Biden Impeachment Looms Amid Bribery File

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Biden Impeachment Looms Amid Bribery File

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Prominent members of the House of Representatives have come forward to lead the impeachment of scandal-ridden President Joe Biden following the explosive release of an infamous FBI informant file. 

The file, infamously known as an FD-1023, contains damning details of a bribery scheme, implicating Biden, his son Hunter Biden and a high-ranking executive from Burisma in Ukraine. 

The file, which was first released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent shockwaves through the halls of Congress, with two lawmakers now calling for Biden’s ousting. 

“We promised to uncover Joe Biden’s corrupt business deals and that is EXACTLY what we have done! IMPEACH,” Rep. Lauren Bobert, R-Colo., said on July 20. Boebert’s remarks were echoed by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who said, “Most corrupt family to ever live in the White House! Impeach!” 

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., appeared before the Just the News show, where he voiced support for the impeachment of Joe Biden. “I signed on to the impeachment resolution 

Specifically, Stuebe said, “We’re actually working on our impeachment resolution for President Biden and all the corruption and all the laws and crime he violated with all these things that are now being surfaced and the facts that are being surfaced.” 

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., chimed in, saying, “Based on the evidence and testimony I have seen as a member of oversight… Biden  NEEDS to be impeached. He is compromised and his son is selling access to him.” 

Prominent conservative personalities supported the Republican lawmakers’ calls, with political commentator Gunther Eagleman, saying, “They need to impeach Joe Biden, have impeachment hearings and let the people hear it all…  EXPOSE the motherfucker!” In a separate tweet, on July 20, Eagleman, said, “Impeach. The. Motherfucker.”

Fox News reported on Thursday that former Arizona candidate for governor Kari Lake suggested that Biden was guilty of “treason” and extortion.” Lake also said that Trump was accused of what Biden did during his tenure as vice president under the Obama administration.

Jussie Smollett 2.0: Woman Fakes Kidnapping, Igniting Nationwide Concern

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Jussie Smollett 2.0: Woman Fakes Kidnapping, Igniting Nationwide Concern

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A woman named Carlee Russell from Alabama has captured national attention after allegedly going missing while assisting a so-called toddler in the highway.

However, as details of the case emerge, many are beginning to question the authenticity of the incident, and conservative podcast host Candace Owens is not holding back her skepticism.

Owens, known for her fiery commentary against identity politics related to black Americans, took to her podcast, the Candance Owens Podcast, to express her doubts about the legitimacy of Russell’s disappearance, going as far as calling her the new Jussie Smollett.

“This story has seized me from the very beginning, first and foremost because it started so ludicrously,” Owens stated during her podcast. “Then, something very weird happened—you normally don’t see this in an abduction story. Carlee appeared on foot at her parents’ house.”

Owens said she waited for more information upon Russell’s sudden return. “As soon as she arrived home, we said, ‘Wait a second, where is the toddler? Is there a person snatching people up outside of the roads?’ Like, what’s the follow-up to the story?” asked Owens.

As the story unfolded, Russell’s parents gave a peculiar interview with NBC, which further fueled Owens’ skepticism. The parents appeared evasive and reluctant to provide any substantial information about the case, focusing solely on their daughter’s mental health and citing an ongoing investigation.

Drawing parallels to the infamous Jussie Smollett case, Owens labeled this incident “Jussie Smollett 2.0,” referring to the actor who falsely claimed to be a victim of a hate crime in 2019. “Anytime there’s a scam running in black America, I’m usually taking all the bullets for being the voice of common sense,” she remarked. “Obvious scam. Carlee Russell, obvious scam. I called it, Jussie Smollett since day one.”

Law enforcement officials have said there is no risk facing Alabamians and stated that they have not corroborated any of the claims issued by Russell shortly after she suddenly returned back home.

According to Newsweek, local law enforcement said that Russell had made numerous searches on the internet related to “Amber Alerts,” as well as the movie Taken.

As the case continues to unfold, many are now echoing Owens’ sentiments, questioning the authenticity of Russell’s disappearance. While the search for the woman remains ongoing, the public’s focus has shifted to unraveling the true nature of the incident.

Pro-America Theme Park in Oklahoma Could Be Conservatives’ New Disney

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Pro-America Theme Park in Oklahoma Could Be Conservatives’ New Disney

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The woke Disney that’s been pushing its leftist politics for a very long time started to lose customers, while the pro-America theme park that is going to open in Midwest is expected to gain customers.

The American Heartland Theme Park and Resort, the 1,000-acre development with an estimated $2 billion price tag, is scheduled to open in 2026 in the northeastern Oklahoma city of Vinita, a Thursday news release from the Missouri-based Mansion Entertainment Group reported.

The amusement park will cover 125 acres of land, which is comparable in size to Florida‘s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland in California, according to developers of the park.

Mansion Entertainment stated that the park will have an Americana-themed environment with “a variety of entertaining rides, live shows, family attractions, waterways as well as restaurant-quality food and beverage offerings.”

The park will also include rides and shows in “six distinctly American lands:” the Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis, the news release stated.

Aside from the amusement park, American Heartland will also have a 300-room hotel, an indoor water park, an adjacent 320-acre RV park and a 300-cabin campground named Three Ponies.

Mansion Entertainment also added that the park’s design team includes more than 20 Disney Parks builders and Walt Disney Imagineers. The group also hired design firms that have been used in the past by other major amusement parks, including Six Flags and Universal Studios.

Developers expect the park to attract two million visitors per year since its opening, Kristy Adams, a sales and marketing executive with Mansion Entertainment, said.

In addition to that, the park will add at least 4,000 jobs and provide a boost to the state’s tourism economy, state Sen. Micheal Bergstrom, R-Okla., said.

“We are thrilled to make Oklahoma the home of American Heartland Theme Park and Resort,” American Heartland CEO Larry Wilhite said. “At the crossroads of the heartland, Oklahoma is an attractive location for a family entertainment destination.”

Abbot: Texas Has the Right To Defend Its Border

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Abbot: Texas Has the Right To Defend Its Border

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Texas has a right to defend its own border, Gov. Greg Abbott said on Friday in response to the Biden Department of Justice demanding the state remove marine barriers placed in the Rio Grande River in the Eagle Pass area of Texas.

“The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the DOJ wrote to Abbott in a letter on Thursday. The DOJ gave Abbott until Monday to agree to remove the barriers. If he didn’t agree or reply, the DOJ said it would sue.

On Friday, Abbott gave his reply, saying: “We will see you in court, Mr. President.”

The Rio Grande barriers were placed as part of Operation Lone Star, Texas’ border security efforts, to deter individuals from illegally crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

Abbott tweeted from his personal account saying, “Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border, under the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution. We have sent the Biden Administration numerous letters detailing our authority, including the one I hand-delivered to President [Joe] Biden earlier this year.”

The governor was referring to a Jan. 8 encounter when he arrived at the airport in El Paso to greet the president and give him a letter with an outline of solutions to solve the border crisis. Abbott has sent eight letters to the president, he’s previously told The Center Square, and has received no response.

January 2023 was the first time Biden visited the border in Texas during his presidency. Abbott had previously invited him to visit the border and learn about the crisis. The president stopped in El Paso in January on his way to Mexico City and didn’t invite Abbott to join him or attend meetings scheduled with Democratic officials, Abbott has previously explained.

“The tragic humanitarian crisis on the border was created because of Biden’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said on Friday, referring to claims made by media outlets about Texas Department of Public Safety troopers pushing illegal foreign nationals into the Rio Grande River. Earlier this week, Texas officials refuted those claims.

The president’s “open border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives crossing illegally through the Rio Grande, instead of safely and legally over a bridge,” Abbott said. “Texas is stepping up to address this crisis. We will continue to deploy every strategy to protect Texans and Americans – and the migrants risking their lives. We will see you in court, Mr. President.”

Democratic members of Congress on Friday sent a letter to the president urging him to use his “authority over federal immigration policy and foreign relations and investigate and pursue legal action … to stop Governor Abbott’s dangerous and cruel actions.”

The members of Congress argue Texas DPS troopers are impeding federal immigration enforcement efforts. They also claim that Texas did not obtain permits from the International Boundary and Water Commission to install the marine barriers, referring to two treaties the U.S. government signed with Mexico, in 1944 and 1970.

However, a new international coalition, led by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, argues, “a generation of cooperative and friendly U.S.-Mexico relations has collapsed. The Mexican government is not an ally to the United States and can no longer properly be described as a partner.”

The coalition also argues the “Mexican government and Mexican criminal cartels exist in conscious and willing symbiosis, at multiple levels, up to and including the Mexican presidency. … The current president of Mexico has expressed his openness to a pact with the cartels and spoken of his willingness to defend them from American action,” posing a threat to Mexican and American citizens.

Trump Vows to Institute Death Penalty for Child Traffickers

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Trump Vows to Institute Death Penalty for Child Traffickers

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Donald Trump vowed to institute the death penalty for human traffickers after seeing the anti-trafficking film “Sound of Freedom” if he becomes president again.

Trump held the screening in Bedminster, N.J., and spoke with filmmaker Eduardo Verástegui and starring actor Jim Caviezel, who played federal agent Tim Ballard, the man who left his job to rescue children who are being trafficked, the Post Millennial reported.

“When I’m back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children,” Trump said in a Friday video.

“We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate, 100% gone, 100% destroyed. They’ll come back now because we have a weak administration.”

He then continued explaining what he is going to do to stop the inhumane behavior.

“I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay,” he continued.

“I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately and that includes also for women, because women, as you know, are number one in trafficking. Children are actually number two.”

Unlike Joe Biden, whose open border policies allowed drug cartels and child traffickers to prosper, Trump was vigilant against these crimes when he was president, promising that he will continue those efforts if he secures a win in the 2024 presidential race.

“In one of my first acts in office, I signed an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people,” he said.

“I signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.”

Meanwhile, Ballard, who, in addition to being the inspiration for the movie “Sound of Freedom,” was previously appointed by Trump to a federal advisory panel on human trafficking, started a new anti-human trafficking venture — the Spear Fund — the Daily Wire reported.

Biden Orders Texas to Take Down Floating Border Barrier

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Biden Orders Texas to Take Down Floating Border Barrier

(Headline USA) Joe Biden‘s activist Justice Department has told Texas that its floating barrier to illegal immigration on the Rio Grande violates federal law.

Joe Biden’s administration told Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that the barrier installed this month near the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, was “unlawful” in a letter dated Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press.

“The floating barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety,” reads the letter, which also informs the state that the Justice Department intends to sue if the barriers are not removed.

Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

The buoys are the latest component of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar effort to secure the state’s 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) border with Mexico from the invasion of illegal immigrants  that was noted by many Texas politicians including Ted Cruz.

Other parts of Abbott’s response included razor-wire fencing and arresting illegal immigrants on trespassing charges.

The buoy barrier covers 1,000 feet (305 meters) of the middle of the Rio Grande, with anchors in the riverbed.

Eagle Pass is part of a Border Patrol sector that has seen the second-highest number of migrant crossings this fiscal year with about 270,000 encounters.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Bribery Charges Bring 6-Year Prison Sentence for L.A. Developer

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Bribery Charges Bring 6-Year Prison Sentence for L.A. Developer

(Headline USA) A real estate developer was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to a Los Angeles city councilman for help with a downtown project.

Dae Yong Lee, also known as “David Lee,” also was fined $750,000 and a company that he controlled was fined $1.5 million plus prosecution costs, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.

Prosecutors said that in 2017, Lee bribed José Huizar and the councilman’s special assistant to help resolve a labor organization’s appeal that was blocking approval of a planned development that was to include more than 200 residences and some 14,000 square feet (1,300 square meters) of commercial space.

At the time, Huizar chaired the city’s powerful Planning and Land Use Management Committee.

In 2017, Lee made three cash payments totaling $500,000 to Huizar’s assistant, George Esparza, prosecutors said.

Last year, Lee and the company were convicted of bribery, honest services wire fraud and falsifying records in federal investigations to conceal the bribes.

The sentence was the latest in a sweeping corruption case swirling around Huizar, whom authorities said ran a pay-to-play bribery scheme from 2013 to 2017 tied to the approval of downtown high-rise developments.

Huizar pleaded guilty in January to racketeering conspiracy and tax evasion. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 25. Under a plea agreement, Huizar agreed to seek a sentence of at least nine years in prison, prosecutors said.

In addition to Huizar, more than a half-dozen other people have been convicted or pleaded guilty to federal charges in the scheme, including Huizar’s brother, Salvador Huizar.

Esparza pleaded guilty in July 2020 to one count of racketeering conspiracy and testified against Lee at his trial.

Former Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan is awaiting retrial next year on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors allege that he accepted more than $100,000 to help a Chinese real estate developer.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Over 345,000 Children’s Cups Recalled Due to Lead Contamination

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Over 345,000 Children’s Cups Recalled Due to Lead Contamination

(Headline USA) More than 345,000 children’s cups are being recalled due to lead levels that exceed the federal content ban, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

Soojimus is recalling 8-ounce and 12-ounce models of its Cupkin Double-Walled Stainless Steel Children’s Cups — sold in various colors on Amazon and the Cupkin website from 2018 through earlier this year.

Consumers in possession of the recalled Cupkin cups are urged to stop using them immediately and contact Soojimus for a full refund.

According to Cupkin, liquid in the now-recalled cups is “not exposed to lead due to the double walled construction.” The exposure to lead can occur if the cup bottoms are mistreated, the brand said.

Lead was not detected during the products’ initial development, the brand added.

Soojimus and Amazon will be directly contacting all known purchasers of the recalled Cupkin cups, the CPSC said Thursday. To receive a refund, consumers can submit photographs of the cups showing their destruction and fill out a form on Cupkin’s website.

Kang, a cofounder of Cupkin, said that their manufacturer initially confirmed no lead was used in the cups’ glass beads, which are placed at the bottom of the products for vacuum sealing. But the manufacturer later admitted fault, he said.

Health officials maintain there is no safe level of lead, which can harm brain development in young children. Kids can be exposed to the metal through bits of old paint, contaminated dust and sometimes drinking water that passes through lead pipes or lead cups.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Journalist and Professor Arrested for Buying Child Porn

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Journalist and Professor Arrested for Buying Child Porn

(Headline USA) A former Washington state newspaper editor was arrested on allegations of paying 10 to 14 year old girls in exchange for sexually explicit images.

Steve Smith, 73, was executive editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane from 2002 to 2008. Washington State Patrol detectives arrested Smith Thursday on 10 counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, KHQ reported.

He declined a jail interview with The Spokesman-Review Thursday evening. At a hearing Friday, he was ordered held on $25,000 bond. The Associated Press was unable Friday evening to locate an attorney who could speak for Smith.

An account in Smith’s name for a mobile cash payment service was linked to an investigation into children using social media to send sexually explicit photos of themselves in exchange for money sent to them via the app, according to court documents.

The victims, 10-to-14-year-old girls, sent images to an Instagram account and received money through a cash app account. Internet activity of both accounts were traced to Smith’s Spokane home, the documents said.

Chat conversations showed Smith was aware of the girls’ ages, the documents said.

He had a “very large amount” of images depicting child sexual abuse and was actively downloading more when investigations searched his home Thursday, the documents said, adding that when a detective asked if he knew why they were there with a search warrant he replied, “yes, it’s probably from what I have been downloading.”

After leaving The Spokesman-Review, Smith served as a journalism clinical associate professor at the University of Idaho, specializing in teaching journalism ethics. He retired in 2020.

The nonprofit news organization FāVS News, which has employed Smith as a columnist since 2020 and recently named him managing editor, said Friday that he’d been suspended indefinitely following the arrest.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

MURDOCK: GOP Capitulating to Left’s Corrupt COVID Caveats for Voting

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MURDOCK: GOP Capitulating to Left’s Corrupt COVID Caveats for Voting

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Why are so many Republican knuckling under to Democrats’ “temporary” election rules changes?

Crafty Democrats used 2020’s COVID-19 catastrophe to change the way Americans pick our leaders. Democrats filed hundreds of lawsuits to demand mass mail-in ballots, early voting, late arrivals of ballots, and other “emergency” measures.

They argued that the coronavirus was just too dangerous for traditional, in-person voting. The George Floyd riots were too important to let these microbes stand in the way, Democrats like former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio argued. And yet, this virus was so deadly that it merited a Mao-worthy revolution in voting practices.

Now, as the 2024 election looms, COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror. Previously ubiquitous masks disfigure the faces of only a few germophobes and diehards. Social distancing has gone the way of “The Hustle.” And yet Democrats’ “one-time” ballot procedures are becoming permanent. Shamefully, top Republicans now bow before them, as if in worship.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s otherwise admirable Republican governor, has launched Secure Your Vote Virginia. He wants GOP voters and their cross-party supporters to cast their ballots early, mail them in and practice ballot trafficking, with voters handing their ballots to party activists, free of the adult supervision found at polling places.

“I need your early vote this year,” Youngkin stated, who hopes to flip the state Senate red midway through his gubernatorial term. “We can’t go into Election Day down thousands of votes.”

The Republican National Committee is taking this thinking from coast to coast. Last month, it unveiled Bank Your Vote, an effort to “encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where legal.”

WRONG!

All of this is premature, at best.

At worst, it’s totally illegal.

While Virginia can do whatever it wants with state and local elections, it is bound by federal law, as is the RNC’s plan. Federal Election Day is “the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year.”

This is not a passage from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack nor a line that Mark Twain wrote for Ulysses S. Grant. It’s the law.

Specifically, 2 U.S. Code § 7 governs congressional elections, and 3 U.S. Code § 1 covers presidential ballots. These statutes invoke November—not October or September.

Also, voting anywhere other than in person, behind a curtain, destroys something sacred: the secret ballot.

Voting at home, by mail or through ballot traffickers demolishes voters’ confidence that they, and only they, know how they voted. Absentee ballots potentially allow spouses, relatives, bosses and even door-to-door political activists to pressure voters into casting their ballots one way or another.

“No heart medicine for you, Grandpa, until we inspect your ballot.”

Rather than surrender to the Democrats’ COVID-era assaults on U.S election norms, Republicans should fight ferociously in local, state and federal court to reverse these “one-time, special measures.”

The GOP should follow the lead of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

PILF is suing in a North Dakota federal court to kill its law that allows ballot to arrive 13 days after Election Day.

“Election Day has ceased to be a day,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams.

“Instead, we have election month because states accept ballots that arrive days and even weeks after Election Day,” Adams continued. “Not only does this lead to distrust and chaos in the system, but it also violates federal law. PILF is fighting to end this lawlessness and restore the day in Election Day.”

(Full disclosure: PILF is representing me in a federal lawsuit designed to overturn New York City’s law that allows foreign citizens to vote in local elections.)

If such relentless, robust litigation succeeds, Americans can look forward to a return to election integrity.

And if such lawsuits fail in the U.S. Supreme Court, then—and only then—Republicans should accept the Democrats’ permanent attacks on America’s voting system.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

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