Weaponization Democrats Try to Block RFK Jr. from Testifying in Congress

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Weaponization Democrats Try to Block RFK Jr. from Testifying in Congress

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Maverick Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was set to testify to the House Weaponization Subcommittee on Thursday about how the federal government colluded with Big Tech firms to censor true information about COVID-19 and other matters.

However, Democrats moved to block Kennedy from participating in the hearing on the grounds that he’s spread “hate speech” and “conspiracy theories.” Republicans defeated this attempt in a vote of 10-8.

The Democrats’ move to censor a challenger to their party leader began with the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, blasting Kennedy for his recent remarks that “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people” and that “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“Even knowing what they know about Mr. Kennedy’s hateful and evidence-free rhetoric … [Republicans] affirmatively chose to give him this platform,” Plaskett said. “They intentionally chose to elevate this rhetoric, and give these harmful views a platform in the halls of Congress. They have co-signed on idiotic, bigoted messaging.”

Plaskett then accused Republicans of having Kennedy testify to undermine Joe Biden.

Kennedy then gave his opening statement, imploring Plaskett and the other Democrat committee members to engage with his ideas openly and honestly.

“This kind of division is more dangerous to our country than anytime since the American Civil War. And how do we deal with that? Every Democrat on this committee believes we need to end that polarization. Do you think you can do that by censoring people?” he said.

“I’m telling you that you cannot. We need to start being kind to each other. We need to start being respectful to each other. We need to start restoring the comity to this chamber and the rest of America.”

Kennedy received applause from the gallery when he completed his speech. But Democrats were apparently unmoved, as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., immediately motioned to move the committee hearing into a closed-door executive session.

Wasserman Schultz argued that Kennedy’s “despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments” should not be heard in a public forum.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., then moved to table Wasserman Schultz’s motion. Each Republican voted yes, while every Democrat voted no—resulting in a 10-8 vote.

The motion was tabled, and the hearing continued—and was still ongoing as of the publication of this article.

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

NYC to Pay $13M to BLM Rioters in Unprecedented Class-Action Settlement

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NYC to Pay $13M to BLM Rioters in Unprecedented Class-Action Settlement

(Headline USA) New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during race riots that swept through the city in the summer of 2020.

If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive pay-outs ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said.

The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.

The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught.

It comes as many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets during a period of unrest, underwritten in part by communist China, that saw 10,000 people arrested in the span of a few days.

Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild, which represented the plaintiffs in New York, accused NYPD leaders of depriving protesters of their 1st Amendment rights through a “coordinated” campaign of indiscriminate brutality and unlawful arrests.

Through more than two years of litigation, attorneys for the city maintained that police were responding to a chaotic and unprecedented situation, pointing to some unruly protests in which police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks and plastic bottles.

A spokesperson for the NYPD deferred questions to the city’s Law Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.

During some of the 2020 riots, officers deployed a crowd control tactic known as kettling against peaceful protesters, corralling them in tight spaces and attacking them with batons and pepper spray before making mass arrests.

Adama Sow, one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said their group of marchers were trapped by police without warning. Sow and the other arrestees were placed in zip ties until their hands turned purple, then held in a sweltering correctional bus for several hours.

“It was so disorganized, but so intentional,” Sow said. “They seemed set on traumatizing everyone.”

The city invoked qualified immunity, which protects police officers from lawsuits stemming from lawful work performed in the line of duty, and defended the decision to arrest medics and legal observers as within the rights of the department.

While attorneys for the plaintiffs cited past crackdowns on large demonstrations, including during the 2004 Republican National Convention, as evidence of longstanding “systemic violations” by the NYPD, attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive people of their right to protest.

“There is no history—or present or future—of unconstitutional policing,” Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city, wrote in a memo. “There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights.”

The lawsuit named former Mayor Bill de Blasio and retired NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as well as other police leaders as defendants. Under the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is required to admit any wrongdoing.

Protesters who were arrested on certain charges—including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson or weapons possession—will be excluded from the settlement. Those who were seen on video blocking police from making arrests may also be ineligible.

Unlike some other lawsuits related to the 2020 protests, the class action was not meant to force the NYPD to change its practices.

There are several other lawsuits aimed at injunctive relief that are ongoing, including one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that calls for a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s policing of protests.

Another class action settlement announced earlier this year would award $21,500 to those arrested by police during one demonstration in the Bronx, a pay-out that could total around $10 million including legal fees.

Separately, more than 600 people have brought individual claims against New York City related to police action during the 2020 protests, according to the city’s comptroller, Brad Lander. Roughly half of them have resulted in settlements and resolutions, costing the city nearly $12 million to date.

Wylie Stecklow, an attorney for the protesters in the class action lawsuit, said the growing cost to taxpayers should serve as a “red flag” for city leaders about the NYPD’s inability to correct its “decades old problem with constitutionally compliant protest policing.”

“While the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, sometimes it needs reform to bend towards justice” he said, echoing a favorite dogwhistle phrase of George Soros, another of the forces who is suspected of helping coordinate and fund the nationwide riots.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Far-Left Progressives Denounce Biden’s Achievements: ‘Smoke and Mirrors’

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Far-Left Progressives Denounce Biden’s Achievements: ‘Smoke and Mirrors’

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden would seem an unnatural fit for the activists at Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of progressives that was created to harness online rage over George W. Bush’s administration. More recently, it has championed the message of economic populism from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two of Biden’s rivals for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

But the antipathy toward Democrats seen as too mainstream or moderate did not largely extend to Biden at the group’s recent conference in Chicago. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, even concluded the event by recounting how she had become a Biden convert.

“When Biden was in, I was like, ‘Oh, man,’” said Jayapal, D-Wash., lamenting that Sanders and Warren had fallen short in the presidential primary. “But I gotta tell you, I am a Biden fan now.”

That brought cheers, which was no easy feat given that pro-Palestinian activists moments earlier had shouted down Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., on the same stage.

At past Netroots conferences, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was booed and Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted a presidential candidate forum in 2016. Biden, as vice president, was heckled over Obama administration immigration policies.

Jayapal’s comments point to Biden’s progress in winning over his party’s left wing, an important part of the coalition he is relying on to win a second term. Many progressives have cheered steep federal spending increases on major social programs and green energy, as well as Biden’s renewed plan to offer student debt relief after the Supreme Court struck down his original efforts.

“This isn’t someone who’s spent the first term doing all kinds of objectionable things,” said Karthik Ganapathy, a veteran of Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign who also helped progressive Brandon Johnson win election as Chicago’s mayor this spring. “I think the sense is, he’s had a much more successful, impactful, consequential presidency than progressives expected.”

Similar sentiments have been echoed by Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Warren, D-Mass. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently endorsed Biden’s 2024 campaign. Some, though, remain angry that Biden did not deliver on other big promises, including slashing fossil fuel production, advancing a federal policing overhaul and expanding voting rights.

“The narrative about the successes of the Biden administration is smoke and mirrors,” said India Walton, a progressive who beat Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the 2021 Democratic primary but lost to him in the general election.

Walton complained that Biden had not done more to protect abortion and civil rights after Supreme Court rulings that weakened both. She also noted that student debt will continue to deal crushing financial blows to millions of people, even with Biden’s attempted remedy.

“We have not ‘Built Back Better,’” said Walton, referencing Biden’s 2020 campaign slogan. “And it’s very frustrating to be a working-class American and being fed this ‘vote blue’ narrative, when the real conditions of our everyday lives are not changing.”

Such a backlash could hurt Biden in 2024 given that he is likely to face a challenge from the left — progressive activist Cornel West is mounting a Green Party run — and could be squeezed from the center — the political group No Labels is trying to recruit a centrist candidate.

That means even small erosions of progressive energy for Biden might erase the thin margins that delivered him critical swing states like Arizona and Georgia in 2020.

A factor that could neutralize those threats is that Donald Trump, the early Republican front-runner, could again be Biden’s general election opponent. In 2020, some hesitant progressives were so appalled by Trump that they turned out to vote for Biden despite their deep reservations.

But it might be difficult to reassemble the same broad voter bloc that put Biden in the White House if some elements are motivated more by fear of Trump than enthusiasm for Biden. This group includes majorities of college graduates, women, urban and suburban residents, young people and Black Americans.

“I think people are not clear about what they actually got for that vote,” DaMareo Cooper, co-executive director for the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, said about some Biden supporters from 2020.

Cooper said Biden and top Democrats need to do a better job “messaging what actually has happened.” Referring to opposition to Trump’s candidacy, he said: “There’s going to be a motivation factor. And I don’t think we should assume that people are just going to go out and vote for the same reason.”

Biden acknowledged the importance of turning out even reluctant progressives in 2020, when he told that year’s all-virtual Netroots conference in a taped address, “I badly need you.”

The president, who was in Europe and then at Camp David during the group’s recent gathering, made such no such pleas this year. His campaign was little mentioned in panel discussions, speeches, training sessions and after-hours parties.

At the same time, relatively little attention was paid to West or No Labels, or to Biden’s nominal Democratic opponents, anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. and self-help author Marianne Williamson.

Ganapathy said that progressive support for Biden runs deeper than simply attempting to thwart Trump once more.

“There’s a lot that this president and this administration can stand on in terms of their record,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be a ‘Don’t vote for that guy.’”

Not everyone is convinced.

Anabel Mendoza, a 25-year-old media relations professional and Chicago native who recently moved to California, said Biden “ran on a lot of promises, but many of those have been unfulfilled and I think he could be bolder.”

“There is a lot at stake in this country, and young generations are feeling that,” said Mendoza, pointing to slow federal progress on combating climate change and gun violence, as well as on immigration, an issue where she said Biden “kept in place a lot of Trump policies and that’s something I firmly disagreed with.”

But Mendoza also said “in no world am I ever going to go for Trump.”

“When I go out and vote for a candidate, it might not be the candidate who has everything that I want,” she added.

Walton has similar feelings. “As badly as I would love to sit this one out and prove a point,” she said, she’ll be voting Democratic in 2024.

“Am I going to not vote and give the country away to another four years of Donald Trump?” Walton asked. “Absolutely not.”

Rahna Epting, executive director of the progressive activist organization MoveOn, said Biden “leveraged the first two years of his administration to pass some of the most progressive and people-first policies we could have ever dreamed of.”

She said Biden is no “movement candidate,” but he does not have to be a star on the left for progressives to turn out for him in 2024.

“When push comes to shove, they’re going to vote for Joe Biden,” Epting said. “For stability, for someone who is governing for the people, no matter what was left on the table in the last congressional cycle.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Rep. Dan Goldman Claims Hunter Biden a ‘Victim’ of Two-Tiered Justice

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Rep. Dan Goldman Claims Hunter Biden a ‘Victim’ of Two-Tiered Justice

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y. made the dubious claim that embattled First Son Hunter Biden, not former President Donald Trump, is a victim of a two-tiered system of justice. 

During the interview, co-host Jonathan Lemire highlighted the so-called Republican effort to “negatively impact President Bill’s poll numbers” by releasing damning evidence of alleged political corruption and interference by the Biden-led DOJ into the Hunter’s probe, which led to his guilty plea in May.

“Based on my experience, I’m shocked that Hunter Biden was even charged with these crimes,” Goldman said of Hunter’s numerous federal tax violations. “If you look at the history of civil and criminal enforcement of tax issues, and just look at Roger Stone’s case. He effectively did the same thing as Hunter Biden and he simply paid a fine.” 

The New York congressman added, “The fact that he is even taking a plea deal, in my mind, demonstrates a two-tiered system of justice against Hunter Biden, not at all in favor of Donald Trump or the Republicans.” 

Goldman’s sweeping statements about Hunter being a so-called “victim” drew criticism from prominent conservative leaders, with Collin Roug, the co-owner of Trending Politics, calling the remarks “insane.” Rugg then shared a lengthy list of apparent political protection of Hunter Biden from the feds.  

“Let’s take a look at how ‘unfairly’ Hunter Biden has been treated: […] An FBI mole helped Hunter Biden by tipping him off to China probes into his corrupt business dealings,” Rugg said. “The same FBI mole gave $100,000 to a trust for Joe Biden’s grandchildren according to emails on Hunter’s laptop.” 

Miranda Devine, a prominent opinion writer and author, shared Goldman’s remarks via Twitter with a laughing emoji as its caption. Jake Schneider, a Republican strategist, echoed Devine’s tweet, mocking Goldman’s remarks with clown-like emojis. 

Joe Pags Pagliarulo, a prominent radio host, chimed in by saying, “What a ridiculous liar.” 

Biden’s 2nd Illegal Student-Loan Scheme Costs More than Original

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Biden’s 2nd Illegal Student-Loan Scheme Costs More than Original

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout plan is expected to cost approximately $475 billion over the next 10 years to taxpayers, which is over $45 billion more than the initial estimate.

According to a new study by the Penn Wharton Budget Model, this new estimate includes the Supreme Court’s major decision declaring Biden’s plan illegal.

“About $200 billion of that cost will come from payment reduction for the $1.64 trillion in loans already outstanding in 2023,” the report reveals. The Wharton Model warned that once the plan becomes active in July 2024, approximately 53 percent of the current “loan volume will move to the new plan.”

The remaining budget cost, approximately $275 billion, comes from reduced payments for about $1.03 trillion in new loans that are estimated to be extended over the next 10 years, according to the report.

As reported by the New York Post, the model estimates that the cost of the plan could range from $390.9 billion to $558.8 billion.

The study assumes a take-up rate of 70 percent for future loans, implying that roughly “$645 billion in future loans will be subsidized.” Additionally, the report highlights that approximately “6.57 percent of future borrowers (or 4.98 percent of total predicted loan volume) will never have to make any payments under SAVE.”

Penn Wharton economist Penlie Chen warned that the new plan is likely to drive higher loans. “ Due to the increased generosity of the newly proposed IDR plan, future student borrowers have the incentive to increase their federal student loan borrowing,” Penlie said, according to the Post.

Despite the Court’s ruling that the Education Department did not have the authority to appropriate funds for the plan, the Biden administration unleashed the new plan on June 30.

The Post reported that the new plan will take effect on July 1, 2024, and will erase monthly payments for minimum-wage earners. The Department of Education will also effectively eliminate the debt of individuals who took $12,000 or less over the course of 10 years.

Republican leaders met Biden’s new plan with extreme criticism, including Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who tweeted, “The Supreme Court blocked Biden’s original student loan bailout. Biden knows it’s unconstitutional & violates sep of powers but they’re pushing it through again. It’s not fair to force those who didn’t go to college to pay for the tuition of others.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., echoed Donalds’s remarks in a press statement. Specifically, he said, “Make no mistake, Biden’s newest student loan scheme only transfers the burden from those who willingly took out loans to Americans who never attended college or who already fulfilled their commitment to pay off their loans.”

Mitt Romney Professes Love of Weiners in 30-Sec. Video

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Mitt Romney Professes Love of Weiners in 30-Sec. Video

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A 30-second video has surfaced showing Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, declaring his undying love for hot dogs.

The video, shared by Romney’s team on his social media, quickly went viral, leaving critics perplexed and wondering whether Romney is spending time on the wrong issues. 

“As you all know, today it’s National Hot Dog Day,” an oddly looking Romney began with enthusiasm. “And perhaps you also know that hot dog is my favorite meat. I love hot dog, I love them in buns, I love them outside of buns. I love them with baked beans. I just like hot dogs.” 

Romney further displayed his love for weiners, referring to them as “the best mean there is, without question.”  

As National Hot Dog Day was a national holiday, Romney concluded the video by saying, “To all of you who like me are celebrating National Hot Dog Day, congratulations to you and may there be many, many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land.” 

The video, while innocent in nature, stirred fiery reactions from Romney’s Twitter followers, with several accusing the Utah senator of focusing on the wrong issues. 

Trent Staggs, the mayor of Riverton, Utah, commented, “Mitt Romney’s go-to is silence. On sending troops to Ukraine? Silence. On continued weaponization of the justice department? Silence. We’re thrilled to at least know where he stands on hot dogs, though.” 

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., took to Twitter to react to the video, asking whether it was generated by artificial intelligence.

Political commentator Logan Hall chimed in, saying, “crazy that this was the GOP before trump. dude singlehandedly took their party off life support.” 

Conservative journalist Emerald Robinson echoed Gaetz’s and Staggs’s remarks, saying, “While America collapses, Senator Pierre Delecto does effeminate videos celebrating hot dogs — when did he get a full frontal lobotomy?” 

Even the Daily Caller called out the strange video by publishing an editorial headlined, “Mitt Romney Spends Way Too Long Telling America How Much He Loves Weiners.”

The article’s author, Kay Smythe, joked, “Romney addressed the video to ‘all those celebrating’ National Hot Dog Day, which is apparently all of us (I did not get a staff email about this).”

CNN Praises Jack Smith for Getting Subway Sandwich

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CNN Praises Jack Smith for Getting Subway Sandwich

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) While following special counsel Jack Smith around Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, leftist propaganda network CNN praised the anti-Trump prosecutor for getting a sandwich from Subway.

The news comes after Smith sent a letter to Donald Trump, in which he informed him that is the target of a grand-jury investigation into the Capitol uprising of Jan. 6, 2021, the Post Millennial reported.

“Jack Smith can’t resist a $5 footlong. That’s according to what we see right there. New and exclusive CNN video of the special counsel at Subway,” the CNN host said.

CNN reporter Evan Perez tried to ask Smith a question about Trump’s pending indictment, but Smith declined to “respond to the reporter’s questions about today’s big news.”

People on Twitter gladly picked up the obvious—though unintentional—invitation from CNN to mock them.

“CNN: Jack Smith can’t resist a $5 foot long! Isn’t he dreamy?!? So pathetic,” the Post Millennial wrote.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., also responded to the news, pointing out that the reason why the network reported the “news” was because it didn’t want to report actual news.

“CNN had breaking news yesterday. ‘Jack Smith went to Subway,'” he wrote.

“I wonder if they gave equal coverage to today’s @GOPoversight hearing where IRS whistleblowers revealed — at their own expense — misconduct in the Biden administration in an effort to protect the president’s family.” 

OutKick’s Clay Travis said he “can’t believe this is real.”

Trump released a statement on Monday, in which he announced that Smith notified him in his Sunday letter that the Biden administration’s Department of Justice considers him a “target of the January 6th Grand Jury.”

Trump said that this means he will more than likely be “arrested and indicted.”

“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter… stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” he wrote.

Massachusetts Gov. Wants Homeowners to Offer Free Accommodations for Illegals

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Massachusetts Gov. Wants Homeowners to Offer Free Accommodations for Illegals

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Under the Biden administration’s wide-open-door policy when it comes illegal immigration, it’s been said that every U.S. state has become a border state.

Massachusetts is apparently no exception, despite leftists’ recent indignation over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shipping migrants to the elite enclave of Martha’s Vineyard.

“Oddly, however, almost all the ultra-affluent suburban communities most loudly committed to celebrating diversity have thus far been unable to provide suitable free housing for the new non-working classes,” observed the Boston Herald‘s Howie Carr in a July 12 column.

In the meantime, the state has spent millions in taxpayer funds on accommodations for migrants needing “emergency assistance shelter” at nearly 40 hotels and motels in the state.

To accommodate the influx of newcomers, the state’s far-left Gov. Maura Healey has instead proposed that residential-property owners turn their guestrooms into free, short-term versions of Airbnb for illegal aliens.

“Massachusetts officials are seeking residents willing to host newly arrived families in need of shelter,” reported Boston NPR affiliate WBUR of the one-way exchange program. “Hosts are asked to provide a room or apartment for a few days, until longer-term accommodations can be arranged.”

The influx of new, undocumented residents has taken a significant toll on the deep-blue state’s existing resources for addressing homelessness, the report explained.

“A significant portion of the families in need of housing in the state are new immigrants,” it said. “… The new host family strategy comes as the state scrambles to expand shelter capacity and provide for an increasing number of homeless families.”

Healey’s press secretary, Karissa Hand, insisted that the strategy was actually nothing new.

“This has previously been a practice among Resettlement Agencies and other volunteers who work to support new arrivals,” she said.

Despite the governor’s public endorsement, a Boston “family welcome center” is coordinating the private-placement initiative, which includes recruiting and vetting host families and connecting them with migrants.

WBUR’s coverage did not mention whether the migrants would be vetted before they were potentially placed in private homes.

Team Healey has been coy about the actual price tag for migrant services, the Boston Herald indicated.

Healey wasn’t paying any of the host families directly, but participants reportedly would be eligible for “gift cards, groceries and baby formula” on behalf of the hostees.

The Healy administration also announced recently that it was spending about $30 million to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

Biden Names Delaware Home as Campaign HQ, Spurring New Call for Visitor Logs

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Biden Names Delaware Home as Campaign HQ, Spurring New Call for Visitor Logs

(Headline USA) House Republicans re-upped their demand for President Joe Biden’s visitor logs from his Delaware residences after his reelection campaign announced its headquarters will be based out of his private home in Wilmington.

The White House has refused to offer any transparency as to who visits the president at his Delaware residences, despite frequent visits to his home in Wilmington and vacation house in Rehoboth Beach.

“Joe Biden should enthusiastically offer to release visitor logs from both his homes,” said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, a member of the House Oversight Committee. “But don’t hold your breath—odds are you’re going to turn blue.”

An Associated Press analysis released in January estimated that the president spent more than a quarter of his first two years in office in Delaware.

Other estimates indicate that he has spent as much as 40% of his presidency on vacation—much of it in his home state.

House Republicans argued Biden was using his private residences as a shield from scrutiny, and that voters deserved better.

“Candidate Joe Biden promised, if elected, to have the most transparent administration in history,” Fallon said. “As president, he’s fallen woefully short.”

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said Biden’s reelection campaign likely chose Delaware as its headquarters so that he can hide in the basement again—a reference to his 2020 campaign strategy, when his public appearances were limited, ostensibly in deference to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Delaware is notably home to Joe Biden’s infamous basement, where his handlers will surely place him throughout the 2024 campaign,” Donalds said. “Joe Biden will comfortably hang out underground while his DOJ and the liberal media attack his political enemies.”

Biden’s weaponized Justice Department confirmed this week a second planned indictment against his top Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, while media also waged a smear campaign to discredit Biden’s top Democrat rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as an anti-Semite.

The White House counsel’s office has defended Biden’s decision not to make public his Delaware home visitor logs, claiming that it is not standard practice for presidents to keep track of the visitors to their personal residences.

However, conservatives have pointed out that Biden promised the public increased transparency, which is being undermined by his refusal to make the visitor logs accessible.

“It’s an easy way to bypass the alleged transparency they’re promising,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.

Biden’s home has also become a crime scene on at least two occasions in recent memory.

In January, it came to light that several batches of classified documents—spanning all the way back to his time as a U.S. senator, had been discovered in unsecured areas of the home, including the garage.

More recently, a House Oversight investigation, with the aid of whistleblower testimony, revealed that the president’s son Hunter, while staying at the home in Wilmington, had extorted millions of dollars from a Chinese businessman with ties to the communist government’s espionage ministry.

The message, which indicated that Hunter was sitting beside his father at the time, was confirmed by geolocation, which placed both men at the Wilmington compound.

Neither has been held accountable for the criminal conduct to date.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Rep. Greene Displays Pornographic Hunter Biden Photos in Congress

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Rep. Greene Displays Pornographic Hunter Biden Photos in Congress

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “Parental discretion is advised,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., warned at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing about Hunter Biden’s tax crimes.

Greene’s warning was for a good reason: She began displaying pornographic photos of Hunter Biden seemingly participating in sexual acts with prostitutes. Greene argued that this was evidence that the U.S. President’s son violated a federal anti-sex trafficking law.

“I believe this is a violation of the Mann Act,” Greene said at Wednesday’s hearing over IRS whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department sabotaged the Hunter Biden administration. The Mann Act is a roughly 113-year-old law that criminalizes the transportation of “any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.”

Along with the photos, Greene presented evidence that Biden paid a purchased a plane ticket for a prostitute to fly from Los Angeles to Washington DC on June 14, 2018. Biden allegedly wrote off this purchase on his taxes as a business expense for his law firm, Owasco P.C.

Greene asked the two IRS whistleblowers whether they think Hunter’s purchase constituted a violation of the Mann Act. The whistleblowers were tight-lipped in response, saying they could only speak to their previous whistleblower disclosures about DOJ suppressing the Biden investigation—though whistleblower Joseph Ziegler did say he could provide records about Hunter and the Mann Act to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Greene pressed the whistleblowers for more information.

“Can you confirm that Hunter Biden had written off payments for prostitutes through his law firm, Owasco?” she asked.

This question received an affirmative response from Ziegler.

“I can tell you there were deductions for what we believed to be escorts, and then that $10,000 golf club membership was not for a gold club membership—it was for a sex club payment,” the IRS agent said.

Referring to the pornographic pictures of Hunter displayed behind her, Greene said the woman in the picture was supposedly an employee of Owasco P.C.

However, “This is not what most paralegals do,” Greene noted.

At one point, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-N.Y., asked Committee Chairman James Comer, R-K.Y., whether it was appropriate to display the pornographic images in Congress. Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., also criticized Greene for presenting non-public evidence—referring to a series of bank “suspicious activity reports” about Hunter’s financial transactions.

But no Democrat disputed the voracity of Greene’s evidence, nor did they defend Hunter’s actions.

The committee hearing was still ongoing as of the publication of this article.

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

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