Staffers Spill Tea on Biden’s Volatile Temper Behind Closed Doors

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Staffers Spill Tea on Biden’s Volatile Temper Behind Closed Doors

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several White House staffers have come forward with stories about President Joe Biden’s quick and volatile temper, which reportedly resulted in employees avoiding one-on-one situations and meetings with the commander-in-chief.

According to Axios, the ice cream-loving, aviator-wearing façade that Biden puts on in public is simply a public-relations stunt and “the Biden temper” is a well-known phenomenon throughout the ranks of the administration.

“There’s no question that the Biden temper is for real,” said Chris Whipple, author of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House. “It may not be as volcanic as Bill Clinton’s, but it’s definitely there.”

Insiders alleged that Biden’s anger simmers just under the surface and often manifests as sharp, unforgiving interrogations of staff members—often ending with questions that are impossible for them to answer.

Any staff member—from bright-eyed, bushy-tailed interns to senior officials—could be a target of his ire.

White House aides claimed that the yelling has become a rite of passage among the staff and if Biden didn’t yell at you, you had yet to earn his respect.

Critics suggested that Axios was following a recurring media pattern by attempting to put a rosy spin on the Democrat president’s considerable character flaws.

Flashes of Biden’s angry disposition have made their way out into the public—including when he called Fox News’s Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a b***h” on a hot mic.

Several people who previously worked with the president made similar accusations against him. Author Jeff Connaughton mentioned Biden’s angry streak in his book The Payoff: Why Wall Street Wins, calling him an “egomaniacal autocrat… determined to manage his staff through fear.”

Mainstream news media outlets—including Axios—have attempted to spin the recent revelations of “Uncle Joe’s” temper as a sign of his youthfulness, passion and dedication to his work.

Yet, increasingly, even left-wing outlets have begun to turn against him while facing the prospect of a resounding political defeat in next year’s presidential election.

Many also worry that Vice President Kamala Harris may be unfit to take over the role should Biden be incapacitated or forced out of office.

Harris herself has been accused of maintaining a toxic work environment and has endured frequent resignations from high-level staffers.

Leftist Billionaires Behind TikTok-Driven Push to Lower Voting Age to 16

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Leftist Billionaires Behind TikTok-Driven Push to Lower Voting Age to 16

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Imagine a future where a high school senior not only runs for class president but also mayor of their hometown. It may sound like a far-off dream, but for some teenagers, this is a reality. With Democrats leading the charge, there’s a growing movement to lower the legal voting age in local elections to 16 and possibly in the national elections.

These are the same kids who eat Tide pods and snort cinnamon on TikTok — they may determine the direction of the country if the Left has their way.

One of the leftist organizations behind the movement was Vote16USA, according to BizPac Review. 

“We aim to help with the coordination of new and current local campaigns around the country while elevating the issue nationally through traditional and social media,” the group stated on their website.

A study by Exploding Topics found TikTok has a user base of 834 million people, an ideal platform for the Vote16 movement to promote teenage empowerment — the perfect targets to mold into the Left’s agenda.

“The largest proportion (25%) of US TikTok users are 10 to 19 years of age,” according to Exploding Topics. “47.4% of TikTok users are under 30.”

In that light, the White House’s public relations team push for the Chinese-owned TikTok made sense.

“We’re trying to reach young people, but also moms who use different platforms to get information and climate activists and people whose main way of getting information is digital,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, White House deputy chief of staff, told Axios.

The plot thickens as the global elites’ fingerprints are all over the movement. Many of the most notable left-of-center funding organizations in the U.S. including the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bezos Family Foundation and Black Voices for Black Justice were supporting Vote16.

Together they placed wins in states like Vermont, Oregon and Missouri. Teens in Vermont can vote in local elections and run for office, thanks to the success Vote 16 campaign. In Missouri, there was a push to lower the voting age to 16 for local and school board elections. In Oregon, a 15-year-old high school student named Devon Lawson-McCourt convinced a state representative to propose an amendment to the state constitution, granting voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds.

Trump J6 Indictment Appears Impending

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Trump J6 Indictment Appears Impending

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) NBC News reported Sunday that “dozens of witnesses” have testified to a Washington DC grand jury about Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election—strongly suggesting that Trump will be indicted over the matter soon.

The NBC story said Trump likely won’t be charged directly for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest.

“Trump’s words are protected by the First Amendment, and his rhetoric — telling the people in the crowd they were “not going to have a country anymore” if they didn’t “fight like hell” — could fit within the realm of heated political rhetoric. Trump also explicitly told the crowd to march “peacefully,” which would make charges even more difficult,” the news outlet admitted.

However, Special Counsel Jack Smith is probing Trump’s so-called fake elector scheme—referring to  Trump’s plan to use alternate electors to challenge the results of controversial results in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. Earlier this month, NBC News reported that two of the “fake electors” appeared before the Washington grand jury the same day that Trump made his first court appearance in Miami.

On the same day as the NBC News story, CBS News’s Robert Costa reported another scoop about the Special Counsel Murphy’s investigation of the 2020 election aftermath. According to Costa, Murphy is also probing Trump for allegedly considering to use federal authority to seize voting machines.

Unlike other commentators, Costa said he’s not sure whether Murphy’s probe will result in election-related charges against Trump.

“The question remains, though, whether [special counsel] will seek indictments or write up a lengthy report… no one I’ve spoken with, with varying levels of connection to the investigation, is quite sure what Smith will do… the constant word is this is ‘serious’ but hard to predict,” the reporter said.

But given the dubious nature of the other two cases against Trump—the campaign finance matter in New York and the classified documents case in Florida—the former president’s supporters are convinced that J6-related charges are looming.

“When he is indicted … which I think the chances have increased tremendously after today, I think he might get ‘pretrial detention’—what they did to every defendant charged with seditious conspiracy,” conservative writer Julie Kelly said in May, in the wake of the Proud Boys J6 convictions in March. “So now they have a precedent for courts to sign off on.”

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

Unsealed Court Docs Show No State Secrets in FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Files

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Unsealed Court Docs Show No State Secrets in FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Files

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Recently unsealed court documents revealed that the boxes at Mar-a-Lago did not contain state secrets, but instead held “challenge coins, garment bags, memorabilia, photograph frames and other decor.”

An FBI agent signed off on the contents of the boxes, indicating that the Department of Justice knew about the lack of evidence but pushed forward with an indictment against former President Donald Trump nonetheless.

According to the Leading Report, a U.S. Secret Service officer also moved Trump’s lawyers into the storage room during the search to comply with a subpoena from June 2022—a fact that officials redacted from the search-warrant affidavit.

Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on the release of the censored version of the affidavit.

Several pieces of evidence the DOJ claimed to have had on former President Trump turned out to be nonexistent—including a much-hyped memo allegedly relating to an attack on Iran.

Many suspected the Justice Department of leaking an audio recording supposedly related to the memo.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment in June against the former commander-in-chief included 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, despite FBI officials never recovering the memo in their legally questionable search of Mar-a-Lago—raising questions about whether it ever existed at all.

Moreover, leftist media have continued to claim, without any corroborating evidence, that the seized materials included nuclear secrets of some kind. However, the newly unsealed court documents would appear to debunk that as well.

Throughout the entire indictment processTrump has firmly insisted that he is not guilty of any crimes since he had the authority under the Presidential Records Act to designate files as “personal” at his discretion, according to the precedents set by prior administrations.

The GOP’s 2024 presidential frontrunner has further argued that the lawfare attacks against him are entirely politically motivated.

“They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom,” Trump said in a video message posted in June on his Truth Social platform.

“They are not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” he continued. “I just happen to be standing in their way.”

New 9/11 Research: WTC Building 7 Fell by Controlled Demolition

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New 9/11 Research: WTC Building 7 Fell by Controlled Demolition

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Journal of 9/11 Studies published a new paper in June, further making the case that Building 7 of the World Trade Center was destroyed by a controlled demolition on Sept. 11, 2001—and not by fires caused by the main two towers collapsing, as the official narrative claims.

Dissident researchers have been arguing for years that Building 7 collapsed at free-fall speeds, which suggests a controlled demolition.

The new paper in the Journal of 9/11 Studies further makes this case by measuring multiple points along the building, including the north and west face rooflines, as well as the north screen wall and the west penthouse.

The authors of the research—including David Chandler, who has a degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College; and Tony Szamboti, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Villanova University—said their measurements indicated that the entire roofline of Building 7 entered free fall instantaneously and simultaneously to within two-tenths of a second.

“In summary, our new measurements show that WTC 7’s instantaneous transition to free fall did not occur only across the north face roofline of the building,” they said. “It occurred virtually simultaneously across the entire measurable roofline on the visible north and west sides of the building.”

According to the researchers, their finding undercut previous research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which is a federal agency that conducts scientific research.

NIST has claimed that Building 7’s roof gradually accelerated to free-fall speeds, which would support government’s official narrative that Building 7 collapsed from damage and fire caused by debris from the North Tower.

But NIST only used one point of measurement on the rooftop to reach that conclusion, according to the new research, which argues that NIST’s methodology doesn’t tell the whole story.

“While a point near the center of the north face roofline did begin to experience minimal downward motion at the time NIST labels as ‘global collapse initiation,’ the rest of the north face and west face rooflines remained essentially motionless for about 1.4 seconds,” the new research paper said.

“After that, the entire north face and west face rooflines instantaneously transitioned to free fall,” it continued. “This instantaneous transition to free fall of the entire measurable roofline is conspicuously absent from NIST’s description of the downward motion.”

The Journal of 9/11 Studies research follows a significant revelation about the terrorist attacks earlier this year.

In March, veteran national security reporter Seth Hettena published a government document citing two unnamed FBI agents who allegedly said that the CIA was monitoring and attempting to recruit two of the airplane hijackers in the lead-up to the attack.

The government document is a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro, who summarized the inteviews he conducted with FBI agents about the 9/11 case.

According to Canestraro, at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit two of the hijackers—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.

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

Lefty NYTimes Columnist Torches Biden for Denying Grandchild’s Existence

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Lefty NYTimes Columnist Torches Biden for Denying Grandchild’s Existence

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) In her latest New York Times piece, left-wing columnist Maureen Dowd called out President Joe Biden’s hypocrisy concerning his 4-year-old granddaughter, Navy, whom he refuses to acknowledge.

Dowd’s column, “It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President,” argued that Biden’s treatment of Navy demonstrated that the core of his political message is a farce.

“Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family,’” she noted. “It is the heart of his political narrative.”

Indeed, the long-serving politician has often put the private financial interests of the Biden family above the national security interests of the American people, and has steadfastly defended and enabled the criminal behavior of many of his close relatives.

Dowd quoted a letter her “Republican” sister had written to Biden, a man she reportedly had lost friends doting over.

“I watched as you told the nation that you had six grandchildren and you loved each one of them,” said the letter.

“I believe that,” it continued. “What I cannot believe and what I find unconscionable is that you refuse to admit or accept the fact that there is a beautiful little 4-year-old girl living in Arkansas by the name of Navy Joan who is your seventh grandchild.”

Dowd herself then argued that the public rejection of the girl—the product of a short-lived fling between Hunter Biden and then-Washington, D.C.-based stripper Lunden Roberts—could cause tremendous psychological harm.

Reports have indicated that Navy is aware of who her father and grandfather are and speaks often of them, even though she has never met them.

“Callously scarring Navy’s life, just as it gets started,” demonstrated just how “inauthentic the 80-year-old president’s view of family is,” Dowd wrote.

Although Biden has routinely dismissed any wrongdoing on Hunter’s part until the evidence of his criminal conduct reaches the point of being irrefutable, Dowd suggested that the denial of Navy’s existence was inconsistent with his approach to his 53-year-old son’s litany of other scandals.

“The president can’t defend Hunter on all his other messes and draw the line at accepting one little girl,” she wrote.

“You can’t punish her for something she had no choice about,”Dowd continued. “The president’s cold shoulder—and heart—is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.”

Dowd is no stranger to exposing presidents. After other leftist media refused to report on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, Dowd’s Pulitzer-winning work helped exposed the scandal at the heart of Clinton’s 1998 impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice, according to the Irish Times.

Indian Tribe Wants to Reclaim Vermont Land Where Ben & Jerry’s is Located

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Indian Tribe Wants to Reclaim Vermont Land Where Ben & Jerry’s is Located

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, invited the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company to return “stolen indigenous land” to the tribe after the company encouraged Americans to do likewise in an Independence Day social media post.

“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” the company tweeted.

The post linked to an activist diatribe against Mount Rushmore as a symbol of American colonization and requested readers sign a petition to return South Dakota’s Black Hills to the Lakota Indians.

There was no indication in the article whether the Lakota tribe requested a partnership, or if this was a voluntary effort on part of the ice cream company.

However, Ben & Jerry’s found themselves in a bind when Stevens recommended they start by returning the land the company is headquartered on.

According to the Washington Times, the Ben & Jerry’s HQ in South Burlington, Vermont, occupied Western Abenaki land.

Stevens invited the company to follow through on its commitment to returning the land, saying he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit indigenous people.”

He called the Abenaki a “place-based people,” and claimed they were “stewards of the land.”

Indeed, their history in the region goes back to before the government legally recognized tribes within the state.

Stevens also commented on the quality of the ice cream from the company.

“I enjoy ice cream. I’ve tried theirs [Ben & Jerry’s] and I’ve tried many others,” he said. “It’s a product like any other product.”

Ben & Jerry’s did not respond to the tribe by the time of publishing.

Since their post went live, Unilever—the Ben & Jerry’s parent company—lost $2.5 billion in market cap value due to boycotts.

The ice cream company has long inserted itself in to the Left’s pet social causes. In fact, a stipulation for Unilever purchasing the company from founders Bennet Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in 2000 was public involvement in left-leaning activism.

It as been criticized in the past for its anti-Semitic stances, including a 2021 boycott of Israel in protest of its relationship with Palestine.

The company also came out with a new flavor of ice cream in 2021 that supported the controversial “Defund the Police” movement.

Watch: Mark Levin’s Dire Warning About Biden DOJ’s ‘Rogue Operation’

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Watch: Mark Levin’s Dire Warning About Biden DOJ’s ‘Rogue Operation’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA)  In a scathing critique of the Biden administration, conservative commentator Mark Levin unleashed a scorching attack on the controversy-ridden DOJ, accusing it of functioning as a “rogue operation” under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland.   

During a Sunday segment, Levin, who had previously worked at the DOJ, voiced his concerns about the agency’s alleged politicization and disregard for established norms. 

“The Department of Justice has become the rogue operation of the federal government under Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland. Controlled by the democratic party in a radical left,” Levin declared. “This department is destroying America. It’s destroying the 2024 election. It is violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to ensure that the department could be trustworthy and could be reliable. But it has criminalized politics.” 

Levin warned that the DOJ will destroy the country if it continues this path. “I want to say this: If we do not break the back of the Department of Justice—and I will explain what I mean in a moment—it will destroy this country and we will not be able to claw our way back,” Levin added. “This is not hyperbole. I don’t need to be.” 

Levin expressed his astonishment at the conduct of the DOJ, suggesting that the leaks filling the pages of leftist news organizations allegedly originated from the Biden DOJ. These leaks, Levin warned, demonstrate a departure from standard prosecutorial practices

“Who do these leaks help? Do they help Donald Trump? Do they help a single witness?” asked Levin in reference to a handful of negative stories at CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post.  “It is the federal government, it is the Biden Department of Justice, it is the Democratic Party’s Department of Justice that’s interfering in the election and trying to do many other things.”  

Levin called upon his audience to reflect on the alleged leaks orchestrated by the same news outlets during the Trump presidency and blasted former Attorney General Bill Barr for allegedly running cover for the DOJ.

“‘Don’t jerk around the Department of Justice,’ [Bill Barr] says. Who is jerking who around here?” Levin asked. “Is this how you run a case? Is this how you have a tradition in the country that sits there and rubber stamps everything damn thing?”

Citing the American Bar Association’s rules on the responsibilities of prosecutors, Levin underscored the requirement for prosecutors to avoid extrajudicial comments that could unduly condemn the accused.  

“Here is the ABA rules, special responsibilities for prosecutor, rule 3.8… ‘The prosecutor in a criminal case shall: except for the statements that are necessary to inform the public of the nature and extent of the prosecutor’s action and that serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose, refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused,’” Levin quoted passionately.

Disturbing: GA Socialist Mayor Arrested over Trespassing, Burglary

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Disturbing: GA Socialist Mayor Arrested over Trespassing, Burglary

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The embattled mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, has been arrested on Saturday after trespassing on a private property he claimed was abandoned.

According to Fox News, Khalid Kamau, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, has been charged with criminal trespass and burglary in the first degree.

A spokesperson for the city’s police department expressed their commitment to upholding law and order. “The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment,” stated the City of South Fulton, as reported by Fox. “As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time.”

The mayor dismissed the allegations of criminal behavior, explaining that he simply wanted to see the house. “I do apologize to the owners. I thought it was abandoned,” Kamau told Fox 5 Atlanta.

The property owner allegedly caught the mayor in the act of entering the premises and instructed him to stay put while holding him at gunpoint until law enforcement officials arrived.

During the encounter, Kamau reportedly cursed at the homeowner, responding in anger, “Do you know who the f**k I am? I’m the Mayor, and I’ll wait for my police to get here and see what happens then,” as stated in a police report obtained by WSBTV.

The homeowner firmly responded, saying, “No motherf***ker, you stay right there.” He later added, “If you take another step, I’m going to shoot you,” as documented in the police report. Kamau provocatively replied, “Are you going to shoot me while I’m walking away?”

In a seemingly nonchalant manner, the handcuffed mayor addressed a reporter outside a local police department. “I do want to thank the South Fulton police and the staff of officers for their courteous and professional service throughout the day,” he expressed, as captured in a video obtained by the New York Post.

According to NBC News, City Council member Natasha Williams-Brown, who also serves as mayor pro tem, has been sworn in as acting mayor while the investigation continues.

In addition to his recent arrest, Kamau is facing a lawsuit from Williams-Brown and four other elected officials in the city council. The council members are seeking to remove Kamau from office, alleging that he leaked confidential information for his political benefit.

Top Dem. Issues Ultimatum on Biden’s Use of Cluster Bombs in Ukraine

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Top Dem. Issues Ultimatum on Biden’s Use of Cluster Bombs in Ukraine

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., blasted the Biden White House’s controversial decision to funnel cluster bombs in a recent interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

In her appearance on State of the Union on Sunday did not shy away from expressing her opposition to Biden’s reckless move.

“Cluster bombs should never be used. That is crossing the line,” Lee said. “Once you see what takes place—we know what takes place in terms of cluster bombs being very dangerous to civilians. They don’t always immediately explode. Children could step on them. That is a line we should not cross.” Lee emphasized the grave dangers posed by cluster bombs to civilians, highlighting their potential to harm innocent lives even after the initial explosion.”

Lee, a Democrat running for California senator, still endorsed Biden’s actions in Ukraine, warning that the use of cluster bombs would mark a step too far.

 “I think the president’s been doing a good job managing this war, this Putin aggressive war against Ukraine,” Lee added. “But I think that this should not happen. He had to ask for a wavier under the Foreign Assistance Act just to do it because we have been preventing the use of cluster bombs since I believe 2010.”

Lee’s scathing remarks echoed those of several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., who took to Twitter to accuse Biden of usurping Congress’s ban on cluster bombs.

“Biden invoked his power under the Foreign Assistance Act to bypass a congressional ban of cluster munitions by claiming that vital U.S. national security interests are at stake in order to send hundreds of thousands of controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine,” Green said. “Cluster munitions are banned by over 120 countries including most of NATO. The American people and United States national security interest are not in danger in Ukraine.”

Lee’s comments also come days after the Biden administration announced that the U.S. will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine on the eve of the NATO summit in Lithuania.

“We recognize the cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance,” said Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, during a White House briefing. “This is why we’ve deferred the decision for as long as we could.”

According to Headline USA, a spokesperson for the U.N. Human Rights office slammed Biden’s decision, saying,  “the use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place.”

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