Epstein Pal Reid Hoffman Gives $700K to Biden Reelection Fund

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Epstein Pal Reid Hoffman Gives $700K to Biden Reelection Fund

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) LinkedIn’s leftist co-founder Reid Hoffman apparently thinks that Joe Biden deserves a second term in office.

According to recently published U.S. Federal Election Commission records, Hoffman donated $699,600 to the Biden Victory Fund on April 26, 2023.

The check apparently cleared a few days before the Wall Street Journal revealed that Hoffman, who has a history of backing Democrats, visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious Caribbean private island in 2014.

Like many movers and shakers who generally maintain that it was strictly business, Hoffman reportedly said he now regrets his association with the late convicted sex offender and financier, which he says was in connection a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fundraising effort.

Hoffman told the WSJ that he “relied on MIT’s endorsement” for the Epstein collaboration, but also that he was “sorry for my personal misjudgment.”

Later in 2014, Hoffman reportedly planned a return trip to the island, and from there, he and Epstein were set to fly to Boston. A visit to Epstein’s NYC townhouse may have also been on the itinerary.

“It’s unclear what the intent was for those planned trips,” Fox News reported on Monday.

Back in 2019, Hoffman asserted that his “last interaction with Epstein was in 2015. Still, by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice. For this, I am deeply regretful.”

The above-referenced meet-up was at a Silicon Valley dinner with tech moguls.

Hoffman visited the Biden White House five times in 2022 and reportedly donated $1.5 million to a 2020 pro-Biden political action committee as well as contributing directly to Biden’s campaign with a max donation.

Hoffman’s checkbook activism also reportedly included bankrolling E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and allegedly funding an online disinformation scheme against Judge Roy Moore, the GOP candidate who was running in the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama.

Democrat Doug Jones narrowly won that election.

Hoffman, 55, who has an estimated net worth of about $2 billion, apologized after the fact for his involvement in the effort to tarnish Moore with make-believe Russian collusion.

Jeffrey Epstein supposedly committed suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, in a Manhattan lockup while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

In 2008, Epstein pled guilty in Florida to a state charge of procuring a minor for prostitution.

Judge Allows Biden to Keep JFK Assassination Records Secret

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Judge Allows Biden to Keep JFK Assassination Records Secret

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal judge ruled Friday that the Biden administration can continue to delay releasing records about the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

District Judge Richard Seeborg’s decision pertained to a lawsuit filed by the non-profit research organization Mary Ferrell Foundation last October, after the Biden administration postponed the release of roughly 15,000 documents concerning the former president’s murder.

The Mary Ferrell Foundation had been seeking an order for the White House to either release all assassination records or review each individual record pursuant to the JFK Records Act, which initially set an October 2017 deadline to release all records. Donald Trump ordered a further review of the still-sequestered records in 2017 and Joe Biden has postponed a full release twice since taking office—prompting the Mary Ferrell Foundation’s lawsuit.

In his decision Friday, Judge Seeborg granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss most of the lawsuit.

“The JFK Act provides the President with significant discretion to determine that postponement is ‘made necessary’ by national security concerns,” the judge said.

While most of the Mary Farrell Foundation’s lawsuit was dismissed, some of its claims survived. Judge Seeborg said the organization can continue suing to have the National Archives and Records Administration release JFK congressional records, since those records aren’t controlled by the White House.

The Mary Ferrell Foundation released a statement Monday, painting the judge’s decision as a win for JFK assassination researchers.

“The judge’s decision gives the foundation, the sponsor of the largest online collection of JFK records, the right to: seek immediate release of all still-redacted assassination records created by Congressional investigations of the Senate’s Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations; investigate the destruction of JFK documents the course of three official investigations, and compel improvements in the usability of the National Archives’ JFK Collection,” the organization said.

“The Foundation’s attorneys are considering all options concerning this litigation,” it added.

Biden’s decision to postpone releasing all JFK assassination records has been criticized by numerous parties, including presidential candidate and JFK’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“The assassination was 60 years ago,” Kennedy wrote in response to Biden’s most recent order to delay records production. “What national security secrets could possibly be at risk? What are they hiding?”

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

Reynolds Relishes Role as Key GOP Player w/ 6 Mos. to Iowa Caucus

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Reynolds Relishes Role as Key GOP Player w/ 6 Mos. to Iowa Caucus

(Headline USA) When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds seized the spotlight from a half dozen Republican presidential contenders on Friday by signing a powerful new pro-life measure into law at an event meant to showcase the candidates, she embraced her front-and-center role in the 2024 presidential election.

The standing ovation she received from some 2,000 conservative Christians gathered in Des Moines only reinforced the influence she wields, not just in Iowa but increasingly on a national stage.

“I could not imagine a more appropriate place to sign this bill,” Reynolds said. “Today, the most glaring injustice of all is about to be put right.”

Reynolds had always been scheduled to give remarks at the Family Leadership Summit, one of many places this summer where Republican presidential candidates are expected to address Iowa’s voters, who will cast the first ballots in just six months.

But the appearance morphed into a triumphant demonstration of the governor’s rising national profile after she spent the week shepherding abortion restrictions into Iowa’s books, after a similar 2018 law she had championed was sidelined.

Reynolds pressed forward to sign the bill into law even as she shrugged off pointed criticism from former President Donald Trump.

Trump, in posts on his Truth Social social media platform, had accused Reynolds of shirking her commitment to neutrality in the campaign, claiming credit for her rise to the governor’s office. Other presidential candidates, well aware of her popularity with Iowa voters, rose to her defense.

Those included Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has been the beneficiary of kind words from Reynolds, though she’s stopped short of violating her pledge to stay neutral in the presidential contest with an endorsement.

DeSantis, whose campaign has struggled since its launch to establish him as the only plausible rival to the former president, doubled down on Saturday by saying he would consider Reynolds as a potential running mate.

At least publicly, Reynolds isn’t likely to wade into the drama. Republican strategists in Iowa say the bill signing showcased her devotion to the issues she cares about.

“She’s out there doing the right thing and we’re coming along beside her,” said Bob Vander Plaats, Family Leader president and CEO, who introduced her. “She is arguably the best governor in the country.”

Reynolds decided to sign the bill at Friday’s event to celebrate the victory with those who have spent years fighting for new restrictions on abortion. The audience of a couple thousand people—including conservative leaders, presidential hopefuls and national news outlets—was a bonus.

Signing the bill there on Friday, with all of the attention directed toward Iowa, was a deliberate effort to drive a national conversation.

“I love it when we’re leading and showing other governors in other states that we can get it done,” Reynolds said in February to the Des Moines Register.

Reynolds has said she is not entertaining rumors about her prospects as a 2024 Republican running mate. Still, the governor has not shied away from plunging into the middle of the campaign or comparing her record favorably to those who are running for president.

“I’m proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them united in our respect for life,” she said Friday of the presidential candidates who addressed the forum.

The feeling appeared to be mutual at Friday’s event. Former Vice President Mike Pence called it a historic day, telling reporters he “couldn’t be more proud of Gov. Reynolds’s stand” on abortion.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson congratulated her, too, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she always “knocks it out of the park.”

Reynolds, meanwhile, tends to go her own way. She’s just as apt to press ahead on policies cutting taxes and shrinking government as the social issues that have dominated the GOP presidential campaign so far.

She is willing to put conservative issues front and center when the moment calls for it, as she did in 2018 when the original abortion ban passed.

But she’s also willing to take on Republicans who challenge her, as she did in 2022 when she campaigned against incumbent lawmakers in her own party who had stood in the way of “school choice” legislation, one of her top priorities.

Four races in which she intervened went in her candidate’s favor, and the legislation she pushed forward was tied up in a bow by the end of the first month of this year’s legislative session.

Reynolds also hasn’t been afraid to buck party orthodoxy, signing an executive order on the restoration of voting rights for former felons and proposing things like over-the-counter birth control.

“Let Iowans know what you’re going to do? Tell them your plan and then execute? Follow through on your promises that you’ve made? Wow,” Reynolds said with a laugh in a radio interview Thursday. “Shocking.”

Her success in Iowa garnered attention even before 2024 candidates officially entered the race. She was chosen to give the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year, and she was named to lead the Republican Governors Association after a robust win in her reelection campaign.

But with the caucus campaign well underway, Reynolds is poised to stay in the middle of things. She announced Monday that she’s invited each of the GOP candidates for a public one-on-one with her at the state fair in August, a must-attend for presidential hopefuls.

In the meantime, her administration will be defending the state’s new heartbeat law in court.

“The work that we’ve done together from the statehouse to the public square is making a difference,” Reynolds said Friday. “But as you all know, our work is not done.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose Launches GOP Bid to Unseat Sen. Sherrod Brown

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Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose Launches GOP Bid to Unseat Sen. Sherrod Brown

(Headline USA) Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, launched a bid for the U.S. Senate on Monday, joining GOP efforts to try to unseat Democrat Sherrod Brown next year.

LaRose, 44, is in his second term as Ohio’s elections chief, one of the state’s highest profile jobs. He has managed to walk a delicate line between GOP factions, scoring a convincing 59% of the statewide vote in his 2022 reelection bid in the one-time swing state that has grown increasingly redder in the past few election cycles.

“Like a lot of Ohioans, I’m concerned about the direction of our country,” LaRose said in announcing his bid.

“As the father of three young girls, I’m not willing to sit quietly while the woke left tries to cancel the American Dream,” he continued. “We have a duty to defend the values that made America the hope of the world.”

LaRose first took office in 2019 with just over 50% of the vote, and previously spent eight years as a state senator. He also served as a U.S. Army Green Beret.

LaRose already faces competition for the GOP nomination, including state Sen. Matt Dolan, whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, and Bernie Moreno, a wealthy Cleveland business owner whose bid Trump has encouraged.

Dolan made his first Senate run last year and invested nearly $11 million of his own money, making him the seventh-highest among self-funders nationally, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Although he joined the ugly and protracted primary relatively late, Dolan managed to finish third amid a crowded field.

Moreno is the father-in-law of Trump-endorsed Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller, and was the 17th highest among self-funders nationally—in a 2022 Senate primary packed with millionaires. Republican J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist noted for his memoir-turned-movie Hillbilly Elegy, ultimately won the seat.

Next year’s successful GOP nominee will take on one of Ohio’s winningest and longest-serving politicians—and with the control of the Senate at stake, it is likely to be a race that leftist dark-money plutocrats and lawfare attack-dogs invest considerable attention in trying to protect.

Voters first sent Brown to the U.S. Senate in 2007 after 14 years as a congressman, two terms as secretary of state and eight years as a state representative.

But Brown, with among the Senate’s most liberal voting records, is viewed as more vulnerable than ever this time around. That’s because the one-time bellwether state—like much of America’s “flyover country,” sandwiched in between two coasts of left-wing extremism and elitism—now appears to be firmly Republican.

Voters twice elected Trump by wide margins and, outside the state Supreme Court, Brown is the only Democrat to win election statewide since 2006.

Brown’s campaign spokesperson, Reeves Oyster, claimed that Republicans were headed into another “slugfest” for the U.S. Senate that will leave whoever emerges damaged.

“In the days ahead, the people of Ohio should ask themselves: What is Frank LaRose really doing for us?” she said in a statement.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Car Dealerships Struggle to Sell EVs, Report They’re ‘Collecting Dust’

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Car Dealerships Struggle to Sell EVs, Report They’re ‘Collecting Dust’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several car dealerships reported poor sales of electric vehicles and stated that the overstock vehicles have started “collecting dust.”

Several dealerships described their stock as extensive—many dealers have 90 days worth of unsold electric vehicles, with a total estimate of 92,000 unsold plug-in units across the nation, the Daily Caller reported on Sunday.

That estimate is three times more than the combined amount of available electric vehicles dealers had available for sale just last year.

The excess of vehicles may have led to a “brief pause in the market growth of EVs across the country,” despite the extensive federal and state-level tax breaks provided to manufacturers and drivers, according to automotive publication CarScoops.

Volkswagon verified that they are sitting on 131 days of EV inventory, reportedly due to lack of sales and fewer offerings with all-wheel drive capabilities.

The report also rumored that Ford manufactured 86 days worth of F-150 Lightnings and 113 days of Mustang Mach-E inventory, which the company disputed and claimed was much less.

Experts in the field argued that the sudden stall in sales was a naturally occurring economic phenomenon.

“There’s a natural speed of market growth here that many are fighting against, and there’s a lot of confusion in the market with too many brands,” said investment banker Vitaly Golomb. “The strong will survive here and the rest will struggle.”

Despite the arguments that this was naturally occurring, the push by the Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to convert people to electric vehicles faced extreme opposition and scrutiny.

Recently established tailpipe regulations by the EPA would result in the abandonment of SUVs, pickup trucks and several other consumer vehicles, pushing customers to their more expensive electric counterparts.

Average prices for brand-new EVs hovered around $61,000 at the end of 2022 and failed to attract customers despite the tax relief included in the purchase of the vehicle.

“The proposals are the latest effort by the Biden administration to commandeer America’s transportation sector and force its complete vehicle electrification under the guise of mitigating climate change,” said a letter from 151 House Republicans to EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

The representatives also expressed concern that the new ruling would allow China to tighten its grip on the American economy.

Report: Top Biden Immigration Official Wants to Abolish ICE, Release All Illegals

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Report: Top Biden Immigration Official Wants to Abolish ICE, Release All Illegals

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Avideh Moussavian, an acting administrator in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, advocated to “abolish” Immigration and Customs Enforcement and previously volunteered with an anti-ICE group before her tenure in federal government, according to an investigation from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Moussavian started at USCIS in March of 2022. Currently, she works as the chief of the Office of Policy and Strategy within the office, the Daily Caller reported Sunday.

Before joining the ranks of the Biden administration, Moussavian tweeted the “abolishICE” hashtag and accused the agency of “misleading the public and making our workplaces less safe.”

Between 2013 and 2022, she worked for the National Immigration Law Center—an advocacy group that fought for the cutting of funds to ICE and Customs and Border Protection.

Moussavian released a report with the Vera Institute highlighting the treatment of illegal immigrants and what legal representation they deserved when the U.S. government attempted to deport them.

“Ultimately, it is best to coordinate the fights to abolish immigration detention and to guarantee universal representation at the local, state, and national levels…” the report read. “Achieving these outcomes can help shape an immigration system that is grounded in values of fairness and human dignity. The shared goal is to end an unjust mass enforcement and incarceration system.”

Since her integration into the upper ranks of the Biden administration, Moussavian implemented parole programs for migrants from Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“I think it’s apparent from the top on down that this is an administration filled with appointees that do not believe in the rule of law, and they don’t really care about the American people,” said Rob Law, former USCIS policy chief for the Trump administration and current director of America First Policy Institute’s Center for Homeland Security & Immigration.

The Biden administration seems to be increasingly out of touch with American citizen’s desire to protect their culture and way of life by fighting the massive influx of illegal immigrants.

A survey from the Associated Press revealed that few adults think Congress, the Supreme Court, the president and both political parties care to uphold American values.

The situation at the country’s southern border continues to spiral out of control, with most recent estimates pointing to over 1.2 million illegal immigrants having crossed into the U.S.

J6er Appeals Weaponized Enron Statute to SCOTUS

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J6er Appeals Weaponized Enron Statute to SCOTUS

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A criminal defendant from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest is appealing one of his charges to the Supreme Court, in a move that his attorney says could impact hundreds of other J6 cases and investigations—including the one against former President Donald Trump.

J6 defendant Edward Jacob Lang filed an appeal to SCOTUS last week, seeking to overturn the “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding” charge against him. Lang is also accused of assaulting law enforcement, disorderly conduct and trespassing on Capitol grounds.

In his petition, Lang’s attorney, Norman Pattis, noted that the obstruction charge was originally intended to punish people who destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses. Indeed, the statute in question was passed by Congress in wake of the Enron scandal, to punish business executives for altering financial documents.

But in the wake of J6, the Justice Department is using the statute to target protestors who interrupted the proceedings on Capitol Hill, Pattis said.

“Use of a statute intended to combat alteration of records, intimidation of witnesses and conduct aimed at disrupting investigative and adjudicatory proceedings is an example of prosecutorial overcharging,” Pattis said.

“This use necessarily chills anyone considering attending a public protest, or appearing outside a building at which an official proeeding is set to commence. Will they, too, be charged with a felony if the event turns violent?”

According to Pattis, the use of the obstruction charge was always used narrowly to charge people who wanted to suppress evidence of their own crimes—until after Jan. 6, when the DOJ started applying it more broadly.

Pattis said the DOJ has now morphed the law “into something well beyond what Congress had in mind when it passed a law intended to punish interference with the integrity of evidentiary proceedings.”

“This statute not only carries with it a significant penalty—up to 20 years in prison—it sends a chilling message to anyone contemplating attendance at a political rally: Stay home. If things go wrong, you could face charges of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding,” he said.

The Washington DC district court initially agreed with Lang’s arguments, dismissing the obstruction charge against him in June 2022. But the appeals court overturned that ruling in April of this year, leading to Lang’s SCOTUS appeal.

Pattis reportedly said that he expects SCOTUS to decide whether to hear Lang’s appeal by September.

Lang also told The Epoch Times that the Lang case could impact hundreds of other J6 defendants, including Trump—if and when the DOJ charges him over the matter.

“I think the timing of this filing is astronomical,” he said. “Donald Trump is the political frontrunner for the Republican Party, and while the other bogus charges might easily go away through a plea deal, the obstruction of Congress charge carries prison time. This one would land him in serious hot water with a conviction.”

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

Update: Hunter’s Ex-BFF Devon Archer to Testify for House Oversight

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Update: Hunter’s Ex-BFF Devon Archer to Testify for House Oversight

Update: Among the whistleblowers teased by House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, R-Ky., appeared to be none other than Devon Archer, the embattled former business partner of Hunter Biden who sat with him on the board of Burisma.

While the president’s son has skated for many of his crimes, Archer has faced a series of legal woes related to felonious business ventures, including an attempt to defraud a Native American tribe in upstate New York.

Archer’s downfall from a once privileged position within the Biden crime syndicate to a cast-off has-been reportedly has impacted all aspects of his life, leaving him devastated and financially wrecked.

Now weeks away from beginning a federal prison sentence, Archer is due to testify before the Republican-led House committee on July 24, Just the News reported.

It remained unclear whether Archer had struck some sort of deal with Congressional lawmakers or was planning to act as a cooperative witness to their efforts, although indications from Comer hinted that he could be ready to spill the beans and present damning new evidence about Hunter Biden’s foreign influence-peddling, as well as other crimes.

However, Comer was unable to secure a trove of documents from Archer that had been confiscated by the FBI and remained locked in storage as it slow-walks its own Biden probes while waiting for the statutes of limitations to expire.

“The cache of documents freezes in time all of the essential communications that Devon was part of, including documents and evidence that weren’t recovered from the Hunter Biden laptop,” a person briefed on the matter told Just the News. –Ben Sellers, Headline USA

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a recent interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., offered new details on the ongoing investigation into alleged influence peddling by the Biden family. Comer hinted at the upcoming testimony from whistleblowers, effectively issuing a warning to the Biden family and their alleged shady businesses.

According to Comer, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee made significant discoveries regarding bank transactions involving the Biden family and said they’ve found even more bank transactions from foreign countries. 

“This family has been receiving money from all over the planet,” Comer said. “Wednesday, we are bringing the whistleblowers in. These are credible career IRS employees who have never blown the whistle on anything. One is a very partisan Democrat, we are excited it’s going to be a bipartisan panel.”

Comer also highlighted the specific focus of the hearing. “We are going to be able to ask very specific crimes committed by various members of the Biden family,” Comer added. “There’s a lot of talk back and forth about whether they should’ve been in charge of money laundering or they should’ve been charged with wire fraud.” 

Expressing his anticipation for the hearing’s outcome, Comer stated, “We will dive into that in a public setting where every American will have the opportunity to watch this hearing live and I think the America people will be satisfied with the answers we get.” 

The Biden family, particularly President Joe Biden, has been under heavy scrutiny after several IRS employees blew the whistle on apparent favoritism and political protection of the first family, who for years have benefited from foreign business dealings. 

These IRS whistleblowers alleged that U.S. District Attorney David Weiss of Delaware sought to pursue harsher charges against Hunter Biden, the president’s son, but was blocked by the DOJ. 

Comer, with the help of another whistleblower, unveiled the existence of a damning FBI informant file that details an alleged bribery scheme involving Biden when he served as vice president under the Obama administration.

Carlson Hilariously Mocks Pence as ‘5-Yr-Old’ After ‘RINO’ Smackdown

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Carlson Hilariously Mocks Pence as ‘5-Yr-Old’ After ‘RINO’ Smackdown

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a summit hosted by Turning Point USA, renowned television host Tucker Carlson took the stage to discuss his interview with former Vice President Mike Pence, which received widespread attention.

Pence faced a barrage of criticism after stating that the challenges facing America were not his concern, during his conversation with Carlson about his support for providing weapons to Ukraine.

Addressing the viral interview during a Florida speech on Sunday, Carlson stated, “I don’t want to attack anyone on personal grounds or by name. It’s tempting. I will say it’s tempting. Whoever said, ‘Do it,’ you’re the devil on my shoulder.” The audience erupted in cheers, chanting, “Do it, do it,” to which Carlson responded, “No! No!”

However, Carlson went on to provide general observations about Pence rather than directly criticizing him, stating, “But if I could make some general observations, which I think are more edifying than just like savaging Mike Pence… Which I’m not going to do. Because that would be wrong. And it would be wrong because it’s too easy. And the easy things are not rewarding, are they? You don’t feel good when you beat your 5-year-old in soccer or ping pong.”

Carlson’s new speech offered insights into his thoughts on the GOP presidential nomination candidates, most of whom he interviewed last week.

Prominent Republican leaders celebrated Carlson’s scathing rebuke of Pence and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, both of whom are considered RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).

In his interviews, Carlson pressed Pence on his support for Ukraine amid the Russian war, arguing that U.S. involvement in the conflict neglected the pressing issues faced by Americans. Carlson confronted Pence, saying, “You are distressed that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There is not one city that has gotten better in the United States, and it’s visible.” Pence’s dismissive response, “It’s not my concern,” sparked a flurry of reactions.

Hutchinson also faced scrutiny from Carlson. The television host questioned the former governor about his endorsement of radical gender ideology for children.

Carlson asked, “If you have a child who says he was born a boy and wants to become a girl, and he hasn’t gone through puberty yet, say at the age of 10, is it treatment to prevent him from going through the natural process of adolescence? How is that treatment? It seems not like treatment; it seems like something else.”

In a defiant response, Hutchinson stated, “Tucker, I hope we’ll be able to talk about sensitive issues.”

Trump Hints Running Mate in Revealing Interview, Opens Up about DeSantis

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Trump Hints Running Mate in Revealing Interview, Opens Up about DeSantis

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump dropped hints about his potential running mate for the upcoming presidential election in 2024 during an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.

When asked about potentially eyeing his GOP opponents for VP, Trump alluded to several individuals who could be picked. “Possibly,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo before getting candid about his rivals.

“I think you have some good people on the stage, you have some very talented people,” Trump added. “I’ve been impressed with some of them. Some of them I’m very friendly with, actually. A number of them called me up, not to ask for permission, but sort of to ask for permission to say they’d like to do it. A number of the people up there — I’m not going to embarrass them by saying who.”

The leading GOP candidate opened up about potential roles for his opponents. “I think you have good people, good potential cabinet members,” Trump alluded before being pressed further by Bartiromo.

Trump refrained from disclosing any specific names. Specifically, he said, “Well, I don’t want to mention that. I think I can can’t.” The conversation later touched upon Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., with Bartiromo asking if Trump saw himself potentially teaming up with him.

“I think he’s a really good guy,” Trump said of Scott, who is also running for the GOP nomination for president. “We did Opportunity Zones together. It’s never been talked about it. It’s one of the most successful economic development things ever done in this country, and Tim is very good.”

Trump hinted that he eyes Scott for a potential role in his administration if elected president in 2024. “But he’s right now campaigning, and I’m sure Tim and everybody else would say I’m only interested in one but Tim’s a talented guy and you have other very talented people,” Trump concluded.

Earlier in the interview, Bartiromo asked Trump about whether he would participate in the upcoming GOP debates. Trump highlighted the polling average of his opponents, particularly FL Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“We have a lead of 50 and 60 points in some cases, and some of these people are in zero,” Trump said of his lead. “Ron DeSantis as I call him, or Desanctimonious, he’s in the teens now, and I’m at 50 and 60 and 65, and even saw one today at 70.”
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