Biden Forced Exit of 71-Year-Old Butt Drugs

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Biden Forced Exit of 71-Year-Old Butt Drugs

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) In between his bicoastal waterfront vacations at Rehoboth Beach and Lake Tahoe, President Joe Biden slotted in some time to push his propagandist message touting economy-wrecking policies such as the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

Gaslighting leftist leadership has desperately tried to redefine “Bidenomics” in the same way it previously has attempted to spin the dictionary definitions of terms like “recession” and “woman.”

Ironically, while returning from a recent jaunt to Milwaukee for one such speech, Biden may also have had the opportunity to see the true impact of his economic policies—or lack thereof—if he’d happened to be looking out the window.

According to Fox News, the flight path for Air Force One crossed over Palestine, Ohio, the site of the devastating train derailment and resulting toxic spill in February.

It took a visit to Palestine from former President Donald Trump to muster the interest of Transporation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who actively sought to distance himself for several weeks from the flyover-country catastrophe.

Biden, however, has yet to trouble himself with an actual trip.

“On March 2, Biden promised he would visit the small town ‘at some point’ after growing pressure to do so from both sides of the aisle” Fox News reported, “but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the next day that the administration didn’t ‘have a plan’ for him to visit despite making the promise.”

As noted by the Gateway Pundit, Biden’s upcoming trip to the one part of California not ravaged by drugs, homelessness and violent crime—the billionaire enclave of Lake Tahoe—coincides with yet another domestic disaster, the deadly fires in Hawaii.

Despite Biden’s having had “no comment” over the weekend, some have attributed the conflagration, at least partially, to the shortcomings of the president’s infastructure spending while funneling billions overseas to Ukraine.

“Biden is now being criticizd [sic] for his non-response to the fires in Maui, but claims that he is going to visit there,” wrote the Pundit. “… The people of East Palestine have heard that one before.”

Of course, the tropical paradise of Hawaii, which also happens to be a blue state, may offer something that Palestine, Ohio, does not for the 80-year-old president, who has spent an estimated 40% of his presidency on vacation per the Daily Mail.

As the everyday citizens of Maui flee for their lives, celebrities like Paris Hilton somehow still remain entirely insulated from the problems of the hoi poloi and scoff derisively at the blue-collar outrage boiling over in anthems like Anthony Oliver’s “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

Meanwhile, not all of those metaphorically aflame in Biden’s America are being physically forced to evacuate.

Amid inflationary pressures and other economic factors, some iconic businesses are now going belly-up, even after having weathered the precarious pandemic shutdowns.

Yellow Corp, which operated one of the largest trucking companies in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy late last month, after having received a major pandemic bailout, as Teamsters negotiations with the 100-year-old business proceeded to break down.

Its closure is likely to create even more ripple effects in the economy—still reeling from the last supply-chain crisis, which disrupted Buttigieg’s “paternity leave” for his two adoptive children with husband Chasten, and was among the factors that sent inflation skyrocketing close to double digits for everybody else.

Bidenomics is also wreaking havoc, however, at the local level.

Among the institutions devastated by his policies was Butt Drugs—an iconic, 71-year-old pharmacy in Corydon, Indiana, which closed its doors on April 29, according to WHAS 11.

“We truly were honored to be a part of your healthcare needs and care for many generations of families in the community,” wrote owner Katie Butt Beckort in a letter to customers.

The business had developed something of a cult following due to its unusual name, which some have misread as a double entendre.

It also featured an old-fashioned soda fountain with popular ice-cream options on the menu, hearkening back to a simpler time.

“I love their buttshakes; they are really good,” customer Lucas Cazad told WHAS.

But its lucrative merchandising and side hustles could not keep the business afloat.

Butt Drugs reportedly folded after a change in how insurance companies reimburse small businesses, WHAS noted.

Customer Stephanie Zimmerman lamented its closure due to “the fact that I know the effort these families put into these businesses and how much it takes to keep them up and running.”

With recent reports disclosing the incentives programs that insurance companies offered local doctors to entice them to push the COVID-19 vaccines, it is easy to imagine that the Biden administration’s collusion with Big Pharma may have had a hand in the pharmacy’s untimely pull-out.

Sadly, there is likely a Butt Drugs hiding in the crevices of many a Main Street in small-town America, with an equally disheartening story to tell about the devastation caused by Democrats’ callous economic brinksmanship.

“It’s sad, you know, it has been a piece of the family for longer than I have been alive,” said Colin Receveur, Beckort’s first cousin, whose fond memories of going to the store with his grandparents are now all that remains.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Militia ‘Ringleaders’ File First Appeals in Whitmer Kidnapping Conspiracy Case

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Militia ‘Ringleaders’ File First Appeals in Whitmer Kidnapping Conspiracy Case

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The alleged “ringleaders” of the 2020 militia conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed appeals on Wednesday to overturn their convictions due to FBI malfeasance and a lack of a fair trial.

The appeals from Adam Fox and Barry Croft, who were convicted last August after their second trial, cite numerous reasons for overturning their guilty verdicts.

For starters, Croft and Fox’s lawyers said they were improperly limited in questioning government’s star witness. The lawyers also said they were denied the ability to vet a juror who had expressed bias against the defendants.

Moreover, the jury was never presented evidence that FBI agents were pressuring their undercover informants to provoke the defendants to criminality, according to the appeals.

To that last point, Fox’s appeal explained how the federal judge presiding over the trial didn’t allow the thousands of text messages between FBI informants and their handling agents to be presented as evidence.

“Critical to Fox’s defense was the need to show his jury the complete and incessant communications between the informants and their handlers,” the appeal said.

“This was particularly true with informant Dan Chappel and his handler, Agent Chambers; they exchanged 3,236 messages between March 16, 2020 and October 8, 2020,” the appeal said.

“Many of these messages goaded Chappel into action, critiqued Chappel’s performance, and offered suggestions to move Fox beyond rhetoric into prosecutable actions. Equally important were Chappel’s responses to his handler’s statements.”

The judge’s decision to not allow the texts as evidence was at odds with case precedent, which deems the government’s informants to be agents of the government, Fox’s appeal argued.

According to Croft, jurors would have clearly seen through the FBI’s entrapment scheme if such evidence was presented to them.

“It is staggering the extent to which the FBI and its agents/informants used excessive pressure, exploited the anger from COVID lockdowns and destructive summer riots, and manipulated emotional issues among vulnerable and excitable citizens,” Croft’s appeal said.

“This included: nearly constant real-time monitoring of FBI’s communications with Fox, plus thousands of government-initiated texts/chats; the deployment of multiple paid agents/informants who sought to elicit and encourage extremist and violent behavior; and the FBI’s instigating, planning, promoting, and conducting of nearly all key event,” the appeal said.

Along with appealing his conviction for the abovementioned reasons, Fox and Croft also argued that prosecutors never proved that they agreed to a final plan to kidnap Whitmer.

“Most importantly, there was no agreement when the mission was to occur. Despite telling Chappel that his skills were deficient, Fox changed his mind after the [a militia training session in September 2020] and now wanted to proceed before the election while others wanted to wait,” Fox’s appeal said.

“At this time, there was to be one more FTX before the mission, but it never occurred. Without an agreement on when the mission should occur, the conspiratorial agreement wasn’t formed. Instead, the only agreement in place after the Luther FTX in September was everyone was to return home and train.”

The government has until Sept. 15 to respond to the appeals. In the meantime, Fox and Croft are both being held in high-security prisons designed to prevent them from talking to the public.

Next week, three more men will stand trial on state charges in relation to the 2020 Whitmer kidnap conspiracy.

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

Pentagon Missed Half of Watchdog Deadlines So Far This Year

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Pentagon Missed Half of Watchdog Deadlines So Far This Year

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon has missed half of its deadlines to respond to requests from a Congressional watchdog in the last six months.

A report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found that the Department of Defense submitted about half of its agency comments and sensitivity or security reviews after deadlines set by the watchdog.

Before the GAO issues reports, it sends them to the audited agencies for review and comment. For reports that contain sensitive or classified information, the Government Accountability Office also ask the agency to let it know what can or cannot be released publicly.

Congress included a provision in the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 that requires the Government Accountability Office to report every 6 months over a 2-year period on the extent to which the Pentagon submitted agency comments and security reviews in a timely manner.

The Government Accountability Office’s first report found a lot of missed deadlines.

Usually, the Department of Defense has 30 days to respond. From Dec. 23, 2022, to May 15, 2023, the Department of Defense took 34 days, on average, to submit agency comments. For half of the reports, the Department of Defense took an additional 16 days, on average, to submit agency comments. For one report, the Department of Defense took 71 days to provide its comments.

“In some cases, [the Government Accountability Office] granted DOD an extension to the deadline for submitting comments or reviews, but DOD did not meet the extension for about half of those reports,” according to the report.

“For one report, DOD requested multiple extensions but did not meet any of the new deadlines; as a result, GAO took the unusual step of issuing the report without agency comments.”

The Department of Defense said it takes the watchdog’s deadlines seriously, but meeting them was often difficult because of Government Accountability Office polices and procedures.

“There are several factors that contributed to the DoD’s 50% timeliness rate for responses to GAO draft reports and sensitivity/security reviews, including: the time it takes to coordinate responses across the various components across the Department, impact of day to day staffing demands in Primary Action Offices, and the limited bandwidth of DoD personnel and senior leaders,” wrote Silvana Rubino-Hallman, the DOD’s deputy performance improvement officer, in response to the report.

“GAO’s processes for handling classified and non-public information in their reports continues to be a large contributing cause to the Department’s tardiness in sensitivity and security reviews,” Rubino-Hallman claimed.

“When a review is required during the draft report phase, the Department often finds the reports are issued without any portion markings to identify classified national security information in accordance with requirements for derivative classification,” she added.

Rubino-Hallman cited other clerical issues that also had led to delays for the Defense Department.

“In addition to portion marking concerns, GAO does not consistently provide detailed lists of source documents, which help ensure accurate markings and is also a requirement for derivative classifiers,” she wrote.

“Without these two elements, the sensitivity and security review processes require broad coordination and an extensive amount of research for DoD components.”

Despite the claims, the Pentagon’s own bookkeeping has come under fire in previous GAO releases, suggesting that it may be less than eager to come under scrutiny as the department appears to be funneling unauthorized military aid to Ukraine by overvaluing the cost of its equipment.

On at least two occasions, such clerical “mistakes” have allowed the Pentagon to send billions more than the approved amount of earmarked funding to help fight the proxy war with Russia, even as it depletes resources needed for America’s own self-defense.

Biden Admin. Issues Backdoor Guidance to Schools for Circumventing SCOTUS

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Biden Admin. Issues Backdoor Guidance to Schools for Circumventing SCOTUS

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Department of Education urged colleges and universities to continue pursuing racial diversity on campus despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision deeming the previous affirmative action admissions framework illegal.

“The resources issued by the Biden–Harris Administration today will provide college leaders with much-needed clarity on how they can lawfully promote and support diversity, and expand access to educational opportunity for all following the Supreme Court’s disappointing ruling on affirmative action,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.

“This is only the first step and our Administration will continue to work to ensure we prepare students of all backgrounds and income levels to lead our multiracial democracy together,” he added.

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the common practice of considering race as a factor in university admissions was illegal.

The court ruled in two separate cases that Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s race-based affirmative action admission policies violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Those policies had become common across colleges and universities, and the court’s decision left those institutions grappling with how to approach admissions.

Affirmative action should not “be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion.

“But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today,” he added.

The Biden administration released new information for institutions in navigating admissions in the wake of this ruling, urging schools to keep race as a focus in admissions.

“Ensuring access to higher education for students from different backgrounds is one of the most powerful tools we have to prepare graduates to lead an increasingly diverse nation and make real our country’s promise of opportunity for all,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said, reassuring the schools that there would be no legal consequences at the federal level for flouting the law of the land, although the schools could still face additional lawsuits.

“These resources provide universities with the information they need to determine what lawful tools remain available to them to promote diversity in higher education,” Garland claimed, without evidence.

The nation’s top law enforcement officer, like many others in the Biden administration, has shown an active disdain for the constitutional constraints imposed on him, most notably in the unprecedented series of lawsuits attacking Biden’s top political opponent, while also blatantly manipulating the criminal investigations into Biden’s own family to become mired in the criminal-justice system.

The “resources” in question advise higher education institutions on how to continue to promote racial diversity in admissions.

“As described in the attached Q&A document, schools can consider the ways that a student’s background, including experiences linked to their race, have shaped their lives and the unique contributions they can make to campus,” the DOE said.

From the DOE document:

For example, a university could consider an applicant’s explanation about what it means to him to be the first Black violinist in his city’s youth orchestra or an applicant’s account of overcoming prejudice when she transferred to a rural high school where she was the only student of South Asian descent. An institution could likewise consider a guidance counselor or other recommender’s description of how an applicant conquered her feelings of isolation as a Latina student at an overwhelmingly white high school to join the debate team. Similarly, an institution could consider an applicant’s discussion of how learning to cook traditional Hmong dishes from her grandmother sparked her passion for food and nurtured her sense of self by connecting her to past generations of her family.

It remained unclear from the guidance whether students who did not included such culturally biased identifiers in their responses would be at a disadvantage in the application process.

The DOE also advised recruiting students from areas known to include higher levels of minorities.

“For institutions of higher education, this may mean redoubling efforts to recruit and retain talented students from underserved communities, including those with large numbers of students of color,” the DOE document said.

Critics said the Biden administration’s push could be a violation of the court’s decision.

“In Students for Fair Admissions, the Court said that discrimination cannot be done directly or indirectly,” GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation, told the Center Square.

“So, if schools are using ‘identity,’ ‘lived experience,’ or even zip codes as proxies for race, that’s unlawful,” Canaparo added. “The Court allowed schools to consider whether personal experiences, like overcoming discrimination, created personal virtue, but it made clear that schools can’t use such things to discriminate on the sly.”

How the DOE advised schools and what some say of the court’s decision seem to conflict at times, possibly setting up another legal battle to flesh out the details of how or how not race may be considered in admissions.

“In particular, nothing in the SFFA decision prohibits institutions from continuing to seek the admission and graduation of diverse student bodies, including along the lines of race and ethnicity, through means that do not afford individual applicants a preference on the basis of race in admissions decisions,” the DOE said.

Biden has also worked to provide student loan forgiveness despite the Supreme Court decision overturning his broad cancellation of $10,000 per borrower and $20,000 per Pell Grant recipients.

The Department of Education announced in July that $39 billion in federal student loan debt for about 800,000 borrowers will be “discharged,” by changing how monthly payments are counted for those under the Income Driven Repayment plans.

On Tuesday, a court rejected a legal challenge to that effort from conservative groups.

“Biden’s student loan forgiveness disaster is effectively a regressive tax disguised as a progressive policy,” Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. “Barely over 1/3 Americans get a 4-year degree, yet Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan forces every citizen to pay for anti-American gender-studies majors. It’s a scam.”

Biden Delivers Another Snub to Maui as Wildfire Death Toll Reaches 106

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Biden Delivers Another Snub to Maui as Wildfire Death Toll Reaches 106

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) President Joe Biden kept apace his shameless public response to fire-ravaged Maui, when he dodged comment about the tragedy’s rising death toll.

Fresh off a grueling vacation at Rehoboth Beach where he initially snubbed comment on the raging wildfires, Biden on Tuesday was stiff-legging it to catch a flight for a quick campaign stop when he could only manage a smirk and a wave when asked about Maui’s rising fire fatalities, which had reached 106 deaths.

Instead of visiting survivors on Maui, Biden jetted off to a stump speech in Wisconsin to gaslight on his economic agenda, displaying a double-shot of callousness.

“Biden actually flew over East Palestine today. Literal flyover,” cracked Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec

Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, noted that Biden’s conspicuous absence from Maui followed a disturbing pattern for the vacationer-in-chief.

“Maui burned and Biden vacationed. East Palestine crumbled and Biden vacationed,” Hunt reminded. “Kabul fell and Biden vacationed. The border collapsed and Biden vacationed.”

Biden told a different tale during his speechifying in Wisconsin, where he claimed “I’ve been to many disaster areas,” and promptly proved himself wrong on at least one account.

Before turning his flight path Friday toward a planned one-week Lake Tahoe vacation, Biden on Tuesday vowed that he and Taco Doc Jill would visit Hawaii “as soon as we can” and claimed he’s avoided the island because he didn’t want his presidential presence to interrupt recovery and cleanup efforts.

During the same presser, Biden again assured that “every asset they need will be there for them” regarding wildfire survivors and victims, which on Monday he had sloughed off with a paltry $700 payment per household as he shuttled another $200 million to Ukraine.

Soros Org.’s New ‘Strategic Direction’ Sounds Alarms over Plot to Steal 2024 Election

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Soros Org.’s New ‘Strategic Direction’ Sounds Alarms over Plot to Steal 2024 Election

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A sweeping shift in focus by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations stirred concerns that the billionaire-funded outfit would begin devoting more of its vast resources and extensive media network to disrupting American politics and culture.

The Foundation’s change in strategy was outlined in an internal email reviewed by Reuters, and was seen by many as a move to turbo-charge its promotion of far-leftist agendas from open borders and radical LGBT orthodoxy to abortion on demand, while championing so-called criminal justice reform wrought by Democrat district attorneys, starting with a push to influence the 2024 presidential election.

“Ultimately, the new approved strategic direction provides for withdrawal and termination of large parts of our current work within the European Union, shifting our focus and allocation of resources to other parts of the world,” the email said.

While a Foundation spokesperson assured that parts of the Soros organization, which directs an estimated $1.5 billon a year globally, would continue to fund some EU programs, “The new model will see the majority of our grant making organized around specific opportunities for impact, to be determined over the coming months,” the spokesperson told Reuters.

The move raised concerns coming in the wake of George Soros ceding his empire to son Alex, an avowed Trump-hater who told the Wall Street Journal “he was concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, suggesting a significant financial role for the Soros organization in the 2024 presidential race,” the outlet reported.

“Democrat District Attorneys across America have their marching orders,” wrote former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill. “Find something, create something, anything at all to nail Trump or lose your Soros-funded re-election. You don’t decide someone is guilty and work backward to prove it. You’re supposed to follow the facts, something our friends on the left seem to forget.”

A notable example made headlines this week, when Soros-funded Fulton County DA Fani Willis secured a politically-weaponized RICO indictment of Trump and 18 of his allies.

“The Soros agenda is one of death and destruction in the name of open borders and ending Western civilization,” Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, told the New York Post. “The Biden administration and rogue prosecutor movement may be [its] most damaging purchase in America to date.”

And now the dark money resources and Deep State connections of the Open Society Foundations, under scion Alex Soros, will reportedly be flowing in a new direction.

“As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we will have to do it, too,” Alex Soros told the WSJ.

To that end, he has deep ties to the Biden administration, having logged at least 17 visits to the White House. In 2020, he donated $700,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, making him one of the president’s top donors.

Soros election meddling and campaign financing extend beyond the presidential realm. An Open Society Foundation-affiliated policy center forked over $140 million to left-wing causes in 2021, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Examiner. In addition to Alex Soros’s Biden largesse, the new Foundation chief funneled upwards of $5.7 million to Democrat campaigns and leftist PACs since 2018, including $2 million to a committee tied to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

With Alex Soros at the helm of the Open Society Foundations and its expanded global mission, “we can expect to see more extreme and dangerous policies backed by the Soros family, including funding weak-on-crime prosecutors and job-killing environmental policies,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the Examiner.

Seattle Mayor’s Office Busted Blackballing White Police Officers While City’s Crime Rate Soars

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Seattle Mayor’s Office Busted Blackballing White Police Officers While City’s Crime Rate Soars

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In the face of skyrocketing crime and a crippling police officer recruitment and retainment crisis, Seattle Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell’s administration faced intense backlash for a directive that the city’s already-beleaguered police department hire fewer white men and those with “military bearing.”

Harrell’s office originally refused to turn over the document in response to a public information request. When it was released by a whistleblower to The Jason Rantz Show, the administration tried to cover its tracks, according to report coverage from ZeroHedge.

After Ben Dalgetty, a digital media-spin wonk in the mayor’s office, took control of the Seattle Police Department’s marketing efforts, he fired off a memo in March to SPD’s human resources staff.

The directive, titled “SPD Marketing More and Less,” demanded “less” images and videos of “officers who are white, male,” and “officers with military bearing,” reported KTTH radio. “In their place, Dalgetty asked for more ‘officers of color,’ ‘officers of different genders’ and ‘officers who are younger.’”

The language in the memo that the mayor’s office initially disclosed, however, didn’t match the language of the original memo and contained multiple significant edits.

According to KTTH, “In one edit, Dalgetty removed language asking for fewer images and video of white men. In another edit, he removed references to officers with military bearing. Finally, Dalgetty removed: “This doesn’t mean no officers who are white or male or only young officers of color, but guidelines to shift the proportions of our photo/video collateral to more of some things and less of others.”

SPD memo
(Memo obtained by The Jason Rantz Show)

The mayor’s office eventually turned over the original memo and claimed the edited one that was provided resulted from an error having to do with an alleged glitch in the department’s cloud-based service for “online collaboration, editing, and storage.”

The original memo attracted immediate controversy, with one Seattle Police Department source telling Rantz, “I thought, ‘Are you kidding me? You put this in writing? It shows not only a lack of respect for officers, but a lack of respect for the military,” the source said.

“They have no understanding of someone willing to put their lives on the line for their fellow man. They don’t have respect.”

While the memo “does not appear on its face to contain rules for hiring or promotion. The narrow focus of the memo could potentially inoculate the SPD from legal liability, at least based solely on the creation and distribution of the memo,” Joshua Brittingham, a labor and employment attorney with Carney Badley Spellman, told Rantz.

At the same time, Brittingham said, “the memo might be used as evidence to demonstrate illegal discriminatory intent” if anyone tried taking the city to court over claims of discrimination.

Regardless of the memo’s legality, SPD officers were furious with its seeming intent.

“What I condemn and will forever continue to push back on is the verbiage within the recruitment document that calls for less of white male officers,” said Officer Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, who called the memo unnecessarily divisive.

“Less of people in leadership positions, and less of humans with military backgrounds. This is flat-out discrimination. Period. It is an affront to decency, reasonableness and further divides our communities,” Solan wrote in a statement to The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.

“When politics is intentionally inserted into the public safety policing conversation, we all lose. It is embarrassing, shameful, and detrimental to a healthy functioning society.”

Hunter Reportedly Confesses to Biden’s Payments in Revealing 2018 Text

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Hunter Reportedly Confesses to Biden’s Payments in Revealing 2018 Text

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Damning allegations connecting President Joe Biden to political corruption are gaining traction from recent attention on a 2018 text message supposedly from Hunter Biden, where he confesses to covering his father’s expenses for more than a decade.

Initially disclosed by Fox News on Tuesday, the text messages, dated April 12, 2018, are directly connected to a conversation between Hunter and his assistant, Katie Dodge, about two bills from AT&T and Wells Fargo.

The infamous exchange commenced with Hunter claiming his Wells Fargo account had “shut” him out. “Too many cooks in the kitchen,” Hunter stated. “Too many profile changes and such. Happened 10 days ago too. What do you need? I’m going to bank in a few. Need to verify identity in person.”

Dodge responded, “I need to pay AT&T,” to which Hunter instructed Dodge to use his credit card for the bill payment.

The shocking admission ensued. “My dad has been using most lines on this account which I’ve through the gracious offerings of Eric [Schwerin] have paid for past 11 years,” Hunter confessed.

As per Fox, it remains unclear whether Hunter was referring to the AT&T or Wells Fargo accounts. The scandal-plagued White House, naturally, declined to comment on Fox’s queries.

A compilation by the news outlet revealed Hunter’s explicit admission of channeling funds to his father. In 2010, an email from Schwerin, a longtime business partner, revealed that he was transferring funds from Biden to Hunter’s account. “He owes it to you,” Schwerin told Hunter. Similarly, a 2016 email from the same contact indicated that Biden expected Hunter to cover an AT&T bill totaling $190.

Fox News’s report on the controversial text messages comes weeks after Republican members in the House of Representatives scrutinized President Biden regarding his potential involvement in an alleged $10 million bribery scandal related to Burisma Holdings, a company where Hunter worked on the board.

During most of his contentious 2020 presidential campaign, Biden had falsely claimed that he had never discussed dubious foreign business transactions with his son. However, incriminating testimony subsequently unveiled Biden’s deep involvement in these matters.

Most recently, Devon Archer, a former business partner of the embattled first son, acknowledged that Biden had conversed with Hunter and business associates on at least 20 occasions.

The allegations prompted several Republicans to support impeachment proceedings against the president, with Rep. Greg Stuebe, R-Fla., at the forefront.

“It’s our obligation as members of Congress to stand up for America when we see crimes being committed by the President,” Stuebe said in a Twitter statement, sharing a video interview with Fox News. “That’s why I filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden.”

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., echoed Stuebe’s remarks in a Twitter statement on Tuesday. “This is no longer just about Hunter Biden,” Burchett said. “The president shared this bank account with him. More and more evidence just keeps hitting us in the mouth and eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.”

Trump Boots Jenna Ellis from Legal Defense PAC after Backing DeSantis

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Trump Boots Jenna Ellis from Legal Defense PAC after Backing DeSantis

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump has reportedly excluded Jenna Ellis, once a staunch ally and legal counsel, from his legal defense fund following charges filed against her by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Ellis, who served as a key attorney for the Trump campaign during the 2020 elections, now finds herself facing charges related to alleged efforts to challenge the Georgia election results.

The charges implicated Trump and 18 others in a case centered around their alleged attempts to influence the election outcome by demanding Georgia officials properly investigate allegations of voter irregularities.

While Ellis initially stood by the former president, she has since voiced criticism and condemnation of his actions, a move that appears to have led to her exclusion from Trump’s legal support network.

Ellis responded to the indictment by accusing the Democrat Party of criminalizing practicing law. “I am resolved to trust the Lord and I will simply continue to honor, praise, and serve Him,” Ellis said. “I deeply appreciate all of my friends who have reached out offering encouragement and support.”

Political commentator John Cardillo broke the news of Ellis’s exclusion, claiming that Trump’s PAC, Save America, would not be providing any financial assistance for her legal fees.

“Just found out from very solid sources that Trump’s PAC won’t assist @JennaEllisEsq with one penny of legal fees because she has been complimentary and supportive of DeSantis,” Cardillo said on Tuesday.

Ellis’s ousting from the Trump-led PAC triggered Ellis to launch a legal fundraiser. A statement from her attorney, Mike Melito, read, “We will fight for Jenna. If you would like to help support our efforts please consider donating by clicking the link below.”

This episode has sparked a broader conversation about campaigns ahead of the 2024 presidential election, with some prominent Trump supporters defending the decision to leave her out from the legal fund, citing her opposition to Trump’s third White House bid.

In a recent statement, Ellis expressed her dissatisfaction with how Trump and his allies were conducting their campaigns and accused them of spreading falsehoods.

Ellis, along with Trump and the 17 other defendants will have to surrender to Georgia law enforcement in a matter of 10 days, as decreed by the Soros-backed DA pursuing the case.

GOP Senator: COVID Pandemic Was Preplanned by Deep State Globalists to Control Americans

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GOP Senator: COVID Pandemic Was Preplanned by Deep State Globalists to Control Americans

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., issued a COVID clarion call and warning on national television, declaring that the pandemic was “preplanned by an elite group of people.”

While speaking to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Johnson said that “a very powerful group of people” intentionally engineered the pandemic to “take total control of our lives,” adding that the plot was part of a globalist agenda linked to Event 201, Slay News reported.

“We are going down a very dangerous path,” Johnson warned.

“It’s a path that is being laid out and planned by an elite group of people that want to take total control over our lives and that’s what they are doing bit by bit,” the senator said. “They do it by increasing massive government spending, increasing the size of government, takeover of the WHO.”

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted Event 201 in New York City on Oct. 18, 2019, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

A high-level pandemic exercise that was held just weeks before the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in China laid out plans for collaborations between governments, private companies and unelected globalist organizations to respond to a severe pandemic.

The organizers of Event 201 claimed that the goal of the exercise was to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences during and after a pandemic. However, the true goal of the collaboration was to orchestrate the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson claimed.

“This is very concerning in terms of what has happened, what is happening, what continues to be planned for our loss of freedom,” Johnson warned. “It needs to be exposed but unfortunately, there are very few people, even in Congress, that are willing to take a look at this.”

The reason entrenched politicians and Deep State actors refuse to discuss the insidious plot comes down to vaccines, Johnson said.

“They all pushed the vaccine. They don’t want to be made aware of the fact the vaccines may have caused injuries, may have caused death,” Johnson said. “We’re up against a very powerful group of people here, Maria.”

He then praised the courage of independent journalists for defying the established globalist narratives, referring to newly-unearthed figures that revealed 92% of people who died from COVID-19 received three or more shots of mRNA vaccines for the virus.

“That’s the only way this is going to be solved… [We] need the truth to be exposed, we need more Americans to listen to the truth, to be exposed to the truth, to pull their heads out of the hands, open their eyes and understand what’s happening to this country,” Johnson said.

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