As Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to focus on prosecuting individuals involved in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, lawmakers and experts say the administration and the Democratic Party have embellished the facts of what occurred, misallocated federal resources, unjustly prosecuted nonviolent protestors, and weaponized the incident for political gain.
On Monday, the fourth anniversary of the riot, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement claiming in part that “five officers … lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021.” But as noted by National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, “no police officers died in the line of duty during the Capitol riot.” As he went on to write, some of the officers involved in protecting the Capitol tragically passed away after the incident as a result of medical complications and suicides, but “[n]ot a single charge of murder of a federal officer, nor conspiracy or attempt to murder a federal officer, was alleged by DOJ” related to January 6 (J6).
Despite this, Garland’s DOJ has filed charges against almost 1,600 individuals in connection with J6, with reports on Monday indicating that as many as 200 more individuals may be charged as well. As Garland acknowledged in his statement, “Over the past four years, our prosecutors, FBI agents, investigators, and analysts have conducted one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history.”
But Republican lawmakers argue that much of the narrative surrounding J6 has been distorted to paint anyone who was present at the Capitol that day as a violent “insurrectionist” and blame President Donald Trump for instigating the violence. On Monday, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) joined “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” to discuss an interim report released by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight regarding J6.
“[Garland] certainly, I think, overdid it” with regard to the number of individuals charged, Griffith contended. “That’s not to say there weren’t bad actors on January 6th,” he added. “There were some, but the vast majority of folks were there to protest, but they were planning on a peaceful protest. And then, you know, everything broke loose and got out of control, but it is amazing how they don’t want to tell the whole narrative. And you know, what we need to do is tell the whole truth, right? [The] good, the bad, the ugly on both sides of this thing.”
Griffith went on to point out that Trump attempted to contain the chaos on that day with the National Guard.
“[O]ne of the biggest things that has struck me from our investigation is the fact that President Trump authorized the National Guard to come in,” he emphasized. “[But] it was the D.C. politicos … Nancy Pelosi and company who — and I can’t say that she made the decision herself — but they didn’t want to have this image of the National Guard coming in. They had bicycle racks up for a perimeter, knowing that there were going to be tens of thousands, if not more than 100,000 people in Washington that day to protest. Today, for example, they’ve been putting up for about a week … these huge fences that kept people from getting anywhere near the Capitol. None of that was done in advance [of J6].”
“Our law enforcement was not prepared,” Griffith continued. “Nobody in D.C. was prepared. And then the people who could have ameliorated this issue were left sitting on the sidelines. The National Guard was told just to sit by and wait for orders. And then even after the military folks gave the orders at the highest level, a general decided he wasn’t going to issue that order right away and held on for another couple of hours before sending in the National Guard. So we need to look at all the totality of the circumstances and look at each individual case if we’re really going to make a decision as to whether or not these people had evil in their hearts on that day. I would submit a lot of them did not.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins concurred, observing that officials took extra precautions with barricades in D.C. following the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, but curiously did not implement the same security measures ahead of J6. “When you add those facts and these perceptions with what happened post January 6th with the sham investigation that took place by Nancy Pelosi and the January 6th committee, it only fuels that idea that this was politically motivated to advance a narrative.”
“I don’t think there’s any question,” Griffith agreed. “The January 6th select committee that Nancy Pelosi put together was politically motivated. I think the evidence is clear on that from the very beginning, from day one. They wanted to project that this was all Donald Trump’s fault, that he was the big bad guy, and the evidence just didn’t bear that out.”
The congressman further contended that the January 6th Select Committee “gave partial truth, and sometimes maybe even given Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, was clearly in error, if not just falsehoods. … And the witnesses who were on the scene that the January 6th Select Committee had in their possession before they issued their report was not in that report. And they should have given the American people the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. They chose not to do so because they had a political agenda.”
Griffith additionally noted that Pelosi kept “conservative Republicans off of the commission, who could have asked the pointed questions, who could have brought out [further] information,” further detailing that “there was about a terabyte of information that was deleted or attempted to be deleted by the J6 Select Committee. That should have gone to the archives of the United States. That’s just gone.”
“[L]et all the proper evidence in and let the chips fall where they may,” Griffith concluded. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But you know what? They didn’t do that. They tilted the scales of justice for political reasons, and it’s atrocious.”
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In his New Year’s press conference concerning the New Orleans terrorist attack that took the lives of 15 people and injured dozens of others, President Joe Biden expressed confidence from Camp David that the FBI is “working nonstop to investigate this heinous act.”
“The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, and whether there was any continuing threat to public safety,” Biden said.
Biden might trust the FBI to handle investigations like the one into Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s allegedly ISIS-inspired massacre on Bourbon Street, but Americans who have seen the nation’s premier law enforcement agency weaponize itself against the Biden regime’s political opponents overwhelmingly don’t.
The FBI claims protecting the nation from terrorist attacks is its “number one priority.” Yet the agency spent recent years redirecting its attention and resources from top issues like violent criminal acts that lead to mass casualties and child sex abuse cases to arresting meemaws for walking around the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 and praying at abortion facilities.
The FBI wholly disqualified itself from being the lead on the New Orleans investigation when it deemed anyone questioning the regime guilty of wrongthink at the same time it allowed, entrapped, and even groomed true threats. How can an entity that openly hyper-fixated its best efforts on “white supremacy” accurately and adequately evaluate a threat as serious and as widespread as Islamic terrorism? It can’t.
Even if it wasn’t politicized to its very core, the FBI’s incompetence and malfeasance no doubt hinder its ability to evaluate actual extremism and the threat it poses. The assistant special agent in charge of the New Orleans investigation claimed with a straight face that even though a man deliberately rammed a rented truck through a crowd, and even though “improvised explosive devices” were found, “this is not a terrorist event.”
Her downplaying directly followed comments from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, who opened the Wednesday morning press conference by definitively stating that her city was “impacted by a terrorist attack.” It was also quickly followed by a statement from the FBI confirming that the agency was indeed investigating the tragedy as an “act of terrorism.”
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During its four years in office, the Biden-Harris administration conducted a whole-of-government attempt to surveil, censor, and possibly imprison conservative Christians — and the FBI acted as “a witting participant” in their harassment campaign, a massive new government report details.
The Democratic administration’s attempt to harass “pro-life, pro-family” citizens takes up a significant part of the 17,019-page report, which the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released on December 20. The efforts included painting concerned parents and “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as incipient domestic terrorists.
“The Select Subcommittee revealed and stopped the FBI’s effort to target Catholic Americans because of their religious views, detailed the Justice Department’s directives to target parents at school board meetings, stopped the Internal Revenue Service from making unannounced visits to American taxpayers’ homes, caused the Justice Department to change its internal policies to respect the separation of powers and limit subpoenas for [l]egislative [b]ranch employees, and highlighted the vast warrantless financial surveillance of Americans by federal law enforcement,” states the report, which proved so sprawling it had to be released in four parts.
“The report underscores the risks posed by a weaponized federal government,” said the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), in an email sent to The Washington Stand.
Biden ‘Misused Federal Law’ to Go after Concerned Parents
Perhaps the most heavy-handed weaponization of government undertaken by the Biden-Harris administration came when it declared war on mothers and fathers who objected to having their children indoctrinated in the public school system. After teachers unions and liberal authorities closed in-person classes in government schools, parents realized the extent to which activists had smuggled critical race theory and extreme gender ideology into the curriculum. Soon, they began voicing their objections to the local school board.
“As the radical left pushed its woke agenda on America’s children, parents across the country started speaking out at school board meetings against critical race theory, unscientific mask mandates, transgender ideology in the classroom and bathroom, and anti-America curricula. Concerned parents were vocal and unafraid in their opposition to this indoctrination,” states the report. “The National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the Biden [a]dministration, however, could not abide this growing parental rights revolution and colluded to create a pretext—articulated in an October 4 memorandum from Attorney General [Merrick] Garland — to use the federal law-enforcement apparatus to silence parents.”
The report documents how Democrats “worked with education special interests to generate” the underlying basis of the directive. Specifically, the Biden administration “colluded” with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) beginning in October 2021 and “misused federal law-enforcement and counterterrorism resources for political purposes.” The FBI conducted 25 “Guardian assessments,” including investigating a mother because she belonged to a “right-wing mom’s group” and a father because “he rails against the government.”
“No one I spoke with in law enforcement seemed to think that there is a serious national threat directed at school boards,” one U.S. Attorney told the subcommittee.
Yet the investigations followed the memo, which Biden’s Justice Department released one month before the 2021 Virginia governor’s election. The Democratic state elected Republican Glenn Youngkin, who promised to give parents greater control over education. In their debate, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
“Despite federal law enforcement’s task to protect all Americans, the Biden-Harris [a]dministration pursued a two-tiered system of justice. … [T]he FBI singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential domestic terrorists.”
‘Radical’ Catholics or Radical Abuse of Government?
Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin revealed the existence of a memorandum written by the FBI’s Richmond office describing an alleged tie between terrorism and “radical-traditionalist Catholic” Christians. Despite the lack of evidence to support the allegation, this purported link would allow federal agents to spy on members of a Christian denomination, remotely or in person.
The “FBI’s own internal review identified errors at every step of the drafting, review, and approval of” the document. “FBI employees could not define the meaning of ‘radical-traditionalist Catholic’ when preparing, editing, or reviewing the memorandum. Nevertheless, this single investigation became the basis for an FBI-wide memorandum warning about the dangers of ‘radical’ Catholics,” notes the report. “The two FBI employees who co-authored the memorandum later told FBI internal investigators that they knew the sources cited in the memorandum had a political bias — sources including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Salon, and The Atlantic.”
Basing a proposed infiltration of Latin Mass parishes on such a flimsy intelligence product proves that “the FBI abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists and that there was no legitimate basis for the memorandum to insert federal law enforcement into Catholic houses of worship,” investigators conclude. By the time public outcry led to a public apology, the FBI had already interrogated a priest and choir director, “relied on at least one undercover agent to develop its assessment, and the FBI even proposed developing sources among the Catholic clergy and church leadership.”
In other words, the FBI planned to place undercover informants inside churches.
“The FBI was a witting participant in the [a]dministration’s anti-parent endeavor,” the report concludes, but abusing the rights of U.S. citizens became an all-of-government undertaking. Although “the FBI has targeted its employees who hold conservative viewpoints, investigated parents at school board meetings, and sought to invade the sacred spaces of Catholic churches in the name of fighting ‘domestic terrorism,]” such “abuses are not limited to the FBI,” says the report. “Federal agencies including the IRS, the Treasury Department, and other Justice Department components like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), have misused federal funds to target Americans.”
The report also notes the government’s attempt to “prebunk” the Hunter Biden laptop story, the first-ever FBI raid on the home of a former President Donald Trump and subsequent acts of lawfare against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, government harassment of Elon Musk and Twitter (now known as X), mistreatment of whistleblowers, and the financial surveillance of American citizens.
The report’s 12,757-page appendix chronicles the subcommittee’s hearings, letters, subpoenas, depositions, and transcribed interviews.
This tome comes as the latest in a series of devastating reports chronicling the rampant corruption of the Biden-Harris administration and its enablers burrowed deep into America’s bureaucratic infrastructure. Earlier this month, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its 520-page report titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward” found nearly every COVID-19 conspiracy theory was true.
The voluminous report represents the full body of research the subcommittee has undertaken since the House of Representatives formed the 20-member investigative body, comprised of 11 Republicans and nine Democrats, in February 2023. The subcommittee acted as part of the House Judiciary Committee, also chaired by Jordan.
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The FBI used to fight terrorists. Now it aids and abets them.
People recently noticed the FBI awarding a diploma to a student from ‘Palestine’.
A little digging turned up the fact that the FBI had been promoting the man in question, Husham Abu-Aisha, on its social media for a while as the epitome of all that it idealizes.
Husham is a member of the Palestinian Authority’s forces, which are essentially terrorist operations that also conduct some policing. A member of a terrorist group’s forces getting training at the FBI raises serious questions.
When Zach Schoffstall, a former supervisory senior resident agent in the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, heard his bosses wanted to focus more on “domestic terrorism” and “hate crimes,” he tried to work with them. He brought the U.S. Attorney in Idaho two hate crime cases.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) declined to prosecute both. Instead, Schoffstall told the Daily Caller, the Attorney for the District of Idaho, Josh Hurwit, said he was more interested in appeasing the Biden administration by hosting seminars to talk about hate crimes. Later on, when the FBI pushed Schoffstall to execute a search warrant against a “domestic extremist” group protesting LGBTQ activists, he refused. It eventually cost him his career.
“I had been told I brought embarrassment to the bureau because of all the pressure that DOJ placed on the bureau to get that warrant,” Schoffstall told the Caller.
In June of 2022, 31 Patriot Front members were arrested and charged with conspiracy to riot after they were found carrying poles and shields in a U-Haul at a Coeur d’Alene “Pride in the Park” event. Schoffstall said the group is known to protest BLM, LGBTQ, and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) events.
Pride in the Park generated outrage after it was revealed that Idaho’s Satanic Temple chapter and sexualized drag queens would be present at the “family-friendly” event. Christian pastors, however, were removed for allegedly trespassing. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said that month that it was investigating whether a performer’s genitals were potentially exposed, according to the Idaho Dispatch.
At least one member of Antifa was also arrested at the pride event, Andy Ngo reported.
“It would appear from our investigation, [Patriot Font] went to great lengths to prevent anyone from committing an act of violence,” Schoffstall said. “They would suspend people for talking about it. They’d kick them out.”
While he said the group’s message was “pretty stupid,” Schoffstall emphasized that he never saw any calls for violence.
Still, the USAO and executive management at the FBI were determined to execute a federal search warrant, even pushing Schoffstall to give the warrant to an agent “with no knowledge of the investigation.”
After he refused, Schoffstall was removed and transferred to West Virginia to work in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Despite receiving feedback that he performed at an “exemplary level,” Schoffstall was dismissed in 2024 because of how he handled the 2022 investigation, he said.
The Patriot Front case was transferred to an LGBTQ FBI supervisor in Boise, according to Schoffstall. Additionally, Coeur d’Alene’s USAO branch manager had a child who was “transitioning” at the time of the Boise Pride event, Schoffstall said. He speculated there was a combination of “personal and political agendas.”
“You had obviously an [assistant U.S. attorney] with a personal interest in the LGBTQ movement,” Schoffstall said. “And you had a brand new U.S. attorney who stated he was looking to appease DOJ.”
Josh Hurwit was “looking to appear to be in the good graces of [DOJ],” Schoffstall told the Caller. Hurwit was nominated by President Joe Biden, and FEC filings show he donated to Biden and Harris’s presidential campaigns. He is also a supporter of the LGBTQ movement and attended a Boise Pride event in December 2022.
The Biden administration made advancing “racial equity,” a euphemism for discarding merit to judge individuals based on their race, a key tenet of its executive brand policy. At the DOJ, this manifested in the form of an annual “equity action plan.”
Hurwit reportedly told Schoffstall that one of his priorities as attorney for the District of Idaho would be combating hate crimes.
Schoffstall told the Caller he notified the USAO of two potential hate crimes. In one instance, a white male allegedly assaulted a black man with a knife and used racial slurs. In another, a Hispanic man was allegedly punched by a white man using racial slurs.
The USAO declined to prosecute both cases. Schoffstall later informed Hurwit about the potential hate crimes.
“He said, ‘Oh, I wasn’t aware, but I was more thinking we would do some conferences and so forth on the hate crime issues,’” Schoffstall stated.
“I think my takeaway from that was Mr. Hurwit, as the new U.S. Attorney, was very much just looking to appear to be in the good graces of main justice and parrot whatever they wanted him to parrot, but they weren’t necessarily looking for basic criminal prosecutions.”
The Caller reached out to Hurwit’s office for comment on the above but has not yet heard back.
The DOJ launched a “United Against Hate” (UAH) initiative under Biden in 2022 to combat hate crimes. The program partnered nonprofits and USAOs with the DOJ and FBI to “combat hate.”
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“UAH shares resources to combat hate and encourages discussion between representatives from law enforcement, community organizations, and members of the public,” a DOJ press release stated.
Rather than prosecute hate crimes, Hurwit cosponsored a UAH event with Idaho State University in 2023 which included presentations about how to report them. He also participated in an event with the DOJ, FBI, and the Idaho nonprofit “Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations,” in 2022.
The City of Coeur d’Alene passed an anti-hate crime ordinance in July 2024. One of the city’s councilmembers, Christie Wood, is on the board of the Task Force involved in the DOJ’s UAH program.
The @CDAgov City Council just passed a “Hate Speech” law in Coeur d’Alene.
This is the same exact City Council that passed Mask Mandates for the Plandemic of 2020.
“The new U.S. attorney, you know, told me that he was wanting to parrot the priorities of DOJ main, and that included having conferences and at least making the appearance they were trying to do something about hate crimes,” Schoffstall said.
Hurwit spoke at the Task Force’s banquet in 2024. The group is based in Coeur d’Alene and worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to bankrupt the white-nationalist Aryan Nations, according to The Spokesman Review. Idaho’s USAO also co-sponsored a 2023 UAH event at Boise State University with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the Pacific Northwest.
“I think this goes back to the Patriot Front issue,” Schoffstall told the Caller.
“They quickly realized they couldn’t charge these guys with a federal crime, right? But I think the facts would indicate that they wanted to make the appearance that they were leaning heavily into this and they were going to do something about it.”
In the end, the Patriot Front case amounted to almost nothing — the group’s leader walked free, and a handful were convicted of “conspiracy to riot,” bringing jail sentences of a few days and modest fines. The others pled guilty and received even softer punishments.
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FBI targets former news editor of Christian Action Network
It was quite the week.
Right after we dropped our latest bombshell article revealing the US Treasury Department’s law enforcement arm confessing that Bible buyers were under the criminal microscope—guess who showed up?
Two FBI agents, but not to ease any of our fears that Johnny Law was putting bible-toting grandmothers under criminal surveillance. But instead to pay a visit to our former news editor’s office.
Here’s the backstory: Christian Action Network (CAN) fired off a FOIA to the Treasury Department after Congressman Jim Jordan, head of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, rang this alarm bell in January:
“Did you shop at Bass Pro Shop yesterday or purchase a Bible? If so, the federal government may be watching you.”
It was a chilling revelation. The watchlist, a tool of surveillance and investigation, was hidden within the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Our request was straightforward: we wanted records from FICen about their illegal act of collecting names of Bible purchasers, a clear violation of the 1974 Privacy Act.
Their response? A classic bureaucratic slow walk. We were forced to wait nearly six months when they legally have 20 working days to respond. After patiently waiting a half-year, they finally sent a letter flat-out denying our FOIA request.
Their reasoning? Releasing such info would mess with criminal law enforcement.
Their message was clear: If you bought a bible, you’re a potential criminal.
The article hit like a storm, sending our readership numbers soaring and our Substack subscriber count through the roof.
But the plot thickens.
Less than a week post-publication, our ex-editor, Alec Rooney, found himself under the FBI’s microscope. Alec, a seasoned journalist with stints in major dailies across Tampa and Roanoke, had covered Trump’s fiery speech during the January 6, 2021 “Save America March,” a rally that led to a storming of the Capitol by some attendees.
His editorial coverage painted a target on his back, marking him as a person of interest for the FBI, simply doing his job. In the Spring of 2022, the FBI contacted him, wanting to ask him some unspecified questions.
Given the rampant roundup and arrests of rally attendees on various charges—ranging from the serious to the absurdly trivial, like trespassing—we advised a lawyer-up approach. The FBI got the message and backed off, and there was dead silence for the next two years.
Fast forward nearly four years from that rally and days after our Bible-purchasing story, and they’re hounding Alec again.
This time, they wanted to quiz him again about his attendance at the rally and to “just look at some photos.” Alec, being wise to their game, referred them back to his attorney. They claimed they couldn’t reach him.
Isn’t it funny how the FBI can find Alec at his job but can’t find an attorney with a publicly listed office? Go figure.
Now, whether Alec’s recent visit from the feds was linked to our bombshell report last week isn’t really the point. Maybe the visit was, most likely not.
However, these incidents are not isolated. They are part of a larger pattern of the federal government’s relentless campaign to intimidate and instill fear. Their aim is to sow distrust and fear among ordinary, conservative-leaning Americans.
Oh, and if you think that’s being paranoid, consider this: I got a letter from a dear supporter, Amanda (not her real name), who, at 78, is too scared to sign any of our petitions.
“I live alone,” she wrote, “I don’t want the FBI breaking down my door. I have no spouse or children to defend me.”
Can you blame her?
When the FBI shows up at your workplace for attending a Trump rally as a conservative journalist, and the Treasury Department can add your name to a criminal database for buying a Bible, what does signing a petition get you?
It’s a sad day when the right to petition the government, enshrined in the First Amendment, feels like a dangerous act that could have FBI agents breaking down doors.
As of Sunday evening, former President Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts. According to the FBI’s Miami field office and the local sheriff’s office, Trump was playing golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, when a gunman poked a rifle through the golf course fence, about 400 yards away from the former president. Secret Service opened fire before the would-be assassin, later identified as Ryan Routh, could manage a shot. Routh is reported to have dropped his gun and fled the scene. He was arrested later by the nearby Martin County Sheriff’s office.
Regarding Routh’s arrest, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder reported, “He never asked, ‘What is this about?’ Obviously, law enforcement with long rifles, blue lights, a lot going on. He never questioned it.”
Shortly after the FBI declared the incident an “attempted assassination,” Trump issued a statement telling supporters, “I AM SAFE AND WELL!” He continued, “Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER! I will always love you for supporting me. Unity. Peace. Make America Great Again. May God bless you…”
Sunday’s assassination attempt comes two months (almost to the day) after Trump was shot in the ear at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That incident came days after a presidential debate against then-contender and incumbent President Joe Biden, which Trump was largely perceived to have won. Likewise, Sunday’s assassination attempt followed a presidential debate against incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris. Although pundits do not agree that Trump won the debate, Independent and undecided voters have skewed in favor of the former president in the wake of the debate.
In response to news of Sunday’s assassination attempt, Trump’s running mate Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (R) remarked, “I’m glad President Trump is safe. I spoke to him before the news was public and he was, amazingly, in good spirits. Still much we don’t know, but I’ll be hugging my kids extra tight tonight and saying a prayer of gratitude.”
Other Trump allies responded similarly. Neurosurgeon and former Trump cabinet member Dr. Ben Carson said that he and his wife were “relieved” to learn that Trump is safe, and added, “Join us in praying for President Trump and his family’s continued safety and protection.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) visited Trump at his home in Mar-a-Lago following the assassination attempt and said that he and his wife “are thanking God for protecting him today — once again. No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable.” Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) simply said, “Pray for God’s protection over President Trump and his family. Evil is after him.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said, “They tried to assassinate President Trump again today. For the second time. The stakes of this election are literally life or death.” She added, “I’m praying for his safety and all of those around him. I’m thankful for each and everyone that guards his life and his family.” Referring to the recent presidential debate hosted by ABC News, Rep Mike Collins (R-Ga.) commented, “I guess the ABC hit job wasn’t effective enough.”
Tributes came in from overseas, as well. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a friend of Trump’s, posted, “It is clear that President Trump’s life is in danger, until his victory. We are praying for you, Mr. President!” British parliamentarian Nigel Farage, the orchestrator of the Brexit movement and a Trump ally, also posted, “Another attempt on Trump’s life. This is truly appalling.”
Following Sunday’s assassination attempt, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL team officer and the founder of private military organization Blackwater, urged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to “assume direct control of the investigation into this attempted assassination…” Referring to the FBI’s failure to thoroughly investigate the shooting in Pennsylvania, which killed father and fireman Corey Comperatore and wounded two others, Prince added, “Tell the Feds to wait in line until Florida resources have done a thorough and transparent look into all the evidence. … Time for Florida to save the day especially since this attempt happened only 300m from the State Forensics Lab.”
In a video interview, Prince said that DeSantis must demand a coequal investigation run by the state of Florida. Addressing DeSantis directly, Prince said, “Now is the time to prove the Florida Bureau of Investigation’s merit in cracking this crime and not brushing it under the rug like what happened in Pennsylvania. … Flex up and see that this is done properly.”
Just hours later, DeSantis announced, “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club.” He explained, “The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee.”
Like Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Trump in Pennsylvania, 58-year-old Routh has been an outspoken opponent of the former president. In a social media post earlier this year, Routh alleged that a second Trump administration would enslave Americans, writing, “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.” Routh, who was profiled by the New York Times last year, has been a vocal supporter of the continuing conflict in Ukraine and served in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion fighting against Russia.
Conservative commentators and influencers have accused the Biden-Harris administration and mainstream media outlets of using dehumanizing terminology against Trump in an effort to radicalize people like Crooks and Routh.
For example, Lester Holt of NBC News said on air on Sunday, “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate J.D. Vance, continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio,” which Holt said resulted in bomb threats from anti-immigration activists.
Senator Hawley responded, “Wait a minute — so TRUMP is responsible for the people trying to kill him? Are you insane?” Posting a video clip from Sunday of MSNBC anchors and guests calling on the Trump campaign to “tone down the rhetoric,” reporter and author Mike Cernovich quipped, “MSNBC radicalizes mass shooters and then blames Trump.”
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Congressman Eli Crane, and additional congressmen, traveled to Pennsylvania to walk the site of the attempted assassination of President Trump. The below video will provide an overview of the field briefing the Congressman received.
Participating in the briefing were professionally trained military special operators (Navy Seals) and related professional snipers and counter assault professionals. The revelations of this field mission further add to the growing evidence that the U.S. Secret Service and FBI have been compromised in one form or another. Even after a Congressional Committee was convened to interview Secret Service leadership and FBI leadership evasion from direct answering about this incident is evident.
Openly discussed, and to which you will hear on the link video, there is certainty that another assassination attempt will be made on President Trump either within 30-days or definitely prior to the November election. But God! I am grateful for having been given the video from the field investigation with the congressmen.
Benny Johnson, “We were millimeters away from an execution of President Trump on LIVE TV. How the hell did this happen? We traveled to Butler, PA to uncover the truth about the Trump assassination attempt.”
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Transcript
0:00 heart racing the Assassin holds his
0:02 breath and looks down the scope at
0:04 president Trump people scream he’s got a
0:06 gun as police officers surround the
0:08 building but no one has stopped him just
0:11 a football field away from the president
0:13 counter snipers see the threat but have
0:15 not engaged the trigger is pulled a
0:19 bullet rips through Trump’s ear blood
0:22 splatters Trump’s maga hat and pours
0:24 down the side of his face into his hands
0:27 several more bullets riddle the stage
0:29 counter sniper teams engage and Miss
0:33 then hint Trump rises in defiance fist
0:37 in the air fight fight
0:42 fight 20 seconds in Pennsylvania will
0:44 change America forever yet the
0:47 government has told us nothing in fact
0:49 the secret service has lied to the
0:51 American people multiple times about
0:53 that day we needed answers so our team
0:57 traveled to Butler Pennsylvania the
1:00 assassination site what we found is
1:02 worse than you can possibly imagine this
1:06 is the trump
1:10 killbox our first stop in this
1:13 investigation was Washington DC to pick
1:15 up two experts in counter sniper
1:17 operations and tactical threat
1:18 engagement who also happen to have
1:20 constitutional oversight of the Secret
1:22 Service Congressman Eli crane is a
1:24 qualified lead sniper for his Seal Team
1:26 3 platoon Congressman Cory Mills ran
1:30 sniper operations serving in the Army
1:31 82nd Airborne Division and the state
1:34 department both men have been shot at in
1:37 war zones and shot back successfully I
1:40 want to get the facts I want to be a
1:41 bipartisan full investigation but I
1:44 don’t want this to be one of those where
1:45 we over classify so the American people
1:47 don’t have the transparency because they
1:49 deserve to see this to be able to one
1:51 have confidence that it wasn’t something
1:53 that was an inside job or it wasn’t
1:55 something that was just negligence or it
1:56 wasn’t derion of Duty but that they
1:58 actually can say I know that my
2:01 president future presidents are actually
2:04 going to be protected and safe whenever
2:05 death threats and other types of risks
2:06 are there and here’s how it happened and
2:08 what we’re going to do to prevent it in
2:09 the future when you get out on that site
2:11 if you have even an iota of training on
2:14 security long distance shooting and you
2:17 get on that property I mean you see a
2:19 water tower that covers the entire
2:21 premises basically you start asking
2:24 yourself why the hell wasn’t anybody up
2:27 on that water tower so that’s what we
2:29 intend to do with this video to
2:30 establish from an expert perspective
2:32 what are the questions right how many
2:34 answers will we get I’m not sure we’re
2:36 not going there with subpoena pile or
2:37 and law enforcement to kick indoors but
2:39 we can go look and see and ask questions
2:42 so these are the questions that I want
2:44 to sort of open the table up for what
2:46 are the biggest gaps or holes that you
2:48 men see right now definitely I want to
2:50 know why there wasn’t counter snipers on
2:52 the tower I want to know who made the
2:54 call to send the the shooters or the
2:56 security team outside of that Second
2:58 Story window that had clear coverage
3:00 over the shooter um I also want to know
3:03 where this young 20-year-old kid with no
3:05 military experience got his training
3:07 because I’m hearing he had Advanced
3:09 explosives I mean at the end of the day
3:11 we’ve got to figure out how a
3:12 20-year-old kid acting Alone by himself
3:16 got within 150 yards it’s one of the
3:19 most powerful one of the most loved but
3:21 also one of the most hated individuals
3:23 on the entire planet I have only been
3:26 here 10 seconds I am blown away by the
3:29 fact that there is no law enforcement
3:31 there’s no government investigators
3:33 there’s no secret service nothing’s
3:35 cordoned off nobody seems to have any
3:37 like specific interest in investigating
3:40 anything
3:41 where you’d assume it’d be a crime scene
3:44 of the century right nope while on the
3:47 ground we are going to investigate five
3:49 fatal security failures that created the
3:52 conditions for Trump to get shot rooftop
3:55 kill zones security dead zones OverWatch
3:59 the snipers nest and Communications
4:02 collapse all of these elements combine
4:05 into what the military calls A killbox a
4:08 killbox is a three-dimensional Target
4:09 area designed to facilitate maximum
4:11 likelihood of a casualty event on July
4:14 13th Trump was in the kill box this is
4:18 shockingly close officer on the roof
4:20 would have prevented this entirely the
4:22 first location to investigate was the
4:24 Secret Service snipers Nest at top the
4:26 red barns behind Trump the Assassin
4:29 Thomas Crooks was an obvious Person of
4:31 Interest to law enforcement he was
4:33 denied entry to the Trump event by
4:35 secret service and had been flagged by
4:37 local police for skulking around the
4:40 AGR manufacturing building with a
4:42 rangefinder 90 minutes before the
4:44 shooting he accessed the roof by
4:47 climbing up on an air conditioning unit
4:49 and traversing the interconnected
4:51 rooftops with a backpack his movements
4:54 were slow lumbering and obvious to
4:56 anyone with a line of sight Kooks even
4:59 pointed a gun at police officers and
5:01 rally goers alike who were filming him
5:04 from the ground police had completely
5:07 surrounded Crooks by the time he was in
5:09 position to fire on Trump new footage
5:13 recently released shows Crooks a top the
5:15 roof line of the building three whole
5:18 minutes before firing shots you can see
5:21 his head and torso and Firearm the
5:24 snipers at top the Red Barn location had
5:26 clear line of sight to engage the
5:28 shooter but did not find until Trump had
5:30 been shot we climbed up onto the Red
5:33 Barn sniper Nest position to see what
5:37 those snipers saw that day you had one
5:40 guy here who’s got a slightly elevated
5:42 position people in those windows which
5:44 could see the backside of those
5:46 buildings it would have 100% coverage if
5:48 you’re communicating if so if we were in
5:50 The Sniper position as we saw with the
5:51 tripod right here you you see dents
5:54 right in the so this must be very close
5:57 to where they were and you don’t see the
5:58 same dents so if you’re looking at this
6:00 shot what were they looking for what was
6:02 the hesitation what would you expect to
6:04 have happened I haven’t seen video of
6:06 cricks taking his shot but I’m assuming
6:08 based on how he was wisely low crawling
6:11 up the roof that he probably took his
6:13 shot from a prone position so you might
6:15 be looking at a profile that’s I don’t
6:17 know maybe 6 10 12 in high got it and if
6:21 one of those guys was on high
6:23 magnification one of the snipers it’s
6:25 hard to find anything on high
6:27 magnification so he might have had to
6:28 dial his scope back
6:30 get the view just so he could find him
6:32 oh there he is I’m coming in crack it
6:35 took a full 20 seconds to neutralize the
6:38 target why the answer is bone chilling
6:43 according to local SWAT teams there was
6:45 simply no communication with the Secret
6:47 Service we were supposed to get a
6:49 face-to-face briefing with the Secret
6:51 Service snipers that never happened and
6:53 we had no communication with the Secret
6:54 Service the Secret Service skipped the
6:56 security briefings and site visits you
6:59 had no communication with the secret
7:01 service at all on that Saturday the
7:03 snipers on the roof had no idea what was
7:06 going on what the commotion in the
7:08 building was about and local law
7:10 enforcement had no way to contact them
7:12 directly they had no intelligence and
7:15 were in the dark and that is why they
7:17 were fatally slow to react neither the
7:21 secret service counter sniper teams nor
7:23 members of the former president’s
7:25 security detail had any knowledge that
7:27 there was a man on the roof of the AGR
7:29 building with a firearm this is
7:31 completely suicidal if the agents
7:33 protecting the president can’t share
7:35 intelligence about a threat to the
7:36 president’s life it guarantees failure
7:38 of the mission by Design the agents we
7:42 spoke with say they’ve never seen a
7:43 setup like this and it gets much much
7:48 worse how was Crooks allowed to get so
7:50 close to the president in the first
7:52 place how was he allowed to fire eight
7:54 shots we investigated his sniper Nest to
7:57 find out the exact where Crooks fired
8:01 his weapon is easy to find because once
8:03 you are on the rooftop it is still
8:05 stained with his blood yes this is it
8:08 right here this is it right here you can
8:10 see the blood trail that comes down got
8:12 it got it so they’re right where Trump
8:15 was right there where Trump was right
8:18 there as your basic training boot camp
8:21 soldier that they make twice this
8:24 distant shot to pass boot camp with iron
8:27 sights not with a red dot not with a
8:29 scope with any magnification or any type
8:32 of a you know Red Dot sight it’s that
8:34 much easier of a shot so level 1 to 10
8:38 difficulty
8:39 shot from right here for one of us
8:43 exceptionally easy we crawled on our
8:45 hands and knees into Crook’s exact
8:48 assassin’s position this is precisely
8:51 what Crooks would have seen as he fired
8:54 the rounds at president Trump this is
8:57 what Trump would have seen had he looked
9:00 at the roofline of the AGR building this
9:04 is how close the killer was to president
9:07 Trump the Red Barn is not the only
9:10 sniper position at the rally the Secret
9:13 Service is responsible for stationing
9:14 all protective teams for the president
9:17 local and state law enforcement officers
9:19 go where they’re told and do what
9:21 they’re told a local SWAT sniper team
9:23 was stationed on the second floor of the
9:25 AGR building with perfect OverWatch of
9:28 the roof the snipers in this location
9:31 could have and should have easily been
9:33 able to engage Crooks before he ever
9:35 came close to scope site of trump the
9:38 acting director of The Secret Service
9:40 says he does not know what happened in
9:42 this location but we do who was
9:45 stationed up there and did they see the
9:49 shooter why weren’t they engaging once
9:51 there was a suspicious uh individual
9:54 reported one of them came down left the
9:57 uh room that they were conducting over
9:59 watch in went down to uh I think walk
10:03 around the perimeter see if he could
10:04 find him tried to come back in the
10:05 building the key card wasn’t working and
10:08 so he called the other guy that was up
10:10 in the room the other guy left his post
10:12 to come down to let him in we’re being
10:15 told that that’s when the shots were
10:16 taken so this is the worst possible
10:18 timing for a local SWAT team or cypr
10:22 team so Crooks was able to crawl across
10:24 a rooftop and fire on President Trump
10:27 while this fully equipped sniper snipers
10:29 nest with perfect view of the Assassin’s
10:32 position was left totally unmanned this
10:36 humiliating error happened because
10:38 Secret Service did not have command
10:40 control and communication with local
10:45 teams the Assassin would have been
10:47 easily identified and tracked with
10:49 modern OverWatch capabilities yet drone
10:52 technology was not used by the Secret
10:54 Service and was turned down when locals
10:56 offered this is why Crooks was hard to
10:59 follow on the ground and on the rooftop
11:02 but even without drones the shooter
11:04 could have easily been neutralized by
11:06 correctly position sniper teams the
11:09 water tower in Butler is a point of
11:11 great controversy not because there was
11:13 a shooter there but because there wasn’t
11:16 why was there no sniper team positioned
11:18 as OverWatch on the highest point in the
11:21 entire County during the Trump rally
11:24 anybody even get up in that water tower
11:26 to check lines of sight angle
11:29 again look around you guys it is the
11:31 highest point on this entire observation
11:33 point on this entire property did
11:36 anybody even get up and you know do a
11:38 site survey on that water tower our
11:40 Drone footage of the water tower shows
11:42 what a perfect location this would be
11:44 for OverWatch this simple graphic shows
11:47 how easy it would have been for a sniper
11:50 positioned on the water tower to have
11:52 tracked engaged and neutralized Crooks
11:55 before he ever got a shot off on
11:57 President Trump
12:01 a security dead zone is an area at an
12:04 event where the general public can enter
12:05 and exit without ever being screened by
12:08 security did you know that there was a 3
12:10 Acre security Dead Zone 80 yards away
12:14 from president Trump with clear line of
12:16 sight to the stage that conveniently
12:18 happened to be right in front of the AGR
12:21 manufacturing building the chaos that
12:24 this security Dead Zone created allowed
12:26 for Thomas Crooks to scope out the
12:28 building with a r finder and eventually
12:30 climb up to his snipers nest and shoot
12:33 president Trump so anyone carrying any
12:36 bag or anything could have walked right
12:39 up to this fence line yeah they were all
12:40 yeah they were all in it and if you look
12:42 at where that orange flag is on the
12:43 ground I mean that’s
12:45 essentially the stage
12:50 area any person let’s just assume that
12:52 person is a paramilitary trained
12:54 individual with terrorist connections
12:56 who walked across our Southern border
12:58 just for worst case scenario any group
13:01 or
13:02 anyone could have walked right up to
13:04 this fence line and been how far away
13:06 from the president roughly from here
13:07 what do you got one 100 yards you’ve got
13:11 a backpack with a concealed collapsible
13:14 that you set down unzip and pull from
13:17 here you’re 100 yards and what’s to stop
13:20 15 men from doing that nothing and at
13:23 the same time that they could have
13:25 parked on the side of the road walk that
13:27 back path by the Water Tower and come
13:29 straight to this point in you’re 100
13:31 yards without even have ever touched the
13:32 security element there are plenty of
13:34 people who are willing to die to take a
13:36 shot at the president no matter who the
13:38 president is that’s right president
13:40 Trump’s particularly High Target high
>13:42 value Target right uh there there’s no
13:45 doubt that there would be 15 men with
13:47 terrorist associations in the country
13:49 right now well I think that if you look
13:51 at the 400 plus who’s crossed our open
13:53 borders on the known terrorist watch list
13:55 I think that it’s very self-evident that
13:57 we all know that they’re here it’s just
14:00 a matter of if and when it’s critically
14:03 important to remember that no matter how
14:05 bad the events of this assassination
14:07 attempt were because of the failures of
14:09 the Secret Service they could have been
14:11 much much
14:14 worse this is the FBI flag where
14:18 president trump was standing and was shot
14:21 that’s the spot right there
14:25 guys this a killbox is what it is there
14:28 a Kill box and according to all of our
14:31 sources these roofs over here and the
14:34 roof over there none of that had any
14:37 Security on
14:38 it there there were open
14:41 rooftops uh in every
14:44 direction professional snipers can hit
14:46 targets at 2,000 yards there are seven
14:50 unsecure rooftops in full line of sight
14:52 to Trump in that
14:54 range I’m no security expert but I I
14:58 look around and if somebody was able to
15:00 crawl up on that rooftop there are
15:02 rooftops in every direction this does
15:05 not seem like a wise place to have ever
15:07 approved of a rally Am I Wrong it seems
15:10 like there’s a lot of structures that
15:13 are you know very threatening to the
15:15 president in this spot these buildings
15:18 take up like his rear is 180 and so what
15:21 we’re looking at most of our threats are
15:24 you know these buildings out in here and
15:26 most of them are well within
15:29 um the distance that a train shooter
15:31 would be able to uh
15:33 execute standing right up here and
15:35 looking at this Congressman for the
15:37 first time seeing it again with fresh
15:39 eyes would you have would you have
15:42 authorized the president give a speech
15:45 sometimes in units like that whether
15:47 military or law enforcement you’re told
15:49 this is what we’re doing make the best
15:51 of it this is why it’s so important as
15:54 well to have a security team who’s
15:57 willing to push back and say sir we
15:59 don’t have enough available resources
16:01 and assets to secure certain areas
16:03 that’s where that prioritization of
16:05 where would I basically you have to
16:07 almost put yourself into the mind of
16:09 someone who would try and make this and
16:10 say where would I be what would I do if
16:13 a trained professional sniper had
16:15 decided to kill Trump that day God
16:19 forbid we have established Beyond a
16:21 reasonable doubt that President Trump
16:23 was intentionally put into the killbox
16:26 on July 13th so who’s responsible
16:29 for this fatal security plan who cut the
16:32 communication lines who kept Trump on
16:34 stage and who will be held criminally
16:36 liable for these deadly decisions we
16:40 have so many questions after our
16:41 investigation of the assassination site
16:44 but one thing is crystal clear there are
16:46 forces that wanted president Trump dead
16:49 the obscene security failures created
16:51 the conditions for a live TV execution
16:55 these failures are unforgivable and have
16:57 inspired regular American
16:59 to ask questions like this was there a
17:01 standown order Miss cheel was there a
17:03 conspiracy to kill President Trump the
17:05 head of the Secret Service resigned in
17:07 disgrace after this question but her
17:09 replacement continues the same failed
17:11 policies that sent a bullet through
17:12 Trump’s head not one federal government
17:15 employee responsible for the
17:17 assassination attempt on Trump’s life
17:20 has been fired gross incompetence is
17:24 indistinguishable from malevolence
17:26 enough stupid people making decisions to
17:28 together will get innocent Americans
17:31 hurt or killed whistleblowers inside the
17:34 Secret Service have warned of another
17:36 Trump assassination in 30 days or before
17:39 the election how long till the next
17:41 Trump killbox we demand accountability
17:45 and criminal charges for those
17:48 responsible pray for president Donald
17:51 Trump before it’s too late
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Many of our readers sent us a link to a column written by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham, Major General, USMC (Ret.) on the history of the Harris family and of Kamala and her husband Doug Emhoff.
For your knowledge and interest about the Biden VP. Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins:
Kamala Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley based Afro-American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.
The group’s leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a
student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.
Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown’s political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers.
Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris’ Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris’ political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California’s Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA.
Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.
While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.
Kamala Harris’s sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group.
Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow Communists. Phillips married into the multi billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris’s political campaigns for various California elective offices.
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘Communist China investment Services’ branch. He was just appointed to Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism. When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.
Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.
The US constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.
If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon’s article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.
Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.
American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.
Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)2024-08-05 14:14:242024-08-06 12:01:47‘The History of Kamala Harris’ by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham, Major General, USMC (Ret.)
‘FBI will resume regular meeting in the coming weeks with social media companies to brief and discuss potential FMI threats involving the companies’ platforms.’
The FBI is ramping up its censorship efforts ahead of the 2024 presidential election by increasing its coordination with social media companies after having started a quiet operation in February to censor information, according to a recent memo.
A Department of Justice (DOJ) memo dated July 12, 2024, from Associate Deputy Attorney General George D. Turner, states that following the Supreme Court’s decision in Murthy v. Missouri, the Biden administration has sought to censor information it deems to be “foreign malign influence” (FMI) information. That June decision obliterated the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
Following the Supreme Court’s stay in October 2023 of a 5th Circuit injunction restricting the FBI’s collaboration with Big Tech, the DOJ “began developing a standardized approach for sharing FMI information with social media companies that continued to appropriately account for First Amendment considerations,” the memo states.
The FBI began using the standard operating procedure in “early February 2024” and “actively sharing FMI threat information with social media companies on a continuing basis,” the memo explains, adding, “As part of that strategy, FBI will resume regular meeting in the coming weeks with social media companies to brief and discuss potential FMI threats involving the companies’ platforms.”
The memo further states that the DOJ’s Justice Manual includes a “framework” for the DOJ to follow when deciding whether to “disclose FMI operations” — such as if alleged “foreign influence operations” are purportedly spreading “covert foreign government propaganda or disinformation.”
But alleged “foreign malign influence” often isn’t so.
Federal Agencies Censored True Info in 2020
Just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, 51 former “intelligence officials” signed onto a letter falsely suggesting the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was “set in motion” by then-senior adviser to Biden’s campaign Antony Blinken, according to former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell.
The laptop had been authenticated by the FBI as early as November 2019, however, and has since been used as evidence against the Biden son in a federal gun case.
Despite the FBI’s knowledge of the laptop’s authenticity, the agency warned social media companies of so-called “Russian propaganda” and “hack-and-leak operations” by “state actors.” Almost immediately, Twitter and Facebook began throttling the reach of the story. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg later admitted that his platform suppressed the story following the FBI’s warning.
Supreme Court Guts First Amendment
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Murthy v. Missouri that the federal government can continue its collusion with Big Tech to censor and stifle speech it dislikes. Louisiana and Missouri sued the Biden administration after it “began coordinating with social media giants to censor posts [it] deemed unfavorable, even if said posts contained factually correct information,” my colleague Shawn Fleetwood explained.
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FBI agents confront whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge at her home after she exposed transgender practices at Texas Children’s Hospital.
In a shocking parallel to the tactics employed by the Nazi regime, recent reports have surfaced about the FBI allegedly intimidating whistleblowers who exposed controversial practices at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Vanessa Sivadge, a nurse who accused the hospital of illegally using Medicaid benefits for sex change operations on minors, claimed that FBI agents appeared at her doorstep, threatening her and warning of repercussions for her revelations.
She told her alarming story to journalist Christopher Rufo, a leader in the fight against critical race theory.
‘They threatened me,’ she told Rufo. ‘They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was not safe at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.’
Sivadge’s account mirrors that of Dr. Ethan Haim, who also faced intimidation after leaking documents that detailed the hospital’s provision of puberty blockers and sex-change treatments to children.
These events are similar to darker times in history when authoritarian regimes silenced dissent through fear and coercion.
The Nazi regime, particularly through the actions of the SS and Gestapo, was infamous for targeting individuals who dared to criticize the party, Adolf Hitler, or government policies.
The Gestapo, with its extensive surveillance network and brutal interrogation methods, would frequently show up unannounced at the homes of suspected dissidents, arresting, detaining, and often executing them without judicial oversight.
This climate of fear ensured that few dared to speak out against the regime, which is precisely the FBI’s intent here.
Today, in a democratic society that values freedom of speech and whistleblower protections, the actions described by Sivadge and Haim are deeply alarming.
The notion of federal agents appearing at the homes of whistleblowers, threatening them, and conducting intimidating interrogations evokes a sense of historical déjà vu.
If proven true, such tactics represent a gross misuse of power and a threat to the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability.
Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton and State Representative Brian Harrison have voiced their concerns, calling for immediate investigations into these allegations.
Harrison, in particular, has condemned the Justice Department’s actions as “aiding and abetting CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD by prosecuting whistleblowers.” He emphasizes the need for Texas to lead the nation in defending the next generation and upholding state sovereignty against federal overreach.
When government agencies tasked with upholding the law turn their resources against those who reveal wrongdoing or simply oppose government policies, they not only undermine public trust but also set a dangerous precedent.
The parallels to Nazi Germany’s authoritarian tactics are stark and serve as a warning of what can happen when power goes unchecked.
In democratic societies, dissent and whistleblowing should be encouraged, not punished.
As the Texas State Attorney General investigates these claims and state representatives call for emergency hearings, it is imperative that the truth be uncovered and justice served.
Our institutions’ integrity and citizens’ safety and freedom depend on it.
“If a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” — Frank Church 1975
“You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.” — Edward Snowden
“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.” — Julian Assange
“Here at last you witness the real Barack Obama. The sound you hear in the background is the cracking of Obama’s nimbus of benevolent moderation. This is not ‘change we can believe in.’ It is left-wing radicalism aimed at the foundations of the American system of government.” — Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Barack Obama, October 30, 2008.
And, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Obama had the worldview, training, organization and talent networks he needed to “fundamentally transform America.”
Two years into his presidency, the conversion of the FBI and CIA, as well as the rest of the intelligence community, had begun.
This is the story of the players and their eventual goals.
Institute for Social Research
The 18 organizations who comprise the US intelligence community have been weaponized against “domestic enemies,” i.e., patriotic American citizens.
Intel has long been infiltrated with cultural Marxism by followers of Gramsci and members from the Frankfurt School, also known as the “Institute for Social Research.” The founding of the Institute marked the beginning of a current of “Marxism” divorced from the organized working class and Communist Parties, which over the decades merged with bourgeois ideology in academia.
Soon after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Institute first moved from Frankfurt to Geneva, and then to New York City, in 1935, where it found hospitality at Columbia University. The school’s journal, the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (“Journal of Social Research”), was renamed “Studies in Philosophy and Social Science”.
Founded by Carl Grünberg in 1923 as an adjunct of the University of Frankfurt; the Institute was the first Marxist-oriented research Centre affiliated with a major German university. Max Horkheimer took over as director in 1930 and recruited many talented theorists, including T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamin.
Frankfurt School members tried to develop a theory of society based on Marxism and Hegelian philosophy. Tied with some of Sigmund Freud’s theories, they utilized the insights of psychoanalysis, sociology, and existential philosophy, along with other disciplines. Marxist concepts to analyze the social relations within capitalistic economic systems became known as “critical theory,” a school of thought and interdisciplinary movement that combines social and cultural analysis with Marxist-oriented political philosophy. It looks at society in a way to challenge power structures.
Both former FBI Director James Comey and Director Christopher Wray are promoting “critical theory” in the entire FBI.
Critical law theory education began to be noticeable in the Clinton administration and attitudes began to change. That’s when we saw the cultural byproducts of American education now taught in our universities. It is the Herbert Marcuse Marxist and Freudian theories which became so influential in the leftist student movements of the 1960s, especially after the 1968 student rebellions in Paris and West Berlin and at New York City’sColumbia University.
From 1934–1942 Marcuse worked at the Institute’s branch at Columbia University. In 1942 he moved to Washington D.C. to work first with the Office of War Information and then with the Office of Strategic Services. Later Marcuse would teach at Brandeis University and then the University of California, San Diego.
Marcuse’s critical law theory is now being taught in almost every university. It is Marcuse’s communist interpretation of using the law as a weapon.
Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life, categorizing individuals into groups of oppressors and victims.
The critical theorist argues that to eliminate prejudice, Christianity, capitalism and the traditional patriarchal family all had to be destroyed.
This approach “yielded influential critiques of large corporations and monopolies, the role of technology, the industrialization of culture, and the decline of the individual within capitalist society. Fascism and authoritarianism were also prominent subjects of study.” Published in the institute’s journal, Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932–41; “Journal for Social Research”).
The followers of Gramsci and Frankfurt have stretched public opinion and interpretations of law to make incremental gains that are now obvious. They’ve credentialed extremists in mainstream institutions and they’re cultivating new radicals to penetrate, infiltrate and occupy even more institutions.
“With a hat-tip to Chairman Mao,” they’ve succeeded in their long march through all of America’s institutions.
Their end goal is at hand…the actual destruction of our representative republic, our constitution, and removal of a president not chosen by the Marxist infiltrators.
Michael Waller’s book, Big Intel, lays bare how the Marxist worldview has corrupted the entire American intelligence community.
This is the story.
Ayers, Obama and Radicalism
In 1995, a radical Illinois state senator saw promise in Barack Hussein Obama and introduced him to Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, the 1960 radicals. Ayers’ network, The Weathermen, was a political faction elected in 1968 to lead the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They were responsible for domestic violence, bombings, shootings, and murders across the United States and were allied with cop-killers, mass shooters and other violent extremists. They built radical union affiliated cells, and a block-by-block structure of “community organizing.”
SDS also gave us the Chicago Seven, a group of political activists who were arrested for their antiwar activities during the August 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Daley instituted a 10 p.m. curfew, and called out the National Guard to quell the violence throughout the city. Daley’s television announcement told Chicago that he ordered the police to shoot to kill any arsonists, and shoot to injure any looters. Tanks rolled down the streets on the north side of Chicago.
The SDS members worked to force universities to hire radical allies as professors, who are today major influencers throughout academia. Ayers ended up as a professor at the University of Chicago. Herbert Marcuse, prominent member of the Marxist Frankfurt School of critical social analysis, had been Ayer’s professor and advisor.
Angela Davis, a Black Power militant, who bought the weapon used to kill a California state judge, was a student of Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse. She then moved to Communist East Germany to receive a Ph.D. and later, in Moscow, to receive the Lenin Peace Prize from Brezhnev.
In the 70s, we left a church in Bloomington, Indiana because congregant funds were being sent to support communist, Angela Davis.
Valerie Jarrett
The Frankfurt “red-thread” was passed from Marcuse to Ayers and Dohrn and finally to Valerie Jarrett and onward to Michelle and Barack Obama. FBI files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the dad, maternal grandpa and father-in-law of President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. Her father-in-law had a relationship with Frank Marshall Davis who decades later would mentor young Obama.
According to FBI files, Jarrett’s relatives were heavily involved with a group, Communist Party USA, whose mission was to “fundamentally transform” the American form of government and way of life.
Jarrett and her commie friends were instrumental in working with other Communist Party radicals to elect Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Senator Carol Moseley Braun. The Senator had a penchant for calling close associates, “comrade.”
Current and former aides said, “Obama has said he consults Jarrett on every major decision.”
In her book, The Red Threat, Diana West writes, “Obama himself recalls attending ‘socialist conferences’ in the 1980s at Cooper Union in New York City. Later, Obama was the political protégé of a lifelong pro-Moscow and pro-communist operative named Alice Palmer, who launched Obama’s political career inside the home of SDS and Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who spent the 1960s and 1970s ‘in treasonous cooperation with revolutionary Communist governments in China, North Vietnam, and Cuba.
“Obama’s key political aides on the road to the White House were Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, both descended from and mentored by Communist and/or Soviet operatives who were also closely associated with Frank Marshall Davis in Chicago, historically a hub of communist/Soviet activity in the USA.”
The real Kremlin puppet was never Donald Trump, rather Barack Hussein Obama II.
Eric Holder
President Reagan appointed Holder as a District of Columbia superior court associate judge. Clinton made him U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and then tapped him for deputy attorney general under Janet Reno. Holder met Obama in 2004 and they immediately clicked. He had been a student radical at Columbia and belonged to a militant group tied to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He became a fanatical devotee of the Black Panthers who embraced Marxism-Leninism and openly called for Maoist-style guerilla warfare in the United States. Holder became part of the armed mob that took over a vacant Naval ROTC office for a five-day occupation. They wanted the space because of “the general racist nature of American society,” and claimed Columbia was also racist.
With Obama, Holder returned to his radical roots. He clashed with Republican legislators in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation of gun trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico border from late 2009 to early 2011. Border agent Brian Terry died as a result.
After Holder failed to respond to a congressional subpoena of documents relating to the operation, and in spite of an assertion of executive privilege by Obama, the Republican-led House voted in June 2012 to find Holder in contempt of Congress. The vote marked the first time that a sitting member of the cabinet had been cited for contempt. Unlike Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon, Holder wasn’t sent to prison.
In 2017 Holder became chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and took time off from Covington and Burling law firm to travel to various states to formulate a centralized strategy for gaining control of the redistricting process.
Holder’s law firm, Covington and Burling was fired by General Mike Flynn after he sought new counsel with Sidney Powell.
Centralizing Intel Agencies
Post 9/11, FBI Director Robert Mueller was kept on for two more years by Obama, after his ten-year term under President George W. Bush was up.
Excuses for the tragedy of 9/11 included the failure of intelligence communities to communicate with each other. Mueller added a top-heavy bureaucracy to the FBI to ensure future cooperative knowledge by creating 63 new executive positions at headquarters and doubling the size of the Bureau. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 consolidated various domestic security entities all in the name of fighting terrorism. Congresses and presidents had deliberately dispersed the intelligence duties across the government to avoid consolidation of power. But in the name of fighting terrorism, Bush and Congress merged twenty-two of them into one concentration of power under the 2003 Department of Homeland Security.
Within six weeks of the 9/11 attack, the predatory American Security State was born with the passage of the USA Patriot Act; it was to expire in four years. It authorized unprecedented surveillance of American citizens and individuals worldwide without traditional civil liberties safeguards. It beefed up surveillance procedures and warrantless wiretapping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to enable the government to spy on American citizens. FISA was just reauthorized by Speaker Mike Johnson, without protections against warrantless search and seizure. The Patriot Act finally expired in March, 2020 without being reauthorized, but federal law enforcement agencies retain most of the authorities granted by the act.
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act created a new government agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) which mushroomed to a force of two-thousand and grew a brand-new headquarters in DC.
The US Intelligence community had been decentralized among thirteen autonomous agencies, both civilian and military, but after 9/11, it became an octopus with tentacles reaching into every facet of the federal government and out into the corporate world.
John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Obama, and James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under Obama, both signed onto the Democrat concocted FISA applications authorizing domestic spying on the Republican Party presidential team. Deputy FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Secretary of State, John Kerry also signed on.
The Marcusian five-year plan was completed in Obama’s second term. The Intelligence Community Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Enterprise Strategy was unveiled in 2015. It was the beginning of the new cultural “Marxist commissariat” which allowed James Clapper to impose Diversity, Equity and Inclusion throughout the entire intelligence community.
In Obama’s second term, he appointed his aide, John Brennan as CIA Director. Brennan had served at the top of the CIA under Clinton and Bush 43, but like Clapper, he had a radical past. When he first applied to the CIA, during the Carter administration, he didn’t think they’d accept him since he had voted for communist Gus Hall for president. They somehow cleared him despite his background being closely aligned with Holder and especially Valerie Jarrett. Brennan executed Obama’s diversity order by increased hiring and promoting consistent with Obama’s critical theory criteria. Some analysts called Brennan’s politicization of the CIA “soft totalitarianism.” Link
The pieces were all in place for the “radical transformation of America.”
Planned Military Coup
Into the limelight came Donald John Trump, and the Obama apparatus went to work.
Georgetown University’s Professor Rosa Brooks heads up the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) founded in 2019. The Project was created to play out different outcomes from the 2020 Presidential election and see how each outcome would be handled. The result was obvious, peaceful outcomes with Biden, explosive riots and protests with Trump. If the transition from Trump to Biden wasn’t orderly, the military would intervene to remove Donald Trump.
Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, Brooks wrote that they had to find a way to remove him from power. At the same time, she called for getting rid of civilian control of the military, but didn’t state who would take it over.
It doesn’t end there.
A military coup is planned. Rosa Brooks claims that if Trump is elected in 2024, they must find a way to remove him. This is being planned through Georgetown University Law Center, the premier law school in DC. “It’s a feeder school to the Justice Department, to Supreme Court clerks and to the entire intelligence community. Everything is planned there.”
In Part Two, we’ll let you in on what the Transition Integrity Project has planned.
It is a understatement to observe that the Biden administration’s moral compass is broken beyond repair.
Earlier this month, Biden’s Department of Justice proudly announced that 75-year-old Paula Paulette Harlow will serve two years in prison for taking part in a “conspiracy” to block access to a Washington DC abortion clinic. Harlow is the last of ten protesters to be sentenced for the October 2020 demonstration.
The Biden DOJ is also slated to slap six other pro-life demonstrators with up to 11 years in prison for a separate protest staged in Tennessee in 2021.
Mark Houck is another pro-lifer to have faced the wrath of Biden’s DOJ. Following a scuffle with a Planned Parenthood escort, Houck was ambushed at his home early one morning by a 25-strong SWAT team armed in tactical gear. His wife and seven children watched as their Catholic father was hauled away in humiliation. Fortunately, Houck’s case resulted in an acquittal and he is now suing the Justice Department for the traumatising affair.
But President Joe Biden is not just after pro-lifers.
In October 2021, Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and US attorneys to go after school parents who had begun vocally pushing back against gender madness at school board meetings across the country, despite no violence being reported at said meetings.
In November of the same year, Biden used his DOJ and the FBI to raid the homes of two journalists believed to be in possession of a diary belonging to his daughter Ashley Biden. Such extreme use of federal force would hardly be countenanced had its author not been a member of the president’s family.
In more recent times, top Biden DOJ official Matthew Colangelo abruptly quit his DC post to take on a much lesser role in the highly politicised New York lawsuit that successfully indicted Biden’s leading presidential challenger Donald Trump.
If all these events didn’t churn enough stomachs, consider the story of Eithan Haim, a courageous surgeon-turned-whistleblower who alerted the public to transgender surgery taking place at Texas Children’s Hospital.
The hospital was vocally supportive of so-called “gender medicine” until public pressure forced CEO Mark Wallace to shut down the clinic. In secret, however, a band of surgeons continued administering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and Frankensteinish surgery to children as young as 11.
Last year, Dr Haim provided an anonymous tip and damning documents to journalist Christopher Rufo, prompting a media firestorm that led Texas lawmakers to ban the practice before the week was out.
Soon, Dr Haim learned that he was being targeted by federal prosecutors for his whistleblowing, at which point he decided to go public, sitting down for an hour-long interview with Rufo in January this year.
Earlier this month, Haim was greeted at his home by US marshals issuing him with a court summons on four felony counts of violating HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Dr Haim is yet to learn the extent of the charges he faces, but as reported by the National Review, the case against him seems rather suspect:
Rufo, who reviewed the records himself before publishing the initial article, denies that the documents exposed the personal information of patients. “For my own part, I can confirm that nothing in the information provided to me identified any individual; all the documents were, in fact, carefully redacted,” the journalist wrote in his latest City Journal story, in which he broke the news that Haim had been indicted.
Assistant US attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tina Ansari, whose office is leading the criminal investigation, argues Haim had no right to share the medical records of minor patients with the public.
However, she neglected to mention that the documents disclosed were not patient charts, were redacted to protect sensitive patient information, and complied with HIPAA, which permits anonymized information to be disclosed generally, and even protected information can be publicized if it’s used to stop egregious medical misconduct.
Dr Haim will face court next Monday.
In the meantime, Americans are left to ponder the machinations of a woke White House that is yet to find a norm it won’t violate in pursuit of a morally bankrupt agenda.
Separation of powers be damned, Biden will enjoy full use of his personal police force and continue burning the country to the ground to rule over the ashes — until November at least.
Is this narrative just connecting unconnected dots? Or does it reflect what you think?
Kurt Mahlburgis a husband, father, freelance writer, and a familiar Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He is the Senior Editor at Australia’s largest Christian news site The Daily Declarationand a Contributing Editor at Mercator. His writings can also be found at Intellectual Takeout, The American Spectator and the Spectator Australia. He has authored or co-authored five books, including his breakout titleCross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West?
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A popular trend among self-styled conservative pundits is to mock Democrats and left-wingers as stupid, and it isn’t difficult to understand why. Every time that Joe Biden invents a new dialect of gibberish, every time that Kamala Harris cackles like a hyena in public, every time that a White House press secretary has to “circle back,” every time that a Democrat-nominated Supreme Court pick can’t answer basic questions about basic biology, it’s fodder for Fox News’s alternative to “The Tonight Show.” But for all the outrageous, logic-defying nonsense that Democrats spout, there is one field of study that they have mastered completely: war.
It was once the case that Democrats and Republicans agreed on representing the best interests of the American people but simply disagreed on how best to represent those best interests. Should we raise taxes to provide more services for those who can’t afford them otherwise, or should we lower taxes so that those folks can afford those services on their own? Should we regulate this market or that to ensure that companies are trading fairly, or should we trust the public to make their preferences known through the almighty dollar?
This system no longer exists, and if events continue on their current trajectory — unobstructed, unchallenged, and unchanged — then the very America which could even facilitate such a system will be no more than a distant memory relegated to the realm of impossibility. At this juncture in time, there is no common ground, there is no agreement between Democrats and Republicans on representing the best interests of the American people or even on what those best interests are. Now, there is only war, and Republicans are losing. Worse than that, some Republicans seem to be blithely unaware that they are even involved in a war.
Democrats have captured and weaponized nearly every single American institution of any significance or consequence. Schools catechize children in LGBTism and secretly transgenderify kids, the FBI targets American Catholics and concerned parents as potential domestic terrorists, and the Democrats’ chief political opponent has been convicted in a sham trial that would have made even a Soviet’s jaw drop. What few institutions the Democrats don’t completely control are ignored, undermined, and targeted for either retribution or annihilation. The Democratic president openly defies the orders of the Supreme Court while his dogs in corporate media smear the credibility of its most conservative justices. Immigration law is blatantly and repeatedly flouted, leaving the nation’s borders in a dangerous shamble. The lawful impeachment of Democratic officials is summarily dismissed by the Party’s operatives in the Senate.
While Democrats have spent the past several decades infiltrating and slowly capturing and weaponizing everything they could get their hands on, too many Republicans spent that time poring over polling data, looking for “consensus” and “political viability.” In other words, Democrats were preparing for war while innumerable naïve Republicans were working on marketing campaigns. Unfortunately, there is still a wing of the Republican Party where this apparent blissful unawareness of the raging conflict over America’s soul is the norm.
Just last week, Democrats brutalized the American justice system in a punitive effort to imprison their chief political opponent, Donald Trump. The trial was a sham from the start. A Democratic prosecutor brought misdemeanor charges — that other prosecutors had already decided amounted to nothing — and elevated them to felony charges on the claim that Trump had committed another crime he has never been convicted of. The trial was conducted in a heavily-Democratic venue with a Democrat presiding as judge who devised a novel set of jury instructions — all to keep a political candidate off the campaign trail and put him in prison. Trump now faces a potential maximum of 20 years in prison.
The Trump conviction galvanized Republican voters. Countless conservatives who had expressed doubts about voting for Trump in 2024 now donned MAGA hats, tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations started rolling in, and polling shows that Republican voters are even more likely to back Trump after his conviction. But the naked abuse of the justice system didn’t galvanize Republican officials on the same scale. Some were bold enough to pledge to stand up to the Democratic Party’s Soviet-style political pogrom, defiantly pledging not to “aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart.” But some seemingly just shrugged and went back to “business as usual.”
On Tuesday, for example, seven Republican senators voted with Democrats to confirm a Biden appointee to a federal court. Democrats had all the votes that they needed, no Republican vote was necessary. But instead, seven Republicans — after having witnessed Biden and his Democratic Party cronies subvert, abuse, and weaponize the courts and the justice system in a clear attempt to imprison the presumptive Republican presidential nominee — after having witnessed the Democrats attack and castigate the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, for years — even after all that, these seven Republicans still felt the need to turn their back on their own party, cross the aisle, and give their seal of approval to a Biden judicial pick.
Democrats aren’t stupid, but it seems that some Republicans might be. Up until recently, Republicans simply have not understood war. An entire swath of elected Republicans are still under the impression that they’re in high school debate club, that the teacher may stand up any minute now and remind the other team to play by the rules. There are no rules anymore. The prolific William F. Buckley, Jr. once offered his definition of what a conservative is: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Years ago, Republicans took this definition to heart, resulting in page after page of “strongly-worded letters,” thousands of tweets, and a nearly-unlimited supply of instances of Republicans crying out, “Hypocrisy!”
Democrats decided years ago that policy is war: anything that can be fashioned into a weapon will be, and no quarter will be given. Republicans must understand that Democrats do not value bipartisanship, they do not value a Republican senator’s seal of approval, they do not seek common ground — they eviscerated common ground with a scalpel and sucked up its body parts with a vacuum and now sell its organs on the black market. Democrats seek complete and total dominance. Not a compromise, not a coalition, not a peaceful transition of power, not a treaty, not a return to normalcy, only complete and total social, cultural, financial, political, and even spiritual dominance.
It is necessary now for Republicans to, in the words of William Shakespeare, “imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage…” The blast of war has blown in our ears, and all the compromises in the world will not appease the appetites of Hell, the very appetites fueling the abortion industry, Pride Month and the LGBT agenda, institutionalized child-grooming, and the opening of America’s borders to criminal cartels and millions of unidentified individuals with unknown motives. The majority of Democrats have made the wanton butchering of unborn children the central tenet of their scheme for the nation, they celebrate the sin of sodomy and tell its practitioners that they and their worth are defined by their aberrant sex acts, they condone ripping children’s groins to shreds and call the whole grisly affair “lifesaving.”
One of the chief reasons, of course, that Trump has been targeted is that he taught Republicans the art of war in a way they had forgotten decades prior. Republicans had been sending their finest debaters and orators to Washington, D.C. for years; Trump came as a pugilist, wearing a pair of rhetorical brass knuckles. Others have had the courage to follow his lead. A new generation of Republicans — both in office and on the ground — have learned that the nation is devoured by war and have determined not to debate, not to discuss, not to compromise, but to fight for the heart and soul of America. Men like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro had the gall to stand for the American people and are now being sent to prison for their courage. Senators like Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have the temerity to put America’s interests above their own and are slandered for it.
History, the legendary Winston Churchill once theorized, will be written by the victors. How will this chapter of America’s history be written? Will Trump be vilified as a traitor and a convicted felon, or will he be remembered as a man who put even his freedom on the line for the American people? Will the Democrats be remembered as champions of democracy, or will they go down in history alongside the NKVD and KGB? To determine the answer to these questions, Republican officials must decide whether or not they are willing to fight for the Americans they represent and the principles upon which this nation was founded. And Republican voters must decide who they want representing them — principled pugilists or the authors of strongly-worded letters?
The present chapter of America’s history will be written by those with the will to fight, those with the courage and conviction not to back down in the face of corruption and political persecution. Such men and women are out there, such men and women are even now fighting that fight. The only question is whether the American people will stand behind them as they, like the Bard, cry, “Once more unto the breach!” or whether the American people will be placated by strongly-worded letters.
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http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Family Research Councilhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngFamily Research Council2024-06-10 13:16:322024-06-11 15:05:32The Art of War and Why Republicans Must Learn It
For once I would like to be Hunter Biden’s lawyer.
I would show the 20 minute video of enemy propaganda video pushing the FBI narrative that the Laptop was Russian disinformation.
I would then say that to admit the Laptop was in fact saying that the FBI and the executive branch of the U.S. government are lying.
And either the court itself was therefore accusing the FBI and President Biden of perjury, and either way none of this is credible.
It probably should be thrown out of court. And then Hunter and Joe should be arrested for treason and the FBI defunded for rigging the 2020 election by hiding the laptop which they know they had, and they know was real.
The court is in a pickle. To allow the evidence from the laptop means ignoring something about a billion times bigger than a tweaker with a revolver.
Here is what a Maoist mass-line narrative attack looks and sounds like, and above, is how it was used to disenfranchise every single American. To negate elections.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Vlad Tepes Bloghttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngVlad Tepes Blog2024-06-06 06:24:312024-06-18 07:29:36FBI rigs 2020 election by denying Hunter’s laptop was real, but somehow it gets admitted to court as evidence
