Seattle Wants App Ordinance to Meddle in Private Businesses

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Seattle Wants App Ordinance to Meddle in Private Businesses

(By TJ Martinell, The Center Square) A city of Seattle proposal limiting the ability of companies to deactivate app-based workers has drawn criticism from businesses, community leaders, and customers themselves.

At a June 27 meeting of the Public Safety and Human Rights Committee, numerous individuals testifying on the proposed ordinance warned it would undermine safety for customers and discourage them from reporting inappropriate behavior.

“There are few things more important to me, my community, my family, than safety,” Bishop Garry Tyson told the committee. Tyson is the pastor at Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church.

Under the proposed ordinance, companies with 250 or more employees would have to conduct an investigation of alleged misconduct and establish “reasonable policies” for deactivating a worker’s account. If that were to happen, a worker would have 14 days’ notice that their account is to be deactivated.

However, an exemption would be made, allowing for immediate deactivation if there were allegations of “egregious misconduct.” Since it was first proposed in May, the draft ordinance has been amended to provide more types of behavior that would fall under that category such as:

  • Racial slurs
  • Animal cruelty
  • Other conduct that would constitute a Class A felony offense

However, Tyson argued during his testimony that the ordinance still doesn’t allow for immediate action in all instances that demand it. “The public deserves the peace of mind knowing they [workers] will be removed from the platform immediately.”

One man testifying stated he uses the app Rover to find pet sitters for his three animals for extended periods of time. He told the committee “I am especially alarmed about this bill” and that Rover should be able to “leverage comprehensive background checks” to prevent pet sitters with a history of animal abuse from being hired.

“I really don’t want to have to worry about additional danger from ordinances like this,” he said.

Another aspect of the proposal that has raised concerns is what Laura Curtis with app-based food delivery company DoorDash described to the committee as “extensive disclosure requirements” in which a worker whose account is deactivated receives information from the employer related to the complaint made against them.

She said that even if personal information is redacted before being sent, it could still contain enough data to “potentially spur unsafe escalations or retaliations,” leading to situations where customers choose not to report misconduct out of fear.

That apprehension was shared by Tyson. “This problem is rare but must be taken seriously.”

TechNet’s Washington and Northwest Executive Director Ashley Sutton also told the committee the ordinance contains “significant privacy concerns for businesses and customers.”

“App-based workers are rarely deactivated, but when they are businesses must retain the ability to act quickly to address safety concerns.”

Agendas Run Rampant Over Science in the Biden Administration

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Agendas Run Rampant Over Science in the Biden Administration

(By Michael Chamberlain, RealClear Wire) “Disinformation and misinformation is the bona fide enemy of public health,” Dr. Anthony Fauci stated in a recent interview. But he also said, “We should embrace differences in opinion.”

What if misinformation is coming from the public health officials themselves? And lately, government has not seemed to embrace differences in opinion, preferring instead to smother contrary opinions. The resulting erosion of trust in the officials in charge – less than half of Americans trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on COVID – could be more damaging than any “misinformation” found on social media.

Far too often in recent years, when science gets in the way of the government’s agenda, science is disregarded, ignored, or undermined. The CDC, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes of Health have appeared to make policy decisions and public representations inconsistent with science — including their own science.

Science is undermined when scientists and the institutions that apply science do not follow the findings of unbiased studies. And science is undermined when those institutions do not make a good faith effort to collect data and let the data dictate a conclusion. When “science” gets tunnel vision for a result, it ceases to be science.

The Biden administration came into office promising to restore science as the driver of policy. Led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the administration adopted strict scientific integrity standards at federal agencies. So far, though, the results don’t comport with the rhetoric.

After documenting a number of alleged violations of these standards, Protect the Public’s Trust filed a scientific integrity complaint with OSTP. The complaint was based on our tracking of numerous instances of the government either ignoring scientific findings, manipulating data, or misrepresenting data to make the science conform to policy objectives.

Each example is eye-opening. In one case, the CDC claimed that vaccinations offer higher protection from COVID-19 than a previous infection. This talking point, however, was based on data cherry-picked from a single state within a fifty-state study. So, the CDC’s talking points were possibly taken from an outlier, not the entire dataset.

Worse, the cited study did not even make a comparison between those with immunity solely from vaccination and those with immunity from prior infection, as the CDC’s public statements claimed. Yet high-ranking officials at the CDC and other components of the Department of Health and Human Services touted these misrepresentations unequivocally.

It’s not just misrepresentations to the public. Actual policy decisions undermined science. In August 2022, the CDC endorsed COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged six months to four years, saying that a “lower risk of symptomatic Covid-19 was observed with vaccination compared to placebo.”

But it also noted that severe adverse events were “more common in vaccine recipients.” To make matters worse, the claim that vaccinated children were at lower risk of showing symptoms was based upon bad science. “You can inject [children] with it or squirt it in their face, and you’ll get the same benefit,” one high-level CDC official declared. So, the CDC made this recommendation without proof of its efficacy, while acknowledging that the children were at heightened risk of severe adverse events. 

The prioritization of policy agendas over science is not isolated to the pandemic. Protect the Public’s Trust’s research indicates that the FDA appears to have breached its obligation to uphold scientific integrity in its decision-making about vaping. We believe that the FDA knowingly disseminated scientifically unfounded statements about vaping products that were contrary to the FDA’s own research. Also ignoring its own research, and without proper scientific justification, the FDA overruled its own scientists’ recommendations to authorize menthol vapes.

The Biden administration often decries “misinformation” about anything contradicting its own narratives, but it appears to be one of the worst purveyors of misinformation. Citizens can’t trust a government that misrepresents the results of studies, or prevents the collection of, or even intentionally hides, data.

The American public should expect that its science-based institutions and most prominent spokesmen follow the science and use the scientific method in reaching policy decisions. Unless these institutions and their leadership change course, public trust will continue to plummet.

Why the Coming Death of Cable TV Is One of the Greatest Stories of Our Time

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Why the Coming Death of Cable TV Is One of the Greatest Stories of Our Time

(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) For more than a quarter-century, we’ve been hearing predictions about the demise of cable—and with it, cable news.

A Pew Research article from 2000 showed the trends began more than 30 years ago, when consumption of broadcast and local news began to decline, and users began to get more news (and entertainment) online.

These trends have only increased since, to the extent that the long decline in cable news may finally be reaching its end.

“This week might well mark the last time we ever care so much about cable TV news,” veteran media analyst Alan Wolk noted in April, following the surprising departures of Tucker Carlson from Fox News and Don Lemon from CNN.

Wolk wasn’t saying cable news was necessarily a terrible product; it was an obsolete one on an obsolete platform. While he didn’t predict that the death of cable was imminent, he made it clear it might be time to start looking for hospice care.

“…eventually, probably sometime in the next five to ten years, cable TV is going to stop being worth it for all parties involved and will, for all intents and purposes, disappear,” Wolk wrote.

End of Days? 

The decline of cable is obviously bad news for the six largest cable news networks (Fox, CNN, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNBC, and HLN).

Paul Farhi of the Washington Post points out that fewer people watching cable news doesn’t just mean less ad revenue, which accounted for $2.6 billion in revenue collectively for the cable giants last year. It also means less revenue from cable providers, who provide cable news networks the majority of their revenue ($4 billion) through licensing fees.

“…the day could soon come when an exodus of cable subscribers leaves cable operators unable to afford the hefty license fees that those news programmers now command,” Farhi writes.

This is obviously bad news for cable news companies. Ditto for talking heads like Jake Tapper and Sean Hannity, both of whom pull in eight-figure salaries.

For consumers, content creators and society generally, however, the collapse of cable news is nothing to be feared.

Of Creative Destruction and ‘Obsolescent Industries’

In his classic work Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Austrian political economist Joseph Schumpeter stated that by its very nature capitalism is an evolutionary process, one that is never stagnant or stationary. He explained that capitalism “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one.” Schumpeter saw there would be a natural impulse to “conserve obsolescent industries,” but he rightly understood this was generally a futile and self-defeating task.

“At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction,” Schumpeter wrote of the economic concept he coined.

Today’s cable news networks are victims of this process, “creative destruction.” They are the “obsolescent industries” of which Schumpeter speaks, and consumers are fleeing for greener pastures where they are served with better options.

Companies like Netflix are often credited with disrupting the movie industry, and they have. But this disruption goes well beyond Hollywood. Online streaming has disrupted the entire media landscape, and it’s not just Fortune 500 companies like Netflix, Apple, Google, and Amazon doing the disrupting. Spotify, Substack, Twitter, Rumble, and others have given content creators new platforms to reach hundreds of millions of people.

This media evolution is a great deal for consumers. Instead of dropping $200 a month for a ridiculous number of channels, viewers can purchase subscriptions as they see fit. Baseball fans can purchase a yearly MLB package for $150—less than a single month of the price of cable. Netflix can be bought for as little as $6.99 a month. Amazon customers get streaming thrown in for free with their Prime subscription. Fans of commentary can purchase HBO Max (now just Max) and get their political fix with Bill Maher in addition to the movies and original programming. If Maher isn’t enough, they can watch countless other commentators for free on YouTube or Rumble.

For consumers and content creators, we’re living in a new golden age of media. Consumers have virtually endless options, and each of us is able to select from the menu based on our individual tastes and pocketbooks. Content creators, meanwhile, get to pursue their entrepreneurial passion and get paid by bringing their message to audiences.

This of course doesn’t mean that there are no losers.

For Sean Hannity, who rakes in a reported $43 million a year, this democratization of media is probably distressing. Ditto for legacy media companies, who now have to compete with more content creators than ever. And then there is the government.

Nobody is likely to be more concerned over our brave new world of media freedom than the state, which historically has attempted to control and restrict the free flow of information to suit its own ends. This task was considerably easier prior to the democratization of media, when the nightly news consisted of Walter Cronkite reporting each evening.

To be fair, I think many of today’s cable news hosts could learn something from Cronkite, the “most trusted” man in America, who exuded professionalism and objectivity with his dispassionate style.

But make no mistake: More choices and voices is a healthy thing for a democratic society, and that’s exactly what the market has provided.

Retired Navy SEAL May Hold Key to GOP Senate Flip in 2024

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Retired Navy SEAL May Hold Key to GOP Senate Flip in 2024

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Highly-decorated veteran Tim Sheehy, a Republican, officially launched his 2024 campaign for the U.S. Senate in Montana on Tuesday, offering “a new generation of leadership” to unseat three-term Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., reclaiming the red-leaning state from the left’s grip.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, stated that America needed a change in leadership. The veteran said he learned valuable lessons about leadership from being in a foxhole in Afghanistan and “when the chips are down there is really only one political party – and that’s American,” he told the news outlet regarding the Biden administration.

Sheehy was honored with the Bronze Star with Valor for Heroism in Combat and the Purple Heart Medal before getting involved in politics. He has successfully run several businesses, in addition to sharing a happy life with his wife, Carmen, who is a Marine veteran.

“Jon Tester has been in office for nearly a quarter of a century and he’s lost sight of our Montana values. He’s supporting Biden and Schumer’s liberal agenda,” said Sheehy, who currently has the GOP field to himself.

Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Montana Republican who ran for the seat and lost in 2018, is also eyeing a bid to oust Tester but hasn’t made an officials announcement, according to Politico.

Tester is not faring well this news cycle, making his seat more vulnerable to the GOP.

A recent report by the Associated Press revealed Tester was taking contributions from lobbyists and corporate executives while also being instrumental in directing billions of dollars through government spending packages. This came as a surprising shift for Tester, who was previously against accepting such contributions.

A story in Politico took things one step further, reporting Tester allowed lobbyists to have an even greater impact on his legislative agenda.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Steve Daines, R-Mont., heralded Sheehy’s decision but he did not endorse him. “Tim Sheehy is a decorated veteran, successful businessman, and a great Montanan. I could not be happier that he has decided to enter the Montana Senate race,” Daines said in a recent statement.

Tester managed to win multiple elections since 2006 — even with Donald Trump winning the state by a large margin in 2020. The Democrat Party currently holds a slim 51-49 Senate majority going into next year’s election.

Montana’s Senate seat was viewed as vulnerable by the GOP, alongside other states with Democrat-held seats such as West Virginia, Ohio, Arizona and Wisconsin.

“From inflation to our border to our deficit, America is ready for change. And I think it’s time for a new generation of leaders to step up,” Sheehy told Fox News. “Leaders who understand servant leadership, which is putting the mission before yourself, and leaders who understand how to get results.”

Probe of Tranny Democrat Lawmaker Snares Pedophile Daycare Worker

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Probe of Tranny Democrat Lawmaker Snares Pedophile Daycare Worker

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) During the ongoing probe into transgender Democrat ex-state representative Stacie Laughton of New Hampshire, authorities discovered that a daycare worker had been sexually exploiting children, Fox News reported.

Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, New Hampshire, who worked at Creative Minds daycare in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, was charged Thursday with the exploitation of children, as well as the distribution of child pornography.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Groves allegedly took the photos during bathroom breaks and diaper changes, later sending them via text message.

The investigation so far has revealed several pictures exchanged of naked children between the ages of three and five years old.

According to Nashua police, they first responded “to a local facility for a juvenile matter” on June 20, when they “spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton, the state’s first transgender legislator, distributed sexually explicit images of children.”

Sexual exploitation of children convictions come with a 15- to 30-year sentence, and a fine of up to $250,000.

Distribution of child pornography convictions carry a minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison, and also a fine of up to $250,000.

Groves had taken photos of the children naked and sent them to “an individual with whom she was previously in an intimate relationship.”

Authorities did not identify the former partner of Groves, but the connection to the Laughton cannot be ignored. Police confirmed that the same investigation led to the detainment of Groves.

Drama between the two has been unfolding for the past several months. Laughton resigned from the New Hampshire House of Representatives in December after being charged with stalking Groves.

The Creative Minds daycare center has since closed, and is reportedly cooperating with the investigation.

REPORT: Trump is the Only Living President Not Descended From Slaveholders

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REPORT: Trump is the Only Living President Not Descended From Slaveholders

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump is the only living U.S. president not descended from slaveholders, according to a new report from Reuters.

The report, which detailed the ancestry of America’s political leaders, including members of the 117th Congress, found that Presidents Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all come from families with ties to slavery. 

Two Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 members of Congress are similarly descended from slave-holding ancestors.

Obama’s mother’s side reportedly owned black slaves. 

Meanwhile, Trump’s family did not immigrate to the U.S. until slavery had already been abolished.

The report comes amidst a debate over reparations to black Americans descended from enslaved families. California was the first state to establish a commission to study the idea, with the result being a massive $800 billion cash payment proposal.

However, the proposal has proven too extreme for even Democrats. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has refused to publicly back cash payments.

“Dealing with that legacy [of slavery] is about much more than cash payments,” Newsom said, though a spokesperson later clarified that the governor was “not ruling anything out.”

Even some members of the California Reparations Task Force have acknowledged the need to be “realistic.”

“I’m not going to sit here and make the promise that everybody’s going to get a check,” said state Sen. Steven Bradford, one of the task force members. “I want people to have a broader view on what reparations could be and a greater acceptance that it might take a little time.” 

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former state senator who helped pass the law establishing the task force in the first place, admitted that cash payments are likely unfeasible. “Because now you’re talking resources, now you’re talking investment,” she said.

Weber also admitted that giving people money may not be the best way to help them improve their lives.

“If we say that the health disparity in this country is great and every black person gets $5,000, will that change the health disparities in California? Probably not,” she said.

Radical Mich. Bill Seeks to Make ‘Severe Mental Anguish’ a Hate Crime

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Radical Mich. Bill Seeks to Make ‘Severe Mental Anguish’ a Hate Crime

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) House Democrats in the state of Michigan recently passed bill HB 4474, which, if signed into law, would allow victims of “severe mental anguish” to press charges against the alleged perpetrators with felony hate crimes.

Charges of a felony hate crime for causing the alleged “anguish” could result in up to five years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.

According to the Michigan Review, HB 4474 mandates that the “severe mental anguish” be based on “perceived characteristics,” such as race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, national origin or ethnicity.

The bill loosely defines “severe mental anguish” as “a substantial change in mental functioning that can be perceived by another individual and caused by a defendant [by]… intentionally causing great bodily injury… administering mind-altering substances… [or] threat[s] with imminent death.”

The Left’s definition of “violence” has raised several questions in recent years, as it appears that previously benign statements—or even silence—could qualify as violence against any specific group of people.

For example, during congressional testimony Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked Khiara Bridges, a University of California law professor, how she would legally define the word “woman.”

This simple line of questioning allegedly “open[ed] up transgender people to violence,” Bridges claimed.

Under Michigan’s potential law, the simple request to define the word “woman” could potentially cause a trans person enough anguish that the asker may face sentencing and prison.

Critics of the bill claimed that the vague language would allow people to take advantage of the bill to imprison their political or cultural opponents. Many argued that it was also in violation of the First Amendment.

The bill passed through the state House 59-50 and will likely pass through the Senate as well.

If passed, Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a far-left Democrat, will likely sign the bill into law.

The governor previously referred to women as “people with periods,” and has made other efforts to pander to leftist sensibilities.

Fauci Lands New Gig as ‘Distinguished Professor’ at Georgetown

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Fauci Lands New Gig as ‘Distinguished Professor’ at Georgetown

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Ex-coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci has landed a big money sinecure, accepting a job at Georgetown University according to a university press release.

Beginning on July 1, Fauci will serve as a “Distinguished University Professor” in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Georgetown President John J. DeGioia released a statement praising Fauci and bestowing upon him one of the highest honors a university can grant: a distinguished professorship.

“We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a dedicated public servant, humanitarian and visionary global health leader, to Georgetown,” DeGioia said, noting that Fauci has been a symbol of the spirit of Jesuitism, in recognition of the school’s Catholic heritage.

Although brought up in the church, Fauci has said he now considers himself spiritually to be a “humanist,” but, as he often has in his long government career, he seemed ready once again to reinvent himself and adapt to the shifting set of circumstances in order to advance his own priorities, such as wealth and adulation.

“Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time,” DeGioia said.

In response to receiving such honors, Fauci noted that he was a good fit for the job.

“I am delighted to join the Georgetown family, an institution steeped in clinical and academic excellence with an emphasis on the Jesuit tradition of public service,” Fauci said.

“This is a natural extension of my scientific, clinical and public health career, which was initially grounded from my high school and college days where I was exposed to intellectual rigor, integrity and service-mindedness of Jesuit institutions.”

Georgetown’s statement also praised Fauci for his help in “raising awareness” for the “LGBTQIA+ community” during the 1980s AIDS panic.

“They were not paid attention to because the standard way was ‘We’re the scientists, you’re the community,” Fauci said, condemning the scientists of the past for not being sufficiently woke.

According to Fauci, those scientists said, “we know better. Trust us. Listen to us. Everything will be alright.’”

Fauci, by contrast, dedicated himself to the task of trying to find a successful HIV vaccine—which included some of the questionable research methods that would later come to be his hallmark during his funding of the COVID-19 experiments in Wuhah, China.

His research into HIV included testing experimental drugs on children living in foster homes, as well as using a controversial cancer treatment on AIDS patients that wound up killing more than the virus itself.

Nonetheless, Fauci said the trial-and-error experiences proved a valuable learning opportunity for the young and ambitious scientist as he sought to work his way to becoming America’s highest paid public servant.

The lockdown zealot noted that his lived experience through the AIDS pandemic convinced him that he needed to be more open-minded when dealing with far-left radicals.

“And when I listened to what they were saying, they were making perfect sense. … What was starting off as a confrontational relationship turned into a major collaboration that very likely saved a lot of lives.”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

White House Claims Americans Thriving Financially in Biden Economy

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White House Claims Americans Thriving Financially in Biden Economy

(Headline USA) White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed this week that Americans feel better about their finances under President Joe Biden.

During a press briefing on Monday, reporters grilled Jean-Pierre on Biden’s upcoming speech that will reportedly tout “Bidenomics.” One reporter pointed out that only 34% of Americans approve of the president’s handling of the economy, which has suffered under record-high inflation rates since he took office.

“When you think about how Americans feel better about their personal finances, that is important. When you think about wages are going up, when you think about the really good paying, millions of good-paying jobs, union jobs that his policies are going to create, all the things are really incredibly important,” Jean-Pierre replied. “So the president’s going to continue to speak to that.”

“The only people in America who feel better about their personal finances are the Biden Crime Family,” cracked Rep. bob Good, R-Va., in response to the White House’s claims.

Reporters continued to press the issue on Tuesday, with principal deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton filling in for Jean-Pierre. 

Dalton was asked why polling indicates Americans believe former President Donald Trump did a better job at handling the economy than Biden, if they are so content with Biden’s economic policies. Dalton responded by claiming Biden shepherded the U.S. through a faster and stronger post-COVID recovery than any other nation.

“That’s happening because of President Biden’s leadership, because of the economic agenda he’s put forward,” she said. “Two and a half years into this administration, we’re just seeing the first impacts of all the historic legislation that he was able to achieve in the first couple of years.”

Dalton then claimed that Americans are “just starting to feel” the positive impacts of Biden’s policies — ignoring the fact that Americans are saving less, spending less and earning less than they were under Trump.

“People are just starting to see the impact of all of the successes of the last couple of years under this president’s economic agenda,” she said.

Trump Hints at Moving for Mistrial over Leaked DOJ Evidence

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Trump Hints at Moving for Mistrial over Leaked DOJ Evidence

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Conservatives are in an uproar over evidence in the Donald Trump classified documents case being leaked to CNN, suggesting that Justice Department officials should be prosecuted over the matter and that Trump should move for a mistrial.

Trump apparently thinks that’s a good idea. The former president shared posts on his Truth Social on Thursday morning that call for legal repercussions for the apparent DOJ leak.

“Trump’s lawyers need to file an immediate motion, with the long list of leaks as an exhibit, asking that the entire case be dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct and the government’s effort to influence the jury pool,” said a Trump-shared post from political commentator and attorney Mark Levin.

“Moreover, I would insist that the court determine whether DOJ has opened investigations into these felonies. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW!”

Other prominent conservatives have also called for charges against Trump to be dropped due to the leak.

“The leak of the Trump tape could and, in light of other prosecutorial abuse, should end the Biden regime’s current prosecution of Trump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said on Twitter.

Still other Trump supporters are looking at the bigger geopolitical picture. The leaked audio shows that the Pentagon had been planning to attack Iran—undermining reports from 2021 that it was Trump who had been pushing to attack that country.

“With [Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark] Milley – let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t it amazing? I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this. This is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him,” Trump said, according to the recording.

The Twitter account “BigFish3000” pointed out that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the mainstream media were part of the lie that Trump wanted to attack Iran in his final days in office.

“I had sought information from those in the position to know, that there are protections against this dangerous President initiating any military hostilities or something worse than that,” Pelosi told 60 Minutes in 2021.

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

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