Anti-Border Wall ‘Squad’ Rep. Used Campaign Cash to Build Security Fence Around Her Home

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Anti-Border Wall ‘Squad’ Rep. Used Campaign Cash to Build Security Fence Around Her Home

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) The Democrat who chairs the open-borders-advocating Progressive Caucus in Congress made some pricey home renovations this year.

According to the Seattle Times, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal “reported spending over $45,000 this year on home security using campaign donations, according to Federal Election Commission records.”

The news outlet indicated in its story’s headline that new architecture included a fence.

In a reversal of an earlier position, Jayapal, who represents a Seattle-area district, presumably now has concluded that walls do, in fact, work.

In 2019, for instance, however, she articulated a different view as a way to disparage former President Donald Trump.

At that time, she took to Twitter to declare that “The hypocrisy of Trump’s vanity wall. He wants to show it being built—at enormous cost to taxpayers—even if it helps people break through easier. It’s just an expensive hoax. P.S. People can get through walls. That’s why they don’t work.” [emphasis added]

In the Times article published on Wednesday, Jayapal explained to the news outlet that “I’ve had threats against my life, including a man showing up with a gun at my door, and I never in a million years thought that I would need to take such strong steps to protect my safety and security just to be able to do my job, the job that people elected me to do.”

Threats made against any elected official on either side of the aisle are abhorrent and unacceptable. In a polarized political climate, most people would agree that security measures seem reasonable, understandable and warranted.

“The FEC allows congresspeople greater leeway when spending donations for personal protection,” the Times noted. But the inherent falsity in how leftists like Jayapal spend those funds is glaring.

Parenthetically, personal security spending by police-defunding proponents has sometimes raised eyebrows. One notable and ignoble example would be Jayapal’s Squad gal-pal, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mass., who spent more than $300,000 on private security last year while advocating to defund police.

Apart from their opposition to border security, progressives like Jayapal, if they had their way, however, would probably prefer to water down the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens who might be concerned about their own personal protection.

The hypocrisy (to use Jayapal’s word) also extends to the incumbent U.S. president.

Upon taking office, Joe Biden halted any further construction of the Trump wall at the U.S-Mexico border and has presided over an illegal immigration crisis of epic proportions and with no end in sight.

Yet the Department of Homeland Security is spending about $460,000 to erect a security fence around Biden’s Delaware beach house.

Critics pointed out that the Biden administration has no problem constructing a security barrier—except if it’s along America’s southern border.

Insofar as Rep. Jayapal is concerned, the radical left Squad member with a history of inflammatory rhetoric is the same lawmaker whose knowledge of the Middle East has recently turned out to be suboptimal.

Last month, the U.S. House implicitly rebuked Jayapal with overwhelming bipartisan support for Israel in the form of a Republican-led resolution after she falsely claimed that the only functioning democracy in the Middle East is a racist state.

Jayapal, who voted for the resolution in the end, had walked back her anti-Semitic comments and insisted that they were aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads a center-right governing coalition in his country.

Netanyahu, who has faced his own border wall woes, came under fire when he supported Trump’s efforts to build the US-Mexico security wall that the private-security fence-loving Jayapal opposed.

“President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration,” Netanyahu wrote in a 2017 tweet. “Great Success. Great idea,” he added, posted with coupled pictures of the Israeli and U.S. flags.

Latest Facebook Files Show Feds Even Tried Controlling Social Media Algorithms

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Latest Facebook Files Show Feds Even Tried Controlling Social Media Algorithms

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, released another batch of “Facebook Files” Thursday, showing more White House censorship efforts of social media content—including efforts by Biden officials to control Facebook’s algorithm.

Similar to the Twitter Files, the Facebook Files are a trove of internal company documents about the company’s content moderation decisions. Elon Musk released the Twitter Files, while the Facebook records were obtained by Jordan via congressional subpoena.

Jordan released the first two sets of Facebook Files last week, which included smoking-gun evidence that the Biden administration pressured the company to censor content—and that in some cases, Facebook caved to the pressure.

On the occasions when Facebook declined to censor on behalf of government, White House officials then requested the company to adjust its algorithm to hide content, according to Jordan’s third set of Facebook Files.

For example, in an April 14, 2021, email, Biden’s then-director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, asked Facebook if it could reamplify sites such as the Daily Wire in favor of the New York Times.

“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ—any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people. You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” Flaherty asked.

It’s not clear how Facebook responded to the White House demand specifically as it pertains to the abovementioned conservative media, as Jordan only released select email excerpts.

But in a July 2021 email, Facebook did confirm that it reamplifies content that’s skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Posts questioning whether you should get a vaccine under a mandate, whether it’s government overreach—we demote those,” the email states. “That’s not false information, but it leads to a vaccine negative environment.”

Jordan said more Facebook Files will be released at a later date. His committee still has a subpoena against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for censorship records, including records from his new Twitter-like social media platform, Threads.

Jordan has threatened to hold Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t continue to comply with the subpoena.

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

BREAKING: Trump Arraigned in DC, Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to J6 Charges

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BREAKING: Trump Arraigned in DC, Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to J6 Charges

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday afternoon, to surrender to law agents acting at the direction of the Biden administration and be arraigned on charges that he tried to exercise his right to free speech and ensure election integrity by challenging the results of the tainted 2020 presidential election.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.

“I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION,” he added. “UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a Nation in Decline. MAGA!!!”

Biden’s legal henchman, special counsel Jack Smith, earlier this week hit Trump with a multi-count indictment, charging his boss’s leading GOP challenger for the 2024 presidential tilt with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights and obstruction of an official proceeding.

Smith’s latest indictment of Trump was another example of the Biden DOJ being weaponized as a political bludgeon, the Trump campaign said at the time.

“But why did they wait two and a half years to bring these fake charges, right in the middle of President Trump’s winning campaign for 2024?” the Trump campaign asked. “Why was it announced the day after the big Crooked Joe Biden scandal broke out from the Halls of Congress?”

This is a breaking story with updates to follow

Congressional Firebrand Dan Bishop Announces Bid for Attorney General

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Congressional Firebrand Dan Bishop Announces Bid for Attorney General

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., a vocal member of the Freedom Caucus that’s become a foil to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, announced on Thursday that he would run to be North Carolina’s attorney general next year rather than seek to remain in Congress.

The Republican lawyer revealed his decision in a radio interview in his hometown of Charlotte.

“Over the course of many months we decided this is the right thing for me to do, to come back to North Carolina,” Bishop told WBT radio, referencing his wife. “I think there’s an opportunity to use the influence of that office to restore law and order to our cities.”

Bishop has been one of the most consistent anti-war and pro-liberty members of Congress.

A vocal opponent of the weaponization of the Justice Department, he was instrumental in the creation of the House Weaponization Subcommittee, which has investigated government censorship of social media and similar issues during this term of Congress.

But he faces an uphill battle to become attorney general in a state where a Republican hasn’t held that office in more than 125 years.

There’s a potential opening now that current Attorney General Josh Stein is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor next year. Stein won the general elections in 2016 and 2020 by less than a percentage point over Republican rivals.

In Washington, Bishop has positioned himself to the right of McCarthy, pushing back at the House leadership team for the debt ceiling and budget deal the speaker reached with President Joe Biden. Bishop was among those who showed their frustration with McCarthy by putting up procedural blockades to conducting regular House business and advancing GOP bills.

Bishop has been endorsed by Donald Trump in the past, and the national Club for Growth PAC swiftly endorsed his decision on Thursday. PAC President David McIntosh said the group looks “forward to providing the necessary support to ensure Bishop becomes North Carolina’s next Attorney General.” Bishop said Thursday he expects “to demonstrate very significant support” in his first campaign finance report later this month.

“I really intended to go to Washington and to do what people expected me to do — to be a reliable voice for them, to be a fighter for them,” Bishop said Thursday. “This is another way to do the same fight very much on a different stage.”

Bishop’s decision opens a seat within a 14-member delegation now evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. The 8th Congressional District that Bishop currently represents stretches over all or parts of eight suburban and rural counties east of North Carolina’s largest city and is solidly conservative.

The state’s congressional boundaries will be reworked when the Republican-controlled General Assembly conducts redistricting this fall. A state Supreme Court ruling in April opens the door for boundaries that could give GOP candidates a solid chance to win at least 10 of the 14 seats.

A former Mecklenburg County commissioner who now lives in adjoining Union County, Bishop was elected to the state House in 2014 and to the Senate two years later. He was a main advocate for the 2016 state law that said transgender people had to use public bathrooms matching their birth certificates and barred local anti-discrimination ordinances.

The “bathroom bill” was partially repealed after a year of unwanted national attention upon North Carolina that led to lost business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments, ultimately costing the state more than $525 million in 2017 alone, according to an Associated Press analysis.

Other announced candidates for attorney general so far include former state Rep. Tom Murry, a Republican, and Democrat Tim Dunn. Party primaries would be held in March.

Adopted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Fox Reportedly Buried Capitol Police Chief’s Admission that J6 Was Likely a Cover-Up

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Fox Reportedly Buried Capitol Police Chief’s Admission that J6 Was Likely a Cover-Up

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA)  In leaked footage, the former chief the U.S. Capitol Police reportedly raised the possibility of a cover-up in connection with the riotous events of January 6, 2021.

Raheem Kassam’s National Pulse apparently gained exclusive access to the never-released Tucker Carlson hour-long sit-down with the veteran lawman, Steven Sund, that was originally set to be posted on Fox Nation, FNC’s streaming service.

The shelved conversation with the retired chief obviously took place before Fox News abruptly parted ways with its top-rated anchor.

According to editor-in-chief Kassam, “The full interview has thus far been hidden from the public at the behest of Rupert Murdoch’s increasingly left-wing Fox News channel.”

In a related development, the legal team representing former President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to obtain the full interview from Fox by way of a subpoena, which Fox attorneys are resisting.

In a summary about said interview, Kassam wrote that “Sund laments the behaviors of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as well as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who he says had intelligence to suggest problems on Capitol Hill, which they failed to communicate with Sund and his cops on the ground.”

Describing himself as “a little pissed off,” about the situation because of criticism that came his way, Sund told Carlson that “If I was allowed to do my job as the chief, we wouldn’t be here. This didn’t have to happen.”

The chaos at the Capitol could have been avoided with proper intelligence sharing, he  implied.

“Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund continued in an available video clip.

“Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…,” Sund added in the colloquy with Carlson.

Carlson then chimed in that it seemed like officials were hiding intelligence rather than just not sharing it.

“And that’s what I’m getting at,” Sund responded. “Could there possibly be actually… they kind of wanted something to happen? It’s not a far stretch to begin to think that.

“It’s sad when you start putting everything together and thinking about the way this played out…what was their end goal?”

Although Fox Nation offers a lot of content to subscribers, the long-form interviews on Tucker Carlson Today was its main calling card.

Critics have asserted that if J6 Committee really was interested in getting to the bottom of what happened, rather than engaging in partisan, anti-Trump theater, a reasonable first question might have been as follows:

Why did the House sergeant-at-arms, a Pelosi subordinate, allegedly deny the-then Capitol police chief’s repeated requests for National Guard backup when everyone knew a huge protest was coming? They also could have probed into how many, if any, alleged instigators were at the protest, but the Hollywood-produced J6 Tribunal TV was more focused on nailing Trump.

Carlson recently mentioned to podcaster Russell Brand that Sund told him that “that crowd was filled with federal agents. He would know, of course, because he was in charge of security at the site.”

Carlson intends to re-interview Chief Sund that will likely air on Tucker on Twitter or perhaps another platform.

On Thursday, the National Pulse released another segment of the never-aired interview in which Sund reportedly made reference to Ray Epps.

Oregon Dems Blow $9 Billion on Fish Recovery Flop

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Oregon Dems Blow $9 Billion on Fish Recovery Flop

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Democrat-run state of Oregon sunk $9 billion into a salmon population recovery program that reports indicated was a giant boondoggle.

This project was one of hundreds that took place in the Columbia River Basin—all of which failed to produce significant results, according to ZeroHedge.

Bill Jaeger, professor of applied economics at Oregon State University, co-authored the study, which reviewed 50 years of salmon return data at the lowest dam on the Columbia River.

Before the dams went up, 16 million salmon would return to the basin annually; that number fell to 1.5 million by 2010.

“For a long time, there have been questions about the effectiveness of a wide range of activities taken to try to restore salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin,” Jaeger said.” We do not find evidence of an increase in wild fish.”

Several species faced steep declines in population, as the dams prevented fish from swimming upriver.

“Many of those species listed since the 1990s under the Endangered Species Act are ones for which the numbers have declined and continue to be of great concern,” Jaeger added.

Jaeger claimed that the research into the salmon population was more or less ineffectual due to the lack of a rigorous methodology and unwise spending.

“The operations and the administration of these projects could have done a lot more to do serious cost-effective analysis to determine which of these activities seems to be generating more bang for the buck,” he said.

He did conclude that it was not “useful” to discuss the wasted money, and insisted on a positive outlook for future government funded projects.

“I’m not sure how useful it is to talk about whether the money was wasted or not. That’s behind us,” he said. “I think what one can do, and what one should do, is look at this evidence and ask ‘what should we be doing differently going forward?”

The likely answer, ZeroHedge cracked, “Cue up another $9 billion, we guess…”

Taxpayers foot the bill for corporate subsidies for electric vehicles as well, despite the significant damage wrought on the environment via mining, increased CO2 emissions and running on electricity generated from fossil fuels.

Fauci Clone Tapped to Lead Fauci’s Fiefdom at NIAD

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Fauci Clone Tapped to Lead Fauci’s Fiefdom at NIAD

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Celebrity doctor and Coronavirus Czar Anthony Fauci’s replacement has been announced by the Biden administration, which tapped Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as the incoming director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Marrazzo has much experience in running government operations in response to disease, particularly in the realm of sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV. She also was a fan of mask mandates, pushed mandatory COVID jabs and supported crippling lockdowns in her ambitions to become a Fauci fanatic, according to Becker News.

According to Dr. Lawrence Tabak, acting director for the National Institutes of Health, Marrazzo will be a good fit for the burgeoning health bureaucracy.

“Dr. Marrazzo brings a wealth of leadership experience from leading international clinical trials and translational research, managing a complex organizational budget that includes research funding and mentoring trainees in all stages of professional development,” Tabak said.

“I look forward to welcoming Dr. Marrazzo to the NIH leadership team.”

But unfortunately for those who love freedom, Marrazzo was hysterical during the age of Coronavirus, earning a reputation as Fauci 2.0.

 

“Please consider wearing a mask when you go out,” she said at the time, shaming young healthy people and children for continuing to live as normal.

“You don’t need to wear one when you’re at home. Masks in young people going to school over the age of six. All the things we’ve been talking about, mask-wearing, hand hygiene, and social distancing.”

Marrazzo also acted as a cheerleader for social distancing and excessive hand-washing throughout the pandemic.

“Masks have contributed to the control of this pandemic in other communities,” she added.

“Even mask wearing, except when you’re eating, you can prevent it with very good masks. Three basic rules. Wear a mask. Make sure you wash your hands frequently or use hand sanitizer and keep your distance.”

Marrazzo will take control of the organization in the fall of 2023.

Newsom, DeSantis to Rumble in ‘Red v. Blue Debate’ Cage Match

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Newsom, DeSantis to Rumble in ‘Red v. Blue Debate’ Cage Match

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Prospective GOP presidential nominee and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accepted an invitation to a live TV debate from California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The possibility of a debate initially came about in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity when DeSantis excitedly agreed to the three-hour debate proposed by the host, according to the Daily Mail.

“Absolutely I’m game, let’s get it done, just tell me when and where,” he said. “We will do it.”

No specific date for the debate was announced, but a spokesman from Newsom’s office said they planned on sometime in November.

The formal letter announcing the debate laid out several ground rules.

“This event will be marketed as a Red v. Blue debate that is focused on the impact of representation at the state level,” the letter read. “This will be a 90 minute debate in studio, aired by Fox News. The moderator will be Sean Hannity. There will be no live audience.”

Newsom’s team requested a coin toss to determine who would open and who would close the debate.

DeSantis agreed to all terms, and took a jab at California’s radically left-leaning policies.

“In one respect the debate between California and Florida has already been had, people have been voting on that with their feet,” he said.

“They have have fled California in record numbers, Florida has been the number one state for net in migration, we have the number one ranked economy, number one in education, crime rate at a 50 year low,” DeSantis boasted.

“In another sense this is the debate for the future of our country, you have people like Joe Biden. They would love to see the Californication of the United States,” he added.

Newsom also told Hannity he would do it on “one day’s notice with no notes.”

Some considered the California governors’ words to be rather bold, considering the mass exodus his state faced over the last few years.

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

Pence Rattted Out Trump w/ Stash of Secret Notes

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Pence Rattted Out Trump w/ Stash of Secret Notes

(Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence took “contemporaneous notes” of his conversations with former President Donald Trump in the days before the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, and then handed over those notes to special counsel Jack Smith, according to the DOJ’s latest indictment.

Smith indicted Trump this week for questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election, accusing the former president of three conspiracy charges and one obstruction charge. 

Smith’s indictment depends in part on Pence’s recollections with Trump during the last days of the administration. It cites several phone calls between Trump and Pence in late December and early January, during which Trump allegedly made “knowingly false” claims about the election and pressured his vice president to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory. 

According to Smith, Pence called Trump on Dec. 25, 2020, to wish him a Merry Christmas but Trump “quickly turned the conversation to January 6 and his request that the vice president reject electoral votes that day.” 

Trump reiterated his request to Pence during a phone call four days later, telling Pence law enforcement had discovered evidenceof illegal activity in the election, according to the indictment. Pence’s notes state that Trump believed the “Justice Department was finding major infractions” with the election’s results.

During a conversation on Jan. 1, 2021, Trump urged Pence once again to block Congress from certifying the election’s results, but Pence argued he did not have the constitutional authority to do so.

“You’re too honest,” Trump replied, according to Pence’s notes. “Hundreds of thousands are gonna hate your guts… People are gonna think you’re stupid.”

Pence has since turned Trump’s J6 indictment into a fundraising gimmick, selling merchandise, including T-shirts and hats, that read “Too honest.” 

Pence has not commented on the legality of Smith’s indictment, but argued it “serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States.”

“I will have more to say about the government’s case after reviewing the indictment,” he added.

Rep. Dan Goldman Claims Hunter Biden Joined Burisma for ‘Idealistic’ Reasons

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Rep. Dan Goldman Claims Hunter Biden Joined Burisma for ‘Idealistic’ Reasons

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., has been taking heat this week for downplaying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s discussions with Hunter Biden’s business associates as mere small talk that was unrelated to business.

That’s not the only dubious claim made by Goldman. According to an interview transcript of Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, published Friday by House Oversight Committee, Goldman has argued that Hunter joined the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings for “idealistic” reasons.

During his questioning of Archer, Goldman argued that Hunter joined Burisma to help Ukraine achieve energy independence from Russia.

“[Former Burisma board member and former Polish President Aleksander] Kwasniewski felt that Burisma had a role to play in helping as a bulwark against Russia, which was being aggressive toward Ukraine at the time. Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden kind of shared that thought?” Goldman asked Archer.

“Is it fair to say that there was kind of an idealistic fiber to Hunter Biden’s interest in Burisma, in part?”

Archer responded that he agreed Hunter was motivated “in part” to help Ukraine against Russia.

Goldman didn’t question Archer about another, more likely, motivating factor for Hunter to work with Burisma: The company was paying him $1 million a year from 2014 to 2017, around the time he had an out-of-control cocaine habit.

Regardless of Hunter’s motivations for joining Burisma, Archer made it clear in his interview that the President’s son had one main product to offer the company: his father’s influence. Archer told Goldman he thought Burisma would have gone bankrupt without the Biden “brand” being attached to the firm.

“My only thought is that I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it. That’s my, like, only honest opinion,” Archer said.

Goldman tried to push back against this claim, asking Archer how the Biden name would help a Ukrainian energy company.

“Because people would be intimidated to mess with them,” Archer answered.

“In what way?” Goldman asked further.

“Legally,” Archer said.

Archer was convicted in 2018 on fraud charges, and is expected to serve a one-year sentence.

When it was reported last week that Archer was set to testify to Congress, the Justice Department reportedly tried to have him report to jail immediately. But after backlash from GOP lawmakers, the DOJ said Archer can report to jail after his testimony.

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

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