(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump confirmed Friday on “Fox and Friends” that he will grace the Golden Arches with his labor in Pennsylvania — all because his political opponent lied about being a former employee.
Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her claim that she had a summer job at McDonald’s in her 20s during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Oct. 1. Trump, who repeatedly said Harris lied about doing the fries, will “work the fryers” behind the counter at a McDonald’s in Bucks County on Sunday, according to Phillyburbs.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit a McDonald’s Sunday in Pennsylvania and “work the fry cooker”, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. This comes up as Trump has repeatedly claimed Vice President Kamala Harris never actually worked at McDonald’s.
“I’m going to do everything. I’ll tell you what. A friend of mine owns McDonald’s some place. Oh, I’m going. Because she lied,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.”
“You don’t think she ever worked at McDonald’s?” Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade asked.
“I know she didn’t. We checked it out,” Trump replied as Fox News co-hosts chuckled. “We checked it out. They said she never worked there. She even picked a store!”
President Trump confirms he will be going to McDonalds and working the fries 🍟
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Conservative podcast host Dan Bongino came out swinging against the Harris campaign Friday for “lying” about his interview with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The official @KamalaHQ account on X falsely claimed Trump cut his interview with Bongino short due to exhaustion, prompting an all capitalized “BULLSHIT” from the GOP stalwart.
“He stayed LONGER than planned and signed a baseball and other items for charitable hurricane relief for another 10 mins afterwards,” Bongino wrote in response. “You can shove this absolute bullshit right up your ass. Lying piece of shit.”
BULLSHIT. He stayed LONGER than planned and signed a baseball and other items for charitable hurricane relief for another 10 mins afterwards. You can shove this absolute bullshit right up your ass. Lying pieces of shit. https://t.co/IvKN8a3h4j
Trump arrived to tape “The Dan Bongino Show” immediately after filming another interview on “Fox and Friends.” The Republican candidate ran a few minutes behind schedule, so he stayed with Bongino for ten additional minutes after the cameras stopped rolling around 11 a.m.
Bongino posted proof of the schedule sent by Team Trump to further dispel the Harris campaign’s falsehoods. His show’s production team was set to arrive at 5:15 a.m. at the 25th Floor Conference Room, then do “Pre-Set” from 5:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m.
“Sweeps” were scheduled until 9:00 a.m. and the show crew was slated for “Re-Entry” at 9:15 a.m., according to Bongino’s receipts. The interview was planned from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
More RECEIPTS for you fucksticks. Here’s the email from the Trump team confirming the schedule. Notice, he was scheduled until 11a. He stayed until after 11 because HE WAS COMING FROM ANOTHER INTERVIEW at Fox and was a few mins behind. He then stayed an extra ten minutes to… https://t.co/evOopOMZIHpic.twitter.com/kZOxcw2gvB
“Notice, he was scheduled until 11a. He stayed until after 11 because HE WAS COMING FROM ANOTHER INTERVIEW at Fox and was a few mins behind,” Bongino wrote.
Video shows Trump sign Bongino’s baseball, which the conservative podcaster plans to auction off during his Election Night coverage show. All proceeds will go to Franklin Graham’s evangelical organization Samaritan’s Purse, which is raising money to help victims of Hurricane Helene.
President Trump signs a baseball for Dan Bongino @dbongino, which Dan is going to auction off on his Election Night Coverage show on #Rumble. All proceeds will go to Samaritan’s Purse. pic.twitter.com/PlnIYxHuK2
The Harris campaign’s distortion of reality comes less than 48 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris scurried out of her interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on a hard wrap by her staffers — only after she arrived 15 minutes late.
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer also published by the Daily Caller and The Federalist. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
The government agency is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to Loyola University Chicago’s nursing school for the “online mobile-app curriculum,” according to the Loyola Phoenix. The NIH grant includes $162,000 for 2024, but the project will run for four years until 2028.
“The app, which will be developed over the next four years, will provide future nurses with basic knowledge and skills for treating transgender patients, who face challenges to wellbeing including higher-than-average rates of chronic illnesses and an increased likelihood of physical or sexual assault,” the university stated in a news release.
“In order to provide the best patient care, healthcare providers need to know what health topics are important for transgender patients,” nursing Professor Lindsey Garfield told the campus newspaper. “This project will develop a fun, engaging gaming app with a conglomeration of information based on organizational guidelines, expert opinion and patient perspective.”
The Jesuit Catholic university said the app will be made freely available once finished.
The impetus for the app is a supposed “national state of emergency for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer,” as declared by the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, as quoted in the federal grant.
The “barriers” to individuals taking puberty blockers (which can be irreversible) or getting permanent surgeries (such as breast or testicle removal) is why it is “imperative” that medical providers have “up-to-date knowledge.”
However, the app will train users in the World Professional Association of Transgender Health “Standards of Care.” These guidelines have come under criticism as court documents from a lawsuit against Alabama’s restrictions indicate they were developed despite criticism of a lack of evidence in support.
For example, President Joe Biden’s transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine reportedly pressured WPATH to drop any age minimums for surgeries and other interventions, as previously reported by Headline USA.
Biologists have also confirmed that sex is immutable. Furthermore, most minors with gender dysphoria outgrow it by adulthood.
Chloe Cole, a “detransitioner,” has shared her own experiences with being given transgender drugs and surgeries, including the removal of her breasts. “As an adult, I will never be able to breast-feed whatever children I will have,” she previously told Fox News.
“I don’t even know if, because I was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at only 13 years old, I don’t know if I’ll be able to conceive a child naturally,” she said. “I made an adult decision as a child.”
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) What’s wrong with silver? I hear this question a lot. After all, while gold continues to hit new record highs, seemingly on a weekly basis, silver is still well below its all-time high. Meanwhile, the gold-silver ratio remains mired above 80-1, signaling that silver is historically underpriced compared to gold this year.
So, what’s wrong with silver?
The short answer is nothing. In fact, silver has outperformed gold. The perception that silver is a laggard lately has more to do with gold’s exceptional performance than silver’s underperformance.
Nevertheless, it is fair to wonder why silver hasn’t closed the gap with gold.
As Metals Focus notes, “[Silver’s] outperformance has still been limited, considering silver’s traditional high-beta relationship with gold and its robust supply/demand fundamentals.”
After approaching $33 an ounce in early October, silver retreated to below $31 an ounce before rebounding to above $32.
As Metals Focus points out, many long-term investors still view silver more as an industrial commodity. Industrial demand accounts for more than half of silver offtake.
It is important to note that industrial demand is booming. Industrial offtake of 654.4 million ounces set a record in 2023. Analysts expect industrial demand in record territory again in 2024.
Nevertheless, as Metals Focus notes, there are concerns about China’s economy.
“Even if silver’s actual industrial demand is robust, investor enthusiasm across the broader industrial metals complex has been affected by ongoing issues in the Chinese economy. As such, there were periods when expectations ramped up concerning the scale of fiscal stimulus in China lifted investor sentiment towards base metals, which in turned boosted silver.
This investor enthusiasm, however, proved to be short-lived, as the supportive measures, when announced, fell short of market expectations, with economic indicators pointing towards a further deterioration in the country’s GDP growth.”
Silver Supply and Demand — Market Deficits
Robust demand and lagging silver mine output have resulted in market deficits for three straight years, with demand expected to outstrip supply again this year.
But this dynamic is mitigated by ample above-ground stocks to fill the shortfall.
According to Metals Focus, at its peak in early 2021, collective silver bullion stored in London and major exchange vaults stood near 1,750 million ounces, sufficient to cover 19 months of demand.
“Despite a persistent physical deficit since 2021, the release of these stocks has kept the silver market well supplied in recent years. Indeed, even following a sharp decline thereafter, these identifiable stocks remained sizeable, at 1,223Moz at end-2023, equal to 12 months of demand.”
The above-ground supply will mitigate physical tightness in the market, at least in the near term. Of course, continued market deficits will eventually drain those reserves.
Reasons to Be Bullish on Silver
These dynamics shouldn’t deter silver investors.
As noted, gold has taken silver along for the ride, and the backdrop for gold investment looks solid moving into 2025. And while silver’s industrial applications make it much more volatile than gold, it tends to track with the yellow metal over time.
Metals Focus projects a $3,000 gold price next year but expects the gold-silver ratio to remain historically wide in the 80-1 range. Even so, it forecasts strong gains for silver in the latter months of 2024 and into 2025, with the price rising into the $35 range.
Metals Focus is also bullish on silver in the long term:
“We expect that silver’s strong fundamentals will be price supportive when the investment case for precious metal start to weaken in the latter part of 2025. In time, ongoing deficits will see bullion inventories drawn down and so, in due course, the market will start to tighten. While this will take some time to materialize, silver prices will eventually enjoy a firmer upside.”
What Is the Mainstream Missing?
One factor Money Metals does not consider is the possibility of a deep recession.
An economic downturn would almost certainly juice monetary stimulus. The Federal Reserve responded to the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic by slashing interest rates and launching quantitative easing.
There’s no reason to think it will be any different when the next crisis manifests. Supersized monetary stimulus has historically juiced precious metals, with silver outperforming gold and closing historically wide gold-silver ratios.
The gold-silver ratio fell to 30-1 in 2011 after rising to over 80-1 during the money creation of the Great Recession in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. And in 2020, the gold-silver ratio set a record of 123-1 as Covid hysteria gripped the world and then plunged to around 60-1 as central banks around the world cranked up the money creation machine to cope with governments shutting down economies.
While the mainstream remains optimistic for a soft landing, it isn’t unreasonable to think that the higher interest rate environment driven by the Fed to fight price inflation has broken things in this debt-riddled, bubble economy.
It takes time for these things to manifest. The 2008 financial crisis didn’t rear its ugly head until nearly a year after the central bank started cutting interest rates.
An economic crisis would change the calculus of both silver and gold. If we’re seeing this kind of price action now, imagine what it would look like in a zero-interest rate environment.
The bottom line is silver isn’t doing nearly as poorly as some investors perceive, and bullish fundamentals remain fully in place.
(Headline USA) Similar to how Obama and Bush’s wars led to waves of refugees in America and Europe, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon has already begun to show its effects on U.S. immigration policy.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced temporary legal status for Lebanese citizens already here.
The announcement, together with an earlier offer in July, brings the number of Lebanese who will be able to stay in the country and become eligible for work authorization to about 11,000, according to the Homeland Security Department. The offer is for people already in the US on Wednesday and it is for a period of 18 months.
Temporary Protected Status will allow Lebanese citizens to stay “while the United States is in discussions to achieve a diplomatic solution for lasting stability and security across the Israel-Lebanon border,” Homeland Security said in a statement. They must have been in the United States on Wednesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been forced to deal with conflict in Lebanon and across the Mideast in the final weeks of their White House campaign.
Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters have been clashing since Oct. 8, 2023, when the Lebanese militant group began firing rockets over the border in support of its ally Hamas in Gaza.
In recent weeks, Israel has conducted a major aerial bombardment of Lebanon and a ground invasion that it says aims to push Hezbollah back from the border and allow displaced residents of northern Israel to return.
Assad I. Turfe, deputy executive of Wayne County, Michigan, said TPS “will provide critical support to Lebanese nationals, helping to reunite families here in America and offering relief from the challenges caused by the conflict.”
Nearly 900,000 people were covered by TPS at the end of March, according to the Congressional Research Service. The 1990 law provides legal status to people already in the United States from countries hit by natural disasters or civil strife.
In addition, some Palestinians, Lebanese, Liberians, and residents of Hong Kong living in the United States are covered by a similar program, called Deferred Enforcement Departure, which is run under the authority of the president instead of the Homeland Security Department.
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Ghana has introduced a gold coin in an effort to boost savings and manage money-market liquidity.
According to Bank of Ghana Governor Ernest Addison, the coin will be refined to 99.99 percent purity and will come in 1-ounce, half-ounce, and quarter-ounce sizes.
“This initiative is a testament to our unwavering commitment to deepen financial markets by offering other avenues for savers to invest. It also serves as a significant reminder of our nation’s rich gold heritage,” Addison said when he introduced the coin.
The coins feature the Ghana Coat of Arms on the front and the Independence Arch on the back.
Initially, the coins will only be available through commercial banks in Ghana and must be purchased with Ghanan cedi (1 cedi = 0.62 USD).
The coins will be minted using locally sourced gold and will comply with the central bank’s responsible gold sourcing rules.
Ghana ranks as Africa’s biggest gold producer.
Ghana launched a domestic gold-buying program in 2021. According to a report by Business Insider Africa, Ghana now requires big gold miners in that country to sell 20 percent of their refined gold to the country’s central bank.
According to the Bank of Ghana, it has purchased 65.4 tons of gold valued at around $5 billion from the domestic market. The gold is intended to increase the country’s gold holdings and augment foreign reserves.
Addison said he hopes the coin will ease the country’s excess liquidity and provide a safe and stable way to increase savings.
“The Ghana gold coin enables the Bank of Ghana to mop up excess liquidity in the banking sector and will supplement the bank’s bills for liquidity management. It gives those residents in Ghana an additional avenue to invest to reap the benefits of the Bank of Ghana’s domestic gold purchase program.”
Addison said the gold coin would provide Ghanans a savings option not linked to the dollar.
”Now, if you don’t buy dollars, you will buy treasury bills or bonds. We are giving you an opportunity from the domestic gold purchasing program to also buy gold.”
Africans Increasingly Turning to Gold
If Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has his way, gold will become an even bigger part of Ghana’s economy. The presidential candidate recently said he would push to back the country’s currency with gold. He said a gold-backed currency would “keep a lot of stability in the exchange market.”
“Right now, we don’t have an anchor to hold the currency, but if we back it with gold, it will be very stable, because its value ultimately will be reflected by the value of gold, which is very stable.”
A growing number of countries in Africa are turning to gold. Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria all recently launched domestic gold-buying programs to boost reserves. The Nigerian central bank has also announced plans to bring its existing gold reserves back into the country “to mitigate risks associated with the weakening U.S. economy.”
The growing movement toward gold in Africa underscores an important truth: while fiat currencies come and go, gold has remained trusted money for over 5,000 years.
BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,”… pic.twitter.com/4DSkvzvKmO
Jeevan Gyawali added that those who oppose Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in their posts would see their accounts shadowbanned and their posts demoted.
“Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris [being] unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child. That kind of s**t is automatically demoted,” he said.
Gyawali also claimed that the person “would not be notified” about what happened, meaning his account would be shadowbanned. During the conversation with the undercover journalist, he also mentioned Meta’s “Integrity Team,” a team that censors content through “civic classifiers,” a system meant to shadowban those who disagree with the status quo.
“That means if anything is related to political content, it’s automatically not shown,” he said, explaining what he meant by “civic classifiers.” “There is a SWAT team that’s already set up since April… just to think about all the scenarios of how the platform could be abused.”
Gyawali also admitted that Meta can influence the 2024 election, just like they did in 2020. He also claimed that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg supports the censorship of conservatives.
James O’Keefe also published another video in which he called Gyawali to inform him that the woman who he thought was just his date was an undercover journalist.
James O'Keefe contacted Jeevan Gyawali to request comment regarding hidden camera footage in which Gyawali discusses Meta's censorship practices. Upon hearing the details, Gyawali responded, "Ah, f*ck," before quickly ending the call.
Zuckerberg’s alleged support of the far-left initiative could shatter Zuckerberg’s career and result in his imprisonment if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gets back into the White House since Trump previously stated that he would put Zuckerberg behind bars if he illegally influenced the 2024 election.
After that, Zuckerberg tried to do everything possible to restore his reputation in Trump’s eyes, even telling Trump that he would never vote for a Democrat this election cycle.
“I knew Zuckercuck was just trying to save face by pretending he was sorry for all the censorship last cycle. Trump needs to follow through and throw him in prison,” @ExposeDarkDeeds wrote.
I knew Zuckercuck was just trying to save face by pretending he was sorry for all the censorship last cycle. Trump needs to follow through and throw him in prison. pic.twitter.com/tAxrhh6YNw
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris didn’t attend Al Smith’s Catholic charity dinner, making her the first candidate to skip the event since 1984, when Democrats lost in an historic landslide.
The recent news came after Fox News’s Bret Baier destroyed Harris during a Wednesday interview.
The Daily Caller reported that Harris was the first presidential candidate in decades to refuse to attend the dinner. President Ronald Reagan’s Democratic opponent in the 1984 presidential race, Walter Mondale, was the last to do that.
“Vice President Harris will appear via a pre-recorded video at tonight’s dinner,” Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, informed the news source.
The Caller also obtained an Oct. 11 email from Mary Erdoes, vice chair of the Al Smith Foundation’s board of directors.
“Although we traditionally have had the privilege of hosting two presidential candidates, unfortunately, Vice President Kamala Harris is still unable to join us this year due to conflicts with her campaign schedule,” she wrote. “Please know that we exhausted every possible effort and connection we had to try to get her there, but to no avail. While we will miss her on the Dais, she will be joining us on screen, likely via video.”
Before the Caller discovered that Harris wouldn’t be attending the dinner, Google interfered in the election by trying to convince American voters that Harris’s absence was either a good thing or would not affect her chances of winning the 2024 election.
“Googled ‘Al Smith Dinner,’ which Kamala is avoiding because she is unpopular AND unfunny… So what does Google say? ‘Why it is smart for Kamala Harris to skip the Al Smith dinner.’ ‘Why it won’t sway voters.’ Rigged,” @ArynneWexler wrote.
Googled “Al Smith Dinner”, which Kamala is avoiding because she is unpopular AND unfunny
She is the first presidential candidate to skip since 1984
So what does Google say?
“Why it is smart for Kamala Harris to skip the Al Smith dinner”
It was previously reported that Harris won’t attend the dinner, with some people speculating that the decision was made because Harris didn’t want to lose even more voters.
The decision is understandable, considering that Harris’s betting odds tanked after the Fox News interview and Trump’s favorability jumped, according to some polls.
As a cherry on top, Politico also reported that Harris is performing horribly in Pennsylvania, one of this election’s most important battleground states.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The party members of “joy” and “peace” proved once again that they are the opposite of what they claim to be.
The Post Millennial stated in its exclusive report that some people who support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and live in the battleground state of Pennsylvania recently received threatening letters in their mail after the letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
The letter, written by a “patriotic citizen and a true American,” blamed the person who received the threat for supporting Trump, claiming that if one supports Trump, he fights against every imaginable group that lives inside the country.
“And you are entitled to all of this. However, this is a reminder that your visible support comes with a price and at a cost. There will be consequences,” the “joyful” writer stated.
The leftist then claimed that Trump would essentially destroy the country, continuing to threaten the people who received the letter.
“Should your candidate win, the consequences will be staggering,” the person wrote. “But more importantly, we know where you live. You are in the database. In the dead of a cold winter night, this year or next and beyond, there is no knowing what may happen. Your property [and] your family may be impacted and your cat may get shot. And more.”
Then, the person suggested that the people who received the letter talk to their priests, pastors and rabbis before something terrible happens.
“Your vote for this guy is seen as treading on my rights. You tread on me at your own peril, motherf**er. We look forward to visiting in the future,” the person wrote.
“@ScottPresler and Cliff @Maloney, stay safe,” Eric Daugherty, assistant news editor at Florida Voice News, wrote.
Some conservatives urged the authorities to do something about it, adding that it is not surprising that these kinds of letters come only from one political side.
“@DOJCrimDiv, @FBI. Will you be following up on this? This is incredibly not something that should be tolerated in a civil, free society. And, of course, again, this is inciting violence. And, of course, it comes from those who support the left side,” COO of Beacon Hospitality Ernie Felici Jr. wrote.
@DOJCrimDiv@FBI Will you be following up on this? This is incredibly not something that should be tolerated in a civil free society. And of course, again, this is inciting violence. And of course, it comes from those who support the left side.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Ruben Gallego, the Democratic candidate for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, came under heavy scrutiny Thursday after scandalous details of his messy divorce were exposed.
Gallego reportedly blindsided his then-wife, Kate Gallego, by filing for divorce just weeks before she was due to give birth—and even asked a judge to make her pay the legal proceedings.
A little over a year after the divorce was finalized, Gallego wasted no time meeting his future wife, 25-year-old Sydney Barron, who is 14 years younger than him.
The potentially damning revelations, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, came to light as Gallego campaigns against Republican Kari Lake for the Arizona Senate seat, which became open after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema declined to run for re-election.
According to the Free Beacon, Gallego filed for divorce on Dec. 15, 2016, claiming the marriage was “irretrievably broken” with no “reasonable prospect of reconciliation.”
At the time, Kate, then a Phoenix city council member (now the city’s mayor), countered that she was “without knowledge of information sufficient to form a belief” about Gallego’s claims of no chance for reconciliation.
Gallego also asked a judge to make Kate pay for the divorce proceedings. She countered by asking the judge to make him cover the costs instead. Gallego also sought to deny his wife “long-term spousal maintenance,” as reported by the Free Beacon.
The divorce was finalized in April 2017, and by February 2019, Gallego had already become engaged. He and Barron married in December 2019 but publicly announced their engagement in February 2020, the Free Beacon reported.
The divorce’s details had been kept under wraps at the request of both Kate and Gallego, both high-profile Democratic politicians.
Whoa.. @RubenGallego actually admitted in court that he believes politicians should be treated “differently” than regular citizens.
Gallego has served in Congress since 2014, following four years in the Arizona House of Representatives. Kate served on the Phoenix City Council from 2014 to 2018 before being elected Phoenix Mayor in 2019.
Gallego is polling 50 percent to Lake’s 41 percent ahead of the November election.
Lake’s team responded on X. See below for their full response.
How did Ruben Gallego respond to the horrific details about how he served his unsuspecting wife with divorce papers days before she gave birth?
He demanded Kari Lake apologize!
Our statement on the shocking revalations from Gallego’s unsealed divorce records ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/3iK8QNTRro
