From The Alpha and the Omega - Chapter Eight
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © 1995, all rights reserved "FISA - Under Surveillance 2022 July-September"
FISA - Under Surveillance 2022 July-September     THE CORRUPTION OF THE DEMOCRATS IS STILL AS STRONG AS IT EVER WAS WITH FULL CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT IS BEGINNING TO CATCH UP TO THEM AS THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE VIOLATIONS FROM FISA WARRANTS IS IN PROCESS AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE BECOMING DESPERATE AS THEIR ACTIONS RECENTLY LETS YOU KNOW THAT CLEARLY.
To return to Astronomical Events To Appear Between 2014 Through 2017 A.D.
Or return to FISA-Under Surveillance in 2022 April-June or continue to FISA- Under Surveillance in 2022 October-December


    Just as we thought that we would see that the people who have committed crimes against the Trump administration are being prosecuted as the investigators and investigation by John Durham is starting to scare those who are implicated but he has a long way to go.

7/1/2022 Biden: We’ll Stick With Ukraine For ‘As Long As It Takes’ by OAN NEWSROOM
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference on the final day
of the NATO summit in Madrid, Thursday, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)     President Joe Biden reaffirmed America’s commitment to help Ukraine combat Russia’s invasion. He pledged another $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine.    While wrapping up the NATO summit in Madrid on Thursday, Biden said the new package includes more ammunition and artillery and advanced air defense systems.
    “The war could end tomorrow, by the way, if Russia stops its irrational behavior,” stated the President.    “So, you know, when the war will end, you know I hope it ends sooner than later, but for it to end they have to be in a position where…the Ukrainians have all that they can reasonably expect.    We can reasonably expect to get to them in order to provide for provide for their physical security and their defenses.”
    This came after Biden shared a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while on his way to the summit in which he urged him to sign off on Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance.
    Leaders strengthened defense along the eastern flank as Biden announced a boost of US military presence in Europe in response to Russian threats.    This includes adding a permanent army headquarters in Poland, sending new warships to Spain fighter jet squadrons to Britain and deploying additional troops to Romania as well as increasing rotational deployments in the Baltic states.
    Biden assured the transatlantic alliance is stronger than ever before, but continued to blame Russia’s war on Ukraine for America’s rampant inflation.
    “But the bottom line is ultimately the reason why gas prices are up is because of Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,” said the President.    “The reason why the food crisis exists is because of Russia. Russia not allowing grain to get out of Ukraine and so, that’s the that’s the way in which I think we should move. And I think it will have a positive impact on the price at the pump as well.”
    In the meantime, as Biden returns to the White House, he’s scheduled to head to Saudi Arabia next month.
    While sending Americans into further turmoil, Biden said he will not directly ask the Saudi government to increase oil production, which could bring down the global price of energy.
[BIDEN YOU ARE A PUPPET TO YOUR WOKE LEFTIST ANTI-CHRIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WELL AS PUTIN IS A PUPPET TO THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS IN RUSSIA FOR HIS ONSET IS TO REVIVE THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION AND HIS ONSET IS TO REVIVE THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION AND ALSO THE CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE TO EXPAND AND CONTROLTHE WORLD AND THIS IS JUST LIKE YOU WHO IS TRYING TO TURN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO SOME GLOBALIST SOCIALIST ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT ENTITY AS SEEN AS THE BEAST WITH 10 HORNS AND SEVEN HEADS WHICH HAS BEEN PROPHESIED IN THE BIBLICAL REVELATION SO YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYONE.].

7/1/2022 Supreme Court EPA Decision Met With Mixed Reactions by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – Steam billows from a coal-fired power plant Nov. 18, 2021, in Craig, Colo. The Supreme Court on Thursday,
June 30, 2022, voted 6-3, with conservatives in the majority, that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental
Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)     The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA broad or expansive powers to regulate carbon emissions, in turn, leaving it up to states.    In a six to three vote on Thursday, the high court decided the executive agency could not impose regulations on states that restrict carbon emissions to encourage a transfer to renewable energy.
    The decision was met with praise from Republicans who argued the EPA could not implement such regulations nationally, while Democrats viewed it as a step backwards in fighting so-called climate change.    West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who spearheaded the legal challenge, called the decision a huge victory because it reaffirms the concept of separation of powers.
    “We want to make sure that the Biden agenda is limited by basis of what Congress authorized these agencies,” Morrisey.    “What a concept that is and this should not be considered to be anything other than consistent with the Constitution, the rule of law, and our separation of powers.”
    Meanwhile across the aisle, several Democrat governors vowed to double down on their efforts to fight so-called climate change.    Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) expressed disappointment in the decision and said state and local governments will have to pick up where the executive branch left off.
    “We have to accelerate our efforts to reduce carbon pollution in the state of Washington in the upcoming years and that’s necessary because the federal government now is going to be, frankly, much less effective in restraining pollution, which means more of that burden is going to be on our shoulders,” said Inslee.    “And we are willing to accept that because Washington State is not going to allow climate change to swallow our state.”
    Inslee did not clarify what he plans to do in light of the ruling.    However, California Governor (D) took a more direct approach by announcing on Twitter that he will be signing a $54 billion climate fighting plan.
    “The idea that the US Supreme Court moved to take away one of the most significant and historically powerful tools to address the ravages of climate change is incomprehensible,” asserted Newsom.    “We’ve got to wake up to what’s going on, Supreme Court.    And we’ve got to double down, quadruple down here in California and in blue states all across America.”
    In the meantime, Democrat lawmakers are making a push to pass legislation codifying the EPA’s authority.
[ATTACKING THE SUPREME COURT IS MAKING THEM HAVING FUN MAKING ALL THE LEFTIST IN PANIC BECAUSE THEY ARE PUTTING THE CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENT ISSUES BACK TO THE PEOPLE TO VOTE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FOR THEIR STATE NOT SOME LEFTIST CONTROLLED WORLD GOVERNMENT GLOBALIST ENTITY MAKING LAWS IN THE U.S.A. STATES - YEAH AMERICAN CONSTITUTION PEOPLE POWER.].

7/2/2022 Report: Factors that drove collapse of industry’s advertising model continue - US newspapers dying at rate of 2 each week by David Bauder, ASSOCIATED PRESS
GETTY IMAGES     NEW YORK – Despite a growing recognition of the problem, the United States continues to see newspapers die at the rate of two per week, according to a report issued Wednesday on the state of local news.
    Areas of the country without a reliable source of local news tend to be poorer, older and less educated than those covered well, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications said.
    The country had 6,377 newspapers at the end of May, down from 8,891 in 2005, the report said.    While the pandemic didn’t quite cause the reckoning that some in the industry feared, 360 newspapers have shut down since the end of 2019, all but 24 of them weeklies serving small communities.
    An estimated 75,000 journalists worked in newspapers in 2006, and now that’s down to 31,000, Northwestern said.    Annual newspaper revenue slipped from $50 billion to $21 billion in the same period.
    Even though philanthropists and politicians have been paying more attention to the issue, the factors that drove the collapse of the industry’s advertising model haven’t changed.    Encouraging growth in the digital-only news sector in recent years hasn’t been enough to compensate for the overall trends, said Penelope Muse Abernathy, visiting professor at Medill and the report’s principal author.
    Many of the digital-only sites are focused on single issues and are clustered in or close to big cities near the philanthropic money that provides much of their funding, the report said.
    News “deserts” are growing: The report estimated that some 70 million Americans live in a county with either no local news organization or only one.
    “What’s really at stake in that is our own democracy, as well as our social and societal cohesion,” Abernathy said.
    True “daily” newspapers that are printed and distributed seven days a week are also dwindling; The report said 40 of the largest 100 newspapers in the country publish only-digital versions at least once a week.    Inflation is likely to hasten a switch away from printed editions, said Tim Franklin, director of the Medill Local News Initiative.
    Much of the industry churn is driven by the growth in newspaper chains, including new regional chains that have bought hundreds of newspapers in small or mid-sized markets, the report said.    Less than a third of the country’s 5,147 weekly newspapers and just a dozen of the 150 large metro and regional daily papers are now locally-owned and operated, Medill said.
[WELL I HOPE THAT MOST OF THEM ARE THE FAKE NEWS PUSHERS AND AMERICANS ARE FINALLY WAKING UP TO THE CORRUPTION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND I HAVE JUST SET BACK AND WATCHED THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, JACOB AND ISAAC MAKE EVERYTHING THAT JOE BIDEN DOES FAILS AND EVEN NOW HE STILL THINKS HE IS DOING OKAY.]

7/2/2022 First oil sales on public land under Biden bring $22 million
    Energy companies bid more than $22 million to secure drilling rights on about 110 square miles of public lands in the western U.S. on Thursday, during the first onshore oil and gas lease sales since President Joe Biden took office.
    Leases on about 90 square miles went unsold in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management online auctions that included parcels of federal lands in seven states.
    About 200 square miles of federal lands had been offered for lease in eight western states.    Most of those sold were in Wyoming, where companies paid more than $13 million for parcels.
    The auctions came as federal officials try to balance efforts to fight climate change against pressure to bring down high gas prices.
From wire reports
[I BET JOE IS THROWING UP IN HIS MOUTH BECAUSE OF THIS ARTICLE ABOVE IS NOW OUT THERE AND THE ONE BELOW AND THE SQUAD IS PROBABLE GOING BESERK.].

[AS YOU WILL SEE IN THE NEXT 3 ARTICLES THAT JOE BIDEN HAS FINALLY REALIZED THAT THE OPEC NATIONS WILL NOT GIVE HIM ANY OIL BECAUSE KUSHNER/TRUMP'S DEAL WITH THEM TO HELP THEM GO TO NUCLEAR POWER AND STOP PUMPING OIL EXCEPT FOR THEIR NEEDS THE REASON BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PUMPING OIL FOR 30 YEARS AND BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE EARTHQUAKES AND THAT WAS HOW TRUMP GOT THE ABRAHAM ACCORD WITH SPECIFIC NATIONS ALSO WHICH MEANS WE ARE PRAYING TO THE SAME GOD STARTED AND THIS IS THE ONE THING THAT JOE BIDEN CANNOT UNDO BUT I BET HE WILL TRY AGAIN BUT NOW HE IS BEING FORCED TO DO WHAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO DO AND ALSO THE IDIOT IS NOT REFILLING OUR NATIONAL OIL SUPPLIES AS FAR AS WE KNOW.].
7/2/2022 Biden offshore drilling proposal would allow up to 11 sales by Janet McConnaughey and Matthew Brown, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man fishes near docked oil drilling platforms in Port Aransas, Texas. ERIC GAY/AP FILE     NEW ORLEANS – President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years – going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
    Administration officials said fewer than 11 lease sales – or even no lease sales at all – could occur, with a final decision not due for months.    New drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts would be blocked, after being considered under Trump.
    The proposal brought backlash from both environmentalists – who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause – and oil industry officials and allies, who said it would do little to help counter high energy prices.
    Gasoline prices averaged $4.84 a gallon on Friday, a strain on commuters and a political albatross for Biden’s felt an low Democrats going into the midterm elections.    That has left the White House scrambling for solutions, including Biden’s call last week for suspension of the 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax.
    The Interior Department had suspended lease sales in late January because of climate concerns but was forced to resume them by a U.S. district judge in Louisiana.
    The Biden administration cited conflicting court rulings about that decision when it canceled the last scheduled lease sales in the Gulf and Alaska during the previous offshore leasing cycle.    That prior five-year cycle, a program adopted under former President Barack Obama, expired on Thursday.
    There will be a months-long gap before a new plan can be put in place.    The oil industry and its allies say the delay could cause problems in planning new drilling and potentially lead to decreased oil production.
    There’s unlikely to be an offshore lease sale until well into next year, said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s top lobbying group.
    And, he said, administration officials “went out of their way to say” there might not be any lease sales at all.
    “It’s very important for the administration to send a signal to the global oil markets that the United States is serious about increasing supply … for the long term,” he said, repeating a longtime claim by industry officials and Republicans that ties uncertainty over oil supply to high prices.
    Biden in recent weeks has criticized oil producers and refiners for maximizing profits and making “more money God,” rather than increasing production in response to higher prices as the economy recovers from the pandemic and feels the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    The leasing announcement was a bitter disappointment to environmentalists and some Democrats who rallied around then-candidate Biden when he promised to end new drilling in federal lands and waters.
    The proposal comes a day after the administration held its first onshore lease sales, drawing $22 million in an auction that gives energy companies drilling rights on about 110 square miles in seven western states.
    The sales came despite the administration’s own findings that burning oil and gas from the parcels could cause billions of dollars in potential future climate damages.
    “Our public lands and waters are already responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s carbon pollution each year.    Adding any new lease sales to that equation while the climate crisis is unfolding all around us is nonsensical,” said House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.

7/2/2022 Biden administration unveils oil and gas drilling plans, gutting Trump-era framework by Thomas Catenacci – FOX Business
    Biden has done everything to thwart US energy production: Rep. Fleischmann
    The Biden administration published its long-awaited five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan Friday one day after missing its June deadline.
    The Department of the Interior (DOI) plan included the possibility of the federal government holding up to 11 lease sales off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico over the five-year period between 2023-2028.    However, the plan also put forward the option of the federal government holding no lease sales in that same time period.
    "From Day One, President Biden and I have made clear our commitment to transition to a clean energy economy," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.    "Today, we put forward an opportunity for the American people to consider and provide input on the future of offshore oil and gas leasing.    The time for the public to weigh in on our future is now."
WHITE HOUSE PUSHES BACK ON CLAIMS BIDEN IS 'VILIFYING' US OIL INDUSTRY: 'THIS ISN'T PERSONAL'
    Under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the federal government is required to issue offshore leasing plans every five years laying out prospective oil and gas lease sales.    The current 2017-2022 plan expired Thursday.
    Haaland previously promised that the DOI would issue the plan by Thursday.    The administration delayed the announcement without giving a reason.
© AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news conference
on July 22, 2021, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File     The current and previous plans, both formulated by the Obama administration, included more than 10 offshore oil and gas lease sales each.    The Trump administration sought to hold an additional 47 sales.
    In May, the DOI canceled the three remaining lease sales scheduled under the current plan, one of which spanned more than a million acres in the Cook Inlet off the coast of Alaska.    While the administration held a Gulf of Mexico lease sale in the fall, it chose not to appeal a federal court ruling striking the sale down over environmental objections.
    "There hasn't been a year without a lease sale since 1965," National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito told FOX Business in an interview ahead of the DOI's announcement.    "So, when you're looking at 2021 and 2022, we're already in unchartered territory when it comes to offshore U.S. oil and gas development."
    "We're talking right now about a supply crunch — the high prices and the impacts that we're seeing at the pump," Milito said.    "The only way to address that, and it might have to be over time, is by increasing production of oil."
TOP REPUBLICAN AIMS TO FORCE BIDEN ADMIN TO HOLD CANCELED OIL AND GAS LEASE SALES
© (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Gas prices are advertised at over six dollars
a gallon in Los Angeles, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)     NOIA, which represents offshore fossil fuel and wind development companies, issued a report in March alongside the American Petroleum Institute projecting that domestic oil production would decrease, thousands of jobs would be lost and the U.S. gross domestic product would decline if the DOI failed to issue a replacement five-year plan.
    Environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers, though, had urged the president to issue a five-year plan without any planned leases.    On Tuesday, 10 Democratic senators led by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., penned a letter to Haaland urging her against new leasing.
    "New offshore oil and gas leasing will make it more difficult to meet our climate goals and worsen the climate crisis," they wrote in the letter.
    Shortly after taking office, President Biden signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters.    But a federal court halted the policy in a June 2021 injunction.
    The Biden admin is focused on green energy instead of making choices to lower prices: Greg Zerzan.
    The plan published Thursday is a "proposed program," meaning the government is still required to hold a 90-day public comment period and issue a subsequent proposal before the plan is finalized.
    Meanwhile, the average price of gasoline nationwide hit $4.84 per gallon Friday, near its all-time high of about $5 a gallon recorded on June 14, according to AAA data.
    Republican lawmakers have blamed the high pump prices on the Biden administration's climate agenda and decision not to hold as many lease sales as previous administrations.
[SO AS YOU CAN SEE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS GOING BACK ON THEIR POLICIES IN DESPARATION TO LOSE MID-TERM ELECTIONS AND WILL EVEN PISS OFF THE AOC MOB.].

[I AM SO AMUSED THAT THOSE HARD WORKING SUPREME COURTERS ARE DOING THEIR JOB TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT PATH
NOT THE ONE THAT THE SQUAD HAS DREAMED UP AND WASTED A LOT OF OUR MONEY ON THAT WILL NOT COME AROUND OR IF IT COMES IN 2030.].
7/1/2022 Court limits paths to climate goals - President left with few options to cut emissions by Ellen Knickmeyer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The high court’s decision to limit the EPA was a blow to President Joe Biden’s
commitment to stave off deadlier levels of global warming. Rich Pedroncelli/AP file     WASHINGTON – More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden’s hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead.
    But it’s not far from it.
    A Supreme Court ruling Thursday not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts by Biden and federal agencies to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal.
    It’s a blow to Biden’s commitment to slash emissions in the few year’s scientists say are left to stave off worse and deadlier levels of global warming.    And it’s a sign, to Democrats at home and allies abroad, of the dwindling options remaining for Biden to reverse the legacy of President Donald Trump, who mocked the science of climate change.    Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees provided half of the affirmative votes in Thursday’s 6-3 ruling.
    After the ruling, a veteran Democratic lawmaker acknowledged he saw no hope of Congress producing any meaningful climate legislation, either.    The foreign allies whom Biden once spoke of leading to a global clean-power transformation are wondering if the United States can even lead itself.
    And in a Houston neighborhood entering hurricane season, a man who had spent four decades advocating for the Black communities, other communities of color and poorer communities hit hardest by pollution and the record heat, cold, floods and storms of climate change reacted to the ruling like many others did Thursday – saying it was all up to Biden now to act – and act in a big way.
    'This is real,' said Robert Bullard, an academic who became a pioneer in what became the U.S. environmental justice movement, of the multiplying natural disasters – the kind scientists say are increasingly influenced by the heating atmosphere – wrecking cities on America’s vulnerable Gulf of Mexico.
    'Those communities that have been flooded out ... some of those communities still have blue tarps on their houses,' Bullard said.    'So, I don’t think the Supreme Court and some of our elected officials are speaking about the urgency of where we are when it comes to our climate.'
    The dismay at the ruling expressed by many among what is a majority of people in America who say they care deeply about climate change reflected this was only the latest setback to Biden’s early promises to slash emissions.
    A narrowly divided Congress already handed Biden what’s been the worst climate defeat of his term so far when two Democrats, including coal-state lawmaker Joe Manchin, joined Senate Republicans in refusing to pass Biden’s Build Back Better package.
    Climate parts of the legislation were meant to kickstart America’s transformation into a land of electric cars, clean industry and energy-efficient buildings.    Biden was able to move forward some smaller parts of his proposal, including electric car chargers.
    And this year, in a development as dangerous for Biden’s early climate hopes as the Supreme Court ruling, a global oil and gas supply crunch has sent gas prices pinging off record highs.    It’s fueled inflation and voter anger against Biden, and potentially other Democrats.
    The energy shortfall left Biden scrambling for additional oil and gas.    It’s also left it unclear whether he still feels he has the political capital to lead the U.S. move to renewable energy as decisively as he promised as a candidate and in his first months in office.
    The ruling left policy experts, lawmakers and ordinary people saying Biden, Democrats and climate-minded Republicans still have some routes left to push through climate efforts.
    One is ambitious, shrewd executive action – if Biden dares – to push through carefully targeted emission-cutting steps.
    A second is climate action by California and the other blue states that earlier swung into action to challenge Trump’s climate rollbacks in court.
    A third option is a pitch that Biden and Democrats are throwing to voters more and more – elect enough Democrats in the midterms to allow Congress to pass laws thwarting rollbacks by conservatives, in Congress and on the Supreme Court.
    Biden has pledged to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and to have an emissions-free power sector by 2035.
    Biden offered no guarantees of success in his comments after the court ruling.
    'While this decision risks damaging our nation’s ability to keep our air clean and combat climate change, I will not relent in using my lawful authorities to protect public health and tackle the climate crisis,' he said in a statement.
    His team would 'find ways that we can, under federal law, continue protecting Americans' from pollution and climate change, he said.
    The Biden administration can still do a strong rule on carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions generally, and it ought to do it fast, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island.
    As it is, 'there’s no easy fix from Congress from this mess,' Whitehouse said, blaming past court rulings on political donations for 'the big, dark polluter money' he said holds sway in politics now.
    The Supreme Court ruling came as Biden was savoring a successful gathering with NATO allies, who have rallied behind the U.S. in confronting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.    After Biden’s early proclamations in summits at the outset of his term that 'America is back!,' the setback in the Supreme Court underscored to allies how vulnerable the U.S. president remains on the domestic front, including when it comes to fulfilling climate commitments.
    As the ruling was released, Biden envoy John Kerry was flying out after an oceans conference in Portugal, still working for global and country-by-country commitments to cut emissions.
    The domestic climate setbacks have helped slow early global momentum for climate breakthroughs.    They’ve weakened U.S. leverage as Kerry presses countries including China to swing away from coal and other damaging fossil fuels – something Biden had pledged the U.S. would lead on by example.

[WE ALL KNEW THAT BIDEN HAS MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS BUT NOW HE IS PRESIDENT AND THE DEVIL HAS COME TO HIM TO PAY UP OR ELSE AND THE GOD OF CHRISTIANITY THAT HE HAS INSULTED IS PLAYING CHEST MOVES TO MAKE HIS MOVES FAIL JUST LIKE THE PHAROAH OF EGYPT EXPERIENCED - SO LET OUR PEOPLE FREE FROM YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS.].
7/2/2022 Biden's Secret Arrangement Has Twitter Saying He Made A 'Deal With The Devil' by Gretchen Sterba – The List
President Joe Biden is by no means a novice when it comes to criticism via social media, especially on platforms like Twitter. Biden, who admittedly says he is "a gaffe machine" (via Newsweek), has had a history of stumbling through speeches. Shortly after delivering a speech to Congress in late April, where he had moments of stuttering while discussing the war between Russia and Ukraine, Twitter users didn't shy away from making fun of the President over his blunders.
© Bloomberg/Getty Images President Joe Biden     In June, users on the social media platform took shots at President Biden again, after he was caught on video falling down Air Force One's stairs.    Now, after an emotional week where the Supreme Court made the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Biden is in hot water once again following a shocking announcement in regards to a deal he's made and his recent actions have some Twitter users seeing red.
Twitter Is Angry At President Biden For Considering An Anti-Abortion Judge
© mark reinstein/Shutterstock Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
wife Elaine Chao, and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015.     On Wednesday night, the Courier Journal broke the story that President Joe Biden is in talks to propose prospective nominee Chad Meredith, a conservative Republican lawyer, to fulfill a federal judgeship to serve in Eastern Kentucky.    Democrats as well as other Americans alike aren't holding back on their thoughts regarding this secret decision that USA Today reports was done in collaboration with President Biden and Republican Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Joe Biden is 'blaming everything and everyone'
    Kentucky Democratic politician, Charles Booker, tweeted his disappointment in regards to the news: "The President is making a deal with the devil and once again, the people of Kentucky are crushed in the process.    At a time when we are fighting to protect human rights, this is a complete slap in the face."
    USA Today reported that Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat representing Louisville, said Biden's potential nomination for a federal vacancy is a "huge mistake."    In addition to Booker and Yarmuth's criticism, Twitter users also aren't holding back their thoughts on the reveal of Biden's alleged decision as well.    One user tweeted, "There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for Joe Biden to be negotiating with Mitch McConnell to put the federalist Society anti-abortion judges on the federal bench.    It's bad politics.    It's dumb."
    When CNN asked the White House to comment on the matter, an official said, "As a matter of practice, we don't comment on executive or judicial vacancies."
[JOHN YARMUTH: BIDEN WAS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT A MISTAKE BECAUSE SINCE BECOMING PRESIDENT HIS ONLY ACTIONS WAS TO TEAR DOWN OR REVERSE ANY POLICY THAT TRUMP DID AND THE RESULTS OF HATE ARE SHOWING BRIGHTLY NOW.].

7/3/2022 White House Report Card: Zogby says Biden ‘in real trouble’ by Paul Bedard – Washington Examiner
    This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden ending another horror week, whipped repeatedly by the Supreme Court and approval polls and facing a growing fall election disaster if he doesn’t pull up soon.
© Provided by Washington Examiner White House Report Card: Zogby says Biden ‘in real trouble’     Democratic pollster and grader John Zogby, who likes the president, gave another subpar grade to Biden and warned of rocky shores ahead.
    “The president is in real trouble,” Zogby said in grading a “D.”    And, he added that approval polls of Biden and his handling of the economy are “showing real dangers for him among Democratic bastions as well as independents.”
    Separately, Zogby's polling revealed Rep. Lee Zeldin's surging momentum going into the New York GOP gubernatorial primary and accurately predicted the lawmaker's victory over Andrew Giuliani.
    It was another easy “D-” from conservative grader Jed Babbin who noted that the economy appears to have slipped into a recession. John Zogby
Grade: D
    A terrible week for President Biden on almost every front.    In addition to being blocked by Congress, this was an historic week for the conservative Supreme Court as it flexed its muscles on abortion, hampering enforcement of regulations to subdue climate change, and striking down New York laws regarding concealed weapons.
    The president celebrated the new membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO, but critics saw more regional and global danger from this expanded alliance.    Some who know history recall that hyper-nationalism, expansionism, and a bipolar alliance system ushered in two world wars in the past century.
    Biden's average approval rating is at only 38%, showing real dangers for him among Democratic bastions as well as independents.    Even worse is a new poll that revealed that 49% of Americans feel they are "strangers in their own country," a majority who feel the U.S. government is "corrupt and rigged" against the middle class, 25% who are ready to take up arms against the government, and a stunning three-in-four to four-in-five who said the country is headed in the wrong direction.    And summer travel for those who want to fly is turning disastrous.    The president is in real trouble.
    But then there are the Republicans.    Will the Supreme Court decision ending Roe vs. Wade freedoms draw more attention among suburban and younger women than critical race theory and inflation?    I, for one, think November 2022 is an election in transition.
Jed Babbin
Grade: D-
    So it’s official: Biden’s recession has begun.    The nation’s Gross Domestic Product sank into negative territory for the second straight quarter, which is the economist's definition of a recession.    The stock market had the worst first half of a year in 52 years, inflation is still running high and the country is most conclusively all Bidened up.    It was funny when Reagan said that “status quo” was Latin for “the mess we’re in.”    Ain’t funny now because this is a far bigger mess Biden has gotten us into.    And it’s going to take a lot longer to get out of it.
    Biden scored a big win and faced big losses in the Supreme Court this week.    The big win affirmed his right to cancel former President Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy which required asylum seekers to stay out of the country until their cases were decided.    The big loss was the decision that the Environmental Protection Agency can’t go beyond its statutory authority on matters of national significance.    It had tried to do so by pushing out coal-fired electricity generation plants.
    Biden said that in order to codify abortion rights, he’d like to see an exception made to the Senate’s filibuster rule.    With the Senate tied, and possibly going ove to Republican control next year, that’s his only shot at codifying Roe v. Wade.     But.    Both Sens. Joe Manchin and Kristin Cinema have so far opposed changing the filibuster rule, so Joe is SOL.
    At the G7 economic meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron told Biden he won’t get any more oil out of the UAE or Saudi Arabia because those countries are pretty much pumping at capacity.    Biden’s coming trip to Saudi Arabia will be a big flop for that reason and because Biden, in his campaign, said Saudi was going to be a “pariah state.”    They didn’t take kindly to that one.
    Meanwhile, no one is buying Biden’s nonsense on inflation and gas prices.    The ‘Big Lie’ of the week was Biden’s statement that Americans would have to continue to pay exorbitant gasoline prices until Russia loses its war on Ukraine.    Nobody believes there’s a connection between the two because there ain’t one.
    John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies.    His weekly podcast with son and partner Jeremy Zogby can be heard here.    Follow him on Twitter @ZogbyStrategies
    Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush.    Follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin

7/3/2022 Offshore drilling plan would allow for 11 sales - Plan draws backlash from environmentalists, oil industry officials by Janet McConnaughey and Matthew Brown, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico
and one in Alaska over the next five years. The announcement on Friday said fewer lease sales
or even zero could occur, with a final decision not due for months. JON FAHEY/AP FILE     NEW ORLEANS – President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years – going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
    Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said fewer than 11 lease sales – or even no lease sales at all – could occur, with a final decision not due for months.    New drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts would be blocked, after being considered under Trump.
    “President Biden and I have made clear our commitment to transition to a clean energy economy.    Today, we put forward an opportunity for the American people to ... provide input on the future of offshore oil and gas leasing,” said Haaland, whose agency oversees drilling on federal lands and waters.
    The proposal brought immediate backlash from both environmentalists – who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause – and oil industry officials and allies, who said it would do little to help counter high energy prices.
    Gasoline prices averaged $4.84 a gallon on Friday, a strain on commuters and a political albatross for Biden’s fellow Democrats going into the midterm elections.    That has left the White House scrambling for solutions, including Biden’s call for suspension of the 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax.
    The Interior Department had suspended lease sales in late January because of climate concerns but was forced to resume them by a U.S. district judge in Louisiana.
    The Biden administration cited conflicting court rulings about that decision when it canceled the last scheduled lease sales in the Gulf and Alaska during the previous offshore leasing cycle.
    There will be a monthslong gap before a new plan can be put in place.    The oil industry and its allies say the delay could cause problems in planning new drilling and potentially lead to decreased oil production.
    There’s unlikely to be an offshore lease sale until well into next year, said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s top lobbying group.
    And, he said, administration officials “went out of their way to say” there might not be any lease sales at all.
    “It’s very important for the administration to send a signal to the global oil markets that the United States is serious about increasing supply ... for the long term,” he said, repeating a longtime claim by industry officials and Republicans that ties uncertainty over oil supply to high prices.
    The proposal comes a day after the administration held its first onshore lease sales, drawing $22 million in an auction that gives energy companies drilling rights on about 110 square miles in seven western states.
[BIDEN AND HAALAND WE DO NOT CARE WHAT YOUR THINK - PUMP OIL AND MAKE GASOLINE CHEAPER AGAIN AND ALSO TELL BIDEN THAT OUR TANKS, FIGHTER JETS RUN ON FUEL SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE ELECTRIC TANKS OR FIGHTER JETS IF THERE WAS A WAR PLUS REFILL THE OIL YOU STOLED OUT OF THE NATIONAL OIL RESERVE BACK TO 650 MILLION BARRELS AND LEAVE IT ALONE SO IF WE HAVE TO GO TO WAR WE HAVE IT THERE WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.].

7/3/2022 Saudi Security Forces Show Strength Ahead Of Hajj, Biden Visit by OAN NEWSROOM
Members of the Saudi special forces perform a military parade in preparation for the annual
Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)     Saudi Arabia held a rare demonstration of its security forces and military preparedness ahead of Joe Biden’s visit.    On Sunday, Saudi Security Forces held a parade in the city of Mecca as part of preparations for a major religious holiday.
    Authorities said millions of Muslim’s visited Mecca for Hajj celebrations, but only vaccinated or immunized worshippers were allowed to attend public events.    Officials said the nation is prepared to address any potential security challenges.
    “By having these security forces and all military forces participating here today, we affirm our readiness to serve the guests of God,” said the Ministry of Interior spokesman Talal Al-Shalhoub.    “We are ready to implement the orders to preserve security and safety of the pilgrims in the state.    This parade reflects the efforts of the king’s government towards the importance of holding the pilgrimage rituals safely and in peace.”

    President Joe Biden said Thursday he will not directly ask Saudi Arabia’s leaders to increase oil production when he visits the kingdom.    He insisted that his trip to the Middle East is not focused on one-on-one engagement with King Salman or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
    “That is not the purpose of this trip, I’m not going to ask them,” Biden stated.    “All the Gulf states are meeting.    I’ve indicated to them that I thought they should be increasing oil production generically, not to Saudi Arabia in particular.    I hope we see them in their own interests concluding that makes sense to do.”
    Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia to discuss mutual ties as part of his upcoming tour of the Middle East.    The tour will take place between July 13 and July 16.
[JOE I BET TRUMP IS LAUGHING AT YOU THINKING THE SAUDI'S WAS GOING TO GIVE YOU ANY OIL AND OUR REAL CONCERN IS ANY ACTIONS YOU TRY TO TAKE TO BREAK UP THE ABRAHAM ACCORD AND IF YOU DO THE GOD OF AMERICA, ISRAEL AND CERTAIN ARAB NATIONS WILL PUT YOU DOWN MORE AS HE HAS ALREADY DONE BUT YOU ARE SO BUT-HEADED YOU WILL PROBABLY WILL TRY TO INFLUENCE THE ENTITY THE ANTI-CHRIST TO APPEAR WITH YOUR SOCIALIST GLOBALIST ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT TO DO THE DEED AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.].

7/5/2022 Biden: ‘Nothing Guaranteed’ About US Way Of Life, Democracy by OAN NEWSROOM
President Joe Biden speaks during a Fourth of July celebration for military families on the
South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)     President Joe Biden has claimed despite problems facing the country, he’s optimistic about its future.    However, he said nothing is guaranteed about democracy or the American way of life.
    “Each day we are reminded that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy,” stated the President.    “Nothing guaranteed about our way of life.”
    On Monday, Biden said the economy is feeling the pain while liberty is under assault.    He also claimed there is a battle going on for “the soul of America.”    His remarks came on the heels of a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in Illinois to which he responded with a call for more gun control.
    “Before I left for Europe, I signed a law,” said Biden.    “The first real gun safety law in 30 years and things will get better still, but not without more hard work together.    You all heard what happened today.”
    Biden is facing criticism over his inability to tackle runaway inflation, violent crime and a deepening social divide within America.

[I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING INFORMATION ON WTO – WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WHICH FORMED INTO 10 REGIONS IN THE 1990’S AND OF COURSE WE HAVE A G-7 WHICH ARE THE SEVEN RICHES NATIONS AND TRACKED THEIR ENTITIES AND ISSUES FOR MY BOOK, BUT TODAY I HAD NEVER HEARD OF AN ENTITY CALLED THE G-20 WHO CLAIMS THEY WERE CREATED IN SEPT 1999 WHICH WAS APPARENTLY KEPT A BIG SECRET TO ME UNTIL TODAY BUT IF YOU GO AND READ MY SITE I CAN SEE THEY MAY HAVE NOT PROMOTED THAT FOR A REASON AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN MY FILE http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterEight/Globalism.htm AND THEY HAD KEPT IT VERY SECRETATIVE UNTIL IN RECENT YEARS AND MOST LIKELY IT IS WHAT I CALLED IT THE 'DEEP STATE' OR SECRETIVE SOCIALIST GLOBALIST NEW ONE WORLD ORDER.
    This RESOLUTION 2334 is what their concerns are because it is the event that will bring the 2,000 years of Bible prophecy that every person will realize all the prophets of the Bible have been telling us what is coming which forces it to occur - RESOLUTION 2334 “Reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under International Law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the Two-State Solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace;”]
    As you can see in the image above is called The G20 or Group of Twenty and is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union (EU).    It works to address major issues related to the global economy, such as international financial stability, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development, which I have written about for years but not once were they referred to as G20.
    The G20 is composed of most of the world's largest economies, including both industrialized and developing nations, and accounts for around 90% of gross world product (GWP), 75–80% of international trade, two-thirds of the global population, and roughly half the world's land area.
    The G20 was founded in 1999 in response to several world economic crises.    Since 2008, it has convened at least once a year, with summits involving each member's head of government or state, finance minister, foreign minister, and other high-ranking officials; the EU is represented by the European Commission and the European Central Bank.    Other countries, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations are invited to attend the summits, some on a permanent basis.
    AND AS THE YEAR 2009 WHEN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND HIS SOCIALISM TOOK OVER THE U.S. FOR 8 YEARS FROM 2009-2015 SO NOW WE REALLY KNOW WHERE THEY STARTED THEIR SOCIALIST GLOBALIST CHANGE ON THE UNITED STATES AND IT WAS THAT TIME BY THE YEAR 2011 THAT I CAUGHT ON TO THE CORRUPTION THAT I KNEW WE WERE BEING BLOCKED ABOUT THE TRUTH WAS NOT BEING GIVEN TO THE U.S. TELEVISON, GOVERNMENT AND POLICIES WERE CHANGED AND BEGAN TO RESEARCH AND TO ENTER THAT INTO MY BOOK CHAPTER EIGHT IN WWW.MAZZAROTH.COM.
    At its 2009 summit, the G20 declared itself the primary venue for international economic and financial cooperation.    The group's stature has risen during the subsequent decade, and it is recognized by analysts as exercising considerable global influence, and it is also criticized for its limited membership, lack of enforcement powers, and for the alleged undermining of existing international institutions.[Summits are often met with protests, particularly by anti-globalization groups.    And the article below is the first time it has been mentioned in the news in the year 2022 which to me in the end of a 72 year period of the Age of Aquarius an entity from 1950-2022.]

[AS YOU CAN SEE SINCE THE G20 GOT CONTROL AGAIN IN 2020-2024 IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IT HAS RAISED ITS HEAD AGAIN AND IF YOU HAVE WONDERED HOW THE U.S.A. IS SO SCREWED UP NOW IT IS CAUSED BY WHAT I WROTE ABOVE.]
7/5/2022 Blinken sets G-20 meeting with Chinese FM; silent on Russia by MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer – Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart this week in Indonesia at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20 bloc of the world’s leading industrialized nations, the State Department said Tuesday.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany,
Friday, June 24, 2022. Blinken will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart this week in Indonesia at a meeting of
foreign ministers from the Group of 20 bloc of nations, the State Department said Tuesday, July 5. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)     Blinken will see China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the G-20 gathering in Bali, the department said in a statement that made no mention of any possible meeting between Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who will also be attending the G-20 event.
    Blinken and Lavrov last met in Geneva, Switzerland in January in what turned out to be a fruitless bid to forestall Russia's invasion of Ukraine a month later.
Blinken reaches out to neighbors at Americas Summit
    Since then, Blinken and Lavrov have not been in the same room, or even the same city, at the same time.    It was not immediately clear if either of the two would have time or desire for a discussion in Bali.
    The U.S. and China are at severe odds over numerous issues ranging from trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea.    They are also divided over Russia’s war in Ukraine, with China supporting the Russian explanation for the conflict.
    Blinken “will reinforce our commitment to working with international partners to confront global challenges, including food and energy insecurity and the threat Russia’s continued war against Ukraine presents to the international order,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
    From Bali, Blinken will travel to Bangkok, Thailand, to make up for a trip to the Thai capital that he was forced to cancel late last year due to COVID-19 reasons.

7/5/2022 Oil from U.S. reserves head overseas as gasoline prices stay high by Arathy Somasekhar - Reuters
© Reuters/ADREES LATIFFILE PHOTO: The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve is seen in an aerial photograph over Freeport, Texas     HOUSTON (Reuters) - More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched record highs.
    The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden designed to lower record pump prices.    Biden on Saturday renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices, drawing criticism from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
    About 1 million barrels per day is being released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) through October.    The flow is draining the SPR, which last month fell to the lowest since 1986.    U.S. crude futures are above $105 per barrel and gasoline and diesel prices above $5 a gallon in one-fifth of the nation https://gasprices.aaa.com/. U.S. officials have said oil prices could be higher if the SPR had not been tapped.
© Reuters/JONATHAN BACHMANFILE PHOTO: Strategic Petroleum Reserve site at Bayou Choctaw, Louisiana     The fourth-largest U.S. oil refiner, Phillips 66, shipped about 470,000 barrels of sour crude from the Big Hill SPR storage site in Texas to Trieste, Italy, according to U.S. Customs data.    Trieste is home to a pipeline that sends oil to refineries in central Europe.
    Rystad: Most of the OPEC countries aren't facing the same immediate concerns as net crude importers Atlantic Trading & Marketing (ATMI), an arm of French oil major TotalEnergies, exported 2 cargoes of 560,000 barrels each, the data showed.
    Phillips 66 declined to comment on trading activity.    ATMI did not respond to a request for comment.
    Cargoes of SPR crude were also headed to the Netherlands and to a Reliance refinery in India, an industry source said. A third cargo headed to China, another source said.
    At least one cargo of crude from the West Hackberry SPR site in Louisiana was set to be exported in July, a shipping source added.
    "Crude and fuel prices would likely be higher if (the SPR releases) hadn't happened, but at the same time, it isn't really having the effect that was assumed," said Matt Smith, lead oil analyst at Kpler.
    The latest exports follow three vessels that carried SPR crude to Europe in April helping replace Russian crude supplies.
    U.S. crude inventories are the lowest since 2004 as refineries run near peak levels.    Refineries in the U.S. Gulf coast were at 97.9% utilization, the most in three and a half years.
(Reporting by Arathy Somasekhar in Houston; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
[WELL IT LOOKS LIKE BIDEN IS GOING TO DO THE SAME THING THAT OBAMA DID EMPTY THE 650 MILLION BARRELS IN THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE AND IF WE HAVE A WAR WE WOULD BE KAPUT AND I HAVE TOLD YOU MANY TIMES THAT TRUMP FILLED IT UP SO HE COULD GO FIGHT ISIS AND WIPE THEM OUT SO WE WILL HAVE TO VOTE HIM INTO PRESIDENT AGAIN SO HE CAN FILL UP AGAIN AND THEN THROW JOE BIDEN INTO THE OIL RESERVE FOR HIS HATE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND IS NOTHING BUT A PUPPET FOR THE SOCIALIST GOLOBALIST ONE NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT AND THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE LIED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THE LOWEST IN 1986 IT WAS IN 2011 WHEN LIBYA WAS TOPPLED BY OBAMA AND KILLED GADDAFI WITH A NATO BOMBING RAID AND CAME BACK WITH NO OIL AND THEN USED UP THE ENTIRE NATIONAL OIL RESERVE 650 MILLION BARRELS JUST LIKE BIDEN IS ABOUT TO DO TO US TODAY - WHAT IS SCARY IF THIS CONTINUES TO ME THAT HE INTENDS TO THAT SO CHINA CAN JUST FLY RIGHT INTO THIS COUNTRY AND TAKE US OVER AND NO WAY TO DEFEND OURSELVES.]

7/5/2022 Strategist Says Democrat Party Is In Trouble Amid Record Low Approval Of Biden-Harris by OAN NEWSROOM
Vice President Kamala Harris listens as U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks, before a signing ceremony for the
COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in the East Room of the White House on May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images).     According to a former aide to Hillary Clinton, the Democrat Party needs her like never before.    In an op-ed for The Hill, Democrat strategist Doug Schoen expressed that Democrats are in trouble due to President Joe Biden’s record low approval ratings and the unpopularity of Kamala Harris.
    That’s why, Schoen said, Democrats need Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2024, which he suggested is a “plausible scenario.”    The Democrat strategist admitted Democrats are headed for a blowout loss in November midterms, which will be worse than 1994 and 2010.
    Meanwhile, Clinton did not rule out a potential run for presidency in a recent interview on CBS Mornings.
    “I can’t imagine it…what I can imagine is staying active and as outspoken as I can because I think our country is really on the precipice scale,” she stated.    “I think that we are looking at not only the erosion of these rights, the throwing the door open to unfettered, unregulated gun access, but we’re also looking at dismantling the federal government, how it protects our air and our water and everything else that goes along with it.”
    Schoen argued Clinton has better chances to get elected in 2024 than other prominent Democrats because she’s an experienced candidate, despite running for president twice and losing both times.

7/6/2022 White House Press Secy. Refuses To Answer Questions About Leaked Voicemail From Hunter Biden’s Laptop by OAN NEWSROOM
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a press briefing
at the White House, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)     The White House appears to be dodging questions about a leaked voicemail from Hunter Biden’s laptop.    During a press briefing on Tuesday, Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a reporter’s question about the audio, while simply claiming it has yet to be verified.
    Prior to this, the White House refused to address the controversy surrounding Hunter’s overseas business dealings, which has led many to accuse him of benefiting from his father’s political influence.
    The voicemail in question came from Joe Biden in 2018 who discussed a New York Times article about his son’s foreign business affairs and suggested “he is in the clear.”    This is in spite of the elder Biden claiming he was unaware of Hunter’s foreign affairs while running for president in 2020.
    While Biden has yet to comment on his alleged involvement with his son’s affairs, additional audio from the laptop contains clips of Hunter admitting that his dad will do anything for him.    Joe Biden actions seemed to confirm this as he confessed to allegedly getting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Hunter’s business dealings fired.
    In the meantime, Republican Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said they will double down on their investigation into Hunter’s business affairs after this year’s midterm elections.
    Additionally, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, once again, demanding answers about Hunter Biden’s foreign affairs.    He sent the letter Wednesday, pointing out that he had asked for information about Hunter’s foreign business dealings, his associates and family members back in May.
    Comer wrote, “it is troubling that the Biden administration is willing to provide a false story to the media to create the appearance of transparency while continuing to thwart congressional oversight.”    This is the latest step by the House Oversight Committee member in investigating potential corruption within the Biden family and administration.

[WELL DO NOT PAT YOURSELF ON YOUR OWN BACK JOE BIDEN SINCE YOU ARE STEALING MY AMERICAN OIL RESERVE TO COVER YOUR POOR POLICIES AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU EMPTY IT LIKE OBAMA DID ALSO AND MADE TURMP HAVE TO FILL IT BACK UP SO HE COULD GO FIGHT ISIS.].
7/7/2022 Biden oil reserve release was ‘single handedly responsible’ for halting increase in gas prices, advisor says by Chris Matthews - MarketWatch
© saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Biden oil reserve release was
‘single handedly responsible’ for halting increase in gas prices, advisor says     Biden administration officials are taking solace in recent declines in gasoline prices, which have fallen by an average of 21 cents per gallon over the past month, according to GasBuddy.
President Biden considers oil and gas windfall tax
    Brian Deese, President Biden’s National Economic Council director, said Thursday that while gas prices remain “unacceptably high” U.S. consumers are “seeing some moderation and that moderation is important.”
    “The release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve sounds esoteric to people [but] oil market analysts…will say it was single-handedly responsible for keeping oil prices from going higher,” Desse added in an interview with Bloomberg News.
    The Biden advisor also noted the president has been working with oil refiners “to try to keep refinery capacity online” and has pushed for a temporary gas-tax holiday that could further produce savings for consumers at the gas pump.
    President Biden announced a plan in March to release roughly 1 million barrels of oil per day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve through October.    About 5 million of the barrels released so far have been exported by American refiners abroad to places like Europe, according to a Tuesday report in Reuters.
    The news has invited Republican criticism of the Biden administration, although it represents a small fraction of the total oil released from the reserve over the past several months.

7/7/2022 GOP Mich. Gov. Candidate Kelley Pleads Not Guilty To Jan. 6 Charges by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – Rioters face off with police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)     A Republican gubernatorial hopeful in Michigan plead not guilty to several charges related to the January 6 capitol protest.
    Ryan Kelley entered the plea on Thursday to four misdemeanor charges which include entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds.    This comes after the FBI raided his home last month and arrested him. He has since been released.
    “The FBI did raid my house in front of my wife, in front of my children, put on this big theater show for misdemeanor charges,” said Kelley.    “It was the same day that they started their January 6 witch hunt committee.”
    A criminal complaint filed by the FBI alleged that Kelley climbed onto an “architectural feature” of the Capitol and waved other rioters to continue forward.    The FBI also said Kelley supported a rioter who pulled a metal barricade onto scaffolding and that he took photos of blood on Capitol grounds.    Court documents dated June 22 said he is accused of destroying a tarp covering scaffolding on the Capitol.    The damage was valued at less than $1,000.    Authorities do not allege that Kelley entered the building.
    In the Republican gubernatorial debate on Wednesday, Kelley said he was in Washington during the riot but he argued his actions were protected by the First Amendment.
    His campaign claimed the charges are political persecution against him brought on by Democrat leaders in the state, including Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.).
    He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of all four charges.
[I HOPE HE WINS HIS CASE AND ELECTION AND SHOWS AMERICA THE CORRUPTION BY THE LEFTIST SOCIALIST GLOBALIST ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AGAINST AMERICA PLUS HE IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AGAINST THE WITCH OF THE NORTH.].

7/8/2022 GOP hammers Biden for allowing emergency oil reserves to go to China: 'compromising our energy security' by Thomas Catenacci – FOX News
    Several GOP lawmakers sharply criticized President Joe Biden Thursday following reports of emergency U.S. oil being sent to China and other nations.
    More than five million barrels of oil released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have been diverted to European and Asian nations instead of U.S. refiners, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing customs data.    Biden has ordered the Department of Energy to release a total of about 260 million barrels of oil stored in the SPR over the last eight months to combat record fuel prices hitting American consumers.
    "The American people deserve answers as to why our emergency energy reserves are being sent to foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party, compromising our energy security and national security," House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers told Fox News Digital in a statement.
    "President Biden needs to remember that our strategic energy reserves are for emergencies, not to cover-up bad policies.    America needs to flip the switch and increase our capacity to produce and refine oil here at home," she continued.    "Now is not the time to use our strategic stockpile."
Liberty Oil CEO: No hope of sobriety returning to US energy policy before November
    McMorris Rodgers and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., the top Republican on the panel's energy subcommittee, penned a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in early June, demanding information about how the administration's SPR policy was emboldening China.    The two GOP leaders noted similar reports that China had purchased oil from U.S. emergency reserves to bolster its own stockpile.
    McMorris Rodgers told Fox News that the committee has still not received a response from Granholm on the administration's "mismanagement" of U.S. oil stockpiles.    "What do they have to hide?" she added.
    "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is meant for national emergencies – not policy blunders," Upton tweeted Thursday.    "The administration still has not answered congressional questions on its mismanagement of the SPR."
    Meanwhile, the SPR's level has fallen to about 492 million barrels of oil, the lowest level since December 1985, according to the Energy Information Administration.    The current level is also 20% lower than its level recorded days prior to Biden's first release in late November.
    The SPR was established by the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act to help the U.S. mitigate the impacts of future "severe energy supply interruptions."
    "After multiple failed attempts to lower US gas prices by robbing our emergency strategic petroleum reserve, will someone please inform the decision makers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that we have much larger and more strategic undeveloped energy resources that can be extracted, processed, and utilized cleaner and safer right here at home benefiting American workers and businesses?"    House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., told Fox News Digital.
© Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers,
a Republican from Washington, speaks during a news conference outside the US Capitol in
Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images     Westerman added that promoting domestic production would solve many of the current problems facing the U.S. and prevent Biden from "having to go to Saudi Arabia and beg for their oil."
    "The emergency reserves of oil that are in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve are designed for international crises," Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Climate, told Fox News Digital in an interview.    "They're designed for natural disasters, they're not designed to mitigate bad energy policy."
TOP REPUBLICAN AIMS TO FORCE BIDEN ADMIN TO HOLD CANCELED OIL AND GAS LEASE SALES
    "This is a self-imposed problem and it's not what our reserves were meant for," he continued.    "It certainly shouldn't be going to adversaries like China."
    Like Westermann, Graves also criticized Biden for his policies limiting new oil and gas lease sales on federal lands, noting the Obama administration had leased far more land to energy producers than the current administration.    The Department of the Interior issued a plan last week banning offshore oil and gas leasing in the Atlantic and Pacific and hold between 0-11 lease sales in other federal waters through 2028.
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The permian basin is producing the energy that is exported around the world: Jason Isaac
    "President Biden has botched American energy policy so badly that this news isn’t surprising," Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., the ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, told Fox News Digital.    "Our strategic reserves are for national security, not to satisfy global oil markets."
    "This administration owes us an immediate explanation as to why our reserves were sent to other nations," Norman said.
    The Department of Energy didn't respond to a request for comment.

7/8/2022 ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC ignore voicemail Joe Biden allegedly left for Hunter Biden on business dealings by Brian Flood, Nikolas Lanum – FOX News
    The mainstream media has largely ignored a leaked voicemail President Biden purportedly left for his son Hunter Biden about his overseas business dealings, maintaining that any materials that allegedly originated from his son’s now-infamous laptop would not be discussed.
    We have sound on tape now, not to play.
Biden reportedly spoke to Hunter about China deals in leaked voicemail
    President Biden has repeatedly denied discussing Hunter's business ventures with him, but on June 27 the Daily Mail first published a bombshell voicemail that many feel contradicts previous claims.
    "Hey pal, it’s Dad.    It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night.    If you have a chance give me a call.    Nothing urgent—I just wanted to talk with you," Biden is heard saying in a voicemail from 2018.    "I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good.    I think you’re clear."
© Provided by FOX News President Biden purportedly left for his son Hunter Biden
about his overseas business dealings, maintaining that any materials that allegedly originated
from his son’s now-infamous laptop would not be discussed. Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images WHITE HOUSE DODGES QUESTIONS ON VOICEMAIL JOE BIDEN ALLEGEDLY LEFT FOR HUNTER BIDEN ON BUSINESS DEALINGS
    The article Biden was referring to was published by the New York Times in December 2018 and reported a private meeting between the chairman of a now-defunct Chinese energy company, CEFC, and Hunter Biden at a Miami hotel in May 2017.
    CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS all ignored the story from June 27 through the morning of July 7, according to a review of transcripts conducted by Fox News Digital.
    On June 28, the conservative Media Research Center scolded network newscasts for not covering the initial report on the day it was published.
    "The voicemail is a veritable smoking gun but ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to report on the latest bombshell development," MRC director of media analysis Geoffrey Dickens wrote.    "It’s a stunning revelation that ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to air on any of their evening or morning shows, because they are so in the tank for the Biden administration."
    The blackout has continued, and the story has received little attention, even online.
    The New York Times hasn’t mentioned Hunter Biden since May 14, according to a search of its website.    The Washington Post hasn’t covered the latest in the story, either, according to a search.
    Petals there it's 8:15.
    White House dodging questions on Hunter Biden's laptop 'not acceptable': Travis
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO HUNTER BIDEN EVEN AFTER HE PAID HIS TAX BILL
    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked Tuesday why there was a voicemail of President Biden speaking to his son about his business dealings if he has repeatedly said he has never spoken to his son about his ventures.
    "Well, first, I’ll say that what the president said stands," Jean-Pierre said.    "So, if he, if that’s what the president said, that, that is what stands."
    When pressed further, Jean-Pierre said she was "not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop" from the podium.
    When asked by Fox News if she was disputing that it was, in fact, Biden’s voice on the voicemail, Jean-Pierre said: "I’m not going to talk about alleged materials on the laptop."
    Afterwards, the New York Post editorial board mocked the situation with a piece headlined, "Compliant media can’t protect Hunter Biden forever."
HUNTER BIDEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATE'S TEXT MESSAGES INDICATE MEETING WITH JOE BIDEN
    "If a press secretary ‘no comments’ a story away, does it make a sound?    Apparently not — if the media are compliant enough," the editorial board wrote, noting that Jean-Pierre declined to talk about "the laptop" when pressed by Fox News’ Peter Doocy.
    "Of course, she won’t."    After all, such stonewalling has worked since October 2020, when Joe and Hunter cast vague aspersions on the New York Post’s laptop reporting without ever denying its authenticity.    They knew it was real, but by dropping "alleged" and ‘Russian disinformation!’ reporters had an excuse to ignore it," the editorial board wrote.    "Of course, this strategy only succeeds if enough of the press cooperates.    And true to form, no one from the Times, Politico, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, et al.    bothered to follow up Doocy’s questions."
    This is far from the first-time prominent media outlets have avoided bombshell stories related to Hunter Biden.
    In November 2021 it was revealed that an investment firm, of which Hunter is touted as a founder, helped a Chinese company known as China Molybdenum purchase a lucrative cobalt and copper mine from American company Freeport-McMoRan.    The $2.65-billion deal was struck in 2016 while Joe Biden was vice president.
    Chinese business records reviewed by Fox News in April 2021 showed that Hunter Biden continued to hold a 10% stake in Chinese private equity firm Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) Equity Investment Fund Management Co. through Hunter's company, Skaneateles LLC, despite Hunter’s lawyer claiming otherwise.
HUNTER BIDEN SAGA: NBC NEWS JOINS NYT, WAPO, POLITICO IN VERIFYING LAPTOP DISMISSED AS RUSSIAN DISINFO IN 2020
    According to transcripts, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC aired zero coverage of the story.    Only The New York Times covered it.
© (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Hunter Biden, left, the son of President Joe Biden,
holds his son, Beau Biden, and waves to people in the audience during the White House Easter
Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)     In an email dated Jan. 3, 2017, and sent to Hunter Biden and his business associates Devon Archer and Jim Bulger, CEO of BHR Jonathan Li asked for help getting his son into Brown, Cornell, and New York University.
Soon after, Joe Biden purportedly wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of the Chinese executive.
    The email correspondences were found by Fox News Digital on the laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, another bombshell story the media dismissed.
    Over an 18-month period, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent only 25 minutes discussing the story, and when they were, they called it Russian "misinformation."
    CNN’s top bosses were also caught on leaked audiotapes choosing to initially forego coverage of the laptop.
    Biden administration officials and those in the president’s camp have long cast materials that came from the laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden as disinformation, which was parroted by the media.    But intelligence community officials have said, as far back as October 2020, that neither the laptop nor materials on it are part of any sort of disinformation campaign.
    Since then NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico have all acknowledged the laptop was indeed legitimate and belonged to Hunter.
    Fox News Digital reached out to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, The New York Times and Washington Post for comment on why the story was ignored but didn't immediately hear back from any of them.
    Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Peter Doocy contributed to this report.
[NOTHING NEW HERE SINCE I HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SINCE 2018 AS MANY OF BIDEN'S PARTY IS QUITTING OR GETTING OUT OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT IS A RUN AWAY TRAIN DUE FOR A CRASH AND THEY HAVE FINALLY RAN OUT OF THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA EXCUSE IS DEAD AND NOW IT IS BIDEN AND HUNTER DID IT, BIDEN AND HUNTER DID IT IN THE PRESS WORLD.].

[IT LOOKS LIKE WISCONSIN KNOWS THE DROP BOXES WERE PART OF THE CORRUPTION SEEN IN THE MOVIE 2020 MULES IN THE 2020 ELECTIONS.].
7/8/2022 Wisconsin Supreme Court outlaws ballot drop boxes for elections by Joseph Ax - Reuters
© Reuters/BING GUANFILE PHOTO: In-person early voting in Milwaukee     (Reuters) - A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the use of ballot drop boxes, which increased substantially across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, is illegal under state law.
    In a 4-3 ruling, the court's conservative majority also said voters cannot have other people return their completed ballots in person to a clerk's office, though it declined to rule on whether anyone other than a voter can send in ballots by mail.
    The decision ensures that drop boxes will not be in place for the state's August primary election as well as November's general election, when Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson will both seek re-election in crucial midterm races.
    Republicans across the country have sought to limit the use of absentee ballots after the 2020 election, when then-President Donald Trump falsely claimed that mail voting and drop boxes helped facilitate election fraud.    Election officials say the boxes are secure.
    Wisconsin is likely a key battleground in the 2024 presidential election.    In 2016, Trump won the state by fewer than 25,000 votes out of 2.8 million cast, and in 2020, President Joe Biden, a Democrat, carried Wisconsin by fewer than 21,000 votes out of 3.2 million cast.
    The Wisconsin high court affirmed a ruling from a lower court judge after a conservative group, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, sued the state's elections commission on behalf of two voters.
Wisconsin lawmakers and leaders react to SCOTUS decision on Roe
    The commission had approved the use of drop boxes in response to the pandemic, when many voters were anxious to limit in-person interactions.    The November 2020 election included 528 boxes statewide, according to election officials.
    But Justice Rebecca Bradley, writing for the majority, said that under state law ballots must be returned to a clerk's office or another designated site, not an "inanimate object" such as an unstaffed box.
    "Only the legislature may permit absentee voting via ballot drop boxes," she wrote.
    In dissent, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley - joined by the court's two other liberals - said the decision erected a new barrier to voting with little justification.
    "Although it pays lip service to the import of the right to vote, the majority/lead opinion has the practical effect of making it more difficult to exercise it," she wrote.
    The dissent also argued that the decision to bar other people from returning ballots to clerks' offices would primarily hurt homebound residents, including disabled and sick people.
    In a statement, Evers said, "Today's decision is another in a long line of Wisconsin Republicans' successes to make it harder for Wisconsinites to exercise their right to vote, to undermine our free, fair, and secure elections, and to threaten our democracy."
    Robin Vos, the Republican leader in the state assembly, praised the decision on Twitter.
    "Our next step has to be electing a new governor who will sign additional election reforms," he wrote.
(Reporting by Joseph AxEditing by Colleen Jenkins, Chizu Nomiyama and Jonathan Oatis)

7/8/2022 Utah parents heated after discovering DOJ 'mining' racial data, names of their children: 'absolute overreach' by Hannah Grossman – FOX News
    FIRST ON FOX – Utah parents in the Davis School District are sounding the alarm after they discovered the Department of Justice was collecting racial and ethnic data on their children.
Department of Justice under fire for pushing far-left policies
    The DOJ's investigation into the district began in July 2019 by the Civil Rights Division which probed into complaints of racial discrimination.    The settlement, agreed upon in October 2021, included handing over the racial and ethnic makeup of individual students, teachers and administrators.    The district sent in the students' data on July 1, per the agreement.
    Parents in the Davis School District said they felt betrayed by the invasive nature of the settlement agreement, which required a "master list of all students including each student’s name, student ID, race/ethnicity, grade, and school."
    Corrine Johnson of Utah Parents United told Fox News Digital, "I believe it's an absolute overreach of the DOJ."
© OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a news conference over ransomware
cyber-attack at the Department of Justice in Washington on November 8, 2021. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images NEA TEACHERS UNION SPENDING 140K FOR 'ENEMIES LIST' OPPOSITION RESEARCH OF GROUPS TURNING UP HEAT ON SCHOOLS
    "I do want to make it clear that we absolutely understand that racism exists, and it happens, and it happens in Utah… But we see absolutely no reason to collect demographic data, especially racial demographic data, on an entire school district," she said.
    "The DOJ was brought in to help foster a more inclusive environment and data mining our children have no place in that," Johnson added.    "By collecting racial data, the idea, I'm assuming, is we're trying to racially profile students.    And we believe that racial profiling only leads to more discrimination."
    Another parent who spoke to Fox News Digital had just moved into the district from Alaska when the DOJ's investigation was close to nearing completion.    She told Fox News that she now has concerns about the data sent to the DOJ.
    "The DOJ began investigating the district in 2019, and since that time, it has been complying with all of its data requests," the district told Fox News Digital.
NEW YORK'S FAITH COMMUNITY ALARMED BY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S PROPOSED 'INTRUSION' INTO RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS
    Adding to the concern over the "intrusive" data collection, the mom from Alaska said, was the DOJ's recent data breach that affected thousands of California gun owners.
© Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Department of Justice reached a settlement with Utah's Davis School
District that required data collection of students' names and race. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images     "It's dangerous because you're leaving a child vulnerable to the exposure of their data," she said.    "That data that's being pulled is [on]… all students.    This isn't exclusive to just those who have filed a report of racial harassment or discrimination."
    "I see no justification for that," the mother added.
    The settlement also requested details of training including, "a list of staff who were required to, but did not attend the trainings."
NSBA LETTER DRAFTS CALLED FOR NATIONAL GUARD AND MILITARY TO BE DEPLOYED
    Another mom told Fox News Digital that she believed children are being forced to pay for the school district's "severe lack of leadership" and "severe lack of transparency."
    She continued, "It's protecting them from owning up to their mistakes."
    The DOJ's investigation found severe allegations of discrimination.    For example, the DOJ said that non-Black students called Black students the "n-word," "monkeys or apes;" and taunted them with monkey noises.    The investigation concluded that the "pervasive" and "offensive race-based harassment" plaguing schools was caused because the district was "deliberately indifferent to known student harassment based on race."
BIDEN ADMIN REFUSING TO ANSWER FOIA ON 'DOMESTIC TERRORIST' PARENTS MEMORANDUM, ISSUES MOTION TO DISMISS
    It was also unclear how long the data will be retained.    "The federal government is required to maintain and destroy this information in keeping with 34 CFR 99.35.    The DOJ has not communicated a date to the District by which they will destroy student records," the Utah school district told Fox News Digital.
    "The federal government has been collecting ethnicity and race data on students for years.    The U.S. Department of Education requires these standards for federal education and accountability reports," the district said.    "Federal law requires the state to report the total number of students in these categories in each school to the federal government.    These reports help keep track of changes in student enrollment and various other statistics, such as graduation rates, to ensure that all students receive the educational programs and services to which they are entitled."
    "I think that this example of the Department of Justice just speaks to the greater issue that we are finding that parents have with their children's information being used without permission and being used in ways that they don't feel meets a local education need," Johnson said.
    The Justice Department released a statement that said, "The Department does not comment on ongoing enforcement matters."

[WATCH JOE BIDEN LIE AGAIN AS IN REALITY IN THE BELOW ARTICLE IT IS BEING SENT TO HUNTER’S CHINESE COMPANY.]
7/9/2022 Why U.S. Petroleum Reserve Oil Went Overseas by Philip Wegmann – Real Clear Politics
    President Biden made sure to emphasize that the action he was about to take was extraordinary.
© Provided by Real Clear Politics Why U.S. Petroleum Reserve Oil Went Overseas     In late March, as the price of gasoline spiked, his administration threw open the spigot of the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve and began releasing a million barrels a day to, in the president's telling, "provide a historic amount of supply" until domestic production could ramp back up.
    But some of that historic supply meant to ease domestic pain, per new reports, ended up overseas.    According to Reuters, as gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs last month, more than 5 million barrels flowed from the petroleum reserve to markets in Europe and Asia.
    That news seemed to catch White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre off-guard Tuesday.    "I have not seen that report," she replied when RealClearPolitics asked about the Reuters story, "so I would honestly have to go look into it and see what the truth is in that statement that you just laid out and see exactly what's happening."
    The White House regularly points to their emergency use of the petroleum reserve as evidence they are "supporting American consumers" in the face of "Putin's price hike."    And it may be working.    As Patrick De Haan of the gas price analysis firm Gas Buddy noted on Twitter, the 2.8 cent price drop per gallon in the national average that occurred Wednesday represents "the second largest single day drop" in the last decade.
    The administration welcomed that news and remains cautiously optimistic.    Asked if the country had turned the corner on pain at the pump, Jean-Pierre told reporters that while more work needed to be done, the falling prices were a welcome part of "a cool down period."
    And the president's National Economic Council director was eager to see Biden get the credit.    "The release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve sounds esoteric to people," Brian Deese told Bloomberg News Thursday morning, "but oil market analysts will say it was single-handedly responsible for keeping oil prices from going higher."
    They were less eager to shoulder any responsibility for some of that supply heading overseas.    A spokesperson for the Department of Energy told RCP that energy markets are international in nature and they couldn't dictate the moves the oil and gas industry makes.
    "Oil is a commodity traded on the global market, and while the United States government does not control oil and gas companies, the commodity the industry sells or the market, the SPR remains a critical energy security tool to address global crude oil supply disruptions," the spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the emergency release from the strategic reserve had helped "keep our economy running and mitigate the pain Putin is causing at the pump."
    Domestic oil and gas companies, the spokesperson continued, "are eligible for sales and exchanges from the SPR and have benefited from the releases to date."    So have foreign companies, according to Reuters and the Department of Energy's own press releases.
    Reuters reported that crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve was headed to India and the Netherlands - as well as China.    According to an April press release from the U.S. Department of Energy, a contract to buy nearly 1 million barrels was awarded to Unipec America, Inc., the trading arm of the state-owned China Petrochemical Corporation, commonly known as Sinopec.
    As the conservative Washington Free Beacon recently noted, Hunter Biden, the president's son, has previously had ties to Sinopec.    A private equity firm he co-founded, Bohai Harvest RST, purchased a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2014.
    For months, Republicans have been making hay of high gas prices at Biden's expense.    News that oil meant for domestic markets was going overseas was too good to pass up.    "Wondering why you paid $5 per gallon for gas this weekend?" former Vice President Pence tweeted.    "While Joe Biden was planning his trip to Saudi Arabia to beg for foreign oil, his administration was shipping off precious US oil reserves to other countries."
    In the face of such criticism, administration officials continued to insist that they can't control what private companies do, and the oil that went overseas appears to be a small fraction of the total released from the national reserve thus far.    Some conservatives conceded the point - at least in part.    "Once oil is released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, current U.S. law allows for companies that are registered to purchase it to then sell it on the market, including to adversaries like China," said Heritage Foundation energy analyst Jack Spencer.
    All the same, Spencer told RCP, "Americans are absolutely justified in asking why these valuable reserves, ostensibly for use in U.S. national emergencies or to advance U.S. national security interests, are going to unfriendly countries."    The fundamental problem, as conservatives like Spencer see it, is "Biden's war on domestic energy production."
    "Releasing oil from the SPR does not address the fundamental supply problems caused by Biden's policies, and the market knows it.    Similar to other gimmicks like suspension of the gas tax, it will have no sustainable market impact," he concluded.
    Biden needs to ‘produce’ more oil in US to ‘cut’ record gas prices: Expert have yet to be tapped, you say.

7/9/2022 White House called out for cover-up of Biden teleprompter gaffe: ‘Paid to lie for a living’ by Nikolas Lanum – FOX News
    Twitter users accused the White House of lying after the assistant press secretary seemed to try and cover for a gaffe President Biden made while announcing an executive order aimed at protecting abortion access.
    During a Friday speech from the White House, Biden said this while talking about his action to preserve "reproductive rights."
    "It is noteworthy that the percentage of women that register to vote and cash the ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of men who do so. End of quote.    Repeat the line," Biden said.
    Social media quickly pointed out that Biden had inadvertently read the speaker notes telling him where the quote had finished, and then a note instructing him to repeat it.
© SAUL LOEB/AFPUS President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and the final rule implementing
the American Rescue Plans Special Financial Assistance program, protecting multiemployer
pension plans, at Max S. Hayes High School in Cleveland, Ohio, July 6, 2022. SAUL LOEB/AFP NBC COLUMN DEFENDS BIDEN'S GAFFES AS EXPRESSION OF 'AUTHENTICITY,' HE SHOULD TRUST 'HIS OWN INSTINCTS'
    But, Assistant Press Secretary Emilie Simons, replying to the video of Biden’s gaffe posted by Senior Digital Strategist for X Strategies, Greg Price, attempted to correct the record.
    "No.    He said, ‘let me repeat the line,’" Simons replied.
    Price then responded to the White House aide with this: "Yes, I totally believe you and your boss is definitely not a vegetable."
REACTION TO BIDEN'S LATEST 'ALARMING' RUSSIA GAFFE: 'AMERICA DESERVES BETTER'
© Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Biden delivers the commencement address
during the graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy Memorial Stadium
on May 27, 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images     Price continued to tweet at Simons, noting that she had previously worked as Rep. Adam Schiff’s, D-Calif., communications director and accusing her of being "paid to lie for a living."
    Townhall reporter Mia Cathell pointed out that Simons had actually retweeted her own tweet.
    A number of other prominent Twitter users also called out Simons for her tweet.
    "Everyone can see the video and hear what he said, yet you are lying about it.    Do you think 1984 was an instruction manual?" Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spokeswoman Christine Pushaw tweeted.
    "Even if you suppose that is what he was supposed to have said, or what he meant to say, it is absolutely not what he actually said.    The video is right there.    He says, ’End of quote.    Repeat the line,’" The DC Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy chimed in.
BIDEN'S GAFFES BECOMING 'NATIONAL SECURITY RISK,' RAND PAUL SAYS
© (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about inflation and the economy in the
South Court Auditorium on the White House campus May 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images     "Lol.    No he didn’t," Heritage Foundation’s John Cooper added.
    WEX Magazine Managing Editor Jay Caruso suggested that the White House assistant press secretary actually did more damage by trying to hide the gaffe.
    Several other social media accounts also called out the White House.
    Biden has had more than a few instances in which he misunderstood the teleprompter’s speaker notes, or has gone off script, resulting in a number of gaffes by Biden, and numerous walk backs by the White House.

[AS YOU CAN SEE THAT BIDEN FINALLY REALIZED THAT TRUMP CHANGED THINGS THAT HE CANNOT SCREW UP, SO NOW BIDEN THE WOLF THINKS HE CAN WEAR SHEEPS CLOTHING AND WORK HIS WAY INTO IT NOW TO ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP THE ABRAHAM ACCORD AND FIND A WAY TO BRING THE UN RESOLUTION 2334 TO ISRAEL WHICH IS A DEFINITE ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE GLOBALIST SOCIALIST NEW ONE WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE MIDEAST, ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.].
7/11/2022 Biden tries to shift Mideast policy - Softening approach after criticizing Trump moves by Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRSS
Israeli authorities project an image of the Israeli and U.S. flags on the walls of
Jerusalem’s Old City in honor of July Fourth. President Joe Biden is set to visit Israel and
the occupied West Bank this week as part of a broader trip to the Middle East. Mahmoud Illean/AP file     WASHINGTON – Joe Biden took office looking to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, putting a premium on promoting democracy and human rights.    In reality, he has struggled on several fronts to meaningfully separate his approach from former President Donald Trump’s.
    Biden’s visit to the region this week includes a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the oil-rich kingdom’s de facto leader who U.S. intelligence officials determined approved the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
    Biden had pledged as a candidate to recalibrate the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, which he described as a 'pariah' nation after Trump’s more accommodating stand, overlooking the kingdom’s human rights record and stepping up military sales to Riyadh.
    But Biden now seems to be making the calculation that there’s more to be gained from courting the country than isolating it.
    Biden’s first stop on his visit to the Mideast will be Israel.    Here, again, his stance has softened since the firm declarations he made when running for president.
    As a candidate, Biden condemned Trump administration policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.    As president, he’s been unable to pressure the Israelis to halt the building of Jewish settlements and has offered no new initiatives to restart long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
    Biden also has let stand Trump’s 2019 decision recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which reversed more than a half-century of U.S. policy.
    The Biden administration 'has had this rather confusing policy of continuity on many issues from Trump – the path of least resistance on many different issues, including Jerusalem, the Golan, Western Sahara, and most other affairs,' says Natan Sachs, director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.     Now Biden appears to be trying to find greater equilibrium in his Mideast policy, putting focus on what’s possible in a complicated part of the world at a time when Israel and some Arab nations are showing greater willingness to work together to isolate Iran – their common enemy – and to consider economic cooperation.
    'Biden is coming in, in essence making a choice,' Sachs said.    'And the choice is to embrace the emerging regional architecture.'
    Biden on Saturday used an op-ed in the Washington Post – the same pages where Khashoggi penned much of his criticism of Saudi rule before his death – to declare that the Middle East has become more 'stable and secure' in his nearly 18 months in office and he pushed back against the notion that his visit to Saudi Arabia amounted to backsliding.
    'In Saudi Arabia, we reversed the blank-check policy we inherited,' Biden wrote.    He also acknowledged 'there are many who disagree' with his decision to visit the kingdom.
    He pointed to his administration’s efforts to push a Saudi-led coalition and Houthis to agree to a U.N.-brokered cease-fire – now in its fourth month – after seven years of a war that has left 150,000 people dead in Yemen.    Biden also cited as achievements his administration’s role in helping arrange a truce in last year’s 11-day Israel-Gaza war, the diminished capacity of the Islamic State terrorist group in the region and ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
    But Biden’s overall Mideast record is far more complicated.    He has largely steered away from confronting some of the region’s most vexing problems, including some that he faulted Trump for exacerbating.
    Biden often talks about the importance of relationships in foreign policy.    His decision to visit the Mideast for a trip that promises little in the way of tangible accomplishments suggests he’s trying to invest in the region for the longer term.
    In public, he has talked of insights gained from long hours over the years spent with China’s Xi Jinping and sizing up Russia’s Vladimir Putin.    He’s relished building bonds with a younger generation of world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Japan’s Fumio Kishida.     'He doesn’t have the personal relationships.    He doesn’t have the duration of relationships,' said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
    He arrives at an uncertain moment for Israeli leadership.    Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid last month dissolved the Knesset as their politically diverse coalition crumbled.    Lapid, the former foreign minister, is now the caretaker prime minister.
    Biden also will face fresh questions about his commitment to human rights following the fatal shooting of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.    Independent investigations determined that she was likely shot by an Israeli soldier while reporting from the West Bank in May.
    The Abu Akleh family, in a scathing letter to Biden, accused his administration of excusing the Israelis for the journalist’s death.    The State Department last week said U.S. security officials determined that Israeli gunfire likely killed her but 'found no reason to believe that this was intentional.'
    Two of the most closely watched moments during Biden’s four-day Middle East visit will come when he meets with Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and when he sees the Saudi crown prince.
    But neither encounter is likely to dramatically alter U.S.-Mideast political dynamics.

7/10/2022 L.A. Voter Registrar Confirms Enough Signatures Gathered For Recall by OAN NEWSROOM
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)     The Los Angeles Department of Elections determined the petition to recall District Attorney George Gascon has enough signatures to trigger an election.    In a press release Saturday, the voter registrar stated the raw count of recall petition signatures was 715,833.    A total of 567,000 valid signatures are needed to trigger a recall which the department will verify by a random sample of the signatures turned in by petition organizers.
    “As authorized in the California Elections Code, the RR/CC will use the random sampling technique for the verification of petition signatures,” said Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan.    “The random sample is 5 percent of the total number of signatures submitted. Based on the random sampling results the petition will be certified as sufficient, require verification of all signatures submitted, or certified as insufficient.    If the petition meets the sufficiency requirement the RR/CC must certify sufficiency to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at its next regular meeting.”
    The earliest a recall election could take place is November 8 in a general election that includes runoff races for Los Angeles city mayor and county sheriff, as well as congressional midterms.    If it’s put to a vote more than 50 percent of voters would have to vote to oust Gascon.
    “The concept that these changes were made solely because of the outside pressures, I know it may appear to be that way, but I can tell you it’s much more nuanced than that,” voiced Gascon.    “Frankly, regardless of where the recall goes, there will be additional adjustments.”
    Growing frustrations with Gascon have centered on his all or nothing policy stances.    On his first day in office, Gascon barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, trying juveniles as adults and filing sentencing enhancements.    This increased the amount of prison time a defendant will face in certain situations, including if they use a gun in the commission of a crime.
    An attempt to recall Gascon failed last year when the recall campaign was unable to garner enough signatures on a petition to put the issue to voters.
[I AM A FORMER CALIFORNIAN NOW SAFE IN KENTUCKY AND GLAD TO SEE YOU ACHIEVED IT AND DID WHAT SAN FRANCISCO DID TO THE OTHER GEORGE SOROS PERSON AND I AM CONCERNED THAT AS YOUR GOVERNOR GOT OUT OF HIS DUE TO THE FACT THAT CALIFORNIA HAS LOST SO MANY PEOPLE GOING EAST TO VOTE ON IT MAYBE LA WILL HAVE IT SO GOOD LUCK.].

[I WONDER SOMETIMES THAT JOE IS NOT WRITING THE NEWS ARTICLE YOU WILL READ BELOW BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE ALL HIS FORMER OBAMA PEOPLE ARE WRITING IT BUT IF IT IS JOE WELL THE LIAR IS LYING AGAIN HE ACTUALLY IN THE REAL NEWS WENT TO THE SAUDI’S TO BEG FOR OIL AND THEY TOLD HIM TO GO PUMP YOUR OWN OIL WHICH HE DID BUT ONLY ON SPECIFFIC FEDERAL LANDS AND THAT’S NOT WHY GAS PRICES ARE GOING DOWN ITS BECAUSE HE IS STILL STEALING OIL FROM THE NATIONAL OIL RESERVE AND HAS NO INTENTION TO REFILL IT AND HES MORE CONCERNED ABOUT SAUDI KILLINGS WHILE IN THE MEANTIME HE IS KILLING AMERICANS LIFESTYLE AND ALSO DURING TRUMPS RALLY IN ALASKA HE STATED HE HAD TO REFILL THE NATIONAL OIL RESERVES WITH 750 MILLION BARRELLS THAT JOE IS EMPTING AGAIN JUST LIKE OBAMA DID.].
7/10/2022 Biden WaPo Op-Ed: I Have To Meet With Saudi Govt To Keep America Safe And Secure by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House,
Friday, July 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)     President Joe Biden defended his upcoming meeting with Saudi leaders despite outcry from critics.    In a Washington Post op-ed allegedly written by Biden, the president asserted his commitment to upholding human rights.
    However, he argued that he has to position America to take on Russia and China.    He claimed bolstering ties with Saudi Arabia will help do that.    The Saudi Royal Family, especially crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman have been suspected of aiding the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the recent mass executions of political prisoners.
    “I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia,” Biden said.    “My views on human rights are clear and long-standing.    Fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad as they will be during this trip, just as they will be in Israel and the West Bank.”
    Additionally, critics have condemned Biden’s recent attempts to reach out to the Saudi government to beg for oil exports amid his war with American energy companies.    Biden said the Middle East he will be visiting is more stable and secure than the one his administration inherited 18 months ago.
    “As president, it is my job to keep our country strong and secure,” he voiced.    “We have to counter Russia’s aggression.    We have to put ourselves in the best possible position to outcompete China and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world.    To do these things we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes.    Saudi Arabia is one of them and when I meet with Saudi leaders my aim will be to strengthen a strategic partnership going forward that’s based on mutual interests and responsibilities, while also holding true to fundamental American values.”
    Biden will be the first president to fly from Israel to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.    He claimed his travels will be a small symbol of the budding relations and steps toward normalization between Israel and the Arab world, which his administration has worked to deepen and expand.
    He is expected to visit Saudi Arabia on Friday during his tour of the middle east.

7/11/2022 Trump And Co. Seize On Wisconsin Ruling As PROOF 2020 Election Was Rigged by Matt Shuham – Talking Points Memo
    The conservative majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that ballot drop boxes were illegal in the state, and it didn’t take long for right wing election lie evangelists to declare the decision proof of a fraudulent 2020 vote, and even to demand again that the election results be overturned.
© Getty Images Former President Trump Campaigns With House Candidate Sarah Palin And Senate Candidate Kelly Tshibaka In Anchorage, Alaska     The COVID-19 pandemic moved Wisconsin election officials, backed by a memo from the state’s Election Commission, to install hundreds of drop boxes across the state.    Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote for the court’s 4-3 majority Friday that “Ballot drop boxes appear nowhere in the detailed statutory system for absentee voting.”
    Donald Trump, whose campaign filed an unsuccessful 2020 lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s election results based on the use of drop boxes, was first in line: “This means I won the very closely contested (not actually!) Wisconsin Presidential race because they used these corrupt and scandal-ridden Scam Boxes,” he wrote in a post on his social media website, Truth Social.
    During a rally in Alaska, Trump said Democratic officials in Wisconsin “systematically violated the law to rig the 2020 presidential election.”    Separately, he wrote that other states were “looking at, and studying” the state court’s “amazing” decision.
    “Speaker Robin Vos has a decision to make!” Trump said.    “Does Wisconsin RECLAIM the Electors, turn over the Election to the actual winner (by a lot!), or sit back and do nothing as our Country continues to go to HELL?”    He referenced a legally impossible resolution to overturn the election results that sounded like the one pushed by State Rep. Tim Ramthun (R), who’s also a GOP candidate for governor.
Wisconsin Supreme Court outlaws ballot drop boxes for elections
    In a video responding to the court’s ruling, Ramnthun said he had “a lot of joy in my heart.”    The decision regarding drop boxes, he said, “begs the question: Was it illegal in 2020?    I say yes, and there’s unfinished business there as well.”    The candidate said in a statement that he was “elated beyond measure” at the decision and added: “Much more to come, buckle up.”
    A post on John Solomon’s right-wing “Just The News” website similarly asserted, “Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on drop boxes undercuts Democrats’ clean election claim.”
    The article presented no evidence of the use of drop boxes leading to the counting of fraudulent votes — there is none.    Instead, it argued that the decision was “evidence that a widely used mechanism for the 2020 election was illegal, undercutting Democratic claims that any irregularities in the contest were insufficient to sway outcomes.”
    On the social media website Gettr, Steve Bannon commented on the ruling, “now DECERTIFY THE 2020 BIDEN ELECTORS.”
    Tom Fitton, the heavily bicep’ed leader of the right-wing legal advocacy group Judicial Watch, said the court’s decision was “a historic vindication for Trump.”
    “Zuckerboxes were one of the most visible ways that the unprecedented infusion of private money into the 2020 election led to disparate treatment of voters,” said another right-wing legal voice, Phillip Kline of the Amistad Project.
    The Trump-campaign-linked group filed unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election in multiple states.    Kline was subpoenaed by the congressional Jan. 6 Committee in March.

[THE DEMOCRATS FAILED TO IMPEACH TRUMP WHEN BIDEN CAME INTO OFFICE BECAUSE TRUMP’S LAWYER MADE THEM LOOK LIKE IDIOTS AND THE VOTE SHOWED THAT SO ALL THIS, THEY ARE DOING NOW IS A REPEAT OF THE SAME THING THEY TRIED TO DO THEN AND THEY ARE WASTING OUR MONEY ON THIS EXCUSE OF A HEARING]
7/12/2022 JAN. 6 HEARINGS - Here’s what the first six revealed - House committee has sought to prove Trump oversaw plan to overturn election by Candy Woodall and Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY
In its session June 28, the House committee investigating the Capitol riot projects a National Security Council
log discussing President Donald Trump’s actions after he gave a speech Jan. 6, 2021, on the National Mall.
After the rally, the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol. PHOTOS BY JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY     WASHINGTON – The special House committee investigating the violent Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, resumes its public hearings this week, continuing to recount how President Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost.
    Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, testified June 28 that Trump knew some of his angry supporters were armed as he directed them to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol.
    Sunday, the committee received a letter from the attorney for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon indicating that he would be willing to testify.
    The Jan. 6 committee seeks to prove the president oversaw and coordinated “a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of power,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said.
    Highlights from the six public hearings:

• Witnesses: Testimony from close associates of Trump provided details on the president’s behavior before, during and after Jan. 6 in pushing his false claims of election fraud.
• Trump’s pressure campaign: The president continued to claim the election was stolen after his Cabinet officials, such as Attorney General Bill Barr, told him he lost a free and fair contest.    Barr testified that his office pursued all allegations of fraud and found no proof.    When Trump continued to pressure Barr, he told the president “I didn’t want to be part of it.”    Justice Department officials, state lawmakers and election workers described the pressure campaign as Trump tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
• Trump children testify: The former president’s children Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, along with her husband, Jared Kushner, testified in closed-door meetings to the Jan. 6 committee.    The committee obtained phone records from Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Trump Jr.
• Ivanka Trump and Kushner urged Trump to back down: Once Barr had made his position clear – and resigned over the fallout – Ivanka Trump, the president’s senior adviser, accepted the Justice Department’s findings, she said in videotaped testimony.    She and Kushner were among a group of White House counselors who urged Trump to back down from dozens of lawsuits in battleground states and to stop alleging that anything could happen on Jan. 6 other than Biden being certified by Congress as the next president.
• Former judge advised Pence: While Trump privately and publicly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors, Pence sought advice from retired conservative Judge Michael Luttig, who testified that he told Pence there was no basis in the Constitution or any other U.S. law that gave the vice president the ability to do what Trump wanted.    When Pence wouldn’t follow through with Trump’s request, Trump “turned the mob on him,” Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said. Rioters chanted, “Hang Mike Pence.”
• Presidential pardons sought: Testimony alleged that Republican members of Congress helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election: Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia.    They all asked for a presidential pardon, according to Hutchinson.
• An angry president: Hutchinson related a secondhand story that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in his attempt to grab the steering wheel of an SUV and join the mob at the Capitol.    The Secret Service said it would respond “on the record” to Hutchinson’s allegations.    Trump threw a porcelain plate against a wall after Barr said there wasn’t widespread fraud in the election, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

    The committee is scheduled to hold two hearings this week.
    Tuesday, the committee is likely to lay out evidence on how the pro-Trump mob was organized, assembled and financed.
    Here’s what else is to come:

• Bannon agrees to testify: Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the committee received a letter from Bannon’s lawyers saying the former Trump adviser would testify.    Panel members have not had a chance to discuss the letter, and the committee has “many questions” for him, according to Lofgren.    She indicated Bannon would be interviewed in a private setting.
• More White House testimony: The committee is pursuing legal options to compel people to testify.    Former White House attorney Pat Cipollone testified for about eight hours Friday behind closed doors.    On Sunday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., told ABC’s “This Week” that Cipollone’s testimony “did not contradict anybody” and that some of what he told the committee would be presented over the “next couple of hearings.”
• Filling in the gaps: Jan. 6 committee members are trying to answer one of the most pressing questions from that day: What was Trump thinking and doing in the 187 minutes from the time he left his “Stop the Steal” rally on the National Mall to when he issued a video statement telling rioters to leave the Capitol and “go home.”

Contributing: Merdie Nzanga
Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in
before testifying before the committee June 28. Her statements set off a storm of debate. [I DEFINITELY WANT THEM TO CLAIM HER TESTIMONY AS I WATCH TRUMP’S ATTORNEY MAKE HER CRY LIKE A BABY WHEN THEY MAKE HER LOOK LIKE A TOTAL FOOL – BRING IT ON BECAUSE THIS WILL GIVE TRUMP GREAT RATINGS TO HELP HIM GET ELECTED FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN AND GET RID OF THE CORRUPT BIDEN’S.]

[THIS ARTICLE SHOULD BE OF INTEREST AFTER THE TEXAS ICE STORM SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE STATE FOR ONLY USING WIND AND SOLAR AND NO OIL GENERATION AND CAUSED THE DEATH OF 250 PERSONS IN HOUSTON, TX WHO DECIDED TO NOT HAVE OIL GENERATORS AND ARE THEY GOING THROUGH THIS AGAIN.].
7/12/2022 Texas heatwave and energy crunch curtails Bitcoin mining by Justine Calma – The Verge
    Bitcoin miners in the Lone Star State are powering down this week as a punishing heatwave stresses the power grid.Texas’ grid operator asked residents and businesses to conserve energy on Monday with “extreme hot weather driving record power demand across Texas.”
© Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images An aerial view of the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in
Rockdale, Texas, on October 9th, 2021. The long sheds at North America’s largest Bitcoin mine look endless in the Texas sun,
packed with the type of machines that have helped the US to become the new global hub for the digital currency.     Bitcoin mining companies in the state responded by turning off their machines that otherwise would have used over 1,000 megawatts of electricity, according to the Texas Blockchain Council.    That freed up about 1 percent of the grid’s total capacity.
    “They are shutting down for several reasons but primarily because it is the right thing to do to be a good ‘grid citizen,’” Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, said to The Verge in an email.    There are also financial motives, Bratcher said, since spot prices for electricity in Texas skyrocket when power is in short supply.
    “It is the right thing to do.”
    Bitcoin miners have flocked to Texas over the past year after China banned the practice, and the US subsequently became the biggest hub for mining globally.    Those crypto miners are expected to inflate electricity demand in Texas by up to 6 gigawatts by the middle of next year, according to Bloomberg.
    Crypto mining companies essentially set up their own data centers filled with specialized hardware that “mine” Bitcoin by racing to solve ever more complex puzzles.    That energy-intensive process is done to validate new transactions on the blockchain and allows miners to earn new tokens.
    The Bitcoin network, as a result, uses more electricity annually than the country of Belgium.    Its energy use, however, is estimated to have dropped over the past month after the price of Bitcoin took a nosedive.    A lower value for the cryptocurrency, combined with high energy prices, makes it less profitable to run mining machines.    In Texas, one “large publicly traded miner” plans to shut off between 8AM and 10PM for “several days this week,” Bratcher said.
    Powering down, especially during those peak hours, also helps Texas’ power grid avoid potential outages.    Hot temperatures typically place more pressure on electricity grids as people blast their air conditioners, and Texas is seeing triple-digit heat this week.    The heat dome suffocating Texas has also starved it of much of its wind power, which typically generates about a quarter of its electricity.    Texas’ power grid is also particularly vulnerable because it doesn’t connect to power grids in other regions.    Other states can usually share energy with each other in an emergency.
Its power grid isn’t out of the woods yet
    The state has so far avoided large power outages after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, asked Texans to voluntarily reduce their power consumption on Monday.    Back in February 2021, a deadly cold snap caused massive outages across the state.    Stifling temperatures are forecast to continue throughout the week in Texas, so its power grid isn’t out of the woods yet.
    This isn’t the first time that Bitcoin miners in the state have responded to a power crunch during high temperatures, and it probably won’t be the last.    Riot Blockchain, a Bitcoin mining company, curtailed 8,648 megawatt-hours of energy consumption throughout June, Riot marketing coordinator Alexis Brock said in an email to The Verge.    That’s significant because Riot operates a facility in Rockdale, Texas which it claims is North America’s biggest Bitcoin mining facility.    The company plans for the facility to continue to ramp down as needed this summer when peak power demand threatens the stability of the grid.

[AS YOU SEE BELOW WAKE UP AMERICA AS THEY WILL NOT STOP TAKING AWAY YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.].
7/12/2022 Biden Wants Assault Weapons Ban, Legislation Making Gun Owners Liable For Not Securing Firearm by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – President Joe Biden speaks during an event to celebrate the passage of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,”
a law meant to reduce gun violence, on the South Lawn of the White House, July 11, 2022, in Washington.
Biden will visit the Middle East this week at a time when the region is experiencing dramatic changes and
struggling to address deep problems. He’ll become the first U.S. president to travel directly from Israel to
Saudi Arabia, a reflection of closer ties between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)     The White House held an event touting its efforts to significantly tighten gun control laws.    President Joe Biden celebrated increased restrictions on the Second Amendment while signing bipartisan legislation, which narrowly passed through Congress.
    While speaking on the White House Lawn on Monday, Biden praised his signing of a gun control bill, which tightens background checks for anyone under the age of 21.    The move came after the US recently bore witness to mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.
    “This new law requiring requires young people under 21 to go into enhanced background checks before purchasing a gun,” Biden stated.    “How many more mass shootings do we have to see where a shooter is 17, 18-years-old and able to get his hands on a weapon and go on a killing spree?    You know, it closes the so-called boyfriend loophole.”
    Additionally, he claimed to be a supporter of the Second Amendment, despite making past statements about the amendment not being absolute.    Biden also justified his actions by citing a report from the CDC, saying gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the US. Critics have pointed out flaws in the assessment, noting it doesn’t discriminate between different age groups
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1546665940879900674
    Biden then went on to encourage an assault weapon ban while also calling on Congress to pass legislation making gun owners liable if they don’t secure their firearms in their homes.
    “I’m not going to stop until we do it,” he stated.    “We should have safe storage laws requiring personal liability for not locking up your gun…responsible gun owners agree no one else should have access to it.    So lock it up.    Have trigger locks.    And if you don’t and something bad happens, you should be held responsible.”

7/13/2022 Gun rights advocates file lawsuit to block a new CA gun law, say more challenges are forthcoming by Madison Hirneisen | Center Square – Washington Examiner
    (The Center Square) – A new California law that limits firearm marketing to minors is facing legal challenges from sporting associations and gun rights groups – representing what could be the first of several legal challenges brought against new gun laws in the state.
© Provided by Washington Examiner Gun rights advocates file lawsuit
to block a new CA gun law, say more challenges are forthcoming     A group of guns rights organizations and shooting sports associations are suing to block a new law that prohibits firearm marketing to minors.    Under the law, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, firearm industry members are prohibited from advertising or marketing guns, ammunition or firearm precursor parts “in a manner that is designed, intended, or reasonably appears to be attractive to minors.”
    The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which includes the California Youth Shooting Sports Association and the California Rifle and Pistol Association, say the law “” and are seeking “equitable relief declaring the law invalid.” The lawsuit was filed Friday in a federal court in Los Angeles.
    “This law is a clear First Amendment violation of speech and assembly.    It’s really an attempt to wipe out the next generation of hunters and shooters,” CRPA President and General Counsel Chuck Michel said in a statement Friday.
    Attorney General Rob Bonta is listed as the defendant in the lawsuit.    In an emailed statement, the Attorney General’s office told The Center Square it would "take any and all action under the law to defend California's commonsense gun laws."
    The lawsuit is likely the first in a series of legal challenges that could come in response to other gun legislation that will cross Newsom’s desk in the coming weeks.    Newsom will soon consider several new pieces of gun legislation that would add to the state’s catalog of stringent firearm laws.
    In anticipation of the new laws, gun rights groups are already gearing up to bring legal challenges, Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, told The Center Square.
    Gun Owners of California is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the new bill surrounding firearm marketing for minors, and Paredes said he and other Second Amendment advocates are already coordinating to challenge other bills Newsom could sign into law.
    Paredes said that the Supreme Court’s June ruling on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen – where the court struck down New York’s law regulating concealed carry – has resulted in a “new standard” for how courts review Second Amendment cases.    This gives him and other Second Amendment advocates confidence that new California gun laws will be defeated in court and “thrown into the waste bin of unconstitutional legislation.”
    “Every one of these bills is a Second Amendment issue and none of them will be able to survive that new standard,” Paredes said.
    One such bill that will likely face legal challenges from gun rights advocates is currently sitting on Newsom’s desk.    AB 1594 would create a firearm “standard of conduct” and allow a victim of gun violence, the California attorney general and city or county attorneys to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member who violates the standard of conduct.
    The bill faced pushback from the California Rifle and Pistol Association and the National Rifle Association as it made its way through the Legislature, where it was ultimately passed by lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly.
    The bill’s author, Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said in a statement that after the Bruen decision, “    we must make our communities safer with stronger gun legislation.”
    “The firearms industry has enjoyed federal immunity from civil lawsuits for far too long, providing them no incentive for them to follow our laws,” Ting said in a statement after the Senate passed the bill. “Hitting their bottom line may finally compel them to take every step possible to prevent illegal sales and theft to reduce gun violence.”

[DON’T GET EXCITED BECAUSE JOE IS PUMPING OIL ON FEDERAL LANDS MOSTLY OFF-SHORE AND HE IS STILL STEALING FROM THE NATIONAL OIL RESERVES BARRELS AND SENDING THEM TO HUNTER'S CHINESE COMPANIES AND IF HE KEEPS HIS DISHONEST LIES HE WILL EMPTY THAT ALSO.].
7/13/2022 Oil prices sink below $100 a barrel, mark lowest finish in 3 months by Myra P. Saefong - MarketWatch
© Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices sink below $100 a barrel, mark lowest finish in 3 months FUTURES MOVERS
    Oil futures fell sharply Tuesday with U.S. and global benchmark crude ending below $100, their lowest since April, hampered by a strong dollar and continued worries over COVID-19 restrictions in China that could lead to a slowdown in energy demand.
Price action

• West Texas Intermediate crude for August delivery fell $8.25, or 7.9%, to settle at $95.84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.    The settlement was the lowest for a front-month contract since April 11, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
  
• September Brent crude the global benchmark, dropped $7.61, or 7.1%, to $99.49 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, with prices also ending at their lowest since April.
• Back on Nymex, August gasoline fell 5.7% to $3.2646 a gallon, while August heating oil lost 2.8% to $3.6626 a gallon.
• August natural-gas futures fell 4.1% to $6.163 per million British thermal units after climbing 6.5% on Monday. Market drivers

    Fears of a recession pressured stocks and commodities Tuesday, analysts said.    Rising COVID-19 cases in Shanghai and the threat of further lockdowns were also seen putting pressure on crude, stirring fears of renewed lockdown.
    “Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping had firmly rejected any departure from the country’s strict zero-Covid strategy,” said Carsten Fritsch, commodity analyst at Commerzbank, in a note.     “This means downside risks to oil demand in China because renewed restrictions on mobility can be expected time and again, depending on case numbers. In the West, the combination of high energy prices and rising interest rates is fueling concerns about a recession that would have a serious impact on oil demand,” he said.
    A surging dollar, with the euro slumping toward parity with the U.S. currency, is seen as a headwind for commodities prices in the unit, making them more expensive to users of other currencies.     On Tuesday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries left its forecast for growth in world oil demand unchanged at 3.4 million barrels a day (mb/d) in 2022, with total demand projected to average 100.3 mb/d.    In its monthly report, OPEC said world oil-demand growth is expected to slow to 2.7 mb/d next year to average 103 mb/d, “supported by a still solid economic performance in major consuming countries, as well as improved geopolitical developments and containment of COVID-19 in China.”
    President Joe Biden is due to visit Saudi Arabia at the end of the week. Analysts said the Saudis might be prepared to loosen the taps somewhat, but were skeptical the visit would produce a significant shift in the supply outlook.     “International spare capacity estimates have been steadily falling in recent months as OPEC+ has badly undershot their own output targets, despite calls from the Biden administration to increase supply in order to combat high prices at the [gasoline] pump,” Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research, told MarketWatch.
    The Energy Information Administration, meanwhile, released its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook report Tuesday.    It reduced its 2022 price forecasts for WTI and Brent crude, as well as natural gas.
    Separately, the EIA will release its U.S. petroleum supply data on Wednesday.    On average, analysts forecast an increase of 1.4 million barrels in crude supplies for the week ended July 8, according to a poll conducted by S&P Global Commodity Insights.    They also forecast a weekly inventory decline of 200,000 barrels for gasoline and increase of 900,000 barrels for distillates.

[ITS NOT HARD ANYMORE TO TELL WHICH CHURCHES HAVE BECOME ANTICHRISTIAN.].
7/12/2022 The Church of England doesn’t know what a woman is - Opinion by Katelynn Richardson – Washington Examiner
    Descending further into liberal madness, the Church of England just announced it has “no official definition” of a woman.
© Provided by Washington Examiner The Church of England doesn’t know what a woman is     It’s not much of a surprise, since the church has continually made headlines for its gender activism in recent years.    In 2018, it produced guidance on how clergy could use the rite of Affirmation of Baptismal Faith to celebrate a person’s new transgender identity and publicly use the individual’s new name.    Other liturgical rituals were approved later for “recognizing and celebrating” transgender identity.    In April, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams signed a letter written by an LGBT activist informing Prime Minister Boris Johnson that being transgender is “a sacred journey of becoming whole.”    The church invites transgender people to pursue ordination.
    The woman issue came up at the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, when lay member and Royal Navy representative Adam Kendry posed a question: “What is the Church of England’s definition of a woman?”
    "There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy,” said the Rt. Rev. Robert Innes, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, in a written response.
    The definition has indeed been self-evident ever since “male and female he created them.” Innes, instead of stating this, continued to cede ground.
    “The [Living in Love and Faith] project however has begun to explore the marriage complexities associated with gender identity and points to the need for additional care and thought to be given in understanding our commonalities and differences as people made in the image of God,” he said.
    Sex Matters campaign group executive director Maya Forstater told the Telegraph that the church’s readiness to give up the definition was “shocking.”
    “When the Government redefined women through the Gender Recognition Act, the Church of England could have stuck with its long-established understanding, which makes sense whether your starting point is biology or the Bible,” Forstater said.
    In the United States, denominations that take liberal theological stances in an attempt to appeal to a broader population have lost the most members.    Meanwhile, theologically conservative churches see continued health, and even growth, despite the fact that they are more frequently blamed for the decline.
    Adopting the world’s attitudes does not attract people on Sunday when they can hear the same thing anywhere else.    Rather, it destroys the church’s grasp on reality.    If you reject Genesis 1, why not the rest?    If you deny biology, what else?    The loss of the ability to define gender is a loss of grounding in truth.
Katelynn Richardson is a summer 2022 Washington Examiner fellow.

[WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN TEXAS IS TELLING JOE BIDEN THAT THE STATES MAKE THE RULINGS ON ABORTION ISSUES NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS THE SUPREME COURT RULED SO GET OVER IT AND GET OUT OF OUR HAIR.].
7/15/2022 Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Abortion Guidelines by Elizabeth Findell, Melanie Evans – The Wall Street Journal
    AUSTIN, Texas—The state of Texas sued the Biden administration Thursday, seeking to block federal rules that say doctors are obligated to perform abortions in emergency situations where a pregnant woman is at imminent risk.
© EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Abortion Guidelines     The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that a federal law protecting access to emergency treatment means hospitals must provide an abortion if a doctor deems it necessary to stabilize a patient, even if the procedure isn’t legal under state law.
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal rules fly in the face of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which triggered a near-total abortion ban in Texas.    The Texas law bans all abortions from the moment of fertilization.
    “They are trying to have their appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians perform abortions,” Mr. Paxton said of the administration.    “I will ensure that President Biden will be forced to comply with the Supreme Court’s important decision concerning abortion.”
    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the lawsuit a reflection of an “extreme and radical” Republican official.    “It is unthinkable that this public official would sue to block women from receiving lifesaving care in emergency rooms, a right protected under U.S. law,” she said.
    HHS this week released updated guidance to reduce confusion among hospitals and doctors about when an emergency abortion is legal after the Supeme Court’s ruling created a patchwork of state abortion laws, some with narrow exceptions to protect a pregnant woman’s life.
    Federal law pre-empts state laws for hospital patients who are experiencing a medical emergency that threatens a pregnant woman’s health and life, the guidance said.    The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor     Act requires hospitals to provide treatment to save a patient’s life, but also to prevent organ dysfunction or serious impairment of bodily function.
Some abortions can resume in Texas after judge's issues temporary restraining order
    Hospitals and doctors must act “regardless of the restrictions in the state where you practice,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said as the guidance was announced.
    Federal officials said they would enforce the federal law, which comes with its own penalties of up to about $120,000 for each violation.
    In Texas, doctors can face criminal charges under a law that predates Roe v. Wade for providing an abortion except to save the life of a pregnant woman.    Another Texas law typically bars abortions after six weeks except “if a physician believes a medical emergency exists.”    Violators would face civil penalties of at least $10,000.
    A trigger law the Texas Legislature passed last year, set to go into effect this month, provides that all abortions in the state are banned from the moment of fertilization.    The bill provides an exception if continuing the pregnancy places a woman at risk of death or “serious risk of a substantial impairment of a major bodily function.”
    Nevertheless, the federal law “forces hospitals and doctors to commit crimes and risk their licensure under Texas law,” the lawsuit says.
    The suit argues that the federal law has never authorized the U.S. government to require healthcare providers to perform abortions or other care and the guidance issued on it oversteps the federal government’s authority.    It asks the court to issue temporary and permanent injunctions, blocking the law.
    “They missed the point,” Sara Rosenbaum, a health policy and law professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, said of the Texas lawsuit.    EMTALA wasn’t enacted to regulate the practice of medicine, but to create a federal requirement for hospitals to provide access to emergency care, she said.     Chance Weldon, director of litigation for the right-wing Texas Public Policy Foundation, said the language between the federal guidelines and the state abortion exceptions is similar, but said it is still unclear how both will be interpreted on the ground.
    “Hospitals are caught between a rock and hard place,” he said, of trying to determine whether a medical condition meets or defies the criteria of both laws.    “There’s a lack of clarity about where the overlap is, and the guidance is clear that the federal government would trump here, so that’s the injury.”
    Hospitals, doctors and lawyers said they are reviewing laws and sorting through questions about when an abortion is legal, in some cases for patients who have an immediate medical need.
    Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat who is running against Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, called the lawsuit an attack on Texas women.    “This governor’s extremism is killing Texas women,” Mr. O’Rourke said.

7/14/2022 Trump Returning To D.C. For First Time Since Leaving WH by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington,
on Dec. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)     Former President Trump will return to D.C. for the first time since leaving office.    Trump is set to headline the America First agenda summit on July 26, but the research institute has yet to release a specific location.    The policy summit is invitation only and open to the press.    The general public will be able to watch speakers via live stream.    Trump will deliver a keynote address at 3 p.m. eastern on day two.
    A New York Times-Siena College poll released this week found 49 percent of Republican voters said they would back Trump in a GOP presidential primary.    The poll showed that he remains popular, but that his hold on the party may not be as strong as it once was.
    Guest speakers and attendees include former senior Trump administration officials Kellyanne Conway and Chad Wolf. Additionally, current members of Congress Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Scalise (R-La.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and many more.
    Trump has delivered speeches and held rallies around the country for Republicans running for office over the past year and a half since he left the White House. He departed in January 2021.

7/15/2022 Saudi Arabia more than doubled Russian oil imports in the second quarter, freeing up their own crude for export by bevans@insider.com (Brian Evans) – Markets Insider
© Alexey Nikolsky/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 14, 2019. Alexey Nikolsky/Getty Images

• Saudi Arabia more than doubled its imports of Russian oil in the second quarter, Reuters says.
• The move allowed the Kingdom to free up their own exports.
• The increase comes as President Biden's Saudi trip is unlikely to yield a deal on oil.

    The world's largest oil producer stepped up imports of Russian oil in the second quarter despite sanctions aimed at choking Moscow's energy flows, Reuters said.
    Saudi Arabia imported 647,000 tonnes of Russian oil from April to June, according to data reviewed by Reuters.    Saudi Arabia took possession of the oil from Russian and Estonian ports, and has thus far imported 320,000 more barrels from Russia compared to 2021 levels.
    The Kingdom's increased willingness to grow its reliance on Russian oil is at odds with global powers which are trying to condemn the Kremlin and cut off its exports in response to its invasion of Ukraine in February.    Reports say that President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia isn't likely to yield a deal on oil, further straining price pressures in the US despite 20-straight days of decline prices at the pump.
1 of 11 Photos in Gallery©Yasin Öztürk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images     'Too big to sanction'?    10 key facts about Russia's oil and commodity exports.

• Sanctions on Russia are intensifying, sending the price of its key commodity exports through the roof.
• Russia is the world's third-biggest oil producer and the top exporter of nickel, as well as a major coal producer.
• The US and its European allies are considering a ban on its vast oil and gas sector.

    Russia is a big player in the world's commodity markets.    It is one of the world's largest exporters of some of the most vital raw materials, from wheat and grains, to oil, natural gas and coal, to gold and other precious metals.
    The country's invasion of Ukraine led to a barrage of unprecedented sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow and choking off its access to international financial markets.
    While sanctions have not directly targeted Russia's energy exports yet, the US said on Sunday it and its European allies are considering a ban on its imports of its oil.    Russia is the world's third-largest producer of oil and one of the biggest producers of gas.    A ban would send its customers scrambling for any kind of alternative at any price.     Just the potential for some kind of ban saw Brent crude futures surge to over $130 a barrel Monday, their highest since mid-2008.
    But it's not that simple.    Russia isn't just dominant in the oil trade.    It's one of the biggest producers of wheat and coal. And some experts believe Western leaders will stop short of outright embargoes, given their economies could be too badly damaged by the ensuing price rises as a result.
    "Russia is too big to sanction," Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman at energy consultancy company FGE, told Bloomberg last week.
    "The global market cannot survive without Russian oil, and certainly Europe cannot survive without Russian gas."
    Here are 10 key facts about Russia's energy and commodity exports:
    The imports also allow the Kingdom to free up their own oil exports to reap in profits from the record-high prices on the international market.    Some of the Russian fuel made its way to Saudi Arabia through Egypt, accounting for some of the 110,000 barrels per day imported from Egypt in June.    Meanwhile, Egypt imported 70,000 barrels per day from Russia in June, Reuters said.
    Saudi Arabia uses oil for its power grid, especially important during scorching summer months.    Many large cities in the Kingdom stretch far from natural gas fields, making their dependence on oil even stronger.    Saudi Arabia typically runs through 600,000 barrels per day during the summer and roughly 300,000 barrels per day during the winter.
[AS YOU SEE ABOVE THAT SAUDI ARABIA IS NOT PUMPING OIL LIKE IT USE TO AFTER TRUMP GAVE THEM NUCLEAR ENERGY AND THEY AS YOU CAN SEE IS BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA BY WAY OF EGYPT SO I WONDER IF JOE HAS A CLUE OF WHY HE CANNOT GET OIL SO HIS ONLY CHOICE IS TO BUY IT FROM RUSSIA OR START PUMPING OIL AGAIN IN THE U.S.A.].

7/15/2022 Schiff piles on DOJ after Mueller prosecutor criticizes Jan. 6 investigation by Daniel Chaitin – Washington Examiner
    Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, raised the alarm after a top prosecutor in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation criticized the Justice Department inquiry into the Capitol riot.
© Provided by Washington Examiner Schiff piles on DOJ after Mueller prosecutor criticizes Jan. 6 investigation     One day after Andrew Weissmann, who was known as Mueller's "pitbull," appeared on MSNBC and said he has heard from people in the Justice Department following his essay urging prosecutors to "rethink" their "bottom-up approach," the California Democrat appeared on the same show, warning any hesitation to go after former President Donald Trump based on political calculations is a >dangerous" route to take.
    "It is unprecedented for Congress to be so far out ahead of the Justice Department in a complex investigation," Schiff told host Ari Melber on Wednesday.
JAN. 6 PANEL CUT EVIDENCE OF TRUMP TIES TO EXTREMISTS TO MAKE ROOM FOR PAT CIPOLLONE: REPORT
    After noting that the Justice Department has "potent tools" and ways to enforce subpoenas in a way Congress cannot, Schiff added: "The idea that a year and half after these events they would not have talked to these witnesses — even the Fulton County district attorney is way ahead of them — I think is cause for great concern."
    The Justice Department has levied hundreds of charges against people accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, and recent activities, including issuing subpoenas in several states, indicate an expanded focus on efforts to use invalid alternate electors to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory.    The Justice Department inquiry is operating alongside investigations by the Jan. 6 committee and a top prosecutor in Georgia looking into efforts to overturn the election results in that state, all of which Trump has dismissed as being political witch hunts against him.
    In his op-ed published in the New York Times on Monday, Weissmann wrote that the House Jan. 6 committee hearings have shown "evidence gathered in the hearings describes a multiprong conspiracy — what prosecutors term a hub and spoke conspiracy — in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one 'spoke' of a grander scheme."
    These hearings "should inspire the Justice Department to rethink its approach," he argued.    "A myopic focus on the Jan. 6 riot is not the way to proceed if you are trying to follow the facts where they lead and to hold people 'at any level' criminally accountable, as Attorney General Merrick Garland promised."    He was referring to a vow the attorney general made back in January.
Rep. Adam Schiff on Second Jan. 6 Hearing
    Just last month, Schiff said he had seen a "greater sense of urgency" from the Justice Department than he previously witnessed with regard to the Jan. 6 matter, though he noted, "I have yet to see any indication that the former president himself is under investigation."    The congressman also said he agreed with the judge who in March declared that Trump "likely" committed crimes related to the 2020 election, noting he concurs with the view that there is "sufficient evidence to believe the former president violated multiple federal laws," even as he acknowledged it is a "very difficult decision" for the attorney general to decide whether to prosecute.    "It's not a difficult decision to investigate when there's evidence before you," Schiff added.
    Now, Schiff is making it clear that in his view, the evidence is there.    After he described some instances during the Trump administration in which actions were taken that were seen as political, Schiff indicated that the impetus to act clashes with "a desire at the Justice Department to restore the independence of the department to avoid controversy."
    "While I appreciate all that, I think that if they take that too far — that is, the desire to avoid controversy — and they somehow in practical effect immunized the former president because it is controversial to investigate a former president, that's a political decision and, I think, a very dangerous one," Schiff said on Wednesday.
    "If the AG is going to follow the evidence where it leads, then — we've already seen evidence leading to the former president," he added, stressing his belief that prosecutors should not "simply wait" to "exhaust all the investigation of those that attacked the Capitol that day, when there were multiple lines of effort to overturn the election."
[WELL SCHIFF YOU HAVE STRUCK OUT HOW MANY TIMES ALREADY GOING AGAINST TRUMP SO I GUESS YOU LIKE THE PUNISHMENT.].

7/15/2022 Oil: Another Week in Red Despite No Extra Barrels From Biden’s Saudi Visit Investing.com - by Barani Krishnan
© Reuters Oil: Another Week in Red Despite No Extra Barrels From Biden’s Saudi Visit     Investing.com -- Oil ended another week in the red as heavy losses induced by a strong dollar prevailed over optimism that President Joe Biden’s Saudi Arabia visit will not result in immediate additional barrels on the market.
    Crude prices also recovered from the week’s lows after assurances by key Federal Reserve officials that the central bank might not be ready yet to impose a record 100-basis point rate hike for July despite inflation stubbornly remaining at four-decade highs.    Raphael Bostic and James Bullard, Fed chiefs for Atlanta and St. Louis, respectively, suggested that a 75-bps hike was the preferred increase for July.
.     New York-traded West Texas Intermediate, or WTI, crude settled up $1.81, or 1.9%, at $97.59 per barrel.    For the week, however, WTI was down 6.9% after plumbing a near five-month low of $90.58 on Thursday.    The U.S. crude benchmark has also lost 8.1% since the start of July.
    London-traded Brent crude settled up $2.19, or 2.2%, at $101.16 a barrel.    The global crude benchmark fell to $95.42 in the previous session, marking a low since late February.    For the week, Brent was down 5.5% while for July it lost 7.4%.
Biden Not Expected to Leave Saudi With Oil Deal
    Brent has fallen for five straight weeks now, losing a cumulative 17%.    WTI has been in the negative in four of those five weeks, sliding by a net 19%.
    “Oil prices are edging higher again after falling around 20% over the last month in response to increasing recession fears,” noted Craig Erlam, analyst at online trading platform OANDA.
    “The soothing words of Bullard and Waller reassured everyone that 75 basis points remains the base case” for rate hikes, Erlam added.    “Brent has moved back above $100 a barrel on those comforting words but promises to remain choppy amid a tight market and ongoing recession concerns.”
    Reuters, meanwhile, cited a U.S. official as saying that an immediate boost in Saudi oil output was not expected despite Biden's visit to the Arab region to meet with Riyadh’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other OPEC officials there.
    The U.S. official said at the best, Washington could hope for higher OPEC production from August onward.
    Even before Biden’s trip, there had been questions as to how much more OPEC would be able to put out given the incessant media narrative that the cartel had production constraints due to underinvestment in the oil fields of its member countries during the market crash of 2020 brought on by Covid-19.    Oil bears, however, dispute OPEC’s account as the cartel always seemed nimble in overproducing during past market crises.
    “Part of the support (today) is that everybody and their brother who digs down into the Saudi situation see that they don't have a lot of capacity left," John Kilduff, partner at New York energy hedge fund Again Capital, was quoted saying.
    Looking to the week ahead, analysts said U.S. crude prices were at an inflection point of either breaking out to $106 and beyond or falling back to set a new multi-month low of $83.
[IT IS STILL THE SUMMER MONTHS AND PEOPLE ARE NOT TRAVELING DUE TO THE HIGH COST OF GASOLINE AND DOING MORE STUFF CLOSE TO HOME AND IT IS ALMOST FOR KIDS TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AND BUSES AND CARS WILL BE DRIVING MORE AND USING MORE GASOLINE AND WILL BECOME GO UP IN PRICE AGAIN AND JOE ONLY OPEN OFF-SHORE OIL BEING PUMPED AND THAT WILL NOT FILL THAT BILL AND JOE WILL HAVE TO START PUMPING OIL AGAIN OR BE FORCED TO BUY GASOLINE FROM RUSSIA AND THE OPEC+ GROUP.].

7/16/2022 Poll: Liz Cheney is down 22 points and on the cusp of getting trounced by Harriet Hageman, her Trump-backed GOP opponent by bgriffiths@insider.com (Brent D. Griffiths) – Business Insider
© OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

• Rep. Liz Cheney is on the cusp of a blowout primary loss, according to a new poll.
• A Casper Star-Tribune poll found the Republican lawmaker trailing by 22 points to her Trump-backed challenger.
• According to the survey, Cheney's role on the January committee is only worsening her standing.

    Republican Rep. Liz Cheney appears headed toward a brutal primary drubbing next month against Harriet Hageman, her Trump-backed challenge, according to an independent poll released Friday evening.
    According to a Casper Star-Tribune poll, Cheney trails Hageman 52% to 30% in a poll of likely primary voters.    The same survey found that only 27% of Wyomingites have a favorable view of the top Republicans on the House January 6 committee and the eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
    "The big story is Liz Cheney is going to get beat," said Brad Coker, manager of the Mason Dixon Polling & Strategy, the firm that conducted the survey, told the Star-Tribune.    "That's a foregone conclusion."
    Up until now, there had been scant independent polling of what is a closely watched race.
    A primary loss would cap a stunning split from what is now the Trump-influenced mainstream GOP; Cheney was once the No. 3 House Republican.    Now, former President Donald Trump has made it one of his personal missions to see her forced out of the party.    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has even taken the rare step of endorsing Hageman as well.
1 of 10 Photos in Gallery© J. Scott Applewhite/AP     Here are all the people who sought preemptive pardons from Donald Trump after the Capitol riot, per January 6 committee witnesses.

• At least nine people close to Donald Trump reportedly requested preemptive pardons following Jan. 6.
• Former Trump aides named six GOP lawmakers while testifying before the Jan. 6 panel this month.
• A former aide also said Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani asked the then-president for pardons.

    At least six Republican members of Congress requested preemptive pardons from former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Capitol insurrection, according to testimony from former Trump aides last Thursday.
    The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot has hosted six public hearings so far revealing their findings, which also included public damning testimony from former staffers in the Trump administration.
    GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene were among the six GOP lawmakers also asked Trump to pardon them for their efforts in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
    During a surprise hearing on Tuesday, June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, also testified that former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows were among those who asked the former president for a preemptive pardon after the pro-Trump mob descended upon the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
    Hutchinson also previously testified that former Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio had discussed pardons with the White House but never asked for one.
    On Sunday, Jordan responded to his mention during the hearing, accusing the January 6 House panel of "misrepresenting" a video clip of him saying "the ultimate date of significance is Jan. 6 in a presidential election in determining the winner."
    "This committee, I think the country understands, is purely partisan," Jordan said.    "And they're frankly not paying much attention to what's being said."
    Here are all of the people who sought a pardon from Trump following the Capitol riot, per testimony:
    The survey found that the January 6 investigation, which Cheney has presented as her most important legacy in public service is further disillusioning voters.    According to the poll, 54% of voters were less likely to support Cheney because she's helping probe the Capitol attack and what led up to it.
Liz Cheney calls Trump's actions 'more chilling than imagined'
    Cheney's campaign has hoped that Democratic or independent voters crossing over in the primary might help save her.    But it's unlikely there are enough of them to sustain a victory.    In the poll, 69% of crossover voters say they would back Cheney.    Yet, she still trails by 22 percentage-points overall.
    Most of the other 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump either have retired or have become more muted in their criticism of the former president.    Cheney has done neither.    In fact, she recently spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, delivering a blistering speech that suggested Republicans must choose between the truth and Trump.
    "At this moment, we are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before: and that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic," Cheney said at the time.    "And he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man."
    A representative for Cheney's campaign was unable to be immediately reached.
    The Casper Star-Tribune poll was conducted from July 7-11, shortly before early voting began.    Pollsters surveyed 1,100 registered Wyoming voters likely to participate in the primary. The margin of error is +/- 3%.

7/16/2022 After Manchin Torpedoes Newest Climate Package, Biden Commits To Using Executive Action by Kate Riga – Talking Points Memo
    Shortly after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reportedly reneged on a deal that centered on climate and health care, President Joe Biden put out a statement committing to using executive action to help the planet.
© Getty Images President Biden Hosts The White House Congressional Picnic On The South Lawn     “So let me be clear: if the Senate will not move to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, I will take strong executive action to meet this moment,” he said.    “My actions will create jobs, improve our energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and supply chains, protect us from oil and gas price hikes in the future, and address climate change.”
    After Manchin’s newest eleventh-hour reversal made it highly unlikely that Congress will pass anything climate-related before the midterms, Democratic lawmakers and activists alike put out calls for the administration to take on the burden.
Sen. Joe Manchin Won't Support Dems Climate or Tax Provisions
    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tweeted out a list of suggestions, urging the administration to get into “executive beast mode.”
    Manchin maintains that a bill including climate provisions isn’t off the table for him, but insists that July inflation levels must drop first.    The connection between the two is foggy — it seems unlikely that the modest plan would have any significant inflationary impact.
    Manchin also killed the Democrats’ last big attempt to mitigate climate change, deciding not to support the Build Back Better plan in December after stringing out negotiations for months according to a specific blueprint of his priorities.     “The Senate should move forward, pass it before the August recess, and get it to my desk so I can sign it,” he said.

7/16/2022 Texas AG challenger says lawsuit preventing the Biden administration from protecting abortions in medical emergencies is 'state-sanctioned femicide' by ktangalakislippert@insider.com (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert) – Business Insider
© Brandon Bell/Getty Images Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

• Texas AG Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration over its guidance about emergency abortions.
• Biden reaffirmed federal rules that women must have access to abortion when their life is in danger.
• His challenger, nominee Rochelle Garza, told MSNBC Paxton's stance is "state-sanctioned femicide."

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit against the Biden administration over its guidance supporting emergency abortions in a move his opponent argues is "state-sanctioned femicide."
    President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order that reaffirmed federal rules in place by the Department of Health and Human Services that say patients must have access to abortion in the event of a medical emergency.    On Thursday, in response to the order, Paxton filed a suit arguing the president was "attempting to twist federal law to force abortions" in the state of Texas.
    "SCOTUS returned the issue to states.    TX law protects pre-born life.    Biden's HHS is attempting to undo all that," Paxton said in a statement.    "Not on my watch.    I just filed suit.    I'll ensure the left's abortion agenda can't reach TX babies."
Texas attorney general sues Biden administration over emergency abortion rule
    Paxton's lawsuit, which calls Roe v. Wade a "terrible regime," argues that, through the use of the executive order, the Biden administration is attempting "to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic."    The suit seeks to allow Texas to disregard the guidance from HHS, allowing the state to determine what medical procedures are legal and allowable in their hospitals.
1 of 5 Photos in Gallery©Lukas Barth/Pool Photo via AP     Here's what Biden can do to help Americans retain abortion access now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, advocates say

• The Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade last week.
• President Joe Biden condemned the decision, calling on Congress to act and citizens to vote.
• Here are the measures abortion advocates have called on Biden to implement since Roe was overturned.

    President Joe Biden on Thursday said for the first time that he's in favor of nixing the Senate filibuster to codify abortion rights into federal law.
    "If the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights ... we should require an exception to the filibuster for this action," Biden said during a NATO press conference this week.
    His comments come less than a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, gutting federal abortion protections which were in place for nearly 50 years.
    As the nation reels from the top court's ruling, abortion advocates across the political spectrum have called for sweeping measures from President Joe Biden.
    Following the Friday decision, Biden said the Court's decision would "literally take America back 150 years" and that his administration will aggressively defend Americans' rights to receive abortion pills through the mail or to travel across state lines to receive care.
    The president called on Congress to act, despite Democrats' previous failures to enshrine abortion rights into federal law.    He also called on Americans to vote in the midterms in November.
    "Let me be very clear and unambiguous: The only way we can secure a women's right to choose, the balance that existed, is for Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade as federal law," he said.    "No executive action from the president can do that."
    While Biden has said his "administration will use all of its appropriate lawful powers" to help Americans retain access to abortion, lawmakers and advocates have called on the president to implement the following measures since Roe was overturned.
    "This is state-sanctioned femicide that he is advocating for.    He is advocating for the intentional killing of women," Rochelle Garza, a Democratic nominee for Attorney General and challenger against Paxton told MSNBC.    "We need to vote him out before he turns Texas into a morgue and takes that nationwide."
    Representatives for Paxton and Garza did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
    "This is absolute extremism," Garza added.    "Taking away rights from women like they did with the fall of Roe wasn't enough for them. Now they're going after all women."

7/16/2022 US agencies temporarily barred from enforcing LGBTQ guidance by MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press
    A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden's administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019, photo, supporters of LGBTQ rights stage a protest
on the street in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. A judge in Tennessee on Friday, July 15, 2022, has
temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden's administration
that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)     U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. in an order on Friday ruled for the 20 state attorneys general who sued last August claiming the Biden administration directives infringe on states' right to enact laws that, for example, prevent students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.
    Atchley, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, agreed with the attorneys’ generals’ argument and issued a temporary injunction that prevents the agencies from applying that guidance on LGBTQ discrimination until the matter can be resolved by courts.
    “As demonstrated above, the harm alleged by Plaintiff States is already occurring — their sovereign power to enforce their own legal code is hampered by the issuance of Defendants’ guidance and they face substantial pressure to change their state laws as a result,” Atchley wrote.
    The attorneys general are from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia.
    The directives regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation was issued by the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June following a landmark civil rights decision by U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 that, under a provision called Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.
Judge strikes down many of Minnesota's abortion restrictions
    The Department of Education guidance from June 2021 said discrimination based on a student's sexual orientation or gender identity would be treated as a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that protects sex discrimination in education.
    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released guidance that month about what could constitute discrimination against LGBTQ people and advised the public about how to file a complaint.
    With its guidance, the Biden administration in part took a stand against laws and proposals in a growing number of states that aim to forbid transgender girls from participating on female sports teams. The state attorneys general contend that the authority over such policies “properly belongs to Congress, the States, and the people.”
    The education policy carried the possibility of federal sanctions against schools and colleges that fail to protect gay and transgender students.
    The attorneys general argued that a delaying a legal review of the directives would “cause them significant hardship, as Defendants would be allowed to use the ‘fear of future sanctions’ to force ‘immediate compliance’ with the challenged guidance,” Atchley wrote.
    “The Court finds that Plaintiffs have shown a credible threat of enforcement,” Atchley wrote.    “Plaintiffs highlight that private litigants are relying on Defendants’ guidance to challenge Plaintiffs’ state laws.”
    Atchley noted that the U.S. Department of Education has filed a statement of interest in a West Virginia lawsuit taking a position that Title IX prohibits the state from excluding transgender girls from participating in single-sex sports restricted to girls.

7/16/2022 Judge blocks Biden admin directives on transgender athletes, bathrooms by Brad Brooks - Reuters
© Reuters/Lucy Nicholson A gender neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine     (Reuters) - A federal judge in Tennessee has temporarily blocked Biden administration directives allowing transgender workers and students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and join sports teams that correspond with their gender identity.
    Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on Friday that the administration's directives would make it impossible for some states to enforce their own laws on transgender athletes' participation in girls' sports and access to bathrooms.
    A coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general brought a lawsuit last year against the federal government, noting that they stood to lose significant federal funding as the Biden directives were in conflict with their own state laws.
    Atchley agreed with that, writing in his order that the states "cannot continue regulating pursuant to their state laws while simultaneously complying with Defendants' guidance."
    Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor, one of the plaintiffs, said in a written statement on Saturday that Atchley's order "is a major victory for women's sports and for the privacy and safety of girls and women in their school bathrooms and locker rooms."
1 of 35 Photos in Gallery©Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Live updates: Democrats call on Biden to declare 'a public health emergency' after Roe v. Wade reversal

• The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday.
• The 1973 landmark ruling established the constitutional right to an abortion.
• Over a dozen states have laws meant to immediately outlaw abortion upon a reversal of Roe.

    The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that established the constitutional right to an abortion.
    The opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization threw out the ruling as the nation's highest court sided with Mississippi and other states, which passed restrictive anti-abortion laws.
    Immediately after Friday's ruling, politicians on both sides of the aisle issued statements — with Republicans praising the Supreme Court and Democrats slamming the decision.
    Over a dozen states have "trigger laws" meant to ban abortion immediately upon the overturning of Roe, as the legality of abortion is now left up to state legislatures.
    The Justice Department, the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are named as defendants in the lawsuit. None immediately replied to requests for comment on Saturday.    The three had earlier requested that Atchley dismiss the states' lawsuit, a motion the judge denied in his Friday ruling.
    The coalition of Republican states argued the Biden administration directives improperly expanded on a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that extended anti-discrimination protections to transgender workers.
    The top court in Bostock v. Clayton County said employers cannot terminate workers because of their gender identity or sexuality.    The justices expressly declined to decide if the ruling applied to sex-segregated bathrooms and locker rooms.
    The Supreme Court in Bostock held that the bar on workplace sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extended to bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
    The Department of Education in its guidance issued last year concluded that because Title IX, which bars sex bias in federally funded educational programs, borrowed language from Title VII, Bostock also applied to schools.
    The department said, for example, that preventing a transgender high school girl from using the girls' restroom or trying out for the girls' cheerleading team would violate Title IX.
    Atchley on Friday agreed with the states, writing in his ruling that the Supreme Court in Bostock "explicitly refused to decide whether 'sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes' violate Title VII."
(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

7/17/2022 Judge blocks Biden admin's transgender school bathroom rule, athletes by Lawrence Richard – FOX News
    A federal judge has blocked a directive from President Joe Biden’s administration that allowed transgender workers and students to use school restrooms matching their gender identities.
Former transgender teen has a message for those curious about transitioning
    It also allowed transgender athletes to join sports teams corresponding with their chosen genders.
    The directive was blocked by Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee, a Trump appointee, after a coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general sued last year, Reuters reported.
    The plaintiffs argued the federal directive clashed with state laws and prevented states from enforcing their own laws that banned transgender school bathroom use.
BIDEN ADMIN HOLDING SCHOOL LUNCH MONEY 'HOSTAGE' TO FORCE TRANSGENDER POLICIES, ACTIVIST PARENT SAYS
    Judge Atchley agreed, saying in his opinion the states "cannot continue regulating pursuant to their state laws while simultaneously complying with Defendants' guidance," Reuters reported.
    The states also argued the Biden administration's Justice Department, the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the defendants in the case — improperly justified the bathroom directive through the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.
© Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 16: President Joe Biden walks off Marine One
on the South Lawn of the White House on July 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images     In the case, Clayton County fired county employee Gerald Bostock for "unbecoming" behavior after he participated in a gay recreational softball league.    The Supreme Court ruled in 2020, that workplace sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should extend to sexual orientation and gender identity.
GOP LAWMAKERS SLAM HOUSE DEMS FOR GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOM PUSH AS ‘ECONOMY IS IN THE TOILET’
    The high court said in its decision they were not deciding whether "sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes' violate Title VII."
    In 2021, after President Biden was sworn into office and appointed new leadership, the Department of Education issued guidance to apply the 2020 case to schools.
EIGHTH-GRADE GIRL BLASTS SCHOOL BOARD FOR POLICY THAT WOULD ALLOW 'BOYS INTO GIRLS' LOCKER ROOMS'
    The department suggested the court’s decision should be applied to sex-segregated bathrooms — but Judge Atchley disagreed.
© Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 18: Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Tennessee Charles Atchley Jr. testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the
Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill November 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images     The Supreme Court in Bostock "explicitly refused to decide whether 'sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes' violate Title VII," the judge said in his opinion, Reuters reported.
    Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor, who was among the plaintiffs, called the decision "a major victory for women's sports and for the privacy and safety of girls and women in their school bathrooms and locker rooms," per the report.

[THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS FUNNY BECAUSE WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND]
7/18/2022 Saudi Arabia's MBS turns the tables on Biden, U.S.: "Remember Abu Ghraib?" by Brett Wilkins - Salon
© Provided by Salon Mohammed bin Salman Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Getty/Yoan Valat
    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly told President Joe Biden during their meeting in Jeddah Friday that while the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is "regrettable," U.S. hands are not clean and other journalists are killed with impunity.
    "Bin Salman's smarmy reply underlines the way in which the U.S. government's lawlessness... and its weird commitment to Israeli apartheid... undermine its moral standing."
    Bin Salman specifically mentioned the torture scandal at the U.S. military prison at Abu Ghraib, Iraq and the killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces in May, according to Al Aribiya, which is owned by the Saudi government.
    The de facto Saudi ruler also said that the CIA—which along with other American intelligence agencies concluded that Khashoggi's gruesome 2018 murder was likely ordered by bin Salman—makes mistakes, as it did when it falsely claimed Iraq had an active weapons of mass destruction program prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
    "Bin Salman's smarmy reply underlines the way in which the U.S. government's lawlessness in misadventures like invading Iraq and its weird commitment to Israeli apartheid practices against the Palestinians undermine its moral standing to argue for 'a rules-based global order,'" Informed Comment publisher Juan Cole observed.    "Almost no one in the U.S. dares say this, but for the rest of the world it is a commonplace insight."
Biden's meeting with Saudi Arabia's MBS: 6 things to know
    Cole wrote:
    The U.S. government didn't care about the Israelis assassinating Shireen Abu Akleh, (and many other unlawful killings of Palestinian journalists and just ordinary Palestinian noncombatants) and it does not stop the U.S. from forking over to Israel $4 billion a year in foreign aid, a tax on all Americans in support of Greater Israel expansionism.    So why should Biden, bin Salman wants to know, boycott Saudi Arabia over the killing of a single journalist?
    Biden has come under fire from progressives for his willingness to sideline Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record and war crimes in Yemen in service of U.S. strategic and energy interests.
    Appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—who is co-sponsoring a new resolution to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen—said he did not think Biden should have visited Saudi Arabia.
    "You have a leader of that country who was involved in the murder of a Washington Post journalist," Sanders said.    "I don't think that that type of government should be rewarded with a visit by the president of the United States."
    "I just don't believe we should be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that," he added.
[AND DON’T FORGET THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ASSANGE BECAUSE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS BUSTED FOR KILLING A MYSTERIOUS SITUATION THAT THEY WANT TO COVER UP WHICH ASSANGE EXPOSED.].

7/18/2022 Reports: Fauci Retiring By The End Of Biden’s Term by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, holds his face mask
in his hands as he attends a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing on about the budget request for the
National Institutes of Health, May 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)     Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), announced he will retire from his post once President Joe Biden’s term ends in 2025.    According to reports Monday, the nation’s highest paid unelected bureaucrat plans to retire before he can serve under an eighth administration.
    Dr. Fauci is currently 81-years-old and has been working for the federal government for over 50 years.    He has been at the NIAID since 1984 and has spent the majority of his career studying HIV, Ebola and other highly infections diseases.    In 2020, Fauci became the face of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where he advocated universal masking, economic lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations.
    Meanwhile, government watchdog Judicial Watch is taking legal action against the Biden administration while seeking the records of NIH official Christine Grady, who is the wife of Dr. Fauci.    In the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch requests a court order the Department of Health and Human Services to produce Grady’s financial disclosure documents and other information.
    Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the group has good reason to believe the documents will give Americans a fuller picture of Dr. Fauci’s conflicts of interest.    The conservative watchdog has also filed two other suits seeking information from the Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Fauci himself.
[I THINK FAUCI THINKS BIDEN WILL PARDON HIM IF HE IS STILL IN POWER BUT IF THE REPUBLICANS AND RAND PAUL TAKE THE HOUSE AND SENATE BACK THEY COULD START PROCECUTING HIM BEFORE THAT IF NEEDED SO YOU BETTER RETIRE NOW BECAUSE IT IS COMING AND I KNOW ALSO THAT YOU ARE THE IDIOT WHO CLAIMED THAT MEASLES AND MUMPS CAME FROM ISRAEL, WHEN IT ALL CAME FROM 3 SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS WHO HAD NEVER BEEN VACCINNATED SO YOU CORRUPTION EXTENDS WAY BEFORE TRUMP AND YOU HAVE NOT GOT ANYTHING RIGHT YET.]

7/18/2022 John Durham requesting 30 subpoenas a serious move, Kash Patel says by Daniel Chaitin – Washington Examiner
    Special counsel John Durham means business by requesting 30 subpoenas for testimony in the trial against the main believed to be a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier, according to a leading Russiagate investigator.
© Provided by Washington Examiner John Durham requesting 30 subpoenas a serious move, Kash Patel says     Kash Patel, a former top House Intelligence Committee aide and Trump administration official, said in a recent interview that the request in federal court indicates a wide scope in a case that bears a number of intersectionalities, including to Hillary Clinton.
    "You're telling the judge I've got 30 witnesses that I'm going fly in from all over the country and the world to prosecute this case shows you how seriously John Durham is moving on this matter because this is the fulcrum of the case," Patel told former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who now is now CEO of Truth Social, former ex-President Donald Trump's social media app.
    Igor Danchenko, a Russian-born lawyer and researcher who has lived and worked in the Washington, D.C., area for many years, charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI related to the infamous dossier.
    Danchenko has pleaded not guilty and his trial in Virginia is scheduled for October.
STEELE SOURCE IGOR DANCHENKO FACES JOHN DURHAM IN COURT THIS FALL
    Potential witnesses are not named in the filing by Durham on Wednesday. Durham, who is investigating the origins and conduct of the FBI's Russia inquiry, lost his case against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann in May.    Durham has obtained a single guilty plea, which came from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email about a Trump campaign aide under government surveillance.    Critics of Durham's investigation have pegged it as being tainted by politics, but Trump and his allies have hailed the special counsel have championed it as a means to rid agencies such as the FBI of corrupt officials and uncover the role Clinton played in ginning up Trump-Russia collusion concerns, including in the media sphere.
    Robby Mook, Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign manager, said in 2017 he authorized Marc Elias, a now-former Perkins Coie attorney who served as general counsel for the Clinton campaign, to hire an outside firm to dig up dirt on Trump’s connections with Russia in 2016.    This led to the now-discredited dossier, composed of allegations put together at the behest of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which Steele has defended.
    Patel said the Danchenko case "intersects the Clinton campaign, their dirty deeds, their fake money, Christopher Steele and the likes of Fusion GPS."    Danchenko, he added, "i>was caught and these 30 subpoenas are going to shed information at the heart of this matter by real people testifying in federal court."

[DID YOU NOTICE IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE THAT THE ONLY PERSON THAT DIED WAS A WOMAN NAMED ASHLII BABBITT WHO WAS SHOT BY A CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER SO GET ALL THE NEWS BEFORE YOU RELEASE THE CRAP I SEE BELOW WHICH IS JUST A BUNCH OF HALF TRUTHS MAKES ME WONDER IF ADAM SCHIFF WROTE THIS AND IF YOU TOOK YOUR CLAIMS ON NEWSMAX TO A REAL COURT YOU WOULD BE HIGHLY EMBARRASED].
7/19/2022 Report: Conservative Newsmax peddles Jan. 6 misinformation - At least 40 false claims broadcast since June by Amanda Seitz, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Newsmax anchors and guests have claimed that there were only a few hundred rioters on Jan. 6, 2021,
or that they were “unarmed,” despite photos taken from that day and federal charges that show some were
armed with guns or used pepper spray, flagpoles and stun guns as weapons. JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AP FILE     Washington – A conservative TV channel is presenting viewers with an “alternate universe” of how the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, a new research report finds.
    Newsmax has broadcast at least 40 false claims or conspiracy theories about the attack since June, when a House committee began televising its evidence about the role former President Donald Trump and his allies played in the day’s events, according to News-Guard, a tech firm that monitors misinformation.
    “If you’re watching Newsmax, you may come away with an entirely different feeling of what happened at the hearings, and what happened on Jan. 6,” NewsGuard analyst Jack Brewster said of the findings.
    Many of the falsehoods, presented by anchors, reporters and guests who include Republican members of Congress, have been repeatedly debunked.    Newsmax did not comment on the report.
    Anchors and guests have claimed that there were only a few hundred rioters or that they were “unarmed,” despite photos taken from that day and federal charges that show some were armed with guns or used pepper spray, flagpoles and stun guns as weapons.    The Department of Justice estimates at least 2,000 people entered the U.S. Capitol.
    Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified last month that Trump had been informed protesters were armed with weapons.
    Another false claim that Trump ordered National Guard troops to the scene, only to be blocked by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was repeated 11 times since the Jan. 6 committee began its hearings on June 9, for example.    That misinformation was proven false more than a year ago: Pelosi doesn’t direct the National Guard.
    The false claims broadcast on the Trump-friendly Newsmax echo the misleading defenses regularly offered by Trump, as well as his allies, about the violent day at the U.S. Capitol.    Newsmax is also named in a defamation lawsuit brought by vote-counting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems for baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent – the falsehood that spurred many protestors turned rioters to travel to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
    Newsmax, which is available on most cable, satellite and streaming services, is watched by roughly 200,000 viewers daily.    Brewster, who has been monitoring television misinformation around the Jan. 6 hearings, said Newsmax has most regularly aired falsehoods about the insurrection compared to other conservative TV channels.
    “I was most shocked by the durability of these claims,” Brewster said.    “These are false claims that are not new.    A lot of them have been repeated ad nauseum.”
    Newsmax has not livestreamed the hearings in full, and in a June press release described the hearings as “political theater.”
    A Jan. 6 hearing is scheduled for primetime Thursday.
Ashli Babbitt – a Veteran was the only person killed by U.S. Capitol police or no one else on Jan. 6, 2020,
so what ever this so-called committee thinks they cannot prove otherwise so if they do not believe that
lets get it this done in a real court and find out for the real truth they are hiding in this committee.
7/20/2022 Hunter Biden probe reaches 'critical stage,' as officials weigh possible charges: source by Brooke Singman, David Spunt, Bill Mears – FOX News
    The federal investigation into Hunter Biden and his tax affairs has reached a "critical stage," a source told Fox News, as officials are looking into whether to charge President Biden’s son with various tax violations, possible foreign lobbying violations and more.
    Merrick Garland is running it.    But look when you think of first Judge Jeanine on Hunter Biden scandal: Joe Biden is now 'caught in the lie'
    Hunter Biden has been under federal investigation since 2018, according to a source familiar with the matter.
    A separate source told Fox News that the federal grand jury looking into Hunter’s business dealings wrapped up its latest term late last month, but said no charges have been filed.
    The investigation is being conducted by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a prosecutor appointed by former President Trump.
HUNTER BIDEN REQUESTED KEYS FOR NEW 'OFFICE MATES' JOE BIDEN, CHINESE 'EMISSARY' TO CEFC CHAIRMAN, EMAILS SHOW
    The source told Fox News Wednesday that Weiss and Justice Department officials were looking into whether to charge Hunter Biden with various tax violations and, more seriously, possible foreign lobbying violations.    The source said Hunter Biden could face possible false statements charges.
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Hunter Biden, the president's son, is under federal investigation. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik     But the source said no final decision has been made on whether to charge Hunter, and stressed that the investigation is ongoing.     Fox News first reported in December 2020 that Biden was a subject/target of the grand jury investigation, according to a well-placed government source.    According to the source, a "target" means that there is a "high probability that person committed a crime," while a "subject" is someone you "don’t know for sure" has "committed a crime."
    The federal investigation into Hunter Biden was predicated, in part, by Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regarding suspicious foreign transactions.
    Another source familiar with the investigation told Fox News in December 2020 that the SARs were regarding funds from "China and other foreign nations."
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO HUNTER BIDEN EVEN AFTER HE PAID HIS TAX BILL
    A Treasury Department official, who did not comment on the investigation, spoke broadly about SARs, telling Fox News that SARs are filed by financial institutions "if there is something out of the ordinary about a particular transaction."
    The official told Fox News that the mere filing of a SAR does not mean there has been a criminal act, or violation of regulations, but instead, flags that a transaction is "out of the ordinary" for the customer.    The official noted, though, that a SAR could be part of a money laundering or tax investigation.
HUNTER BIDEN UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FOR 'TAX AFFAIRS;' LINKS TO CHINA FUNDS EMERGE, SOURCES SAY
    Hunter Biden, weeks after the 2020 presidential election, released a statement acknowledging the federal investigation of his "tax affairs."
    "I take this matter very seriously, but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Biden said in the December 2020 statement.
    President Biden has repeatedly denied discussing Hunter's business ventures with him.

[WHAT GOOD IS IT TO TAKE ALL THE BOOSTERS IF YOU ARE STILL GOING TO GET COVID-19 AS I HAVE ALREADY HAD IT WITH NO BOOSTER VACCINES WHICH IS JUST A MONEY MACHINE AND DOES NOT STOP YOU FROM GETTING IT BUT IF YOU DO THEN YOU BUILD UP IMMUNITY TO IT AND I WOULD RATHER HAVE THE STUFF THEY GAVE TRUMP, BUT BIDEN WILL CONTINUE OR HIS CONTROLLERS WILL CONTINUE TO SCREW UP THIS COUNTRY EITHER WAY].
7/21/2022 Biden, 79, Tests Positive for the Coronavirus by Michael D. Shear and Katie Rogers – The New York Times
    WASHINGTON — President Biden tested positive on Thursday for the coronavirus, raising health concerns for the 79-year-old president and underscoring how the virus remains a persistent threat in a country trying to put the pandemic in the past.
© Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden on Wednesday, a day before he tested positive for the coronavirus.     Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that Mr. Biden had “tested positive for Covid-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms.”
    The president is receiving Paxlovid, an antiviral drug used to minimize the severity of Covid-19, Ms. Jean-Pierre said.    He will isolate at the White House but “continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” she said.
    Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, said in a letter released by the White House that Mr. Biden was experiencing fatigue, a runny nose and an occasional dry cough.
    “The president is fully vaccinated and twice-boosted, so I anticipate that he will respond favorably, as most maximally protected patients do,” Mr. O’Connor wrote in the letter.
    The president was scheduled to fly to Pennsylvania on Thursday for a speech about gun violence and then to travel to his home in Wilmington, Del., where he was expected to stay for the weekend.    Chris Meagher, a White House spokesman, said the Pennsylvania trip had been canceled.
    Jill Biden, the first lady, tested negative this morning, according to Michael LaRosa, her spokesman.
    Mr. Biden’s positive test came amid a flurry of virus cases as the nation grapples with new subvariants that doctors say are highly contagious and can more easily evade the protections provided by coronavirus vaccinations.
    Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, announced on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would not appear in person at what could be the panel’s last hearing this summer.
    In May, Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, tested positive for the virus, and the White House announced that Ashley Biden, Mr. Biden’s daughter, had tested positive as well.    Neither was considered a close contact of the president’s.
    A number of members of Congress have also reported virus cases in recent weeks.    And members of Mr. Biden’s inner circle have tested positive in recent months, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Vice President Kamala Harris and Jen O’Malley Dillon, his deputy chief of staff.
    Even as administration officials and lawmakers in Washington reported infections, the president has continued to travel and appear at events, adhering to what his advisers said was guidance laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and mask guidance issued by the District of Columbia.
    In her statement, Ms. Jean-Pierre said officials would inform any members of Congress, journalists or others who would be considered close contacts of the president during a trip to Massachusetts on Wednesday.
    “Consistent with White House protocol for positive Covid cases, which goes above and beyond C.D.C. guidance, he will continue to work in isolation until he tests negative,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said in the statement.    “Once he tests negative, he will return to in-person work.”
    Mr. Biden is fully vaccinated, has received two booster shots and is regularly tested, officials said.    The president’s last virus test was on Tuesday, when he had a negative result, officials said on Thursday.

[AS YOU WILL SEE IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES THE SUPREME COURT SCOTUS IS SHOWING THE POTUS AND LOTUS THAT THEY ARE ONE-THIRD OF THE CONSTITUTION TO PROTECT THE U.S.A. FROM LEGAL TYRANNY FROM THE OTHER TWO AS YOU WILL SEE IN THOSE ARTICLES.].
7/22/2022 Supreme Court Rejects Biden Admin. Request To Implement Immigration Policy by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, on Nov. 6, 2020. The Supreme Court won’t
allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people
in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. The court’s order on July 21, 2022,
leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)     The Supreme Court declined to allow the Biden administration to enforce a policy prioritizing the apprehension and deportation of certain groups of illegal immigrants.    In a five-to-four decision Thursday, the high court rejected a request by the administration to put a district court ruling blocking the policies implementation on hold.
    Under the policy, border officials are instructed to focus on deporting suspected terrorists, people who have committed serious crimes and those caught at the border.    Thursday’s decision means the rule will not take effect while the court hears arguments in the administrations appeal and eventually issues a final decision.
    This comes as the Transportation Security Administration admitted to allowing more than 1,000 illegal migrants to use Department of Homeland Security documents to board domestic flights.
    During a Senate hearing Thursday, officials from the TSA said they allowed migrants to present items like arrest warrants and deportation notices as a form of identification at its checkpoints.    They also admitted to using Border Patrol databases to verify the legitimacy of the documents.
    Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) commented on this revelation.
    “Under your tenureship the time’s for screening have gone up, up, up at airports all across the country, including in my home state of Missouri,” stated the lawmaker.    “St. Louis is not the sixth longest screening process in the country despite the size of our airport there.    People who have done absolutely nothing wrong, who are law-abiding citizens and in every respect are subject to the most invasive screenings at these airports.    Yet, you are allowing illegal aliens to present warrant for arrest and waiving them on the airplanes.    How does that make sense?”
    Meanwhile, 10 Republican senators have sent a letter to the DHS demanding an explanation over the policy.

[WELL JOE IS STILL STEALING OIL OUT OF THE NATIONAL OIL RESERVE AND MAY BE PUMPING OIL ON OFFSHORE OIL WELLS SO TELL US THE TRUTH OR ELSE JOE THE NATION IS NOW WISE TO YOUR ACTIONS AND YOUR TEMPORARY FIX IS NOT GOING TO LAST FOREVER BEFORE EVERYONE CATCHES ON TO YOUR SCAM AND YOU HAVE NO INTENTION TO REFILL THE 650 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL BACK INTO THE SPR WHICH YOU MAY BE DOING SO THE U.S.A. CANNOT DEFEND ITSELF FROM AN OUTSIDE ATTACK - WAKE UP AMERICA AND FIGHT BACK.]
7/22/2022 White House Press Secy. Jean-Pierre Brags About Falling Gas Prices by OAN NEWSROOM
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is shown behind the gasoline price board
of a gas station in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)     White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre touted falling gas prices despite prices remaining at record highs.    In a video posted to Twitter Thursday, she used a graph to show declining gas prices over the past month.
    This attempt to downplay the issue came after the national average hit more than $5 a gallon in June.    While prices have dropped since then, the current national average of $4.41 is still about $2 higher than when President Joe Biden first took office.
AND SHE DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE SINCE RON KLAIN DID NOT WRITE IT IN HER BOOK     Jean-Pierre said gas prices aren’t coming down as fast as oil prices, but she claimed gas should continue to decline in the upcoming months.    Meanwhile, Biden has refused to take credit for any of the economic woes facing the country that have taken place during his presidency.    He has often blamed Russia for the pain at the pump, however, prices had already risen a dollar per gallon prior to the invasion of Ukraine.
    Over the past year, fuel prices across the US surged more than 60 percent.    Economists have said recent retreat in US gas prices happened due to fears of recession and the degradation of demand.    Some claimed Biden actually had nothing to do with it.
    A March study by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank found half of the inflation rate in quarter four of last year had been triggered by bloated pandemic spending packages.    Nonetheless, the Biden administration seems to be telling Americans to be grateful for a slight decline in gas prices as the population continues to feel pain in their pockets.

[THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING NUTS NOW SINCE MANY OF THEIR SINFUL ACTS ARE NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THOSE ACTS MUST BE RULED IN THE STATE NOT THE SUPREME COURT SO THEY ARE BEGINNING THAT ISSUE.].
7/22/2022 House Passes Contraceptive Rights Bill by OAN NEWSROOM
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a point during an event with Democratic women House members and advocates
for reproductive freedom ahead of the vote on the Right to Contraception Act, at the Capitol in Washington,
Wednesday, July 20, 2022. She is flanked by Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., and Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. Democrats
are pushing legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)     The House passed the Right to Contraception Act.    In a 228-to-195 vote Thursday, lawmakers passed legislation that guarantees the federal right to contraception.    Eight Republicans voted in favor of the bill, including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) took no position on the bill.
    The measure aims to protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and engage in contraception and also protects healthcare providers.    This comes after the Supreme Courts’ Roe v. Wade reversal and Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should revisit other decisions such as Griswold vs. Connecticut, which allows access to contraception.
    “The Supreme Court’s decision was a direct attack on abortion and Americans are now justifiably scared about the future of birth control,” stated Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.).    “Republicans across this country will continue their extreme assault on basic freedoms and Justice Thomas made it clear that the Supreme Court will do nothing to protect our fundamental rights from these coordinated attacks.”
    Republicans, on the other hand, said the push from Democrats is unnecessary.    Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said contraception likely needs protection from Congress rather than by Congress, adding “if there is any entity you don’t want involved” in contraception choices “it’s the federal government.”
    Others claim it’s just another pointless bill to entice fear and rile up voters before the midterms.
    Meanwhile, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) said it could be dangerous.
    “The kindest thing I can say about this legislation is that it is duplicative and unnecessary,” he stated.    “But unfortunately, it can also be damaging.    Contraception is so broadly defined that it could guarantee access to medical abortion pills or even contraceptives that might not have FDA approval.”
    This came shortly after the House passed a bill codifying gay marriage nationwide.    It’s unclear whether both legislations will make it to President Joe Biden’s desk.

7/23/2022 GOP Oversight Committee representative says he thinks the Justice Department will act on Hunter Biden soon as report says the federal investigation has reached a 'critical juncture' by kvlamis@insider.com (Kelsey Vlamis) – Business Insider
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images Hunter Biden Drew Angerer/Getty Images

• Rep James Comer said he thinks the Justice Department will act soon on Hunter Biden.
• Federal prosecutors have been investigating Hunter Biden's taxes and business dealings for years.
• CNN also reported this week that the investigation was reaching a critical point.

    Rep. James Comer said Friday he thinks the Justice Department will act soon on its investigation into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
    Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, was speaking on Fox News when he made the remarks about the ongoing investigation into Biden.
    "I think we're seeing that the Department of Justice is finally going to have to act on Hunter Biden.    The wheels are in motion now to try to hold this family accountable," Comer began.
    The president's son has faced his fair share of scandals and for years he has been under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware.    Investigators are looking into his taxes and other business activities, including some conducted in foreign countries while his father was vice president, though no evidence of wrongdoing has yet been uncovered.
1 of 19 Photos in Gallery©Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA Meet Hunter Biden, the often scandal-plagued middle child of President Joe Biden

• Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's middle child, was at the center of a dubious New York post article based on purported juicy emails and photos found on a laptop sent to the outlet by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney.
• Hunter Biden was previously mentioned by Trump in the first presidential debate for his business dealings, including his connections with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings and profiting in China while his father was vice president.
• Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing, Hunter Biden's entanglement in the administration's contact with Ukraine proved to be controversial, but it remains to be seen how this may impact his father's bid for the presidency.
• Here's how he rose through the ranks of Washington.
• Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

    Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's middle child, was the subject of a dubious story published by the New York Post that aired unverified claims about juicy emails and embarrassing images it said were found on the younger Biden's laptop.    The story was widely discredited, but not before it raised questions among lawmakers and US intelligence about a possible Russian disinformation effort ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
    Biden's son was also a major topic amid chaotic discourse during the first Trump-Biden debate, Trump mentioned his business dealings, including his connections with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings and profiting in China while his father was vice president.    Hunter was previously at the center of Trump's Ukraine scandal that launched an impeachment inquiry.
    Before being referenced by Trump, he took the spotlight in an emotional speech with younger sister Ashley Biden on the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention.
    The 52-year-old's personal life has created tension as it has played out amid his father's political life for years, and is now coming into sharper focus.
    The controversies escalated on November 20, 2019, when DNA results confirmed he fathered a child with a different woman while dating Hallie Biden, his brother's widow.    While he dismissed the claims by the child's mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, earlier in the year, court filings now assert that he accepts the child is his.
    See how Hunter Biden rose through the ranks of Washington, found himself involved in Trump's latest scandal, and discovered he was a father again in 2019.
    Comer said he was "pretty confident" that "something's going to happen with the Department of Justice in the next 60 days with respect to Hunter Biden."
    "He's left a trail that's so obvious that no one, even the most partisan Democrat and the most partisan Biden supporter in the Department of Justice, they can no longer turn a blind eye to his wrongdoing," he continued.
    Comer, who has previously said Hunter Biden would be an oversight priority for the GOP if they win the House in November, did not cite evidence for his prediction that the Justice Department will act soon.
    But his comments appeared to align with a CNN report published Wednesday that suggested the investigation has reached a "critical juncture."
    People briefed on the probe told the outlet no decision had yet been made on whether or not to bring charges against Hunter Biden, but that conversations about potential charges and how to address a politically sensitive case so close to the midterms have been increasing.
    The charges being weighed involve tax violations and making a false statement when buying a firearm at a time he may have been prohibited from doing so due to his drug use and addiction, according to CNN.    Under federal law, it's illegal for someone "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance" to purchase a gun.
    Comer, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee, also said Friday that even if the Department of Justice acts against Hunter Biden, the committee would continue its own investigation into whether the president was connected to his son's dealings.    No evidence has suggested Biden's policy decisions have been impacted by his son.
    A representative for Comer and the White House did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

7/24/2022 One America News gets dumped by Verizon, the only major carrier it had left by Emma Roth – The Verge
    Verizon Fios is the latest provider to drop One American News (OAN) network, a move that leaves the right-wing news channel without a major carrier, as reported earlier by The Daily Beast.    In a notice on its website, Verizon explains viewers will no longer have access to OAN starting July 31st.
© Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One America News gets dumped by Verizon, the only major carrier it had left     “Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business-as-usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers,” Verizon said in a statement to The Daily Beast.    “These negotiations were focused on economics, as they always are, but OAN failed to agree to fair terms.”    Verizon didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
OAN is left without a major broadcasting platform
    OAN, which is owned by the California-based Herring Networks, has faced criticism for allegedly “peddling conspiracy theories and falsehoods.”    In 2020, YouTube suspended the network’s channel after it promoted a fake cure for COVID-19.    OAN also became the subject of a defamation lawsuit filed by the electronic voting system company Dominion over false allegations that its machines interfered with the 2020 US election.    Smartmatic, another voting system company, ordered OAN and other conservative stations to retract their claims about voter fraud.
    Last year, 16 civil rights, human rights, and media justice groups signed a letter urging DirecTV to drop OAN, which it eventually did.    The AT&T spinoff decided not to renew its contract with OAN in January and officially dropped the channel in April.    OAN responded by suing DirecTV and AT&T, claiming the companies “bowed to political pressure,” and could potentially cause the network to shut down.    Now that both Verizon and DirecTV have dropped OAN, the channel is left without a major broadcasting platform in the US — OAN’s now only available to stream online or on select local stations.
[www.verizon.com/business/small-business-essentials is my internet service provider who bought out the Chinese company in the 2019 that bought out a very good California company in the early 2010's that I put my files on the internet in 1995 when the internet came out and everyday I battle with the present provider to get on it to upload my files to my website and I am concerned that even HughesNet is in on it to and as you see below, I get on OAN Newsroom tab every day to get their very accurate news articles from them so do not believe the lies they said above because they show them up for real news for what is going on around the world and if I was rich I would give them all the money they need to keep online to fight back against these Socialist Globalist One World Order maniacs that are trying to control us.    So I will pray to the God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac today to ask him to let these companies experience his bidding for what is going to happen for their oppressions of humanity.]
[I WAS ON THE TAB FOR ONE AMERICA NEWS NEWSROOM THIS MORNING TO GET MANY OF THE NEWS ARTICLES YOU WILL READ TODAY.]
[I AM GLAD THAT FAUCI IS LOSING HIS BIGTIME AND HOPEFULLY RAND PAUL WILL GET A CHANCE TO PROSECUTE HIM AND MYSELF WHO BELIEVE HE IS THE NEW YORK ENTITY CDC WHO CLAIMED THAT MEASLES AND MUMPS CAME FROM ISRAEL ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD NOT KNOW THAT IT CAME FROM THE 3 SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES CARAVANS PAID FOR BY GEORGE SOROS THAT CAME TO OUR SOUTHERN BORDER AND AS YOU SEE BELOW HE STILL PROMOTING VACCINES THAT DO NOT WORK TO STOP PEOPLE FROM GETING COVID-19 AND EVEN HAVING BIDEN CONTINUE HIS LIES.].
7/25/2022 Dr. Anthony Fauci Defends Vaccine Mandates, Says COVID Jab ‘Very Good’ At Stopping Severe Diseases by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the
daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. \Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert,
says he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January 2025. Fauci, 81, became director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and has advised seven presidents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)     House Chief Medical Adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci has continued to defend COVID-19 vaccine mandates.    In a recent interview, he was asked why vaccines are still mandated in many places when he himself was quoted as saying that everyone would come into contact with COVID and most would contract it anyway.    Fauci said vaccines, particularly boosters, prevent progression of the disease to hospitalization as the reason for the continued push.
    Fauci, who tested positive for the virus twice, also praised his Paxlovid regimen as he said it gave him a relatively mild disease.    Meanwhile, the President’s physician said Joe Biden’s COVID symptoms are almost completely resolved. Dr. Kevin O’Connor gave the update Monday in a letter to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
    O’Connor said the President is experiencing nasal congestion and hoarseness, but other than that his pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain normal.    Biden completed his fourth treatment of Paxolvid and will continue taking the medication as planned.    He will also continue to isolate according CDC recommendations.
    According to reports from governments around the world, people who received the COVID vaccines are suffering far more injuries and deaths than those who didn’t.    One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.

[ITS VERY SAD WHEN YOU SEE IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE AS BIDEN'S DIRECTORS ATTEMPT TO CLAIM THAT WE ARE NOT IN A RECESSION
EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN NOTED IN HISTORY OF PAST ADMINISTRATIONS AFTER TWO CYCLES IS CONSIDERED A RECESSION.]
7/25/2022 Biden’s Officials Doing Damage Control Ahead Of Recession Numbers by OAN NEWSROOM
Brian Deese, Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council, speaks during
a meeting where President Joe Biden appeared virtually with his economic team in the South Court
Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)     The Biden administration is downplaying concerns of a recession ahead of this week’s GDP numbers that are expected to show an economic downturn. In a statement Monday, the White House questioned how economists determine a recession while alleging the US economy is “transitioning” from ”fast growth” to steady and slow growth.
    The US GDP shrank 1.6 percent in the first quarter and the Atlanta Fed expects it to fall another 2.1 percent in the second quarter.    However, President Biden’s officials are claiming two quarters of negative growth does not indicate a recession although it does.    The Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its advance estimate of second quarter GDP on Thursday, July 28.
    Meanwhile, former Treasury Secretary and Obama administration economic adviser Larry Summers blames a possible upcoming recession on high government spending.    In an interview Sunday, Summers said the Biden administration borrowed too much money over the past two years.    As a result, the US national debt surged above $30 trillion.
    “I think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we’ve been in this kind of situation before,” he stated.    “Recession has essentially always followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low.”
    Summers said the US economy may face high inflation and no growth for a while.    The US government is set to release second quarter GDP figures later this week and if it is negative that would mean the country is officially in a recession.
[AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT ADMIT WE ARE IN A SEVERE RECESSION ANOTHER LIE TO ADD TO THEIR RESUME.].
7/26/2022 Biden Admin. Dismisses Recession Concerns Ahead Of Looming GDP Report by OAN NEWSROOM
FILE – Pedestrians pass the New York Stock Exchange on July 14, 2022, in New York. The U.S. economy is caught
in an awkward, painful place. A confusing one, too. Growth appears to be sputtering, home sales are
tumbling and economists warn of a potential recession ahead. But consumers keep spending, businesses keep
posting profits and the economy keeps adding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)     The White House has continued to play off concerns of recession.    Both the President and his aides insisted Monday that their administration does not believe the economy will hit a recession despite widespread inflation.    Their dismissal came ahead of the GDP report to be released this week, which will show whether the US has experienced two consecutive quarters of shrinking.
    White House economic advisers have since tried to ignore the definition of recession, saying even if the advance GDP report comes back negative it’s “unlikely” the US is in recession.    Meanwhile, Cambridge economist Mohamed El-Erian criticizes the Federal Reserve specifically for doing “too little, too late,” to stop inflation.
    In an op-ed for The Hill Tuesday, El-Erian noted the Fed insisted that inflation was not a problem for 15-months until it became obvious inflation has spiraled out of control.    The economist said the current inflation rate of 9.1 percent is damaging to economic growth.
    As a result.    El-Erian said the Fed will now have to raise interest rates aggressively, which will contribute to an impending economic downturn.    On top of that, many economists agree the US is sliding into a recession.    El-Erian concluded by asserting a recession could have been avoided, but the Fed’s actions will likely cause an economic downturn.

[WAKE UP AMERICA EVERY TIME YOU SEE THE WORD ‘EQUITY’ YOU SHOULD HAVE ALARMS RINGING BECAUSE YOU ARE ABOUT TO LOSE MORE RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION FIRST AMENDMENT AS THE USDA: BY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOES NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".].
7/27/2022 GOP AGs sue over LGBTQ school guidance - Program prohibits discrimination by Kimberlee Kruesi, ASSOCIATED PRESS
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than 20 Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Joe Biden’s administration over a Department of Agriculture school meal program that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
    The challenge, led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, claims that the federal government is attempting to force states and schools to follow anti-discrimination requirements that “misconstrue the law.”
    The coalition of attorneys general are hoping for a similar result to a separate challenge from earlier this month when a Tennessee judge temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by Biden’s administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.    The judge sided with the attorneys general, ruling that the directives infringed on states’ right to enact laws, such as banning students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.
    “This case is, yet again, about a federal agency trying to change law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said in a statement.    “The USDA simply does not have that authority.    We have successfully challenged the Biden Administration’s other attempts to rewrite law and we will challenge this as well.”
    In May, the USDA announced that it would include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as a violation of Title IX, the sweeping 1972 law that guarantees equity between the sexes in “any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” The directive requires states to review allegations of discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as update their policies and signage.
    The agency warned that states and schools that receive federal funds, which include the national school lunch program overseen by the USDA, have agreed to follow civil rights laws.    Although the agency says it wants voluntary compliance, it also has promised to refer violations to the Department of Justice.
    It is not clear whether the federal government would hold back funding for school meal programs as part of its enforcement.
    The directive followed a landmark civil rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 that, under a provision called Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.
    According to the lawsuit, the attorneys general allege that the USDA’s new directive is based on a “misreading” of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
    The attorneys general involved in the lawsuit filed Tuesday are from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
    A spokesperson for the USDA did not immediately return a request for comment.     “We have successfully challenged the Biden Administration’s other attempts to rewrite law and we will challenge this as well.”
Herbert Slatery, Tennessee attorney general
Slatery
[WELL AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW BIDEN IS EMPTYING OUR NATIONAL OIL RESERFVE JUST AS OBAMA DID 650 MILLION BARRELS SO I GUESS WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR TRUMP TO GET BACK INTO OFFICE TO REFILL IT AGAIN.].
7/27/2022 Biden Sells More Oil Reserve As Energy Prices Spike In Europe by OAN Newsroom
An undated photo provided by the Department of Energy shows crude oil pipes at the
Bryan Mound site near Freeport, Texas. President Joe Biden is dipping again into the nation’s
petroleum stockpile to try to corral rising energy prices. (Department of Energy via AP)     The Biden administration is releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after a failed effort to increase supply from Saudi Arabia.    In a statement Tuesday, the White House said the Department of Energy would sell another 20 million barrels of oil from the reserves to stabilize the gas market.
    President Joe Biden’s officials also pointed out gas prices have continued to fall.    These sentiments came despite economists saying gas prices are falling because of concerns of recession, while most of SPR oil has been exported to Europe and China.    This comes as natural gas prices in Europe are hitting new record highs as a result of anti-Russian sanctions.
    “The most crucial outcome is that we will start saving gas now and that we have a blueprint to act together in a coordinated way if the situation worsens,” said EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson.    “Reducing gas demand proactively allows us to avoid rushed or unilateral decisions when it is too late.    It will make it possible to plan the savings in the most efficient way.”
    A number of European countries have already asked Biden for more oil and gas going into the winter season amid fears that Russia may shut off the supply.
[JOE TELL THE EU COUNTRIES TO GO TO SAUDI ARABIA SINCE YOU WILL NOT PUMP OIL FOR AMERICA FIRST AND ARE PRESENTLY STEALING FROM OUR NATIONAL OIL RESERVE AND I AM ASSUME YOU ARE PUMPING OIL OFFSHORE WHICH IS NOT GETTING IN THE NEWS SINCE IT WOULD BE AGAINST YOUR GET RID OF OIL AND I AM AMUSED THAT SINCE GAS IS BELOW $4 IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU RE-ELECTED SINCE WE KNOW IT COULD BE AT A $1.83 A GALLON.].

7/27/2022 Sen. Johnson demands Director Wray 'come clean' as FBI whistleblowers sound alarm on Hunter probe by Charles Creitz – Fox Business
    Senator Ron Johnson called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to answer specific questions about Hunter Biden, who is currently subject to an investigation making its way through Delaware federal court.
Sen. Johnson demands answers after Hunter Biden FBI 'whistleblowers' come forward
    Johnson, R-Wis., cited new whistleblower allegations the DOJ and FBI illegally suppressed information on Hunter Biden and that the FBI was "weaponized" against sitting members of the Senate.
    The whistleblowers initially came forward to Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, detailing a "pattern of active public partisanship" at the agencies pertaining to investigations into the Trump campaign, and suppression of information on the Hunter Biden probe.
[NOTE ABOUT BELOW PRESTEP STEPPED DOWN BECAUSE HE KNEW THE CORRUPTION THAT WAS GOING ON SOMEHOW WRAY REPLACED HIM AND I HAVE BEEN WRITING IN MY FISA-UNDER SURVEILLANCE FILE ABOUT WRAY'S CORRUPTION SINCE 2018 THEN AND JUST NOW EVERYONE IS NOTICING HIM by Jim A. Cornwell.
    FISA-UnderSurveillance 2018 A SUBJECT BELOW IS ALL THE NEWS OF THE OBAMA-BIDEN-HILLARY CLINTON CORRUPTION ALL THE WAY TO WHAT THEY ARE STILL ATTEMPTING TODAY.].
    Meanwhile, Wray, a Trump appointee who was then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's personal attorney during the BridgeGate scandal, last appeared before Congress in May to testify regarding the bureau's annual budget.
© Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool Wray Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool     On "Hannity," host Sean Hannity declared a "two-tiered justice system" at play along political lines under Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Johnson said both he and Wray must come forward:
    "It's their playbook," he said of Democrats in power.    "Let me first thank the whistleblowers for coming forward.    We need a lot more whistleblowers inside the FBI, Department of Justice, the federal health agencies.    If we are going to restore credibility to these agencies, we need to know the truth."
© Provided by FOX News Joe Biden's brother-in-law, Jack Owens, emailed Hunter
in 2014 to help him obtain a Chinese business license. Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images     Johnson said he wasn't shocked by the allegations but still found them outrageous – later claiming he and Grassley received unsolicited FBI briefings that were later leaked to the Washington Post in a manner indicative of a smear attempt against what amount to two opposition lawmakers conducting their own investigation.
    "I'll never forget [ex-FBI Agent] Peter Strzok's text to [his mistress, FBI attorney] Lisa Page saying that our systems are ‘leaking like mad’, ‘feeling, scorned, worried and political’… And now we're finding out from these whistleblowers that the FBI actually had individuals specifically taking derogatory information about against Hunter Biden, [and] downgrading it to end the investigations."
    Johnson further wondered if there is a link between the latest developments and the now-discredited document signed by 51 current and former intelligence officials declaring Hunter Biden's Wilmington laptop Russian disinformation.
    "This is dirty.    This is corrupt.    We need answers.    And Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland: These people have to come clean and tell us what we know," he added.
    "We this may need a special counsel on this one."
[ALL OF THE ABOVE SHOULD BE EXPOSED BEFORE ANY ELECTIONS OCCUR.].

7/28/2022 ‘Failing President’ Biden must announce he won’t ‘run for re-election': New York Times column by Gabriel Hays – Fox Business
    New York Times columnist Bret Stephens accused President Joe Biden of being a "failing president" who is so weak that the western world has been left effectively leaderless.
© AP Newsroom President Joe Biden took heat from ta New York Times
column Tuesday, urging him to not pursue re-election. (AP) AP Newsroom     Pulling no punches, Stephens also advised that the "best thing" Biden could do is announce immediately that he will not run again in 2024.
    The author began his blistering criticism of Biden by declaring that "the democratic world today is leaderless."    He brought up world leadership under the U.S. in the past to illustrate his point, writing, "Twenty-five years ago, we had the confident presences of Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl and Tony Blair — and Alan Greenspan.    Now we have a failing American president, a timorous German chancellor, a British prime minister about to skulk out of office in ignominy."
    "This is bad in normal times.    It is catastrophic in bad ones," Stephens added, before attacking Biden’s credibility on the world stage.    He claimed Biden’s lack of leadership has put holes in U.S. "international credibility."    He mentioned how the withdrawal from Afghanistan "telegraphed incompetence and weakness" and dinged Biden’s handling of the Ukraine conflict.
BIDEN'S INFLATION A 'CANCER ON THE AMERICAN DREAM': SEN JOHN KENNEDY
© Provided by FOX News New York Times columnist Bret Stephens seriously question
Biden's leadership in a recent piece for the outlet. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images     He described the latter as a situation "in which President Biden has committed enough support to prevent outright defeat but not to secure a clear victory."
Joe Biden's support declines as voters become 'repulsed' by his presidency
    The author also expressed high doubt in Biden being able to deal with "an imminent nuclear crisis with Iran, in which the president seems to have no policy other than negotiations that are on the cusp of failure."    There is also the "looming crisis over Taiwan" on which Stephens saw Biden being shaky.
    Summing up Biden’s weakness, Stephens wrote, "Talented leaders turn proverbial lemons into lemonade.    Biden seems to be mastering the trick of turning lemonade into lemons."
    He then slammed Biden for butchering American "economic credibility," stating, "The credibility crisis occurs when leaders make confident predictions, in the face of abundant contrary evidence, that turn out to be catastrophically wrong.    Insisting that inflation was ‘temporary,’ as Biden did last year, was one such prediction."
    The columnist expressed fear that Biden’s "insistence on Monday that ‘God willing, I don’t think we’re going to see a recession’ may be the next."    In addition, Biden hasn’t made changes to face the economic problems head on.    "At least Jimmy Carter had the guts to nominate Paul Volcker.    Where is a similar confidence-inspiring move from Biden, who, remarkably, retains the same inept economic team that helped lead us into this mess?" he asked.
© A Pun defined Stephens also compared Biden's presidency to Carter's, though he acknowledged
that at least Carter made significant attempts to fix his stumbling administration. LATEST HUNTER BIDEN STORIES SHOW MEDIA FINALLY HAS THE KNIVES OUT FOR JOE: SEXTON
    Stephens expressed fear about a potential "global recession" and imminent collapse of other nations around the world, implying that’s going to be a tall order for Biden and the U.S. to deal with a geopolitical situation that’s probably going to become much worse.
    He also severely doubted Biden’s ability to handle the crisis facing "liberal democracy" throughout the world, writing that the rise of "effective autocracies" is a "challenge" for even the most inspired leaders.    Except for Volodymyr Zelensky, "there are none."
    Thus, according to the columnist, Biden might as well step aside in 2024 and let his party find new leadership that can handle the fraught moment he described.    He urged Biden to announce he will not be running for president, as soon as possible.    "The best thing Biden could do for the country is announce he won’t run for re-election — now, not after the midterms.    Let his party sort out its own future," Stephens wrote.

7/28/2022 GDP Report Signals America In Recession by OAN Newsroom
FILE – An American flag adorns the facade of the New York Stock Exchange
on June 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)     The looming GDP report has been released and shows another contraction in the second quarter.    The Bureau of Economic Statistics revealed the national GDP shrank by 0.9 percent.    This marks the second straight quarter of decline, further fueling fears of a recession.
    The news comes on the heels of the Federal Reserve’s move Wednesday to hike interest rates for the fourth time this year, which is the second consecutive increase of 0.75 percent, in an attempt to combat inflation.    In the month of June, Inflation hit 9.1 percent, which is the fastest increase in prices in 40 years.
    America’s top central banker, Jerome Powell, is denying assessments that an economic downturn has hit the US.    In a statement Wednesday, he said unemployment is low and the labor market is strong.    Powell added, “it doesn’t make sense” that the US economy would be in a recession at this point.
    “I don’t agree at all, I think it’s really hard to argue we’re not in a recession given the fact that, for instance, just one indicator,” stated Scott Minerd, Chief Investment Officer at Guggenheim Global.    “The leading economic indicator that four down prints in a row in on a monthly basis, every time that’s ever happened that is essentially a signal that we are in or we are about to enter a recession.”
    However, Powell claimed consumer demand is still strong and the US economy will grow this year, despite data suggesting US households are pulling back on purchases amid runaway inflation.    Despite Powell’s stance, economists have pointed out a second negative quarter in a row would mean America is already in a recession.
    Economists at Saxo Bank said the US will face higher inflation for an extended period of time because the White House and the Federal Reserve don’t have enough policy choices.    In their new analysis, Saxo economists concluded rising federal interest rates will increase US unemployment while rising prices will continue to hurt consumers.br>     Experts believe energy prices will continue to rise due to political risks.    Saxo analysts also said it’s unrealistic to expect inflation to peak in December because that’s when the energy crisis will become worse due to higher.    Meanwhile, inflation is unlikely to “peak” anytime soon and it turns out it’s not “transitory” after all, which is contrary to White House claims.
    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices are up 10.4 percent and the pain at pump has become more severe as gas prices increased by nearly 60 percent over the last year.    As prices surge, so are the lines at food banks across the country.
    “What we’re hearing from people and families is they’re making these decisions between filling their gas tank to get to work, paying the rent, paying utilities, other basic expenses and meeting their food costs,” explained Michael Flood, CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
    Food banks are struggling to meet growing demand as more working Americans grapple with inflation and struggle with feeding their families.    Flood said people are looking to pantries and distribution programs just “to try to make ends meet.”
Vanessa Correa, left, and Gigi Fiske, right, pass out gallons of milk at a food distribution held by the
Farm Share food bank, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Miami. Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S.
as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)     Chief Investment Officer Cresset Capital, Jack Ablin explained that the more persistent inflation is, the more aggressive the Federal Reserve has to be. His comments came ahead of the release of the second quarter GDP report.
    Economists have pointed out a second negative quarter in a row would mean America is already in a recession.
    The Biden White House has continued to avoid responsibility for the economic crisis facing the country.
    During a recent press conference, Economic Adviser Brian Deese suggested Americans shouldn’t complain about inflation as they could be worse off like other countries facing famine.    He went on to say that despite inflation hitting a record high in June, the economy is “resilient to the challenges” nation is facing.
    “So it’s our view that inflation is the top economic priority that we need to be focused on as a country,” he stated.    “And it is our view that if we move out more quickly and more aggressively on the types of steps that the President has outlined, then we are going to move more quickly to helping to bring prices down.”
    Deese is not the first White House official to ignore or alter the definition of a recession while trying to downplay the severity of the pain Americans are feeling in their pocketbooks.    White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also appeared to sidestep recession fears.
[NOTHING NEW HERE SINCE THE DEMS DONT KNOW WHAT A WOMEN IS WHY WOULD WE EXPECT THEM TO KNOW WHAT A RECESSION IS.].

7/28/2022 Matt Gaetz derails House hearing: 'Is Hunter Biden a national security threat?' - Raw Story – by David Edwards
© provided by Raw Story C-SPAN/screen grab     Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) used a hearing on national security threats to demand answers about Hunter Biden.
    The congressman brought up the president's son during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the Justice Department Matt Olsen.
    "Is Hunter Biden a national security threat?" Gaetz demanded to know.
    "That's not a question that would come before me, Congressman," Olsen replied.
    "You would certainly concede that if the adult offspring of the president of the United States or the vice president were compromised, that would be a national security threat! Right?" Gaetz pressed.
    But Olsen said that he could not talk about any potential ongoing investigations.
    "Where's the laptop?" Gaetz fired back.
    "We follow the facts and the law and we speak in open court about our cases," the Justice Department official explained.
    For five minutes, Gaetz questioned Olsen about the president's son.
    "I think every American knows that's a threat to national security," the congressman ranted.    "I think we're watching a crime spree in progress that Hunter Biden is orchestrating."
    "You know what?    Winter is coming.    We're going to be in the majority and you're going to have to answer these questions for the country," he concluded.
    Gaetz later told conservative podcaster Steve Bannon that he felt vindicated because Olsen "confirmed" an investigation into Biden.

[GOOD JOB TEXAS FOR SENDING MIGRANTS TO UNKNOWN PLACES JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN DOING SO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND AND WHEN TRUMP ASKED FOR TROOPS FOR JAN. 6 YOU AND PELOSI IGNORED HIM BUT ALL OF SUDDEN WHEN YOU NEED TROOPS TO PROTECT YOU FROM MIGRANTS AND BEGIN YOUR LITTLE TANTRUM SO I THINK YOU SHOULD GO TO THE BORDER AND SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE AND YOU DO NOT HAVE REALLY A COMPLAINT COMPARED SO YOU JUST HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM SO SEND TROOPS TO THE BORDER ALSO.].
7/29/2022 Mayor Bowser requests activation of DC National Guard over migrant buses by Cami Mondeaux – Washington Examiner
    Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested that the D.C. National Guard be activated indefinitely to respond to migrant buses arriving in the district, according to reports.
© Provided by Washington Examiner Mayor Bowser requests activation of DC National Guard over migrant buses     The request also seeks permission to use the D.C. Armory, a multi-purpose arena located east of the Capitol Building, as a processing center as more than 150 buses traveling from Arizona and Texas have transported nearly 4,000 migrants to the nation’s capital over the past three months.    Bowser and the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management initially sent letters to President Joe Biden and the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a letter on July 19 but have not yet received a response.
    “The pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points,” Bowser wrote.    “Our collective response and service efforts have now become overwhelmed. … Tragically, many families arrive in Washington, DC with nowhere to go, or they remain in limbo seeking onward destinations across the United States.”
    Since mid-April, more than 125 buses have transported 4,800 migrants from Texas border communities — such as the Rio Grande Valley, Del Rio, Uvalde, and Eagle Pass — nearly 2,000 miles to Washington.    Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) commenced a similar initiative in mid-May and has had 27 buses carrying more than 1,000 passengers from the border to D.C. in that time, according to spokeswoman Morgan Carr.
    However, D.C. officials such as Bowser have decried the move, claiming immigrants are being “tricked” into traveling farther away from their intended destinations.
    “With pledges form Texas and Arizona to continue these abhorrent operations indefinitely, the situation is dire, and we consider this a humanitarian crisis — one that could overwhelm our social support network without immediate and sustained federal intervention,” Bowser wrote.
[SO TEXAS DID THE SAME THING YOU WERE DOING SO WHO WAS TRICKING FIRST.].

7/29/2022 Biden border causes 'crisis' in DC - Opinion by Byron York – Washington Examiner
    BIDEN BORDER CAUSES 'CRISIS' IN DC. Did you know that it is still the position of the Biden administration that the U.S.-Mexico border is "closed?" "The fact of the matter is, the border is closed," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in late June.    "Our border is not open," said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a month earlier.
© Provided by Washington Examiner Biden border causes 'crisis' in DC     Like the word "recession," which has been redefined in recent days, the word "closed" has taken on a new meaning in the Biden era.    Since President Joe Biden took office, would-be illegal crossers have flocked to the border.    The number of Border Patrol encounters with illegal crossers went from 646,822 in fiscal year 2020 to 1,956,519 in 2021 to 2,002,604 so far in 2022 — and there are still a few months left in this fiscal year.    More than that, the Biden administration has allowed at least 1.25 million of those illegal crossers to stay in the country.    The number could reach 2 million if the so-called gotaways are included, referring to those crossers who eluded U.S. authorities.
    So, the administration has a very strange definition of "closed."    But top officials like Mayorkas could make the claim with some impunity because most Americans don't live close enough to the border to see what is going on.    And when the administration has relocated illegal border crossers inland, it has been done on a secret, middle-of-the-night basis.    The idea is to keep the reality of the border mess away from most Americans.
    That's where Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott comes in.    In May, after Biden announced he would allow still more illegal border crossers into the country — he would so by rescinding Title 42, the Trump-era regulation that allowed U.S. authorities to turn back crossers in order to stop the spread of COVID-19 — Abbott had enough.    His state has borne the burden of hundreds of thousands of illegal crossers, and the governor decided to send some of the unlawful migrants to Washington, D.C., where the president could see them firsthand.
    Abbott began sending buses of crossers to the nation's capital.    There was no coercion involved — Texas officials made clear to the migrants that boarding a bus was entirely voluntary.    Many accepted the offer because making the 1,766-mile journey between, say, Eagle Pass, Texas, and Washington, D.C., got them much closer to where they wanted to settle in the United States.
    In addition to sending people, Abbott was sending a message: A reckless border policy has consequences.    Allowing millions of people to enter the country illegally, and then stay in the country, creates enormous burdens on communities and governments and everyday citizens.    The Biden administration cannot expect to pursue such a policy without pushback from those who are most affected by it.
    And that number of affected Americans now includes the residents of Washington, D.C. Concern over the mass arrivals has been rising since the first buses arrived in May.    Now, more than 200 buses have made the trip.    On Thursday, Mayor Muriel Bowser sounded an alarm, declaring a "humanitarian crisis" and asking Biden to deploy the National Guard to help the city deal with the 4,000 illegal border crossers who have come to Washington.
    Bowser is asking for federal help to house and process the new arrivals, who are not only from Texas but also from Arizona, where Republican Gov. Doug Ducey picked up on Abbott's idea and also began sending illegal border crossers to Washington.    Bowser denounced the governors' "cruel political gamesmanship" and said: "Our ability to assist people in need at this scale is very limited.    Instead of rolling up their sleeves and working with the Biden-Harris administration on a real solution, Govs.    Abbott and Ducey have decided to use desperate people to score political points."
    "At this scale?" Bowser is throwing up her hands at the arrival of just 4,000 illegal border crossers?    What are the border state governors supposed to do with the nearly 4 million encounters over the last two years?    And the 1.25 million, maybe 2 million, illegal border crossers who stayed in the U.S.?
    "DC is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas," Abbott tweeted in response.    "Mayor Bowser should stop attacking Texas for securing the border and demand Joe Biden do his job."
    It's unclear what happens next.    Bowser seems likely to get the help she has requested, or at least part of it, if only because the Biden White House does not want the border mess it has created to spread to a highly visible place like Washington, D.C.    There are a lot more journalists in and around Washington than in McAllen, Texas.
Whatever happens, in the end, Abbott has made an extremely important point.    Chaos on the border is a national problem, not just a problem for the four states that border Mexico.    Biden has not visited the border to see the impact his policies have had there.    Abbott and Ducey are helping him learn without ever leaving the White House.
[THOSE WHO LIVE IN D.C. HAVE THIS ROSY LIFE BUT NOW WITH A SURGE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE BECOMING AN ISSUE AND THEY NOW WILL EXPERIENCE WHAT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND ESPECIALLY ALL THOSE STATES THAT BIDEN'S ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN SECRETIVELY MOVED ILLEGAL ALIENS TO EITHER TO USE FOR LOW WAGE EARNERS OR TO USE TO CHANGE THE VOTING IN THAT STATE - WAKE UP AMERICA.].

7/29/2022 Whistleblowers Say FBI, DOJ Have Double Standards by OAN Newsroom
Erika Ramirez, a whistleblower and former chief psychologist at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, testifies
as the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations holds a hearing on charges of corruption and
misconduct at the prison, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)     A House Republican has alleged whistleblowers stated the FBI has been tampering with official records and investigations to cover-up scandals created by the Biden administration. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested the FBI exaggerated domestic terrorism statistics to hit performance metrics manufactured by the bureau itself.
    On Wednesday, Jordan wrote a letter to the agency’s director sharing alleged whistleblower accounts.    He said through these accounts he found that FBI officials are “pressuring agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism” even if the cases do not meet the criteria.    Jordan went on to say one whistleblower has called it an environment of “pressure” as superiors use these metrics to give awards and promotions.
    They contend the manipulation is done to satisfy the Biden administration’s narrative that domestic violent extremism is America’s “greatest threat.”    One of the implicated operatives is Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault who was also among those previously accused of covering up Hunter Biden’s money trail.
    On Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) accused the FBI of a widespread effort to discredit any unfavorable but legitimate information about the President’s son leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
    “This guy by the name of Thibault,” Grassley said.    “All you got to do is go back to a lot of his social media stuff and then very partisan comments.    He was the one making these decisions to shut down or open an investigation.    I brought that information to Director Wray, or let’s put it this way, I put out a press release and that guy was moved out of that decision making process.”
    In October 2020, just one month before the election, Thibault allegedly ordered to shut down an avenue of derogatory Hunter Biden reporting.    This allegation came when a whistleblower told Grassley there has been a pattern of active partisanship at the bureau on matters about investigations of the Trump campaign and Hunter’s suspicious financial deals.
    To seemingly counter GOP’s investigative efforts, Grassley said that in August 2020 that he and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) were subjected to a “unnecessary” briefing from the FBI, which they said had been “weaponized” against sitting members of the Senate.
    “I want to know what concrete steps Wray’s is going to take to shut down this partisan approach,” Grassley shared.    “This is hurting the credibility of the FBI. People ought to have confidence in the FBI.”
    Regardless, Grassley contends that if the allegations made by the whistleblowers are legitimate then both the Justice Department and FBI are institutionally corrupt to their very core.

[AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW THE HOUSE IS 'CALIFORNIA DREAMING' AGAIN AND STILL CANNOT DEFINE WHAT AN ASSAULT WEAPON IS AND A SEMI-AUTOMATIC IS CONSIDERED AS A RIFLE NOT AN ASSAULT WEAPON WHICH ALL FORMS OF RIFLES HAVE BEEN USED SINCE THE SECOND AMENDMENT EXISTED SO SOMEONE TEACH THE DEMOCRATS SINCE THEY SEEM TO BE HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH AND THEY KNOW THEY CANNOT BAN WEAPONS AS OUR SECOND AMENDMENT STATES]
7/30/2022 House passes bill to ban certain types of firearms - Effort after shootings likely to stall in Senate by Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with a reporter, as House Democrats pushed Friday
to bring the assault weapons ban bill to the floor for a vote. It would make it unlawful to
import, sell or manufacture a long list of semi-automatic weapons. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP     WASHINGTON – The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide.
    Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed as the weapon of choice among young men responsible for many of the most devastating mass shootings.    But Congress allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 on the manufacture and sales of the weapons to expire a decade later, unable to muster the political support to counter the powerful gun lobby and reinstate the weapons ban.
    Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the vote toward passage in the Democratic run House, saying the earlier ban “saved lives.”
    President Joe Biden hailed the House vote, saying, “The majority of the American people agree with this common-sense action.”    He urged the Senate to “move quickly to get this bill to my desk.”
    However, it is likely to stall in the 50-50 Senate.    The House legislation is shunned by Republicans, who dismissed it as an election-year strategy by Democrats.    Almost all Republicans voted against the House bill, which passed 217-213.
    The bill comes at a time of intensifying concerns about gun violence and shootings – the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.; the massacre of school children in Uvalde, Texas; and the July Fourth shooting in Highland Park, Ill.
    Voters seem to be taking such election-year votes seriously as Congress splits along party lines and lawmakers are forced to go on the record with their views.    A recent vote to protect same-sex marriages from potential Supreme Court legal challenges won a surprising amount of bipartisan support.
    Biden was instrumental in helping secure the first semi-automatic weapons ban as a senator in 1994.    The Biden administration said that for 10 years, while the ban was in place, mass shootings declined.    “When the ban expired in 2004, mass shootings tripled,” the statement said.
    Republicans stood firmly against limits on ownership of the high-powered firearms during an at times emotional debate ahead of voting.
    “It’s a gun grab, pure and simple,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa.
    Said Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., “An armed America is a safe and free America.”
    Democrats argued that the ban on the weapons makes sense, portraying Republicans as extreme and out of step with Americans.
    Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said the weapons ban is not about taking away Americans’ Second Amendment rights but ensuring that children also have the right “to not get shot in school.”
    Pelosi displayed a poster of a gun company’s advertisement for children’s weapons, smaller versions that resemble the popular AR-15 rifles and are marketed with cartoon-like characters.    “Disgusting,” she said.
    In one exchange, two Ohio lawmakers squared off.    “Your freedom stops where mine begins, and that of my constituents begins,” Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur told Republican Rep. Jim Jordan.    “Schools, shopping malls, grocery stores, Independence Day parades shouldn’t be scenes of mass carnage and bloodshed.”
    Jordan replied by inviting her to his congressional district to debate him on the Second Amendment, saying he believed most of his constituents “probably agree with me and agree with the United States Constitution.”
    The bill would make it unlawful to import, sell or manufacture a long list of semi-automatic weapons.    Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said it includes an exemption that allows for the possession of existing semi-automatic guns.
    Reps. Chris Jacobs of New York and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania were the only Republicans to vote for the measure.    The Democratic lawmakers voting no were Reps. Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Ron Kind of Wisconsin and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas.
    For nearly two decades, since the previous ban expired Democrats had been reluctant to revisit the issue and confront the gun lobby.    But voter opinions appear to be shifting and Democrats dared to act before the fall election.    The outcome will provide information for voters of where the candidates stand on the issue.
    Jason Quimet, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement following the vote that “barely a month after” the Supreme Court expanded gun rights, “gun control advocates in Congress are spearheading an assault upon the freedoms and civil liberties of law-abiding Americans.”
    He said the bill potentially bans millions of firearms “in blatant opposition to the Supreme Court’s rulings” that have established gun ownership as an individual right and expanded on it.
    Among the semi-automatic weapons banned would be some 200-plus types of semi-automatic rifles, including AR-15s, and pistols.    The restrictions would not apply to many other models.
    Democrats had tried to link the weapons ban to a broader package of public safety measures that would have increased federal funding for law enforcement.    It’s something centrist Democrats in tough reelection campaigns wanted to shield them from political attacks by their Republican opponents they are soft on crime.
    Pelosi said the House will revisit the public safety bills in August when lawmakers are expected to return briefly to Washington to handle other remaining legislation, including Biden’s priority inflation-fighting package of health care and climate change strategies making its way in the Senate.
    Congress passed a modest gun violence prevention package just last month in the aftermath of the tragic shooting of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde.    That bipartisan bill was the first of its kind after years of failed efforts to confront the gun lobby.
    That law provides for expanded background checks on young adults buying firearms, allowing authorities to access certain juvenile records.    It also closes the so-called “boyfriend loophole” by denying gun purchases for those convicted of domestic abuse outside of marriages.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pushed the vote on the assault weapons ban bill toward passage
in the Democratic-run House, saying the earlier ban had “saved lives.” J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP
[I HAD A WAITRESS AT WAFFLE HOUSE WHO GOT MILD COVID FOR 4 DAYS AND THEY GAVE HER PAXLOVID TO TAKE NOW AND I TOLD HER ABOUT IT WHEN I WENT THERE THIS MORNING AND SAID SHE DOES NOT NEED TO TAKE THE PAXLOVID FOR COVID IT IS JUST ANOTHER MONEY MAKER FOR THE DEMOCRATS.].
7/30/2022 Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again, White House doctor says by ABC News
On Location: July 29, 2022
    President Joe Biden has tested positive again for COVID-19, according to a letter from White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor.
    O'Connor said Biden's antigen test came back positive late Saturday morning after he tested negative Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning.
    "This is in fact rebound positivity," O'Connor wrote, referring to a relapse of COVID-19 symptoms some patients experience after taking Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment for people with mild to moderate symptoms who are considered a high risk for severe illness.
© Susan Walsh/AP Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again, White House doctor says     “The President has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well,” O’Connor wrote.    “This being the case there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time, but we will obviously continue close observation.”
    The president acknowledged his positive test in a Twitter post on Saturday afternoon, noting he is going to reinitiate isolation measures.
    "This happens with a small minority of folks," he wrote.    "I've got no symptoms but I am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me.    I'm still at work, and will be back on the road soon."

[AT&T-DirecTV teed me off when they canceled OANN on channel 347 and I watched it a lot and today I still get on OANN https://www.oann.com/ and is fine with me because I have been promoting their news and articles on my website since they came on and will continue until the Antichrist who are attacking them because they exposed their corruption and shut them down or we expose them to the world and I was forced to use Verizon after they bought my original site which was owned by a Chinese company who bought the original California company I got on in 1995 when the internet came out it was a very good site because ii was Microsoft based instead of this UNIX systems that took over and still now.].
7/31/2022 Losing Verizon after losing DirecTV may be a 'death blow' for OAN: report by AlterNet - by Alex Henderson
© AlterNet Losing Verizon after losing DirecTV may be a 'death blow' for OAN: report     One America News (OAN) was dealt another major blow when Verizon announced that it would quit carrying the far-right cable news channel on its FiOS service, effective this Saturday, July 30.    This comes after OAN being dropped by AT&T’s DirecTV in April.
    Journalists Jeremy W. Peters and Benjamin Mullin, in an article published by the New York Times on July 26, stresses that between Verizon and DirectTV, OAN has lost access to millions of potential viewers.    DirecTV has around 15 million subscribers, while Verizon FiOS has around 3.5 million.
    “OAN’s remaining audience will be small,” Peters and Mullin explain.    “The network will soon be available only to a few hundred thousand people who subscribe to smaller cable providers, such as Frontier and GCI Liberty," said Scott Robson, a senior research analyst at S&P; Global Market Intelligence.    OAN also sells its programming directly to users through its OAN Live and KlowdTV streaming platforms, but those products most likely provide a fraction of the revenue generated by traditional TV providers.
    By losing Verizon, the Times reporters note, OAN has lost a “a major stream of revenue: the fees it collects from Verizon.”    Robson told the Times, “I really think this is the death blow for the network.”
    Like its competitor Newsmax TV, OAN prides itself on being to the right of Fox News and Fox Business and even more pro-Donald Trump than those outlets.
    According to Peters and Mullin, “While OAN doesn’t have the influence wielded by the much larger Fox News, the top-rated cable news network, the fees from its deals with Verizon and AT&T; provided a substantial stream of income, about $36 million a year by some estimates.    And once it is gone from millions of television sets, OAN will be in a weaker bargaining position with advertisers — fewer potential viewers most likely mean fewer companies willing to pay as much to promote their products on the network.”
    Peters and Mullin note that losing Verizon after losing DirecTV “comes at a particularly bad time for OAN” because of the lawsuits it is facing from the voting technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic, both of which have also filed defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax.    Following the 2020 presidential election, Fox News, OAN and Newsmax all promoted the Big Lie — which falsely claims that the election was stolen from then-President Trump.
    “The voting technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion are suing OAN over false claims that their machines enabled Mr. Trump’s enemies to switch votes cast for him to President Biden,” Peters and Mullin observe.
    “One employee of Dominion, Eric Coomer, is also suing the network.    Mr. Coomer received death threats after OAN named him in a report as an alleged collaborator of Antifa, the far-left movement….    For OAN, the litigation has so far not gone well, as judges have rejected its attempts to have the cases dismissed.”
    The Times reporters add, “In one ruling, a judge concluded that OAN had acted “maliciously and consciously” in perpetuating falsehoods about Dominion, and that its chief White House correspondent, Chanel Rion, had failed to exercise even the most minimal journalistic scrutiny.    In her report, Ms. Rion cited a conservative podcaster and activist, Joe Oltmann, who claimed to have eavesdropped on an Antifa conference call before the election.    She reported that ‘Antifa-drenched engineers are hell bent on deleting half of America’s voice’ and referred to Mr. Coomer.”
[AS YOU CAN READ ABOVE THEY WANT TO ATTACK THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR CORRUPTION BUT CANNOT GET INTO THE COURTS TO PROVE IT BUT MAYBE WHEN THE REPUBLICANS GET BACK INTO POWER IT WILL COME INTO THE LIGHT LIKE THE BIDEN’S CORRUPTION IS NOW – WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE THEY DO THIS TO YOU ALSO.].

8/1/2022 Rep. Comer: Feds Knew Of Hunter Biden’s Dealings All Along by OAN Newsroom
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., listens during a hearing on the Washington
Commanders’ workplace conduct, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)     Congressman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he’s looking into Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign dealings.    In a recent interview, the Kentucky Congressman said several banks flagged at least 150 financial transactions involving Hunter as suspicious.
    “Text messages show that Hunter Biden was aware of these SARs and took steps to avoid detection in his financial dealings,” Comer noted.
    The GOP lawmaker explained this only happens when the bank has solid reasons to believe their client is involved in criminal activity.    He added, the Biden administration may be running a cover-up for Hunter.
    House Oversight Committee Republicans have been investigating the scandal-scarred first son’s domestic and foreign business relationships as well as any effort to benefit from his father.    According to the GOP members, the SARs raise “serious questions about what these transactions were for and whether money was transferred to the Biden family from America’s adversaries.”
    “Committee Republicans are committed to following Hunter Biden’s money trail consisting of many complex, international transactions worth millions of dollars,” stated Comer.    “The American people deserve to know the President’s connections to his son’s business deals, which have occurred at the expense of American interests and may represent a national security threat.”
    According to the Kentucky Congressman, Edward Prewitt and his firm managed the accounts of the first son’s businesses, including Owasco PC, Owasco LLC, Skaneateles and Rosemont Seneca Advisors.    They also managed a Hudson West, which has reprotedly been used in transferring millions of dollars to Hunter and James Biden from CEFC.    This company has been said to be “effectively an arm of the Chinese government.”
    “You have an obligation to the country to take these allegations seriously, immediately investigate and take steps to institute fixes to these and other matters before you,” the senator voiced to the Biden administration officials.
    Comer also said his Oversight Committee is focused on investigating Hunter Biden.    The probe is expected to intensify if Republicans take back the House in November.

[I HAVE BEEN TRACKING GEORGE SOROS FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVE AN ENTIRE HISTORY ON HIM AT www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterEight/2021/Soros.htm titled “Who Are The Globalist Destroying The World” so do not believe anything he says to save your soul because everyone he has influenced may realize that now and he is the one who is pushing all this immigration through our southern borders and control of the governors and mayors, etc. in Democrat controlled states have run them into a total disaster and he uses the word progressive but it is really destroying whatever he entertains and he has a son who will continue his destruction if we let him.].
8/3/2022 George Soros says liberal prosecutors not to blame for crime spike, vows continued support - Opinion by Andrew Miller – FOX News
    Liberal mega donor George Soros pledged that he has "no intention" of slowing down his donations to progressive district attorneys and dismissed the notion their policies were to blame for crime spikes nationwide.
    George Soros funding progressive DAs creates 'rampant lawlessness': Deroy Murdock
    "Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors," Soros wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the Wall Street Journal.    "The research I’ve seen says otherwise.    The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates."
    Soros attempted to make the case that policies implemented by prosecutors he has donated millions of dollars to, including New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, have been "popular" and "effective."
    "This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime.    It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime.    And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness," Soros wrote, adding, "The goal is not defunding the police but restoring trust between the police and the policed, a partnership that fosters the solving of crimes."
WHAT GEORGE SOROS DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT CRIME AND TRUE JUSTICE
© Provided by FOX News Conservative radio star Lourdes Ubieta said she would
"never cut a deal" with a group tied to George Soros. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP     Soros also claimed that the "idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false" and argued that public safety will improve if people "trust the justice system."
    Soros not only defended progressive prosecutors across the country, but also pointed the finger at Republican leaders and suggested they are to blame for higher murder rates.
© (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon
addresses police accountability and the actions taken by his office to restore trust in the community during
a press conference on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 in Los Angeles. Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images MOMS SAY GEORGE SOROS' FOUNDATION USING TERM 'BIRTHING PEOPLE' IS 'DEHUMANIZING': 'WOKE IMPLOSIVE INSANITY'
    "In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors," Soros wrote.    "Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians."
    Soros’s article comes as violent crime has surged in recent years in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other areas where he has supported progressive district attorneys.
GEORGE SOROS QUIETLY BACKED TWO FAR-LEFT PROSECUTOR CANDIDATES IN IOWA AND MAINE, FILINGS REVEAL
    Voters in San Francisco recently voted to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was financially backed by Soros, amid a spike in both crime and homelessness in recent years.
© (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin looks on during
an election-night event on June 07, 2022 in San Francisco. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images     Voters in Los Angeles are primed to hold a recall election for Gascon as violence, particularly by suspects who have been released back onto the streets due to Gascon's policies after committing other crimes, continues to plague the city.
    Soros' Open Society Foundation declined a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

[DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE ARTICLE BELOW BECAUSE JOE BIDEN IS TAKING OIL OUT OF OUR NATIONAL OIL RESERVE STILL AND NOT TELLING US HOW MUCH AND HAS NO ATTENTION TO REFILL IT AND ALSO HE IS PUMPING OIL ON U.S. OFF-SHORE WHICH SHOWS US HIS STUPIDITY TO EVEN PUT US THROUGH THIS OVERREACH AND HE PROBABLY WILL BUY OIL FROM OPEC+ (RUSSIA, VENZUELA, ETC) WHICH IS LOW QUALITY OIL AND HE WILL CONTINUE THIS CON UNTIL ANY CHANCE THE DEMOCRATS STAY IN CONTROL – WAKE UP AMERICA GET TRUMP BACK IN CHARGE AND LETS MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.]
8/3/2022 Gas Prices Have Fallen 50 Straight Days, Approach $4 a Gallon by Joseph De Avila, Lauryn Azu – The Wall Street Journal
    U.S. gas prices have fallen for seven straight weeks and are approaching an average price of $4 a gallon, easing the pain of record-high fuel costs amid shrinking global demand for oil.
    The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline sank to $4.16 Wednesday, the 50th straight day that prices have declined, according to OPIS, an energy-data and analytics provider.    That is a 17% decline from the previous high of $5.02 a gallon set back on June 14, according to OPIS.
© Brandon Bell/Getty Images Gas Prices Have Fallen 50 Straight Days, Approach $4 a Gallon     Global demand for oil has fallen in recent weeks as economic growth has slowed around the world, including in China, analysts said.    Demand data and consumer surveys also suggest Americans are driving less.
    That global drop-off in oil demand has led to an improvement in oil supplies, resulting in lower oil and wholesale fuel prices, analysts said.    Americans, as a result, are paying less at the pump than they were at the beginning of the summer.
    “You’ve seen tremendous drops at wholesale prices really in every nook and cranny of the country,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS.
    Whether gas prices keep moving lower depends on several factors. Potential hurricanes around the Gulf of Mexico could force refineries offline, and unanticipated disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine conflict could both drive gas prices up again, analysts said.
    Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said he thinks the U.S. hit peak gas prices in June.    The average price of gas could fall under $4 a gallon over the next week or two if there are no major disruptions to supplies, Mr. De Haan said.
    “If nothing goes wrong, we could see prices in October, November, December falling noticeably under $4 a gallon for the national average,” Mr. De Haan said.
    Current gas prices already take into account slowing economic growth in the U.S., Mr. Kloza said.    But the cost of fuel could drop further if the U.S. experiences a recession on par with the 2007-09 economic downturn, he said.
    Fuel prices surged around the globe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted the global oil market.    That conflict’s impact for U.S. consumers has become more muted as Russia was able to continue selling oil to India and China, freeing up Europe and the U.S. to buy oil from other producers, said Mr. Kloza of OPIS.
    There are signs that record high gas prices took a toll on drivers.    Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults have already made changes to their driving habits since March, when gas prices were on the rise, according to a survey by AAA released in late July.    Of those drivers who made adjustments, 88% said they are driving less, and 74% said they were combining errands to save on gas.
    Drivers cut back gas consumption over the summer by about 5% to 10% below decadelong norms, according to estimates from Mr. De Haan.    But demand for fuel picked up last week as gas prices continued falling, he said.
    Even with the price declines, there continue to be big regional differences in gas prices.    Currently 19 states, mainly located in the south, have average gas prices below $4 a gallon, according to OPIS, which is part of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
    The average price of gas in California is $5.56, which is tops in the nation according to OPIS.    That’s 34% higher than the national average, but is also a 13% decline from the state’s peak on June 14.
    Meanwhile, the average price of gas in Texas is $3.67 a gallon, which is lowest in the U.S., according to OPIS.    That’s a 22% drop off from the state’s peak on June 15.
    Diane Reynolds, who runs a nonprofit called Matthew’s Light providing services to homeless people in the greater Houston area, said the spike in gas prices earlier this year hurt her organization’s work.    Her organization, which opened one year ago, does a lot of driving to pick up supplies and to conduct outreach, she said.     The nonprofit was unable to purchase enough hygiene products to hand out to everybody in need for the first time this year due to rising fuel costs, she said.
    “Every dollar we spend more on gas is one dollar less that we have to help the homeless,” Ms. Reynolds said.     Now that gas prices have fallen, the organization has more money to spend on services for the homeless, she said.
    “We are going to be able to meet all of our quotas now,” Ms. Reynolds said, referring to having enough hygiene products. “But we won’t have anything extra to put to our future goals.”
    Gail Roddy, who commutes every day from the Bronx, N.Y., to Queens, N.Y., for her job with the New York City Police Department, said she still isn’t feeling much relief as gas prices have fallen in New York state.    The average price of gas in New York is $4.50, a 11% decline from the state’s high on June 14.
    But she still plans to take a six-hour road trip to Virginia with her family in two weeks even though gas prices are higher than she’s used to, Ms. Roddy said.
    “There’s still things that have to be done whether the gas is up or down,” said Ms. Roddy, who spends about $120 each week to fill her 2013 Mazda CX-9.
    “[Gas] is more than it was last year but again, I’m going on vacation,” said Ms. Roddy.    “That’s my annual vacation with my family, I’m still going to drive.”
    Write to Joseph De Avila at joseph.deavila@wsj.com and Lauryn Azu at Lauryn.Azu@wsj.com

[AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW SHE WANTED THE NATIONAL GUARD BUT THAT WOULD GO AGAINST THEM WHY THEY DID NOT GET THEM OUT FOR JANUARY 6 TO THE CAPITAL SO WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND AND SHE WILL HAVE TO LEARN WHAT THE BORDER IS LIKE NOW AND BLM DID MORE DAMAGE TO DC THAN THE ILLEGAL ALIENS COMING TO D.C..].
8/5/2022 Border crisis hits home in D.C, so Mayor Bowser finally cares - Opinion by Chad Wolf – FOX News
    For the past 18 months, our nation has experienced a historic crisis at the southern border fueled by the Biden administration’s immigration policies allowing millions of illegal aliens into the country.    Texas and Arizona are ground zero for this border crisis and, over the past 17 months, have been pleading with the federal government to address the record number of illegal aliens and amounts of deadly fentanyl flooding into their communities.
Washington DC's mayor here is not getting much sympathy
    DC mayor calls flood of migrants 'humanitarian crisis'
    The federal government’s response has been derelict. President Joe Biden and his supposed border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to visit the border.    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues a deliberate disinformation campaign by stating that the "border is closed, the border is secure."    Apparently, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser didn’t get the party line memo, as even she recently begged the Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard to address the "humanitarian crisis" in her city and her insistence that D.C. taxpayers not foot the bill.
    I offer my congratulations to the first big city mayor to finally recognize that the disaster at the border does not end at the border states, and I say — "welcome to the fight."    But it raises a larger question — where has the mayor of the nation’s capital and other big city mayors been on this issue the last year and a half?
BORDER PATROL OFFERING $10K HIRING BONUS TO NEW AGENTS AMID LOW MORALE, MIGRANT CRISIS
    A cynic may find Bowser’s calls for National Guard involvement in D.C. to be self-serving and too little, too late, occurring only after she has experienced the consequences of out-of-control illegal immigration firsthand.    Since April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey began bussing illegal aliens apprehended at the border to the Nation’s capital in a last-ditch effort to shame the Biden administration into confronting the border crisis.
© REUTERS/Brian Snyder Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks about the city's preparations
for the white nationalist-led rally marking the one-year anniversary of 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right"
protests in Washington D.C., U.S., August 9, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder REUTERS/Brian Snyder     Mayor Bowser recently noted that D. C’s homeless shelters are overrun with illegal aliens and that D.C. is unable to provide for homeless Americans in Washington due to the approximately 6,000 illegal aliens bussed to the nation’s capital in the last three months.    For the mayor, this counts as being "overwhelmed and underfunded?"
    Imagine how small towns in Texas are doing with 7,000 illegal aliens coming through per day this summer.    D.C. seems to have a head-in-the-sand approach to illegal immigration — pretend it doesn’t exist, or don’t care it exists until it becomes a problem that politically inconveniences the mayor.    If Bowser were serious, why stop at just D.C. and not call for the deployment of the National Guard directly to the southern border?
    This brings me to the hypocrisy of the mayor’s cries for National Guard assistance.    This is the same mayor who openly flouts federal immigration law by proclaiming D.C. a sanctuary city.    Such a designation encourages human traffickers and illegal aliens to come to these jurisdictions while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is impeded by local officials from enforcing the law and removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens.
    Look no further than the 73 illegal aliens, including 13 children, discovered by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations team across six D.C. homes connected to human smuggling and trafficking rings.    This targeted enforcement effort on July 27 occurred just days after the mayor’s call for National Guard reinforcements.
    Abbott continues to send illegal immigrants to Washington D.C. to keep sending the buses up north as Blue City leaders
    There are countless other criminal aliens and victims of trafficking that continue to go undetected in large sanctuary cities nationwide.    Politicians who are serious about curbing illegal immigration should immediately discontinue unlawful sanctuary city policies and call on the Biden administration to vigorously enforce our immigration laws at the border and the interior of the country.
    I would also be remiss if I failed to point out the mayor’s starkly different view of National Guard deployment during the civil unrest in the summer of 2020.    As Washington, D.C. was burning and other major cities were plagued by riots, its mayor vocally opposed the use of the National Guard to help restore order.    When politics of the moment drive positions, it harms credibility with the people and endangers lives.
    I agree that we have a humanitarian crisis and that local taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for the Biden administration’s failed policies.    But neither should all Americans by diverting federal taxpayer dollars into processing more illegal aliens instead of advancing strategies that deter them from taking the dangerous journey in the first place.    Bowser has an opportunity to be a true trailblazer by becoming the first big city mayor to shun the failed policies of the Biden administration and embrace America First immigration policies that secure the border, end human trafficking, and defeat the cartels.

[AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW THE DEMOCRATS THINK ADDING BILLIONS MORE ON OUR DEBTS AND THEY ARE DENYING WE ARE IN A RECESSION THAT SPENDING MORE MONEY AS YOU NOTICE THEY CALL IT A REDUCTION ACT BUT ARE NOT TELLING US WHAT THEY ARE REDUCTING AS TO ME IT SHOULD BE CALLED THE INFLATION MORE INFLATION ACT SO IT IS TIME TO STOP INSULTING AMERICANS WHO ARE NOT STUPID AND WE KNOW WHO TO VOTE OUT IN NOVEMBER FOR ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR THAT AND MOST AMERICANS IN THAT BILL DOES NOT WANT WHAT YOU ARE OFFERING WHICH WILL NOT MAKE OUR LIVES ANY BETTER BUT WORSE THAN IT IS NOW.].
8/5/2022 Biden Says Americans Need Inflation Reduction Act, Economists Disagree by OAN Newsroom
FILE – President Joe Biden speaks about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court
Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)     The Biden administration has paired up with Big Business to promote its latest social spending bill.    The President said a Democrat-backed spending binge will combat inflation, but hundreds of economists disagree.
    On Thursday, Joe Biden held a virtual conference with representatives of large businesses and labor unions to promote his so-called Inflation Reduction Act.    He claimed the mega corporations had American families’ best interests at heart by putting their weight behind the bill.    The Delaware native touted the multiple ways he alleged Americans will save money from health care to effects from the so-called climate crisis.
    “The Inflation Reduction Act lowers prescription drug prices, lowers health insurance premiums, invests in clean energy that will create jobs and economic opportunities for business and labor, reduces the deficit, and makes common sense reforms to our corporate tax code,” claimed the President.    “These are the facts.”
    Biden praised the bill in tandem with the recently passed CHIPS Act, which the Democrat proclaimed would bolster clean energy investments and American manufacturing.
    “They see how already because of our work over the last 18 months, American manufacturing is coming back stronger than ever,” he stated.    “Where is it written that America can’t lead the manufacturing in the world?    Six-hundred, thirteen-thousand manufacturing jobs created just since I took office, the most created in three decades.”
    However, analysts are less optimistic about the bill than Mr. Biden.    Two-hundred, thirty economists penned a letter to House and Senate leadership warning the spending package will serve as gasoline for red hot inflation.    The economists warned the spending tax hikes will serve as a one-two punch to the economy, boosting demand while handicapping supply.
    Furthermore, they asserted the suggested minimum corporate tax rate would suffocate a supply chain on life support, while medical price controls will stifle innovation.    In a subsequent interview with Fox’s Larry Kudlow, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the bill a “complete fraud” because it will fail to attack inflation, while serving as shrapnel to taxpayers and businesses.
    “That the subsidies to Obamacare include people $304,000 a year,” Graham noted.    “That doesn’t sound like helping the poor and it also says the 15 percent minimum in tax that you described will create distance to build factories, buy equipment during a recession.    Now who in the right mind wants to tax and spend during a recession?”
    Democrats, however, shot back at the bill’s skeptics by producing a letter signed by 126 economists in support of the spending binge.    The bill’s ambitions were once thought to be extinguished until Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) came to an agreement on the measure with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) vocalizing her support for the legislation, it’s almost certain to pass through reconciliation.

[EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN TO ORBAN SINCE HE TOOK ON SOROS IN HUNGRY AND KEPT HIM FROM DESTROYING HIS COUNTRY LIKE SOROS IS DOING TO OUR COUNTRY.].
8/5/2022 Hungarian PM Orban: Left Headed Down Same Path As Nazis, Communist by OAN Newsroom
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban waves after speaking at the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)     Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called out the progressive left at this years CPAC after he was welcomed to CPAC with a standing ovation.    Speaking at the event on Thursday, Orban accused progressive liberals of trying to silence him and attempting to keep him away from the event.
    “They did not want me to be here and they made every effort to drive a wedge between us,” said Orban.    “They hate me and slander me and my country as they hate you and slander you and the America you stand for.    We all know how this works.    Progressive liberals didn’t want me to be here because they knew what I would tell you.    Because I’m here to tell you that we should unite our forces.”
    He then went on to suggest that today’s progressive left is equivalent to Nazi’s and communist dictators by trying to move the US away from Judeo-Christian values.    Orban, who came to power in 2010, has increasingly clamped down on political opposition and press freedom, consolidating his power further over the last two elections.    During his speech, Orbán also attacked Jewish billionaire George Soros, former President Barack Obama, “globalists” and the Democratic Party.    He went on to voice, “They hate me and slander me and my country, as they hate you.”
    “The horrors of Nazis and communism happened because some western states in continental Europe abandoned their Christian values,” he voiced.    “Today’s progressives are planning to do the same.    They want to give up on western values and create a new world, a post-western world.    Who is going to stop them if we don’t?”
    Orban concluded with a step-by-step guide for conservatives to fight in what he describes as an ongoing culture war.
    “We cannot fight successfully by liberal means,” the prime minister stated.    “Because our opponents use liberal institutions, concept and language to disguise their Marxist and Hegemonic plans.    Politics, my friend, are not enough.    This war is a culture war.    We have to revitalize.    We have to revitalize our churches, our families, our universities and our community institutions.”
    A day before his appearance at CPAC, Orbán and his delegation met with former President Donald Trump at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.    Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjártó also commented in a tweet that Hungarian-US relations were “at their peak when Donald Trump was President” and expressed the hope that he’ll be president again.
    In the meantime, Orban called on conservatives to mobilize in preparation for the 2024 presidential election.

8/7/2022 Rep. Cheney Releases Ad Showing Her Father Dick Cheney by OAN Newsroom
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on the U.S. Capitol at the Cannon House Building in Washington, D.C.     Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) released a campaign ad seemingly forgetting to mention her home state.    In the ad, Cheney’s father former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked former President Trump calling him a coward and a liar.    Cheney spent more than half of the one minute ad talking about Trump and never mentioned the Cowboy State.
    “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual that was a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in the one-minute ad posted to his daughter’s Twitter on Thursday.    “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters rejected him.”
    Cheney, who served under President George W. Bush, went on to praise his daughter who is running against     Trump-backed Trial Attorney Harriet Hageman in the upcoming Republican primary in Wyoming.
    Cheney said he and his wife Lynne are proud of their daughter who he said is “standing up for the truth, doing what’s right and honoring her oath to the constitution, when so many in our party are too scared to do so.”
    “Liz is fearless,” he added.    “She never backs down from a fight.    There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office and she will succeed.”
    The campaign ad is not likely to swing Wyoming voters in her favor as Trump won nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2020 and the state’s GOP voted to censure Rep. Cheney.
[MANY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHY THE CHENEY’S HATE TRUMP ITS BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD EVERYONE THAT DICK CHENEY AND BUSH STARTED A WAR ON IRAQ WITHOUT PROOF OF A WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION IN THEIR POSSESSION AND STILL HAS NOT FOUND IT TODAY SO THE BIG LIE HAS BEEN COVERED UP AND CENSORED SINCE AND TO TOP IT OFF THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON 9/11/2001 WAS A REVENGE FOR THAT WAR WHICH THE CHENEY’S AND GEORGE BUSH HAVE TRIED TO COVER IT UP AND JOE BIDENS DISASTOUROUS NEWLY EARLY LEAVE OF AFGHANISTAN WAS AN ATTEMPT TO USE THAT TO PROMOTE 9/11 FOR ALL OF THEM – SO THE REVENGE ABOVE IS HIGHLY KNOWN AND I THINK TRUMP WILL GET HIS REVENGE BECAUSE HE IS A MAN OF GOD WHO WILL DO HIS WILL IF HE RUNS AND BECOMES PRESIDENT AGAIN.]

8/7/2022 Biden Travels To Delaware Following 2nd Negative Test by OAN Newsroom
FILE – President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on
the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)     Joe Biden headed to the beach following his second negative test of COVID-19.    According to reports Sunday, Biden decided to travel to his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
    “I’m feeling good,” Biden said before boarding Marine One outside the White House.
    He tested positive on July 21 and had two negative tests July 26 and July 27.    Biden tested positive again on July 30, but tested negative Saturday and today.    According to his doctor, Biden’s vital signs remained normal throughout his infection, but he his symptoms included a runny nose, cough, sore throat and body aches.
    Biden caught a rare rebound case of COVID-19 on July 30, forcing him to isolate again.    He occasionally gave speeches from a White House balcony, such as when he marked the killing of an Al Qaeda leader or a strong jobs report.
    In the meantime, Biden is expected to make his first official public appearance in Kentucky on Monday to assess the damage of severe flooding devastating the state.
    Biden is fully vaccinated and twice boosted.
[AS OBAMA SAID JOE CAN SCREW UP ANYTHING AS WE SEE HE BOASTED HE HAD BEEN VACINNATED GALORE AND BOOSTED TWICE WITH THE BEST AND SINCE HE HAS GOT COVID TWICE AND TO ME SOMETIMES GOD PLAYS A JOKE ON A VERY BIG LIAR.].

[AS YOU SEE BELOW IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SOCIALIST GLOBALIST ONE NEW WORLD PERSON
WHO WANTS THEM TO PASS THIS ACT WHICH WILL NOT REDUCE INFLATION OR THE RECESSION
WE ARE IN NOW THIS IS A POWER PUSH TO GET MORE MONEY TO PUSH THEIR GREEN NEW DEAL
AND STIFLE THE MIDDLE CLASS WITH ATTACKS BY INTERNAL REVENUE PERSONNEL INCREASES
TO DO THAT AND WE HAVE NOW SOME REPUBLICANS HAVE SHOWN THEIR TRUE COLORS.].
8/8/2022 Bill Gates Endorses Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act by OAN Newsroom
Bill Gates speaks at Goalkeepers 2017, at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 20, 2017
in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)     Billionaire Bill Gates is actively promoting the new Democrat-proposed spending bill due to its “climate change” provisions.    In an op-ed for the New York Times, Gates claimed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act could be the most important piece of “climate legislation” in American history.
    The Microsoft founder argued that the bill would create an “energy future that is cleaner, cheaper and more secure.”    Gates also said making solar panels and wind turbines is very important.    The Democrat bill would finance that.    According to reports, Gates aggressively lobbied in favor of that bill, resulting in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) changing his mind to support the legislation.
    On the contrary, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said the Inflation Reduction Act is a “war on Medicare.”    In an interview Sunday, he voiced strong opposition to cutting Medicare funds.
    The Florida lawmaker said that a $280 billion anticipated Medicare expenditure will not be spent, impacting research done by drug companies who provide life-saving drugs to seniors.    Scott’s comments came just before Vice President Kamala Harris broke the tie in the Senate, pushing the legislation through the upper chamber.
    Meanwhile, the 45th President slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while asserting he has been manipulated by the Democrats.    In a post on Truth Social Sunday, Trump accused McConnell of caving to the Democrats on the infrastructure bill, compromising on the Second Amendment and not using the debt ceiling for negotiations.
    “Mitch McConnell got played like a fiddle with the vote today by the Senate Democrats.    First, he gave them the fake Infrastructure Bill, then Guns, never used the Debt Ceiling for negotiating purposes (gave it away for NOTHING!), and now this. Mitch doesn’t have a clue – he is sooo bad for the Republican Party!”
— Donald Trump via Truth Social
    While at CPAC, Trump said McConnell compromises with Sen. Manchin too much, which led to Republicans suffering since the West Virginia Democrat voted for the Inflation Reduction Act.    The former President said, “Mitch doesn’t have a clue.”     President Joe Biden praised the bills passing in the Senate.    He released his statement on the legislation on Sunday, just one day after its passage.
    Before the vote, Biden touted the bill as a means to combat inflation, despite many economists saying it would do the opposite.    The legislation will move to the House with a vote expected to take place on Friday.

[THE DEMS MUST BE GETTING DESPERATE TO SEND THE FBI TO RAID HIS PROPERTY WHICH MEANS HE SCARES THEM BECAUSE THE INSURRECTION CRAP IS FAILING AND HE MAY BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT IN 2024.].
8/9/2022 Trump: FBI conducted search of Mar-a-Lago - Agents possibly looking for classified documents by Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump     WASHINGTON – The FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said Monday.    Trump disclosed the action in a lengthy statement, asserting that agents had broken into his safe in a search he decried as evidence of “dark times for our nation.”
    The search, which the FBI and Justice Department did not immediately confirm, marks a dramatic escalation in law enforcement scrutiny of Trump and comes amid a separate but intensifying probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
    Trump and his allies immediately sought to cast the search as part of a Democratic-driven effort to keep him from winning another term in 2024, even though the Biden White House said it had no prior knowledge of it and the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump five years ago and served as a high-ranking official in a Republican- led Justice Department.    “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said in his statement.
    He added: “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.    Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
    Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized the search.
    Trump did not elaborate on the basis for the search, but the Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information after the National Archives and Records Administration said it had retrieved from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of records containing classified information earlier this year.
    The National Archives referred the matter to the Justice Department.    Trump has previously maintained that presidential records were turned over “in an ordinary and routine process.”
    There are multiple federal laws governing the handling of classified records and sensitive government documents, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material and retain it at an unauthorized location.
    Two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the search happened earlier Monday and confirmed that agents were also looking to see if Trump had additional presidential records or any classified documents at the estate.
    Though a search warrant does not suggest that criminal charges are near or even expected, federal officials looking to obtain one must first demonstrate to a judge that they have probable cause that a crime occurred.
    In his first public remarks since news of the search surfaced, Trump made no mention of it Monday evening during a tele-town hall on behalf of Leora Levy, the Connecticut Republican he has endorsed in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary to pick a general election opponent against Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.    Trump gave his public backing to Levy late last week, calling her on Monday the best pick “to replace Connecticut’s joke of a senator.”
    But in a social media post Monday night, he was much more unguarded, calling the search a “weaponization of the Justice System, and attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”
    During the 2016 presidential election, Trump sought to exploit an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information through a private email server she used as Secretary of State.    Then-FBI Director James Comey concluded that Clinton had sent and received classified information but the FBI did not recommend criminal charges because it determined that Clinton had not intended to break the law.
    Trump lambasted that decision and then stepped up its criticism of the FBI as agents began investigating whether his campaign had colluded with Russia to tip the 2016 election.    He fired Comey during that probe, and though he appointed Wray months later, he routinely criticized him too while he was still president.
    The probe is hardly the only legal headache confronting Trump. A separate investigation related to efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election – which led to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol – has also been intensifying in Washington.
    And a district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, is investigating whether Trump and his close associates sought to interfere in that state’s election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.

8/9/2022 The Siege On Trump’s Estate: A Political Witch Hunt Continued by OAN NEWSROOM
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort is seen in Florida. (AP Photo)     The FBI executed a search warrant at 45th President Donald Trump’s estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.    In a lengthy Truth Social statement Monday, Trump said that the FBI was conducting a search of his home and that agents had broken open a safe.    He said that after cooperating with the relevant government agencies, the unannounced raid on his home was neither necessary nor appropriate.
    The 45th President, who was at Trump Tower in New York at the time, called the siege “prosecutorial misconduct” and a politically-motivated attack by Democrats trying to prevent his presidential campaign in 2024.
Statement by Donald Trump via Truth Social     The circumstances of the raid were not immediately clear and Department of Justice spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized it.    The New York Times reported that the FBI raid is allegedly connected to 15 boxes of documents from the National Archives that Trump reportedly returned back in February.
    South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) was one of the first lawmakers to condemn the FBI’s actions.    She called it an “unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department,” who has been after Trump since 2016 while targeting him as a candidate, then President and now as former President.
    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) directly called out Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying that if the Republicans take back the House then Garland better keep his records and clear his calendar.
    RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Democrats disregard the law and continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans.    She called the raid an outrageous abuse of power while recalling the timeless adage, “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the siege on the President’s home conjures up several thoughts.    One, that the midterm elections are 100 days away.    Two, that Trump will likely run again in 2024.    Three, that no one is above the law and the law must be above politics.
    Additionally, Trump supporters immediately took to the streets of Palm Beach, unabashedly calling a spade a spade.
    “Biden administration and the Democrats are weaponizing the FBI and it has to stop,” stated MAGA supporter Jennifer Eady.    “The FBI is not here to weaponize against another president.    It never has happened before.    They should go after things that are clearly a violation, meaning the Hunter laptop, which they don’t even have to investigate because the laptop is right there.    All the evidence is there.    Hillary, all of that is not investigated.    And President Trump is investigated because they are scared that he’s running and he will win again.”
    Meanwhile, the Twitterverse lit up with calls for peaceful protests at various FBI headquarters across the country, including Phoenix in Arizona, Cheyanne in Wyoming and West Palm Beach in Florida.
    Top House Republicans are now demanding answers from the FBI and DOJ concerning the recent raid on Trump’s Florida home.    House Intelligence Committee ranking member Mike Turner (R-Ohio) fired off a letter to FBI Chief Chris Wray Monday, calling for him to immediately brief the panel on the matter.    Turner said he’s unaware of any national security threat posed by any information in Trump’s possession and urged Wray to provide answers about the justification for the raid.

8/9/2022 Judicial Watch: FBI Biased Against Trump, Protects Hunter & Joe Biden by OAN NEWSROOM
Joe Biden, left, and his son Hunter Biden, right, in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)     Oversight group Judicial Watch said there is a political bias at the FBI that protects Joe and Hunter Biden while seeking to punish Donald Trump.
    “So when you’re talking about the FBI and the DOJ protecting Biden, you have to remember they were also protecting Hillary,” stated group President Tom Fitton.    “They’re targeting Trump improperly, so it’s massive corruption and it shows that the FBI and Justice Department can’t be trusted.”
    Judicial Watch said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has found a number of whistleblowers at the FBI who revealed the bureau is covering up for the Biden family business abroad.    The group argued the Biden’s were involved in illegal activity both at home and abroad.
    This comes as former President Trump’s Florida home was raided by the FBI earlier in the day.    Trump said that the FBI was conducting a search of his home and that agents had broken open a safe.    He said that after cooperating with the relevant government agencies, the unannounced raid on his home was neither necessary nor appropriate.
    Judicial Watch said it’s advancing litigation to expose political biases at the FBI and other agencies to stop the unfair targeting of Republicans.    Meanwhile, Trump asserted he will continued to “fight for the great American people.”
[I HAVE KNOWN THE PERSON CHRIS WRAY ABOVE WHO TOOK OVER THE FBI THE DAY PRESTEP STEPPED DOWN BECAUSE HE KNEW THE CORRUPTION THAT WAS GOING DOWN AND THEN WRAY HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD SINCE THEN TO COVER UP ANY CORRUPTION THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE AND THIS IS DOCUMENTED ON MY WEBSITE AT FISA-UnderSurveillance 2018 UNTIL TODAY’S CONTINUED CORRUPTION.]

8/9/2022 Clinton Lawyer Gloats: Epstein Judge Approved FBI Raid Could Ban Trump From Re-Election by Chanel Rion – OAN Chief White House Correspondent
    The FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago over allegations Trump took classified documents from the White House. FBI Warrant issued by Judge accused of letting off Jeffrey Epstein.
    Mark Elias, Hillary Clinton’s top campaign attorney, says Trump could be disqualified from a second White House term after the FBI’s Monday raid.    The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home under the guise of hunting for classified documents allegedly taken from the White House when Trump left office.
    Elias cited U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071 — a law pertaining to federal record keeping.    “The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics,” Elias tweeted.
    Former President Trump learned of the raid while at Trump Tower in New York — sharing the news himself late Monday:
    “My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago… is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
    Elias insists if the FBI show the President tampered or illegally hid these documents, Trump could be banned from any public office in the US.
NO, TRUMP CAN’T BE DISQUALIFIED UNDER US CODE 18, SECTION 2071
    Even the New York Times had to engage in a sobering legal realization — that Trump cannot be disqualified from seeking re-election under this law:
    “several legal scholars — including Seth B. Tillman of Maynouth University in Ireland and Eugene Volokh of the University of California, Los Angeles — noted that the Constitution sets eligibility criteria for who can be president, and argued that Supreme Court rulings suggest Congress cannot alter it.    The Constitution allows Congress to disqualify people from holding office in impeachment proceedings, but grants no such power for ordinary criminal law.”
    Another difficulty in Elias’ argument is the fact Donald Trump as president held broad powers over classified documents.
    Christina Bobb, one of Trump’s top attorneys, was present for the raid. Bobb tells OAN:
    “This is absolutely a farce.    To pretend this is somehow law and order or an attempt at criminal justice is absolutely ridiculous.”
    Bobb says the raid was pure political theater:
    “President Trump himself, as well as his legal team, has been more than accommodating and allowed access to whatever they have wanted.”
    The raid included thirty FBI agents descending upon Trump’s Florida estate — initially in plain clothes — who then used their search warrant to enter the grounds and rifle through Trump’s private office and break into his safe.
EPSTEIN ENTANGLED JUDGE GRANTED THE FBI SEARCH WARRANT
    Secret Service was forced to honor the warrant, which was issued by Judge Bruce Reinhart.    Reinhart, according to the Miami Herald, was a magistrate judge in South Florida where he oversaw an early Epstein case that let the pedophile off on just 13 months of county jail time.    The following year, Reinhart resigned from the South Florida US Attorney’s Office to represent Epstein’s top employees, including Epstein’s pilot and scheduler.
    Reinhart was named in a civil suit accusing him of violating DOJ policies by seeking to curry favor with Epstein and his associates. Reinhart denied these charges, but was contradicted by his own colleagues in a 2013 court filing alleging Reinhart had “learned confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter.”    The complaints were ultimately dismissed by the DOJ.
    Reinhart is one of three federal magistrate judges in the West Palm Beach offices of the US District Court for the Southern District Court of Florida, along with William Matthewman and Ryon McCabe.
    The raid seems to have emboldened President Trump’s resolve even further going into 2024.    Trump posted to Truth Social a fiery campaign style ad hinting at a 2024 run:

[WELL AS YOU SEE BELOW THE APPROVAL OF THOUSANDS OF IRS PERSONS I GUESS GAVE BIDEN TO THINK HE CAN SEND THE FBI TO ANYONES HOUSE TO GET WHATEVER THEY WANT SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE CONGRESS AND SENATE ARE VOTING TO GIVE AWAY OUR RIGHTS TO THE SOCIALIST GLOBALIST NEW ONE WORLD ORDER SO NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THIS EVIL NOW – SO MAKE SURE YOU VOTE THIS YEAR AND HOPEFULLY THEY WILL NOT CORRUPT THAT AGAIN.]
An appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s contention that
Congress was overstepping in its tax records request. Morry Gash/AP File 8/10/2022 Congress can get Trump tax records, court rules by Jessica Gresko, ASSOCIATED PRESS
    WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court sided Tuesday with a House committee seeking access to former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, rejecting Trump’s contention that Congress was overstepping.
    A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with a lower court judge’s decision in favor of Congress.    U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden – a former Justice Department official and Trump appointee – ruled in December that the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has broad authority to request the records, and the Treasury Department should provide the tax returns to the committee.
    The three appeals court judges agreed.
    'The Trump Parties contend that the Chairman’s Request exceeds Congress’s investigative powers.    It does not,' the judges wrote.    Two of the judges, David Sentelle and Karen Henderson, were appointed by President Ronald Reagan and one, Robert Wilkins, was appointed by President Barack Obama.
    In their ruling, the judges also rejected Trump’s argument that the request was problematic in part because it did not include a promise to keep the records confidential.
    It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump would appeal or whether there would be a resolution of the case before a new Congress takes office in January.    If Republicans recapture control of the House in the fall election, they could drop the request for records next year.
    The judges’ decision came as the former president continues to be embroiled in legal fights.    On Monday, the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House.
    The House Ways and Means panel and its chairman, Democrat Richard Neal of Massachusetts, first requested Trump’s tax returns in 2019 as part of an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s audit program and tax law compliance by the former president.
    A federal law says the Internal Revenue Service 'shall furnish' the returns of any taxpayer to a handful of top lawmakers.
    'With great patience, we followed the judicial process, and yet again, our position has been affirmed by the Courts,' Neal said in a statement.    'I’m pleased that this long-anticipated opinion makes clear the law is on our side.    When we receive the returns, we will begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit program.'    The committee said on Twitter that it expected to receive the requested documents 'immediately.'
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the decision 'an important victory for the rule of law.'     An email to Trump’s attorneys was not immediately returned.
    The Justice Department, under the Trump administration, had defended a decision by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to withhold the tax returns from Congress.
    Mnuchin argued that he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit ensued.

[AS YOU SEE BELOW IT IS NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND THE ATTACKS ON TRUMP AND ANYONE WHO IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM BUT THIS TELLS US THAT THE FAKE JAN. 6 INSURRECTION PANEL IS REALLY DESPERATE TO FIND ANYTHING THAT TRUMP HAS DONE WRONG OR THEY WANT TO FABRICATE A CRIME AND THIS RECENT SURGE TELLS THE STORY – WAKE UP AMERICA AND FIGHT BACK AT THE VOTING POLLS AND LETS GET RID OF THE BIDEN REGIME.].
8/10/2022 Rep. Scott Perry says FBI agents with warrant seized his cellphone - Michael Balsamo, ASSOCIATED PRESS Perry     WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Scott Perry said his cellphone was seized Tuesday morning by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.
    The circumstances surrounding the seizure were not immediately known. Perry, though, has been a figure in the congressional investigation into President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
    Former senior Justice Department officials have testified that Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, had “an important role” in Trump’s effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark – a top Justice official who was pushing Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud – as the acting attorney general.
    In a statement Tuesday, Perry said three agents visited him while he was traveling Tuesday with his family and “seized my cell phone.”    He called the action “banana republic tactics.”
    “They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” Perry said.    “I’m outraged – though not surprised - that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress.”
    The lawmaker, representing Pennsylvania’s 10th District, was cited more than 50 times in a Senate Judiciary report released in October 2021 outlining how Trump’s effort to overturn his election defeat to Joe Biden brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos.
    Perry, who has continuously disputed the validity of Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, has said he obliged Trump’s request for an introduction to Clark, then an assistant attorney general whom Perry knew from unrelated legislative matters.    The three men went on to discuss their shared concerns about the election, Perry has said.
    The Justice Department found no evidence of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania or any other state, and senior Justice officials dismissed Perry’s claims.
    The Senate report outlined a call Perry made to then-acting Deputy Attorney General Rich Donoghue in December 2020 to say the department wasn’t doing its job with respect to the elections.    Perry encouraged Donoghue to elicit Clark’s help because he’s “the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this,” the report said.

8/10/2022 GOP stands by Trump after search - Ex-president portrayed as victim of politicized Justice Department by Steve Peoples, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donald Trump supporters Eric He, left, and HaoHao Li stand near
Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. GREG LOVETT/AP     NEW YORK – For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing.
    Dissatisfied Republican primary voters began to consider new presidential prospects. GOP donors grappled with damaging revelations uncovered by the Jan. 6 committee.    Several party leaders pondered challenging Trump for the party’s 2024 nomination.
    But after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Florida estate, the Republican Party unified swiftly behind the former president.
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who likely represents Trump’s strongest potential primary challenger, described the Biden administration as a “regime” and called Monday’s Mar-a-Lago search for improperly taken classified documents “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents.”
    The GOP push to portray Trump as the victim of a politicized Justice Department ignored the potential criminal misconduct that justified the search in the eyes of a federal judge.    It overlooked Trump’s role in hiring now-vilified FBI Director Chris Wray, who also served as a high-ranking official in a Republican-led Justice Department.    The Biden White House, meanwhile, said it had no prior knowledge of the search.
    But the robust defense serves as a fresh reminder of the former president’s enduring grip on the GOP, driven by an ability to use a sense of grievance among many Republican voters toward government and other institutions.    Trump tapped into that animosity to overcome two impeachments and the fallout from an insurrection.    His allies said on Tuesday that the FBI search would only strengthen his position again.
    “Trump just won the 2024 primary,” pro-Trump commentator Jack Posobiec declared.
    The FBI search also seemed to trigger a shift among Trump’s advisers, who had been privately urging him to wait until after the midterm elections to announce his intention to seek the presidency again.    Suddenly, some of those same advisers were urging him to launch his campaign before the November elections.
    Trump stoked such speculation in the hours after the search by posting a campaign-style video on social media.    “The best is yet to come,” he said.
    He followed up with a fundraising appeal, making it personal by declaring “it’s important that you know that it wasn’t just my home that was violated – it was the home of every patriotic American who I have been fighting for.”
    In Columbia, South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he spoke with Trump and felt sure another campaign was coming.
    “I believed he was going to run before,” Graham said.    “I’m stronger in my belief now.”
    As Republicans rallied behind Trump, Democrats pushed back against GOP claims of political interference, without evidence.    Some accused the GOP of a departure from its longstanding commitment to “law and order.”
    “The FBI director was appointed by Donald Trump,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
    Asked if the raid might hurt Democrats in the November elections, she said, “You’re talking about if the Justice Department decides to have a warrant to go in because they suspect something is justified, it’s going to have an impact on the election?    No, no, no, no, no.”
    Some of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics still shied away from embracing the former president.    And it was unclear how rank-and-file Republican voters and independents frustrated by Trump’s divisive leadership might be moved by the new developments.
    Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor and one of many Republicans considering a 2024 presidential bid, noted Tuesday that a federal judge had to sign off on the warrant.
    “The former president is presumed innocent,” Christie said.    “On the other hand, we can’t immediately impugn the motives of the prosecutors just because they’re from another political party.”
    “It’s an extraordinary action. And there better be some pretty extraordinary facts to underlie it.    If there are, then they have every right to do it.”
    And some other Republican officials seemed to express continued concerns about Trump by refusing to weigh in at all.
    The relatively short list of those GOP leaders who remained silent Tuesday afternoon was led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has privately encouraged his party to move past Trump.    The Kentucky Republican declined to react when asked to weigh in during a stop in his home state, which is reeling from devastating storms.
    “I’m here today to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood,” McConnell said.
    But the overwhelming majority – from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to DeSantis, accused the Biden administration of “weaponizing” the Justice Department and ignored any potential wrongdoing.
    “The GOP now fully embraces the notion that Trump should, indeed, be above the law, and that Trump 2.0 will be a bonfire of vengeance,” wrote Republican commentator Charlie Sykes, a frequent Trump critic.
    Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is gearing up for a presidential run of his own, said he shared “the deep concerns of millions of Americans” over the search of Trump’s private residence.
    He stopped short of attacking the FBI, however.    Instead, he said Attorney General Merrick Garland should “give a full accounting to the American people as to why this action was taken and he must do so immediately.”
    Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri aggressively condemned the Justice Department on Trump’s behalf.
    Hawley called the search “an unprecedented assault on democratic norms and the rule of law.”    He called for Garland’s resignation or impeachment and the removal of FBI Director Wray.
    Cotton said Garland had “weaponized” the Justice Department against his political enemies.    “There will be consequences for this,” he warned.
    Also from Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, still another Republican weighing a 2024 run, called the search “unprecedented and alarming.”    But like Pence, he added, “We must see the probable cause affidavit before making a judgment.”
    In late June, long before the latest development, 48% of U.S. adults said that Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
    Views on Trump’s criminal liability broke down predictably along party lines, with 86% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans saying Trump should be charged.    Still, the fact that nearly half the country believed he should be prosecuted represents a remarkable position for the former president, pointing to the difficulties he could face in another White House run.
    Former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg said Monday’s FBI search would almost certainly strengthen Trump’s standing among Republican primary voters, especially those Republicans who had begun to lean toward DeSantis or another fresh face.    But if Trump is ultimately indicted for a federal crime related to the search, as Nunberg said he expects, the former president’s ability to win over a broader group of voters in the 2024 general election could take a major hit.
    “Despite the fantasies of everyone from Sean Hannity to Steve Bannon, I can promise you that someone under indictment isn’t going to get elected president of the United States,” Nunberg said.
    One of Trump’s most vocal supporters in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, almost seemed to thank the Justice Department for bringing her party together.
    “I’ve talked a lot about the civil war in the GOP and I lean into it because America needs fearless & effective Republicans to finally put America First,” she tweeted.    “Last night’s tyrannical FBI raid at MAR is unifying us in ways I haven’t seen.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence said he shared “the deep concerns of millions of Americans”
over the search of Trump’s private residence. RYAN M. KELLY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
8/10/2022 U.S. Weekly Crude Stocks Jump Nearly 5.5 Mln Barrels, Gasoline Down Almost as Much by Investing.com – by Barani Krishnan
    Investing.com -- U.S. crude oil inventories jumped by almost 5.5 million barrels last week, the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, announced on Wednesday.
© Reuters U.S. Weekly Crude Stocks Jump Nearly 5.5 Mln Barrels, Gasoline Down Almost as Much     Equally surprising was the slump in gasoline stockpiles, which fell by almost as much, or nearly 5 million barrels.
    Crude oil inventories jumped by 5.458 million barrels during the week to Aug. 5 against expectations for a build of 73,000 barrels.    In the previous week to July 29, crude stockpiles had also risen nearly 5 million barrels, or by 4.467 million to be precise.
BP profit hits 14-year high
    Gasoline inventories declined by 4.978 million barrels last week, against expectations for a drop of 633,000 barrels. In the previous week, gasoline rose by 163,000 barrels.
    Distillate stocks surprisingly grew by 2.166 million barrels last week.    The expectation had been for a decline of 667,000 barrels. In the previous week, distillates had fallen by 2.4 million barrels.
    The EIA inventory report also showed an outflow of 5.3 million from the national emergency oil reserve, bringing the so-called Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s balance to 464.6 million barrels — the lowest since April 1985.
    The Biden administration has been leaning heavily on the reserve to add to crude supplies in the market amid the squeeze in global oil availability from the sanctions placed on Russia over the Ukraine war.
    The administration is expected to continue withdrawing between 750,000 and 1.0 million barrels from the reserve daily until October to create more supply for refiners to turn into gasoline and bring down pump prices of that fuel.    Gasoline at U.S. pumps hit record highs of above $5 a gallon in mid-June, and is down to almost $4 now.    The EIA report showed gasoline demand for last week at 9.123 million barrels, not much changed from year-ago levels of 9.43 million.    U.S. gasoline exports, meanwhile, were at 1.13 million barrels, the most since December 2018.
    Exports of U.S. crude oil itself fell by almost 40% on the week to 2.11 million barrels from a previous 3.51 million.
    Production of crude also ticked higher, to an estimated 12.2 million barrels per day from 12.1 million.
[SINCE TRUMP REFILLED IT AFTER OBAMA EMPTIED IT HAD AT LEAST 650 MILLION BARRELS IN THE SPR BEFORE JOE STARTED STEALING FROM IT TO NOW AT 465 MILLION BARRELS SO HE HAS ALREADY USED 185 MILLION BARRELS WHICH HE STATED TO USE, SO IS HE GOING TO EMPTY THE SPR AND NOT REFILL IT LIKE OBAMA DID AND IF WE HAVE A WAR WITH RUSSIA OR CHINA WHERE WILL WE GET IT.]

8/10/2022 Eric Trump: ‘Coordinated Attack On All Fronts’ Against President Trump by Daniel Baldwin – OAN White House Correspondent
President Trump addresses supporters during a “Save America” rally at
York Family Farms in Cullman, Alabama. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)     Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, criticized the Biden Administration, claiming the 46th President had knowledge of the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago Monday evening.
    “Joe Biden authorized this raid, make no mistake about it,” Eric Trump stated in an exclusive interview with One America News.    “I understand how the system works better than anybody.    And the FBI is now raiding the former president’s house, especially Donald Trump and especially Mar-a-Lago without Joe Biden giving the wink, wink, nod, nod.    Make no mistake about that.”
    President Donald Trump said the FBI blocked his attorneys from witnessing its actions during the raid in a post on Truth Social.
    “Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting,’” Trump noted.    “Why did they strongly insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out?”
    Eric Trump said the raid was predicated on fear of his father.
    “They want to slander Donald Trump,” he asserted.    “They are petrified that he’s going to win again in 2024.”
    Trump also invoked the Fifth Amendment while at a scheduled deposition with New York Attorney General Letitia James.    The Attorney General scheduled the deposition to question the 45th President as part of a three-year civil lawsuit regarding the Trump Organization’s business dealings, specifically whether the business improperly inflated the value of its assets.
    “[James] campaigned right before getting into the attorney general’s office,” said Eric Trump.    “She campaigned on a promise.    I’m going to go after Trump.    I’m going to go after his children.    I’m going to get him.    I’m going to take him down.”
    Despite the legal battles, Eric Trump said his father has raised more money in the last few days than he has in the history of his campaign.
    “Over the last couple days, we have raised more money than ever before in the history of the campaign,” said Eric Trump.    “Millions and millions and millions of dollars have come in.    People are sick and tired of this stuff.    They see exactly what’s happening.    It’s a coordinated attack on all fronts.”
    Eric Trump believes the raid has caused the American people to lose faith in the justice system.

[AS YOU SEE BELOW THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO LIE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. THAT WE ARE NOT IN A RECESSION AND THEIR RECENT FIX HAS SLOWED IT DOWN BUT ITS NOT GOING AWAY ESPECIALLY WHEN THIS NEW INFLATION REDUCTION ACT KICKS IN AND I AM CONSIDERING TO TAKE ALL MY MONEY OUT OF MY BANK ACCOUNT AND BUY SILVER AND GOLD WITH IT BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE CLAIMING WE HAD 0% INFLATION WHEN IT IS 8.5% IN JULY - AND AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT BUYING THAT LIE.]
8/10/2022 US Inflation Up 8.5% In July Year-Over-Year, Yet Biden Claims It’s At 0% by OAN Newsroom
President Joe Biden listens as he meets virtually with infant formula manufacturers from the South Court
Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)     The Consumer Price Index report for July shows inflation is up 8.5 percent from a year ago. The Labor Department released the report Wednesday, indicating inflation cooled down from 9.1 percent in June.     The CPI measures a range of prices for a typical basket of goods, excluding food and energy because those prices are more unstable.    The report suggests inflation still remains near its highest levels in more than 40-years.    The Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to raise interest rates, while many economists say the US is in a recession.
    Meanwhile, Biden claims the US inflation rate is zero as he tries to promote his failed “borrow and spend” policies.    While talking to reporters at the White House Wednesday, he cited month-on-month inflation data and then claimed his economic plan “is working.”

AS YOU CAN SEE ABOVE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCER OF LIES NEEDS TO GET
A NOTEBOOK WITH SOME TRUTH IN IT NOT STUFF WRITEN BY RON KLAIN     Although core inflation slowed from 9.1 percent in June, economists say the crisis continues.
    “The real issue though is core inflation has been moving up,” stated Gary Schlossberg, Global Strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.    “We do think as the recessions deepens around the turn of the year in 2023, that does create a headwind for that the core rate though and we do see that core rate coming off.”
    Experts also said inflation is slowing because of a decline in economic activity amid ongoing recession.    However, contrary to Biden’s claims, the inflation rate still remains very high.
    Former Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is also warning against attempts to downplay the inflation crisis.    In an interview Wednesday, he said the Labor Department’s latest measure of inflation is encouraging, but risks of a broader economic crisis are still very high.
    Despite Biden’s claim of zero inflation, Summers said a number of macro-economic indicators is pointing to structural problems that may get worse “with a horizon of two years.”

[ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MORE FAIRY TALES AS IN THE NEXT ARTICLE THAT INFLATION SHRANK FROM 9.8% TO 8.5% IS NOW O% OR IF YOU DRIVE YOUR CAR AT 98 MPH AND SLOW DOWN 85 MPH DOES THAT MEAN YOU ARE AT 0 MPH - WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.].
8/10/2022 Republicans Are Outraged at Joe Biden for Accurately Describing the Economy by Jordan Weissmann - Slate
    Along with critical race theory, “wokeness,” the deep state, and other recent conservative obsessions, it appears we can now add the basic language of economics to the list of things Republicans have decided to go to war on.
© Provided by Slate US President Joe Biden, pointing. JIM WATSON/Getty Images     Take the latest round of inflation statistics.    On Wednesday morning, the U.S. got its first bit of truly good news about the rising cost of living this year.    The Consumer Price Index, which has been surging in recent months, remained essentially flat in July.    That was largely thanks to tumbling gas prices, which canceled out rising costs elsewhere.    (Technically, the index actually declined a tiny amount, but the change rounded to zero.)
    Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, and is watched closely by economists and the markets, rose at a 3.8 percent annual rate, its lowest reading since September 2021.
    At a White House press conference, President Joe Biden unsurprisingly took a moment to celebrate the welcome reprieve.    “Today we received news that our economy had 0 percent inflation in the month of July,” he said.    “Zero percent.    Here’s what that means.    While the price of some things went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount.    The result, 0 inflation last month.”
    Biden then added a slightly wonky flourish, noting that core inflation rose at its slowest rate in “several months.”
    Now, personally, I think the president is at risk of spiking the football early here. While today’s inflation report was certainly welcome news, the month-to-month data can be erratic and reading too much into a single report can hazardous.    (I mean, trust me.)    Nonetheless, everything Biden said was strictly accurate.    Overall prices did not rise in July, meaning that inflation for the month was zero.
    Republicans nonetheless erupted in furor and mockery.    In tweet after tweet and article after article, right-leaning journalists, GOP officials, and party operatives accused of Biden of lying or misleading the public, since inflation is still up 8.5 percent over the past 12 months.    “Ridiculous BS from the White House,” Sen. Ted Cruz huffed in a characteristic tweet.    “There’s 8.5% inflation and basically everything anyone ever buys went up in price.    This is just cruel gaslighting from the Biden admin.”    Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee managed to wrap in some transphobia, tweeting that, “In Joe Biden’s America, men are women, and 8.5% inflation = 0% inflation.”    Classy.
    When journalists widely pointed out that what Biden said was basically accurate, conservatives promptly accused them of being patsies for the administration.    “I’m trying to imagine the pitch and volume of outrage from journos right now, if it was a GOP admin that produced this economy, and was now trying to redefine recession and declare ‘zero inflation,’” Cruz adviser Omri Ceren complained.    “It would send moons and planets across the solar system hurling out of orbit.”
    This is all predictable enough—Republicans of course want to emphasize the economy’s troubles—but silly.        It makes sense to cite the rate of inflation from the past 12 months when you want to talk about the cost of living versus a year before, which is what most families care about.    But it’s totally acceptable to cite the one-month change in prices if you want to convey how much inflation is speeding up or slowing down in real time.    I’ve often done it after particularly bad reports to highlight that prices were accelerating.    You can accuse Biden of omitting context, but he isn’t lying, making things up, or violating any kind of longstanding practice by economists and journalists.
    This is now the second month in a row in which conservatives have thrown a fit over economic lingo.    In July, the right collectively excoriated journalists and the Biden administration for supposedly attempting to redefine the meaning of the word “recession,” after the most recent batch of gross domestic product numbers showed the economy had contracted for the second quarter in a row.    According to a commonly used rule of thumb, which you will often hear repeated by Wall Street traders, two quarters of negative growth qualifies as a recession.    But Biden told reporters that we were “not in a recession.”
    That’s because, officially, we are not.    The task of deciding when recessions begin and end traditionally falls to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee.    The group of esteemed economists isn’t an official government office, but professionals rely on it as the final arbiters when it comes to this topic.    The committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months,” which they clock “based on a range of monthly measures” including income, spending, and hiring, among others.
    This is a significantly fuzzier definition than the two-quarter rule, but it’s also sensible one.    GDP is just one number that can be nudged up or down by a variety of factors, and it makes sense to take a holistic view of the state of the economy.    Technically, the U.S. never experienced two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP after the dot com bubble burst in the early 2000s, but between the choppy growth and job losses that ensued, the period was counted as a recession.    Right now, we’re experiencing an inverse situation: The economy is technically shrinking, but employers are still on a hiring binge.    It’s hard to really call that a downturn, though who knows, it might turn into one, eventually.
    Nonetheless, Biden’s insistence that, no, we are not in an official recession left the right apoplectic.    The fight online boiled over to the point where Wikipedia had to halt edits on its page for the term recession.    Conservatives accused Biden of “governing by gaslighting.”    Mind you, this is coming from a movement in thrall to a former president who lied about everything from the size of his inauguration crowd to the outcome of the 2020 election.    The word chutzpah is inadequate.
    Anyway, as an economics writer, this is all obviously exhausting, since talking about my beat using basic terminology now results in my mentions being flooded with accusations of being a propagandistic stooge.    But I expect these kinds of fights will repeat if Biden gets additional good news he wants to trumpet.    Such is life.

8/11/2022 FBI’s Wray denounces threats following search of Trump home by Margery A. Beck, ASSOCIATED PRESS
I’m always concerned about threats to law enforcement,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
“Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.” CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP     OMAHA, Neb. – The director of the FBI had strong words Wednesday for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
    Christopher Wray, who was appointed as the agency’s director in 2017 by Trump, called threats circulating online against federal agents and the Justice Department “deplorable and dangerous.”
    “I’m always concerned about threats to law enforcement,” Wray said.    “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.”
    Wray made the remarks following a news conference during a long-planned visit to the agency’s field office in Omaha, Nebraska, where he discussed the FBI’s focus on cybersecurity.    He declined to answer questions about the hours-long search Monday by FBI agents of Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida resort.
    It has been easy to find the threats and a call to arms in those corners of the internet favored by right-wing extremists since Trump himself announced the search of his Florida home.    Reactions included “Lock and load” and calls for federal agents and even U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to be assassinated.
    On Gab – a social media site popular with white supremacists and antisemites – one poster going by the name of Stephen said he was awaiting “the call” to mount an armed revolution.
    “All it takes is one call. And millions will arm up and take back this country.    It will be over in less than 2 weeks,” the post said.
    Another Gab poster implored others: “Lets get this started!    This unelected, illegitimate regime crossed the line with their GESTAPO raid!    It is long past time the lib socialist filth were cleansed from American society!”
    The search of Trump’s residence Monday is part of an investigation into whether Trump took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, according to people familiar with the matter.    The Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information since the National Archives and Records Administration said it had received from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House records earlier this year.

[WE ALREADY CAN WONDER IF EDUCATION WAS NOT GOOD SINCE WE SEE HARRIS CONNOT MAKE A SPEECH AND NOW WE SEE SHE FAILED IN MATH BECAUSE SHE SEEMS TO THINK THAT 9.75 MINUS 8.5 EQUALS ZERO SO I REST MY CASE.].
8/11/2022 VP Harris Touts Claims Of 0% Inflation In July Despite CPI Data Showing Inflation Dropped To 8.5% by OAN Newsroom
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a United Steelworkers convention
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)     Vice President Kamala Harris continued to downplay the current state of the economy while she was speaking at a steelworkers’ union event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.    There, Harris touted the White House’s claims of 0 percent inflation in July.
    This claim made by the Biden administration has been scrutinized.    Many have citied data from the Consumer Price Index.    The data showed that inflation only dipped slightly to 8.5 percent.
    “Today we learned that last month our economy had 0 percent inflation,” Harris said.    “In July, we saw a drop in gas prices and (in) a range of other goods like clothing and airfares, and household appliances, which means more money in the pockets of working families.”
    Harris also brought up the July jobs report, which suggested over half a million new jobs were created despite record high inflation.
    “Combined with other economic progress, which includes the fact that we have created over half a million jobs last month and over 9 million jobs in the last 18 months, which means that we have recovered all the jobs that were lost during the pandemic,” the Vice President continued.    “We are seeing great progress. Unemployment is now at 3.5 (percent), which is the lowest that unemployment has been in our country in half a century.    So, we are seeing that we’re delivering for the American people and we still have more to do.”     Despite Harris’s claim, economists pointed out that her statement was misleading as a large portion of the jobs that were created were part-time jobs. Economists highlighted that 71,000 fewer Americans are working full-time jobs.
    Additionally, they noted that the workforce participation dipped slightly.
    Harris concluded her speech by commenting on the recent signing of the CHIPS Act.    The Act provides funding and tax credits to incentivize semiconductor chip production in the US.    The Vice President implied that the jobs created by the large investment would primarily go to union workers.
    “These investments will create millions of good paying jobs, including good union jobs, jobs,” Harris noted.    “Union jobs for workers who will forge the steel we need to produce wind turbines and solar panels, jobs for rubber workers, aluminum workers, glass workers who will make the parts that are needed for these millions of electric vehicles, and jobs for the auto workers who manufacture those vehicles.”
    In the meantime, the White House has put their full support behind the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which is expected to pass through the House of Representatives this Friday.

8/11/2022 Trump Pleads The Fifth In N.Y. Civil Case by OAN Newsroom
FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James
takes a question at a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)     Former President Donald Trump sat down with New York’s attorney general as part of the state’s civil probe into his businesses.    The 45th President plead the fifth during his deposition.    He took to Truth Social Wednesday to explain why he did not answer questions from Letitia James.
    Trump said he did nothing wrong and is trying to protect his family from an unfounded and politically-motivated witch hunt.    He then pointed to James’ remarks insinuating that she wanted Trump out of office before she was elected to that position.
    The deposition was part of the attorney general’s civil fraud investigation into the Trump Organization, alleging his company misrepresented finances to banks, insurers and the IRS.
    Trump said, after five years of investigating, the federal, state and local governments have found nothing.    He added, what James has tried to do the last three years is a disgrace to the legal system, an affront to New York state taxpayers as well as a violation of the solemn rights and protections afforded by the United States Constitution.
    This comes as Trump may weigh a presidential run in 2024.
[MAYBE IF TRUMP BECOMES PRESIDENT AGAIN NO ONE WOULD BLAME HIM IF HE SENT THE FBI TO HIT LETITIA JAMES AND JOE BIDEN BUT HE WOULD NOT DO THAT BECAUSE HE IS NOT AN EVIL PERSON BECAUSE HE WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AS THE GREAT EAGLE WITH TWO WINGS WHICH JUST MIGHT SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MYSTERY BABYLON UNTIL LATER TIMES AS THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS SEEMS TO ALREADY BE CONTROLLED BY THE SOCIALIST GLOBALIST NEW ONE WORLD ORDER AS THE UNTITED NATIONS AND NOW CALLED THE G20 - WAKE UP AMERICA.].

[AS YOU MAY HAVE READ EARLIER THAT BIDEN IS STEALING OUR SPR NATIONAL OIL RESERVE AT 485 BARRELS AND ALSO SENDING IT TO EUROPE AND CHINA AND IF HE CONTINUES WITH THIS LIE IT WILL RUN OUT AND DO YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO START OPENING UP OUR OIL FIELDS AND PUMP AGAIN TO REFILL IT WITH 750 MILLION BARRELS SO IF WE HAVE A WAR OUR JETS AND TANKS, ETC WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEND US BUT WHAT IS EVEN SCARIER HE WANTS THAT TO HAPPEN – WAKE UP AMERICA.].
8/12/2022 Goldman Sachs: US Gas To Go Up To $5, Oil To Hit $130 By Year-End by OAN Newsroom
BERLIN – MARCH 23: A gasoline station attendant pumps diesel into a car at a filling station
on March 23, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo Illustration by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)     The investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that oil and gas prices will significantly increase by the end of this year due to a shortage of energy in international markets.
    In a new report, Goldman Sachs said that the average US gas price will increase to five-dollars.    Today, the average gas price is three dollars and 99-cents.    The report added that the Brent oil benchmark will go up to $130 per barrel — up from the $99 per barrel we have today.
    Goldman Sachs said that seasonal factors and an economic rebound in China will drive energy prices higher.    Damien Courvalin, the head of energy research at Goldman Sachs, touched on the topic.
    “Keep in mind right, and this is a big seasonal you have to keep in mind, refiners are about to slow down, right?    That’s a seasonal turnaround,” he said.    “Maintenance, what does that mean?    That means diesel and gasoline prices are about to go up because usually up have an inventory buffer.    This time you don’t have it so prices have to do the work and that’s rational that crude should be weaker and diesel gasoline should be starting to outperform.”
    Goldman Sachs believes energy prices will grow despite the falling demand due to the US slowdown or due to a recession.
[IF YOU WONDER WHY THE PRICES WERE GOING DOWN IS BECAUSE OF HE IS USING OIL FROM THE SPR BUT THIS WEEK EVERYONE WILL BE DRIVING THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL AGAIN AND GAS USES WILL INCREASE THE GAS PRICES AGAIN AND IF THEY ARE NOT PUMPING OIL IT WILL GO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS LAST FALL $4 TO $7 A GALLON - WAKE UP AMERICA - VOTE THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE TO GET RID OF LIARS.]

[THE FORCED OR STUPID PASSING OF THE DOWNED BUILD BACK BETTER BILL AND THEY HAVE FOUND A WAY TO SNEAK IT BACK UNDER A NEW NAME CALLED INFLATION REDUCTION ACT WHICH IS ANOTHER LIE SINCE IT WILL ONLY INCREASE THE INFLATION AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO LIE TO ALL AGAIN THAT WE ARE NOT IN A RECESSION AND IT JUST MIGHT SHOW YOU THE REALITY OF THIS ADMINSTRATION TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY AND WILL ALLOW THE SOCIALIST GLOBALIST NEW ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT TO TOTALLY TAKE US OVER AND ALSO LET YOU KNOW THE MAN BELOW IS ONE OF THEM, AND UNLESS GOD STEPS IN AND SAVES US OR MAY JUST RELEASE REVELATION 3:16 FOR ALL TO SEE AS IT IS IN PLACE ALREADY.].
8/13/2022 Bill Gates Calls Congressional Approval Of Inflation Reduction Act 'Nothing Short Of Extraordinary' by Shanthi Rexaline – Benzinga
    The U.S House on Friday passed the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, with the bill now going to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.     What Happened: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates took to Twitter on Friday to express his views on the bill.
© Provided by Benzinga Bill Gates Calls Congressional Approval Of Inflation Reduction Act 'Nothing Short Of Extraordinary'     “The Inflation Reduction Act’s passage through Congress is nothing short of extraordinary,” the billionaire said.
    The U.S. is taking a historic step toward the clean energy economy required to meet climate goals, he added.    The $369 billion investment, Gates said, will “spark innovation, drive job creation, and reduce energy prices and emissions.”
    “It sets a clear example of what serious climate action looks like,” the billionaire said.
U.S. House approves inflation reduction act; President Biden lauds passage of the bill
    “I’m more optimistic than ever that by working together, we can make a net-zero future of abundant, affordable, and clean energy a reality to people everywhere,” he said.
    Why It’s Important: The passage of the bill by Congress follows more than a year-long deliberation among Democrats.    Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who was primarily responsible for the drubbing received by the bill’s predecessor “the Build Back Better Act,” reached an agreement with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer late last month before it was narrowly passed by the Senate.    The House cleared the bill on a party-line vote of 220-207.
    Apart from provisions for supporting clean energy and reducing emissions, the bill also includes measures to bring down healthcare costs and increase revenue to the government through tax reform.    The latter will likely help the government mop up the resources needed for financing the remaining proposals of the bill.

[WELL BELOW IS MORE TRUTH THAT TAKING THE VACCINE OR BOOSTERS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT STOP IT FROM YOU GETTING CORONAVIRUS AS TWO OF THE BIGGEST LIARS TO OUR PUBLIC ARE OVERVACCINATED IF TRUE AND STILL GOT IT SO THEY CANNOT LIE THEMSELVES OUT OF THIS ONE AND THANK YOU GOD FOR THE JOKE IS ON JOE SO I APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUING DESTRUCTION OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NOW I HOPE YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIS OVER-REACHING CLIMATE CHANGE BILL.].
8/17/2022 Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19 by Zeke Miller, ASSOCIATED PRESS
First lady Jill Biden, pictured Aug.8, began experiencing coronavirus symptoms on Monday. Like her husband,
she has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP     KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing 'mild symptoms,' the White House announced Tuesday.    President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus but will wear a mask indoors for 10 days
    The Bidens have been vacationing in South Carolina since Aug.10, and the 71-year-old first lady began experiencing symptoms on Monday.    Jill Biden, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She has been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and will isolate at the vacation home for at least five days.
    'Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified,' her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote in a statement.    'She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutives negative COVID tests.'
    The president tested negative for the virus on Tuesday morning, the White House said, but would be wearing a mask indoors for 10 days.    He plans to return to Washington on Tuesday to sign Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill in the afternoon, before continuing to his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
    He recovered from a rebound case of the virus on Aug.7.
    'Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others,' the White House wrote.    It said it would increase the president’s testing cadence and report those results.

8/17/2022 Trump Celebrates Hageman Victory In Wyo. by OAN Newsroom
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC) Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)     Former President Donald Trump relished the defeat of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in her primary election.    He took to Truth Social Tuesday to congratulate Harriet Hageman on winning Wyoming’s sole Republican congressional nomination.
    “Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming.    This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.    Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others.    Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now.    Thank you, WYOMING!”
–Donald Trump via Truth Social
    Trump went on to say the outcome reflected Cheney’s constituents’ view on the January 6 Committee and wished her a happy stay in “political oblivion.”    The 45th President also claimed Hageman’s victory proves the 2020 election was stolen as she won by more than 30 points.
    “I assume that with the very big Liz Cheney loss, far bigger than had ever been anticipated, the January 6th Committee of political Hacks and Thugs will quickly begin the beautiful process of DISSOLUTION?    This was a referendum on the never-ending Witch Hunt.    The people have spoken!”
–Donald Trump via Truth Social
    Despite the blow, Cheney admitted that she’s considering running for president in 2024. While appearing on the “Today Show” the morning after losing her primary, Cheney said that she will make a decision in the coming months while she completes her term in the House.
    Separately, she continued to bash the Republican Party and criticized former President Trump.    Her remarks came after she lost by more than 37 points to Trump-endorsed Hageman in Tuesday’s primary race.

8/17/2022 Trump Attorney: Cheney Blow-Out Puts RINOs On Notice by Daniel Baldwin – OAN White House Correspondent
    Former President Donald Trump scored a big win Tuesday evening when attorney Harriet Hageman handed Rep. Liz Cheney a 38 percent defeat.    Hageman hauled in 113,025 votes, or 66.33 percent, compared to Cheney’s 28.94 percent with 99 percent of the vote counted according to Decision Desk HQ.
    “The people of Wyoming sent a message loud and clear to the RINOs in this country that they’re not tolerating it anymore,” said Christina Bobb, Save America attorney.    “We all saw this coming.”
    Polls leading up to the race regularly featured Cheney in a double-digit hole.    Election pundits said Cheney’s best opportunity to score an upset win was to convert Democrats to register as Republicans in the lead up to the primary.    Wyoming laws let voters switch their party affiliation up to two weeks before the primary.    They also allow same-day changes at polling places or by voters who request absentee ballots.    Bobb says this plan was destined to fail.
    “The only way that that strategy would work would be if Democrats have a compelling message,” Bobb explained.    “And they don’t.    There’s absolutely nothing about the Democrat platform that’s compelling to any American, particularly Americans in Wyoming who are among the most conservative in the nation.”
    In her concession speech, Cheney compared her current situation to that of former president Abraham Lincoln.
    “The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” Cheney said.    “Lincoln ultimately prevailed. He saved our Union.”
Former President Donald Trump celebrated Cheney’s demise on Truth Social while also calling for the January 6th Committee to be dissolved.
    “Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” said Trump.    “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.    Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others.    Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you, WYOMING!”
    Cheney would not rule out the possibility of a run at the White House in 2024 following her defeat.    In an interview with NBC News, Cheney said a presidential bid was something she was “thinking about.”    Bobb says this is a delusional aspiration.
    “I would love to see a White House run,” said Bobb.    “I love how she follows up a massive defeat with, ‘Well, I was going to run for president anyway.”
    Bobb says this presidential hope is a tactic to avoid humiliation by Cheney and the establishment.
    “They’re just trying to save face,” said Bobb.

8/18/2022 U.K. Cardiologist: Vaccines May Pose Greater Risk Than COVID-19 by OAN Newsroom
Vials of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a pharmacy in Denver on Saturday, March 6, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)     In a recent interview, renowned British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, ramped up his opposition to COVID-mandates by saying that people must not be forced to take the vaccine because its side effects pose a greater risk than the virus itself.
    Last year, Malhotra was one of the leading supporters of COVID-vaccines in the U.K.    However, after he took two-doses of the vaccine himself, he changed his mind.
    The doctor claimed that the vaccines have caused thousands of excess deaths, including documented many cases of heart failure.
    “In the trial itself it appeared that one was more likely to suffer a serious adverse event from the vaccine, so disability, life changing event, hospitalization, than they were to be hospitalized from COVID, and that was during the more lethal strain,” Malhotra said.    “Now, if this is true, and there’s a good reason to suggest that it is, then it changes everything.”
    Dr. Malhotra went on to say that governments must change their COVID policies, lift vaccine mandates and should release all of the data on vaccine-related injuries.

8/19/2022 Climate bill has unlikely beneficiary by Matthew Brown and Michael Phillis, ASSOCIATED PRESS
American oil, gas industry is guaranteed new drilling opportunities in Gulf, Alaska The sun sets at the
Chalmette Refinery in Chalmette, La., in 2020. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed by President
Joe Biden on Tuesday, buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas of
public lands and off the nation’s coasts. DAVID GRUNFELD/TIMES-PICAYUNE/NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE VIA AP, FILE     BILLINGS, Mont. – The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels.    It came at a pivotal time for Chevron, Exxon and other industry players: the Biden administration had curtailed opportunities for new offshore drilling, while raising climate change concerns.
    The industry’s setback was short-lived, however.    The climate measure President Joe Biden signed Tuesday bypasses the administration’s concerns about emissions and guarantees new drilling opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.    The legislation was crafted to secure backing from a top recipient of oil and gas donations, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, and was shaped in part by industry lobbyists.
    While the Inflation Reduction Act concentrates on clean energy incentives that could drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, it also buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas of public lands and off the nation’s coasts.    And it locks renewables and fossil fuels together: If the Biden administration wants solar and wind on public lands, it must offer new oil and gas leases first.
    As a result, U.S. oil and gas production and emissions from burning fuels could keep growing, according to some industry analysts and climate experts.    With domestic demand sliding, that means more fossil fuels exported to growing foreign markets, including from the Gulf.
    To the industry, the new law signals Democrats are willing to work with them and to abandon the notion fossil fuels could soon be rendered obsolete, said Andrew Gillick with Enverus, an energy analytics company whose data is used by industry and government agencies.
    “The folks that think oil and gas will be gone in 10 years may not be thinking through what this means,” Gillick said.
    The result would be more planet warming carbon dioxide annually – from U.S.-produced oil and gas by 2030, with most coming from fuel burned after export, according to some economists and analysts.    Others predict smaller increases.
    The law reinstates within 30 days the 2,700-square miles of Gulf leases that had been withheld.    It ensures companies like Chevron will have the chance to expand and overrides the concerns of U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that the government was “barreling fullsteam ahead” without adequately considering global emission increases.
    The measure’s importance was underscored by Chevron executives during a recent earnings call, where they predicted continued growth in the Gulf and tied that directly to being able “to lease and acquire additional acreage.”
    The fossil fuel industry’s ambitions are now directly linked to wind and solar development: The bill prohibits leasing of federal lands and waters for renewable energy unless the government has offered at least 2 million acres of public land and 60 million acres in federal waters for oil and gas leasing during the prior year.    The law does not require leases to be sold, only offered for sale.
    “It’s 10 more years of mandatory leases,” said Brett Hartl with the Center for Biological Diversity.    “We will do our damnedest but it’s hard to fight them all.”
    Communities near polluting industrial plants will continue to suffer if the oil and gas industry remains vibrant, said Beverly Wright, executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and a member of the White House Environmental     Justice Advisory Council.    She worries that incentives in the law for technology that captures carbon from industrial processes could also perpetuate harm to these poor, mostly minority residents.
    The leasing provisions mark a failure in efforts by environmentalists and social justice advocates to impose a nationwide leasing ban.    The movement’s high point came when Biden followed campaign pledges to end new drilling on federal lands with an order his first week in office suspending lease sales.
    A stream of potential drilling sites is crucial for companies to maintain future production because wells can take years to develop and some yield nothing, said Jim Noe, an industry lobbyist who worked with Senate staff on the climate bill’s leasing provisions.
    “The industry is in constant need – almost like a treadmill – of lease sales,” said Noe, an attorney at Holland & Knight who represented offshore oil and gas companies.

[THANK YOU STATE DEPARTMENT AND FBI FOR HELPING THE TRUMP SAVE AMERICA PARTY TO RECEIVE MORE MONEY FOR THE REPUBLICANS SO KEEP UP THE GOOD CORRUPTION AND IF THE DEMS CONTINUE GOD WILL MAKE IT WORSE FOR THEM EVEN WHEN YOU PASS CORRUPT BILLS.].
8/19/2022 Save America PAC Raises $1M/Day After FBI Raid by OAN Newsroom
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the Oval Office of the White House in
Washington, DC on October 11, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)     The FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate may have backfired.
    Trump’s Save America PAC has seen an influx of donations after the raid. Last week alone, the PAC raised more $1 million per day.    This is a huge increase for the PAC.    It normally receives $200,000 to $300,000 in donations per month.
    A Save America spokesperson attributed the surge to Trump’s fight against the Deep State.    Some believe the increase in donations is due to the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, which many feel was unjust.
    Trump’s Florida residence was searched by the FBI on Monday, August 8.    The FBI claimed that the former President was storing boxes of classified documents that he brought over when he left the White House.    He claimed that the agents went as far as to break into his safe to look for the so-called documents.
    The former President has claimed that the raid was unnecessary.    Expects believe that the raid will only help Trump in his future political ventures.
    “The RAID was Politics, the Midterm Elections, and 2024.    It’s another form of Election CHEATING – That’s all the Radical Left Democrats know what to do.    They use the FBI & DOJ to try and dirty up their opponents, but the people of our Country are wise to them like never before.    Be careful what you wish for!”
— Donald Trump via Truth Social

[AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE DESPERATE TO FIND ANYTHING THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DID WRONG AND THIS ARTICLE MAY BE A CLUE FOR WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR AT TRUMP’S HOUSE.].
8/20/2022 Court cites DOJ over memo in Russia case - Appeals panel: Barr should not have withheld document by Meg Kinnard, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A federal appeals court ruled the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly
withheld portions of an internal memorandum Barr cited in publicly announcing that President Donald Trump
had not committed obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP FILE     The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memo Barr cited in announcing that President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice in the Russia investigation, a federal appeals panel said Friday.
    The department argued the 2019 memo represented private deliberations of its attorneys before any decision was formalized, and was thus exempt from disclosure.    A federal judge previously disagreed, ordering the Justice Department to provide it to a government transparency group that had sued for it.
    At issue in the case is a March 24, 2019, memorandum from the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and another senior department official that was prepared for Barr to evaluate whether evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation could support prosecution of the president for obstruction of justice.
    Barr has said he looked to that opinion in concluding that Trump did not illegally obstruct the Russia investigation, which was about whether his campaign colluded with Russia to tip the scales in the 2016 election.
    A year later, a federal judge sharply rebuked Barr’s handling of Mueller’s report, saying Barr had made “misleading public statements” to spin the investigation’s findings in favor of Trump and had shown a “lack of candor.”
    Friday’s appeals court decision said the internal Justice Department memo noted “Mueller had declined to accuse President Trump of obstructing justice but also had declined to exonerate him.”    The internal memo said “the Report’s failure to take a definitive position could be read to imply an accusation against President Trump” if released to the public, the court wrote.
    The Justice Department turned over other documents to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as part of the group’s lawsuit, but declined to give it the memo.    Government attorneys said they were entitled under public records law to withhold the memo because it reflected internal deliberations before any formal decision had been reached on what Mueller’s evidence showed.
    Sitting presidents are generally protected from criminal charges on grounds it would undermine their ability to perform the office’s constitutional duties.
    The Justice Department, like Mueller, “took as a given that the Constitution would bar the prosecution of a sitting President,” the appeals court wrote, which meant the decision that Trump wouldn’t be charged had been made and couldn’t be shielded from public release.    Had Justice Department officials made clear to the court the memo related to Barr’s decision on making a public statement about the report, the appellate panel wrote, rulings in the case might have been different.
    “Because the Department did not tie the memorandum to deliberations about the relevant decision, the Department failed to justify its reliance on the deliberative-process privilege,” wrote the panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
    Appellate judges also noted their ruling was “narrow,” saying that it should not be interpreted to “call into question any of our precedents permitting agencies to withhold draft documents related to public messaging.”
    Attorneys for the Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to an email message seeking comment.    The department can appeal the ruling to the full appeals court.
   
[WELL IT SEEMS THAT CNN WAS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE AS PEOPLE CAUGHT ON TO THE TRUTH AND THE RATINGS ARE GOING TO REPUBLICAN SHOWS AS IT WAS ONCE SAID YOU CAN FOOL THE PEOPLE BUT NOT FOREVER AS THEY KNOW NOW AFTER SEEING WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS DOING AND OBAMA WAS RIGHT THAT JOE BIDEN WILL SCREW IT UP BUT IF NOT IT WAS THE PREVIOUS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PERSONS WHO RETURNED AND ARE PULLING BIDEN'S PUPPET STRINGS.].
8/22/2022 Stelter says CNN must hold media accountable as show ends by David Bauder, ASSOCIATED PRESS
CNN “Reliable Sources” anchor Brian Stelter said Sunday that he’ll still be rooting for CNN
even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the
network and others to hold the media accountable. EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION/AP     NEW YORK – “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he’ll still be rooting for CNN even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the network and others to hold the media accountable.
    CNN gave Stelter the chance to host a final episode of the 30-year Sunday morning program on the media even after it was learned this week that he and the show would be exiting – a gesture that’s relatively rare in television.
    Stelter said that it was not partisan to stand up for decency, democracy and dialogue.
    “It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues,” he said.    “It’s required.    It’s patriotic.    We must make sure we don’t give platforms to those who are lying to our faces.    But we also must make sure we are representing the total spectrum of debate and representing what’s going on in the country and the world.”
    It was Stelter’s most direct reference to what is believed to be the reason for his demise; CNN hasn’t talked publicly about it.    Since he started this spring, new CNN chief executive Chris Licht has made clear he wants to tone down opinion, particularly as it made Republicans resistant to the network.
    Stelter, who wrote a book about Fox News Channel and was frequently critical of Fox, was a lightning rod for conservatives’ complaints.
    Some of his final “Reliable Sources” guests were more direct.
    Eric Deggans, NPR television critic, said he hopes CNN will continue to give viewers context and not be reduced to false equivalency.    “Just the facts” isn’t enough, he said.
    “Will CNN have the courage to do that?” Deggans asked.    “I hope so.”
    Stelter, who hosted the show for nine years, also had Watergate scribe Carl Bernstein as a guest and brought back the first guest from the first “Reliable Sources” in 1992 – then-local journalist Brian Karem.

[KEEP DOING YOUR CORRUPTION DEMOCRATS BECAUSE YOU ARE FUNDING TRUMP'S NEXT PRESIDENCY.].
8/22/2022 Trump raises cash off FBI inquiry - More than 100 emails sent in days after search by Erin Mansfield, Candy Woodall and Rachel Looker, USA TODAY
Trump     Former President Donald Trump is aggressively raising money off the FBI’s seizure of confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, sending a blitz of emails that urge supporters to donate to an “Official Trump Defense Fund.”    The money is being solicited through a fundraising vehicle that can dump money into Donald Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, and to another fund, Make America Great Again PAC, which evolved out of his first presidential campaign.
    Trump is using the criminal investigation as an opportunity to motivate his supporters to stock war chests that already have more than $100 million.    He will be able to use the money in a variety of ways, including opposing his political enemies, and preserving and extending his already-firm grip on the Republican Party.
    Some examples of what Trump sent to his followers in the days after the law enforcement actions include:

• “What recently took place at my Mar-a-Lago home was an unprecedented infringement of the rights of every American citizen,” the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee wrote on Aug. 12, which included the “Official Trump Defense Fund” logo at the bottom.
• “Scam after Scam, year after year. This POLITICAL PROSECUTION is merely a continuation of Russia, Russia, Russia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax # 2, the no collusion Mueller Report, and more,” he said.
• A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had the subject line, “The Democrats broke into the home of President Donald J. Trump.”    The search was approved by a federal judge after the Department of Justice made a case that there was probable cause to believe a crime was committed.

    In the first 10 days after the search, Trump and his allies sent out more than 120 emails explicitly raising funds off the event.    There were at least dozens more referring more generally to things like a “witch hunt.”
‘Nothing inherently wrong with profiteering off of galvanizing news’
    The vast majority were sent by the Save America Joint Fundraising     Fifteen of the emails reference an “Official Trump     Defense Fund,” language that is strikingly similar to the “Official Election Defense Fund” that the House panel probing Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack said likely never existed.
    The Save America Joint Fundraising Committee did not reply to a question about whether there was a segregated fund for money that comes in for the “Official Trump Defense Fund” or where that money goes.    Information on fundraising and spending this month won’t be available until they report to the Federal Election Commission in September.
    Other emails came from the campaign arms of House Republicans and Senate Republicans, as well as funds affiliated with House Minority Leader Kevin Mc-Carthy, R-Calif.; Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.; and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
    “Every single dollar raised will go directly to FIGHTING OFF the corrupt Left and their LIES,” an email sent Tuesday said.    On Wednesday, an email promised a 1,300% match in donation amounts for one day only, with text that claimed the FBI went on “a wild goose chase looking for cocktail napkins, raincoats and golf balls from the White House.”
    Not all emails explicitly say what the money will be used for, and the amount raised this month will not be disclosed with the FEC until September.
    An inquiry to the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee was not immediately returned.
    “There’s nothing inherently wrong with profiteering off of galvanizing news – and this is obviously very galvanizing for his base – as long as it’s going to the stated purpose,” said Danya Perry, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
    Perry said the “Official Election Defense Fund” was a “cut and dried” case because the Jan. 6 committee determined that the money largely did not go to election litigation.
    “Time and maybe FEC records will tell,” she said.
    She said Trump could also run into trouble if he’s raising money not off of hyperbole, but off of false statements.
    A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had subject line, “The Democrats broke into the home of President Donald J. Trump.”    The search was approved by a federal judge after the Department of Justice made a case that there was probable cause that a crime was committed.
    Bruce Udolf, a defense attorney and former prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida, said the new Official Trump Defense Fund is “entirely predictable” and raises concerns.
    “If Trump’s doing it, it’s questionable,” he said.
‘Particular fundraising tactic that the Trump campaign has perfected’
    Daniel Weiner, a director at New York University’s Brennan Center, said it’s common for people across the political spectrum to use the concept that a candidate is being unfairly persecuted when asking for donations.    And others have used the concept of a “fund” before.
    “This is a particular fundraising tactic that the Trump campaign has perfected,” he said.
    Fundraising emails promising matches are also common, and in Trump’s case, Weiner said there’s no indication the donations in the past have been being matched.
    “It’s just a fundraising tactic,” Weiner said.
    Ann Ravel, a Democrat who served on the Federal Election Commission, said fundraising off of Mar-a-Lago is “really unseemly.”
    “He is turning it into a fundraising (mechanism) and also using it probably for his purposes of politicizing it and therefore advancing his own career,” Ravel said.    “Which is why I think it has to be related to deciding to run again in 2024 and to rile up the base.”
    Trump has not filed to run for election in 2024, but allies have called for him to take another stab at the White House, and his fundraising emails regularly ask supporters if they would vote for him a third time.
    Money that ends up with Save America can be spent for personal use, from clothing to defense attorneys, but cannot be turned back over to a potential campaign, Ravel said.    The Make America Great Again PAC is not a leadership fund.
    Erin Chlopak, a senior director for campaign finance at the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign Legal Center, said the influx of fundraising emails could be “misleading at best” and “fraudulent at worst” if the donations do not in fact go to Trump’s legal defense.
    “There’s not necessarily a specific campaign finance law that prohibits general misleading fundraising,” she said, “but it’s certainly a problem that we have seen for many years.”

[FOR THOSE WHO DISAGREE OR TREAT THIS AS A ALARM THREAT WITH THIS WILL STAND BEFORE THAT GOD TO ANSWER WHY THEY DO NOT TRUST THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, JACOB AND ISAAC SINCE IT IS WHAT THIS COUNTRY WAS BASED ON THIS PROVIDENCE BY OUR FOREFATHERS WHO FORMED THIS COUNTRY.].
8/21/2022 Alarm over Texas law forcing schools to display ‘In God We Trust’ signs by Samira Asma-Sadeque – The Guardian
    Civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells about officials distributing “In God We Trust” posters in Texas schools after a state law took effect requiring public campuses to display any donated items bearing that phrase.
© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Allison Dinner/AFP/Getty Images     “These posters demonstrate the more casual ways a state can impose religion on the public,” Sophie Ellman-Golan of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) told the Guardian.    “Alone, they’re a basic violation of the separation of church and state.     But in the broader context, it’s hard not to see them as part of the larger Christian nationalist project.”
    The Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC) said they were “disturbed” by the precedence the posters’ distribution could set.
    “SARC is disturbed by the precedent displaying these posters in every school will set and the chilling effect this blatant intrusion of religion in what should be a secular public institution will have on the student body, especially those who do not practice the dominant Christian faith,” the group said in a statement.
    While the phrase doesn’t explicitly mention any specific religion, many argue that “In God We Trust” has long been used as a tool to forward Christian nationalism.
    Christians were instrumental in putting the phrase on coins during the civil war, Kristina Lee of Colorado State University wrote last year, and has since used the phrase as supposed evidence to prove the United States is a Christian nation.
    The flags’ distribution in Texas is not the first time that a government body has imposed the phrase.
    In Chesapeake, Virginia, the city council ruled in 2021 that every city vehicle was to carry “In God We Trust” motto, a move that would require a budget of about $87,000.
    Ellman-Golan of JFREJ said the issue is deeply connected to other concerns, such as women’s health and education in Texas.
    “We know that state governments in places like Texas are codifying white Christian nationalist patriarchy into law at an alarming rate,” she added.    “The most dangerous examples of this are bans on abortion and gender-affirming care, as well as efforts to censor education.”
    Texas state senator Bryan Hughes, who is Republican and said he is the author of the “In God We Trust Act,” celebrated on Twitter, saying that the motto “asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God.”
    Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization, welcomed the initiative and said this might allow for an opportunity for students to learn about other faiths.
    “The notion of trusting God is common across faiths,” CAIR spokesperson Corey Saylor told the Guardian.    “Applied through that lens, the posters can foster discussions among Texas students about their various faiths and enhance understanding.”
    Saylor did not comment about how safe Texas’s Muslim students might feel in Texas about their religion.    About half of Muslim students in Texas’s Dallas-Fort Worth area have reported being bullied at school over their faith, according to a 2020 CAIR report.
    Sometimes in Texas, a fear of people from non-Christian backgrounds has prompted their being reported to police.
    For instance, in 2015, a 14-year-old Muslim boy in a Texas suburb was arrested after he brought a clock he made to school, and a teacher fearing it was a bomb called police on him.    A few months later, a 12-year-old Sikh boy in another Texas suburb was arrested after a bully told his teacher he was carrying a bomb in his backpack.
    Saylor said the “In God We Trust” initiative’s success depended on “students of minority faiths’ [feeling] supported by educators to express how they understand trusting God.”

[I THINK FAUCI SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL LIKE THE BABYLON KING SAW THAT, AND IF HE STAYED AROUND THAT TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS GET CONTROL AGAIN HE WILL SPEND ALL HIS TIME UNDER SCRUTINY OF HIS CORRUPTION AND I THINK THEY SHOULD DO IT EVEN IF HE RETIRES BECAUSE AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW THE TRUTH.]
8/22/2022 So Long, Fauci — Stepping Down Before Red Wave by Chanel Rion, OAN Chief White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 27: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listens during
a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.     President Trump signed the H.R. 748, the CARES Act on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers hope will battle the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)     The timing of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s planned resignation in December has raised questions around plans to investigate Fauci under a Republican congress in the fall.
    Having served 54 years in government – 38 of those as Director of National Institute of Health – Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Monday he would he resigning from his post in December.
    The 81-year-old stated he would be pursuing the “next chapter” in his career.
President Biden chimed in with a laudatory statement confirming Fauci’s resignation:
    “As he leaves his position in the U.S. government, I know the American people and the entire world will continue to benefit from Dr. Fauci’s expertise in whatever he does next.    Whether you’ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work,”
    The timing of Fauci’s announcement has been tied by his critics to fears over a red wave midterm that would deliver to Congress an army of Republicans whose constituents have long called for an investigation into Dr. Fauci’s conduct and handling of the pandemic.
    Fauci has been accused of lying before Congress when he denied providing funding to the Wuhan Lab in China.    Republican calls to investigate Fauci have fallen in n deaf ears in the Democrat controlled Congress.
    But Fauci’s chief congressional nemesis, Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul assured Fauci’s resignation in December would have little effect on efforts to investigate him:
    Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic.    He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.
    Fauci leaves his post in the government as one of the highest paid employees in the US government with a salary of roughly over $400,000 a year by some estimates.    A salary that surpasses that of the President, four-star generals, and almost 5 million of his colleagues in government.     And with Fauci’s resignation in December, he is expected to receive a pension exceeding $350,000 per year.

8/22/2022 Trump Sues US Gov’t Over FBI Raid Of Fla. Home by OAN Newsroom
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House
on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)     45th President Donald Trump is reportedly suing the US Government over the FBI raid of his Florida home.
    According to reports on Monday, Trump filed a lawsuit in a Southern District of Florida court in West Palm Beach.    The filing has asked the court to appoint a ‘special master’ on the case.    In addition, the filing also asked to conduct a review of the items seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago home.
    This comes as the Biden DOJ is being ordered to update what it wants redacted from its affidavit leading to the raid by Thursday. Trump has insisted that the FBI’s actions were politically motivated.
    Trump’s lawsuit also requests that the government provides a receipt of all items seized from Mar-a-Lago and to return those items back into his possession.

[WELL HERE WE ARE AS WASHINGTON D.C. WAKES UP TO THE BORDER CRISIS AND THEY THINK THEY CAN JUST GET THE MILITARY TO SOLVE THEIR MIGRANT PROBLEM BUT COULD NOT DO IT ON JAN 6 WHEN TRUMP ASKED FOR NATIONAL GUARD TO KEEP ALL SAFE, AND AFTER TEXAS GOV ABBOTT HAS BEEN ASKING FOR A YEAR OR MORE FOR HELP, SO SUCK IT UP DEMS AND CHANGE YOUR POLICIES AND I HOPE HE KEEPS THEM COMING AND MAKES YOUR LIFE MISERABLE SINCE YOU NOW KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE.]
8/23/2022 Pentagon rejects DC request for National Guard migrant help - Thousands being bused to city from Texas, Ariz. by Lolita C. Baldor, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Migrants hold Red Cross blankets after traveling from Texas to Union Station near the U.S. Capitol
on April 27. The Pentagon has rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard
assistance for the thousands of migrants being bused to the city from two southern states. JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AP FILE     WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Monday once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona.
    According to a copy of a letter to the city reviewed by The Associated Press, the Defense Department said use of the D.C. National Guard would be inappropriate and would hurt the overall readiness of the troops, forcing some to cancel or disrupt military training.
    The letter said the department also is concerned about putting uniformed military members in direct contact with migrants to provide food, sanitation or other support, saying the troops have no real experience or training for that mission.
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejected a similar D.C. request earlier this month, and Mayor Muriel Bowser had said she would send an amended, “more specific” proposal.
    Bowser had initially asked for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as a “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate.    The revised request asked that the help be provided for just 90 days.
    The Pentagon also denied the use of the armory, saying it is not air conditioned and would have to undergo costly changes and repairs to make it suitable for overnight stays.
    When the Defense Department rejected the first request, officials said the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s food and shelter program has provided funding for the problem, and has indicated those funds are sufficient at this point.
    The latest letter said the city should continue to work with non-government groups to address the issue.
    During the spring, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers by denying them a chance to seek asylum.
    The rule remains in effect under court order.

8/24/2022 CAUGHT! Biden White House Directly Involved In Trump DOJ Probe MONTHS Before Raid by Chanel Rion, OAN Chief White House Correspondent
    Biden White House has been in talks with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal probe into Donald Trump for months – contrary to what the White House has claimed.    Government documents reviewed by Just the News this week expose major holes in the Biden White House narrative.
    Newly reviewed memos between the Biden White House and the FBI, DOJ, and the National Archives show the White House as early as April was involved in discussions surrounding Trump’s papers and documents.    According to documents reviewed by Just the News, then White House Deputy Legal Counsel Jonathan Su this May told the National Archives President Biden would “not object to waiving [President Trump’s] claims of executive privilege.”
    This statement from Joe Biden’s White House served as the green light for DOJ to procure a subpoena demanding Trump return papers from his presidency that might be at Mar-a-Lago.
    A May 10 letter from Acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall to Trump’s legal team confirmed the White House’s role and prior knowledge in the DOJ probe against Trump:
    “On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes,” wrote Wall.
    Wall goes on to justify ignoring Trump’s executive privilege citing President Biden himself:
    “The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege.’    …I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.”
    These correspondences confirm the Biden White House directly participated in a process key to empowering the DOJ raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8.
    Ultimately, these revelations cast doubt on statements by Biden officials claiming no advance knowledge of the raid and raise more questions about what Biden officials did know prior to the August 8 raid.

8/24/2022 Oversight GOP Leader Says Fauci Will Answer For COVID Origins, Gain-Of-Function & More Despite Resignation by OAN Newsroom
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the
president, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response
to COVID-19 and new emerging variants, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)     NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Director Anthony Fauci is stepping down from his his public health position amid Republican calls to investigate him after they win back the House.    Dr. Fauci announced plans to step down in December after holding the position since 1984.
    For Republicans, however, this in no way means Fauci is off the hook. In an interview Monday, House Oversight Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) said retirement will not shield Fauci from congressional scrutiny.        He said Fauci will be held accountable for apparently lying about the origins of COVID-19, gain-of-function research and his mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak.    Comer also said a Republican majority in Congress will hold Fauci’s NIH (National Institutes of Health) accountable for the improper use of taxpayer funds to fund questionable research in China.
    One of the largest thorns in Fauci’s side, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), could potentially be the next chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.    On Monday, Paul said Fauci’s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic and he will testify about the lab leak under oath.
    However, Fauci claims the all but inevitable investigations headed his way had no bearing on his decision to retire.
    “I have nothing to hide and I can defend everything I’ve done, so that doesn’t phase me or bother me,” he told a reporter.    “My decisions of stepping down go back well over a year.”
    Time will tell.
    While congressional Democrats have refused to hold a single hearing in two-years into Fauci’s handling of COVID, Republican investigations promise to bring his dark deeds into the light.
    House Minority Whip Steve Scalise 9r-La.) said it’s good news that Fauci’s retirement will give him ample time to appear before Congress under oath.
[WELL IT LOOKS LIKE FAUCI IS SEEING THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL LIKE THE BABYLON KING AND IS GETTING OUT OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THE REPUBLICANS TAKE OVER AND FORCE THEM TO FACE THEIR CRIMES TO AMERICANS.].

[SO AS YOU SEE IN THE BELOW ARTICLE THAT THE FBI CRITTERS ARE HAND PICKED FOR CORRUPTION BY FBI ATTY GEN AND DIRECTOR AS MANY ARE CATCHING ON THAT NOW.].
8/24/2022 Report: Same FBI Official Involved In Whitmer Plot & Trump Raid by OAN Newsroom
A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen 03 August 2007 inside the
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)     A new report reveals a connection between the alleged kidnapping plot of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.    According to Just the News, FBI official Steven D’Antuono is in charge of the bureau’s field office in Washington that raided 45th President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
    Back in 2020, D’Antuono was in charge of the Detroit office when the Whitmer kidnapping case took place.    The report cites a trial testimony which says the Detroit FBI office “instigated, encouraged and facilitated” the Whitmer plot.
    Republican officials say both the Whitmer case and the Trump raid show the FBI is weaponized for political purposes.    GOP officials, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, say both the Whitmer case and the Trump raid show the FBI is weaponized for political purposes.
    “We’re seeing what’s happening with this Michigan kidnapping hoax, which is a total disaster for the bureau,” DeSantis noted.    “You look at what’s happened with FBI agents surveil parents going to school board meetings.    Who would have ever thought that?    So I think when Republicans look at that and they’re upset about it, it’s against the backdrop of that conduct where basically there agencies have become the enforcement arm of one particular faction our country against everybody else.”
    Suspects in the Whitmer case, Adam Fox and Barry Croft, were convicted Tuesday although they were acquitted in April on the grounds they had been entrapped by the FBI.

[WELL THE CDC, FAUCI AND THE FAKE NEWS ANNOUNCED ONLY 2% OF THE PEOPLE ARE GETTING COVID-19 AFTER HAVING THE VACCINES AND BOOSTERS SO IS IT A JOKE BY GOD THAT OUR 2% WERE JOE BIDEN AND HIS WIFE WHO BOTH HAD IT TWICE NOW AND I MAY PRAY TO GOD TO GIVE IT TO THEM 3 TIMES BUT THAT WILL NOT STILL WAKE UP THE WOKE - WAKE UP AMERICA LETS GET OUR COUNTRY BACK GOD IS STILL ON OUR SIDE IF WE PRAY TO SAVE US WITH OUR CONSTITUTION THIS COUNTRY WAS CREATED ON AND RETURN TO HIS PROVIDENCE WITH HIM AND IF YOU HAVE READ MY PREVIOUS FILES I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT GOD IS MAKING EVERYTHING BIDEN DOES IT ENDS IN FAILURE SINCE HE CAME INTO OFFICE JUST AS HE DID TO THE PHAROAH OF EGYPT WITH MOSES SO I HOPE YOU HERE THESE WORDS.].
8/24/2022 First Lady Jill Biden Tests Positive For COVID-19 In ‘Rebound’ Case by OAN Newsroom
U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as First Lady Jill Biden addresses US military personnel at RAF Mildenhall
in Suffolk, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)     Double vaccinated, double boosted First Lady Jill Biden has, once again, test positive for COVID-19.    Antigen test results from Wednesday afternoon proved to show a so-called “rebound” case of the virus.    These results followed a negative test from just the day before.
    Kelsey Donohue, the Deputy Communications Director for the First Lady, insisted that Mrs. Biden is not currently experiencing a reemergence of symptoms.    However, Donohue confirmed that the First Lady will remain in Delaware to reinitiate isolation procedures.
(Statement released by Deputy Communications Director for the First Lady, Kelsey Donohue)     According to a separate White House official, President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 as of early Wednesday.    Nonetheless, he is expected to mask-up for the next 10 days when indoors.    The President also experienced a “rebound” case of the virus last month.    According to reports, these types of scenarios can happen to coronavirus patients who take Paxlovid, a antiviral drug, for treatment.
    The First Lady initially tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month while on vacation with President Biden in South Carolina.

[IN THE NEXT ARTICLE WE HAVE ANOTHER LIAR WHO PROMOTED ANYTHING THAT THE LEFT TOLD HIM TO DO AND HE IS JUST AS GUILTY AS THEY ARE RESULTING IN THE CORRUPTION ELECTION PROMOTING THOSE THINGS SO DO NOT THINK YOU ARE INNOCENT.].
8/26/2022 Zuckerberg: Facebook Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story Ahead Of 2020 Election by Daniel Baldwin, OAN White House Correspondent
    Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the FBI approached Facebook shortly before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke and warned of “Russian propaganda” that would be released in the near future.
    “The FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team and were like ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert.    We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.    We have it on notice that basically, there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that,” said Zuckerberg.    “So, just be vigilant.”
    As a result, when the New York Post released its story on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Facebook intentionally suppressed distribution of the story.
    “Distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it,” Zuckerberg said.    “So, you can still share it.    You can still consume it.”
    Zuckerberg explained the end result was “fewer people” seeing the article “than would have otherwise.”    He says the FBI’s approach to Facebook spurred the company to action.
    “We just kind of thought, Hey look, if the FBI, which, you know, I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement,” Zuckerberg told Rogan.    “They come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something.    Then I want to take that seriously.”
    However, Zuckerberg admitted the FBI did not specifically tell Facebook the Hunter Biden laptop story was the “Russian propaganda” it was referring to, but he said the story “basically fit the pattern.”
Zuckerberg went to say he regretted Facebook’s involvement when the story was proven to be factually accurate.
    “When something like [the Hunter Biden laptop story] turns out to be real, is there regret for not having it evenly distributed,” Rogan asked.
    “It sucks,” Zuckerberg responded.
    Zuckerberg compared the situation to that of an innocent man going through a trial.
    “I think it probably sucks though in the same way that probably having to go through like a criminal trial, but being proven innocent in the end, sucks,” Zuckerberg explained.    “Like it still sucks that you had to go through a criminal trial, but at the end, you’re free.    So I don’t know what the answer would have been.    Don’t do anything, or don’t have any process?    I think the process was pretty reasonable.    We still let people share it.    But, obviously, you don’t want situations like that.”

[THE IMAGE BELOW LETS US KNOW THAT THE ATTY GENERAL AND HIS FBI HENCHMEN WHO ARE CORRUPT DO NOT WANT THE NEWSPAPERS TO AIR THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS.].
8/26/2022 Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Released by OAN Newsroom
Pages from the affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate are photographed Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart
ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal
agents searched Trump’s estate to look for classified documents. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)     The redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit is officially released.    After Friday’s release of the affidavit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) justified the redactions in the document.    The DOJ claimed that disclosing certain information would hamper its pursuit of evidence.
    The unredacted part of the documents showed that the FBI believed there was probable cause that national security documents were still at Mar-a-Lago after a prior request to hand them over.    According to the affidavit, the FBI also believed they would find evidence of obstruction of justice at the Florida property.    Former President Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to the investigation into the documents.
    Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the document be made public by noon eastern on Friday.    Reinhart made the decision on Thursday.    He said that the DOJ did not meet the burden of proving that the entire document should stay sealed.
    Former President Donald Trump had called for the affidavit’s full release.    Trump’s spokesperson believes that Democrat officials use redactions to hide their own corruption, claiming that it’s similar to what they did with the debunked Russia hoax.
    Trump released a statement reacting to the redacted affidavit on Friday.

8/26/2022 Oil up $0.04 to $93.00, DOW down 1,008 to 32,283 - WOW WAS THAT A RECORD FOR A DOWNFALL BUT I REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS RAISING THAT FAST AND ALMOST MADE IT TO 40,000 BEFORE BIDEN TOOK OVER - WAKE UP AMERICA.

[AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE BELOW ARTICLE THAT THE FBI DIRECTOR IS STONE-WALLING THE HUNTER BIDEN CORRUPTION AND IT IS JUST ANOTHER SIGN THAT OUR COUNTRY IS OUT OF CONTROL FOR AMERICANS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE.].
8/28/2022 Senators Call On FBI To Answer For Undermining Biden Family Investigation by OAN Newsroom
    Then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter at a basketball game in 2010.Nick Wass / AP file     Republican Senators are demanding that the FBI address their handling of the investigation on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
    According to Breitbart, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter on Thursday, requesting that FBI officials answer questions about a 87-page report that was recently released.    In the letter, the Senators referred to the briefing as unnecessary and said it was done at the behest of Democrats in order to falsely peddle the idea that Republican investigations were promoting Russian disinformation.
    Their request comes one day after Sen. Johnson spotlighted a whistleblower’s allegation.    The whistleblower claimed that agents were told by the FBI that they did not need to prioritize Hunter’s laptop in the weeks leading up the to 2020 presidential election because the bureau was “not going to change the outcome of the election again.”
    On Thursday, it was revealed by Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that the FBI warned Facebook of an imminent “dump” of “Russian propaganda” shortly before the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” story broke.    This caused the headline story to be shared at a less “meaningful” degree on the platform.
    This information comes as polls show 60-percent of Americans believe that Hunter Biden was selling influence and access to his father.

[AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW THE REPUBLICAN SOURCES ARE GETTING UNDER THE DEMOCRATS SKIN AND THEY ARE SHOWING THEIR FRUSTRATION THAT THEY CANNOT SWELL THE RISING OF REPUBLICANS WINNING ELECTIONS AND STILL GETTING THEIR POLICIES OUT TO AMERICA BUT THIS COULD BE CONCERNING AS WE ARE SEEING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION GOING AGAINST THE LAWS OF AMERICA TO PUSH HIS AGENDA AND USE EVERY ADMINSTRATION UNDER HIM TO ATTACK THOSE HE CLAIMS ARE FASCIST BUT HE IS DOING EVERTHING THAT THE DEFINITION OF FASCISM DOES - WAKE UP AMERICA ITS NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE.].
8/28/2022 Democrats Defend Biden Calling Republicans “Semi-Fascist” by OAN Newsroom
President Joe Biden talks with reporters before he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.,
Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, as he heads to Delaware for the weekend. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)     After President Joe Biden declared Republicans to be “semi-fascist,” leading Democrats have been either silent or supportive of his remarks.
    Recently when speaking to Democrats, Biden not only said that the 74-million Americans who voted for former President Donald Trump were threatening to democracy and he declared that those individuals are on a path to “semi-fascism.”
    In years past, that type of rhetoric about half of America’s voters would give party leaders a pause.    In 2016, Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton made a campaign defining statement by referring to half of Trump’s supporters, or about a quarter of voters, as being “in a basket of deplorables.”    Many Democrats at the time criticized Clinton and she was later forced to backtrack on the comments.
    However, now Democrats have stayed silent on the heating up of rhetoric against their fellow citizens even if they don’t outright support it.    DNC chair Jaime Harrison was asked if he embraced the label.    He said his party’s leader was just calling a spade a spade.
    “Well, it’s not about the embracing – its calling what it is what it is, in the end of the day, we are a country built on freedom.    And when you chip away at that, when you see the bullying that takes place in place like Florida with DeSantis,” Harrison said.
    Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said something similar, although she more closely matched Biden’s rhetoric.
    “You look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they are doing in attacking our democracy, what they’re doing in taking away our freedoms, taking away, wanting to take away our rights, our voting rights.    I mean, that is what that is,” Jean-Pierre said.
    On the other side of the aisle, there are some Republicans demanding that President Biden apologizes for his inflammatory statement.    Moderate New Hampshire Governor, Chris Sununu, referred to the Presidents remark as insulting.
    “Horribly insulting.    I mean the fact that the President would just go out and insult half of America, because effectively half of America votes Republican and half of America ultimately votes Democrat.”    Sununu continued, “It’s horribly inappropriate and insulting, and people should be insulted by it and he should apologize.”
    While that type of rhetoric coming from Biden and its defense by other party leaders is new, the Democrats have been trending in the direction of ratcheting it up ahead of the midterms.
    After the 2020 election and the January sixth protests, far left Democrats have declared the Republican party to be a fascist and white supremacist movement.    A notable Democrat who has spoken out is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
    “If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it’s communities like Missouri’s first district that suffer the most,” said Ocasio-Cortez.    “Well, you know     I do think that fascistic tendencies, and we certainly saw a lot of fascist sympathizing.”
    Now that the sentiment has gone all the way to the top of the Democrat party, it remains to be seen how it could benefit or hurt them in the November elections.

8/28/2022 Robert Davi: 4th Hunter Biden Laptop Found With Drugs by OAN Newsroom
File – Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, is pictured. (Getty Image)     ‘My Son Hunter’ director Robert Davi shared that another potential Hunter Biden laptop was found in a backpack with drugs.
    During a Truth Social panel discussion with CEO Devin Nunes, the director shared that he received this information from an actress he was working with during the casting for the movie. The actress shared to Davi that her friend had rented a house to Hunter Biden and that it was there where the backpack was reportedly found.
    “During research for the film, I had one time that I was working with an actress, when I was looking for the character of Grace Anderson,” said Davi.    “It happened that her friend rented one of the houses to Hunter Biden, and they found a backpack with drugs and another laptop in there.”
    If true, this would add a fourth laptop to the three other reported laptops found belonging to Hunter Biden, leading to security concerns surrounding their misplacement.

[BIDEN IT IS NOT ALL FBI IT IS THE ONES THAT OBAMA EMPOWERED TO START DEFYING OUR LAWS WHEN HE HAD THEM DOING DIRTY DEEDS AND IT TOOK ME FOR TWO AN HALF YEARS INTO HIS FIRST TERM TO REALIZE THE CORRUPTION STARTED AND WENT ON UNTIL TRUMP CAME ALONG AND THE ATTACKS GOT WORSE FROM HIS UPPER ECSCHELON ATTACKING REPUBLICANS AND USING GESTAPO ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS USING THE TOP NEWS SERVICES AND FBI, CIA, AND NSA, AND CONGRESS COMMITTEE ADAM SCHIFF TO COVER IT UP AND WHEN TRUMP CAME INTO OFFICE WAS ATTACKED BY THE SAME CRITTERS FOR HIS 4 YEARS AND LOOK WHAT THEY ARE STILL DOING AND IT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO A STOP BEFORE YOU SUCCEED TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY PART OF THE SOCIALIST GLOBALIST NEW ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AND IF CONTINUES YOU MAY SEE A NEW CIVIL WAR IN THE U.S. SO NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IS REALLY SICKENING AND I AM HEARING NOW SOME OF THE LOWER GOOD FBI AGENTS ARE BEGINNING TO TELL OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS SO IT WILL BE THEM TO BE ATTACKED MERCILESS AS THEY DID TO ANYONE CONNECTED TO TRUMP.]
8/31/2022 Biden blasts Republicans, ‘sickening’ attacks against FBI - President portrays Dems as pro-law enforcement by Chris Megerian, Marc Levy and Seung Min Kim, ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Joe Biden greets people after speaking Tuesday about his Safer America Plan
at the Marts Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES     WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – President Joe Biden on Tuesday railed against the “MAGA Republicans in Congress” who have refused to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and now are targeting the FBI as he tried to portray Democrats as the true pro-law enforcement party ahead of the November midterms.
    In remarks initially billed as a crime-prevention speech, Biden seized on comments from allies of former President Donald Trump who have called for stripping funding from the FBI since it executed a search warrant at Trump’s Florida residence.    Biden’s remarks were the first substantive defense he has made of the FBI since the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, which triggered not just withering criticism of the agency but threats of violence against its employees.
    “It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job,” Biden said before a crowd of more than 500 at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.     “I’m opposed to defunding the police; I’m also opposed to defunding the FBI.”
    It was a notably different tack for Biden, who has steered clear of extensively commenting on any element of the Justice Department’s investigation since federal agents conducted the search at Trump’s estate.    Biden also appeared to call out – without naming him – recent comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who warned of “riots in the streets” should Trump ultimately face prosecution.
    “The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, ‘If such and such happens there’ll be blood on the street’?” Biden said.    “Where the hell are we?”
    The speech Tuesday continued Biden’s aggressive rhetoric against the GOP ahead of the midterms, as Democrats enjoy a slightly brighter political environment buoyed by significant legislative accomplishments and a presidential approval rating that has trended slightly upward.    During a political rally in the Washington suburbs last week, Biden likened Republican ideology to “semi-fascism.”    He is set to deliver a democracy- focused speech on Thursday in Philadelphia that the White House has said “will make clear” who is fighting for democratic values.
    As he has done before, Biden on Tuesday criticized GOP officials who have refused to denounce the pro-Trump rioters who breached the U.S. Capitol nearly 20 months ago.    Referencing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Biden said, “Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don’t tell me you support the law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”
    The campaign-style speech near Biden’s birthplace was the first of three visits by the president in less than a week to the state that is home to a competitive governor’s race and a U.S. Senate contest that could help determine whether Democrats will keep their majority in the chamber.    Trump is hosting his own rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
    Democrats believe Pennsylvania is their strongest opportunity to flip a Senate seat currently held by Republicans.    Meanwhile, the open race for governor will give the winner power over how 2024’s presidential election is run in a battleground state that is still buffeted by Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats fraudulently stole the 2020 election from him.
    Biden’s comments on the FBI come as his son Hunter faces a federal investigation for tax evasion.    He has not faced any charges, and he’s previously denied wrongdoing.
    The president also used his remarks Tuesday to promote his administration’s crime-prevention efforts and to continue to pressure Congress to revive a long-expired federal ban on assault style weapons.    Democrats and Republicans worked together in a rare effort to pass gun safety legislation earlier this year after massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.    They were the first significant firearm restrictions approved by Congress in nearly three decades, but Biden has repeatedly said more needs to be done.
    “We beat the NRA.    We took them on and beat the NRA straight up.    You have no idea how intimidating they are to elected officials,” an animated Biden said.    “We’re not stopping here.    I’m determined to ban assault weapons in this country! Determined.    I did it once before.    And I’ll do it again.”
    As a U.S. senator, Biden played a leading role in temporarily banning assault- style weapons, including firearms similar to the AR-15 that have exploded in popularity in recent years, and he wants to put the law back into place.    Biden argued that there was no rationale for such weapons “outside of a war zone” and noted that parents of the young victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde had to supply DNA because the weapon used in the massacre rendered the bodies unidentifiable.
    “DNA, to say that’s my baby!” Biden said.    “What the hell is the matter with us?”
    Democrats are trying to blunt Republican efforts to use concern about crime to their advantage in the midterms.    It’s a particularly fraught issue in Pennsylvania, a key swing state.
    The Republican candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, accuses Democrat Josh Shapiro of being soft on crime as the state’s twice-elected attorney general, saying Shapiro “stands aside” as homicides rise across Pennsylvania.
    Homicides have been increasing in Pennsylvania, but overall crime seems to have fallen over the last year, according to state statistics.
    “The real heroes here are the people who put on the uniform every single day,” said Shapiro, who spoke shortly before Biden’s remarks at Wilkes University.    “We know that policing is a noble profession, and we know that we need to stand with law enforcement.”
    In the U.S. Senate race, heart surgeon turned television celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee, has tried to portray the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, as extreme and reckless on crime policy.
    Fetterman has endorsed recommendations that more geriatric and rehabilitated prisoners can be released from state prisons without harming public safety.    Oz and Republicans have distorted that into the claim that Fetterman wants to release “dangerous criminals” from prisons or that he’s in favor of “emptying prisons.”
    Fetterman’s campaign on Tuesday released a new 30-second ad emphasizing that Fetterman – as mayor of the tiny, impoverished western Pennsylvania steel town of Braddock from 2006 through 2018 – has dealt with street-level crime, and Oz hasn’t.    In the ad, Fetterman said he ran for mayor “to stop the violence” after two of his students in an afterschool program were murdered and “I worked side by side with police.”
    Fetterman was not in Wilkes-Barre with Biden on Tuesday, but he’s expected to march in Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade when the president visits Sept. 5.    Biden also will be in Pennsylvania on Thursday for a prime-time speech that the White House said will address “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and defending democracy.

9/1/2022 Biden now a 'wartime president' -- waging against fellow Americans, Gutfeld says - Opinion by Charles Creitz – FOX News
Gutfeld: Biden is waging war on the people of the country
    President Biden is accusing voters who support Donald Trump of subscribing to "semi-fascism" and appears to be preparing to double down in an address scheduled for Thursday at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Greg Gutfeld said on "The Five."
    Gutfeld reflected on Biden's remarks earlier this week in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he ridiculed "brave right-wing Americans" critical of attacks on the Second Amendment, declaring "if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15, you need something [a] little more than a gun."
    The "Gutfeld" host pointed out Biden himself has supported and facilitated the sale of guns to Ukraine as they fight against Russia's invasion – wondering aloud if the president also feels such small arms to be ineffective.
    "With that logic, why are we giving arms or money to Ukraine?    It's not useless if you're against a superior army," he said.
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY BLASTS BIDEN'S WILKES-BARRE SPEECH AS A ‘RACIST 1955 TIME-WARP’
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images     "With this logic, we should give up all of our rights, all of our protections, because they're no match for government force.    Right?    It's kind of a sick boast.    It's not semi fascist.    It's full-on fascist."
    Gutfeld added that Biden appears to be intentionally vilifying half the civilian population, saying, "who knew that Joe would become a wartime president? But he's waging war on people in the country."
    He criticized left-wing media figures who continue to claim Biden is a "moderate" and defender of the working-class, saying that instead the president is "an empty vessel they filled with left-wing agitprop and all this other crap."
    Gutfeld pointed out that idea is not new, given Biden's previous penchant to use extreme rhetoric against his political opponents – citing a 2012 campaign stop near Martinsville, Va.
BIDEN'S ‘DEPLORABLES MOMENT’: JOE CALLS TRUMPISM ‘SEMI-FASCIST’
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives
on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington. AP Images© AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File     At that event, reportedly attended by a largely Black audience, Biden declared then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's conservative fiscal policy platform would "put you all back in chains."
    "Do you remember that?" Gutfeld asked "The Five" panel.    "So the thing about Joe is if you look at his past, he operated on the most memorable hot take.    If you said something, he would go further out there and just say, well, 'he's going to put you in chains' or … you try to come against us, I got an M15.    He says the crazy stuff."
    Biden is scheduled to visit Independence Mall on Thursday to speak out against perceived threats to democracy by pro-Trump Republicans.
[IT IS OBVIOUS THAT JOE BIDEN WILL NOT BRING THE NATION TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE HAS SAID THIS WEEK HAS DIVIDED IT EVEN MORE.].

[WELL IT IS OBVIOUS THAT BIDEN HAS NOTHING TO RUN ON SO BLAME TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS AS THE ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES AND JOE NEEDS TO LOOK INTO HIS MIRROR AT HOME TO SEE THE REAL ISSUE AND HE PUT TWO MARINES BEHIND HIM AS HE WAS TELLING THAT EVERY MAGA REPUBLICAN WAS A DANGEROUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY SO NO GETTING THE TWO PARTIES TOGETHER AND NOW WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE REVERSE OF HIS STATEMENT IS MORE LIKELY TRUE.].
9/2/2022 BIDEN: TRUMP, ALLIES THREATEN DEMOCRACY - President uses prime-time speech to sound alarm by Zeke Miller and Josh Boak, ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Joe Biden delivers a speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. MATT SLOCUM/AP     PHILADELPHIA – President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that “equality and democracy are under assault” in the U.S. as he sounded an alarm about his predecessor, Donald Trump, and “MAGA Republican” adherents, labeling them an extremist threat to the nation and its future.
    Aiming to reframe the November elections as part of a battle for the nation’s soul – “the work of my presidency” – Biden used his prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to argue that Trump and the “Make America Great Again” allies who now lead the Republican Party are a menace to the nation’s system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens’ way of life.
    “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden declared.    He said they “are determined to take this country backward,” they “promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence.”
    The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and his adherents marks a sharp turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address.    White House officials said it reflects his mounting concern about Trump allies’ ideological proposals and relentless denial of the nation’s 2020 election results.
    “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden said.    “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”
    “Now, America must choose to move forward or to move backwards,” he said, appealing for citizens to “vote, vote, vote” to protect their democracy.    “For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not.”
    Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally.
    Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is sharpening his attacks, last week likening the “MAGA philosophy” to “semifascism.”
    Trump plans a rally this weekend in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden’s birth-place.
    “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” President Joe Biden.
    In Philadelphia, Biden harked back to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he said brought him out of political retirement to challenge Trump.    Biden argued that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months, and he cast defending the nation’s values as “the work of my presidency – a mission I believe in with my whole soul.”
    Raising his voice over pro-Trump hecklers outside the building where the nation’s founding was debated, Biden said he wasn’t condemning the 74 million people who voted for Trump in 2020.
    “Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans,” Biden said.    “But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”
    Biden’s appearance was promoted as an official, taxpayer-funded event, a mark of how the president views defeating the Trump agenda as much as a policy aim as a political one.    Red and blue lights illuminated the brick of Independence Hall, as the Marine Band played “Hail to the Chief” and a pair of Marine sentries stood at parade rest in the backdrop.    Still, the major broadcast television networks did not carry the address live.
    “There are far more Americans, from every background and belief, who reject the extreme MAGA ideology, than those that accept it,” Biden said.    He urged Americans to “come together, unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology.”
    Biden also condemned political violence in all of its forms, saying, “We can’t allow violence to be normalized.”
    Delivering a preemptive rebuttal from Scranton Thursday evening, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy accused Biden of trying to divide Americans, and blasted the Democrats’ record in Washington, pointing to rising inflation, crime and government spending.
    “In the past two years, Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values,” he said.    “He has launched an assault on our democracy.    His policies have severely wounded America’s soul, diminished America’s spirit and betrayed America’s trust.”
    Asked about McCarthy’s criticism, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier Thursday that “we understand we hit a nerve” with the GOP leader, and quoted the Republican’s prior statements saying Trump bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
    Larry Diamond, an expert on democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said calling Trump out for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or framed as being partisan.    And if you don’t call it out, you are shrinking from an important challenge in the defense of democracy.”
    Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution.
    The White House has tried to keep Biden removed from the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Department of Justice’s discovery of classified documents in Trump’s Florida home.
    Still, Biden has pointed to some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement, to argue “you can’t be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American.”
    Biden’s trip to Philadelphia was just one of his three to the state within a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor’s races.
    However, neither Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrats’ Senate nominee, nor Attorney General Josh Shapiro, their pick for governor, attended Thursday night.
    The White House intended the speech to unite familiar themes: holding out bipartisan legislative wins on guns and infrastructure as evidence that democracies “can deliver,” pushing back on GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says are out of step with most people’s views, and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections or diminish its standing abroad.
    The challenges have only increased since the tumult surrounding the 2020 election and the Capitol attack.
    Lies surrounding that presidential race have triggered harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail voting in Republican-dominated states.
    County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts generated by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election.
    Candidates who dispute Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election posts, promising to restore integrity to a system that has been undermined by false claims.
    There is no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines.    Judges, including ones appointed by Trump, dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general called the claims bogus.
    Yet Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling has shown about two-thirds of Republicans say they do not think Biden was legitimately elected president.    This year, election officials face not only the continuing threat of foreign interference but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats.    Over the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology.
President Joe Biden said his predecessor, Donald Trump, and “MAGA Republican”
adherents are an extremist threat to the nation and its future. EVAN VUCCI/AP
9/8/2022 Gen. Flynn Working To Unite Christians & Conservatives by OAN Newsroom
General Michael Flynn in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)     Former National Security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn is ramping up opposition to the Democrat agenda as part of his ReAwaken American Tour.    A new report by the Associated Press found Flynn is building a new movement that will unite Christians and Conservatives in their fight against globalism and far-left ideas.
    “There’s a spiritual war and there’s a political war,” he noted.    “And they’re going on.    They’re going on in this country right now.”
    The movement is reportedly aligned with Donald Trump’s goal to Save America. Gen. Flynn said he’s fighting against Big Government tyranny, spearheaded by Democrats and their corporate allies.
    “I am fighting for our constitutional rights and, you know, in a big way to save America, I guess,” stated the former National Security adviser.    “We’re gonna go, continue to go around this country and talk about election fraud.    We’re going talk about COVID, this health tyranny that we’re facing and we’re going to push that message far up Washington D.C. we can.”
    Flynn said every American must pay attention to politics right now because Democrats are aggressively pushing to change this country and that change is not for the better.
[FLYNN HAS EVERY REASON IN THE WORLD TO DO THE DEMOCRAT AGENDA INTO THE TRASH CAN OF ETERNITY BUT HE WILL STILL HAVE TO POUR BLEACH IN TO IT REGULARY TO KEEP THEIR SCUMMINESS FROM GROWING BACK.]

9/14/2022 Mike Lindell: FBI Seized Phone, Was Asked To Keep Quiet On The Matter by OAN Newsroom
Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, speaks during a campaign rally held by U.S. President Donald Trump
at the Target Center on October 10, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lindell is an outspoken supporter
of the Trump presidency and his campaign for reelection. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)     MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claims he was surrounded by the FBI. During his show on Tuesday, he broke the news to his audience that the government agency surrounded him at a Hardees restaurant and seized his cell phone.
    Lindell later showed what appears to be a subpoena for his phone then said the FBI also told him to keep “hush” on the matter while the investigation is ongoing.
    Since the news broke, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to alert his followers that Americans are “officially living in a weaponized police state, rigged elections and all.”
    The FBI has since confirmed it executed a search warrant, which was authorized by a federal judge.

9/14/2022 Second Hunter Biden ‘Laptop From Hell’ Likely by OAN Newsroom
FILE – In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Hunter Biden waits for the start of his father’s, Vice President
Joe Biden’s, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)     Damning information from a second Hunter Biden laptop may be circulating around on the web.    New York Magazine contributing editor Andrew Rice appeared on CNN to discuss the latest “laptop from hell.”    Rice penned an article on the laptop saga alongside Olivia Nuzzi, verifying at least one personal electronic device has fallen into someone else’s hands.
    The editor confirmed numerous aspects of Hunter’s life were extracted, including emails, texts, transactions and explicit content.    Given the younger Biden’s history of reported substance abuse, Rice said its entirely likely the initial laptop was not the only sensitive data cache he misplaced.
    “People close to him have propagated the idea that perhaps actually there is a second laptop out there that might actually trace back too, which goes back to the general point that Hunter Biden was capable of losing more than one laptop that potentially contained devastating information about himself during this time period in his life,” continued the contributing editor.
    In fact, laptop whistleblower Jack Maxey claims an additional 450 gigabytes of additional data was recovered from a hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden.    The drive also contained 80,000 previously unseen images that Maxey described as more disturbing than what was contained in the initial leak.
    Additionally, the U.K. Daily Mail has released a video of Hunter confessing that Russian drug dealers confiscated another one of his laptop during a Las Vegas bender.

    Some have claimed laptop repair man John Mac Isaac could not positively identify the first son due to the fact that he is legally blind.    While Rice acknowledged Mac Isaac is visually impaired, his affliction does not completely obscure his sight.    Furthermore, Rice asserts the FBI would not have seized the initial laptop from Mac Isaac if it was little more than right wing disinformation.
    “He has a subpoena that the FBI served on him and they came and took away this laptop.    In passed into the hands of the FBI, presumably because it had some kind of relevance, they thought to the ongoing federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances that status of which we really don’t know much about.”
    Federal prosecutors are currently considering leveling charges against the first son for tax violations and providing a false statement to purchase a firearm. Meanwhile, this story has barely made waves outside of non-mainstream bubbles while Democrat-aligned actors have worked to call the authenticity of the original story into question.
    Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have also been probing into Hunter Biden’s usage of his father’s influence to secure foreign business deals.

9/14/2022 Sen. Paul: GOP Majority To Reveal Fauci’s Ties To Big Pharma by OAN Newsroom
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, questions Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health,
while displaying a video and poster of Fauci, during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine,
stopping the spread of monkeypox, focusing on the Federal response, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)     Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) grilled National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci yet again over his questionable push for mass-vaccination.
    During a Senate hearing today on Wednesday, the Kentucky Senator pointed out that the government’s vaccine guidelines do not include data on previous infection which provided natural immunity.    Paul stressed that the vaccine guidelines do not respect the science on natural immunity.    The Senator added that he will shed light on efforts by government officials that have resulted in windfall revenues for vaccine manufacturers.
    “We’ve demanded them through Freedom of Information Act and what have you said?    We’re not going to tell you.    But I tell you this, when we get in charge, we’re gonna change the rules and you will have to divulge where you get your royalties from (and) from what companies,” Paul said.    “If anyone in the committee has a conflict of interest, we’re gonna learn about it.    I promise you that.”
    Senator Paul stressed that Fauci has denied the ‘very fundamental premise of immunology’ and that previous infection provides immunity in an apparent boon to vaccine-makers and the Big Pharma.

9/14/2022 Trump Says FBI And DOJ Are Targeting And Harassing ‘Dozens Of Amazing Patriots Who Stand For America’ by OAN Newsroom
TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during election night in the East Room of the White     House in
Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)     45th President Donald J. Trump accused the DOJ and the FBI of targeting and harassing dozens of amazing patriots who stand for America.    Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday.    There, he suggested the recent federal scrutiny on some of his supporters may be in retaliation for Representative Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) primary defeat.
    He then went on to say that radical left Democrats are destroying the country and are seeking to take vengeance on him and his supporters.    However, Trump asserted he will never back down.
    This comes after former Trump advisor Steve Bannon alleged that the FBI raided the homes of dozens of Trump supporters last week.

[HE HAS NO CHOICE SINCE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO KILL HIM FOR THEIR CORRUPTION THAT HE EXPOSED AND RAND PAUL DID BACK HIM FOR WHAT HE DID THEN BUT NO ONE IN CONGRESS BUT A FEW APPROVED IT OR OTHER WISE THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT SO HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO RUN JUST AS THEY ARE ATTACKING TRUMP EVEN NOW - WAKE UP AMERICA LETS CLEAN HOUSE IN 2022. On June 6, 2013, the internet erupted when the guardian reported that the NSA, had secretly been collecting phone records from millions guess what they are still doing it now.].
9/27/2022 Edward Snowden gets Russian citizenship - Ex-NSA contractor fled the US in 2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
Edward Snowden has become a well-known speaker on privacy and intelligence, appearing remotely at many events
from Russia. But he has been sharply criticized by members of the intelligence community. MARCO GARCIA/AP     MOSCOW – Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after he revealed highly classified U.S. surveillance programs to capture communications and data from around the world.
    A decree signed Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin listed Snowden as one of 75 foreign citizens listed as being granted Russian citizenship.    After fleeing the U.S. in 2013, Snowden was granted permanent Russian residency in 2020 and said at the time that he planned to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
    Ties between Washington and Moscow are already at their lowest point in decades following Putin’s decision to launch what the Kremlin has dubbed a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
    While Snowden, 39, is considered by supporters to be a righteous whistleblower who wanted to protect American civil liberties, U.S. intelligence officials have accused him of putting U.S. personnel at risk and damaging national security.    He currently faces charges in the United States that could result in decades in prison.
    “Our position has not changed,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday.    “Mr. Snowden should return to the United States where he should face justice as any other American citizen would.”
    Snowden becomes a Russian citizen as Moscow is mobilizing reservists to go to Ukraine.    In Russia, almost every man is considered a reservist until age 65, and officials on Monday stressed that men with dual citizenship are also eligible for the military call-up.
    Snowden, however, has never served in the Russian armed forces, so he is not eligible to be mobilized, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told the Interfax news agency.
    Having previous combat or military service experience has been considered the main criterion in the call-up.
    Kucherena told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti that Snowden’s wife, Lindsay Mills, an American who has been living with him in Russia, will also be applying for a Russian passport. The couple has two children.
    “After two years of waiting and nearly ten years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family,” Snowden tweeted Monday.    “I pray for privacy for them – and for us all.”
    Snowden, who has kept a low profile in Russia and occasionally criticized Russian government policies on social media, said in 2019 that he was willing to return to the U.S. if he’s guaranteed a fair trial.
    Snowden has become a well-known speaker on privacy and intelligence, appearing remotely at many events from Russia.    But he has been sharply criticized by members of the intelligence community, and current and former officials from both U.S. political parties say he endangered global security by exposing important programs. A U.S. damage assessment of his disclosures is still classified.
    James Clapper, who served as U.S. director of national intelligence at the time of the disclosures, said Snowden’s grant of citizenship came with “rather curious timing.”
    “It raises the question – again – about just what he shared with the Russians,” Clapper said in an email Monday.
    Snowden has denied cooperating with Russian intelligence and was traveling through Moscow when the U.S. revoked his passport.
    Snowden leaked documents on the National Security Agency’s collection of data passing through the infrastructure of U.S. phone and internet companies. He also released details about the classified U.S. intelligence budget and the extent of American surveillance on foreign officials, including the leaders of U.S.-allied countries.
    Snowden says he made the disclosures because he believed the U.S. intelligence community had gone too far and wrongly infringed on civil liberties.    He also has said he didn’t believe the administration of former President Barack Obama, which was in office when Snowden leaked the records to journalists, would act had he made an internal whistleblower complaint instead.
    His decision to turn against the NSA came when he used his programming skills to to create a repository of classified in-house notes on the agency’s global snooping and as he built a backup system for agency data, he wrote in his 2019 book “Permanent Record.”
    Reading through the repository, Snowden said he began to understand the extent of his government’s stomping on civil liberties and became “cursed with the knowledge that all of us had been reduced to something like children, who’d been forced to live the rest of their lives under omniscient parental supervision.”
    Snowden was charged in 2013 with unauthorized disclosure of U.S. national security and intelligence information as well as theft of government property.    The three charges each carry a maximum 10-year penalty.
    The Justice Department also sued to stop Snowden from collecting profits on his memoir, saying he had violated his nondisclosure agreements with intelligence agencies.
    The White House on Monday referred comment on Snowden’s citizenship to the Justice Department.

9/27/2022 Biden Lies About Inflation Again by OAN Newsroom
President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)     Joe Biden announced new steps to bring down the cost of living under his economy.    He seemingly conceded that Americans are struggling economically under his watch.    Speaking to reporters Monday, Biden said that he has consulted with his competition council to get rid of what he describes as junk fees.    These include overdraft fees on people’s checking accounts or their credit card payments plus processing fees for online payments.
    “This council is going to come back to me with a plan for eliminating these fees. Families shouldn’t have to pay these fees.    No one’s sneaking surprise charges into bills, like a $55 processing fee for a hotel room that you’re trying to book.    A processing fee.    You find out later.    No more hiding the price that you’re paying.    Now you’re going to know what the prices are.    And all, it’s all taking money out of the pockets of average Americans.”
    However, he proceeded to take a victory lap on his own economic performance claiming people are seeing increased incomes and that unemployment has dropped significantly.
    Analysts disagree, saying that Americans have lost over four thousand dollars in their annual income since Biden took office.
    Additionally, consumer prices have gone up by 12 percent since January of 2021 which has stripped buyers of at least three thousand dollars in purchasing power.
    “Here’s what I want the American people to know: because of the resilience, the American people’s resilience, and because of the economic strategy we pursued, the United States of America is in a stronger position than any other country to navigate these global challenges.    Period.    Jobs are up, incomes are up.    People are back to work.    And American manufacturing is roaring back. Excuse me for the cough.    We’re taking inflation very seriously by enacting policies to bring down costs for people.”
    Biden then went on to tout his progress in bringing down the pain at the pump after it was reported that gas prices dropped by at least five cents.
    The national average gas price currently sits around three dollars and 70 cents per gallon according to the latest numbers from AAA.
    This should not be a point of celebration as gas prices remain more than a dollar and 30 cents higher than when he took office.
    “In addition to that, a big part of how we’re going to keep making progress is by increasing competition in the economy.    That’s why we have the competition council here, and it starts with energy prices.    We’ve made historic progress.    We’ve made historic problems with the price of gas down in dollar versus the some in some states is below three bucks.”
    In the meantime, a recent poll shows 74-percent of lower-income Americans are feeling the pressure from Bidenflation.

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