FBI Slammed for Setting Up Recruiting Tent at LGBT ‘Pride’ Event

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FBI Slammed for Setting Up Recruiting Tent at LGBT ‘Pride’ Event

(Karen Freeman, Headline USA) The FBI appears to have amplified its commitment to diversity with a new recruitment practice by setting up career-information booths at local LGBT Pride events, according to a report from Turning Point USA.

During a Pride event in Union County, North Carolina, the bureau’s Charlotte branch office set up a tent to showcase their #FBIPride as well as using the opportunity to highlight many job opportunities in the FBI.

According to the Independent Journal Review, the FBI handed out rainbow “pride” flags at the event.

The FBI’s Diversity Agent Recruitment Program to seek out “diverse” candidates for special agent positions was established in 2016 under then-Director James Comey.

“I want to ensure diversity is a part of the DNA of the FBI … until it becomes who we are,” Comey said at the time.

Yet, the overt political pandering comes at a troubling time for the bureau, which has become increasingly partisan and divisive, starting with the Comey-orchestrated coup against former President Donald Trump, when the FBI launched its 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation under knowingly false pretenses.

The corruption has only become more pronounced under the direction of current Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

A scandalous bombshell report from Newsweek in October revealed that the FBI had recently taken the unprecedented step of designating Trump supporters in their own special category of domestic terrorism.

And as Headline USA reported exclusively in a recent investigative series, the bureau has long sought to infiltrate groups of right-wing extremists and use them to organize rallies and foment violence, such as the 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia.

People took to social media to voice their concerns about the FBI attending and recruiting employees from what they deem as “grooming events.”

One person replied to the FBI’s post on their Twitter account, @FBICharlotte, about the event with “The virtue signaling isn’t useful… but the colors are pretty. When will you celebrate families & the constitution?”

Prominent conservative watchdog Tayler Hansen, known for exposing both FBI psy-ops and left-wing pedophilia rings—noted, “Y’all already had a grooming problem before this so I’m not surprised this is the route you’re going.”

Still, some seemed to suspect that the agency might have ulterior motives other than recruiting new agents, and might instead have been looking for undercover informants.

One individual asked, “Does the FBI set up booths at MAGA events?” while another asked, “How many pedophiles did the FBI arrest when y’all were there?”

CIA Serial Rapist Strikes Plea Deal

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CIA Serial Rapist Strikes Plea Deal

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former CIA agent and serial rapist Brian Jeffrey Raymond has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department over his sex crimes.

“Raymond admitted to drugging and sexually assaulting several women in his embassy-leased housing and elsewhere between 2006 and 2020. Additionally, Raymond admitted that, over 14 years, he photographed or video recorded 28 victims while they were nude or partially nude,” the DOJ announced Wednesday.

“Many of the recordings show Raymond touching and manipulating the victim’s bodies while they were unconscious and incapable of consent.”

According to the agreement, Raymond is pleading guilty to four crimes: sexual abuse, abusive sexual conduct, coercion and enticement, and transportation of obscene material. In exchange, the DOJ is dropping numerous charges related to at least 28 of Raymond’s victims.

Raymond will face between 24 and 30 years in prison and supervised release for life.

The FBI began investigating him in May 2020, when a naked woman was seen screaming for help from the balcony of his residence in Mexico City.

Raymond allegedly admitted to having sexual intercourse with her, but the woman reported that she had no memory of events after consuming drinks and food provided by him.

During the investigation, FBI agents allegedly recovered from Raymond’s electronic devices hundreds of photographs and videos created between 2006 and May 30, 2020, depicting at least 24 unconscious and nude or partially nude women.

Raymond initially pleaded guilty in July to two counts of sexual abuse and one count of transporting obscene material. But last September, he suddenly changed his plea and decided to take his chances at trial, arguing that he couldn’t have done everything prosecutors said he did, because he suffers from erectile dysfunction, according to the Daily Beast.

Before he changed his mind again and struck the plea agreement, Raymond planned on using a CIA-linked doctor to testify that his victims have “false memories”—a concept pioneered by the CIA to discredit victims of its MKUltra mind-control program.

Raymond planned to have University of California-Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus testify on his behalf.

Loftus is a former advisory board member of the CIA-linked False Memory Syndrome Foundation, or FMSF, and she has reportedly testified on behalf of rapists such as Harvey Weinstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jerry Sandusky and Bill Cosby.

Among the other former CIA assets on FMSF’s membership ranks was none other than Jolyon West, who spearheaded MKUltra. The organization was dissolved in 2019.

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

FBI Set to Build New HQ after 70 Republicans Defeat Amendment to Defund Project

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FBI Set to Build New HQ after 70 Republicans Defeat Amendment to Defund Project

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI is on track to receive a $300 million new headquarters after 70 Republicans helped defeat an amendment from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., that would have defunded the project.

Gaetz proposed the amendment to an appropriations bill on Wednesday, pointing out that the FBI doesn’t need a new building that will be larger than the Pentagon.

“The FBI has an employee base that’s about 2.3% of the U.S. military, but they’re literally asking for something that’s larger than the Pentagon,” Gaetz said during the debate of his amendment. “I don’t believe the FBI deserves a massive new headquarters or Washington field office.”

Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., led the GOP opposition to Gaetz. He said during the debate that “we’re not always going to hate the FBI.”

“What I do know is that when I tour the FBI headquarters, I saw it in a state of disrepair that’s going to need attention from the owners of the property—and that’s us,” he added. “The fact is the building is crumbling.”

Gaetz had a snappy comeback to Womack.

“It is not my grave concern that the FBI’s building is crumbling. It is my grave concern that the civil liberties of Americans are crumbling. And I wish we were more worried about that and less worried about whether we got new carpet and wallpaper at the FBI building,” he said.

“It is the FBI itself that is in a state of disrepair … I think those folks deserve to sit in the rat-infested J. Edgar Hoover Building until they get their act straight with American civil liberties.”

Despite Gaetz’s impassioned plea, 70 of his GOP colleagues voted down his amendment along with 203 Democrats.

A list of the Republcans to vote for new FBI headquarters can be found here. Along with Womack, a notable “no” vote was from Rep. Darin LaHood, who voted to give the FBI a new building despite the fact that the bureau admittedly spied on him.

After the vote, Gaetz expressed frustration at his RINO colleagues.

“Time after time we have seen the FBI target President Trump, people who believe in the Second Amendment, parents attending school board meeting, and more recently, some of their own brave FBI whistleblowers who have spoken up about the weaponization of our Federal Government,” he said.

“We should not be awarding nefarious behavior by wasting hundreds of millions of dollars for a new headquarters in the DC-area.”

Meanwhile, the FBI said Wednesday that it’s moving its headquarters from Washington DC to Greenbelt, Maryland.

“GSA determined Greenbelt to be the best site because it was the lowest cost to taxpayers, provided the greatest transportation access to FBI employees and visitors, and gave the government the most certainty on project delivery schedule,” a GSA spokesperson reportedly told several media outlets.

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

Trump’s Absent Triumph and Vivek’s Sharp Jabs Dominate Third GOP Debate

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Trump’s Absent Triumph and Vivek’s Sharp Jabs Dominate Third GOP Debate

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Republican candidates for presidential clashed in the third GOP debate, sparking a whirlwind of intense Twitter buzz. 

Vivek Ramaswamy, a standout figure of the night, garnered attention with scathing remarks that reverberated across Twitter. Notably, despite the absence of former President Donald Trump, who continues to opt out of the debates, he was declared the de facto winner by some commentators.

Ramaswamy’s fervent address against RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel went quickly viral, particularly as the GOP grappled with its embarrassing shortcomings in the Nov. 7 elections in Virginia, Kentucky and New Jersey.

“We’ve become a party of losers… since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017 we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave, that never came,” he said before demanding McDaniel’s immediate resignation, echoing sentiments expressed by several influential Republicans.

The spotlight then turned to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, as Ramaswamy boldly questioned the crowd, “Do you want a leader from a different generation, who’s going to put this country first or do you want Dick Cheney in three-inch heels.” 

Haley’s retort fell flat, attempting to correct Ramaswamy by claiming she wears “5-inch heels” as “ammunition.”

The confrontational atmosphere persisted as Ramaswamy accused Haley of hypocrisy, highlighting her alleged criticism of TikTok while allowing her daughter to use the app.

Haley swiftly defended herself, spewing a slur at Ramaswamy. “Leave my daughter out of your voice … You’re just scum.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s presence loomed large over the event, with some pundits on Twitter declaring him as the winner of the night. 

Brigitte Gabriel, author and commentator, proclaimed on Twitter, “President Trump is the winner of tonight’s debate,” while podcast host Megyn Kelly reinforced the sentiment, asserting, “Nothing changed. Trump won.”

While the debate unfolded, Trump held a rally in Florida, attracting the endorsement of Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders 

Even the traditionally left-leaning New York Times acknowledged Trump’s dominance in the polls and the GOP.

“But in the end, it was unclear how the five candidates onstage could catch Mr. Trump if they would not directly answer the question that started and ended the debate: Why should Republican voters choose them over Mr. Trump?” the Times remarked.

Voting Machine Company that Stole Election in Penn. Admits Election Was Stolen

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Voting Machine Company that Stole Election in Penn. Admits Election Was Stolen

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was confirmed by a top executive from the company behind the voting machines that “flipped votes” in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that someone from their team “programmed the election.”

On Tuesday, officials said that the voting machine issued caused votes in an eastern Pennsylvania county to appear to be “flipped” on a ballot question, according to Slay News.

The news source added that voters were asked to decide whether Pennsylvania Superior Court Judges Jack Panella and Victor Stabile should be retained for additional 10-year terms.

Charles Dertinger, the Northampton County director of administration, said that the “yes” or “no” votes for each judge were switched on a summary displayed to voters before they cast their ballot.

For example, it was reflected as “no” on Panella and “yes” on Stabile if a voter marked “yes” to retain Panella and “no” on Stabile.

The error was noticed by voters on the printed voting records produced by the touchscreen machines, which resulted in the issue being brought to the attention of poll workers shortly after the start of voting on Tuesday morning.

Dertinger insisted during a news conference in Easton on Tuesday afternoon that votes would be tabulated accurately.

Slay News reported that the issue affected all the county’s voting machines that were in use on Tuesday, estimated at more than 300.

The problem was isolated to the two retention votes in Northampton County and no other races statewide were affected, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

After the problem was discovered that allowed the machines to continue to be used, the county obtained a court order on Tuesday.

As expected, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure called the glitch a “relatively minor glitch,” adding in his statement that “everybody’s vote’s going to count” as the voters intended.

As a result, poll workers were instructed to inform voters of the glitch before they entered the voting booth.

The company responsible for the problem — Omaha, Neb.-based ES&S — acknowledged its fault, with a company spokesperson, Katina Granger, saying that the problem was caused by “human error.” Granger also added that the problem was limited to Northampton County and only affected the judicial retention question.

“We deeply regret what has occurred today,” Linda Bennett, the company’s senior vice president of customer operations, said.

Oversight Committee Issues 1st Subpoenas to Hunter, James Biden and Associate

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Oversight Committee Issues 1st Subpoenas to Hunter, James Biden and Associate

(Headline USA) The GOP-led House Oversight Committee issued its first subpoenas this week to Hunter Biden, James Biden and a Biden family business associate, Rob Walker.

The committee’s subpoenas requested that Hunter, James and Walker appear before the panel for testimony as part of its investigation into the Biden family’s alleged influence-peddling.

The subpoenas also requested transcribed interviews from James Biden’s wife, Sara Biden; President Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie Biden; and Hunter Biden’s current wife, Melissa Cohen.

The requests come after a bombshell report from the committee revealing bank documents that showed James and Sara Biden wrote Joe Biden a $40,000 check shortly after a Chinese energy company paid Hunter $400,000—effectively making good on a promise to remit 10% to the “big guy.”

Other financial records accumulated by the committee showed members of the Biden family—including Hunter, James, Hallie and Sara Biden—had received more than $1 million in payments from accounts related to Walker.

“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement.

“Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” he added.

Comer went on to blast Joe Biden for dismissing the investigation into his family’s business deals.

“Unlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie,” Comer said. “These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests.”

When asked about the subpoenas on Wednesday, the White House once again claimed House Republicans’ investigation has “turned up zero evidence of wrongdoing” by the president.

“Republicans continue to double down on a baseless, baseless smear campaign against the president and his family instead of being focused on the American people’s needs,” claimed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Jill Biden’s Former Spox Blasts White House Handlers for POTUS’s Shoddy Polls

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Jill Biden’s Former Spox Blasts White House Handlers for POTUS’s Shoddy Polls

(Headline USA) A former spokesperson for first lady Jill Biden blasted the White House this week and called for a total overhaul of the president’s team following multiple polls that show President Joe Biden losing to former President Donald Trump in key swing states.

Michael LaRosa, who served as press secretary for Jill Biden from January 2021 to August 2022, called the poll results “inexcusable.” 

Citing one recent CNN survey that found Trump had higher favorable ratings than Joe Biden, LaRosa said the White House needed to shift its strategy ahead of 2024.

“This is inexcusable for man universally known for his character+intregity,” he tweeted. “It’s a result of failing to respond to smears, lies, conspiracies, and disinfo for months allowing a void of info to be filled.”

According to the CNN poll, 38% of respondents view Trump favorably, while 56% view him unfavorably. Biden, by comparison, was viewed favorably by 36%, while 59% see him in a negative light. 

LaRosa claimed Biden’s poor approval ratings were the result of a “narrative” about him and his family that Biden’s “shameful” team had allowed to “congeal over the past two years.”

Though he did not mention Hunter Biden directly, LaRosa seemed to be referring to congressional GOP investigations into the Biden family’s influence-peddling and how the revelations have affected the president’s public image.

LaRosa went on to claim (in a since-deleted tweet) that Jill Biden was the only person who “can help change the people around [Joe Biden] … It’s up to her.”

He claimed the overhaul was long overdue.

“These are the same people who got him 4th in Iowa, 5th in [New Hampshire], and a distant 2nd to a socialist [Bernie Sanders] in [Nevada],” he said. “Changing his team now will look like he actually cares+sees same #’s we do.”

When asked about LaRosa’s comments, a White House official said, “Hope he’s okay.”

Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ Center Fired Mostly Non-White Employees

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Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ Center Fired Mostly Non-White Employees

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A recent analysis of the layoffs at Boston University [BU] Professor Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research revealed that the organization fired mostly racial minorities as part of its recent restructuring.

Four black employees, four Hispanics, two Indians, one Asian, and one Middle Eastern employee — a total of 12 people — were fired from the “antiracist” center due to layoffs, according to the College Fix. In comparison, there were only seven white people who were fired from the organization.

The defenders of the decision said that one of the possible reasons why the center fired more non-white people was because it was more inclined to hire more non-white people from the beginning. Ironically, this argument managed to expose the anti-white racism in the organization.

“A racist policy yields racial disparities. An anti-racist policy reduces or eliminates racial disparities,” Kendi previously told the New York Times.

In addition to that, he wrote something similar in his book, “How to Be an Antiracist.”

“A racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups,” Kendi wrote.

It was also discovered that the center staff page that previously listed 45 employees is now empty.

The fired staff were from the policy and research teams, the previous reporting indicated. It was also discovered that the last reports from the policy team on the center’s website were from June 2022, more than a full year before the layoffs.

“If something was not sufficiently revenue-producing, then it wasn’t worth CAR’s [Center for Anti Racism Research] time,” Phillipe Copeland, a clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at BU, told the Daily Free Press, a student newspaper.

In addition to that, he also said that at least one of the donors of the center was unhappy with the work being done, which resulted in the donors pulling their funding earlier this year.

Spencer Piston, the former faculty lead of the policy team, also told the Daily Free Press that he was unsure if his job was secure.

Houston Mayoral Runoff to Test Clout of Radical Longtime Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

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Houston Mayoral Runoff to Test Clout of Radical Longtime Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Two Democrats, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and State Sen. Jason Whitmire, are heading for a runoff election for the mayoral seat of Houston, Texas.

In a field of 18 total candidates, neither Jackson Lee nor Whitmire was unable to garner enough votes surpass the 50% threshold and avoid a runoff, according to NBC News.

However, Whitmire did beat out Jackson Lee with 42.5%, while the notorious congresswoman trailed behind at 35.6%.

Jackson Lee, a longtime representative, announced her bid for the mayoral office in March.

“I started this journey around the issue of people—making sure that whatever I said was to make Houston a liveable city, and to make Houston a city that responded to the needs of families and our children,” Jackson Lee said at a rally on Tuesday.

“I hope that however the outcome is, it will reflect the people bought into a positive agenda that will take this city into the future and that future will be something for everyone,” she added.

However, she personally is known more for her volatility than her positivity—including a recent report, based on leaked audio, that she had berated a staffer in a profanity-laden diatribe.

Despite claiming to be a voice for oppressed minorities, Jackson Lee also has shown no qualms about exercising her own privilege.

She drew headlines in 2017 for forcing an airline to give her a first-class seat that she had not paid for, leaving another passenger seatless.

She then deflected blame onto the irate passenger.

“Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight attendant who was very, very nice,” Lee wrote on Facebook.

Historically, the representative radically tackled the wokest of issues.

The White Supremacy Act of 2023 promised to “prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.”

The bill also promised to make political criticism of minorities by white people a federal crime.

She also advocated for reparations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Houston race focused on the crime rate, a possible budget crisis and local trash pickup.

The runoff is slated to take place on Dec. 9.

Jackson will not have to vacate her congressional seat unless she wins the mayoral bid in the next election.

However, her struggles in the recent race may portend a growing vulnerability that could draw more challengers to seek out the seat in a district she has lorded over since 1995.

Already for the Democratic primary there are four other declared candidates—a stark contrast from the 2022 race, when she ran uncontested for the party’s nomination.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Ronna Romney McDaniel Faces Calls to Resign After Embarrassing GOP Losses 

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Ronna Romney McDaniel Faces Calls to Resign After Embarrassing GOP Losses 

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Calls for the resignation of Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, resounded across Twitter following disappointing losses for the GOP in the 2023 elections.  

The calls were triggered by a series of notable GOP losses, most notably in Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s ceded control of the House of Delegates. Similarly, in Kentucky, the defeat of Daniel Cameron in the gubernatorial race added to the growing discontent. 

Some prominent Republicans and conservatives directly blamed McDaniel for the shortcomings. Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech mogul vying for the GOP nomination for president, minced no words as he criticized McDaniel’s tenure during the third presidential debate. 

“We’ve become a party of losers… since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017 we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave, that never came,” he said on Wednesday night.

“We got trounced last night in 2023 and I think that we have to have accountability in our party,” he added. “For that matter, Ronna if you want to come up on stage tonight. You want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign… I will turn over my time to you.” 

John Solomon, editor-in-chief of Just the News, echoed similar sentiments during a conversation with Steve Bannon, calling on former President Donald Trump to demand the resignation of McDaniel.

“Donald Trump grew up in the era of New York dominated by George Steinbrenner. When his managers didn’t perform, he fired them, because he wanted to get to the World Series,” Solomon said. “Republicans keep giving Ronna McDaniel a promotion. They keep moving her on. They keep hiring her for another season.”

The chorus of disapproval extended to conservative cable news host Monica Crowley, who took to Twitter to question McDaniel’s leadership. 

“What, exactly, does Ronna McDaniel do, besides lose? The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately,” she said. 

Conservative attorney DC Draino joined the criticism. “Tonight is yet another reason Ronna Romney McDaniel should resign in disgrace She does nothing except help the GOP lose,” he wrote on Twitter.

Other Republican commentators were equally forceful in their criticism.

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