‘Defund Police’ Squad Member Has Paid Hubby $30K in 2023 for ‘Private Security’

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‘Defund Police’ Squad Member Has Paid Hubby $30K in 2023 for ‘Private Security’

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mass., a member of the far-left ‘Squad‘ and advocate for  de-funding the police, paid her husband $30,000 for private security in 2023 alone, continuing her hypocritical record of privately-funded security.

Bush’s late second quarter disclosure of expenditures showed how much she spent on her private security detail, including her husband, whose name is Courtney Merritts, according to Fox News.

Bush paid Merritts $12,500 for security services in the first quarter of 2023. She paid him $17,500 for security services and what her campaign calls “wage expenses” between April and June. The total of $30,000 puts Merritts on pace by himself to earn what Squad member Ayanna Pressley spent on all of her security in 2021.

Bush exceeded Presley’s exorbitant expenditures of 2021 in the first two quarters of 2023. She also paid $62,000 to PEACE, a St. Louis-based security firm. PEACE employs several current and former police officers.

Bush also paid Nathaniel Davis, who claims to be 109-trillion-years-old shaman who can read minds, summon mythical beings and manipulate the weather. Davis also holds many anti-Semitic views and is the best paid of Bush’s individualized security guards. Since his hiring in 2020 he cleared $137,000, as of March.

Overall, since 2019, Bush has spent over half of a million dollars on security, according to Breitbart News.

Collectively, members of the “Squad” spent more than $325,000 on private security while demanding Americans “defund the police” in 2021.

When Bush has been criticized for her defund the police stance and her use of taxpayer funds to purchase private security, the leftist lawmaker has responded with more hypocrisy.

“I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do. They would rather I die?” she hysterically asked in 2021.

“You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die? You know because that could be the alternative,” she said, not accounting for the danger her policy goals poses to Americans without the ability to fund private security.

DOJ to Make Prosecutor in Hunter Biden Case Available to Testify before Congress

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DOJ to Make Prosecutor in Hunter Biden Case Available to Testify before Congress

(Headline USA) The lead prosecutor in the controversial case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter says he is willing to testify publicly this fall, setting up a clash with House Republicans who have demanded he come in soon for a closed-door interview.

In a two-page letter to Rep. Jim Jordan on Monday, the Justice Department offered to make U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware available before the House Judiciary Committee for a public hearing after the August break as Republicans continue to escalate their ongoing investigation into his handling of the probe into Hunter Biden. Critics have claimed, based on whistleblower testimony and other evidence, that the Biden DOJ deliberately sidetracked the Hunter Biden investigation and gave the president’s son a sweetheart deal.

“The Department believes it is strongly in the public interest for the American people and for Congress to hear directly from U.S. Attorney Weiss on these assertions and questions about his authority at a public hearing,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote to Jordan.

House Republicans, led by Jordan — chair of the Judiciary Committee — had requested last month for Weiss and nearly a dozen other officials to come in for transcribed interviews with the committee as part of its investigation into claims the Justice Department improperly interfered in the case into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings. Weiss’ probe ended last month with a plea deal that will likely spare Biden from time behind bars.

The congressional inquiry was opened after testimony from two IRS agents who worked on the Hunter Biden case detailed what they called a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” and delaying enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 presidential election won by his father.

The whistleblowers, who testified publicly last week, insist their testimony reflects a pattern of interference and preferential treatment in the Hunter Biden case and not just disagreement with their superiors about what investigative steps to take.

Over the past several weeks, the Justice Department has gone back and forth with the committee, rejecting the IRS agents’ claims, including one of the more explosive ones that stated Weiss did not have full authority in the lengthy investigation.

Weiss himself wrote to Jordan saying that he was assured by the department that if he sought to bring charges in a venue other than Delaware, he would be granted special status to do so. Generally, U.S. attorneys are limited to their own jurisdictions when bringing criminal charges.

Uriarte also wrote Republicans earlier this month that due to longstanding department policy, Weiss or any other officials involved in the case would be prohibited from testifying before Congress while the investigation was ongoing. But the committee continued to push for a closed-door interview with Weiss.

The openness to make Weiss available now comes as Hunter Biden is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday to officially plead guilty to the federal tax offenses, opening the prosecutor up to providing some public testimony in the case.

It is unclear if Jordan will accept the offer for a public hearing.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Mainstream Media Baffled by Biden’s Disapproval Rating

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Mainstream Media Baffled by Biden’s Disapproval Rating

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The mainstream media announced their collective astonishment at President Joe Biden’s ever-declining ratings after the release of recent polling data.

Biden’s approval rating currently sits at 55% after 915 days in office. Former President Jimmy Carter’s rating sat at 57.6% at the same time in his term; former President Donald Trump had a disapproval rating of 52.6%.

Several articles concerning the president’s disapproval rating expressed mystification at the abysmal numbers, but continued to lie about the present state of the nation—insisting that inflation is “coming down,” jobs were readily available and the mass of government spending was a net positive for the nation.

According to Issues & Insights, 66% of Americans thought Biden winning a second term would be a disaster for the country, whereas only 56% said a Trump win would have been bad news.

For comparison, George H.W. Bush had a disapproval rating of 36% heading in to the final year of his term, going on to lose to Bill Clinton. Lyndon Johnson had an approval rating of 33% and opted not to run for reelection.

The media continued to be amazed at Biden’s lack of likability, despite their best efforts to make him seem like a viable, lucid candidate for 2024.

A recent article from Axios discussed Biden’s so-called “Irish temper,” in a possible attempt to portray him as a spunky statesman dedicated to his work.

Despite the publication’s best efforts to make him seem like a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense leader, this backfired as many pointed out that sudden bouts of anger are a common symptom of dementia.

The White House staff constantly fights to keep Biden from embarrassing himself—no simple task, considering his consistent gaffes.

The president himself insinuated that the staff discourages him from taking questions and candidly speaking to the press. A handler dressed as a giant rabbit even went as far as steering Biden away from the press at last year’s White House annual Easter Egg Roll.

The personnel—both members of the communications team—interrupted Biden’s comments on Afghanistan.

J6er Sues CNN for Defamation

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J6er Sues CNN for Defamation

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Virginia Beach man Jacob Hiles participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest, and pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building in September 2021.

But according to CNN, Hiles is no simple protestor who trespassed on Capitol Hill. Instead, CNN paints Hiles as a terrorist who tried to overthrow the government.

Accordingly, Hiles has sued CNN over its allegedly defamatory reporting that he tried inciting a “revolution” on Jan. 6, 2021.

“The statements accuse and impute to Plaintiff the intention to overthrow a sitting government which is one of the gravest felonies in the United States of America, even though at the time of publication he had been charged with four Class B Misdemeanors and entered a guilty plea to only one nonviolent misdemeanor and resulting in the three other charges being dismissed,” Hines said of the October 2021 CNN article, which referred to him as a “man [who] wanted to start ‘a revolution’ on January 6.”

Hines said the CNN article, which is still online and uncorrected, has resulted in death threats against him and his family. He also said his charter boat business has greatly suffered as a result of the article.

Hines seeks $37 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.

However, observers have noted that Hines might have a weak case against CNN.

For instance, the J6er did post a selfie to Facebook the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, with the caption “Feelin’ cute…might start a revolution later, IDK – in Capitol Hill.” Even though this post is arguably a joke, CNN did accurately quote his “start a revolution” comment.

A Twitter user also noted that Hines’s attorney in the defamation lawsuit, Alexander Bell, took some eight months to serve CNN after initially filing the lawsuit in Virginia Beach circuit court last October. Bell was also allegedly disciplined in August 2021 for failing to make timely filings in court.

“Sloppiness like this perhaps helps explain an 8 month delay in actually serving CNN?” the Twitter user asked.

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

UPDATE: Body Found in Obama’s Pond Identified, More Questions Raised

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UPDATE: Body Found in Obama’s Pond Identified, More Questions Raised

Update: Shortly after the publication of this article, the person who reportedly drowned on Barack Obama’s property was identified as Obama’s former personal chef, Tafari Campbell.

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The dead body of an unidentified black male was recovered after going missing near a pond on former President Barack Obama’s $12-million mansion and estate in Martha’s Vineyard.

A multi-agency search was launched for a missing paddle-boarder after authorities received a 911-emergency call that reportedly originated from Obama’s residence. Witnesses told police that the man went underwater and struggled to stay afloat before going under and disappearing.

The man’s paddle board and hat were recovered Sunday night. The body of the man, who was last seen wearing all black without a lifejacket, was recovered from water about eight-feet deep and 100 feet from the shoreline, MV Times reported.

The incident took place near Edgartown Great Pond that backs to Obama’s estate, where police said another paddle-boarder was with the 43-year-old man who drowned, but have not released further details. It was not immediately known if Obama was currently staying at the Martha’s Vineyard estate.

While details remain murky, a dead body pulled from a pond near Obama’s mansion, where the emergency call originated, lit up social media.

“So, any rando can just paddle board within a few hundred yards of Obama’s house?” wrote Snoop Bailey, while another commentator agreed that the “story sounds very suspect; they obviously know who he is as they know the age. How does one drown on a paddle board?”

“The investigation into the fatality is being conducted by the State Police Detective Unit for the Cape and Islands District and Edgartown Police,” Massachusetts State Police said in a statement.

“MSP Underwater Recovery Unit divers made the recovery after the victim’s body was located by a Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers deploying side-scan sonar from a boat. As previously noted, the victim is a 43-year-old male. His name is not being released at this time; we expect to release his name later today.”

Cartel Builds Bridge from Mexico to US w/ Biden’s Blessing

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Cartel Builds Bridge from Mexico to US w/ Biden’s Blessing

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) The host of Law and Border on Real America’s Voice exposed a makeshift bridge in Yuma, Arizona, reportedly built by cartel dealers and traffickers to make drug runs and shuttle illegals to cross the border with impunity.

While aware of the situation, the Biden administration reportedly doesn’t give a rip about the bridge, according to the Gateway Pundit. 

“The cartel built a bridge from Mexico to the U.S., so illegals don’t have to get their feet wet walking across the river and Border Patrol, Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden are allowing it here in Yuma, Arizona,” host Ben Bergquam said.

“They [Border Patrol] fly over this every single day in the helicopter…they let it stay and they let people keep coming,” Bergquam noted during his video. He also documented proof of what could happen at the border in one night — showing a massive group of illegal aliens from Africa and the Middle East entering the country. “Title 42 may be over, but the invasion is not!” Berquam said.

It’s no mystery that the Southern border has become a hotbed of activity, with a constant flow of illegal aliens, sex trafficking, drugs and potential terrorists breaching America’s defenses on a daily basis. However, for Department of Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas, under President Joe Biden, the stakes of human life are apparently not high enough. Approximately over 5 million illegals crossed the U.S. border since Biden has taken office.

Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with the deteriorating conditions at the border but seen little progress to stop the invasions. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., did introduce Articles of Impeachment against Mayorkas in May, but produced no results.

“Our Southern border is being invaded, overrun & ignored. 1000s of illegal aliens, tons of drugs & even terrorists cross our border every day. Secretary Mayorkas is responsible,” Greene tweeted in May.

Mayorkas brushed off the talk of impeachment, telling CNN’s State of the Union in May. He said he was focused on the work in front of him, including climate change.

Ex-Rep. Says Trump Special Counsel Out for Revenge: ‘Comey’s Hitman’

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Ex-Rep. Says Trump Special Counsel Out for Revenge: ‘Comey’s Hitman’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former U.S. Representative Rick Renzi claimed in a recent interview that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is handling the case of former President Donald Trump for the Department of Justice, is out for revenge against Trump, Breitbart reported.

Renzi, who has undergone his own trials leading to a 36-month prison sentence for dubious financial dealings, told conservative radio host Mark Levin that Smith has close ties to former prosecutor David Harboch, who had overseen prosecutors in his own personal case.

Harboch, according to Renzi, has worked with Smith on several occasions, in particular his most visible cases, such as the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

Harboch also has ties to former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump, triggering the infamous Russia collusion hoax.

According to the former congressman, Smith then is functioning as James Comey’s hit man as he attempts to get revenge on Trump.

“James Comey’s hit man is the guy speaking in the Miami courtroom to Judge [Aileen] Cannon,” he said. “That’s James Comey’s revenge.”

Trump’s attorney, John Lauro, has gone so far as to call Smith “the Jim Comey of 2024,” later adding that “I’ve never heard of anyone get[ting] indicted for asking for an audit.”

Aside from Harboch and Comey, Smith also has ties with Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder, which reportedly gives him access to Barack Obama‘s circle of allies.

In Smith’s own account of his actions, however, he claimed to oppose Trump simply because Smith supports the rule of law.

“We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone,” Smith claimed, ignoring the fact that he has so far failed to prosecute Hilary Clinton, President Joe Biden, or his degenerate son, Hunter Biden.

 

Biden Admin. Awards Soros-Backed Puerto Rican Group $2M to Study ‘Toxic Masculinities’

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Biden Admin. Awards Soros-Backed Puerto Rican Group $2M to Study ‘Toxic Masculinities’

(Headline USA) The Biden administration awarded a Soros-backed Puerto Rican organization $2 million in taxpayer dollars to study “toxic masculinities,” according to a new report.

Taller Salud, a self-described feminist non-profit that aims to combat crime in Puerto Rico, earned a grant from the Justice Department in October as part of the DOJ’s Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative, the Washington Free Beacon found. The group said it plans to use the money to study “structural racism and toxic masculinities” and how both contribute to violence, according to the grant.

“Highly trained violence interrupters” will work with at least 40 men between the ages of 15 and 30 every year for three years.

“The three year, $2,000,0000 award will allow [Taller Salud] to continue providing a community violence intervention program that works at the individual level and at the community level seeking crime reduction, improving the criminal justice response to crimes and denormalizing crime in the community of Loíza and the northeastern region of Puerto Rico,” the organization said in a statement.

Taller Salud has received funding from a number of leftist groups, including Planned Parenthood and leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.

The group’s CEO, Tania Rosario Mendez, describes herself as an “anti-racist activist for environmental justice and gender equality” on her Instagram page. She pays herself nearly triple the median income in Puerto Rico, which is about $14,000 per year, according to tax documents. 

The Biden administration has spent millions funding similar left-wing groups, including one organization that helps illegal immigrants arrested in the U.S. fight deportation. The Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit, received $41 million from the Justice Department for its “legal services” since 2021.

“The objective of the Acacia Center for Justice (“Acacia”) is to … [provide] legal support and representation to immigrants facing deportation through the development, coordination and management of national networks of legal services providers serving immigrants across the country,” the group’s website states.

IRS Ending Unannounced Home Visits By Armed Agents

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IRS Ending Unannounced Home Visits By Armed Agents

(Headline USA) The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that it plans to “end” most unannounced home visits by armed agents in order to address “public confusion and enhance overall safety measures for taxpayers and employees.”

With the exception of “a few unique circumstances,” unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes and businesses will end effective immediately, and taxpayers will instead receive a mailed letter to schedule appointments, the agency said. 

The decision comes amidst “increased security concerns in recent years on multiple fronts,” the agency said.

“We are taking a fresh look at how the IRS operates to better serve taxpayers and the nation, and making this change is a common-sense step,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement. “Changing this long-standing procedure will increase confidence in our tax administration work and improve overall safety for taxpayers and IRS employees.”

A rising number of scammers posing as IRS agents and threats to legitimate agents making home visits were two of the factors motivating the change, Werfel said.

“The growth in scam artists bombarding taxpayers has increased confusion about home visits by IRS revenue officers,” the agency said. “Sometimes scam artists appear at the door posing as IRS agents, creating confusion for not just the taxpayers living there but local law-enforcement. We have the tools we need to successfully collect revenue without adding stress with unannounced visits.”

The agency has come under strict scrutiny from conservatives over the past year, especially following President Joe Biden’s proposal to expand its size and scope. One report found that the IRS has been stockpiling guns and ammo since the pandemic.

Since 2020, the agency has spent $2.3 million on ammunition, $1.2 million on ballistic shields, $474,000 on Smith & Wesson rifles, $463,000 on Beretta 1301 tactical shotguns, and $243,000 on body armor vests. Another $1.3 million went toward “various other gear for criminal investigation agents,” according to the report.

RFK Jr: Democracy Demands ‘A Real Investigation’ of Alleged Biden Bribery

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RFK Jr: Democracy Demands ‘A Real Investigation’ of Alleged Biden Bribery

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Reversing course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says it’s time for a legitimate inquiry into Biden family corruption allegations.

Earlier this month, the Democrat presidential candidate declined to comment on any purported or alleged wrongdoing involving his rival for the 2024 nomination.

Kennedy seemed to adopt a different approach, however, during a conversation with Fox News/Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that aired on the Sunday Morning Futures program.

“I have avoided criticizing the president because I’m trying to bring people together and end some of the vitriol, the poison, that’s made politics so poisonous,” RFK Jr. explained.

Kennedy, 69, then agreed with Bartiromo when she injected that “we don’t want corruption in government.”

“I think, though, the issues that are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” he continued.

“I mean, these revelations…where you have Burisma — which is a notoriously corrupt company that paid out apparently $10 million to Hunter and his dad — if that’s true, then it is really troubling.”

With that in mind, RFK Jr. declared that “So I think..it needs to be investigated.”

Kennedy seemed to be referring to a FBI document released by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley — R – Iowa, indicating that the Burisma founder allegedly told a credible FBI informant that Joe and Hunter Biden supposedly coerced him into paying them $5 million each to short-circuit an investigation into the Ukraine energy firm.

Perhaps in the context of the way the feds have slow-walked any Biden-related influence-pedaling probe, Bartiromo then alluded to the contrast in the aggressive, if not mendacious, way the politicized DOJ and other agencies have pursued Donald Trump and those in the former president’s orbit. This latter process that has become known as lawfare and an exemplar of a two-tiered justice system.

Kennedy again agreed with his interlocutor.

“I think that that’s something that every American needs to worry about, that our federal agencies, which used to be above politics, and now become weaponized as political instruments. And that, again, is another really damaging trend for our democracy.”

RFK Jr. suffers from a rare condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which makes his voice raspy. That has hardly stopped him for an extensive speaking schedule as he campaigns across the country for the nomination.

Democrats tried and failed to prevent him speaking at the U.S. House subcommittee on weaponization of the federal government last week during which he eloquently defended the constitutional right to free speech as provided by the First Amendment.

While still liberal on many issues, Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat who now seems to be considered a pariah by his party’s establishment, has emerged as someone who fervently opposes Deep State censorship and passionately advocates for health freedom.

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