Report: FBI Used Fake WaPo Story in Application to Spy on Trump Campaign

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Report: FBI Used Fake WaPo Story in Application to Spy on Trump Campaign

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s been roughly six years since the FBI submitted error-ridden FISA warrant applications to spy on the Trump campaign, and more damning information about them continues to be revealed.

RealClear Investigations published a story Tuesday, showing that the FBI relied on a Washington Post story that had already been debunked in one of its FISA warrant applications. Moreover, the Justice Department has sought to keep this fact secret by redacting the Post from its publicly available warrant on the grounds that it was one of the bureau’s confidential “sources and methods.”

“The FBI tried to justify continuing to spy on Page in early 2017 by indicating to the secret FISA court that it had verified a rumor about Page receiving dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government and facilitating a ‘well-developed conspiracy of cooperation’ with the Kremlin to swing the 2016 election in Trump’s favor,” wrote RCI’s Paul Sperry.

“But the bureau had corroborated no such thing. Its source was a front-page report in the Washington Post—one the newspaper later retracted after determining it was false.”

Reacting to this latest revalation about the FISA warrant scandal, the Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountablity said it shows how ridiculous the U.S. government’s classification system is.

“So that’s the FBI’s ‘source and method’ deemed so sensitive that it had to be hidden from the public? It was a subscription to The Washington Post,” PPSA remarked.

“Who knows what other embarrassments government hides with its redactions.”

PPSA further suggested that the FBI’s actions violated former President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13526, which said that information cannot be classified by the government to merely spare an agency embarrassment.

As has been well publicized by now, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found in December 2019 that the FBI’s FISA warrants to spy on former Trump campaign aid Carter Page contained at least 17 material errors.

Most notoriously, disgraced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith doctored one of the applications to make it seem as though Page was colluding with the Russians, when in fact he was a trusted CIA asset who had been informing the agency about Russian activities.

Clinesmith pleaded guilty in August 2020 to doctoring an email used to underpin a FISA warrant application. He avoided jail time, and has been reinstated to the District of Columbia Bar.

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

Kamala Claims Kids Suffer from ‘Climate Anxiety’ as Regime Hypes Global Boiling Doom

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Kamala Claims Kids Suffer from ‘Climate Anxiety’ as Regime Hypes Global Boiling Doom

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The same Biden administration that has relentlessly hyped doomsday warnings of an apocalyptic future of global boiling to push a radical climate agenda, is now fretting that children are suffering from climate anxiety.

“I’ve been traveling the country meeting with our young leaders, who in particular are talking to me about the climate crisis,” Harris claimed, which shouldn’t come as a surprise when she’s talking to groups at regime indoctrination conclaves like the Young Climate Leaders Convening Event.

“They turned me on to a term that I had not heard before. I said, ‘tell me how you all are thinking about the climate crisis.’ And they shared with me a term – climate anxiety,” Harris attributed to the young leaders gathering to share climate horror stories.

Harris peddled the exact talking points, down to the awakening of learning a new tribal cult term, at a climate kabuki theater speech in April.

“They’re concerned about their future in almost a doomsday fear about what might be within a couple of decades of now,” Harris claimed during her propagandizing this week at the NAACP convention in Boston.

While Harris avoided spiraling into one of her trademark rambles about what could be in the future of what was that will be, it wasn’t reported if the vice president deployed her Venn diagraming skills to explain her favorite new climate anxiety diagnosis.

But given Harris’s busy schedule spreading her green doomsaying, it probably would have involved jet-setting three circles around the country trailing a massive carbon footprint in her wake, to warn that MAGA Republicans are climate-denying Neanderthals responsible for mentally terrorizing America’s youth to the point of nervous breakdowns.

“They’re concerned about whether they should have children, whether they should even try to buy a home, because what does the future hold for that prospect?” Harris climate preached in Boston.

Never mind that home-buying prospects are rapidly slipping out of reach for a growing number of families suffering under Bidenomics, as reflected by backlash to Harris’s comments.

“I don’t have climate anxiety @VP nor do my kids. I have anxiety abt not being able to buy food and basics,” one commentator relayed, while another reported suffering from “high inflation and wide open border anxiety.”

Harris’s recitation of her climate-anxiety epiphany in what has been a series of staged, ongoing epiphanies struck again in June when she proclaimed, “In fact, so many of our young leaders have talked to me about it, and they’ve told me, ‘Well, you know, we have a name for it. It’s called ‘climate anxiety,’” Harris parroted. “In this moment, given all the threats we face, it is our young leaders who understand clearly: The clock is not just ticking; it is banging.”

In response to fears about global warming that Democrats and eco-terrorists have inflamed, Harris bragged in Boston that the Biden administration has invested in nearly half a trillion dollars in clean energy over the next decade.

The boastful proclamation received the same response that her concerns for future homebuyers elicited from commentators struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, as the country’s credit get downgraded and recession looms on the horizon.

Obama Judge Orders Reporter to Divulge FBI-Linked Source

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Obama Judge Orders Reporter to Divulge FBI-Linked Source

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In a decision that tramples on the free press, an Obama-appointed federal judge has ordered former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to be deposed about her confidential source.

This week’s ruling from DC District Judge Christopher Cooper stems from an investigative series Herridge wrote in 2017 about Chinese national Yanping Chen and her U.S.-based University of Management and Technology, which did business with the Defense Department and trained military servicemembers.

Herridge reported at the time that Chen and UMT had been under an FBI counterintelligence investigation for their alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The investigation ran from 2010 to 2016, when the DOJ informed Chen it wouldn’t be filing any charges against her.

After Herridge, who now works for CBS, published her investigation for Fox, Chen sued the FBI, DOD and two other federal agencies for leaking her private affairs that the FBI had collected or generated in the course of its investigation—including photos of her in a People’s Liberation Army uniform.

As part of her lawsuit, Chen seeks to depose Herridge about her confidential sources she used for her reporting. And this week, the Obama-appointed Judge Cooper ruled that Chen has the right to do so.

“The Court recognizes both the vital importance of a free press and the critical role that confidential sources play in the work of investigative journalists like Herridge,” Cooper reportedly wrote in the ruling. “But applying the binding case law of this Circuit, the Court concludes that Chen’s need for the requested evidence overcomes Herridge’s qualified First Amendment privilege in this case.”

CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that neither Fox nor Herridge have indicated if they’ll comply with the judge’s order, which has already drawn criticism from free press advocates.

“Confidentiality is the lifeblood of a free press. From Watergate to Harvey Weinstein, confidential sources have helped journalists bring to light malfeasance and hidden crimes that otherwise would have continued,” the Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability wrote in a press release reacting to the decision.

“And a strong reporting culture is a counter to the growing surveillance state enabled by technology.”

PPSA said the judge’s decision shows the necessity for legislative protections for journalists and whistleblowers. The organization endorsed the PRESS Act, which would shield reporters from choosing between jail or ratting out whistleblowers and sources.

The House passed the PRESS Act last year, but the Senate didn’t consider the matter. PPSA urged Congress to pass the legislation when it returns from its August recess.

“PPSA has long admired Catherine Herridge’s impartial and fearless reporting. We support her and all journalists who face these dilemmas,” the group said.

“This is all the more reason why the House should again pass this bill and the U.S. Senate should take up the PRESS Act when Congress returns after August recess.”

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

Ramaswamy Touts WEF Lawsuit Win after Rejecting Group’s ‘Young Global Leader’ Label

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Ramaswamy Touts WEF Lawsuit Win after Rejecting Group’s ‘Young Global Leader’ Label

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy dealt the World Economic Forum a drubbing in court after the leftist group anointed him as one of their ‘Young Global Leaders’ without his consent.

Ramaswamy announced on Twitter that the WEF removed his name and shared a photograph of a letter from the group‘s legal team, who apologized for the mistake. Ramaswamy initially rejected the designation and filed a lawsuit in April to have his name removed, Summit News reported.

Ramaswamy said he “explicitly rejected their ridiculous award,” from Klaus Schwab’s globalist regime and they “repeatedly failed to remove my name despite escalating demands. So I sued them. And we just succeeded.”

Ramaswamy further added the WEF “met all of my demands in the lawsuit: public apology & disavowal and a commitment to never name someone again without their explicit permission,” and he claimed, “I’ve been the leading opponent in America of the World Economic Forum’s agenda.”

That assertion received backlash on several fronts.

Schwab’s leadership training program has spawned the likes of COVID cultists Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau, and Schwab has deep pockets to buy Deep State connections to push leftist agendas to drive the Great Reset initiative. 

“I’ve been the leading opponent in America of the World Economic Forum’s agenda, through two books & my most recent company Strive which finally put BlackRock & the ESG movement on their back foot,” Ramaswamy claimed. “The Great Uprising will defeat the Great Reset – just like we did in 1776.”

Will Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?

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Will Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?

(By Duggan Flanakin, RealClear Wire) Four hundred ninety-eight electric vehicles and over 3,200 other vehicles, including 350 Mercedes Benzes, were bound for Egypt on the Fremantle Highway when one or more of the EVs caught fire, costing at least one seaman his life and injuring several others. Curiously, the Dutch coast guard had initially reported that only 25 of the vehicles were battery-electric models.

At last report, the Dutch coast guard admitted that it has been unable to put out the fire and that the ship has taken on water and is “listing” and on a trajectory toward a capsize. Should the ship sink, the total loss would also threaten the Frisian island of Ameland, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to over 10,000 aquatic and terrestrial species and located near one of the world’s most important migratory-bird habitats.

On a global scale, of course, 3,000 vehicles are but a drop in the bucket, and in insurance terms, the loss of one 18,500–ton transport ship and one human life (all the wounded are expected to survive, despite broken bones, burns, and respiratory problems) is only so much. To compute a total cost, the ecological devastation would also have to be factored in, along with the cost of rescue, firefighting, and salvage operations.

But all in all, this was a freak accident, a one-off. This stuff never happens. Right?

Actually, it does. Just a year ago, the “Felicity Ace” sank as it was being towed from the site where 13 days earlier a fire had broken out on board. That ship, too, was transporting EVs and internal-combustion vehicles – including 15 Lamborghini Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae supercars valued at half a million dollars apiece. Also lost were 1,117 Porches, 1,944 Audis, 561 Volkswagens, 189 Bentleys, and 70 other Lamborghinis.

And just a month ago, two firefighters died battling flames that broke out on another roll-on, roll-off (RORO) cargo ship docked at Port Newark in New Jersey. Firefighters arrived at the scene when just five to seven vehicles on the 10th floor of the ship were on fire, but the fire quickly spread to the 11th and 12th floors.

One commenter explained that on a RORO ship, vehicles are chain-shackled on all four wheels to the deck, creating trip hazards for firefighters. There are multiple decks, ramps, ladders, confined spaces, low overhead, and solid metal all around (like a gigantic oven). Fighting such fires is a very dangerous challenge, even if the deck plan of the ship is well known.

The port authority assured reporters that no EVs numbered among the 5,000 vehicles (bound for Africa) on board, but just imagine if the fire had begun with the ship far out at sea. Or imagine the horror should an EV fire break out on a ferry boat carrying hundreds of vehicles and thousands of passengers? Or in an underground parking garage in a New York high-rise?

Olivia Murray notes that automakers have largely replaced steel and metal with plastic, and that a huge fire could unleash immeasurable quantities of synthetic chemicals into the atmosphere from the burning plastic. A total capsize would send millions of pounds of debris and spilled motor oil (from the non-EV autos) to the sea floor along with any toxic flame retardants. The impact on sensitive marine life would not be known for years.

Even at $80,000 per vehicle (a low number, perhaps), the insurance loss for the nearly 4,000 vehicles on the “Felicity Ace” alone would be $320 million – and this does not include the loss to end-buyers of the opportunity to drive a vehicle that they may have already purchased.

But massive fires are not the only insurance concern with EVs. The New York Times recently reported the sad story of a Rivian owner whose electric pickup truck was involved in what would normally be considered “a minor fender bender.” The owner’s insurance company gladly offered to pay about $1,600 for the repairs, but the certified repair shop produced a bill for $42,000 – about half the cost of the vehicle.

The Times reporter explained: “A key reason is that the accident damaged a sleek panel that extends from the truck’s rear to front roof pillars.” To repair and repaint the vehicle, mechanics had to remove the interior ceiling material (the headliner) and the front windshield. Indeed, the State of New York’s consumer guide for auto insurance lists many models as “difficult-to-insure vehicles” simply because they are electric.

But that’s still better than the news reported in March that insurance companies are having to write off EVs with just a few miles – leading to higher premiums – because of the many EVs for which there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents. EV battery packs are ending up in junkyards in multiple countries.

According to the Agent Support Network of America, the intense impact of a crash can be much more devastating to EVs, increasing the likelihood of a totaled versus repairable car. EVs, according to Consumer Reports, may not withstand an accident as well as traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. EV batteries are vulnerable to damage, and with any indication of a compromised battery, insurance companies will likely declare an EV crash a total loss.

An overlooked insurance cost for EVs involves towing, which many insurance customers (and AAA members) take for granted as an inexpensive add-on to their policies. But EVs can be safely towed only on a flatbed truck with enough load capacity to handle the extra weight of the vehicle. Drivers are warned not to allow anyone to try to tow their EV with its wheels on the ground. Improper towing can damage, even total, the vehicle.

The higher costs for auto insurance only add to the already-higher costs of purchasing an EV, then procuring a personal charging station and spending more money to upgrade home wiring boxes (especially for older homes). The inconvenience of having your nearly new vehicle totaled – and then having to wait perhaps months for a replacement – further adds to the “buyer avoidance” that has frustrated those who demand an immediate end to the traditional gasoline-powered vehicles that most people around the world rely upon.

As automakers continue to lose money on EVs and consumers worldwide continue to prefer the vehicles they have learned to trust over decades, will EV mandates fall by the wayside – or will elites again double down, believing that “resistance is futile”?

Biden Admin. to Award $100M to Minority Colleges

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Biden Admin. to Award $100M to Minority Colleges

(By Leonard Robinson, The Center Square) In the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, the Biden administration is granting more than $100 million to historically black colleges and universities and other predominantly-minority universities and colleges.

The U.S. Department of Education made the announcement Aug. 1 and stated that the minority institutions have received more than $25 billion in funding through the department since President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

The grants, which will be administered by the U.S. Department of Education, will support infrastructure investments and improved educational outcomes for students.

Applications for the programs opened to universities and colleges on Aug. 1.

The grants will be given to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions.

“At a time when diversity in higher education is under attack, it’s never been more important to invest in our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Institutions, community colleges, and other inclusive institutions,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a media release. “These grant programs represent opportunities for our nation’s most inclusive and diverse colleges and universities to expand their capacity to drive research and innovation and strengthen evidence-based supports that help underserved students successfully complete their degrees and build brighter futures.”

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race-based selections for admissions into colleges, better known as affirmative action, was unconstitutional.

Supplement Company Agrees to Fines, Injunctions over COVID-19 Claims

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Supplement Company Agrees to Fines, Injunctions over COVID-19 Claims

(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A nutritional supplement company and one of its managers agreed to injunctions and to pay civil penalties to resolve a federal lawsuit that alleged the company deceptively marketed vitamin supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Quickwork LLC and one of its managers, Eric Anthony Nepute, resolved the lawsuit after an order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The government alleged in 2021 the defendants made misleading and unsubstantiated advertising claims that their vitamin D and zinc supplements could be used to treat or prevent COVID-19, according to court records. The complaint further alleged the defendants mischaracterized the results of scientific studies to support some of the claims.

In 2022, Quickwork agreed to an injunction and a $1 million civil penalty. But that penalty was partially suspended due to an inability to pay. On July 19, the court granted partial summary judgment against Nepute. In an order entered on Aug. 2, Nepute agreed to an injunction and to pay $80,000 in civil penalties, according to prosecutors.

The injunctions prohibit the defendants from advertising that their supplements can prevent, cure, mitigate, or treat COVID-19 without competent and reliable scientific evidence.

“Consumers have a right to receive truthful information when deciding whether to purchase products,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in a statement. “This is especially important when claims about those products could affect how consumers seek to protect themselves during a pandemic.”

Ethics Poll Delivers Brutal Blow to Biden White House

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Ethics Poll Delivers Brutal Blow to Biden White House

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A new poll revealed that the majority of Americans have a negative view of the ethics of “top Biden administration officials,” marking a concerning start to President Joe Biden’s tenure in office and potentially marring his nascent re-election bid embroiled in scandal and corruption.

According to Gallup on Thursday, “just over four in 10 say these officials’ ethical standards are excellent (8%) or good (34%), whereas the majority see them as ‘not good’ (18%) or poor (37%).” 

The figures mark a dip in ethics ratings compared to other administrations since former President Ronald Reagan

Specifically, Gallup reported, “the Biden administration’s 42% ethics score is just above the 37% and 38% figures recorded during Donald Trump’s administration. However, it is lower than the scores for all other presidential administrations since Ronald Reagan, which range from 50% to 74%.” 

The poll noted Biden and Trump are the only presidents whose administrations have received more negative than positive reviews on ethics. 

The Biden White House, along with Biden himself, has been mired in controversy after several officials violated the Hatch Act.

Most recently, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated federal law by repeatedly criticizing what she called “mega MAGA Republicans” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.  Similarly, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act in April 2023 by endorsing Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.

President Joe Biden himself has faced criticism amid accusations of political corruption and an influence peddling scheme involving his son when Biden served as vice president under the Obama administration.

Gallup highlights, “before now, the worst result was a tie, seen for Barack Obama’s administration in 2013 and George W. Bush’s in late 2005.” 

The poll also shed light on the deepening political polarization in the country, as Gallup noted, “consistent partisan ratings across different measures are a hallmark of political polarization, with the president’s own party tending to rate him positively in every respect, while members of the opposing party rate him negatively.”  

According to the poll, “84% of Democrats versus only 6% of Republicans say the ethics of top Biden administration officials are excellent or good.” 

Furthermore, Gallup remarks, “cross-party support has been steadily dwindling on this measure from a relatively generous assessment in 1994, partly explaining Biden’s and Trump’s low ratings.” 

The Gallup poll marked another negative blow to the scandal-ridden Biden administration after NBC News reported that Vice President Kamala Harris owned the highest net negative approval ratings in the history of the poll.

According to NBC News, Harris faced a negative rating of 17 points, “the lowest for any vice president in the poll’s history.”

GOP Lawmakers Issue Dire Warning to Biden after Trump’s J6 Arrest

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GOP Lawmakers Issue Dire Warning to Biden after Trump’s J6 Arrest

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) GOP lawmakers have issued a dire warning to President Joe Biden after former President Donald Trump’s arrest following an indictment from the Justice Department related to the 2020 election.

The arrest has ignited a fiery debate on the political stage, with Republicans accusing the Biden administration of engaging in alleged blatant election interference against Biden’s leading opponent.

Prominent GOP figures, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn, Tenn., Josh Hawley, Mo., Thom Tillis, N.C., Tom Cotton, Ark., and Reps. Chip Roy, Texas, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga., have raised serious concerns about the timing and motives behind the DOJ’s actions. 

Blackburn questioned the coincidental timing of Trump’s indictment immediately following revelations about Biden’s alleged corruption, implying it was an attempt to divert attention from Biden’s issues

Specifically, she stated, “Multiple times, Biden’s DOJ has indicted Trump the day after major revelations about Biden’s corruption. Is this part of the Biden coverup?”

Hawley went further, accusing the DOJ of treating dissenters as domestic terrorists and highlighting what he called an unprecedented attack on American democracy.

“Biden’s DOJ treats anyone who disagrees with it as domestic terrorists: from Trump voters, to parents at school board meetings, to Catholic pro-life demonstrators. It’s unprecedented in American history,” Hawley blasted.

Sen. Cotton echoed Hawley’s remarks, saying, “Let’s call it like it is: the latest Trump indictment seems like something you’d get from an MSNBC producer.”

Trump, who is now facing two federal indictments and a New York case, slammed the Biden-led DOJ during a impromptu press conference at a D.C. airport.

“This is a very sad day for America,” he said. “It was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls of graffiti. This is not the place that I left.”

Even Sen. Tillis, a Trump antagonist, chimed in and called for a congressional investigation, warning that Trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty. “Given the public’s declining confidence in the impartiality of the DOJ and concerns over the perception of a two-tiered justice system, Congress must conduct robust oversight of the investigation and the ultimate decision to prosecute President Trump,” Tillis said.

On the House side, Republicans were equally forceful in their criticism. “President Trump is right to fight this political prosecution – the rule of law depends on it,” Roy tweeted.

Greene joined the criticism of the Biden-led DOJ accusing the “Deep State” of hunting Trump. “President Trump is being arrested, the Deep State is coming after him, all because he committed the ‘crime’ of winning the 2016 election,” Green said. “Joe Biden and his DOJ are conducting the most corrupt election interference campaign we’ve ever seen.”

On the other hand, Democrats have rejoiced the new charges arguing that Trump presents a threat to democracy and that his actions related to the 2020 presidential election deserve the charges, but critics warn their joy could be short-lived.

In a Wednesday interview with Fox News, legal scholar Alan Dershowitz warned on Wednesday that the Supreme Court would overturn any convictions if Trump were to be found guilty of the charges stemming from the DOJ charges. 

“I think you will probably win the United States Supreme Court.” He emphasized his confidence in Trump’s legal position and suggested that the case might not survive appellate review. 

Biden Sabotaged U.S. Oil Reserve, Will Remain Bone Dry

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Biden Sabotaged U.S. Oil Reserve, Will Remain Bone Dry

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After draining the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to dangerously historic lows in an effort to gain 2022 midterm votes, the Biden administration recently announced that it delayed refilling the critical supply.

Biden last year ordered the release of one million barrels of oil per day from the U.S. strategic reserve in a bid to have America be the world’s hedge against global gas price increases because of the war in Ukraine started by Russia and other factors, Timcast reported. 

Despite the U.S. gas prices hitting record highs, more than five million barrels of America’s SPR were exported to Europe and Asia. In addition to that, a subsidiary of a state-owned Chinese gas company, in which Hunter Biden’s private equity firm held a $1.7 billion stake, also bought one million barrels from the U.S.

A White House fact sheet noted that the Biden administration released 180 million barrels and, therefore, reduced America’s emergency oil stockpile to its lowest level in nearly 40 years.

Earlier in 2023, Biden’s Energy Department announced that it plans to refill the SPR, hoping to secure 6.3 million barrels by November of this year. Biden officials estimated it would cost an average $72.67 per barrel — three times higher than the price the Trump administration negotiated — Timcast reported.

However, the U.S. held off on repurchasing oil for the nation’s emergency supply because tight oil prices currently have driven global prices to rise above $80 per barrel, which an Energy Department spokesperson described as “market conditions.”

“[The Department] remains committed to its replenishment strategy for the SPR, including direct purchases when we can secure a good deal for taxpayers, exchange returns and cancellation of planned sales where drawdown is unnecessary, in coordination with Congress,” the spokesperson said.

While some critics have slammed Biden’s draining the SPR as a purely political move, others suggested that foreign oil producers are manipulating the price to snub Biden by not allowing the U.S. to refill the SPR at the administration’s desired price, Timcast reported. 

 

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