Zelenskyy Shamed after Poland Tells Ukraine to Be Grateful for Foreign Aid

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Zelenskyy Shamed after Poland Tells Ukraine to Be Grateful for Foreign Aid

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to Twitter in an attempt to calm diplomatic tensions between his country and Poland, following scorching criticism from Poland aimed at Ukraine, including calls for Ukraine to be more grateful.

The spat between the two nations originated from a recent ban on Ukrainian agricultural exports to Poland, which has intensified a longstanding dispute between the two neighboring nations.

Polish Secretary of State Marcin Przydacz took a direct jab at Ukraine during a now-viral interview in Poland. “[Ukraine] start appreciating the role Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years,” Przydacz said.

As reported by Politico, the Polish Secretary of State added, “Ukraine should start appreciating what Poland is doing for it.”

The ban on Ukrainian agricultural exports was enacted as Poland perceives it as a threat to their local farmers’ livelihoods.

In response, Andrii Sybiha, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, rejected Poland’s assertions.

“We categorically reject the attempts by some Polish politicians to impose on Polish society the baseless idea that Ukraine does not appreciate the help from Poland,” Sybiha claimed.

He further emphasized, “It is Ukrainians who are protecting the values ​​and security of our region, and they also do it in the interests of Poland and the entire free world.”

The heated exchange led both countries to summon each other’s ambassadors, heightening the tension further, the European edition of Politico reported.

Zelenskyy issued a lengthy Twitter statement attempting to mitigate the growing conflict. He acknowledged Poland’s historical support and referred to their collective efforts as a “shield of Europe from sea to sea.”

“We greatly appreciate the historical support of Poland, which together with us has become a real shield of Europe from sea to sea. And there cannot be a single crack in this shield,” Zelenskyy asserted on Tuesday.

“We will not allow any political instances to spoil the relations between the Ukrainian and Polish peoples, and emotions should definitely cool down,” the president added, signaling the need for a resolution in the ongoing dispute.

Politico reported that Poland has been a significant supporter of Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022. However, despite this historical backing, the recent trade dispute has exposed underlying tensions between the two countries, challenging the solidarity they once shared.

Pence Pummeled for Praising J6 Trump Indictment

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Pence Pummeled for Praising J6 Trump Indictment

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After showing his true colors during a devastating interview with Tucker Carlson last month, Mike Pence on Tuesday was roundly condemned, shamed and mocked for his comments supporting the J6 indictment of Donald Trump.

“Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” Pence wrote on Tuesday evening.

However, in a follow-up post, Pence admitted that he never even bothered to read the indictment, writing, “I will have more to say about the government’s case after reviewing the indictment. The former president is entitled to the presumption of innocence but with this indictment, his candidacy means more talk about January 6th and more distractions.”

Pence doubled-down on his positive view of the J6 indictment, claiming that his old boss was a distraction from Joe Biden’s destruction of America and Hunter Biden’s multiple scandals.

“As Americans, his candidacy means less attention paid to Joe Biden’s disastrous economic policies afflicting millions across the United States and to the pattern of corruption with Hunter,” he wrote.

People on X — formerly known as Twitter — responded to the series of posts by criticizing Pence. “You are a disgusting traitor,” one user wrote. Hodgetwins, famous conservative bloggers, mocked Pence with an epic, wordless reply.

“Go home Mike, nobody wants you around anymore,” Tim Young wrote.

Others pointed to Pence’s eroding popularity, comparing it to Vivek Ramaswamy, an initially unknown 2024 presidential candidate who skyrocketed to third place by having a pro-American and Trump-sympathetic campaign.

“You’re a vile POS! Take your 30 pieces of silver and get lost. Nobody likes you. Even Vivek is kicking your ass in the polls,” one user wrote.

Kari Lake War Room also responded to Pence.

“You are one of history’s greatest cowards. Shame on you. Judas,” scolded Kari Lake’s War Room, while on his Truth Social account, Trump responded to Pence’s treacherous series of social media posts.

“I feel [bad] for Mike Pence, who is attracting no crowds, enthusiasm or loyalty from people who, as a member of the Trump Administration, should be loving him,” he wrote.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Public’s Confidence in Military Plummets Under Biden

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Public’s Confidence in Military Plummets Under Biden

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Under assault from a radical leftist agenda pushed by the Biden administration, the U.S. military is losing credibility with the country, evidenced by recent polling that showed the percentage of Americans who have confidence in the armed forces plunging to the lowest point in nearly three decades.

The precipitous decline spawned the political divide, but was most pronounced for Republicans, according to a recent Gallup poll. Overall, 60% of respondents to the poll, conducted June 1-22, expressed confidence in the military.

Since the end of President Donald Trump’s presidency, there has been a 23-point drop of Republicans confidence level in the military. Democrats have also not expressed much confidence in Biden’s military, as their level was reportedly higher under Trump than now.

Gallup summarized the poll’s results, writing, “At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s — during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis — between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military.”

The outlet continued, “Confidence generally improved during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. It then surged after the Gulf War victory (to a record-high 85% in 1991) and again after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Confidence generally held above 70% for the next two decades, until dipping to 69% in 2021 and declining further since then, following the exit from Afghanistan.”

The general public isn’t alone in its diminishing confidence in a military under assault from the Biden administration’s leftist shift, pushing radical LGBT agendas and divisive racial politics into all military branches.

“This administration seems to be willfully blinded by how its progressive ideals are affecting military readiness and recruitment,” said House Border and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman, R-Wisc., who earlier this year expressed concerns over the military branches struggling, and in many cases failing, to meet retention and recruitment goals. In 2022, for example, the Army fell over 15,000 recruits short of a 60,000 target.

“The Biden Administration thinks that service members understanding ‘white rage’ – as recently described by General Mark Milley, our highest-ranking military official – is more important than promoting cohesiveness throughout the armed forces,” Grothman said.

As an example of the military’s struggle to earn recruits under Biden, even veterans are advising their children, who historically represents the majority of new recruits, to steer clear of service under the Biden regime.

“The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world, but woke activists in the Biden Administration are undermining military readiness, cohesion and purpose,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R- Fla., said.

That has transferred to a drop in public faith, suggests the Gallup poll, which showed 50% of the respondents blamed the recent wokeness in Biden’s military for the reduced confidence.

Similarly, The 2022 Ronald Reagan Institute’s national defense survey found only 48% of respondents had “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the military, 22-point drop from the Institute’s first survey in 2018.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Latest 9/11 Records Further Suggest U.S. Gov’t Coverup

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Latest 9/11 Records Further Suggest U.S. Gov’t Coverup

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some 20 years after it took place, the U.S. government has finally released notes of the 9/11 Commission’s interview with Saudi Arabia Prince Turki bin Faisal, who was the country’s chief spy from 1979 to months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The notes—there were no transcripts or recordings taken—indicate that the 9/11 Commission asked Turki him little to no probing questions about Saudi Arabia’s foreknowledge of the deadliest terrorist attack to be perpetrated on American soil.

For instance, Turki was apparently not questioned about Saudi intelligence officers allegedly financially supporting 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar—even though the 9/11 Commission report references this, and even though one of those intelligence officers received $74,000 from Turki’s sister.

According to the interview notes, the 9/11 Commission did ask Turki about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, in relation to Turki’s earlier claims in 2003 that his intelligence agency warned the CIA about them.

“What we told [the CIA] was these people were on our watchlist from previous activities of al Qaeda, in both the [East African] embassy bombings and attempts to smuggle arms into the Kingdom in 1997,” Turki reportedly said in August 2003, mere weeks before he was interviewed by the 9/11 Commission.

The CIA denied Turki’s claims at the time, and according to the 9/11 Commission interview notes, Turki backtracked when asked about the matter.

“In response to a question about recent press reports quoting Prince Turki as claiming to have provided the U.S. with information about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar in late 1999, the Prince acknowledged that he was incorrect on the issue, and that [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] embassy in Washington DC’s recent statement that no such information was passed should be considered authoritative,” the interview notes stated.

In the roughly 20 years since Turki was interviewed, much more damning information has come forward about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, and their connections to the CIA and Saudi intelligence.

Perhaps most notably, 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 al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar in the lead-up to the attack.

The government document is a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro, who summarized the inteviews he conducted with FBI agents about the 9/11 case.

According to Canestraro, at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

The notes were first obtained and published last month by journalist Robbyn Swan.

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

Biden Wants Despotic Pandemic Powers to Fight Climate Change

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Biden Wants Despotic Pandemic Powers to Fight Climate Change

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) With precedent set by authoritarian coronavirus pandemic restrictions, Joe Biden is reportedly mulling the issuance an executive order for the purpose of declaring an open-ended climate emergency.

The U.S energy industry apparently has concerns that the Biden administration could succumb to pressure from radical, climate-change activists, including Democrats in Congress, and implement this form of a COVID 2.0 political power grab.

In a discussion with Just the News, U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart claimed that “They’re leaning to that direction. If you grant the president’s emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it’s just like COVID.”

He added that this directive would give the Democrat regime “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure,” which in that scenario could include water, electricity and even freezing financial assets.

Stewart noted in this context that “They can literally do exactly what they did in COVID.”

According to Just the News, “Stewart also warned that declaring an emergency could result in the censoring of those disagreeing about a climate crisis, like critics of so-called COVID mandates on masks and vaccines were.”

Whether this emergency declaration would pass constitutional muster is another matter.

History has shown that Big Pharma-controlled, pro-lockdown regulators and designated experts missed the mark during the COVID outbreak, while accusing independent scientists, physicians and others who didn’t go along with the narrative of propagating misinformation.

While demanding compliance from the public, critics argued that the follow-the-science establishment appeared to have ignored the science.

“Biden has repeatedly said the world, or at least the U.S., is in a ‘climate crisis’ and on several occasions has called it an emergency,” the news outlet recalled.

Last month, insurgent 2204 Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a career environmental lawyer who maintains that global warming is real, asserted that this so-called crisis “is being used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls the same way the COVID crisis was.”

The implication is that Democrats and their globalist allies are again seizing upon the never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste rubric.

“Climate change is being used to control us through fear. Freedom and free markets are a much better way to stop pollution,” RFK Jr insisted on Twitter.

In the video clip that he shared on the social media platform, he also told Jordan Peterson, in part, that “And it’s the same kind of cabal of people who will use every crisis to stratify society toward greater power…and less power for everybody else…my approach to energy is using free markets and not top-down control.”

Late last month, Biden directed to the Labor Department to issue the first-ever hazard alert for heat and told the agency to take other measures in connection with heat-related safety.

The announcement came with a prologue that “Millions of Americans are currently experiencing the effects of extreme heat, which is growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to the climate crisis.”

In the meantime, China, which is said to be the world’s primary polluter, continues its construction spree of coal plants.

In a November 2021 editorial, the New York Post set forth a list of some of the multi-decade, doom-and-gloom, goal-post-moving predictions about a man-made climate apocalypse that have never materialized.

“Climate change is real, but adapting to it, mitigating it with technology is the most realistic solution. Will China and India just give up on coal, gas and oil overnight? No, and neither will the United States. But emissions already are falling in Western countries, the world is innovating,” the Post opinion piece concluded.

WATCH: Tucker Carlson Interviews Hunter Biden Business Associate

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WATCH: Tucker Carlson Interviews Hunter Biden Business Associate

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Following the House Oversight Committee’s closed-doors interview of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired his own interview with Archer on Wednesday—confirming some of the details Archer is said to have told Congress, and shedding new light on his one-time friendship with the U.S. President’s son.

Carlson only aired a roughly 11-minute clip on Wednesday, but said a more in-depth interview will be published later.

Carlson spent most of Wednesday’s segment seeking to dispel the notion that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars from foreign nationals because of his business and legal acumen—a claim put forth by people such as Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who has claimed that Hunter putting his father on the phone during business meetings had nothing to do with business dealings.

Archer, the co-founder of Hunter’s defunct investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, admitted that Hunter’s calls to his father during business meetings was intended as a power play to impress potential clients.

“I don’t know if it was an orchestrated calling or not, but it was certainly powerful because if you’re sitting with a foreign business person and you hear the vice president’s voice, that’s pretty impactful stuff,” Archer told Carlson, describing Hunter and Joe’s tactics as “an abuse of soft power.”

“The power to have that access and that conversation—not scheduled—that’s the pinnacle of power in DC,” he 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.

Republicans say Archer’s testimony is proof of Biden family corruption.

“Devon Archer’s testimony confirms Joe Biden lied when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said earlier this week.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., echoed Comer’s sentiments, asserting, “Despite what he has said, Joe knew exactly what Hunter was up to.”

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

DOJ Admits a ‘Little Whoopsie’ on Trump Indictment

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DOJ Admits a ‘Little Whoopsie’ on Trump Indictment

(Headline USA) Special counsel Jack Smith, who has filed two indictments against former President Donald Trump, admitted in a federal court hearing this week that his team improperly claimed it had handed over all of its evidence regarding Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified information.

Smith’s first indictment of Trump has to do with the classified documents found in the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home. The indictment alleges Trump conspired with his staff to move boxes of documents and delete some video footage without telling his attorneys, with the result being that Trump did not return all of the classified material to the National Archives and Record Administration as required.

But in a new filing, Smith’s team admitted they did the exact same thing by failing to upload all of the video footage from Trump’s residence to a platform established by the court.

“…the government learned that this footage had not been processed and uploaded to the platform established for the defense to view the subpoenaed footage,” the court filing reads. “The government’s representation at the July 18 hearing that all surveillance footage the government had obtained pre-indictment had been produced was therefore incorrect.”

Trump had previously accused Smith’s team of lying about his alleged mishandling of documents, claiming the Mar-a-Lago security tapes were never deleted.

“These guys should be prosecuted for MISCONDUCT. Also, whatever happened to Crooked Joe’s Documents? Where are the ones he sent and stored in Chinatown? Is Deranged Jack going to Indict him for this and, at the same time, receiving BRIBES FROM CHINA?” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Smith’s improper filing in the classified documents indictment raises question about his latest indictment against Trump, which has to do with the former president’s conduct after the 2020 presidential election. Critics have already accused Smith of stretching the legal statutes to make a case against Trump.

“This indictment strikes me as an amateurish joke, frankly,” Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said. “Jack Smith as special counsel should be indicted for stupidity – it’s that bad.”

Kamala Ditches DeSantis’s Invitation to Talk Race

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Kamala Ditches DeSantis’s Invitation to Talk Race

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris rejected the opportunity to debate Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on the state’s education curriculum on black history.

She mentioned the challenge while attending a church convention in the sunshine state, according to the Washington Examiner.

“I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact,” Harris said. “There were no redeeming qualities of slavery.”

Harris previously called out DeSantis for the alleged racist black history standards he recently implemented with the help of Florida educators. The point she took particular issue with was the fact that slaves often learned skilled trades that they could use for their own benefit.

“They want to replace history with lies,” she said. “Middle school students in Florida [are] to be told that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

Several critics of Harris’s pointed out that she praised courses for making similar points in the past, and also claimed that she made a fuss over a single bullet point in a semester-long history curriculum.

DeSantis defended the program, calling Harris’s claims misinformed and invited the veep to an open discussion with the educators who assisted in the creation of the course.

The governor explained that the point of that portion of the course was to illustrate the perseverance of slavery, not to treat slavery as an overall fair system.

He released a statement on the subject and extended the invitation via Twitter.

“Over the past several weeks, the Biden administration has repeatedly disparaged our state and misinformed Americans about our education system,” DeSantis wrote in a letter. “Our state pushed forward nation-leading stand-alone African American history standards — one of the only states in the nation to require this level of learning about such an important subject.”

Harris’s gross political corruption of the Florida curriculum has also drawn fire from historians and academics, including Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.

“That happens to be my academic field as a historian; I used to write extensively—including curriculum standards—on the topic,” said Roberts, who has a Ph.D. in American history. “So I took some time to review Florida’s. The bottom line: they are excellent.”

Dr. William Allen, who helped write the Florida curriculum and who is a descendant of slaves, echoed that sentiment, while taking a dig at Harris.

“The only criticism I’ve encountered so far is a single one that was articulated by the vice president, and which was an error,” Allen said.

Boy Scouts of America Creates ‘Affinity Space for LGBT Youth’

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Boy Scouts of America Creates ‘Affinity Space for LGBT Youth’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The far-left organization Boy Scouts of America created a tent and display at its Scouts’ National Jamboree to honor LGBT children and give them a “safe space.”

The tent was reportedly decorated with a canopy of LGBTQ pride flags and multicolored lights. Those running the tent were offering rainbow bracelets, pronoun stickers, and diversity patches, the Blaze reported.

The Boy Scouts of America also offered safe spaces for women scouts and scouts of color in the tent.

According to Mike De Socio, a “queer journalist” for the Washington Post, the event had an “empathetic vibe.”

De Socio, comparing the event to its 2013 rendition, was pleased to report that the old “swagger” of the event has been replaced by attempts to be more inclusive by addressing the organization’s “internalized homophobia.”

The journalist also celebrated the financial and legal difficulties that the organization has encountered, noting that it has offered leftists a chance to seize the reins and “press for a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Boy Scout volunteer River Capell, 18, who calls himself nonbinary and pansexual, celebrated the number of Boy Scouts and other children who enjoyed time with him in the LGBT tent.

“This is my entire world,” Capell noted.

“There’s been days where there’s 2,000 kids in this tent alone. And that is just, like, absurd.”

The LGBT activist also said that he was pleased to field questions from the children about his sexual identity.

“I’ve had some scouts asking genuine questions, like, ‘What does it mean to be this? What does it mean to be that?’” Capell said.

“But it was all curiosity, and how do I help, rather than [hostility]. So it’s all been incredibly welcoming and positive.”

The last jamboree was held by the faltering organization in 2017, and featured then-President Donald Trump as a keynote speaker.

Dems Fret Black Voters Turning Against Biden

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Dems Fret Black Voters Turning Against Biden

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrats have expressed growing and panicked concern that black voters would not support President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

Originally published in the Washington Post, high-ranking Democrats based their concern on the steep decline in participation between the 2018 and 2022 midterm races.

The voting bloc dropped from 51.7% in 2018’s midterms to 42% in 2022, according to Brietbart.

Founder of the Black Male Voter Project, W. Mondale Robinson, found that many black men were “sporadic or non-voters,” despite being registered.

He claimed that Democrats spent too much of 2020 in attempts to convert “conservative-leaning white women” who they considered to be swing voters.

The assessment claimed that black male voters feel alienated from both political parties.

Democrats expressed concern that the left’s current obsession with former President Donald Trump could push black voters away.

“When you think about election cycle to election cycle, [black voters] have been telling us for a long time what matters,” said Brittany Smith, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Black Leadership PAC. “They want to put food on the table, a roof over their head, send kids to good schools, live in neighborhoods that are safe.”

“I don’t think the issues are new, it’s the way we talk about them and the way we’re centering the voice of the people who live in these communities.”

In the 2022 midterms, the GOP gained large shares of black and Latino voters.

Other polls leading up the midterms displayed a disenchanted attitude towards President Biden, with his rating among black Americans falling 14 points since April 2022.

The Biden administration is notorious for pandering to the black community, and despite their best efforts, it does not seem to be paying off.

The constant contradictions between the liberals and the black community are likely part of the problem—such as the censorship of Simon Ateba, a reporter for Today News Africa who received a formal warning after he attempted to ask critical questions in the White House press room.

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