his ridiculous position on this.”

Biden’s factually challenged attack doesn’t even approximate the spirit of the actual situation. “I’ve said all along, Tuberville wrote in June, “that I will drop my hold on unanimous consent under only two conditions: Democrats can follow the law or change the law.” In reality, the Biden administration is the party guilty of injecting domestic culture wars into the national security conversation, when last year it decided the Department of Defense (DOD) would cover abortion-related expenses, in violation of federal law. And the Biden administration is the party guilty of stubbornly refusing to modify its policy to allow military promotions to continue.

“All Tommy Tuberville is doing is standing up for the law,” remarked Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah).

Yet Tuberville is the one under attack.

This is not an isolated phenomenon. Examples abound of left-wing ideologues blaming conservatives for culture wars started by the Left.

The ongoing controversy over PEPFAR reauthorization illustrates the same pattern. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a successful, bipartisan program combatting HIV and AIDS among Africa’s poorest inhabitants. The program’s five-year, $30 million reauthorization expires in September, and pro-life groups are now urging against a straight reauthorization, without additional pro-life protections. Naturally, the Left is blaming conservatives for politicizing a previously bipartisan policy.

In a lengthy report, The Washington Post painted a dire picture, suggesting Republicans were jeopardizing the future of PEPFAR over “allegations that the program’s funding is being used to indirectly support abortions — claims that health advocates, Democrats and PEPFAR officials say are baseless.” The 54-paragraph article devotes three clauses to describing pro-life concerns with PEPFAR. Meanwhile, its “experts” allege that “it’s really about the larger politics around abortion, electoral politics, and the partisan divide,” “populism, nationalism, and polarization have undermined domestic collective action and solidarity,” and “it’s just dumbfounding to me that the charge has been taken seriously.” According to their narrative, pro-life stalwart Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) is a villain who switched positions to oppose PEPFAR.

Whether it’s at The New York Times, Politico, or Voice of America, the rest of the Democrats’ cheer squad is chanting in unison with this mischaracterization.

There’s more to the story they aren’t telling. In 2021, President Biden rescinded the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA), which opened the door for organizations that carry out or promote abortion to obtain PEPFAR funding. Then in September 2022, the State Department published a document titled, “Reimagining PEPFAR’s Strategic Direction.” Under this strategic “reimagining” — on which Congress never voted — “PEPFAR will integrate HIV programming into strengthened public health systems to manage … sexual reproductive health, rights, and services ….” It would also “strengthen coordination between PEPFAR and other U.S. government global health and development programs, including for … sexual and reproductive health and rights … LGBTQI+, and human rights” (emphasis added). In other words, the Biden administration has unilaterally reinvented PEPFAR as a vehicle to promote abortion and its radical LGBT agenda.

Pro-life opposition to PEPFAR began after the State Department published it “reimagining” strategy. But the Left and the media are accusing pro-lifers of politicizing the issue.

Another controversy is over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual, must-pass bill to fund the military. The version passed by House Republicans included amendments which banned taxpayer funding of gender transition procedures, pornographic books in DOD schools, flying Pride flags on military property, and the creation or funding of DEI offices.

Yet again, Democrats depicted Republicans as culture war aggressors. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan responded that an “extreme group of Republicans” — the bill passed 219-210 with four Democrats voting in favor — had passed “a set of amendments that try to mix domestic social debates with … the security needs of our nation,” and that these amendments were “never getting to the president’s desk.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the House-passed NDAA “race to the bottom … partisan legislation that has zero chance of passing.” The Senate passed a version of the NDAA that includes none of these amendments, and the two chambers will have to iron out their differences in conference.

But one feature gives away the game: all of these Republican amendments aim to prohibit the military from doing things it shouldn’t be doing, and which for centuries it didn’t do. These amendments would have been meaningless 30 years ago when the military did none of these things. The Biden administration, aided by a Democrat-controlled Congress from 2021-2022, initiated, expanded, or un-moth-balled (from the Obama era) these policies. House Republicans are merely endeavoring to claw back a tiny fraction of the woke expansion.

And Republicans are taking fire for trying to restore normalcy in the military.

This pattern is not restricted to the federal government. In recent years, state legislators have acted to protect children from gender reassignment procedures and LGBT indoctrination in schools. They have enacted protections for women’s private spaces from male intrusion and women’s sports from male domination. They have protected conscience rights, official ID documentation, and curriculum from trans ideology. Each legislative measure responds to leftist aggression attempting to politicize and dominate a new aspect of life. As thanks, left-wing advocacy groups slander these state legislators, depicting them as hateful bigots who “attack LGBTQ rights.”

No, it’s LGBT ideologues who are attacking the very fabric of society.

Progressives expand the culture war into a new aspect of life, conservatives mobilize a response to restore normalcy, and the media behaves as if conservatives were the Mongol Horde of culture wars. Like naturally-occurring spirals or Fibonacci sequences, once this pattern is recognized, it suddenly begins to appear everywhere. The Left behaves like the child who punches his brother while mom’s back is turned, then pays his third sibling to tell his version of events.

Alas, this tripartite pattern should surprise no one who is acquainted with the meaning of the words “progressive” and “conservative,” and who is acquainted with the Left’s revolutionary roots. Swallowing false accusations is simply part of the price the defenders of civilization must pay. But it doesn’t mean that we have to shut our eyes to the fixed game the Left tries to play.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a staff writer at The Washington Stand.

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Two Sets Of Laws For Two Americas by Victor Davis Hanson

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Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.

Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.

Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.

So far, Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy.

But as a senator and vice president with no right, as does a president, to declassify files, Biden removed and, as a private citizen, kept for years classified files in unsecured locations.

Biden’s team strangely revealed the unlawful removals after years of silence.

It did so because the Biden administration found itself in the untenable position of prosecuting the former president for “crimes” that the current president committed as well — albeit far earlier and longer.

Impeachable phone calls?

Donald Trump was impeached by a Democratic House for delaying foreign aid until the Ukrainian government guaranteed that Hunter Biden and his family were no longer engaged in corrupt influence peddling in Kyiv.

In addition, the Left charged that Trump was targeting Joe Biden, his possible 2020 rival.

Yet Biden, with impunity, bragged that he had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor looking into his own son’s schemes by promising to cancel outright American foreign aid.

And the Biden administration’s Justice Department is now targeting Trump, currently the front-running challenger to Biden in 2024.

Election denialism?

Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, in part for supposedly conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting legitimate votes.”

Will Smith then also indict Stacey Abrams? For years Abrams falsely claimed that she was the real governor of Georgia. She toured the country in hopes of “discounting” the state vote count.

Or maybe Smith was referring to the conspiracist and former president Jimmy Carter.

He alleged that Trump in 2016 “lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”

Will Smith charge Hillary Clinton?

She serially libeled Trump as an “illegitimate” president.

Clinton hatched the Russian collusion hoax, and bragged she joined the “Resistance” to continue her attacks on an elected president.

Or maybe Smith meant the Hollywood crowd.

Lots of actors cut commercials after the 2016 election — begging viewers to pressure the electors to ignore their constitutional duties to honor their states’ popular vote and instead swing their ballots to Hillary Clinton?

Was not that “insurrectionary?

Or was Smith thinking of January 2005?

Then 32 Democratic House members and Sen. Barbara Boxer tried to nullify the legally certified vote in Ohio — to thereby elect the loser John Kerry.

How about destroying evidence?

Trump was also indicted for allegedly attempting to erase video material from his own security cameras in his own house.

Yet Hillary Clinton with impunity eliminated subpoenaed communication devices and thousands of emails.

Violations of security? Trump was indicted for supposedly loosely talking about classified material to visitors at his home.

So, will prosecutor Smith’s indictments also extend to Hillary Clinton? She sent classified documents illegally over her unsecured private server.

FBI Director James Comey memorialized a confidential president conversation.

Then he deliberately leaked what properly was a classified document to the media. It was all part of Comey’s Machiavellian gambit to prompt the appointment of a favorable special prosecutor.

What about subversion of the electoral process?

Donald Trump was indicted for supposedly undermining the election of 2020 by questioning the integrity of the balloting.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign illegally hired two foreign nationals Christopher Steele and Igor Danchenko to compile falsehoods about her opponent Trump.

Clinton hid her payments behind three paywalls.

Her team, along with the FBI, helped leak the counterfeit dossier to the media and high officials to undermine her opponent — and thus subvert the election itself.

Lying and perjury?

Two Trump aides and Trump himself are indicted for supposedly stonewalling federal investigators by claiming either amnesia or ignorance.

That tact is exactly what James Comey did 245 times while under oath before Congress.

What do former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and former interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe all have in common?

All three admitted they flagrantly lied either under oath to Congress or to federal investigators.

The three were never indicted for their false and perjurious testimonies.

We have now serially devolved from the 2016 election “Russian collusion” hoax, to the 2020 election “Russian disinformation” laptop hoax, and down to the 2024 election weaponized indictments.

Out of pathological hatred or fear of Donald Trump, the Left has crafted one set of laws for themselves, and another for all other Americans.

They smugly believe their own moral superiority grants them such a right to apply laws unequally — or to ignore them altogether.

To retain power at all cost, and to destroy a political rival, left-wing Democrats are systematically dismantling the constitutional foundations of the United States as we once knew them.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.

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Trump Lawyer Says He’ll Use ‘Very Simple’ Strategy Of Pointing Out Jack Smith ‘Has The Entire Law … Wrong’

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An attorney for former President Donald Trump said Thursday that Trump’s defense will use a “very simple” strategy should charges over the 2020 election be brought to trial.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges during his Thursday arraignment after Special Counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election. Smith previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegations surrounding classified documents.

“The legal strategy in this case I think is very simple: You attack the facts that Jack Smith put out that are wrong for instance, Jack Smith claiming, as you already pointed out, that Donald Trump did anything other than call for peace and patriotism on January 6th is wrong,” attorney Jesse Binnall told Fox News host Jesse Watters Thursday evening. “And then you attack the law, because Jack Smith has the entire law in this case wrong, and more importantly, he is ignoring the Constitution of the United States.”

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“Here is how: The First Amendment gives you the right to speech, something that Jack Smith’s prosecutors are completely ignoring, but more than that, it also gives you the right to petition Congress for redress of grievances,” Binnall continued. “And in this case, when you are saying there was fraud in the election, there are problems in the election and we think you should seat electors X, instead of electors Y, that’s why the first petition clause clearly protects.”

Legal experts noted that much of the conduct Smith claimed was criminal in the indictment appeared to be protected by the First Amendment. Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said that the indictment not only attacked the First Amendment, but also Trump’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

“Jack Smith is terrified that Donald Trump is going to be elected again because Jack Smith is actually the one terrified of democracy because democracy would bring accountability for him and quite honestly his out-of-control prosecutors in an out of control Justice Department,” Binnall added.

Trump’s top rivals for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, all condemned the indictment.

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White House Dumps Another Truckload of New Regulations That Will Cost Americans Hundreds of Billions

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The one constant in Democrat rule always the same — bad for America, hurt Americans.

Biden’s Summer Regulatory Onslaught

White House Unleashes Hundreds of Billions of New Legislation as Congress Breaks fore Recess

The Biden Administration’s regulatory onslaught is more unrelenting than the heat. With Congress leaving town, the White House last week dumped another truckload of regulations that will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars. Corporate lawyers, enjoy the beach reading. There’s much more to say about this regulatory typhoon, which the Administration is counting on the press corp to ignore, as it usually does. But we thought Americans might like to know what regulators are up to while they vacation.

The Administration is imposing by regulation what it can’t pass through Congress and hoping nobody notices…

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Kept Husband and Private-Jet Connoisseur Kerry Ripped for Demanding Agriculture Emission Cuts: ‘Bankrupt Every Farmer in America’

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John Kerry’s deranged ‘Green’ policies are wreaking havoc on American families. And Kerry flies around the world on private jets to promote this crap. Kerry has been wrong on practically everything, but he continues to exert significant power in American and global affairs. Watch below.

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Kerry ripped for demanding agriculture emission cuts: ‘Bankrupt every farmer in America’

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry was blasted on social media over the weekend by critics who accused him of trying to destroy the agriculture industry in order to achieve “net zero” emissions.

“Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world, depending a little bit on how you count it, but it’s anywhere from 26 to 33, and we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution,” Kerry told a climate change summit in May.

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Top Tweets on the ‘Persecution’ of President Donald J. Trump

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“Let’s be blunt: This indictment is a naked threat and act of intimidation by the Democratic Party against any and all their political opponents. The message from the Biden regime is: ‘We will put you in jail if you dispute elections.’ A free and fair 2024 election is officially impossible.” — Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, statement on the Trump Election Indictment

August 3rd, 2023 will go down as a date that will live in infamy.

This is the date that a former President of the United States was accused of speaking freely.

This is a direct attack on we the people.

President Trump is standing in the breech, like Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. And those who support him are shoulder to shoulder with him protecting our Constitutional Republic from the traitors.

Never give up, never surrender.

Here are just some of the posts on X about the indictment. These say it all.

The Bottom Line

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group.

The individual mistreating Donald J. Trump is Joseph Robinett Bidden Jr. The individual being mistreated is Donald J. Trump.

The group mistreating Donald J. Trump are the members of the weaponized Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The individual mistreating the group is Joseph Robinett Bidden Jr. The group being mistreated is known as the MAGA movement.

The group mistreating the MAGA movement are the weaponized Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation and various Democrat appointed judges like Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C. circuit who has sentenced January 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested and district attorneys like Alvin Bragg.

It’s as simple as that. There have been, are and always will be those who are persecutors and those who are persecuted for their ideas and ideals.

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Donald J. Trump and his movement are no exception because they threaten to take away the powers of their persecutors to persecute others.

That is the threat that gets those who are persecuted indicted by the persecutors.

Here is Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton’s full statement on Trump Election Indictment,

The Biden administration has left the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution behind with its latest indictment of President Trump for daring to dispute the 2020 presidential election, as is his God-given right as a president, a citizen, and a candidate under state, federal and constitutional law.

This sham indictment is perfectly consistent with the partisan and political abuse I suffered at the hands of Jack Smith’s prosecutors for hours as they argued with me before their grand jury using Democratic talking points on the election controversy.

Let’s be blunt: This indictment is a naked threat and act of intimidation by the Democratic Party against any and all their political opponents. The message from the Biden regime is: “We will put you in jail if you dispute elections.” A free and fair 2024 election is officially impossible.

And, of course, Joe Biden and his political appointee Merrick Garland at the Justice Department want to distract from the conclusive evidence of Biden’s personal corruption by trying to jail and turn Trump into a political prisoner.

It is well past time for Congress to do everything possible under the law to undo this attempt to wreck our republican form of government.

Let’s hope the courts finally step up and shut down this unprecedented prosecutorial abuse.

In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue to expose and hold accountable the criminal elements in the Biden administration seeking to undo our republican form of government.

The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson wrote, “It’s not about Trump. It’s about criminalizing dissent and punishing the millions who voted for him — and warning them not to do it again.”

As Catholic author E.A. Bucchianeri wrote, “Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”

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

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How Refreshing: An Actual Debate on Transgenderism on Capitol Hill

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“I am a detransitioner. Another way to put that would be I used to think I was born in the wrong body, and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief. And this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. I speak to you today as the victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America. I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children, and young adults don’t go through what I went through…

“This needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience. Please let me be your final warning.”

These are the words of courageous Californian teenager Chloe Cole, who testified last week during a debate on transgenderism that took place on Capital Hill.

“A debate?” you may ask.

Debates were those old-fashioned, long-form conversations in which two opposing points of view were expressed side-by-side, so that listeners might discern which side presented the stronger case.

They were a favourite format for cable news shows like CNN’s Crossfire, Hannity & Colmes of Fox News, or MSNBC’s The Cycle.

One day in the recent past, however, all of those shows were cancelled and replaced with productions that shunned debate in favour of monologues or conversations with trusted allies.

Shortly after, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube also decided debate was no longer allowed. “Content moderation” quickly took its place. Soon, anyone with a heterodox opinion on abortion, homosexuality, Donald Trump, gender, Christianity or even censorship itself was censored — or at least rendered functionally invisible.

In no time at all, the narrative shifted from “censorship is not taking place, you paranoid quack” to “misinformation is dangerous and must not be allowed”.

With this short history lesson in view, it was deeply refreshing to see misinformation — err, debate — allowed to take place at last Thursday’s hearing on The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’.

Holding forth

Hosted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, the hearing prompted a two-and-a-half-hour debate between representatives from both the Republican and Democratic sides of the transgender issue.

Besides Chloe Cole, five other witnesses were called to testify, including a former swimmer, a family clinician, a women’s rights solicitor, the mother of a girl who identifies as a boy, and an LGBT rights activist and lawyer.

Like any good debate, both sides of the issue had a chance to present their views. The result was a reminder of why such debates are rarely allowed in public anymore — namely, because the side of sanity effortlessly presented the best case.

Paula Scanlan, a former swim teammate of the infamous Lia Thomas at UPenn, explained how her traumatic past of sexual abuse was resurrected when she was repeatedly forced to change in front of a well-hung man in the women’s locker rooms.

A clinician and director at the Family Research Council, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, warned that so-called “gender-affirming care” lacked a solid evidence base due to its sudden appearance and rise in popularity.

Bauwens said her discipline “is not operating as a helping profession” but “is actively causing harm” for gender-confused children. “We’ve plowed ahead with practices that break ethical research and practice boundaries,” she warned.

May Mailman, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Law Center, addressed the legal implications of transgender ideology in women’s sports. “Gender ideology destroys women and girls by dissolving legal protections for women in athletics,” she explained.

Mailman cited well-known studies that “make clear that testosterone suppression can never completely eliminate the athletic advantage of males who have experienced puberty”.

A mother, Miriam Reynolds, described how she came to affirm her daughter as a boy. “The signs had been there all along, we just didn’t understand them,” she said, explaining that her daughter had refused to wear pink, was the only girl on the boys football team, and her best friends were all boys. Reynolds recounted the family’s journey to Texas for transgender surgery for their teenager, insisting the process was slow and free of coercion.

Shannon Minter, the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argued the puberty blockers and hormone treatments used on gender dysphoric children are “safe and effective”, and that “transgender adolescents who receive the care they need have the same mental health outcomes as their non-transgender peers”.

Closed off

Just as intriguing as the testimony of the six witnesses were the reactions of the Congressional representatives.

Before the hearings even began, Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler decided,

“What we are witnessing today is nothing less than a taxpayer-funded platform for Congressional Republicans to bully transgender kids who are already some of the most vulnerable members of our community.”

House Democrats’ chief deputy whip Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas expressed a similar sentiment, apologising to the witnesses “for a hearing that frightens me”.

To the amusement of many, Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen unwittingly re-invented female locker rooms by arguing that women should have their own space within female locker rooms so they are not forced to undress in front of men.

And Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was ultimately proven wrong in her early assertion that the hearing was “a callous and reckless misuse of this committee’s time”.

What she meant was that the hearing was a “debate”.

It’s just been a while since she witnessed one.

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KURT MAHLBURG

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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‘We’ve Crossed The Rubicon Here’: GOP Rep Calls For Garland Impeachment After Trump Indictment

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Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York said Wednesday that she was in favor of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland following the indictment of former President Donald Trump.

“I just think it is so coordinated, I think your prior guest, the great Alan Dershowitz might have been alluding to the fact this is malicious prosecution,” Tenney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. Special Counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election after he previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegations surrounding classified documents.

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“These are attempted cobbled together criminal charges, ancient charges… they really don’t go together, and it looks, I think this is malicious prosecution, which is chargeable,” Tenney told Kudlow. “Jack Smith coordinated with Merrick Garland, and it looks to me like when you’re coordinating all of this and all a sudden we get the whistle blowers to come testify at Ways and Means. Oh, guess what, we have a plea deal for Hunter Biden because that is going to be bad. All of sudden, we get Devon Archer’s explosive testimony. Oh, now we gotta bring charges by Jack Smith. ”

“Every single time we get closer to making the case, which is the case, that you know, Hunter is Joe’s bagman, Joe set him up, and there is all of this evidence, it is all there, we just need to piece it together and Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice, around those people are obstructing it and protecting the Bidens instead of standing up for the American people,” Tenney said.

Two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, testified about the Hunter Biden probe during a July 19 hearing held by the House Oversight Committee.

“It’s almost like a government organized crime,” Tenney said. “It is like a RICO racketeering situation where they’re just circling the wagons and you can go all the way back to suppressing the laptop, everything they did to bring President Trump down, the Russia collusion hoax, impeachment one, impeachment two, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the J6 show trial, all of this is never ending because they’re trying to stop Trump, and yet he persists and it’s really quite incredible and the American people see it.”

“Merrick Garland… we’ve crossed the Rubicon here, he needs to be prosecuted and impeached right now and removed, because he is the ringleader of all of this, and thank goodness he never became a Supreme Court justice,” Tenney added.

In addition to the Trump indictments, Garland has come under fire over allegations that the Department of Justice targeted parents who spoke out at school board meetings, targeting pro-life activists for prosecution over protests at abortion facilities and for not addressing protests targeting conservative justices following the leak of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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HAROLD HUTCHISON

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Biden family ‘brand’ made people ‘intimidated to mess with’ Burisma, Devon Archer testified

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Hunter Biden’s longtime business associate Devon Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee Monday that the Biden family “brand” protected Ukrainian energy firm Burisma from legal scrutiny, according to a newly released transcript.

Archer spoke to the committee about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and the value the Biden name brought to Burisma when Hunter Biden and Archer were appointed to Burisma’s board in 2014.

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“My only thought is that I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it. That’s my, like, only honest opinion,” Archer said.

“Well, the capabilities to navigate D.C. that they were able to, you know, basically be in the news cycle. And I think that preserved them from a, you know, from a longevity standpoint. That’s like my honest — that’s like really what I — that’s like how I think holistically,” Archer elaborated after more questioning.

“But how would that work?” asked Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman.

“Because people would be intimidated to mess with them,” Archer answered.

“In what way?”

“Legally,” Archer said.

Earlier in the interview, Archer explained how Hunter Biden’s ability to improve Burisma’s “brand” was the most valuable thing he brought to the company.

“The value was — the value that Hunter Biden brought to it was having — you know, there was — the theoretical was corporate governance, but obviously, given the brand, that was a large part of the value. I don’t think it was the sole value, but I do think that was a key component of the value,” Archer stated.

“You keep saying “the brand,” but by “brand” you mean the Biden family, correct?” the committee asked Archer.

“Correct.”

“When you say “Biden family” — sorry to cut in here. I just want to get a clarification. You aren’t talking about Dr. Jill or anybody else. You’re talking about Joe Biden. Is that fair to say?” Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs asked Archer.

“Yeah, that’s fair to say,” Archer replied.

“Obviously, that brought the most value to the brand,” he added.

Archer also testified about how Hunter Biden brought his father on speakerphone during business meetings over 20 times, House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer said in a statement.

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Report: 143 K-12 Schools in the U.S. Have Chinese Communist Party Ties

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A new report has revealed that at least 143 K-12 schools in the U.S. currently have or have had past ties to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) program known as “Confucius Classrooms.” Experts say the CCP effort to infiltrate schools with communist propaganda is part of a concerted effort to “subvert” the U.S. from the inside in order to weaken it, possibly paving the way for a future direct military confrontation.

While Confucius Institutes (CIs) have long been associated with colleges and universities in the U.S., Confucius Classrooms are aimed at K-12 schools and are touted as “centers that teach Chinese language and culture.” But as Parents Defending Education has uncovered in its new report, not only do Confucius Classroom programs create a partnership between a school and a Chinese government entity, they are also affiliated with “three of the nation’s top science and technology high schools” as well as “school districts near 20 U.S. military bases.”

From 2009 to 2023, Parents Defending Education found a total of almost $18 million in Chinese government funding of U.S. K-12 schools through the program. For example, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. “received more than $1 million in financial aid from Chinese government-affiliated entities over the course of a decade.”

As Nicki Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, explained during Tuesday’s edition of “Washington Watch,” the Trump administration was able to rein in Confucius Institute funding in higher education through the Higher Education Act, which requires colleges and universities to be transparent about foreign funding — but there are no such requirements for K-12 schools in place. “[F]righteningly, I think this is only the tip of the iceberg,” she warned. “And so there’s a lot more out there. And we intend to continue following this up.”

Neily went on to emphasize that her concern is not about students learning about Chinese language and culture, but about the motivations and stated goals of the CCP in forming partnerships with U.S. schools.

“We’re just saying parents should know who is funding and who is teaching our students, particularly if they come from a hostile nation, so that parents can make an informed decision whether they want their children to participate in these programs or not,” she said. “Some of the contracts that we saw gave the Chinese government … oversight and control over curriculum [and] over teachers that came over. Certainly no teacher is going to be able to come over from the People’s Republic of China without checking all of the ideological boxes by the Communist Party. And so to us, those are concerning things, and we want parents to know so that they can decide whether this is a fit for their family or not.”

As the report points out, the CCP has been open about the goal of its Confucius program. “Former Chinese Communist Party Senior Chairman Li Changchun in 2009 said that Confucius Institutes were ‘an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up.’”

Neily noted that her organization has reached out to all state governors as well as several Senate and House committees requesting that investigations be undertaken into the Confucius programs.

Gordon Chang, distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of “The Great U.S.-China Tech War,” further explained who is behind China’s Confucius education programs on “Washington Watch.” “These are nominally run by China’s Ministry of Education, but really are run by the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, which means that they are meant to subvert the United States.”

After noting additional seemingly hostile recent actions by Chinese nationals in the U.S., including an enormous uptick in young Chinese males of military age attempting to enter the country through the southern border and the recent discovery of an illegal Chinese-owned laboratory in Fresno, Calif. filled with infectious diseases including hundreds of mice infected with COVID-19, Chang was blunt in his assessment of what actions the U.S. government should take in response.

“Remove every Confucius Institute, every Confucius Classroom, close the remaining four consulates, strip the embassy staff in Washington just down to the ambassador, close the Chinese state banks and enterprises. Get the Chinese regime out of America because they’re winning, and we’re losing our country.”

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Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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