No-Vote Kamala Tries to Skip Past General Election, Declare Herself ‘President’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) During the eulogy for the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D–Texas, on Aug. 1, 2024, Kamala Harris accidentally referred to herself as the president, which resulted in the far-left crowd erupting in cheers.

The Daily Wire reported that Harris delivered Lee’s eulogy at a Houston-area church and expressed her thoughts while discussing some of Lee’s initiatives as a congresswoman.

“[A]s a leader who believed deeply that America’s true and full history must be acknowledged and honored, it was Sheila Jackson Lee whose bill made Juneteenth a federal holiday, which, as a United States senator, I was proud to co-sponsor. And then as president, as vice president, it was my honor with the president–” she said before the audience cheered and applauded.

Harris became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee last month after Joe Biden announced that he would not be running for reelection but would remain in the White House until January 2025.

Many Republicans criticized Biden, pointing out that a person who is not physically and mentally fit to run for reelection also should not stay in the White House.

Harris was also criticized for not taking questions from the media or holding a press conference.

After becoming the unofficial face of the Democratic Party, Harris pushed Donald Trump to agree to debate her on Sept. 10, 2024, after he had agreed to a debate with Biden on the same date.

“He won’t debate, but he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about me. Well, Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider [meeting] me on the debate stage because, as the saying goes, if you got something to say, say it to my face,” she previously said.

Earlier this week, Trump told Laura Ingraham of Fox News that he would “probably” debate Harris while adding that he could “also make a case for not doing it.”

Biden Accidentally Tries to Board Russian Hostage Plane after Exchange

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After welcoming Russia’s ex-hostages, Joe Biden once again showed the entire world that he was too old and senile to be in the White House when he tried to board the plane on which the former hostages flew.

Many people on social media responded to the recent news by mocking Biden.

“Biden walked onto the plane after the prisoners got off. Did he think he was being exchanged to Russia?” Jack Posobeic of Human Events wrote.

Another person on the social media platform, @KateHydeNY, also joked about the reason why he needed to go inside the plane.

“Maybe he was using the bathroom!” she wrote.

Another person commented on the shocking video as well.

“No one is talking about how Biden climbed onto the jet after the Americans already got off. Did he think he was getting on Air Force One?” the person wrote.

However, it wasn’t the only way Biden embarrassed the entire nation. The New York Post reported that, during the same meeting with the hostages, he told the reporters there that they were “stuck” with him until the end of January 2025.

“You’re stuck with me as president for a while, kid. There’s no way out. Ok? You got me for at least another 100 — or 90 days or so,” Biden told the reporters.

Biden’s recent embarrassing actions came after a plane carrying Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, veteran Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva and other former hostages landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Aug. 1, 2024.

Additionally, Kamala Harris, who accompanied Biden that night, also had an opportunity to “shine” and show the entire nation that the mainstream media manufactured the excitement about her persona.

“This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy,” she said without a script for the first time since she became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.

Before this series of events, Biden blamed Donald Trump for the fact that these people were taken hostages, even though it happened on Biden’s watch.

Trump Secures Thousands in Restitution After SCOTUS Affirms Immunity

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Supreme Court’s decision affirming President Donald Trump’s immunity from prosecution has been remanded to the lower courts for further proceedings. The justices also ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to pay Trump thousands in expenses. 

The high court ordered Trump to recover $3,232.80 in expenses accumulated during his appeal after it vacated the appeals court’s decision to reject Trump’s immunity defense in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case.

The restitution includes $2,932.80 for the “printing of joint appendix” and $300 as a “clerk’s fee.” The filing, signed by Supreme Court Clerk Scott S. Harris, was first reported by journalist Julie Kelly on Friday. 

In a tweet sharing a screenshot of the filing, Kelly wrote, “Both the DC circuit opinion and Judge Chutkan’s order denying presidential immunity from prosecution vacated. And Pres Trump gets some money back.”

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled last month that sitting presidents enjoy immunity from prosecution for acts carried out while in office, shutting down Smith’s and the DOJ’s claims to the contrary. 

The decision directly impacted the four criminal counts filed by Smith against Trump over alleged conspiracies to “defraud” the U.S. and “obstruct” an official proceeding, specifically the certification of the 2020 election. 

Trump had long argued that his actions post-2020 election were part of his official duties as sitting president. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presides over the case, and the appeals court in D.C. rejected Trump’s defense, prompting intervention from the Supreme Court. 

The appeals court quickly sent the case back to Chutkan on Thursday. “It is ordered, on the court’s own motion, that this case be remanded to the District Court for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion,” the D.C. Circuit stated, according to a screenshot of the order shared by Kelly.

Chutkan will now have to review Smith’s evidence against Trump and determine which parts, if not all, of the criminal counts constitute part of Trump’s official duties. 

The case began after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith, a notoriously aggressive former prosecutor, to investigate Trump on Jan. 6 and a dispute with the National Archives over documents. 

The documents case was dismissed by District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who ruled that Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

After 9/11 Terrorists’ Plea Deal, Biden May Move Gitmo Inmates to U.S.

UPDATE: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin withdrew the plea deals for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and two other terrorists.

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The White House confirmed on Aug. 1, 2024, that Joe Biden is “determined” to close the Guantánamo Bay prison before leaving office at the beginning of 2025.

The news came after it was announced that the Biden administration offered three plea deals for al-Qaida terrorists who were responsible for the 9/11 attack and are now held at the military facility.

The New York Post reported that Biden was not responsible for the plea deal negotiations that took the death penalty off the table for the terrorists, among whom was 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

“Does the president still plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison before he leaves office? Is there a realistic pathway to do that in the next six months?” a journalist asked at one of the White House briefings.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a vague response.

“That’s still something that the president wants to do and get done. As far as a timeline, I don’t have anything for you here, but obviously, this is something that he wanted to be done under his administration. I just don’t have anything else to read out or preview at this time, but it is something that he’s determined to get done,” she said.

Mohammed, who reportedly plotted the terror attacks that killed about 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, was captured in Pakistan in 2003.

During the same year, two supposed co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were captured as well.

All of them accepted plea deals that’ll guarantee they’ll be spared the death penalty. It is not clear where exactly the terrorists will serve out their life prison sentences.

In 2018, Congress decided to restrict the use of funds to transfer Mohammed specifically to the territory of the United States.

Soon after the news broke out, 9/11 victims’ families said that they thought that the men deserved to stand trial and be executed. To avoid even more considerable backlash from the public, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested that Biden was not responsible for the plea deal, even though he previously supported closing the prison.

“The president had no role, the vice president had no role, I had no role and the White House had no role. And we were informed yesterday—the same day that they went out publicly—that this pretrial agreement had been accepted by the convening authority,” he said.

Did Philly Dems Accidentally Leak Kamala’s Running Mate?

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Is Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro set to join Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential ticket? A video released by Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker suggests so. 

On Friday afternoon, Parker released a minute-long video endorsing Harris’s campaign and mentioning “Shapiro for vice president,” leaving many puzzled by Shapiro’s inclusion. 

As of Friday evening, Harris had not officially announced her running mate. She is expected to declare her pick before a Tuesday rally in Philadelphia, just days before the Democratic National Convention. 

Parker’s inclusion of Shapiro’s name in the ad led many to suspect that Philadelphia Democrats inadvertently released the ad intended to be embargoed until the Tuesday rally. 

“Philly political sources have told me that a staffer connected with Mayor Cherelle Parker’s team accidentally posted the video today,” tweeted Philadelphia-based journalist Ernest Owens.

“The video was scheduled for Monday…after VP Kamala Harris was expected to announce her pick. It’s Josh Shapiro, y’all,” he claimed.

 

Parker’s allies, speaking anonymously to The Philadelphia Inquirer, claimed the video was not an announcement of “anything.” They stated that the video was part of the mayor’s effort to show support for Shapiro, who is a longtime friend. 

Despite these claims, Parker does not explicitly call on Harris to pick Shapiro in the ad. Instead, she said, ”I can’t think of a better partner than our governor, Josh Shapiro.”  

Towards the end of the ad, Parker, along with other state Democrats, stated, “We are getting behind Kamala Harris … for President and Josh Shapiro … for vice president.” 

The ad also features Pennsylvania House Speaker Joanna McClinton, Senate Democrats Chair Sharif Street, State Rep. Jordan Harris, and the Pennsylvania Laborers and Electrical Workers Union and IBEW Local 98 unions 

Shapiro became governor in January 2023 after nearly six years as attorney general. Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., are considered on the 2024 ticket short list. 

Some leftist activists and pro-Palestinian groups have expressed their disturbing hostility towards Shapiro solely because he is a Jewish man.

SHOCK POLL: 53% of Americans Want More 1st Amendment Censorship

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College released a shocking study on American sentiment toward the right to free speech, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

The poll, titled the National Speech Index, consists of a 10 question survey with five permanent questions and five rotating questions, with the aim to capture American support for the First Amendment.

The changing questions ask participants about topical speech issues, such as censorship,  and the right to protest—this particular survey asked about the recent protests on behalf of Hamas taking places on college campuses throughout the nation.

The Polarization Research Lab polled 1,000 American respondents and discovered that 69% of them believed people’s ability to express their views is heading in the wrong direction.

A slight majority of Republicans and 61% of Democrats agreed that the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees.

“Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties,” FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said.

“Many of them reject the right to assemble, to have a free press, and to petition the government, Stevens added. “This is a dictator’s fantasy.”

People generally felt they were not personally at risk of facing repercussions, such as losing their job, if someone complained about something, the survey indicated.

Many did admit, however, to being skeptical about the government’s capability to identify speech as “threatening,” “intimidating,” “harassing” or “indecent.”

Respondents largely refused to take a side for or against the student protests in support of Gaza and Hamas, but 38% said often universities should condone the often violent and destructive protests.

Around 70% admitted to feeling uncomfortable with the idea of the government limiting the speech of those who chose to protest.

Stevens questioned the average American’s knowledge of the boundaries of the First Amendment, which does not cover vandalism, trespassing, squatting and several other crimes executed by the Hamas protesters.

“Americans have little tolerance for certain forms of protected speech and a lot of tolerance for unprotected conduct, when it should be the other way around,” Stevens concluded. “This poll reveals that the state of free speech in America is dire.”

Muckracker Journalist to Expose Gov’t-Backed Kidnapping at Border

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The investigative website Muckraker said it was preparing to release a bombshell report that would allegedly expose the Department of Health and Human Services’ role in the kidnapping of children at America’s southern border, InfoWars reported.

“We are working on a massive story regarding the trafficking of the unaccompanied children once they come into the United States,” Muckraker founder Anthony Rubin told host Alex Jones during a recent appearance on InfoWars.

Jones subsequently tweeted out the video, further amplifying and hyping up the exposé.

Thanks to insider information, Rubin said he and his colleagues were getting closer to breaking a story with specific names of children and their “sponsors”—who may or may not actually be taking care of the children.

The HHS reportedly helped unaccompanied minors find sponsors to house them through placement agencies such as Southwest Key Programs Inc., where the children were said to have been sexually abused, according to recent whistleblower allegations.

Building on the shocking Senate testimony from HHS whistleblowers including Deborah White and Tara Rodas, Rubin and his colleagues undertook an operation that was part Project Veritas, part Sound of Freedom—not content simply to report on the scandal, but also feeling compelled to get involved in rescue operations.

“We have obtained a list of about 8,500 names from an HHS insider containing the names of the children,” Rubin said, noting that he and his crew have gone across the nation trying to track down the children.

Tragically, when they finally tracked down many of the “sponsors,” the adults had already given the children away, oftentimes delivering them into the hands of violent and dangerous gangs.

“This is industrialized human trafficking on a scale never before seen,” Jones chimed in, referring to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has aided and abetted the free flow of millions of illegal immigrants across the border during the Biden administration.

Rubin and Jones both agreed that America was at a tipping point, and that if GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump were reelected in November, drastic measures would be required to secure the nation’s sovereignty.

“We need mass deportations,” Rubin argued. “It has to be scorched earth.”

Rubin has speaking out about the HHS sex-trafficking scandal for some time now. In March, he appeared on Fox News, hinting that the HHS was engaged in “incredibly shady” handling of young immigrant children, particularly within the foster care system.

“The solution is to load these kids into black vans … a lot of times they’re dropped into the hands of human traffickers, sex traffickers,” he told Fox News’s Jesse Watters.

He returned to Watters’s primetime show in June, where he made reference to the forthcoming report.

Muckraker has reported on similar topics in the past, breaking major scoops about the government’s involvement in child-trafficking at the border, illegals engaged in vote fraud, and nongovernmental organizations—as well as other countries—that were supporting the illegal immigration industry in Mexico.

July 13 Was the 1st Time Secret Service Snipers Were at a 2024 Trump Rally

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said Friday that the July 13 deadly campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania was the first time his agency had snipers assigned to a 2024 campaign event for Donald Trump.

“It was the first time Secret Service counter snipers were deployed to support the former President’s detail,” Rowe said at a press conference, which only admitted mainstream media reporters.

“This was the first time Secret Service counter snipers were deployed, but the former President has been getting state and local resources at previous campaign rallies,” he later said.

When questioned why July 13 was the first time Secret Service snipers were deployed to assist Trump, Rowe said: “We evaluate our threat landscape every day and calibrate based on that … Looking back, it was very fortunate that we did, but the former President will have counter sniper coverage moving forward.”

Those Secret Service snipers didn’t seem to do much to protect Trump. In fact, their inaction nearly got the presidential frontrunner killed.

As has been widely documented, the Secret Service knew that a suspicious person—alleged shooter Thomas Crooks—was roaming the event sight with a range finder by at least 5:45 p.m., if not earlier. Despite that, the agency allowed Trump to take the stage at 6:03 p.m.

The shooting occurred at 6:11 p.m., and the Secret Service still insists that agents never knew there was a gunman on the nearby roof.

Perhaps just as egregiously, the Secret Service counter sniper waited 15 seconds after Crooks began shooting before returning fire. It was a local cop—not the Secret Service—who shot Crooks first, stopping his mass shooting spree.

Rowe also acknowledged that the Secret Service waited for 15 seconds at the Friday press conference.

Even though the Secret Service waited so long, and even though it was the local cop who stopped Crooks’s spree, Rowe insisted that the agency “saved lives” on July 13.

Reporters did not question Rowe about why the SS waited 15 seconds to return fire, or how Rowe could possibly say that his agency saved lives at the event.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Intel Plans to Cut 15K Jobs, Despite Taking Nearly $20B in Biden Bucks

(Headline USA) Chipmaker Intel says it is cutting 15% of its huge workforce—about 15,000 jobs—as it tries to turn its business around to compete with more successful rivals like Nvidia and AMD.

In a memo to staff, Intel Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger said Thursday the company plans to save $10 billion in 2025.

“Simply put, we must align our cost structure with our new operating model and fundamentally change the way we operate,” he wrote in the memo published on Intel’s website. “Our revenues have not grown as expected—and we’ve yet to fully benefit from powerful trends, like AI. Our costs are too high, our margins are too low.”

The job cuts come in the heels of a disappointing quarter and forecast for the iconic chip maker founded in 1968 at the start of the PC revolution.

Next week, Gelsinger wrote, Intel will announce an “enhanced retirement offering” for eligible employees and offer an application program for voluntary departures.

“These decisions have challenged me to my core, and this is the hardest thing I’ve done in my career,” he said. The bulk of the layoffs are expected to be completed this year.

The Santa Clara, California-based company is also suspending its stock dividend as part of a broader plan to cut costs.

Intel reported a loss for its second quarter along with a small revenue decline, and it forecast third-quarter revenues below Wall Street’s expectations.

Its stock plunged 19% in after-hours trading, indicating that Intel could lose roughly $24 billion of its market value when the stock market opens Friday.

The company posted a loss of $1.6 billion, or 38 cents per share, in the April-June period. That’s down from a profit of $1.5 billion, or 35 cents per share, a year earlier. Adjusted earnings excluding special items were 2 cents per share.

Revenue slid 1% to $12.8 billion from $12.9 billion.

Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of 10 cents per share on revenue of $12.9 billion, according to a poll by FactSet.

“Intel’s announcement of a significant cost-cutting plan including layoffs may bolster its near-term financials, but this move alone is insufficient to redefine its position in the evolving chip market,” said eMarketer analyst Jacob Bourne. “The company faces a critical juncture as it leverages U.S. investment in domestic manufacturing and the surging global demand for AI chips to establish itself in chip fabrication.”

Gelsinger noted in a conference call with analysts that Intel has previously said that its investments in the AI PC market would pressure its profit margins over the short term but should benefit the company in the long term.

“We believe the trade-offs are worth it. The AI PC will grow from less than 10% of the market today to greater than 50% in 2026,” he said.

Unlike its rivals like Nvidia, Intel manufactures chips in addition to designing them. It has been working to build up its foundry business making semiconductors in the U.S., competing with rivals such as market leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. or TSMC.

Helped by Gelsinger’s lobbying efforts since he took the company’s helm in 2021, Intel has been a major beneficiary of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.

The Biden administration helped shepherd that through Congress amid concerns after the pandemic that the loss of access to chips made in Asia could plunge the U.S. economy into recession. The investment also proved a boon for then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an early investor in Nvidia.

Pelosi purchased more shares of Nvida last week, although it was unclear whether Intel’s struggles had anything to do with it. The company has seen astronomical growth, but appeared recently to have hit its limit.

In March, President Joe Biden celebrated an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around the country, talking up the investment in the political battleground state of Arizona and calling it a way of “bringing the future back to America.”

At the time, Gelsinger called the CHIPS Act “the most critical industrial policy legislation since World War II.”

In September 2022, Biden praised Intel as a job creator with its plans to open a new plant near Columbus, Ohio. The president praised the company for plans to “build a workforce of the future” for the $20 billion project, which he said would generate 7,000 construction jobs and 3,000 full-time jobs set to pay an average of $135,000 a year.

“The U.S. government wants to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing, especially this is the area of advanced computer chips, and Intel has been kind of earmarked for this money,” Bourne said.

“But there’s a lot of infrastructure that goes into this—there’s the building of these facilities, which are really highly specialized, and then you also need to upskill the local workforce where these plants are located,” he continued. “And so it takes time. This is not something that happens overnight.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Illegal Charged in Laken Riley Murder Seeks Change of Trial Venue from College Town

(Headline USA) Attorneys for a man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus have asked a judge to move the case to another county.

The request may be a risky proposition for Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national who eluded both Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement before making his way to Athens-Clarke County.

The college town is something of a blue enclave, according to 2020 election data. While Clarke County went 70.2% for pro-open-borders President Joe Biden, every surrounding county backed pro-enforcement hawk Donald Trump.

Nonetheless, Ibarra’s lawyers maintained that finding an impartial jury there  to consider the murder and other charges for the killing of Laken Hope Riley would be impossible.

Riley was killed on the campus of U.Ga., a “prominent institution” in Athens, and the case had received extensive media coverage locally, attorneys John Donnelly and Kaitlyn Beck said in a court filing.

Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard said during the brief hearing that he was planning to start jury selection on Nov. 13 and then proceed with the trial the following week.

He gave prosecutors 10 days to respond to the request for a change of venue, which was filed on Thursday.

A 2013 Georgia court decision found that a change of venue is proper in cases where media coverage is “‘unduly extensive, factually incorrect, inflammatory, or reflective of an atmosphere of hostility,'” according to the filing.

Yet, the case has also received considerable national exposure, particularly in conservative media, which are more likely to have reached potential jurors in the surrounding rural regions.

Trump has played up the grisly murder to underscore the danger that open-border policies have created for average citizens under Democrat rule. That included a series of poignant ad spots emphasizing the innocent victims of immigrant crime.

Meanwhile Biden–Harris Democrats scrambled in an effort to memory-hole the story, with the president pointedly refusing to acknowledge it or say the name of the deceased until his State of the Union.

While complying with a request from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to “say her name,” Biden mispronounced it as “Lincoln Riley,” which is the name of the head football coach at the University of Southern California.

A shackled Ibarra appeared in court on Friday dressed in a button-front shirt and slacks.

A grand jury in early May returned an indictment charging Ibarra, 26, with murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping and other crimes in the February killing of Riley.

The 10-count indictment accuses him of hitting the 22-year-old Augusta University College of Nursing student in the head, asphyxiating her and pulling up her clothing with the intent to rape her.

He pleaded not guilty in May.

Riley’s body was found Feb. 22 near running trails after a friend told police she had not returned from a morning run, and police have said her killing appeared to be a random attack. Ibarra was arrested the next day and has been held in the Athens–Clarke County Jail without bond since then.

The indictment charges Ibarra with one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, hindering an emergency telephone call, tampering with evidence and peeping Tom.

The indictment says that on the day of Riley’s killing, Ibarra had peered into the window of an apartment in a university housing building, which is the basis for the peeping Tom charge.

In a separate filing on Thursday, Ibarra’s attorneys said that charge should be tried separately from the others because the alleged victim is different.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press