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White House Creates DOJ Anti-Fraud Task Force to Protect Taxpayer Dollars

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Decades of lax immigration policy have resulted in widespread welfare fraud in the U.S., robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars, but President Donald Trump is equipping the Justice Department to target abuse and protect Americans’ investments in state and federal programs. Vice President J.D. Vance announced Thursday that the White House is creating a new role in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an assistant attorney general (AAG) responsible for investigating and prosecuting fraud across the country, answering directly to the president and vice president.

“We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance shared in a press conference. “That person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because, unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”

“If you’re a young parent struggling to afford child care in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in day care, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance explained. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others, making it hard for you to get the access to the resources you need,” he continued.

Minnesota’s large Somali immigrant community has become the focal point for fraud investigations in recent months, but the vice president noted that bad actors across the nation have defrauded the federal government and various state governments of billions of dollars through abuse of welfare programs. “We know that the fraud isn’t just happening in Minneapolis. It’s also happening in states like Ohio, it’s happening in states like California.”

In a recent example, Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warning of potential fraud affecting child care and nutrition programs in his state. “Washington families deserve to know their tax dollars are paying for real meals and real care, not padding the pockets of scammers,” Baumgartner wrote.

“Minnesota is a cautionary tale for every state: when state authorities fast-track welfare payments with weak front-end controls and lax enforcement, fraudsters will pounce,” he continued. The congressman clarified that he is not alleging wrongdoing on the part of Washington’s state government, but is seeking “independent confirmation that Washington’s safeguards are working, and if they are not, fix the problems now rather than after a headline-grabbing scandal.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who was involved in prosecuting the Feeding Our Future fraud cases in Minnesota, lauded the creation of a new fraud division as “a great idea.” He added, “It’s sad that it’s necessary, but I applaud President Trump and his administration for coming up with that idea.” He continued, “It’s really a shame that hard-earned taxpayer money was just wasted on these fraudsters who just spent millions and millions of dollars to support their lavish lifestyles and took money that was meant to go to feed hungry kids and support people finding housing and such.”

“The fraud in Minnesota was widespread. It was a deep rot. It is a deep rot,” Teirab observed, relying on his four years of experience as an assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota. “The checks and balances in these programs didn’t work. They were designed to be based on the honor system, and a lot of folks had no virtue and so [they] just stole money. It has to stop, so it’s good that there’s now this new anti-fraud unit,” he continued.

Teirab pointed to the Feeding Our Future case as an example of the rampant fraud committed in Minnesota. “That was the big investigation and prosecution of — now it’s over 70 individuals who stole money from the federal child nutrition program, basically said that they were feeding kids, and it was all a lie. They stole over $250 million,” he recounted. “Now we know that was really just the tip of the iceberg. Now, there [are] all other kinds of fraud that the federal government has charged individuals for.”

A White House fact sheet released Thursday detailed the purpose and responsibilities of the DOJ’s new anti-fraud division. “To combat the rampant and pervasive problem of fraud in the United States, the DOJ’s new division for national fraud enforcement will enforce the Federal criminal and civil laws against fraud targeting Federal government programs, Federally funded benefits, businesses, nonprofits, and private citizens nationwide,” the White House clarified. “The Assistant Attorney General for this new division will be responsible for leading the Department’s efforts to investigate, prosecute, and remedy fraud affecting the Federal government, Federally funded programs, and private citizens.”

The anti-fraud AAG will be responsible for managing multi-district and multi-district fraud investigations, aiding other federal prosecutors with fraud cases, and working with multiple law enforcement agencies and federal entities “to identify, disrupt, and dismantle organized and sophisticated fraud schemes across jurisdictions.”

“They’re going to investigate fraud where it should be investigated. So you’re going to have wrongdoers being held accountable and, hopefully, taxpayer money going back into public coffers. That’s a good thing,” Teirab commented of the anti-fraud division’s responsibilities. He also noted that the resources available to the anti-fraud division will effectively supercharge fraud investigations and prosecutions nationwide. “This is way more ability for the federal government to investigate and prosecute widespread fraud and other kinds of crimes,” Teirab noted. “I was a state prosecutor for a while and then a federal prosecutor, and there’s just a big difference in the amount of resources that you can bring to bear in these investigations and prosecutions. So you’re going to deter crime and fraud.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) have both been implicated in the Somali immigrant-run fraud schemes fleecing Minnesota’s welfare programs and federal tax dollars. Numerous reports and witnesses have charged Walz and other Minnesota Democrats with knowingly and willingly turning a blind eye to fraud, refusing to investigate or prosecute fraud, and even silencing and threatening whistleblowers, auditors, and investigators.

Teirab expressed his hope that the federal anti-fraud unit is “going to incentivize state actors to get off their butts and actually do something to stop fraud.” He continued, “So now Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, instead of sitting on their hands, they might have a little bit more of an incentive, hopefully politically and literally, to actually do something if they know that the federal government might come in and make them look bad for not getting the job done.” Teirab added, “That’s clearly what’s happened here. I mean, they don’t look good because they didn’t do a good job.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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No Surprise in ‘Arctic Frost’ Scandal, as Every Dem President in 21st Century Has Weaponized the Government

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Cries of “Worse than Watergate” quickly followed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa) revelation from a whistleblower within the FBI that eight Republican senators and a House GOPer had been illegally spied upon during the Biden administration’s failed prosecutions of then-former President Donald Trump.

Grassley called Arctic Frost “arguably worse than Watergate” during his opening remarks at an October 6 committee hearing, a cry that was quickly echoed by multiple GOP senators. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the emerging scandal during the hearing, and Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) warned that the FBI targets may well be “suing the hell out of the Department of Justice and the individuals involved.”

Subsequent investigation and revelations may indeed confirm that Arctic Frost was an even more profoundly serious constitutional violation than the Watergate scandal in which President Richard Nixon and members of his inner circle sought to cover up their knowledge of a “third-rate burglary” of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Watergate Hotel during the 1972 election campaign.

But when viewed in a wider context, Arctic Frost should not come as a surprise to anybody for the simple reason that every Democratic president during the 21st century — including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden — has weaponized tax and law enforcement resources of the federal government against Republicans, conservatives, and Christians.

During the Clinton era (1993-2001), the White House staff produced a 331-page report in 1995 entitled “The Communication Streams of Conspiracy Commerce” that argued multiple conservative political figures, think tanks, and media outlets were all part of a conspiracy to discredit the president. Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton famously described the groups as “a vast right-wing conspiracy.”

In the months after the report became public, multiple conservative groups, including most notably the Heritage Foundation think tank and Citizens Against Government Waste, found themselves being subjected to intense tax audits by the IRS. When no complaints about similar IRS audits were heard from liberal groups, the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation convened an investigation that led to passage by Congress in 1998 of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act to prevent such abuses.

Barack Obama was the next Democrat elected to the Oval Office in 2008 and then re-elected in 2012. His administration also used the IRS against groups perceived to be political enemies, but rather than harassing audits, the tax agency found multiple ways to slow-walk tax-exemption applications submitted by conservative, Tea Party, and evangelical Christian groups.

The IRS effort was centered in its Cincinnati regional office, but direction came from the tax agency’s headquarters in the nation’s capital from then-IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner. The scandal prompted multiple congressional hearings, and Lerner was found in contempt of Congress.

Then-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) explained that “the Oversight Committee upheld its obligation to pursue the truth about the IRS targeting of Americans because of their political beliefs. Our investigation has found that former IRS Exempt Organizations division Director Lois Lerner played a central role in the targeting scandal and then failed to meet her legal obligations to answer questions after she waived her right not to testify.”

Lerner’s criminal contempt citation was upheld by the full House of Representatives and referred to the Department of Justice, which opted not to take Lerner to court in the matter.

Another Obama-era example of weaponization of government against perceived opposition could generate renewed attention as a result of Arctic Frost because it involved CIA agents breaking into the computer system of the Senate Intelligence Committee and spying on committee staffers.

Then-CIA Director John Brennan apologized to the committee after initially insisting no such illegal activities had taken place because doing so would be “beyond reason.” Senator Diane Feinstein, the California Democrat who chaired the intel panel, told the Senate after receiving Brennan’s apology that “the investigation confirmed what I said on the Senate floor in March — CIA personnel inappropriately searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers in violation of an agreement we had reached, and, I believe, in violation of the constitutional separation of powers.”

Not long after the Senate intel controversy, Brennan was deeply involved in the Obama administration’s manufacturing of false intelligence reports designed to discredit Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The false reports claimed Trump was elected in part with assistance from President Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence assets.

According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in a July 23 news release:

“The ODNI records released on Friday, Senator Chuck Grassley’s release on Monday of the appendix to the DOJ OIG’s June 2018 report known as the ‘Clinton annex,’ and the HPSCI oversight report released today confirm a treasonous conspiracy led by President Obama and his national security team, including James Clapper, John Brennan, and James Comey, to manipulate and manufacture intelligence that promoted a contrived false narrative falsely claiming: ‘Putin aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances, when possible, by discrediting Secretary Clinton.’

“President Obama directed the creation of this January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment after President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and it served as the basis for what was essentially a years-long coup against the duly elected President of the United States, subverting the will of the American people and attempting to delegitimize Donald Trump’s presidency.”

A federal grand jury recently indicted Comey on two charges, one of lying to Congress and the other of obstructing a congressional investigation into matters related to the Trump-Russia allegations.

Obama was followed in 2020 by his former vice president, Joe Biden, whose four years in the Oval Office were marred by scandal after scandal in which the Department of Justice, the FBI, intelligence agencies, and other departments of government were turned against individuals and groups perceived by White House officials as opponents.

Those included multiple Republican and conservative organizations, including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, prosecutions of Catholic pro-life demonstrators for praying in front of abortion facilities, investigations of parents protesting “woke” educational policies at public school board meetings, and the multiple prosecutions of Trump, including the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, compound in which agents conspicuously went through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer in search of classified documents that weren’t there.

Now that Trump is back in the White House, Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) repeatedly blast the 47th president, as in this recent statement claiming “he has turned this judicial system to be his own political fighter, do what he wants politically, so that he tells them to go after people he doesn’t like, he tells them to exonerate people that he likes.”

Such assertions by Democrats in Congress, the mainstream media, the academic and corporate communities about Trump “weaponizing” the Department of Justice by investigating Arctic Frost should be viewed in the context of this background of politicized actions by every Democratic president of the 21st century.

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Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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How Selfish Bureaucrats Undermine America, and How to Fix It

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Former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Emanuel Isac Celedon “has been sentenced to federal prison in two separate cases for allowing aliens and cocaine across the border,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Friday. He provides a particularly egregious example of how career federal employees can undermine America.

In 2023, Celedon reached out to a Mexican cartel, offering to allow drugs and illegal immigrants through his travel lane in exchange for bribes. He subsequently allowed human smugglers through his lane on at least nine separate occasions. He twice “allowed several kilograms of what he believed to be cocaine into the United States” in exchange for $6,000, unknowingly falling into the clutches of a sting operation. He subsequently received 117 months in prison, or nearly 10 years.

Celedon was essentially a dirty cop, taking money from a criminal organization in exchange for looking the other way when they carried out their criminal enterprises. And he was trapped, arrested, and sentenced just as other dirty cops are. But, as a CBP officer, he was no ordinary cop. By allowing illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs through our country’s border, Celedon’s actions directly undermined U.S. national security. Because this federal employee didn’t like his civil service salary, he chose to join a plot against America.

If Celedon showed how a single individual can undermine America, imagine what a more systematic effort could do.

Unfortunately, no imagination is necessary. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee published records from an internal chat log at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which “shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop,” the Committee said, manipulating Twitter into censoring the story as misinformation.

In a 2023 deposition, FBI official Laura Dehmlow testified concerning a call between Twitter employees and FBI officials, at the time when the FBI was actively directing Twitter how to censor the free speech of American citizens. “Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real,” said Dehmlow. “And one of the FBI folks who was on the call did confirm that, ‘yes, it was,’ before another participant jumped in and said, ‘no further comment.’”

The internal chat log further authenticates Dehmlow’s account and provides additional detail. One message indicated that concealing the true facts was the FBI’s deliberate stance, as a senior official (name redacted) instructed, “do not discuss biden matter.” Another message indicated that DOJ lawyers had placed a “gag order” on the FBI employee who had spoken out of turn. Further discussion revealed that the analyst had been “admonished” by FBI staff, but still wouldn’t “shut up.” These last messages came right after another user reported that “twitter is treating as disinformation” the story about the Biden laptop, which the FBI knew to be true.

In this incident, we see senior officials at the FBI scrambling to silence their own staff to conceal information, knowing that would cause social media platforms to censor Americans exercising their free speech rights by repeating true information. The sole reason for this course of action was to influence the political process during a presidential campaign by protecting their preferred candidate from a potential scandal.

FBI officials did this, again, without any public accountability because they are unelected, career federal employees.

These are two anecdotes. They do not, by themselves, prove a trend. There are doubtless other cases of bureaucratic misconduct — perhaps many more — that still fall short of demonstrating that every bureaucrat is out there trying to undermine America. But just these two anecdotes demonstrate the outsized impact bureaucrats can have when they selfishly pursue an interest contrary to that of the American people for whom they ostensibly work.

One fairly obvious conclusion is that bureaucrats have too much power and too little accountability. An emotionally satisfying but oversimplified solution is to eliminate bureaucracy, but that is not an achievable outcome.

Instead, conservatives should push to review the incentives that bureaucrats face. Prudent policymakers recognize the fallen nature of man and account for it. They create incentive structures that harness our natural self-interestedness so that it works for the general good. Free and open markets achieve this economically. Frequent elections accomplish this goal for politicians.

But most of America’s bureaucracy was established at a time when America was governed by people who believed in the inherent goodness of man. They believed that government could be perfected by placing it in the hands of benevolent technocrats. Consequently, they devised inadequate constraints on the power of those technocrats, as well as inadequate mechanisms to hold them accountable.

America needs a serious conversation about how to reform the incentives bureaucrats face. Yes, this includes eliminating wokeness and DEI hiring requirements. Yes, it involves finding ways to fire bad employees. But we also need to discuss more changes at the structural and incentive level, too.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is going about reforming the bureaucracy in a crude, hasty manner — one which circumstances may even justify. But mowing the 18th green with a steamroller does not create a surface golfers will want to play on. Eventually, you have to find the right tool for the job.

In any event, DOGE’s efforts have made one thing clear: judging by the hornets’ nest they have stirred up, reforming the bureaucracy will be no easy task.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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DOGE Targets Members of Congress Who Become ‘Strangely Wealthy’

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This unearned wealth is not really strange but is acquired by corruption by many members of Congress who’ve never run a business or made a payroll. This is something that should be investigated.

Wouldn’t happen without kickbacks from foreign countries in return for favors; same from NGOs; deep state organizations like USAID; etc. Plus all kinds of free perks including expense accounts; free cadillac healthcare; contributions from special interests; etc. so they don’t have to spend their salaries.

Oh and then there is insider info to make millions off investments which is illegal for average American.

Elon Musk reveals DOGE’s new target — members of Congress who got ‘strangely wealthy’

By Ryan King

Published March 31, 2025, Updated March 31, 2025, 11:52 a.m. ET

The world’s richest man is dying to figure out how lawmakers on Capitol Hill got “strangely wealthy” despite their comparatively modest public salaries.

Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will investigate how certain members of Congress have achieved generational wealth.

One attendee at the town hall had asked Musk if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

“They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned,” Musk replied.

“But it is a circuitous route. It doesn’t go directly, but let’s just say that there’s a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress where I’m trying to connect the dots of, ‘How do they become rich?’”

Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually. Last year, Musk — whose net worth is pegged at $330 billion by Bloomberg — helped kill legislation to raise congressional pay, then later supported an increase as a means of fighting corruption.

Scores of lawmakers who have spent decades in Congress are millionaires.

Two of the wealthiest include former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has a net worth of about $250 million, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose personal fortune hovers around $552 million.

Pelosi’s wealth largely comes from her and her venture capitalist husband Paul’s lucrative investments in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Netflix.

Scott’s personal fortunes largely stem from his work co-founding HCA Healthcare, a company that runs hospitals and other medical facilities around Florida, and Solantic, an urgent-care clinic chain. His work on both of those companies predates his time in the Senate.

“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk further pondered. “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”

Musk swung through Wisconsin on Sunday to rally support for Brad Schimel, a conservative Waukesha County judge, in the closely watched election for the state Supreme Court.

During his visit, Musk handed out $1 million checks to two Badger State voters. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has encouraged Wisconsin residents to sign his petition against “activist judges” to get prize money.

“I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s really just to get attention,” Musk explained about the prize money.

“And somewhat inevitably, when I do these things, it causes the legacy media to kind of lose their minds.”

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Elon is attacking the corruption, and the corruption is attacking Elon. It’s that simple.

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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton 

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” — Publius Tacitus 

“Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance.” — Manmohan Singh 

“People’s indifference is the best breeding ground for corruption to grow.” — Delia Ferreira, chair of Transparency International

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” — Kurt Cobain 

“Corruption is worse than prostitution.” — Karl Kraus

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., when he was the Vice President, said, “Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity.” 

When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected president he did the exact opposite of what he said. He created, via his staff and an autopen, massive corruption that we the people are seeing exposed each and every day.

Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) posted on X, “Elon is attacking the corruption, and the corruption is attacking Elon. It’s that simple.”

We couldn’t agree more!

Traitors and Patriots

We have written that today there are only two parties in America today, The Patriots and the The Traitors Parties.

The Patriot Party supports our Constitutional Republic that empowers the states and we the people.

The Traitor Party has created a bureaucracy, a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by unelected bureaucrats rather than elected representatives.

On February 26, 2025 President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order which created the Department of Government Effeciency (DOGE). This Executive Order reads:

Purpose.  This order commences a transformation in Federal spending on contracts, grants, and loans to ensure Government spending is transparent and Government employees are accountable to the American public.

No previous president has taken such a bold step to review all aspects of the bureaucracy a system of government.

A bureaucracy is a hierarchical administrative structure that implements policies created by the other branches of government, staffed by non-elected officials, and characterized by specialized tasks, a merit-based system, and impersonality.

Now we have DOGE exposing massive amounts of government spending that neither Congress approved or we the people want.

So how is the Traitor Party reacting?

By attacking the owners of Tesla automobiles, Tesla dealerships and even threating the President and Elon Musk for doing what we the people voted for, an honest and transparent government.

This reminded us of the 2000 film “Gladiator” when Maximus Decimus Meridius said, “What we do in life… echoes in eternity.” 

What Elon Musk and his DOGE team are doing will truly echo in eternity.

Musk is the new version of Maximus. Like Maximus, Musk wants to restore our Republic.

May God watch over and protect Elon, DOGE and President Donald J. Trump.

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$27 Million for Biden Family Detailed in House’s Impeachment Report

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President Joe Biden engaged in a “conspiracy to monetize” his public office as vice president and enrich his family by at least $27 million, according to three Republican-led House committees that oversaw an impeachment inquiry.

Hours before Biden was set to speak Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, the House committees released the impeachment inquiry report, which also sharply criticizes the Biden-Harris administration for obstructing an investigation by Congress.

“As described in this report, the committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct,” says the report released by the Oversight and Accountability; Ways and Means; and Judiciary Committees.

“The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the committees is egregious,” the report continues. “President Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift.”

A House impeachment vote is highly unlikely after his fellow Democrats last month forced Biden out of running for a second term. It comes the morning before the president is set to give a farewell speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which is set to nominate his endorsed successor, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Nevertheless, the 291-page report on House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry details how various Biden family shell corporations raked in millions of dollars from foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. Most relevant, the report talks about the role Joe Biden played in assisting family members.

The Biden White House was dismissive of the report.

“After wasting nearly two years and millions of taxpayer dollars, House Republicans have finally given up on their wild goose chase,” White House spokesperson Sharon Yang said in response to The Daily Signal’s email inquiry.

“This failed stunt will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment that their own members distanced themselves from as they only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories,” Yang said. “The American people deserve more from House Republicans, and perhaps now they will finally join President Biden in focusing on the real issues that American families actually care about.”

Although many of the findings in the final report have been released before, the contents of the Monday report elaborate on the totality of Biden’s role in the family business ventures. “From 2014 to the present, as part of a conspiracy to monetize Joe Biden’s office of public trust to enrich the Biden family, Biden family members and their associates received over $27 million from foreign individuals or entities,” the report says, adding:

“In order to obscure the source of these funds, the Biden family and their associates set up shell companies to conceal these payments from scrutiny. The Biden family used proceeds from these business activities to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden — including thousands of dollars that are directly traceable to China. While [brother] Jim Biden claimed he gave this money to Joe Biden to repay personal loans, Jim Biden did not provide any evidence to support this claim. The Biden family’s receipt of millions of dollars required Joe Biden’s knowing participation in this conspiracy, including while he served as vice president.”

All House Republicans voted against the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, which was over his 2019 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he mentioned Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.

Next month, Hunter Biden is set to go on trial on federal tax charges and for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act in connection with these activities.

The new report from the Republican-controlled House states that the Democrat-controlled House set a precedent when it impeached Trump in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. It also accuses the Biden-Harris administration of obstructing the three House committees’ investigation. The president met with his son Hunter before the younger Biden defied a House subpoena to testify, the reports notes.

Hunter Biden eventually gave a deposition to House investigators.

The report notes that the Biden-Harris administration obstructed the committees’ probe of the president’s retention and sharing of classified information by “refusing to make relevant witnesses available for interviews and by erroneously asserting executive privilege over audio recordings from special counsel [Robert] Hur’s interviews with President Biden.”

The report quotes House Democrats’ 2019 report, which said, “The House may properly conclude that a president’s obstruction of Congress is relevant to assessing the evidentiary record in an impeachment inquiry” and that when “the president illegally seeks to obstruct such an inquiry, the House is free to infer that evidence blocked from its view is harmful to the president’s position.”

House Republicans’ report released Monday says: “Applying the precedent here, the House is free to conclude that the witnesses and information currently withheld from the committees are adverse to the president.”

Apart from the $27 million in foreign funds that went to the Bidens, the report notes that Biden family members scored another $8 million in loans from “Democratic benefactors.”

“Millions of dollars in loans have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees,” the report concludes. “This raises serious questions about whether these funds were provided as gifts disguised as loans.”

This article was originally published in The Daily Signal.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas serves as chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal.

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Judge Says Fani Willis Must Ditch Nathan Wade Or Step Aside From Trump Case

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A judge declined Friday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case against former President Donald Trump.

Judge Scott McAfee found that the defendants had “failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.” However, he said that the record “highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team,” stating that Nathan Wade must either withdraw or Willis and her whole office can choose to step aside to solve the problem.

McAfee wrote that disqualifying Willis was not necessary “when a less drastic and sufficiently remedial option is available.”

“The Court therefore concludes that the prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options,” he wrote. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council for reassignment. See O.C.G.A. § 15-18-5. Alternatively, SADA Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.”

Trump co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in a Jan. 8 motion that Willis financially benefited from awarding her romantic partner Nathan Wade a lucrative contract to work as special prosecutor on the case when he took her on vacations using money earned from his position.

Willis and Wade both denied the relationship began before he was hired, though a long-time friend of Willis, Robin Yeartie, testified that it began in 2019. They claimed the expenses were split roughly equally, with Willis paying him back in cash.

McAfee wrote that an “odor of mendacity remains” about the testimony of Willis and Wade.

“The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented in open court,” he wrote. “Yet reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it.”

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense counsel, said in a statement that they will “use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place.”

“While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis’ extrajudicial MLK ‘church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism,” Sadow said.

McAfee’s ruling addressed other grounds defendants used to call for disqualification, including Willis’ failure to disclose gifts from Wade on her financial disclosures and a church speech she gave in January blaming the allegations on race.

He called the speech “legally improper,” noting that this kind of public comment “creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”

“The time may well have arrived for an order preventing the State from mentioning the case in any public forum to prevent prejudicial pretrial publicity, but that is not the motion presently before the Court,” he wrote.

As for witnesses, McAfee found Yeartie’s testimony raised doubts about the testimony of Willis and Wade but “lacked context and detail.” He found that he could not “place any stock in the testimony of Terrance Bradley,” Wade’s former law partner.

Texts revealed Bradley, who said on the witness stand that he “could not recall” details about their relationship, shared many details with defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant, even suggesting witnesses she could subpoena to confirm them.

“His inconsistencies, demeanor, and generally non-responsive answers left far too brittle a foundation upon which to build any conclusions,” McAfee wrote.

McAfee issued a ruling Wednesday dismissing six of the counts in the indictment that did not offer defendants “enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

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ELECTION RIGGING: Not just by the FBI, but the CIA had a hand in trying to throw the election for Clinton in 2020

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Wouldn’t it be great if Canada had a few actual journalists who could look into the RCMP and military and maybe figure out if the same was done for Trudeau etc.?

Canada is much more controlled in most ways than the U.S. though.

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Newly released video from Jan 6 shows protestors LED THROUGH BUILDING by POLICE!

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WHO started the “insurrection?

Release all of the J6 political prisoners, now!

 

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Largest organization of OB-GYNs in America accepted $11 million from HHS to promote COVID-19 vaccines to PREGNANT WOMEN

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Largest organization of OB-GYNs in America accepted $11 million from HHS to promote COVID-19 vaccines to PREGNANT WOMEN

Largest organization of OB-GYNs in America accepted $11 million from HHS to promote COVID-19 vaccines to PREGNANT WOMEN

By Arsenio Toledo, CDC News, August 23, 2023:

Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests reveal that the main professional organization of obstetricians and gynecologists (OB-GYNs) in the United States accepted over $11 million in taxpayer money to promote the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines and claim that they are safe for pregnant women and their unborn children.

This is according to fetal-maternal medicine specialist Dr. James Thorp, who conducted an investigation into the massive damage the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are doing to women, especially to those who are pregnant and their unborn children.

In an interview with COVID-19 vaccine expert and Big Pharma critic Dr. Naomi Wolf, Thorp laid out how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created what he called a “covenant of death” with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) – the largest professional organization for OB-GYNs in the United States and the rest of the Americas – in exchange for $11 million.

“What’s in this covenant of death? … They took well over $11 million. They signed the covenant with death, and they’re not allowed to deviate one iota from the lethal narrative of HHS. If they do, they will be liable for paying back every single penny, which they’ve already pocketed,” said Thorp.

Thorp and Wolf noted that the contract uncovered by the FOIA requests provided for the return of the money to the HHS if ACOG did not adhere to the government’s “‘safe and effective’ for pregnant women and new moms script presented to them” by the federal government.

He added that ACOG is not the only professional medical association to have accepted money from the government. Other recipients of government funding in exchange for promoting the COVID-19 vaccines include the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

“[These organizations], to this day, are the evil organizations that perpetrated this crime on the world,” said Thorp.

“Doctors who treat the most vulnerable population in the world – pregnant women and their unborn babies – have been and are coerced to lie by organizations that oversee these doctors, that were paid to lie,” remarked Wolf. “At least one primary goal, of all this madness and evil of the past three years, whatever brand you chose, was to ruin women’s menses and to damage human reproduction at a global level. Team Pfizer or Team Moderna? A distinction without a difference.” (Related: If your doctor told you to get “vaccinated” for COVID, they were BRIBED, evidence shows.)

$13 billion in funding redirected to “influencers” to promote COVID-19 vaccines

In addition to the approximately $11 million provided by the government to ACOG, Thorp noted that his FOIA investigations – launched with the help of his wife, attorney Maggie Thorp – revealed that $13 billion in taxpayer money went to fund “influencers” to promote the mRNA vaccines.

Most of this $13 billion went to a variety of individuals and organizations. Notable are the organizations like ACOG that focus on medicine for pregnant women, such as the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the main medical certification board for practicing obstetricians and gynecologists in the U.S. and Canada, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, an NGO.

According to Thorp, there are about 300 major organizations and influencers – including religious institutions like synagogues and churches – that accepted money from the HHS and the CDC in a “psyops campaign … to convince the United States and the entire world that this deadly shot was safe, effective and necessary in the most vulnerable population – pregnant women.”

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Trump Was Right Again And Again About The Biden Family’s Foreign Business Dealings

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Former President Donald Trump’s assertions during the 2020 presidential campaign about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings have proven to be accurate.

Trump routinely criticized then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden about his son’s dealings with Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese associates when he was on the campaign trail, most notably at the presidential debates leading up to the November 2020 election.

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“China ate your lunch, Joe. And no wonder your son goes in and, wha—, he takes out billions of dollars. He takes out billions of dollars to manage. He makes millions of dollars. And also, while we’re at it, why is it — just out of curiosity — the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son three and a half million dollars,” Trump said to Biden during a September 2020 presidential debate, according to an official transcript from the Commission on Presidential Debates.

“That is not true,” Biden retorted.

“What did he do to deserve it? What did he do with Burisma?” Trump pressed.

“None of that is true,” Biden shot back.

“My son did nothing wrong at Burisma,” Biden said later in the debate.

” I think he did,” Trump retorted.

“He doesn’t want to let me answer, because he knows I have the truth. His position has been totally thoroughly discredited,” Biden claimed.

“By who?” Trump asked.

“By everybody. Well, by the media, by our allies,” Biden answered.

Trump and Biden continued clashing at the September debate over the Biden family’s business dealings despite moderator Chris Wallace’s efforts to shift the conversation.

“And he threatened Ukraine —,” Trump said.

“Sir,” Wallace interrupted.

” — with a billion dollars,” Trump said.

“That is absolutely not true,” Biden said, before Wallace moved the conversation to racial issues.

Trump made similar comments about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings at an October 2022 debate which took place after the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop was censored by Twitter and falsely categorized as Russian disinformation. The Daily Caller News Foundation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and CBS News later verified the Hunter Biden laptop archive.

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“You got three-and-a-half million dollars. Your family got three-and-a-half million dollars and you know someday, you’re gonna have to explain — why did you get three-and-a-half?” Trump asserted, according to the official debate transcript.

“I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,” Biden responded.

“Number two, I don’t make money from China, you do. I don’t make money from Ukraine, you do. I don’t make money from Russia. You made three-and-a-half million dollars, Joe, and your son gave you— They even have a statement that we have to give 10% to the big man. You’re the big man, I think. I don’t know, maybe you’re not. But you’re the big man, I think. Your son said we have to give 10% to the big man,” Trump said later in the debate.

“I carried out U.S. policy. Not one, single, solitary thing was out of line. Not a single thing, number one. Number two, the guy who got in trouble in Ukraine was this guy, trying to bribe the Ukrainian government to say something negative about me, which they would not do, and did not do, because it never, ever, ever happened. My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about — China. I have not had it. The only guy that made money from China is this guy. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China,” Biden hit back.

“His son didn’t have a job for a long time, was sadly no longer in the military service, I won’t get into that. And he didn’t have a job. As soon as he became vice president, Burisma — not the best, not the best reputation in the world — I hear they paid him 183,000 a month. Listen to this, 183, and they gave him a $3 million upfront payment, and he had no energy experience. That’s 100% dishonest,” Trump followed up.

“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of, is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani,” Biden said later on.

Joe Biden was citing a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials which claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was part of a “Russian information operation” without evidence to back it up. One of the letter’s signatories, former CIA official Michael Morrell, testified to the House Judiciary Committee about how Biden Secretary of State Tony Blinken orchestrated the letter, which Morrell signed to help Biden defeat Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump’s assertions about Ukraine, China and Russia appear to be based on a Senate report released in September 2020 detailing Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and the New York Post’s October 2020 reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop archive.

Trump made similar assertions on Twitter beginning in late 2019, before Biden won the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Trump tweeted on numerous occasions about the Biden family’s business dealings with Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian business partners.

Hunter Biden’s consulting firm was wired $3.5 million by Russian oligarch Elena Baturina in February 2014 as part of a consulting agreement, the Senate report found. Baturina was married to former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and her net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion.

Hunter Biden’s former business associate, Devon Archer, testified to the House Oversight Committee Monday about how Joe and Hunter Biden dined with Baturina in the spring of 2014 at a cafe in Washington, D.C., according to a transcript of Archer’s testimony.

Trump’s statement about Biden threatening Ukraine with a billion dollars was based on what then-Vice President Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in September 2016 when Biden bragged about getting Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired in early 2016.

“You remember last year I was authorized to say we’d do the second tranche of a billion dollars. And he didn’t fire his chief prosecutor. And because I have the confidence of the president, I was there, and I said: I’m not signing it. Until you fire him, we’re not signing, man,” Biden told CFR. Biden made similar comments at a January 2018 event with CFR when he was out of office.

When Shokin was fired, Hunter Biden was being paid $83,000 a month as a board member of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, another detail confirmed by Archer’s testimony. Archer also testified about a dinner Joe Biden attended a dinner with Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi and how the Biden family “brand” prevented Burisma from going out of business.

One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, James Gillar, called Joe Biden “the big guy” in emails first reported by the New York Post. Another former business associate, Tony Bobulinski, confirmed to the outlet the “big guy” moniker was referring to Joe Biden.

Likewise, Archer confirmed to the House Oversight Committee “my guy” was a nickname Hunter Biden used to describe his father in an April 2014 email.

Archer told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson it was “categorically false” to say Joe Biden was not aware of his son’s business dealings, referencing a personalized letter Biden sent him in 2011. In the same interview, Archer said Shokin was a “threat” to Burisma’s business and recalled a purported raid on Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky’s property overseen by Shokin’s office.

In addition, Hunter Biden received payments from a Chinese firm, CEFC China Energy, whose chairman, Ye Jianming, was linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to the senate report.

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testified to the House Ways & Means Committee about a threatening text Hunter Biden allegedly sent a CEFC associate with Joe Biden in the room. Shapley provided a transcript of former Biden business associate Rob Walker’s interview with the FBI where Walker said Joe Biden met with CEFC officials in May 2017, shortly after his vice presidency concluded.

The House Oversight Committee revealed in late June a text allegedly sent by Hunter Biden on Aug. 3, 2017 to a CEFC associate about how the Bidens are “the best” at assisting his boss. The next day, Owasco P.C., one of Biden’s shell companies, was paid $100,000 by CEFC, the committee disclosed.

On Aug. 8, 2017, Hudson West III, a business entity formed by Hunter Biden and a CEFC business partner, was wired an estimated $5 million, the Senate report found.

Hunter Biden earned about $1 million from Hudson West III in 2017, according to his guilty plea agreement with Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors which fell apart in court. Biden admitted during his late July court appearance he made $664,000 from CEFC in 2017, court transcripts show.

IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler testified to the House Oversight Committee that Hunter Biden and his business associates took an estimated $17 million from Chinese, Ukrainian and Romanian business interests. The Oversight Committee released a memo in May 2023 outlining more than $10 million in alleged payments from foreign companies to Biden family members.

Two months prior, the House Oversight Committee released a memo showing Walker took $3 million from a Chinese energy company and allegedly sent $1.3 million worth of payments to Biden family members. Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, Chair of the House Oversight Committee, said in July more bank records would be released showing Hunter Biden’s alleged dealings with Russian business partners.

The White House said President Biden “was not in business with his son” when Shapley’s testimony was publicized, a shift from Biden denying any knowledge of his son’s business dealings.

“Any verifiable words or actions of my client, in the midst of a horrible addiction, are solely his own and have no connection to anyone in his family,” Hunter Biden’s lawyer said in the wake of Shapley’s testimony.

Hunter Biden was charged by the DOJ in June with two tax misdemeanors and a felony gun charge. Both IRS whistleblowers accused prosecutors of slow-walking and obstructing the Hunter Biden case based on their knowledge of the investigation.

The president’s son was expected to plead guilty to the tax charges and sign a diversion agreement for the gun charge, until a disagreement with the DOJ about the immunity clause hidden inside Biden’s diversion agreement caused Biden’s plea deal to implode. The DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden is still ongoing and

“He confirms President Biden was not involved in his son’s business,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams tweeted about Archer’s testimony. Sams told multiple media outlets the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings is an “evidence-free wild goose chase” following Archer’s testimony.

The day after Devon Archer’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith for charges related to his efforts to contest the 2020 presidential election results. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges Thursday at an arraignment in Washington, D.C. He continues to lead the 2024 Republican presidential primary by wide margins.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Jack Moore contributed to this report.

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‘My Son Hunter’: An imperfect but necessary indictment of media’s corruption

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This satirical film reveals a disturbing truth about modern mainstream journalistic standards.

We all love the literary motif of the unwilling prostitute who, at the end of the story, does virtuous deeds to save herself and others. In Crime and Punishment, Sonya is instrumental in Raskolnikov’s redemption. Director Robert Davi uses the same formula to tell the story of President’s Biden son in My Son Hunter.

Grace struggles to pay for her college tuition, so she is a favourite escort of powerful men. As she encounters Hunter Biden in a world of cocaine, wild sex, and rampant corruption, she offers him a path to redemption — and of course, he rejects it.

Now, Davi is no Dostoevsky — nor does he intend to be. My Son Hunter is first and foremost political satire, all-too-frequently engaging in cheap shots. But it does take a stab at Dostoevskyan psychological profundity, and in that endeavour, it partly succeeds.

The shadow of successful Beau Biden — Hunter’s deceased brother — looms large over Hunter, who struggles to find meaning in life. Very much as Raskolnikov, he comes across as a pathological narcissist who engages in criminal activity as a way to prove to himself that he is so great so as to be above the law.

Overblown

Unfortunately, My Son Hunter often goes overboard and loses effectiveness. I lost count of the number of times Joe Biden sniffs the hair of women in the film. Is that necessary? That portrayal runs the risk of playing into the left-wing narrative that criticisms of the Bidens focus on petty things that can be easily dismissed.

The stakes are high, so a more focused and incisive portrayal was needed. Say what you want about Oliver Stone’s leftist politics and penchant for conspiracy theories, but he surely can strike an opponent in his films — Richard Nixon and George W. Bush being the most notorious cases.

The story of Hunter Biden lends itself to Stone’s sober cinematographic style, but My Son Hunter misses an opportunity, to the extent that it aims for low-hanging fruit. Yes, the Bidens are corrupt, but one is left wondering: can they be that corrupt? While the dialogues between Joe and Hunter are clever and amusing, the perversity defies credibility. Perhaps Davi was deliberately aiming more for Saturday Night Live’s lampooning style all along. If so, the film works at some level, but never entirely.

I would have personally enjoyed a more sober style because there is a far darker theme in the film. My Son Hunter is not about the moral failings of a privileged, corrupt drug addict. It is not even about crony capitalism and globalist elites. The real central theme is the media’s rot.

Media manipulation

Two scenes are particularly frightening. At the beginning of the film, Grace is at a Black Lives Matter protest, and records some of her comrades engaging in violent deeds. A fellow activist says: “You can’t post that video… it will make the protest look bad… Those people are too ignorant to understand complex moral issues. You have to withhold things for their own good. We choose truth over facts.” Grace acquiesces.

Towards the end of the film, Grace summons a journalist to expose Hunter’s corruption. The man tells her: “Even if what you are saying is true, it’s not news. We have the chance to take down a fascist dictator [Trump]… I’m sorry Grace, this one is not for me.” We now know that Twitter and Facebook — with their disturbing algorithms — were not the only ones trying to bury Hunter’s laptop under the sand.

As Mark Zuckerberg recently acknowledged, the FBI itself pressured him to do so, because they did not want the bad Orange Man to win the election — all with the excuse that the whole story was Russian disinformation. Later on, both the Washington Post and the New York Times had to reverse their stance and admit that, in fact, the laptop does contain compromising emails.

Plato infamously recommended telling people the Noble Lie. Very much as the Black Lives Matter activist in this film, Plato believed such lies were for people’s own good, as they were too stupid to understand things. In his seminal study of totalitarianism, Karl Popper persuasively argued that Plato’s plan became a central tenet of totalitarian regimes. That is the real fascism.

While being far from a perfect film, My Son Hunter provides meaningful insight on this issue, and hopefully it might become an important step towards much-needed media accountability in this woke age.

For the time being, we need to be realistic. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Hollywood to make an Oliver Stone-like blockbuster about the corruption and hypocrisy of the Left.

Rather, keep an eye out for low-budget productions like My Son Hunter that are bypassing the Hollywood production and distribution system. These include Uncle Tom I and II, various Christian films, such as Run, Hide, Fight.

They will not be great works of art, but at least they will be something. And from there, the quality of such films may gradually improve, until we again see mainstream studios portraying corrupt politicians from both sides of the political spectrum.

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Catching Up with some Common Core Profiteers: Beyond the Project Veritas Videos

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The Big Government-Big Education alliance has also had positive trickle-down effects for professors, who have benefited with publishing contracts and grants for their institutions.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest funder of Common Core, continues to support universities that help in implementing their education initiatives.  Professors hopped on the Common Core gravy train at the get-go. There was the curious fact that Bill Ayers gave a keynote address at the 2009 convention of the Renaissance Group, “a national consortium of colleges, universities and professional organizations” dedicated to teaching and education.  Now if we could only learn how much Bill Ayers was paid for that keynote speech in Washington in 2009.

James O’Keefe’s undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written not for the benefit of students, but to enrich crony capitalists, such as mega-curriculum companies, Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, Pearson, and National Geographic Education.

The latest, the fourth video, records former Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt executive Gilbert Garcia describing the constant “politicking” among school board members and superintendents, and former Pearson employee Kim Koerber describing how the 2013 $1.3 billion contract for supplying I-Pads to the Los Angeles school district was “written for Pearson to win.”  After an FBI investigation into bid-rigging, Pearson, in 2015, agreed to pay the district $6.4 million in a settlement.

Pearson issued a statement calling remarks in the videos “offensive,” asserting that they do not reflect the values of the company’s 40,000 employees.

But the Big Government-Big Education alliance has also had positive trickle-down effects for professors, who have benefited with publishing contracts and grants for their institutions.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest funder of Common Core, continues to support universities that help in implementing their education initiatives.  To name a few, in November, the Foundation announced a grant of $34.7 million for “transformation centers” to improve teacher preparation programs on the campuses of the University of Michigan, Texas Tech University, and the Relay Graduate School of Education, as well as at the National Center for Teacher Residencies, and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  That same month, a grant of $1,799,710 was awarded to “support collaboration between Vanderbilt [University] and the Tennessee Department of Education in the area of education research and improvement,” and $764,553 was awarded to the University of Florida for “teacher leader fellows.”

Professors hopped on the Common Core gravy train at the get-go, as I described in 2012, in my report for Accuracy in Media, “Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum.” There was the curious fact that Bill Ayers gave a keynote address at the 2009 convention of the Renaissance Group, “a national consortium of colleges, universities and professional organizations” dedicated to teaching and education.  Of course, I made no claim that Ayers wrote the standards; I just noted that he appeared at this conference in Washington with then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, his under secretary, and a representative from Achieve, the company that orchestrated Common Core.  Ayers’s close colleague, Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond, led Obama’s education transition team and oversaw one of the two national Common Core tests.

Less well-known professors, who had bristled at the imposition of “standards,” suddenly began embracing Common Core standards.  This was the case with education professor Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at Columbia Teachers College, Bill Ayers’s alma mater, long a bastion of anti-testing/anti-standards.  These professors began writing teacher guidebooks, and presenting talks and workshops.  Since co-authoring Pathways to the Common Core, Calkins continues to do work for the publisher, Heinemann, a part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  Her “Units of Study” curriculum is described by the publisher as a bestseller.  She also writes performance assessments, including the Grade 1 “Units of Study” in “Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing.”  (Yes, students in first grade are expected to write op-eds.)  In a short video, Calkins explains her teaching philosophy that involves mini-lessons and group work.

In 2012, Marc Aronson, a lecturer in communications and information at Rutgers University, was advertising himself as a “Common Core Consultant,” speaker, and author.  Today, he describes himself on his personal website as an “author, professor, speaker, editor and publisher who believes that young people, especially pre-teens and teenagers, are smart, passionate, and capable of engaging with interesting ideas in interesting ways.”

Aronson apparently believes that pre-teens and teenagers are smart enough to weed out the lies in his Common Core-compliant middle school and high school textbook, Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies.  As I noted in my report, Aronson presents the KGB-fabricated lies about the FBI director’s homosexuality as probable.  For the benefit of 11-year-olds, he posits that photographs of Hoover with his friend Clyde Tolson “might be seen as lovers’ portraits.”  The book is filled with sexual innuendo and dwells on such irrelevant details in order to ascribe motives to Hoover for his presumably unfounded fears about the communist threat.  The accompanying discussion guide is a masterpiece of disguise: as ideological questions bearing their own answers.

It is therefore not surprising that Aronson would now write an article in the School Library Journal casting a skeptical eye on O’Keefe’s undercover videos and asking readers to “consider the source,” as the subheading to the headline, “Is Common Core Just a Scam to Sell Books?” asks.  He distances himself from the sales executives but never directly names the “source” that one should “consider.”  (Innuendo seems to be his modus operandi.) The implication is O’Keefe.  Aronson admits, “As a nonfiction fan, author, and editor, I have a stake in this.”  He denies that his stake is in the rise in nonfiction sales that have come as Common Core standards have edged out literature in favor of “informational texts.”  No, Aronson fell “in love with the standards” when he first read them, “years before they had any impact on royalty statements.”

Aronson also claims to have served recently on the New Jersey team that evaluated that state’s English Language Arts (ELA) and Math standards.  Contrary to the executives’ statements captured in the videos, his “team” carefully examined the standards “one by one, grade by grade, and listened to extensive comments from teachers, administrators, parents, professionals, and business leaders.”  He claims that he saw “commitment, not greed.”

He presents a “guiding principle” that sounds very familiar to those of us whose eyes have glazed and brains have flopped like dying fish from the Common Core sales literature: “From the first, our guiding principle was this: What will someone awarded a high school diploma be ready for? The group looked at each educational stage and benchmark to consider what students would need to know to be ready for the next step, and the next, so that after graduation they would have the skill set to begin the next phase of their lives.”

Aronson’s team included comments by Amy Rominiecki, a Certified School Library Media Specialist, on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, in their report. (He links back to her statement when she testified in support of Common Core.)  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has also funded studies for the American Library Association (the parent organization of the American Association of School Librarians) on such things as Technology Access, training, and participation in the federal E-rate program.

Aronson attributes the continuing low performance of 12th graders in math and reading to economic inequality, stating, “If more students had more resources (social, emotional, financial, cultural, and technological), more would be ready to meet the challenges and opportunities that follow after secondary education.”

Of course, this author and educational entrepreneur has only the purest motives: “the children.”  Money may be important, “yet, there is a role for standards to play.” To that end, “as educators and communities who care about our nation’s youth, it is necessary we establish a path that’s best for as many students.”

Such bromides bring big bucks in the education world.  I am reminded of words by Bill Ayers at an education conference in 2013, something about being finite creatures hurtling through infinite space.  Now if we could only learn how much Bill Ayers was paid for that keynote speech in Washington in 2009.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research website.

America: Are You being Schlonged?

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Great orators have a way of using a word to make a point that resonates with the masses. Some of these words later become part of a dialogue and perhaps even are added to Webster’s dictionary.

Donald Trump is a master at using simple words to explain complex issues. His latest is the use of the noun schlong as a verb when referring to Hillary Clinton.

Charles Hurt in his column “The Nuclear Option: Donald Trump Schools Rivals on ‘The Art of the Schlong” writes:

If you think “The Art of the Deal” was a yuuuuuuuuuuge success — and it was — just wait until Donald Trump comes out with his latest masterpiece, “The Art of the Schlong.”

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“The Art of the Schlong” is a political treatise, like “The Art of War,” only more devastating and infinitely more entertaining. It is more psychologically sinister than Machiavelli’s “The Prince.” It is like Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” only the opposite. Except for the influence part.

The treatise is a tactical primer for anybody thinking of getting into politics, especially as a Republican these days. Tough world out there right now.

It is a schlong or get-schlonged world, so you’d better learn how to schlong. [Emphasis added]

Americans increasingly believe they are getting schlonged.

gallop government corruptionIn September a Gallop poll confirmed that 75% in U.S. see widespread government corruption. Gallop reports:

Three in four Americans (75%) last year perceived corruption as widespread in the country’s government. This figure is up from two in three in 2007 (67%) and 2009 (66%).

While the numbers have fluctuated slightly since 2007, the trend has been largely stable since 2010. However, the percentage of U.S. adults who see corruption as pervasive has never been less than a majority in the past decade, which has had no shortage of controversies from the U.S. Justice Department’s firings of U.S. attorneys to the IRS scandal.

Add to this list: The Fast and Furious government gunwalking scandal, the Benghazi and Extortion 17 cover-ups, the revelation that Obamacare is unsustainable by Professor Jonathan Gruber and most recently Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

Donald Trump in one word has captured the essence of all of these examples of government out of control. Will his use of schlonged, along with Grubered, be added to the political lexicon? Only time will tell.

If you feel you are being schlonged please take our confidential survey and leave a comment and tell us how government has schlonged you.

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 “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” – Leo Tolstoy

It’s been a rather stunning week.

It began with Denver fans sitting stunned as they watched the Seattle Seahawks totally decimate the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.

Then, the President stunningly said the IRS targeting scandal had “not even a smidgen of corruption”. That was news to lots of Americans.

Sadly, the President said this in the face of what has already been presented from numerous Congressional investigations and hearings, and likely without having been briefed on an unfinished, albeit what appears to be a highly politicized Justice Department investigation.

Then three days after the interview, at Wednesday’s Congressional oversight hearing, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp presented a June 14, 2012,email between Ruth Madrigal, a career attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department and several top officials with the IRS in Washington.

In this rather stunning email, Madrigal wrote, “Don’t know who in your organizations is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off – plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting…” Folks, in Washington speak, “off-plan” means hidden or secret from public view. So much for transparency.

This was followed by yesterday’s explosive IRS oversight hearing. Attorney Cleta Mitchell charged, “First, the IRS scandal is real. It’s not pretend, it’s real. Number two, the IRS scandal is not just a bone headed bunch of bureaucrats in some remote office contrary to what the President of the United States told the American people on Sunday. And, number 3, the IRS scandal is not over. It is continuing to this day. And, the Department of Justice Investigation is a sham. It is a NON-EXISTENT investigation.“

Mitchell then chronicled a series of what she described as “lies” during a stunning, opening statement.

The combative hearing culminated with several Members beating the drum for a Special Prosecutor. There’s only one word for this – stunning!

One wonders if the President now regrets making his “smidgen” declaration.

What has happened with the IRS scandals cannot be undone and deserves a full and unbiased, non-partisan investigation led by someone other than a major donor to the current President of the United States. And, today’s clarion call for a special prosecutor is a wise next step. Going forward, there is only one way to ensure that this kind of political terror never happens again.

HR 25, the FairTax Act of 2013, currently before Congress and the Committee on Ways and Means is the only legislation that provides simple and fair taxation for all Americans.

More importantly, HR 25 is the only legislation that defunds and disbands the IRS in its entirety.

It is time that Congress stop the perennial IRS theatrics – theatrics created by 74,608 pages of special interests driven tax code approved by Congress – and pass HR 25 / S 122.

Finally, Americans For Fair Taxation® is a key sponsor of the Western States Conservative Caucus in Phoenix, AZ onFebruary 22, 2014. Approximately 1,000 attendees will receive a FairTax lanyard, FairTax button, FairTax pocket card and FairTax briefing information in their registration packet. In addition, Neal Boortz will be a keynote speaker during the plenary session and will lead an exciting panel discussion, “The FairTax: An idea whose time has come,” which also features FairTax spokesperson Steve Hayes and retired AZ State Senator and longtime FairTax advocate Lori Klein.

Our AZ FairTax team, supported by grassroots FairTax leaders coming in from across the nation, will have a booth to share more information on the FairTax Plan with participants. This conference promises great educational opportunities for the FairTax. If you would like to join the FairTax team, you can register for the conference here.

I look forward to seeing you in Phoenix!