During the July 5, 2024, interview, Biden tried to present himself as a strong leader when it comes to foreign policy by saying that he was working with Israel and “shut [Vladimir] Putin down,” even though the war between Russia and Ukraine did not end.
“I’m the guy that put NATO together, the future, no one thought I could expand it. I’m the guy that shot Putin down, no one thought it could happen,” he said.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 5, 2024
Biden then blamed Trump for his horrible debate performance, saying that he was constantly “distracted” by Trump’s speaking when his microphone was off.
Stephanopoulos asked Biden if he would be willing to take an independent medical exam and Biden refused, saying that he doesn’t need to do it.
“I have a cognitive test every single day… Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world,” Biden said.
Biden is grilled on whether he would undergo an independent medical evaluation that includes neurological and cognitive tests:
"I have a cognitive test every single day … Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world." pic.twitter.com/tzLcH7PzZo
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 6, 2024
He then complained that Trump wants to “undo every single thing I’ve done,” even though Biden himself reversed dozens of Trump’s executive orders as soon as he got inside the Oval Office.
After that, Stephanopolous asked what Biden would do if he lost to Trump.
“I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” Biden said.
Biden: “If Trump wins in November, I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and did the goodest job I know I could do.”
(Headline USA) Social media posts reported a medical emergency during Biden’s flight on Friday, but the Mainstream Media and White House officials say these claims are false.
We know that Air Force One landed in New Castle, Delaware, at 7:22 p.m. about the same time posts started spreading about Biden’s alleged medical emergency, but those facts remain most of what is certain about Biden’s flight on Friday.
Twitter users report that Biden experienced a medical emergency during the flight.
“I just received a tip from an anonymous source,” reads one Twitter post. “My source says that Joe Biden is currently experiencing a medical emergency on Air Force One as I type this. No further details are known.”
Another Twitter post states: “Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One right now. Press access has been removed.” It had received approximately 15,000 likes and 10,900 shares as of Saturday morning.
“Today, Joe Biden had what’s being described as a panic attack with tachycardia (HR was ~160) and he experienced a brief episode of AFib,” the post reads. “He was given Metoprolol, plus a blood thinner by IV and oxygen by nasal cannula.”
Other posts claimed that the press did not see Biden when the presidential motorcade arrived at his home Friday night.
A press pool was in Biden’s motorcade when he was dropped off at his Wilmington home, according to the AP reporter who was traveling with the president. The reporter said journalists did not see him enter the house.
But, the media and the Biden Administration are telling another story.
An AP Reporter says that there were no signs of an emergency aboard Air Force One and the press was not denied access to the plane at any point. The reporter added that press was able to move about the plane as usual and that a door separating press from Biden’s top staff was open for most of the flight.
Likewise, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates called the claim “100% false” in a Twitter post on Friday night.
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) — Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is trying to gather a cohort of his Democratic Senate colleagues to convince Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Last week’s debate has apparently persuaded Warner that a Biden campaign is untenable, and he wants to take a group of Democratic senators to the White House on Monday to speak with the president about exiting the race, according to two Washington Post sources who wished to remain anonymous.
When asked about the senator’s efforts, his spokeswoman was quoted as having said, “Like many other people in Washington and across the country, Senator Warner believes these are critical days for the president’s campaign, and he has made that clear to the White House.
“I am going to run and I’m going to win again,” he said, though at one point, he corrected himself for saying this was the 2020 election year.
Warner is an influential figure in Virginia politics, a U.S. Senator since 2009 and the state’s governor from 2002-2006. Though he is not up for re-election this year, his counterpart, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is.
Kaine is an equally, if not more, prominent voice in the commonwealth, whose political career partially mirrors Warner’s, having been a U.S. Senator for more than 12 years and succeeding Warner as governor from 2006-2010. Kaine was chosen by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as her vice presidential running mate in 2016, ultimately losing to former President Donald Trump.
Kaine still expresses faith in the president, telling 13News Now in an interview on Friday that, though Biden may not shine in debates or speeches, he’s still equipped to lead the country.
“At the end of the day, the real test of a president is their judgment, and that includes the judgment of those that they choose to be around them,” said the senator.
Kaine is running for re-election against Republican Hung Cao. Cao received a vigorous endorsement from Trump at a June rally after a respected Roanoke College poll showed Trump and Biden neck-and-neck just one month prior.
“I have the answer to the Crooked Joe Biden Incompetence Puzzle — Let’s do another Debate, but this time, no holds barred – An all discussion, with just the two of us on stage, talking about the future of our Country. The ratings were massive for the First Debate, record-setting, in fact, but this one, because of the format, would blow everything away!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Despite the mass media doing almost everything possible to assist Biden during the debate, he still wasn’t able to perform properly, The Hill reported. During last week’s debate, Biden had a raspy voice and stumbled over his words because of his age.
Biden’s horrible performance during the debate caused Democrats to start asking whether or not he should be replaced with someone else in the race. Since then, three House Democrats and other members of the party have said Biden should drop out of the race.
In his July 4, 2024, post, Trump wrote that he wants Biden to discuss topics such as immigration and inflation during the possible debate.
“Likewise it would be yet another test for me. What a great evening it would be, just the two of us, one on one, in a good, old-fashioned Debate, the way they used to be. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!!!” Trump wrote.
On July 3, 2024, the White House insisted that Biden was not leaving the presidential race, with Biden himself adding in a fundraising email sent on the same day that nobody “is pushing [him] out.”
“I’m the Democratic Party’s nominee. No one is pushing me out. I’m not leaving, I’m in this race to the end, and WE are going to win this election. If that’s all you need to hear, pitch in a few bucks to help [Vice President Harris] and me defeat Donald Trump in November,” the fundraising email stated.
At a White House Fourth of July event, Biden also said that he is not “going anywhere.”
(Headline USA) Decomposing human remains have been found wrapped in a sleeping bag and left out on the sidewalk for trash collection in Manhattan, New York City police said Saturday.
The grisly discovery happened around 5 p.m. on Friday.
Police received reports of a suspicious package with a foul smell outside of a building in the Kips Bay neighborhood.
Responding officers found the remains in a sleeping bag left alongside other garbage bags set out on the curb for garbage pickup, according to police.
Video and photos shared on social media show what appears to be a full-sized body covered in a dark sleeping bag that was further wrapped in black trash bags.
The department has not released any details about the possible victim.
The victim’s age, sex, and size are all unreported at this time.
The medical examiner’s office is conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether foul play is suspected, police said.
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Whether faith-based groups are allowed to solely hire people that agree with their faith is a question again before the courts.
A ministry in Oregon that works with at-risk youth was stripped of its state funding because it requires employees and volunteers at the organization to sign a statement of faith document. Now the issue is before the courts and could set precedent for which faith groups are allowed to hire people who agree with their mission.
Since 2017, Youth 71Five Ministries has been approved to receive funds from Oregon’s biennial Youth Community Investment Grants.
They received another round of grant funding for more than $400,000 for 2023-2025 for youth violence and gang prevention, according to the group’s lawsuit. But they were later disqualified and the award revoked when the state program accused them of discrimination in their hiring practices because of the faith statement.
The ministry filed a suit against the state in March, but their case was dismissed.
“This civil-rights action challenges the constitutionality of Defendants’ decision to exclude a religious organization from an otherwise available government benefit program solely because of its religious character and exercise,” the lawsuit said.
“This New Rule led to Defendants stripping 71Five Ministries of over $400,000 in grant awards just because the Christian ministry expects its employees and volunteers to share its religious beliefs and mission,” the suit continued.
Now, the group has filed an appeal U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
“71Five provides vital support and care to anyone who needs it, but Oregon state officials are punishing it because it’s a Christian ministry that simply and reasonably asks volunteers and staff to agree to Christian beliefs,” said Jeremiah Galus, a top lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, a group helping the ministry in this case.
Galus argues that a recent Supreme Court case gives new precedent for the youth outreach group’s argument.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in 2017 in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer that faith-based groups could not be denied state funding simply because of their religious stance.
That case centered around a Christian preschool that was denied state funding for an upgrade to its children’s playground because it was a religious organization.
“By stripping 71Five of its funding, Oregon is putting religious ministries to an impossible choice: hire those who reject your beliefs to receive funding that everyone else can access or go without the funding,” Galus said in a statement. “We will be urging the 9th Circuit to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent that upholds the First Amendment freedom of faith-based organizations to hire like-minded individuals.”
Alliance Defending Freedom argues the state rule on who faith-based groups can hire is unconstitutional.
“Because the New Rule and Defendants’ actions violate the First Amendment many times over and conflict with well-established Supreme Court precedent, 71Five Ministries is entitled to declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the ongoing and prospective constitutional violations, as well as damages to remedy the past constitutional violations,” the lawsuit said.
Making California a better place by doing your job is too hard, but Newsom still wants to pump up his national profile to make a run for the White House as a future Democrat nominee, Breitbart reported. That is why he decided to launch a podcast entitled Politickin’ on July 5, 2024, on iHeartPodcasts.
According to the podcast description, those who will be tuning in will hear Newsom “like [they’ve] never heard him [before].”
Even though Newsom is in control of a major American state and the title of the podcast is literally Politickin’, Newsom promised that there would be no political discussions. Instead, Lynch and Newsom would be leading the podcast’s listeners to a “deeper understanding of what it takes to excel in their respective fields.”
Newsom has a year and a half left in his term as governor and he said that he won’t be running for president this year. In October 2022, he also promised to serve his entire term and not leave early to run for president. However, he made those claims way before the entire establishment decided that Joe Biden should be replaced.
Newsom would likely join the race by replacing Biden, considering that he has spent an inordinate amount of time crisscrossing the country on political appearances instead of staying home to govern the state.
Lynch, the podcast’s co-host was a one-time Super Bowl champion, a five-time Pro Bowl player, and, both in 2013 and 2014, the NFL’s leader in rushing touchdowns, the news source reported. From 2007 to 2019, he played and spent five years with the Seattle Seahawks.
He retired and unretired three times. Lynch finally stopped playing football in 2019 after one season with the Seahawks.
(Bethany Bankley, The Center Square) Taxpayers are not only funding the border crisis, but they are also paying for numerous free services illegal immigrants receive, according to anew reportpublished by the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.
The committee blames the Biden administration inits new report, “Chauffeur at the Border, Concierge in the Interior: How the Biden Administration Rewards Illegal Aliens on the Taxpayers’ Dime” for costs to U.S. taxpayers.
It also notes that Congress, including Republicans, voted to fund the programs it identified as wasting taxpayer money and facilitating the border crisis when Congress passed an omnibus appropriations bill in March that President Joe Biden signed into law.
The $1.3 trillion funding packagepassedby a vote of 72-24 in the Senate and 286-134 in the House. It included $61.8 billion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The report states that the Biden administration funneled tens of millions of taxpayer money to facilitate illegal entry into the U.S. and also provided “support services” to illegal foreign nationals “at the expense of border security and public safety.”
It cites data exclusivelyreportedon by The Center Square about the now more than two million foreign nationals who illegally entered the country and evaded capture, known as “gotaways,” since Biden has been in office.
In addition to the Biden administration incentivizing “mass illegal immigration into the United States,” it is also encouraging “illegal aliens to arrive at the border, chauffeurs them into the interior, and then rewards them with concierge services, all on the taxpayers’ dime and at the expense of public safety,” the report states.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas‘ newly created U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, for example, “serves as a taxpayer-provided windfall for illegal aliens to receive social services once they are inside the United States,” it states.
Taxpayer money is also funding an ATD subprogram, the Young Adult Case Management Program (YACMP), which provides illegal foreign nationals with free services, including legal orientation programs, legal service provider referrals, social services referrals,mentalhealth support, among others.
Taxpayer money is also funding another ATD subprogram, the Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP), which “awards funds to nonprofit organizations to provide mental health services;trafficking screening; legal orientation programs; cultural orientation programs; connections to social services,” amongothers.
“Congress provided an initial $5 million to create the [CMPP] program in fiscal year 2021, with an additional $15 million of funding provided in 2022,” the report states. “In March 2024, as a part of the omnibus appropriations bill, Congress approved and President Biden signed into law an additional $15 million for CMPP through September 30, 2025.”
The YACMP and CMPP programs, whose funding allocation Congress approved, “amount to personal concierges for thousands of illegal aliens—all on the taxpayers’ dime,” the report states.
Taxpayer money also funds ICE contractors referring “illegal aliens to receive services from groups like Planned Parenthood, an organization that promotes ‘kink’ events and advocates for transgender surgeries for children, and a group that has compared Republican governors to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” according to the report.
The report was released after the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Securitypreviouslyreleased several reports identifying costs to taxpayers stemming from Biden administration border policies. One reportidentified“consistent misuse and abuse of taxpayer resources enabled by Mayorkas, specifically through his failure to detain illegal aliens and use Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention resourcesin accordance withtheir intended purpose.”
This includes $1.43 billion spent on ICE detention facilities regardless of whether they were at full capacityor not, $600 million on one no-bid contract with a nongovernmental organization that had no prior experience providing housing services for unaccompanied minors, and $17 million spent on unused hotel spaces and services through another NGO contract.
It also found that halting border wall construction cost taxpayers $10 billion and $72 million in shutdown costs tohaltborder wall construction.
A separate Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servicesreportfound that “emergency services for undocumented aliens”added up to$7 billion in fiscal 2021 and $5.4 billion in fiscal 2022, with taxpayer money funding at least $8 billion in improper Medicaid payouts (10% of the nation’s total of $80 billion).
Patricia McKay, 68, and her husband were at the Fashion Island Mall, in Newport Beach, Calif., on July 2, 2024, when they were approached by two men, the Daily Mailreported.
According to different reports, there was a struggle that resulted in both of them fleeing the scene. One of them fired several rounds with a handgun while he was fleeing on foot.
Patricia was then dragged into the parking lot as the two men got into a car that was being driven by a third person.
The criminals then ran over her as they were making their escape and continued shooting when police chased after them.
“No words can express our sadness as we try to come to terms with the loss of our mother, wife, and friend Patricia. We ask for privacy at this time as we work through this as a family,” the McKay family said in the statement.
After the criminals were caught, Newport Beach Police officials identified the suspects as Jaden Cunningham, 18, of Lancaster, Calif., Malachi Edward Darnell, 18, of Los Angeles, and Leroyernest Joseph McCrary, 26, of Compton, Calif., the news source reported.
All of them were booked on suspicion of homicide, robbery with a firearm and conspiracy.
It was also discovered that McCrary has a history of crimes in L.A. County and was arrested in October 2022 for being a drug addict in possession of a firearm. The year after he was charged, McCrary pleaded no contest to the felony charge. In September 2023, he was charged in a robbery case and pleaded no contest once again.
He received a concurrent sentence for both convictions and got two years of probation and three years in state prison, with the sentence being suspended, according to the news source.
The reason why that happened was because of Gascón who has been very vocal about he thinks that the criminal justice system needs to focus more on intervention and rehabilitation instead of “tough on crime” policies that he criticized, claiming that they are racist and a failure.
Really, the biggest surprise, if any, has been how long the Left was able to milk the absurd notion that their political placeholder was a viable candidate.
As many have since noted, it speaks to the sheer toxicity that infects the corrupt conglomerate of corporations, information gatekeepers and partisan special-interests within the Beltway.
The Biden debate scandal and subsequent fallout effectively proved that not only has lying within the political Establishment become systemic, but it makes no difference if it is even a credible lie.
There is an almost taunting quality to putting forth something utterly implausible and challenging people to question it, knowing they lack the institutional power to hold the liars accountable.
GOING OVERBOARD
Most recognize that the current predicament is just another means to an end—out with the old and in with the new: a candidate who must be capable of running on short notice with the existing funding sources and infrastructure needed to offset former President Donald Trump’s advantage, and someone who has the name recognition needed for a possible write-in campaign along with the perception of being a political outsider.
Nonetheless, it is somewhat satisfying to see the cockroaches scurrying away when the light switch gets flipped.
The Fools in this Learian tragedy have been the leftist media and members of Biden’s inner circle feigning shock and ignorance about the problem that everyone else has long been aware of.
Although some continue to double down, most have now pivoted to an entirely new “Big Lie” by pretending their sudden efforts to perform damage control will vindicate them.
From their half-deflated lifeboats, they point fingers at the other Biden loyalists who are going down with the ship and insist that their prior complicity was a function of fear.
Those who have spent the past three-plus years interacting with the 81-year-old president have suddenly begun sharing their stories of red-flags that now seem clear in hindsight. But they insist that if they had waged a Trump-like Resistance campaign to undermine him, they would have faced severe consequences for it by becoming blacklisted rather than celebrated for their public service.
A MAGA MAKEOVER?
Ironically, their face-saving efforts only help build the case for the Heritage Foundation’sProject 2025, which has become a boogeyman for the so-called Blue MAGA movement (a hashtag term coined by one group of leftists to attack those they see as conspiratorial and irrational).
The underlying objective of Project 2025 is to highlight key areas of reform needed within the corrupted deep state and to articulate a series of expert-endorsed policy proposals through the 880-page Mandate for Leadership in order to prevent another sabotage effort—without losing any time trying to fight the bureaucracy.
“The new conservative movement that America needs is right here, right now in this room,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said during the conservative think-tank’s 2023 leadership summit at Washington, D.C.’s National Harbor.
“No more bringing butter knives to gunfights—we’ve learned that,” Roberts continued. “The old Washington red team of free marketers, neoconservatives and evangelicals is simply not enough.”
In effect, it was intended to be an inward-looking initiative to retrench the conservative movement and root out the RINOs, learning from the mistakes of the first Trump administration.
The propagandist Associated Press even floated the suggestion that it was a guidebook for “revolution,” carping on some of Roberts’s rhetoric to distort the context of his statements.
Yet, as Trump recently said in distancing himself from the initiative, it was never specifically coordinated with his campaign.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” he wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
“I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he continued. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
Once again, the truth will eventually get out.
America, you’ve been lied to again.
Project 2025 was just a think tank paper.
It wasn’t a Trump “master plan” to become a dictator.
Having been present for the project’s grand unveiling at the 2023 leadership summit—which featured a speech by then-candidate Ron DeSantis in its top billing (along with what would be Tucker Carlson’s last speech as a Fox News host)—I can attest that the resurgence of Trump in such sweeping fashion was the last thing on the minds of many of the Heritage Foundation’s policy writers.
Indeed, it is more likely that many of them feared his candidacy might hold back the sort of grand reinvention of Republicanism that they envisaged.
When I asked, point blank, during a media breakfast with some of the Mandate‘s lead editors what would happen if Trump won and proceeded to disregard all their painstakingly crafted proposals, they struggled to find a suitable answer, with some seeming to suggest in their aghast reactions that a Trump comeback seemed unfathomable at the time.
Nonetheless, they were diplomatic at the time in their insistence that the initiative was intended to be for whoever might emerge as the favored Republican candidate.
Lead editor Paul Dans, the former chief of staff in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management, said that the book sought to be “candidate agnostic” and serve as a resource to any future leader, regardless of who prevailed.
The Mandate authors did “such a good job that you cant help but embrace [it],” Dans said. “You kind of ignore this a little bit at your peril.”
A VISION OF HIS OWN
That Trump has his own plans, of course, should surprise few—especially not the cadre of ex-staffers and advisers who contributed to the Heritage project.
It was clear from the former president’s recent disavowal that he took umbrage with the notion that anyone would prescribe to him a set of “expert” policies to follow after his hard-fought climb back to White House contention.
Moreover, it seems as if Project 2025 runs parallel, in many ways, to the efforts of his own, Trump-endorsed America First Policy Institute.
Trump assures his supporters that he has learned his own valuable lessons.
“I’ve been through it. I know the good people, I know the bad people. I know weak people and strong people,” he said last year at the North Carolina Republican Convention in Greensboro. “I know the people that are losers that we don’t want, I know the people that are winners that a lot of people don’t know or understand.”
Nonetheless, the presumptive GOP nominee—whose current odds of becoming the next president are around 70% by some mainstream media estimations—should not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
If there was one weakness in Trump’s prior presidential experience, it was his misjudgment of character and investment of trust in the wrong people based on their ability to flatter him to his face while undermining him behind his back.
Thus, he should regard Project 2025 and its Mandate for Leadership as a valuable second opinion, a sort of grounding influence that he can use as the baseline for making his decisions.
PROOF IS IN THE PROTEST
Following Trump’s comments dismissing Project 2025 as “ridiculous and abysmal” one of those who came forward in an effort to ridicule him was former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele—the epitome, if ever there were one, of a traitor to conservative values and ideals.
“Since #Project2025 is designed to institutionalize Trumpism and you know nothing about it, then why do you echo some of its policy priorities during your rallies?” said the former Maryland lieutenant governor, whose own efforts to seek higher office failed miserably.
Ok, let’s all play with Stupid for minute…so exactly how do you “disagree” with something you “know nothing about” or “have no idea” who is behind, saying or doing the thing you disagree with? Since #Project2025 is designed to institutionalize Trumpism and you know nothing about… pic.twitter.com/z3irzidWP6
If the same people in the permanent bureaucracy who spent the past several years laying cover for the dubious 2020 election—and the senile geriatric they installed into power as an empty-suit figurehead for the corrupt oligarchy—are devoting this much energy to trying to distort the facts about Project 2025 and misrepresent its motives, then, ipso facto, it is worth a second look.
While Trump is justified in his apprehension about any and all unsolicited advice from D.C. think-tanks and career civil servants, the indications that so many Democrats (and disloyal right-wing denizens of the Swamp) seem panicked about its proposals should be a telling indication itself that Project 2025 is hitting its mark.
As Roberts noted at the Heritage leadership summit, “The Left started this culture war; we’re gonna finish it.”
