RFK Jr. Sues ‘State Actor’ YouTube for Meddling in 2024 Presidential Election

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RFK Jr. Sues ‘State Actor’ YouTube for Meddling in 2024 Presidential Election

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Dissident Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit this week against YouTube parent company Google for censoring content related to his 2024 presidential campaign—accusing the platform of working hand-in-hand with the Biden administration to do so.

“YouTube often removes videos of Mr. Kennedy’s comments from its public platform. It usually relies on its ‘medical misinformation’ policies to justify the action. It has relied on the policies several times to censor interviews and speeches given by Mr. Kennedy during the 2024 presidential campaign,” Kennedy said in his lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday.

“On information and belief, it did so based on statements from the Biden Administration about what information to censor.”

Kennedy did not present smoking-gun proof that YouTube colluded with the Biden regime to suppress his candidacy.

But he pointed to the Twitter Files—a trove of internal records released by new Twitter owner Elon Musk—as evidence that Biden has pressured social media to censor him in the past. Kennedy also cited documents revealed through discovery in the landmark censorship case of Missouri v. Biden—a case RFK recently joined as another plaintiff.

“As documents discovered by two state attorneys general show, federal officials, including White House officials Rob Flaherty and Clarke Humphrey, were the ones who directed tech companies to remove statements Mr. Kennedy made about the government’s COVID policies,” Kennedy said in his lawsuit.

“Although this email targeted Twitter, White House and other government officials repeatedly worked with the big tech companies, including YouTube, to censor Mr. Kennedy during 2021 and 2022,” Kennedy added.

“It is reasonable to believe that this partnership, and the related White House pressure campaign, increased after Mr. Kennedy challenged President Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination.”

In his lawsuit, Kennedy also floats a novel theory that YouTube is essentially a state actor.

“The federal government has offered such significant encouragement, both overt and covert, that YouTube’s decision to censor Mr. Kennedy’s political speech must be deemed to have been made by the government itself, including Kennedy’s political opponent, President Biden,” he said.

“Under these circumstances, YouTube is a state actor and it violated Mr. Kennedy’s First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination.”

This week’s lawsuit is the latest shot Kennedy’s taken at Big Tech and mainstream media for suppressing free speech.

In March, he filed a massive class-action lawsuit against the Biden administration that can potentially include millions of Americans deprived of accurate news during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election.

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

Could Squad Member’s Trump-like Indictment Be ‘Inevitable’?

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Could Squad Member’s Trump-like Indictment Be ‘Inevitable’?

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Could U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D – Wash., face the same or similar legal jeopardy, at least theoretically, as is currently engulfing ex-POTUS Donald Trump?

Seattle talk show host Jason Rantz, who was a frequent guest on the top-rated but now defunct Tucker Carlson show on the Fox News Channel, apparently seems to think so.

In interesting timing that has applied to the Trump indictments, DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with various alleged offenses in connection with challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

In an essay that alluded to hypocrisy and double standards that are components of what others have described as Democrat lawfare, Rantz brought up the track record of the Squad member and chair of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, including her history of inflammatory rhetoric.

“Special counsel Jack Smith indicted former president Donald Trump for his attempts to stop the certification of what he thought was a fraudulent election…,” Rantz wrote.

He continued: “Based on the new standard for stretching criminal law beyond recognition, Seattle congresswoman and election denier Pramila Jayapal could be indicted next. She’s acted eerily similar to Trump.”

Rantz added that “A Jayapal indictment would be rather outrageous, but given the similarities with her conduct and the allegations against Trump, it may be an inevitability.”

After the 2016 election, Jayapal was part of the Democrat election-denying cabal, Rantz recalled.

“Whereas Smith indicted Trump for attempting to illegally reject legitimate votes, depriving Americans of their voting rights, Jayapal was part of coordinated Democrat efforts with 10 other co-conspirators to do the same thing. She and 10 colleagues tried to stop the Electoral College certification for Trump,” he opined about the far-left politician.

Rantz went on to imply that Americans don’t need to be Trump fans to recognize the unfairness in what’s going on in a weaponized, politicized legal system that seeks to, among other things, criminalize free speech, especially against Joe Biden’s principal GOP 2024 election rival.

“You can condemn the riot on January 6 and Trump’s embarrassing, selfish, and incompetent reaction to it, while also noting the Jack Smith legal case is a politically-driven sham…If you don’t want it happening to Jayapal because you have to support her views, you shouldn’t want it to happen to Trump because you don’t support his.”

Many have argued that Trump’s legal woes are the epitome of election interference.

“Smith thinks it’s illegal for Trump to express his opinions about elections, however unfounded. We have to imagine that the same standard will be held against Jayapal,” Rantz asserted.

Rantz also outlined how Jayapal (an anti-border-wall politician who recently spent big bucks from campaign donations on a security fence outside her home), allegedly “inspired violence” after George Floyd was murdered, created a “dangerous environment” for conservative Justices on the Supreme Court following the Dobbs decision, and “traffics in Anti-Semitism.”

Parenthetically, various legal analysts have already chimed in about the weakness in Smith’s case against Trump, although that may not matter without a change in venue since it is set to go to a liberal D.C. jury

In identifying six glaring ways why the Smith indictment is “legally flawed and politically shady,” Missouri GOP attorney general candidate Will Scharf remarked that “Prosecuting a political opponent during a presidential election in this manner smacks of banana republic politics.”

Along these lines, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R – Colo., told Newsmax on Thursday that the DOJ “might as well be the new Biden campaign headquarters, and…Smith might as well be President Joe Biden’s new campaign manager.”

Dark Brandon Releases Cringy Video to Peddle Campaign Merch

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Dark Brandon Releases Cringy Video to Peddle Campaign Merch

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Biden administration released a line of merchandise attempting to co-opt the infamous “Dark Brandon” meme on the day of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, along with a cringe-worthy video announcement.

“A cup of Joe never tasted any better,” Biden said. “I like my coffee dark.”

The camera then cut to the coffee cup with the “Dark Brandon” eyes.

The Biden-Harris campaign is selling the mugs on their website for the Bidenflation-adjusted price of $22, according to Red State.

Several Twitter users responded to the video, pointing out the increased price in coffee since Biden took office.

“The price of coffee in the US has gone up 32.9% since Biden took office,” The Maine Wire said.

Twitter users also pointed out the hypocrisy of Biden using his platform to sell merchandise to boost his campaign, when Democrats bashed Trump family members for promoting Goya Foods.

Ivanka Trump, daughter of the former president, was accused of issuing a commercial endorsement for Goya after the CEO of the food purveyor came out in support of then-President Trump.

Leftists responded to the post in a feverish rage, looking high and low for excuses to accuse the Trumps of unethical activity.

“It would be hard for Ivanka Trump to argue that her post was in a personal capacity now,” said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the far-left activist group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, in a statement following the Goya episode, according to CNN.

“As for President Trump, unlike those who work for him, the President is exempted from many of the laws and rules we count on to enforce ethics in government,” Libowitz groused. “This administration has proved that to be a mistake.”

This lack of consistency has become commonplace through this administration, despite multiple promises to restore “decency” to the White House.

Disney Ditches DEI Programs, Blinks in Showdown w/ DeSantis

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Disney Ditches DEI Programs, Blinks in Showdown w/ DeSantis

(Headline USA) After a public battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the district that governs Walt Disney World announced this week that it is abolishing all of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs and hiring requirements.

Glenton Gilzean, director of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, which has direct oversight of the massive theme park and its resorts, announced this week that all DEI policies will be reversed.

“Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” he said. “The so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives were advanced during the tenure of the previous board and they were illegal and simply unAmerican.”

The DEI hiring practices had been implemented by the previous governing district, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which was appointed and directed by Disney itself. This governing body was dissolved by DeSantis and the Florida legislature earlier this year after Disney took a public stance against DeSantis’s efforts to push back on wokeism in his state.

The new governing body conducted an internal investigation into Disney’s policies, and found that the Disney-appointed Reedy Creek district “routinely awarded contracts based on racially and gender driven goals to businesses on the basis of their owners’ race and gender.”

Once Reedy Creek entered into contracts with these businesses, they would “aggressively monitor contractor’s racial and gender practices, wasting taxpayer dollars.”

Disney sued DeSantis over his takeover of the self-governing district in April, claiming the governor retaliated against the company’s free speech.

“Frankly, the company was within its right – even though I’m not sure it was handled very well – was within its right to speak up on an issue, constitutionally protected right of free speech,” Disney CEO Bob Iger claimed. “To retaliate against the company in a way that would be harmful to the business was not something we could sit back and tolerate.”

ANOTHER Study Exposes Crippling Damage COVID Lockdowns Had On Kids

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ANOTHER Study Exposes Crippling Damage COVID Lockdowns Had On Kids

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently released study from the Institute of Fiscal Studies revealed that children faced serious social and emotional developmental issues as a result of the extreme lockdowns in the United Kingdom.

The report indicated that children between ages four and seven were 52% more likely to suffer from developmental problems than kids ages 12 to 15, according to Summit News.

Children whose parents were forced to take a leave of absence from their jobs were “significantly more likely to experience a worsening in their socio-emotional skills than those whose parents had not been furloughed (51% versus 45%).”

Andrew McKendrick, author of the study, commented on the fact that children across various demographics saw negative changes in their social skills.

“Children lived through many changes during these years: school closures, lack of contact with friends and family, and potentially devastating severe illness or death among loved ones,” McKendrick continued, adding that the lockdowns have had “multi-generational impacts.”

Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza expressed concern for the long-term welfare of the thousands of children who struggled through the pandemic.

‘This study shows that the disruption the pandemic caused to children’s development has been long-lasting,” de Souza added.

Member of the parents’ advocacy group UsForThem, Arabella Skinner, pointed out that the welfare of children was not prioritized and they became “collateral damage.”

“It is an unavoidable fact that many of our children’s development has been negatively impacted by the pandemic restrictions,” Skinner asserted, further urging that “The Government must take action now – they need to support all the services which support our children and ensure that this never happens again.”

Several other studies into the effect of the lockdowns on children displayed the widespread depression, learning loss, immunity damage and developmental loss children must deal with going forward.

Opinion: Vivek Ramaswamy is Correct to Question 9/11

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Opinion: Vivek Ramaswamy is Correct to Question 9/11

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Wall Street Journal published an editorial this week, criticizing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for questioning the 9/11 Commission’s account of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

In doing so, the WSJ editorial board displayed its own ignorance of the 9/11 Commission’s shortcomings—some of which have been revealed in recent months, only to be ignored by the newspaper.

The WSJ’s attack on Ramaswamy stems from his recent appearance on conservative personality Alex Stein’s show, where he was questioned about the attacks.

“I don’t believe the government has told us the truth. Again, I’m driven by evidence and data,” Ramaswamy responded.

“What I’ve seen in the last several years is we have to be skeptical of what the government does tell us. I haven’t seen evidence to the contrary, but do I believe everything the government told us about it? Absolutely not. Do I believe the 9/11 commission? Absolutely not.”

In its editorial, the WSJ blasted Ramaswamy’s statements for “indulging the worst instincts of talk-show hosts, and reducing every story to grand-scale government deceit.”

“His original answer flirted with the possibility that the government covered up facts about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” the editorial said.

“Back on planet Earth, the 9/11 Commission was one of the better efforts at government accountability in recent memory, and its findings have never been discredited by anyone credible. One irony of Mr. Ramaswamy’s answer is that conspiracy theories about 9/11 started mostly in left-wing precincts.”

Contrary to the WSJ’s bald assertion, the 9/11 Commission’s findings have been discredited by researchers of all ideological stripes, and even by some of government’s own investigators.

Just this year, veteran national security reporter Seth Hettena published a government document in March, citing two unnamed FBI agents who allegedly said that the CIA was monitoring and attempting to recruit two of the 9/11 hijackers in the lead-up to the attack.

While the 9/11 Commission report does mention the allegation that Saudi Arabian intelligence officers financially supported these two hijackers—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar—it makes no mention of CIA recruitment efforts.

Even more recently, the U.S. government finally released the notes of the 9/11 Commission’s interview with Saudi Arabia Prince Turki bin Faisal, some 20 years after its interview with him took place.

The 9/11 Commission’s report made no mention of this interview, which was kept secret for years. Even if the interview had been included in the report, the 9/11 Commission didn’t question Turki about his intelligence agency allegedly sponsoring al-Hazmi or al-Mihdhar, according to the notes from the interview.

Perhaps the WSJ editorial board would know these facts if the newspaper covered them.

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

YUGE Majority of Republicans Think 2020 Election Was Rigged

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YUGE Majority of Republicans Think 2020 Election Was Rigged

(Headline USA) A large majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents say they believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of President Joe Biden, according to a new CNN poll.

The survey found that 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year, and up from January of 22 when 67% of Republicans said the same. The highest level of distrust in the election’s results was recorded in the summer of 2021, when 72% of Republicans said they did not believe Biden fairly won.

The news comes after former President Donald Trump was indicted once again — this time for questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel Jack Smith filed four charges against Trump: conspiracy to defraud the United States’ conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against civil rights.

In the indictment, Smith claims Trump knew he lost the election but was “determined to remain in power.” So, Trump “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” the indictment states.

“These claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false,” but he “repeated and widely disseminated them anyway,” it continues.

Legal experts have pointed out that Smith will need to prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump really did know that he lost the 2020 election in order to prove malicious intent. However, as the CNN poll proves, the former president and most of his supporters still contest that the election was conducted properly.

“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,” Trump’s legal team said in a statement.

“President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from many highly accomplished attorneys. These un-American witch hunts will fail and President Trump will be re-elected to the White House so he can save our Country from the abuse, incompetence, and corruption that is running through the veins of our Country at levels never seen before.”

Newsom Goes Dark on Debate Cage Match after DeSantis Accepts Challenge

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Newsom Goes Dark on Debate Cage Match after DeSantis Accepts Challenge

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) After declaring he was anxious to talk issues with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, challenging his cross-country politically polar opposite to a debate, the big boaster Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., neglected to send a response after DeSantis accepted his invitation to tussle on live television.

Newsom previously told Fox News Host Sean Hannity that he was “all in,” and would even pull out a stellar performance with “one day’s notice with no notes,” according to the Daily Wire.

DeSantis agreed to the debate, and even took a shot at California’s ever-growing exodus.

“Let’s get it done. Just tell me when and where we’ll do it,” DeSantis said as the audience cheered.

“In one respect, the debate between California and Florida has already been had, as you suggest, people have been voting on that, they’ve been voting on it with their feet, they have fled California in record numbers,” he added.

Recent reports revealed that California, along with several other liberal states, are losing over $600 million in tax revenue due to former residents rushing from the state.

Since DeSantis accepted the challenge on Wednesday, Newsom and his team have been radio silent. A source reported that his team also neglected to reach out to the DeSantis administration privately as well.

Newsom’s original proposal for the debate mandated that the occasion take place on live air, moderated by Hannity, allow no notes and now allow staff to brief participants once the program started.

The invitation proposed the debate take place in Georgia, Nevada or North Carolina—three integral swing states.

A spokesperson from Newsom’s office indicated if the debate takes place, it would likely be in November.

Many speculate that Newsom may run for president in 2024, despite the governor’s statement that he supports President Joe Biden’s incumbent run. The California governor also hosted fundraisers for the president’s reelection.

However, Newsom continued to raise his national profile and touted his involvement in the political campaigns of other states—financially supporting Democrats in Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi.

MSM Excelling at Task of Running Cover for Biden Inc.

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MSM Excelling at Task of Running Cover for Biden Inc.

(Headline USA) Even some in the mainstream media have pointed out the curious timing of the indictments of former President Donald Trump, with Axios noting that each one has helped drown out revelations about Hunter Biden and his shady foreign business deals.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s latest indictment of Trump for his role in questioning the results of the 2020 election, for example, followed a bombshell testimony from former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer, who told members of Congress that President Joe Biden was not just aware but involved in some of Hunter’s deals.

“Former President Trump’s bombshell, four-count indictment over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election monopolized media and political attention Tuesday evening— overshadowing a string of not-so-great stories for President Biden,” Axios wrote.

Republicans have argued that the timing of Trump’s indictments was intentional. The first indictment, for example, which was filed on June 8 and alleges Trump mishandled classified information, came out just one day before the FBI released documents to Congress alleging that Joe Biden accepted a $10 million bribe from Burisma while he was vice president.

Smith then tacked on additional charges to the Mar-a-Lago indictment on July 27, just one day after Judge Maryellen Noreika smacked down the sweetheart plea deal brokered between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden after she discovered Hunter Biden is still under federal investigation for failing to properly register as a foreign agent.

Trump himself predicted Smith’s latest indictment following Devon Archer’s closed-door congressional hearing.

“Wow! ‘Crooked Joe Biden was on dozen’s [syc] of calls with Hunter’s Business Associated. He lied, said he didn’t know anything about his son’s business. Demanded the Ukrainian prosecutor be fired, immediately.’ … This is really bad news for Biden, which means I will probably be indicted again soon in order to kill the news cycle!!!” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

Joe Rogan Sides w/ Kari Lake, Trump on Election Fraud

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Joe Rogan Sides w/ Kari Lake, Trump on Election Fraud

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Popular podcast host Joe Rogan admitted on a recent episode of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” that in his view Kari Lake and Donald Trump had a point about election fraud in 2020, the Daily Beast reported.

Rogan drew connections between voter fraud and the Dominion voting machine “malfunctions” that plagued both the 2020 and the 2022 elections.

“It looks like there’s real fraud,” Rogan suggested during an episode of his podcast. “At the very least, there were voting machines that weren’t working properly,” Rogan said, alluding to the failures of voting machines in Maricopa County which failed to make dark enough marks.

But Rogan went deeper into the election fraud issue, noting that the voting machine malfunctions were concentrated in red areas.

“It seems very suspicious that a lot of them were in Republican areas,” the podcast host continued, noting that he has specific concerns about Arizona.

“That Kari Lake stuff in Arizona that they’re trying to dismiss — it doesn’t look like that’s invalid. It looks like there’s real fraud there. It looks like there’s some real shenanigans there,” he said.

According to Rogan, there is too much of a pattern for things to be simply coincidental.

“I think there are coordinated efforts to make sure that certain people get elected. I don’t know how far they go, but I know it’s not zero.”

Rogan, despite what journalists at the Daily Beast would like their readers to believe, has stayed away from endorsing specific political candidates, including former President Donald Trump.

“I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan insisted last month in an appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast.

“I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

 

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