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.

Hunter Biden Put ‘Big Guy’ on Phone Dozens of Times w/ Business Partners

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Hunter Biden Put ‘Big Guy’ on Phone Dozens of Times w/ Business Partners

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Testimony from Hunter Biden’s former best friend, Devon Archer, revealed that the younger Biden would routinely loop his father—then Vice President Joe Biden—into business phone calls with his foreign business partners, the New York Post reported.

Archer will testify to the House Oversight Committee to assist with the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings—specifically on the involvement of the elder Biden in these meetings and how much influence he had on the business.

“We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone,” said committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.).

The committee is particularly interested in meetings with officials from Burisma in Dubai.

At the meeting, senior executive Vadym Pozharskyi and Burisma’s owner Mykola Zlochevsky asked Hunter if he would call his father. The committee expects Archer to explain that Hunter acquiesced and the Ukranian businessmen and Biden exchanged pleasantries in a short phone call.

Investigators have yet to discover the reasoning behind the apparently urgent phone call.

Three days after the call, VP Biden—who was in charge of America’s relationship with Ukraine at the time—was due to fly to Kyiv to address the issue of corruption within the country’s parliament.

Hunter reportedly used his father’s position to leverage business deals and impress potential investors. Archer testified that Hunter called his father at least a dozen times in the midst of professional business deals and events.

Tony Bobulinski, another former business partner of Hunter’s, recollected the younger Biden pulling the same stunt at a meeting by the pool at the Los Angeles Chateau Marmont.

“I am also aware of other Biden family business associates confirming that Joe would take phone calls from Hunter in the middle of business meetings and would weigh in via speakerphone,” said Bobulinski. “The American people don’t fully appreciate yet the key role Joe Biden played in the Biden family global influence peddling … I would equate it to a chairman’s role in a traditional business structure.”

According to sources close to Archer, he opted to testify because he believed it to be his “civic duty.”

Reports also indicated that Archer and his family received death threats and warnings after news broke that he agreed to testify.

FBI Abused FISA to Spy on U.S. Senator, State Official and Judge

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FBI Abused FISA to Spy on U.S. Senator, State Official and Judge

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI abused its legislative authority last year to spy on a U.S. senator and two state officials, according to a recently unsealed opinion from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The April 11 opinion, released Friday, assessed reforms the FBI was supposed to make when searching data obtained via Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Overall, the court’s opinion said the FBI was making strides in ensuring that agents and analysts weren’t unlawfully searching through FISA data. However, the bureau still faced many compliance issues, including the unlawful surveillance of top public officials.

According to the court opinion, an FBI analyst conducted four searches of a U.S. senator and a state senator in the Section 702 database in June 2022.

The analyst purportedly had information that a foreign intelligence agency was targeting those senators, but the court opinion said the bureau didn’t meet the legal standard to search their names in the Section 702 database.

The opinion also said an FBI staff operations specialist searched the Section 702 database using the Social Security number of a state judge “who complained to FBI about alleged civil rights violations perpetrated by a municipal chief [of] police.”

The FBI reportedly said the U.S. senator has been notified that the FBI spied on him, while the state officials haven’t been notified.

While the court opinion noted the “indications that FBI is improving its implementation of Section 702 querying requirements,” critics said the bureau’s unlawful searches must end. Section 702 expires at the end of this year unless reauthorized by Congress.

The FISA authorization has come close to sunsetting before—notably in 2020—when lawmakers up for re-election suddenly began upping their rhetoric against government surveillance and FBI corruption.

However, it was re-authorized at the last minute with the caveat that major reforms would be a top priority. Since then, it has come to light that the FBI continued to conduct unlawful FISA queries—which, as of June, were estimated to number around 278,000.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said in a recent blog post that if Congress again renews Section 702  without major changes, then “we have become a nation of chumps.”

Turley pointed out that FBI Director Chris Wray has continued to blame his predecessor, James Comey, for the bureau’s FISA abuses. But this latest opinion showed that the abuses have continued under Wray, Turley said.

Friday’s opinion also follows a disclosure from Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., in March that the FBI misused FISA to spy on him, too.

FISA reform has been one of the rare issues of bipartisan agreement in Congress. In the House Judiciary Committee, both chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., agree in principle that the FBI should need a warrant to search Americans’ data under FISA.

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

Musk Announces New Twitter Logo, Rebranding as ‘X’

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Musk Announces New Twitter Logo, Rebranding as ‘X’

(Headline USA) Elon Musk has unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year.

The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday, but the bird was still dominant across the smartphone app. In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done, Musk said they would be called Xs.

Some warn the change could alienate users and turn off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats—including rival Meta’s new text-based app Threads, which directly targets Twitter users.

Musk had asked fans for logo ideas and chose one, which he described as minimalist Art Deco, saying it “certainly will be refined.”

He replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black background and posted a picture of the design projected on Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.

“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk tweeted Sunday.

The X.com web domain now redirects users to Twitter.com, Musk said.

Musk, CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter and had already renamed Twitter’s corporate name to X Corp. after he bought it in October.

The billionaire is also CEO of rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly known as SpaceX. He started an artificial intelligence company this month called xAI to compete with ChatGPT. And in 1999, he founded a startup called X.com, an online financial services company now known as PayPal.

Musk’s son with the singer Grimes is also called “X,” although the boy’s actual name is a collection of letters and symbols.

Musk’s Twitter purchase and rebranding are part of his strategy to create what he’s dubbed an “ everything app ” similar to China’s WeChat, which combines video chats, messaging, streaming and payments.

Linda Yaccarino, the longtime NBC Universal executive Musk tapped to be Twitter CEO in May, posted the new logo and weighed in on the change, writing on Twitter that X would be “the future state of unlimited interactivity—centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking—creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities.”

It could be a good idea, said Paolo Pescatore, a tech and media analyst and founder of PP Foresight.

“People are now getting increasingly frustrated with a slew of apps, so driving usage all towards one destination will increase engagement and ultimately make it easier for them,” he said.

Experts, however, also predicted the new name will confuse much of Twitter’s audience.

Wiping out Twitter’s brand name recognition that was built up over 15 years is an “extremely risky move,” because it means Musk is ”essentially starting over while its competition is afoot,” said Mike Proulx, a research director at global market research company Forrester.

Twitter users pointed out that few people refer to Alphabet, Google’s parent company since 2015. Facebook renamed itself Meta in 2021, but it hasn’t gotten much traction.

But Pescatore said it might be the right time for the sweeping rebranding that Musk seems to have in mind.

“The removal of Twitter from existence will be difficult for many users to understand,” Pescatore said.

However, “maybe it is time for something new in light of the negative sentiment surrounding the company,” he claimed. A new start over this challenging period of major disruption and appeal to new audiences.”

That disruption includes a slew of Musk’s earlier changes, most recently on limits for tweet views, which sparked criticism that they could drive away more advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trendsetter.

The new threshold is part of an $8-per-month subscription service Musk rolled out earlier this year in an attempt to boost Twitter revenue. Revenue has dropped sharply since Musk took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to slash costs and avoid bankruptcy.

While the company, which notably colluded with intelligence agencies and the Biden administration to aggressively censor conservative critics prior to Musk’s purchase—has become somewhat less censorious, it has yet to live up to the “free speech” bastion he claimed.

Many conservative accounts continue to receive algorithmic suppressions or “shadow bans” that limit their reach, and Twitter’s censors continue to demonstrate arbitrary and inconsistent standards for enforcing their community guidelines with respect to matters like threats, hate speech, obsecenity and profanity.

After Twitter censors in late may attempted to renege on a deal with the Daily Wire to stream Matt Walsh’s bombshell documentary What Is a Woman?, Musk wound up intervening directly in the matter, promoting at least two top-level censors to resign in apparent protest.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ex-FBI Agent Rips Media Hypocrisy: Contrasting Steele Dossier w/ Biden Bribery

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Ex-FBI Agent Rips Media Hypocrisy: Contrasting Steele Dossier w/ Biden Bribery

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a scathing critique of mainstream media’s double standards, former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker appeared on Fox News’s Fox and Friends Sunday on July 24th, blasting the media’s handling of the FD-1023 informant file in comparison to the infamous Steele Dossier. 

Parker began by stating, “Full disclaimer, I have never worked on this investigation. I reviewed the document just like everybody else did on open source, and an FD-1023 is a confidential human source reporting document.” She emphasized the significance of human sources in the FBI’s work, stating they provide crucial information that may not be obtainable through other means.

“I was surprised that the 1023 ever came out. I know that it was because Congress was persistent. They are really holding the FBI director’s feet to the fire on this matter,” Parker continued. She pointed out that the FD-1023 contained explosive information but stressed that it was important to note that the information was unverified.

“The left-wing media continues to say, ‘Oh, it’s unverified,’ but I didn’t hear that during the Steele dossier. I didn’t hear a disclaimer then, but when it comes to something that is in relation to Hunter Biden, it’s unverified,” Parker remarked, highlighting the media’s inconsistent treatment of the two documents.

Parker also brought attention to the fact that the FD-1023 was unclassified from the beginning, unlike the Steele Dossier. “The other important piece is this is unclassified information, it was never classified,” she stated. 

As she delved into the details of the FD-1023, Parker noted, “If you notice the date of the contact and the date of the report, they match.” She explained that such immediate action by the agent indicated the information’s credibility and importance. 

Additionally, Parker analyzed the serial numbers in the document, observing, “The serial number is basically the document number to the file, and I noticed that the serial number is referenced serial 7 The bottom, I believe, of the second page. You go through the document, and you see now another reference to serial, I believe it was 212. Less than one year later. That means there have been over 205, documents put to that file in between that.”

Biden’s ‘Woke Wagon’ Revealed: Conservative Group Exposes Political Appointees

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Biden’s ‘Woke Wagon’ Revealed: Conservative Group Exposes Political Appointees

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) America First Legal (AFL), a conservative group, has unveiled an updated version of its controversial “Woke Wagon” website, offering a searchable database containing detailed information on Biden Administration political appointees, particularly their ties to far-left entities and movements. 

The database, first introduced a year ago, now boasts improved features, enhanced search functions, and a larger collection of profiles. AFL reported that it obtained the information through multiple Freedom of Information Act investigations to various infamous Biden federal agencies. 

“We are excited to be able to provide the American people with a resource that anyone can use to determine who is driving policy changes to advance the Biden Administration’s radical agenda,” Gene Hamilton, AFL vice president and general counsel said in the press release. “The Woke Wagon is a vital resource for Congress, for journalists, for other nonprofits, for businesses across the country, but most importantly–for YOU.” 

The database has already stirred controversy within the Biden administration after it shed light on Biden appointees’ ties to organizations that have hosted drag queen story hours for children. According to a report from Fox News, key political appointees to the Biden administration have previously worked for Planned Parenthood. 

“A handful of Biden administration political appointees previously worked for prominent progressive advocacy groups including Planned Parenthood and touted work on ‘woke’ issues such as ‘health equity’ and ‘queer liberation,’” Fox reported in December 2022, citing documents obtained through AFL’s database. 

An earlier report from Fox News revealed troubling ties between employees at the Department of Education and unions.  

“According to the resumes housed in America First Legal’s (AFL) ‘Woke Wagon’ database, more than 20 Department of Education political appointees worked on the Biden administration, while many more worked for other Democratic candidates for president like Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg,” Fox reported in August 2022. 

The new database contains the information of over 2,200 political appointees in the Biden government. Users can now search through tags to browse potential affiliations with leftist non-profit organizations, and political campaigns. 

See the database here. 

House Foreign Affairs Chief: North Korea Could Bribe Biden for US Soldier’s Return

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House Foreign Affairs Chief: North Korea Could Bribe Biden for US Soldier’s Return

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Foreign Affairs Chief, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, expressed concerns about the situation of Travis King, a US soldier who fled to North Korea, suggesting that North Korea could use his capture as leverage and potentially bribe the Biden administration for concessions.

During an interview with Martha Raddatz, McCaul stated that King had been facing disciplinary charges and was supposed to return to the United States but instead crossed the border into North Korea while on a tour group.

When asked about Travis King’s situation, McCaul disclosed, “He was facing disciplinary charges and was going to fly back to the United States, but instead he did not board the plane, went with a tour group to the DMZ and then ran across the line. You and I have been there.” 

McCaul explained the seriousness of the incident, saying, “That’s something you just don’t do, and now he was taken captive by North Koreans, and I’m sure he’s not being treated very well. I think it was a serious mistake on his part, and I hope we can get him back.” 

Raddatz probed further into the potential complications arising from King’s voluntary entry into North Korea.  

McCaul acknowledged the complexity of the situation, stating, “Correct. I mean, the question is, is he defecting? I think he was more running from his problems. That was the wrong place to go, but we see this with Russia, China, Iran. When they take an American, particularly a soldier captive, they exact a price for that, and that’s what I worry about.” 

McCaul’s remarks come after former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden for severing diplomatic ties with North Korea. 

In an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, Trump said, “[President Biden] has told China and these other places that are hostile that we have no ammunition, by the way, you talk about classified documents, that’s worse than any document you could give.”  

Trump further called Biden’s remarks ‘stupid.’ Specifically, he said, “So now these people are sitting back in China and other places that hate us, including North Korea, where I had a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un and kept our country save, they’re talking about the United States of America has no ammunition. Think of it. How stupid can somebody be to say that?”

Trump Blasts Biden’s Shocking Admission: ‘How Stupid Can Somebody Be’

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Trump Blasts Biden’s Shocking Admission: ‘How Stupid Can Somebody Be’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a new interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, former President Donald Trump launched a scathing verbal assault against President Joe Biden, criticizing his handling of economic relationships with China and questioning his competence as the leader of the United States. 

Addressing the economic ties with China, Bartiromo asked Trump on Sunday, “Would you be prepared to attack the economic relationship that we have with China? […] Would you put limits in place in terms of what Americans can buy?” 

In response, Trump asserted, “So I did something better. I did tremendous tariffs. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars—tariffs and taxes. So when China, which was just dumping everything into our country, they were dumping steel at a level that was going to put our steel mills out of business, which is what they wanted.” 

Trump touted the praises he received from the industries China was targeting. “If you go to any steel manufacturer, anybody, they’re going to say, ‘Trump was the greatest president.’ I saved the steel industry. We were dead and I taxed a 50% tax on dumping steel, and then they started sending it through and we caught them and they started sending it through Canada.” 

The former president, who is now running for the GOP nomination for the 2024 presidency, warned of the dire consequences of a potential world war.  

“This is the most dangerous time in the history of our country because of weaponry. The nuclear power is so enormous. This isn’t two army tanks going and shooting each other in World War I, World War II […] This is obliviation,” Trump warned. “And we have a man that doesn’t understand what’s he’s doing. We have a man that yesterday stood up and told the whole world we have no ammunition.” 

Trump continued to express his concerns about national security, particularly regarding ammunition supplies. Bartiromo inquired, “How dangerous is this, that we’re low on ammunition?” 

To this, Trump responded passionately. “He has told China and these other places that are hostile that we have no ammunition, by the way, you talk about classified documents, that’s worse than any document you could give,” Trump said of Biden’s now-viral admission.  

Trump continued his fiery rebuke of Biden saying, “So now these people are sitting back in China and other places that hate us, including North Korea, where I had a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un and kept our country save, they’re talking about the United States of America has no ammunition. Think of it. How stupid can somebody be to say that?”

‘Tyrant’ Professors Call on Biden to Assault Supreme Court’s Independence

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‘Tyrant’ Professors Call on Biden to Assault Supreme Court’s Independence

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a bold and controversial move, a group of far-left professors released an open letter urging the Biden administration to adopt a radical strategy dubbed “Popular Constitutionalism” as a scheme to counter the influence of what they refer to as “MAGA justices” on the Supreme Court.

The letter, signed by Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin, proposes a radical approach to handle rulings that go against the far-left policies of the Biden administration.

Effectively calling on President Joe Biden to challenge the court’s authority, the professors begin, “We urge President Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue rulings that are based on gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution that undermine our most fundamental commitments, the Administration will be guided by its own constitutional interpretations.”

The professors argue that the court’s conservative majority, attributed to former President Donald Trump’s appointment of three justices, poses an extreme threat to democracy and fundamental rights. In their view, this necessitates swift action to curtail the influence of what they term “MAGA justices.”

“The central tenet of the solution that we recommend—Popular Constitutionalism—is that courts do not exercise exclusive authority over constitutional meaning. In practice, a President who disagrees with a court’s interpretation of the Constitution should offer and then follow an alternative interpretation,” the letter emphasizes.

The letter further calls for immediate actions to limit the influence of conservative justices, claiming that the threat they pose to democracy and fundamental rights demands swift measures.

However, critics argue that such a strategy could have serious implications for the independence and integrity of the judicial branch.  

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and legal expert, rebuked the letter in a fiery opinion article in the Hill.

“What is most striking about these professors is how they continue to claim they are defenders of democracy, yet seek to use unilateral executive authority to defy the courts and, in cases like the tuition forgiveness and affirmative action, the majority of the public,” Turley wrote. “They remain the privileged elite of academia, declaring their values as transcending both constitutional and democratic processes.”

American College Towns Vote Left Even More, Report Says

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American College Towns Vote Left Even More, Report Says

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) American college towns became the avid supporters of Democrats over the years, which damages the Republican Party’s ability to win elections in key swing states.

The American Communities Project cataloged the voting patterns of 171 “college towns,” where major colleges or universities are located and account for much of their economic activity, the Daily Caller reported. It was revealed that the towns have seen a dramatic increase in support of Democrats since the 2000 presidential election, with over two-thirds now being expressly Democratic.

Thirty-eight towns flipped from being predominantly Republican to Democratic, while 79 left-leaning towns started to support Democrats even more, in terms of average vote shares during elections. By contrast, only 47 right-leaning towns became more Republican and just six college towns flipped their political ideology.

In the 2000 election, 48% of all college towns in the country voted for Democratic Vice President Al Gore. In 2020, that number had increased to 54% for Joe Biden.

In addition to that, among the college towns and counties where support had shifted, several were in prominent “swing states” where presidential elections are often decided, among which is Dane County, where the University of Wisconsin—Madison is located, and where the Democratic margin of victory in the recent state Supreme Court election was higher than any other county.

In Washtenaw County, the home of the University of Michigan, voters chose Biden over Donald Trump in the 2020 election by a margin of over 50%, which is approximately 101,000 votes. If Hillary Clinton obtained such a margin in 2016, she would have won the state of Michigan, which Trump won that year.

In Larimer County, the location of Colorado State University, the Democratic margin of victory in 2020 increased by 169,000 votes over the 2000 election, while the Republican margin increased only by 21,000 votes.

“This is a really big deal,” Mark Graul, a former campaign manager for President George W. Bush in Wisconsin in 2004, said. “[The shift is] truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”

The overall nationwide gap between both parties among college-educated voters in 2020 was over 1 million votes, in favor of Democrats.

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