New Video Exposes Biden’s Bewildering Boast: ‘I Sold a Lot of State Secrets’

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New Video Exposes Biden’s Bewildering Boast: ‘I Sold a Lot of State Secrets’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s recent attempt at humor during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday has drawn intense criticism after he jokingly said, “I sold a lot of state secrets.”

The president’s careless remark ignited a firestorm of backlash, particularly as House Republicans continue to focus on allegations that Biden was involved in an influence-peddling scheme connected to his embattled son, Hunter Biden.

Biden began his remarks in the East Room by saying, “We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.”

Later in his speech, Biden clarified that he was joking, claiming, “Now, all kidding aside — look, we’re teaming up to design and develop new technologies that are going to transform the lives of our people around the world.” 

Video footage of the remark quickly went viral on social media, with Collin Rugg, the co-owner of Trending Politics, saying, “Just one week after a whistleblower claimed Biden’s DOJ interfered in an investigation into Hunter Biden where he threatening a Chinese official to send money because his father was in the room, Biden ‘jokes’ about selling state secrets.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., took to Twitter to criticize Biden for making light of the allegations embroiling his administration, writing, “Joe Biden’s brain is going and he’s literally admitting his crimes out loud. Impeach Biden! It’s unreal and so insulting to America.”

Echoing Greene’s sentiment, journalist Ian Miles Cheong questioned Biden’s claims, asking, “What did Biden mean by this? ‘I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things…’ When these people tell you what they do, believe them.” Jenna Ellis, former Trump attorney commented, “The dementia is letting the truth slip out.”

Just last week, Biden faced intense scrutiny following the release of whistleblower testimony implicating him directly in Hunter Biden’s questionable business dealings. The revelation added further weight to the ongoing controversies surrounding both the Biden family and the White House.

Tranny Biden Official Wants to Extend ‘Pride’ Month to Entire Summer

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Tranny Biden Official Wants to Extend ‘Pride’ Month to Entire Summer

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After a “Pride Month” featuring naked perversions and heathen themes in parades and festivals across the country that were met with widespread criticism, the Biden administration’s military attache for transgenders, Admiral Richard “Rachel” Levine, declared that the month-long celebration should be extended to a “Summer of Pride.”

The administration’s assistant health secretary, Levine posted the message on the official U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Instagram account, celebrating “Pride Month” and demanding more.

“Happy Pride! Happy Pride Month, and actually — let’s declare it a summer of Pride. Happy Summer of Pride,” the post declared. Additionally, Levine posted a similar message on Twitter.

“Today officially marks the 1st Day of Summer… I see it as an opportunity for change in our communities, states & nation. It will take us all, but together we can create a wave of change. Let the ‘Summer of Pride’ begin!” Levine wrote.

“Let’s take the opportunity to educate others on equity, address misinformation & share our stories to foster change.”

Levine’s suggestion was not embraced by Twitter commentators, with several proclaiming “enough is enough” and one warning of “pride before the fall.”

Originally, “Pride month” began as a commemoration of the Stonewall riots of late June 1969, when activists rioted against police raids on the Stonewall pub, where homosexual men had been known to congregate and meet, Breitbart reported.

The month-long celebration it has created falls short of spreading the LGBT message, according to Levine’s call for a seasonal celebration. Levine, who in 2021 was sworn in as the first openly transgender four-star admiral in the armed forces, call for a season-long of “Pride,” has also been an outspoken champion for so-called gender-affirming surgery for minors.

“A day wasn’t enough. A week wasn’t enough. Now a month isn’t enough either,” wrote Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk. “Their cultural conquest knows no bounds.”

NYC Leftists Enflame Backlash w/ New Pizza-Making Rule

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NYC Leftists Enflame Backlash w/ New Pizza-Making Rule

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) New York City leftists ignited a firestorm of controversy when the latest target of their radical climate alarmist agenda took aim at pizzerias.

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’s Department of Environmental Protection is pushing new rules that would mandate all city restaurants to drastically change the way they use coal-and-wood-fired ovens to cook pizza and other foods, demanding they cut carbon emissions by up to 75%, according to the New York Post.

“All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air, and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,” insisted department spokesman Tim Timbers.

Restaurant owners and their patrons blasted the new rules, which critics said would require costly equipment upgrades and take a major slice of the pizzas’ unique flavor and texture. The proposed rules require eateries using coal-and-wood-fired ovens to hire an expert to assess the possibility of installing emission control devices to reduce so-called particulate emissions.

“This is an unfunded mandate and it’s going to cost us a fortune, not to mention ruining the taste of the pizza, totally destroying the product,” an anonymous pizzeria owner who uses a coal-fired oven told the Post.

“That pipe, that chimney, it’s that size to create the perfect updraft, keeps the temp perfect, it’s an art as much as a science,” he said. “You take away the char, the thing that makes the pizza taste great, you kill it.”

Dave Portnoy, a wildly popular pizza critic and founder of Barstool Sports, eviscerated NYC leftists for destroying their iconic pizza as their city crumbles.

“Some f–king little liberal arts, Ivy-League, pink-haired, crazy Liberal who’s never worked one day in the real world is trying to get rid of coal oven pizzerias in New York City,” Portnoy said in a blistering response to the city’s new rules.

“Do you know what’s going on in New York? You got people getting slashed in the subway. You got flash mobs robbing stores. And you’re coming for coal-oven pizzerias?”

Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., expressed the same sentiment, but with a more refined tone.

“Instead of virtue signaling, let’s talk reasonable solutions that might actually help keep our air and water clean and leave New Yorkers’ pizza alone,” Garbarino tweeted.

“I’m all for responsible environmental practice, but tell Al Gore to take one less private jet or something. Give me a break!” Brooklyn Heights resident Saavi Sharma told the Post. “I’ve been bragging about this pizza to my family for like five years. Don’t mess with this.”

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Dept. of Labor Overspent $321M

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Dept. of Labor Overspent $321M

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The Department of Labor spent $321.3 million more than it needed to from 2015 through 2020 on prescription drugs for its Federal Employees’ Compensation Program, according to a DOL Inspector General report.

The Department of Labor manages the FECA program, which administers workers compensation benefits to 2.6 million federal workers when they get hurt on the job. Part of that includes paying for prescription drugs.

Independent auditors found that the FECA program didn’t pay the best price for drugs, therefor not effectively managing pharmaceutical spending, leading to $321.3 million in excess spending on drugs.

The DOL didn’t use a pharmacy benefit manager, which negotiates prices to get a better deal on expensive drugs for healthcare systems, the report found.

Even worse, the program provided the wrong drugs to individuals, which in some cases could have had lethal consequences.

This included 1,330 prescriptions for a fast-acting fentanyl drug, despite having a policy that restricted its use. The report also found the program, “spent hundreds of millions of dollars on drugs that may not have been necessary or appropriate for FECA claimants.”

Overall, auditors found the program managers, “lacked sufficient clinical expertise and guidelines to ensure appropriate pharmaceutical decisions, which could negatively impact claimants’ health, recovery, and return to work.”

The incompetent administration of the FECA program has put the health of federal workers at risk, and wastes millions of dollars that could have been spent on healthcare to help workers recover and get back on the job quickly and safely.

Firm Funding CCP Tech and RINO Politicians Benefited from Silicon Valley Bank Bailout

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Firm Funding CCP Tech and RINO Politicians Benefited from Silicon Valley Bank Bailout

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. government would effectively bail out Silicon Valley Bank depositors in March, he said it was a decision to protect “American workers and small businesses.”

But recently released documents show that the SVB bailout benefited mega corporations, including Sequoia Capital, a firm that has recently been in the center of controversy for its funding of China tech companies and U.S. politicians.

The documents—which includes a SVB depositor list mistakenly released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Bloomberg—show that Sequoia had a $1 billion investment in SVB covered by the Biden bailout. A representative for Sequoia reportedly declined to comment on the depositor list.

Other depositors to benefit from the SVB bailout include Chinese tech firm Kanzhun, the Jeff Bezos-backed Altos Labs Inc. and streaming set-top box maker Roku Inc.

Sequoia has received particular attention from MAGA diehards due to its funding of RINO lawmakers such as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

Conservative political kingmaker Steve Bannon recently focused on Sequoia on his daily show, War Room. Bannon Bannon alleged that  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio,  quashed a congressional investigation into Sequoia because the firm supports his colleagues, McCarthy and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.

Bannon also accused Sequoia of being disloyal to America by funding CCP military tech.

“The reason he’s avoided Sequoia is because they’re a major funder of McCarthy and Scalise. We’ve got the receipts. Mike Turner has shut down an investigation into the Goldman Sachs of venture capital, Sequoia Capital, which is a funding mechanism of the Democratic Party,” Bannon said earlier this month.

“This is the biggest single scandal because Sequoia has taken American pension fund money and funded Chinese military artificial intelligence.”

Turner’s office has not responded to Bannon’s allegation. While his allegation about Turner quashing an investigation into Sequoia is unconfirmed, Bannon is correct that Sequoia is a major political funder that also invests in Chinese tech.

According to Federal Election Committee data, the McCarthy Victory Fund PAC received more than $1 million from Sequoia Global Partner Douglas Leone and his wife, Patricia Perkins-Leone.

And according to political watchdog Open Secrets, individuals affiliated with Sequoia made nearly $8 million in political donations in the 2022 interim elections. Top recipients were the Democrat-affiliated American Bridge 21st Century Fund ($3 million), the National Republican Congressional Committee ($1.1 million) and the Republican-affiliated Senate Leadership Fund ($1 million).

In terms of business investments, Sequoia’s portfolio is broad. The firm has invested in U.S. startups such as Airbnb, WhatsApp and Zoom. Sequoia has also backed Twitter under Elon Musk.

Most recently, Sequoia announced earlier this month that it’s investing in U.S. defense startup Mach Industries—what it called the “first-ever defense tech investment in the venture capital giant’s history.”

“Sequoia’s funding of a technology that aims to use hydrogen creation on the battlefield signals the latest interest from Silicon Valley investors in backing technologies that bolster U.S. national security and working with the Department of Defense,” the company said.

However, Sequoia also has investments in Chinese firms that have been accused of working against American interests.

The most prominent of these investments is TikTok parent company ByteDance, which faces accusations of providing American data to the CCP. Another Sequoia investment is in DJI, which was funded by the CCP and is now the world’s leading maker of drones.

In a May 6 article, the Times of London noted that Sequoia is not directly invested in CCP military contractors. But in China, the line between private company and CCP asset is “far more blurred than in the west.”

“China does a very good job of hiding its military technology inside consumer companies,” an anonymous source told the publication. “In America, these companies don’t have a member of the [Chinese government] CCP or the People’s Republic of China government… on their board. In China, for AI companies, you do.”

Despite these split lines, Sequoia is still preparing for an anticipated Biden White House executive order, which will reportedly limit U.S. firms from investing in Chinese tech. Sequoia announced two weeks ago that it’s splitting up its U.S., China and India operations into separate entities to avoid geopolitical conflicts.

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

Twitter Back to Censoring Conservative and Libertarian Accounts

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Twitter Back to Censoring Conservative and Libertarian Accounts

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When Elon Musk confirmed last month that the new Twitter CEO would be former NBCUniversal executive and World Economic Forum crony Linda Yaccarino, conservatives and libertarians worried that Musk was backtracking on his promise that his new company would be a free-speech platform.

It turns out, those fears were well-founded.

Numerous dissident political accounts—from high-profile accounts such as “Catturd” to humble users with several hundred followers—have reported being permanently banned, suspended and censored in recent weeks.

The renewed censorship crackdown extended to Headline USA. When this reporter posted a photo of the charred corpse of tax protestor Gordon Kahl—who the FBI killed and conflagrated this month 40 years ago—Twitter had it removed.

Headline USA appealed the decision, explaining that the picture was posted for journalistic reasons—it’s the same photo used in this story—but Twitter maintained its decision.

While this reporter had the option to restore his Twitter account by deleting the picture of Kahl, others have been outright banned. Libertarian Institute fellow Richard Booth had his account, @booth_okc, banned earlier this month for tweeting that President Joe Biden should be “wired up to an electric chair” over his recent corruption scandals.

Booth’s 5,000-plus follower account—which was the source of numerous original threads about the Oklahoma City bombing, Biden’s alleged dementia and other topics— had been suspended multiple times in the pre-Musk era for simply posting pictures of Hunter Biden smoking crack. Booth said he thinks the Twitter censors are busying themselves again now that Musk has appointed a new CEO.

Another conservative account to be permanently banned was “Autonomous Truck(er)s,” which gained prominence during Canada’s Freedom Convoy. It’s not clear why this account was banned.

Other prominent accounts have avoided overt censorship, but are experiencing technical difficulties. Such is the case for Revolver News’s Darren Beattie, who has been documenting instances where older videos of him commenting on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests experienced glitches.

Similar to Booth, Beattie suggested that a “rogue employee” might be driving the renewed censorship at Twitter.

The Columbia Bugle posted a thread of the instances where Beattie’s videos glitch.

Twitter did not respond to an email from Headline USA seeking comment on whether and why it’s changed its content-moderation policy. But the recent crackdown coincides with Twitter’s top advertisers returning to their usual spending habits.

All this harkens back to Yaccarino’s comments from April, shortly before Musk announced her as new CEO.

“[Advertisers] need to feel that there is an opportunity for them to influence what you’re building … moderation—that’s what the influence is,” she said.

Apparently, Yaccarino has given advertisers the influence they sought.

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

Tlaib Talks w/ Climate Extremists Whose Members Face FBI Probe for Destroying Priceless Artwork

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Tlaib Talks w/ Climate Extremists Whose Members Face FBI Probe for Destroying Priceless Artwork

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., held a Zoom call on Sunday organized by an environmental extremist group that had two members under FBI investigation for vandalism.

Fox News Digital reported that three prominent groups—namely Declare Emergency, Climate Defiance and the Climate Emergency Fund—talked with Tlaib, strategizing future plans aimed at disrupting climate change. 

Alarmingly, the call seemed to hint at encouraging even more acts of eco-terrorism under the pretext that only drastic action could help curb the dire situation faced by the environment.

“Fires, smoke, tornadoes, and unprecedented weather events are becoming commonplace as we experience climate breakdown,” the Zoom call summary read. “We cannot afford to wait a minute longer. Complacency is a luxury we choose to enjoy at our own peril.”

The main goal of the meeting was to motivate and energize activists to take action against climate change, the news outlet noted.

Declare Emergency, who was on the call on Sunday, had two members investigated by the FBI’s Art Crime Team for vandalizing a protective box around a famous statue in the National Gallery of Art in April.

Demonstrators Timothy Martin of North Carolina and Joanna Smith of New York caused $2,400 worth of damage and resulted in the removal of the display, Edward Degas’s “Little Dancer.” They could face up to five years in prison and a maximum $250,000 fine.

Climate Defiance was reportedly on the call. The group organized a fundraiser in the past with the stated objective of making “Complicit Climate Cowards’ Lives F—ing Miserable.”

According to their website, Climate Defiance has a “Pledge of Resistance” recruitment form, asking if the signer is willing to “risk” being arrested for the cause.

The Climate Emergency Fund was under scrutiny from conservative groups for funding radical environmental activists.

“Climate Emergency Fund has quickly become the ATM that radical environmental activists turn to fund their latest disruptions,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of the conservative watchdog Americans for Public Trust, said in an interview with the Washington Examiner in May. 

Tlaib’s spokesperson told Fox News Digital the congresswoman has no “official connection to any of the groups on Zoom.”

Trump Calls for Election of School Principals: ‘Parents Should Be Able To Fire Them’

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Trump Calls for Election of School Principals: ‘Parents Should Be Able To Fire Them’

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Former president Donald Trump called to reform education by rescinding tenure for public-school teachers and placing parents back in charge of their kids’ education during his speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

The 2024 frontrunner for the Republican presidential election blasted the current education system and said he would “immediately sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory; transgender activism; and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children,” the Gateway Pundit reported. 

Trump, 77, expressed his determination to fight for those parents’ rights. He emphasized the importance of protecting parents’ ability to make choices for their children and their families, declaring it a fundamental aspect of freedom and democracy.

While much attention has highlighted problems at the classroom level, with sites like Libs of TikTok exposing activist teachers who are driven by an idealogical agenda and not the well-being of their underage charges, Trump acknowledged that the systemic problems within the schools began with woke administrators pushing them down from above while failing to properly addresss political problems that arise.

“I refuse to abandon our public school system to these lunatics because what’s happening there is terrible,” a frustrated Trump noted

“That’s why I will fight for the direct election of school principals by the parents, the parents of the school,” he said. “If any principal is not getting the job done, the parents should be able to fire them immediately and select someone who will.”

Trump emphasized in the speech he will fight for school choice, including sending children to public, private charter, or religious schools of their choice.

He also announced plans to establish a new organization that will provide prestigious teacher certifications across the globe.

The certification would recognize educators who promote and support patriotic values and acknowledge their role as mentors, not indoctrinators.

Disney Has Lost $900M w/ Recent Woke Movie Releases

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Disney Has Lost $900M w/ Recent Woke Movie Releases

(Headline USA) Disney has lost nearly $900 million on its recent movie releases, according to a Hollywood box office analysis.

The company, which has come under fire in recent years for taking a woke turn, is “bleeding” money despite releasing eight notable movies in the past few years, including Thor: Love and Thunder, The Little Mermaid and Lightyear. 

The production of these eight films cost Disney about $2.75 billion, analyst Valliant Renegade explained, but brought in only $1.86 billion at the box office. That’s a loss of $890 million.

“Disney continues to miss the mark from every studio that they have,” Renegade said, “and they’re not even done yet for this year, because Lucasfilm is on the table up next with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and as of right now, that’s going to be ringing up yet another loss for the Walt Disney Company unless something radical changes.”

Strange World, which featured a gay romance, lost $197 million and Lightyear, which features a lesbian kiss, lost $106 million. Elemental, also released recently, features Disney’s first non-binary character and rails against “xenophobia.”  And Disney’s Peter Pan remake includes girls among the Lost Boys and features a black Tinker Bell.

Valiant Renegade predicted the financial losses for Disney are just starting to show.

“One of the things that we always talk about here, that is the perfect time to remind everybody, is that Disney consumes all of its own content post-theatrical,” he explained. “Meaning that Disney that used to license their big content out like the entire MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe] to places like Netflix for years, those were billions of dollars’ worth of third-party contracts that have now been taken off the table.”

Disney is reportedly feeling the losses, announcing it would be laying off more than 7,000 employees last month.

“The 7,000 layoffs — which represent 3.2% of Disney’s total headcount of about 220,000 worldwide as of Oct. 1, 2022 — are part of Disney’s efforts to achieve about $5.5 billion in cost savings,” according to Variety.

Disgraced Don Lemon Shades CNN for ‘Platforming Liars and Bigots’

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Disgraced Don Lemon Shades CNN for ‘Platforming Liars and Bigots’

(Headline USA) Former CNN host Don Lemon blasted the network in his first interview since being fired, accusing CNN of “platforming liars and bigots.”

Lemon, 57, was ousted from CNN after troubling on-air behavior and multiple scandals. In an interview with ABC24 Memphis on Saturday, Lemon defended his journalistic philosophy, claiming that he only ever strived to stand up for “the truth.”

“I have a responsibility — not only as a journalist but as an American — to tell the truth and to abide by the promises of the Constitution,” he told the outlet. “Because the Constitution says a more perfect union, not a perfect union. I’m not a perfect person. No one is.”

Lemon said that part of standing up for the truth requires censuring certain figures and viewpoints.

“I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth — people who are fighting for what’s right, people who are abiding by the Constitution,” he said.

“I think that would be a dereliction of journalistic duty to do those sorts of things. That is what has gotten me to this point, and that is what is going to carry me forward.”

Alluding to his abrupt ouster from CNN, Lemon said that all that matters to him now is knowing “that I am standing up and abiding by the Constitution, which my profession demands that I do because we are listed in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.”

When asked about his future plans, Lemon said he’s in no hurry.

“I’m not going to force anything. I’m not going to let other people’s timeline influence me. I know people say, ‘I miss you on television. What is your next move?’ I’m figuring that out,” he said. “I don’t have to be in a rush. I think people rush and they end up making the wrong decisions. I’m not rushing anything.”

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