Trump Rallies Faithful in New Coalition After Assassination Attempt

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Trump Rallies Faithful in New Coalition After Assassination Attempt

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump has launched a “Believers for Trump” coalition to mobilize faith-based communities and church congregations in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election and just weeks after he faced an assassination attempt.

According to a statement from the Trump campaign, the coalition seeks to promote Trump’s accomplishments during his four years in office. “People of faith are rallying around President Trump’s campaign because of his proven track record of defending religious freedom,” the statement read. 

Supported by a “Believers and Ballots” program, the coalition aims to drive Christian voter turnout in the upcoming election. Focusing on key battleground states, the program will seek to increase voter registration, vote-by-mail and absentee ballots. 

“We don’t punish prayer. We don’t tear down crosses. We don’t ban symbols of faith.  We don’t muzzle preachers and pastors,” Trump stated.  “In America, we celebrate faith, we cherish religion, we lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the Glory of God.” 

The coalition will highlight Trump’s White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, launched to strengthen civil society’s institutions and American families. President Joe Biden signed an executive order partially reversing the Trump-led initiative in 2021.

During his presidency, Trump became the first sitting president to address the Values Voter Summit and attended the National Prayer Breakfast annually. 

Conservative radio host Eric Metaxas emphasized the historic importance of Christian voter turnout, referencing the 1930s rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. 

“When Nazi evil rose in the 1930s, many German Christians believed it wasn’t their job to get involved. … But today many American Christians are falling for the same religious lies, unaware that God demands that we put our faith into action — including political action — and that we get involved any way we can to fight for what is right and good and true,” Metaxas said. 

In contrast, Trump’s chief opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has launched segregated coalitions based on gender and sexual orientation, including the “black women,” “white women,” “white men” and “black queer men” groups.

Trump’s new coalition comes just two weeks after he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on July 13. Many individuals attribute the failed attempt to what has been described as divine intervention, as a bullet missed Trump’s head by centimeters, only grazing his right ear.

Olympics Censoring Backlash of Blasphemous Performance Using Copyright Claims

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Olympics Censoring Backlash of Blasphemous Performance Using Copyright Claims

Elias Irizarry, Headline USA) Following public outrage over a blasphemous and sexually degenerate opening ceremony, which prompted widespread calls to boycott the Olympics in France and at least one advertiser to pull its support, the International Olympic Committee was attempting to memory hole the entire debauched debacle from social media.

Viewers of all kinds responded in outrage after Friday’s opening ceremony, which featured a re-enactment of the Last Supper alongside drag queens, bare testicles and other controversial additions.

Wireless company CSpire announced that it was pulling its ads in response.

Meanwhile, #BoycottOlympics and #BoycottTheOlympics both began trending as many expressed their disapproval.

Alex Jones, host of InfoWars, compared the incident to the Bud Light boycott when the beer company saw its sales plummet as a result of a promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

In response to the backlash the IOC used a third-party company named Athletia Sports to censor free speech and criticism of the performance, issuing copyright claims to take down posts on the social media platform X and pulling its own video from YouTube.

Users received a standardized letter from an individual named Jonathan Schmitz, claiming to represent the IOC through the power of attorney.

“I am writing to you on behalf of my client, the International Olympic Committee. Through our monitoring programme we have become aware that you are displaying and/or offering IOC copyright-protected audio-visual content,” Schmitz wrote.

“Yours faithfully, Jonathan Schmitz,” the letter concluded.

Alex Muse, a social-media influencer and blogger who goes by the Twitter account @amuse, went public with the letter early Saturday and confirmed its veracity to Headline USA. He created a custom edit comparing the performance to the Last Supper. Later, he had his account locked as a result of a copyright claim made on his video.

“ATHLETIA SPORTS on behalf of The International Olympic Committee is actively filing DCMA take down requests with X,” he wrote in his post.

“I created one custom edit comparing the last supper and the opening scene. X locked my account and removed the video,” he added. “While my use clearly fits within ‘fair use’ the IOC is clearly using the DCMA as a way to silence critics.”

Another user influencer, podcast host Nick Sortor, was another of the many who took to the platform to speak out about the censorship insult adding to the injury that the repugnant and offensive performance.

“The Olympic Committee is DESPERATELY trying to scrub these images from the internet, and even had my account LOCKED this morning,” said Nick Sortor. “Don’t let them memory hole their blasphemy.”

Soon after the claims were publicized, users on the site noted that Elon Musk, the owner of X, had unfollowed the Olympics on the platform.

Musk has championed himself as a “free speech absolutist,” since taking over the website in 2022.

However, other public figures—including Pope Francis and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah were notably silent. Romney, who oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, has remained close with the IOC.

Just days ago, it announced that the city would again play host to the 2034 games. Assuming Armageddon has not already come.

While Christians bore the brunt of the attack, rife with Satanic imagery—including from rapper Snoop Dogg, a torch bearer, who reportedly wore a Baphomet pendant—others were equally offended by it.

China canceled the opening ceremony broadcast due to its offensiveness to Buddhists and Christians.

Jews and members of the LGBT community, meanwhile, posted messages of solidarity, pointing out that mocking the beliefs of Christians was no way to win their respect and tolerance in reciprocity.

And others, including Canadian professor Jordan Peterson, pointed out that the feckless French surrender monkeys had stopped short of ridiculing all religions for some unusual reason.

Follow Elias Irizarry at twitter.com/eliasforsc.
Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

SC-GOP Joins 17-State FEC Complaint Over Biden-Harris Campaign Funds Transfer

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SC-GOP Joins 17-State FEC Complaint Over Biden-Harris Campaign Funds Transfer

(T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square) The South Carolina Republican Party joined its counterparts in more than a dozen other states and territories in filing a Federal Election Commission complaint against Vice President Kamala Harris and her presidential campaign.

The SCGOP joined other state parties and other groups in the complaint, which centers on transferring $96 million in campaign funds from Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race less than a week ago. They contend the formal nomination process at the Democratic National Convention must take place before the money can be transferred.

The parties say the “Biden for President” campaign committee changed its name to “Harris for President” concurrently with the president’s announcement he would no longer seek reelection in November.

“The South Carolina Republican Party hopes that the Federal Election Commission will take urgent action to stop this illegal and unethical transfer of funds,” SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick said in a statement. “The law is clear: those funds were given to ‘Biden for President’, not ‘Harris for President’, or even ‘Biden-Harris’, and Joe Biden can’t simply give her 96 million dollars.

“There is no joint bank account with a vice-presidential candidate until after they officially become the nominees of their Party. This was a blatant, illegal money grab, pure and simple,” McKissick added. “Though the Democrat Party claims to be the ‘Party of Democracy’, they don’t seem to have a problem ignoring their own primary voters or campaign finance law.”

The South Carolina Democratic Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.

For their part, Democrats are no strangers to FEC filings.

On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee said it filed an FEC complaint against Independent presidential candidate Cornel West’s campaign and three groups they said have ties to the Republican Party. Democrats accuse West’s campaign of “accepting illegal in-kind contributions” from Republican operatives as part of an effort to secure ballot access in North Carolina and Arizona.

TikTok Harvested User’s Views on Controversial Social Issues

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TikTok Harvested User’s Views on Controversial Social Issues

(Headline USA) The Justice Department reported that TikTok has the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views of divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion.

Government lawyers wrote in documents filed late Friday to the federal appeals court in Washington that TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance used an internal web-suite system called Lark to enable TikTok employees to speak directly with ByteDance engineers in China.

TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about U.S. users, information that has wound up being stored on Chinese servers and accessible to ByteDance employees in China, federal officials said.

One of Lark’s internal search tools, the filing states, permits ByteDance and TikTok employees in the U.S. and China to gather information on users’ content or expressions, including views on sensitive topics, such as abortion or religion. Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported TikTok had tracked users who watched LGBTQ content through a dashboard the company said it had since deleted.

The new court documents represent the government’s first major defense in a consequential legal battle over the future of the popular social media platform, which is used by more than 170 million Americans.

Under a US law, the company could face a ban in a few months if it doesn’t break ties with ByteDance.

The measure was passed with bipartisan support after lawmakers and administration officials expressed concerns that Chinese authorities could force ByteDance to hand over U.S. user data or sway public opinion towards Beijing’s interests by manipulating the algorithm that populates users’ feeds.

“Intelligence reporting further demonstrates that ByteDance and TikTok Global have taken action in response to (Chinese government) demands to censor content outside of China,” Casey Blackburn, a senior U.S. intelligence official, wrote in a filing that supported the government’s arguments.

The Justice Department warned, in stark terms, of the potential for what it called “covert content manipulation” by the Chinese government, saying the algorithm could be designed to shape content that users receive.

“By directing ByteDance or TikTok to covertly manipulate that algorithm, China could for example further its existing malign influence operations and amplify its efforts to undermine trust in our democracy and exacerbate social divisions,” the brief states.

The concern, the Justice Department said, is more than theoretical, alleging that TikTok and ByteDance employees are known to engage in a practice called “heating” in which certain videos are promoted in order to receive a certain number of views. While this capability enables TikTok to curate popular content and disseminate it more widely, U.S. officials posit it can also be used for nefarious purposes.

In the redacted version of the court documents, the Justice Department said another tool triggered the suppression of content based on the use of certain words. Certain policies of the tool applied to ByteDance users in China, where the company operates a similar app called Douyin that follows Beijing’s strict censorship rules.

But Justice Department officials said other policies may have been applied to TikTok users outside of China. TikTok was investigating the existence of these policies and whether they had ever been used in the U.S. in, or around, 2022, officials said.

The government points to the Lark data transfers to explain why federal officials do not believe that Project Texas, TikTok’s $1.5 billion mitigation plan to store U.S. user data on servers owned and maintained by the tech giant Oracle, is sufficient to guard against national security concerns.

In its legal challenge against the law, TikTok has heavily leaned on arguments that the potential ban violates the First Amendment because it bars the app from continued speech unless it attracts a new owner through a complex divestment process. It has also argued divestment would change the speech on the platform because it would create a version of TikTok lacking the algorithm that has driven its success.

In its response, the Justice Department argued TikTok has not raised any valid free speech claims, saying the law addresses national security concerns without targeting protected speech, and argues that China and ByteDance, as foreign entities, aren’t shielded by the First Amendment.

TikTok has also argued the U.S. law discriminates on viewpoints, citing statements from some lawmakers critical of what they viewed as an anti-Israel tilt on the platform during the war in Gaza.

Justice Department officials disputes that argument, saying the law at issue reflects their ongoing concern that China could weaponize technology against U.S. national security, a fear they say is made worse by demands that companies under Beijing’s control turn over sensitive data to the government. They say TikTok, under its current operating structure, is required to be responsive to those demands.

Oral arguments in the case is scheduled for September.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Harris Refuses to Acknowledge Inflation Increase During Her Tenure

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Harris Refuses to Acknowledge Inflation Increase During Her Tenure

(Headline USA) Kamala Harris refused to acknowledge inflation in her campaign speeches on economic policy.

Shortly after Joe Biden left the race a week ago, Harris began to craft a new narrative around the economy.

Not once in speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana or Texas did she mention the word “inflation.” Inflation was the overwhelming economic challenge that has dogged Biden and Harris’s administration. It forced Biden to consistently acknowledge voters’ pain as they cope with higher grocery, gasoline, housing and auto expenses.

Harris, instead of acknowledging the reality of the economy, is emphasizing what she imagines could be ahead.

“In our vision of the future, we see a place where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead — a future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every senior can retire with dignity and where every worker has the freedom to join a union,” Harris told the American Federation of Teachers on Thursday.

But Republicans have moved quickly to highlight the reality of the increase in inflation under the Biden and Harris presidency. They are emphasizing the cumulative impact of high prices under the Democratic administration.

Labor Department data show that consumer prices are up 19.2% since Biden and Harris took office.

GOP leaders are seeking to ensure Harris is accountable for her administration’s record.

“Vice President Harris owns this administration’s record,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “Her fingerprints are all over the past four years of failure.”

President Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, are focused on highlighting the fact that Harris as more liberal than Biden.

President Trump, at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, called Harris “the most incompetent and far left vice president in American history.”

Vance went after her policies in a Friday interview on Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM program.

“We cannot let people who are going to destroy the American manufacturing and energy economy take over the reins of power,” Vance said. “It’s going to be a lot worse when you get somebody who’s even more liberal than Biden in there.”

The Trump campaign has Cited Harris’s own words to demonstrate her radically left positions. In Harris’s statements from her short-lived run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, she said that she favored banning plastic straws, offshore oil drilling and the use of fracking for oil and natural gas.

Republican lawmakers also highlighted the fact that Harris would raise taxes.

Experts say Harris’s biggest problem, however, is probably the persistence of inflation.

The consultancy Oxford Economics said in an analysis Monday that the odds favored Trump.

“I doubt that Harris will significantly change how swing voters think of the economy,” said Bernard Yaros, an economist at Oxford Economics. “She still carries that same baggage of presiding over the high inflation of 2021 and 2022. Like Biden, her approval took a hit during that inflation surge.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Election Integrity Questioned Ahead of Arizona U.S. Senate Primary

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Election Integrity Questioned Ahead of Arizona U.S. Senate Primary

(Madeline Armstrong, The Center Square) Ahead of Arizona’s primary election on Tuesday, election security has been a hot topic among politicians. So much so that Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes released a misinformation alert Friday afternoon.

“The Secretary of State encourages voters to rely only on trusted sources for accurate, election-related news,” reads a press release from the Secretary of State’s Office. “We want to reassure the public that the security and integrity of their vote are our top priorities.”

Election integrity is something that Senate candidate Kari Lake has spoken out about when it came to her election loss to Katie Hobbs in the 2022 race for governor. Lake claimed that Maricopa County didn’t conduct required accuracy testing on its tabulators and believed they were inaccurate, refusing to concede the race.

She has since claimed that her Republican opponent, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, is a “coward” when it comes to election integrity.

“He does not respect our elections,” Lake said. “He has done absolutely zero to make sure we have safe and secure elections.”

Lamb responded with an email to his supporters refuting Lake’s allegations.

“The topic of election integrity is incredibly important to me (and this country), and it’s one that I take very seriously,” the email reads. “My opponent, former newscaster Kari Lake, has resorted to making baseless accusations against me, suggesting that I turned a blind eye to election fraud. This couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Lamb said that in 2020, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office installed cameras on every ballot drop box in the county and monitored the footage. He even opened up the footage for the community to view.

“I’ve always fought for election integrity no matter what people say,” Lamb said.

Lake declined to participate in the GOP primary debate where Lamb did a Q&A, saying that election fraud is something he would address if elected as U.S. senator.

“There’s fraud in every election,” Lamb said. “We’ve got to do a lot better nationally with election security. We owe it to the American people.”

Fontes assured voters in his statement that the state is diligent in ensuring secure elections. The polls will be open for the state primary election at 6 a.m. and they close at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Voters in Maricopa County can find their closest polling location here. Voters in Pima County can find their closest polling location here. All other voters can visit my.arizona.vote to find their polling locations.

In order to participate, voters must bring valid identification, either a photo ID or two forms of ID if they don’t include a photograph.

Fontes encourages people to be aware of the upcoming heatwave when going to polling locations and many locations will be equipped with cooling centers providing relief from the heat. More information on what to expect on election day can be found at https://azsos.gov/elections/voters.

‘Save America:’ Trump Publishes New Book

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‘Save America:’ Trump Publishes New Book

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Donald Trump will release his third official book since leaving office that will be filled with images to highlight the “great success” of the United States under his leadership and show the “power” that the country “will have again” if he is re-elected at the end of this year.

According to the description, Trump’s new book, Save America, will offer a look at his first term and “a vision for his next term.” Fox News reported that Trump has selected each photo in the book and his words, which offer insight into what will shape the second Trump administration.

“This book represents the campaign that we’re in the midst of, which has been going really well,” he said.

The news source added that the cover features the iconic photo taken by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press of Trump standing triumphantly in front of an American flag just moments after the assassin tried to murder him earlier this month at his rally in Butler, Pa.

“Now, we’re running against a radical left lunatic. We beat Biden. That’s why he quit. He quit because of the debate. He quit because he got beaten. He was so far down in the polls that they threw him out,” he said.

Trump said that his upcoming book is “really representative of everything that’s happening now.”

“It also represents a lot of the beautiful past in the White House, including my relationships with world leaders, which is so important right now, with Cuba being infiltrated by Russian ships, with planes being intercepted over Alaska, Russia and China playing, working together against the United States,” he said.

Trump said his third book is “really based on the life and times of our country and the success of our country – the great success of our country.”

FBI Confirms Trump Was Struck By Bullet During Assassination Attempt

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(Headline USA) Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump’s near assassination, the FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president’s ear, moving to clear conspiracy theories from leftists doubting whether a bullet caused the former president’s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally.

“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said in a statement.

The one-sentence statement from the FBI marked the most definitive law enforcement account of Trump’s injuries following false statements earlier in the week from FBI Director Christopher Wray that appeared to cast doubt on whether a bullet had actually hit Trump.

The comment from Wray drew fury from many and further stoked left-wing conspiracy theories, known as BlueAnon, that have flourished amid a dearth of information following the July 13 attack.

Up until now, federal law enforcement agents involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had refused to provide information about what caused Trump’s injuries. Trump’s campaign has also declined to release medical records from the hospital where he was first treated or to make the doctors there available for questions.

Updates have instead come either from Trump himself or from Trump’s former White House doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a staunch ally who now represents Texas in Congress.

Speaking at an event later Friday in West Palm Beach Florida, Trump drew boos from the crowd when he described the suggestion that he may have been struck by glass or shrapnel instead of a bullet.

“Did you see the FBI today apologized?” he asked. “It just never ends with these people. … We accept their apology.”

Trump appeared Friday for the first time without a bandage on his right ear. Photographs and video showed no sign of continued bleeding, and no distinct holes or gashes.

Conspiracy theories about the extent and nature of Trump’s wound began immediately after Trump narrowly escaped death.

Those questions have persisted despite photographs showing the trace of a projectile speeding past Trump’s head as well as Trump’s teleprompter glass intact after the shooting, and the account Trump himself gave in a Truth Social post within hours of the shooting that he had been “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”

“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” he wrote.

Days later, in a speech accepting the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump recounted the scene in detail, while wearing a large gauze bandage over his right ear.

“I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear. I said to myself, ‘Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet,’” he said.

“If I had not moved my head at that very last instant,” Trump said, “the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight.”

But the first medical account of Trump’s condition didn’t come until a full week after the shooting, when Jackson released his first letter last Saturday evening. In it, he said the bullet that struck Trump had “produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.” He also revealed Trump had received a CT scan at the hospital.

Federal law enforcement involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had declined to confirm that account. And Wray’s testimony offered apparently conflicting answers on the issue.

“There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray said, before he seemed to suggest it was indeed a bullet.

“I don’t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else,” he said.

On Thursday, the FBI sought to clarify matters with a statement affirming that the shooting was an “attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims.” The FBI also said Thursday that its Shooting Reconstruction Team continues to examine bullet fragments and other evidence from the scene.

Jackson, who has been treating the former president since the night of the July 13 shooting, told The Associated Press on Thursday that any suggestion Trump’s ear was bloodied by anything other than a bullet was reckless.

“It was a bullet wound,” said Jackson. “You can’t make statements like that. It leads to all these conspiracy theories.”

In his letter Friday, Jackson insisted “there is absolutely no evidence” Trump was struck by anything other than a bullet and said it was “wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.”

He wrote that at Butler Memorial Hospital, where the GOP nominee was rushed after the shooting, he was evaluated and treated for a “Gunshot Wound to the Right Ear.”

“Having served as an Emergency Medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq,” he wrote, “I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career. Based on my direct observations of the injury, my relevant clinical background, and my significant experience evaluating and treating patients with similar wounds, I completely concur with the initial assessment and treatment provided by the doctors at nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital on the day of the shooting.”

Asked if the campaign would release those hospital records, or allow the doctors who treated him there to speak, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blasted the media for asking.

“The media has no shame in engaging in disgusting conspiracy theories,” he said. “The facts are the facts, and to question an abhorrent assassination attempt that ultimately cost a life and injured two others is beyond the pale.”

In emails last week, he told the AP that “medical readouts” had already been provided.

“It’s sad some people still don’t believe a shooting happened,” Cheung said, “even after one person was killed and others were injured.”

Anyone who believes the conspiracies, he added, “is either mentally deficient or willfully peddling falsehoods for political reasons.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also urged Wray to correct his testimony in a letter Friday, saying the fact Trump had been hit by a bullet “was made clear in briefings my office received and should not be a point of contention.”

“As head of the FBI, you should not be creating confusion about such matters, as it further undercuts the agency’s credibility with millions of Americans,” he wrote.

Trump also lashed out at Wray in a post on his Truth Social network, saying it was “No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!”

“No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,” he wrote.

On Friday, he called Wray’s comments “so damaging to the Great People that work in the FBI.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Raises Over $4M in Crypto Donations

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Trump Raises Over $4M in Crypto Donations

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was recently reported that Donald Trump’s campaign raised over $4 million in cryptocurrency in the second quarter of 2024. 

The Post Millennial reported that an over 1,000-page Federal Election Commission filing showed that the “Trump 47” joint fundraising committee raised more than $118 million between Apr. 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024.

Of those donating cryptocurrencies, at least 19 donors contributed a combined $2.15 million in Bitcoin, with some of the contributors coming from the swing states.

The news came as Trump is set to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville on July 27, 2024. The news source added that a campaign fundraiser will be held in the city on the same day, with top-tier seats that include a roundtable with Trump being priced at the maximum donation amount for individuals.

“Crypto innovators and others in the technology sector are under attack from Kamala Harris and the Democrats. While the Biden-Harris Administration stifles innovation with more regulation and higher taxes, President Trump is ready to encourage American leadership in this and other emerging technologies,” Brian Hughes, a Trump campaign aide, said.

In May 2024, Trump announced that he would begin accepting cryptocurrency donations, making him the first major political candidate to do so.

“This addition to President Trump’s already groundbreaking digital fundraising operation marks the first time a major party Presidential nominee has embraced cryptocurrency for donations. [Contribution] limits and disclosure requirements for crypto donations will follow Federal Election Commission regulations,” the campaign wrote in a press release.

The campaign also stated that as president, Trump “reduced regulations and championed innovation in financial technology, while Democrats, like Biden and his official surrogate Elizabeth Warren, continue to believe only government has the answers to how our nation leads the world.”

“The effort to reduce the control of government on an American’s financial decision-making is part of a seismic shift toward freedom. Today’s announcement reflects President Trump’s commitment to an agenda that values freedom over socialistic government control,” the press release stated.

Netflix Boycotted After Founder Donates $7M to Kamala Harris

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Netflix Boycotted After Founder Donates $7M to Kamala Harris

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After Joe Biden left the presidential race on July 21, 2024, and endorsed Kamala Harris, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, who had wanted Biden to step aside for a very long time, donated $7 million to Harris’s 2024 campaign.

Trending Politics reported that this resulted in people talking about boycotting the streaming service.

“After the depressing debate, we are in the game again,” Hastings said, adding that this was the most substantial donation he had ever made to any candidate.

Before starting Netflix, Hastings was involved in several tech companies, like Pure Software, which he founded in 1991. Hastings has also made substantial donations to other various leftist causes.

“Congrats to Kamala Harris — now it is time to win,” Hastings said.

While Biden was still in the race, Hastings said he needed to leave.

“Biden needs to step aside to allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Trump and keep us safe and prosperous,” he said.

People on social media quickly responded to the recent news by calling others to boycott the streaming service due to the far-left politics of the company’s founder.

“If you’re still a Netflix customer and you love America, it’s time to cancel Netflix because you are funding Marxist Kamala Harris,” one person wrote.

Attorney and formerly of counsel with Sidney Powell Molly McCann Sander also shared her thoughts regarding the recent news.

“Apparently, [canceling Netflix] is trending because people learned it donated $7 million to Kamala Harris. Remember, this is the company that created the show Cuties, which sexualized underage little girls. Sounds like a good match,” she wrote.

Another anonymous person on the platform urged others to cancel their subscriptions while posting a video of himself canceling his subscription.

“For real, cancel Netflix. [This is] the last time for me I will never pay for them again. There are [too] many free apps that have the same sh** to watch. The [co-founder] donated over 7m to [Kamala] campaign. [F***] them,” the person wrote.

Taylor Marshall, a Catholic blogger and hater of Pope Francis, also said that canceling Netflix subscriptions is the right thing to do.

“We already canceled Netflix a long time ago, but if you have not done so already, it’s now time to [cancel Netflix],” he wrote.

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