Carlson Reveals New Details about Subscription-Based Streaming Network

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Carlson Reveals New Details about Subscription-Based Streaming Network

(Headline USA) Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson promised that his forthcoming streaming service would “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year in an announcement Monday.

Commentary, interviews, Carlson-flavored news reports and documentaries, even an advice show will be offered on the Tucker Carlson Network, which is essentially staffed by the people who used to work for him at Fox.

Rumors about the long-awaited venture have swirled for more than seven months since Fox abruptly fired Carlson, its most popular host.

The network never publicly explained the firing, and Carlson said on Monday that “it really is one of those mysteries that I’ll probably never get to the bottom of.”

However, Fox executives likely faced pressure from woke shareholder BlackRock over Carlson’s skepticism of Ukraine in particular. Rumors of a falling out with founder Rupert Murdoch, who recently stepped down from his role overseeing the network, likely compounded the strain on the relationship.

However, Carlson seemed to confirm that he, too, was chafing under the editorial constraints that the network was imposing on him due to corporate pressures that conflicted with his journalistic integrity.

“I want to wake up and say to myself, ‘You can say whatever you want,’” Carlson said, announcing his streaming service on the Megyn Kelly Show, a podcast and radio show hosted by fellow Fox News refugee Kelly, who has remade her career as an independent commentator.

“I’m going to do it without interference, period,” Carlson said.

“I’m going to tell the unadorned truth,” he continued. “I hope gently and in the least offensive way as I possibly can, but I’m going to tell the truth until the day I die.”

Carlson and Kelly then proceeded touch on a taboo topic that would quickly have been censored by their former network: the possibility of widespread riots if former President Donald Trump is convicted in a politically motivated lawfare campaign waged by the corrupt Biden administration.

A Wide Array of Programming

Before being bounced, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle a lawsuit over coverage of the 2020 election, Carlson hosted, by some measures, the most successful show in cable TV history.

He averaged 3.2 million viewers a night for the first three months of 2023, according to the Nielsen company. Fox’s ratings plunged immediately following his exit. Replacement Jesse Watters built the audience to 2.6 million in November in Carlson’s old time slot, and Fox said Watters has gained advertisers who didn’t want their commercials with Carlson.

Now Carlson enters the world of subscription services with a variety of products on his own network.

“The Tucker Carlson Encounter” will be a long-form conversation show, with singer Kid Rock and golfer John Daly among the first guests.

“The Tucker Carlson Interview” will be a more formal question-and-answer session, like one he conducted recently with former President Donald Trump.

Both of those programs will be offered free on his website, at least at first, while material of his observations on “After The Tucker Carlson Interview” will be behind a paywall.

“Tucker Carlson Uncensored” will be similar to the opening monologue he aired on his Fox show, while “Tucker Carlson Films” will produce documentaries like he made for the Fox Nation online service.

The show “Ask Tucker Carlson” will feature the host answering questions from subscribers and giving advice.

Carlson told Kelly that while he’s “psyched to vote for Trump” in the 2024 election, he didn’t see himself as a potential vice presidential candidate, as some published reports have speculated.

“It’s just so unimaginable,” he said. “I haven’t led a life that prepares people for politics.”

But despite Kelly’s prodding, Carlson didn’t rule the idea out.

Carlson had partnered with Twitter, for content after leaving Fox. He’ll still post material there, branded under his network, but said he determined the Elon Musk-owned platform didn’t have the capacity to help him build out the service he needed.

Fox had no immediate comment on Carlson’s venture, or whether it would violate a contract with the host that reportedly ran through next year’s election.

Neil Patel, Carlson’s former college roommate who launched the Daily Caller website with him in 2010, will be CEO of the new network, running business operations.

Justin Wells, Carlson’s former executive producer who was fired from Fox with him in April, will oversee content.

“I feel happy,” Carlson told Kelly. “I feel liberated.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

The Atlantic Claims War in Congo is Helping Fight Global Warming

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The Atlantic Claims War in Congo is Helping Fight Global Warming

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Around 6 million people have died over the last 75 years as a result of the war in Congo.

But according to the blood-soaked neocons over at The Atlantic, at least the conflict has been good for climate change.

Indeed, The Atlantic hit a new low last week, when it published an article entitled, “War in the Congo Has Kept the Planet Cooler.” The publication has since changed the headline after receiving public backlash, but the original headline was archived online.

The article made the case that the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has prevented international corporations from setting up shop to deforest the area. More peaceful areas are being deforested, from mainland Southeast Asia to most of the Amazon in South America, the article lamented.

“Forests have been devastated after conflicts came to a close … Something similar could happen in the Congo, the home of the forest elephant and gorilla,” the article said.

“Deforestation in the region still isn’t as bad as it has been in the Amazon or some parts of Indonesia … but that could change if peace at last comes to the region.”

The article did acknowledge that the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world—it has a GDP per capita of less than $600. But then the article accused its leaders of wanting to “exploit” the country’s rainforests to “ramp up the economy.”

The Atlantic’s anti-life, pro-war oddly article didn’t mention that modern war has been an environmental disaster for mankind. The recent war in Ukraine has been no exception, with the U.S. and its western allies exploding the Nord Stream gas pipelines, marking one of the largest releases of methane in the history of the world.

Nor did the article mention that richer countries tend to reforest.

According to  a study called Economic Development and Forest Cover, most countries start to reforest once they hit a GDP per capita of $5,000—because they stop burning wood for fuel. For instance, the area of China covered in forest has increased from about 16% in 1990 to over 20% today.

Instead, The Atlantic suggested that war is the best solution to save Congo’s forest.

“We have already dramatically shrunk the largest of them, except for one, and it may only be an outlier because of a terrible, terrible war,” the article concluded.

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

Biden Accused of Fabricating Touching Ronald Reagan Story

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Biden Accused of Fabricating Touching Ronald Reagan Story

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden shared a touching narrative suggesting a moment of solidarity between himself and former President Ronald Reagan. However, the New York Post reported on Monday that there’s historical evidence that directly contradicts Biden’s claims. 

During a speech in Philadelphia, Biden recounted a health incident where he asserted that Reagan had sent Air Force One, which Biden mistakenly referred to as “Air Force Helicopter One,” to transport him to Walter Reed Military Hospital in the 1980s.

“President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force Helicopter One to take me down, but it couldn’t fly,” Biden claimed. “And so my fire department came up, put me in the back and took me on heavy snow on the day I went down to Walter Reed.

In Biden’s 2007 book, Promises to Keep, he mentioned his local fire department picking him up to take him to Walter Reed, with no reference to the former president’s purported offer to send a helicopter.

According to Steven Nelson of the NY Post, a review of records available at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library failed to yield any corroborating evidence. 

Biden was reportedly admitted to the military hospital on Feb. 12, 1988. However, the diary of Reagan, as reported by the NY Post, does not mention any intent to dispatch of Air Force One to assist Biden, who was then a U.S. senator representing Delaware. 

Nelson’s report highlights that inclement weather on Feb. 12 prevented the former president from utilizing Marine One. Instead, Reagan was driven by car to Joint Base Andrews, where he boarded a flight bound for Los Angeles. 

Similarly, Biden acknowledged the severe weather conditions in his own book but mentioned a helicopter ambulance. “Weather conditions made a medevac helicopter flight too dangerous,” Biden confessed, as per the NY Post.  

“I had no idea what time it was, but I found myself on a gurney, my test results strapped to my chest, being wheeled out the doors of Saint Francis [hospital in Wilmington, Del.] toward a waiting ambulance,” he reportedly added.

Part of the Plan? Hunter Uses Defunct Plea Deal to Seek Dismissal 

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Part of the Plan? Hunter Uses Defunct Plea Deal to Seek Dismissal 

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Attorneys representing Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s embattled son, have resurrected a defunct plea deal in a bid to seek the dismissal of his federal indictment related to a revolver purchase in 2018, Fox News reported on Monday. 

The attorneys filed a motion on Monday arguing that the charge for the gun purchase “violates” what many referred to as a “sweetheart deal.” This deal had previously granted Hunter immunity from other charges and enabled him to avoid serving jail time. 

“The Indictment against Mr. Biden must be dismissed because it violates a Diversion Agreement that is in effect between Mr. Biden and the prosecution,” wrote Hunter’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, as reported by Fox.

He added, “In exchange for Mr. Biden giving up various rights—including his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent by agreeing to the Statement of Facts drafted by the prosecution and numerous restrictions on his liberty—the prosecution agreed to provide him immunity for any offense concerning his purchase of a firearm (among other offenses).”

In 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a gun and falsely declared that he wasn’t addicted to drugs, a statement contradicted by his subsequent admissions, including those made in his own book, Beautiful Things.

But an initial plea deal presented by prosecutors offered Hunter Biden the opportunity to plead guilty to three misdemeanors related to his tax affairs and would face no charges for the gun purchase.

However, the plea deal collapsed when Judge Maryellen Noreika probed both prosecutors and defense attorneys about whether the deal provided blanket immunity against further prosecution. While Hunter Biden claimed it did, prosecutors disagreed. 

In the plea deal, prosecutors said that Hunter would not face potential charges “based on the firearm identified in the factual statement to the Diversion Agreement,” Fox reported. 

“Nevertheless, the prosecution did just that, by subsequently bringing this Indictment charging Mr. Biden with three felony firearm offenses, which all relate to the firearm identified in the Diversion Agreement’s factual statement,” Lowell declared.

“Because Mr. Biden gave up valuable rights as part of this contract, in exchange for the prosecution’s promise not to prosecute him, such promise must be fulfilled,” he continued.

After the collapse of the deal, Weiss sought special counsel status from Attorney General Merrick Garland and subsequently charged Hunter Biden for neglecting tax liabilities while allegedly spending funds on various expenses, including lavish parties and other commodities.

Biden Admin. Gave $500K to Anti-Israel Group to Fight ‘Disinformation’ in Mid-East

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Biden Admin. Gave $500K to Anti-Israel Group to Fight ‘Disinformation’ in Mid-East

(Headline USA) The Biden administration gave more than $500,000 to an anti-Israel group to combat “disinformation” in the Middle East, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Just before Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the State Department gave $573,000 to MENAACTION Inc., a Virginia-based nonprofit, to protect “media and society against disinformation” and train Middle Eastern journalists on how to identify “fake news,” federal spending records showed.

Weeks later, MENAACTION’s founders were spreading disinformation of their own in regards to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

For example, co-founder Chris Aboukhaled pushed Hamas’s claim that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, despite U.S. intelligence reports that suggested the rockets had been fired by a terrorist group within Gaza.

MENAACTION’s other co-founder, Mohammed Abu Dalhoum, has similarly blasted Israel’s response to Hamas’s attacks as acts of “genocide,” denying that Israel is acting in “self-defense.”

Dalhoum even suggested Secretary of State Antony Blinken could not serve as an impartial mediator in negotiations between Israel and Palestinian leaders because he is Jewish.

This is not the first radically anti-Israel group the Biden administration has funded. The State Department also recently awarded $260,000 to a Palestinian university in the West Bank that hailed Hamas terrorists as “righteous martyrs.” Al-Quds University praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, saying in a statement afterwards that it “mourns the martyrs of the nation who died … as a result of [Israel’s] aggression.”

The Department of Homeland Security likewise gave millions of dollars to radical mosques that call for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people.

The California-based Masjid al-Ansar mosque, for example, earned $100,000 from DHS as part of its Nonprofit Security Grants Program. The imam of Masjid al-Ansar, Moustafa Kamel, has called Jews a “bigoted and arrogant breed of people” and prayed they “will be annihilated” in war.

Smith Begs Supreme Court to Decide on Trump’s Prosecution Immunity

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Smith Begs Supreme Court to Decide on Trump’s Prosecution Immunity

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the contentious case regarding efforts to question the result of the 2020 presidential election, as reported by the New York Times on Monday. 

Smith’s move marks a stark escalation in the case, with an appeals court currently weighing Trump’s arguments, claiming he should not be subject to criminal prosecution. Specifically, Trump argues that the Democrat-led impeachment over similar charges was ultimately squashed by a non-conviction in the Senate. 

In his court filing, Smith dismissed such arguments in his dramatic plea to the Court.

“This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin,” Smith claimed. 

Following the special counsel’s request, the justices reportedly granted it and asked the attorneys representing Trump to file their responses by December 20, as reported by ABC News. However, the decision does not guarantee that the justices will ultimately decide or even hear the case. 

“Petitioner’s motion to expedite consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is granted, and respondent is directed to file a response to the petition on or before 4 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday, December 20, 2023,” the justices wrote, according to the outlet.

The trial is scheduled for March 4, a day before Super Tuesday, when multiple states will determine their Republican nominee for president. 

Smith is asking the Court to expedite the case’s determination in a bid to avoid potential delays to the infamous trial.

“It is of imperative public importance that respondent’s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court and that respondent’s trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected,” Smith added.

The case began after Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump’s alleged role in questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

On June 8, a grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Trump for alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States (Smith claims that Trump sought to block Congress from certifying the results of the election on Jan. 6). 

Trump has long maintained his innocence, slamming the indictments as part of a broader scheme to thwart his presidential election. 

Congressional Dems Forced to Defend Felony Charges against Hunter Biden

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Congressional Dems Forced to Defend Felony Charges against Hunter Biden

(Headline USA) Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., was forced to admit this weekend that prosecutors were right to bring charges against Hunter Biden for tax fraud, calling the case against the president’s son “legally justified.”

Murphy, one of the more progressive Democrats in the Senate, agreed during an interview with NBC News on Sunday that Biden was a “very troubled individual who has done things that are worthy of prosecution.”

His comments came after the Biden was slapped with nine new charges for alleged tax violations, including three felonies and six misdemeanors.

The first son previously pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges for alleged willful failure to pay his income taxes and three charges for alleged illegal possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.

The new charges stem from special counsel David Weiss’s investigation into Biden’s business dealings. Weiss said in the indictment that Biden illegally “spent millions of dollars” from his business “on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

Murphy was also asked about the allegations that Biden used his father’s influence to make money in foreign business deals.

“Do you think it’s inappropriate he’s profited off his last name?” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked.

Murphy insisted that Biden was “going to be held accountable in court for any violations of the law he’s committed,” failing to acknowledge whistleblower allegations that the justice system deliberately refused to hold him to account when the allegations against the Biden family were first made.

The Democratic senator also blasted Republicans for focusing on the case.

“Ultimately, the American people understand that Hunter Biden is not going to be on the ballot next fall—that Joe Biden is going to be on the ballot, and that this is a president who has led an economic recovery that has been pretty unprecedented,” Murphy claimed. “That’s I think going to be what matters to the American people.”

Republicans are expected to file impeachment charges on Wednesday against Joe Biden for his direct role in the bribery and influence-peddling schemes that his son also was involved in during the elder Biden’s vice-presidential term.

Many have given Biden credit for the current U.S. economy—but not in a good way. Voters consistently have rejected left-wing gaslighting that claims the record inflation and interest rates on Biden’s watch, which have inflicted considerable pain to many, are considered positives when compared with former President Donald Trump’s pre-COVID economy.

Raskin Trying to Convince Weak Republicans to Abandon Impeachment Inquiry

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Raskin Trying to Convince Weak Republicans to Abandon Impeachment Inquiry

(Headline USA) Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was reportedly meeting with several squishy Republicans in the hopes of getting them to abandon the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, according to Fox News.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants to prevent GOP lawmakers from formalizing the inquiry, which they’re expected to do during a vote on Wednesday.

To do this, he’s leveraging his personal relationships with House Republicans and trying to convince others that supporting the inquiry would hurt their political careers, sources told the outlet.

Those Republicans have reportedly been “especially receptive” to Raskin’s talking points about the Biden administration’s “record of cooperation with investigators.”

The House Oversight Democrats have also released a “fact sheet” dismissing the allegations of influence-peddling and corruption against Biden and his family members.

“Republicans may not be getting all of the facts from [House Oversight Chair James] Comer, so we are making sure that they have the full picture as they decide whether to endorse this impeachment effort,” a senior House Democratic aide explained.

The “fact sheet” emphasizes not only Joe Biden’s “cooperation” with House investigators, but also his successful firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin as a “culmination of a years-long effort by a bipartisan, international coalition to address and root out corruption in Ukraine.”

Biden’s firing of Shokin is at the heart of an allegation that he accepted bribes from Ukrainian officials to deter Shokin’s investigation into Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company on whose board that Biden’s son, Hunter, received a roughly million-dollar annual stipend to serve for a five-year period.

Other evidence compiled by the committee links the Bidens to payoffs from the Chinese company CEFC, which disbursed payments to Hunter and to Joe Biden’s brother James, as well as a 10% cut for the “big guy.”

Hunter Biden was subpoenaed to testify before the House Oversight Committee this month, but is reportedly refusing to provide testimony unless the hearing is public. Comer has threatened to hold him in contempt of Congress if he does not appear on the required date.

The White House has also downplayed Republicans’ allegations against the president, dismissing them as “conspiracy theories.”

Evidence throughout the inquiry has shown that Raskin knowingly lied to the public by downplaying and denying the credibility of whistleblowers who had exposed the FBI’s earlier investigation into the Bidens’ corruption.

Twitter Has Field Day as Hot Mic Catches Ramaswamy Peeing

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Twitter Has Field Day as Hot Mic Catches Ramaswamy Peeing

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy got caught using the bathroom on a hot mic Sunday while speaking with Twitter owner Elon Musk on an online space.

Ramaswamy reportedly forgot to mute his phone for a bathroom break in the midst of a livestream on Twitter Spaces with Musk, newly reinstated Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec and several other notable advocates for free speech, according to the Gateway Pundit.

“Someone’s got their thing open peeing. Someone’s got their phone open in the bathroom,” Jones said.

The host urged Ramaswamy to mute his phone.

“Well, I hope you feel better,” Musk said to Ramaswamy.

“I feel great, thank you! Sorry about that, guys!” Ramaswamy replied.

Over 100,000 people were logged onto the space, listening to the discussion.

Twitter users had a field day with the recording, which went viral.

“I’m literally rofl rn,” Musk said, responding to the video.

“Sounds like a strong stream,” another user said. “Presidential quality.”

Others made jokes about Vivek “marking his territory,” or “giving new meaning to the term ‘livestream.'”

Several users observed that former President Lyndon B. Johnson used to pull similar stunts on purpose in order to intimidate reporters.

The intended purpose of the space was to welcome back Jones, who rejoined the platform after Musk posted a poll and 70% responded in favor of his return.

Early Sunday, Musk tweeted, “The people have spoken and so it shall be.”

Jones faced banishment from the platform in 2018.

Musk explained in the space that users on Twitter shouldn’t worry about outright bans unless they scheme to “do something illegal.”

He also explained that the Community Notes function will greatly assist in the information verification process.

Former President Donald Trump, who was banned in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol has his own social-media site, Truth Social, and has only tweeted once since being allowed back on Twitter.

Woke SNL Criticized for Mocking GOP Rep. Stefanik in New Propaganda Sketch

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Woke SNL Criticized for Mocking GOP Rep. Stefanik in New Propaganda Sketch

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Woke SNL was brutally criticized for its latest mocking of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R–N.Y., and undermining of anti-Semitism on American college campuses in its latest propaganda sketch on the viral congressional hearing.

During the meeting, the presidents of the top universities — Harvard, University of Pennsylvania [UPenn] and MIT — said that calling for the genocide of Jews is not necessary against the codes of conduct of the universities since it all “depends on the context,” according to the Daily Mail.

As a result, UPenn President Amy Magill resigned in disgrace and the two other presidents faced criticism from the public.

The pre-written sketch was released just hours after Magill resigned from her position.

“I’m going to start yelling questions at these women like Billy Eichner. Antisemitism – yay or nay? Yes or no! Is calling for the genocide of Jews against the code of conduct for Harvard?” the SNL actress who played Stefanik screamed at the three other women who played the college presidents.

SNL writers then exposed their hatred toward Stefanik even more.

“UPenn lady, same question, yes or no? If you don’t say yes, you’re going to make me look good, which is really, really hard to do. So I will ask you straight up. Do you think genocide is bad?” the actress said.

People online didn’t waste time criticizing SNL which now started defending anti-Semites and attacking those who oppose them.

“Only a hate-filled, anti-Semitic SNL could do a sketch about the anti-Semitic college presidents testifying in front of Congress and make the questioner Congresswoman Stefanik the target of the sketch,” iHeart Radio host Mark Simone wrote.

Kyle Mann of the Babylon Bee also criticized SNL.

“[It’s] actually pretty incredible how this skit featured liberals being unwilling to call genocide bad – and they WEREN’T the punchline of the joke. Just shows how unfunny you can get if you’re unwilling to make fun of people on your side,” he wrote.

Regular people on Twitter also had something to say about the blatant propaganda piece that was produced by the Marxist machine.

“Congratulate SNL, everyone. Since they haven’t been funny for years, they’ve now simply transcended comedy and become one big joke. Not sure what’s more pathetic, this vague attempt at comedy, or mocking those who stand up against Antisemitism at a time like this. Filth,” one of the people wrote.

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