McCarthy: Garland Impeachment Likely if Biden Probe Was Hindered

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McCarthy: Garland Impeachment Likely if Biden Probe Was Hindered

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tone-deaf rant last week insisting that any criticism of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal was tantamount to an attack on democracy, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., promptly answered back by putting Garland on notice that he may be the next one investigated.

On Sunday, McCarthy tweeted that if recent whistleblower testimony can be corroborated that the federal investigation into the illicit financial dealings of President Joe Biden and his son was hindered by the Department of Justice, Garland could soon be on the docket for impeachment, Breitbart reported.

McCarthy was responding to allegations made by Gary A. Shapley Jr., an IRS criminal supervisory special agent, who recently testified that the U.S. Attorney in charge of the Hunter Biden probe, Delaware’s David Weiss, wished to bring forward charges with the aid of a special counsel, but was denied by the DOJ.

According to the House speaker, “this will be a significant part of a larger impeachment inquiry into Merrick Garland’s weaponization of DOJ.”

Garland later denied Shapley’s allegations.

“I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority,” he said of Weiss’s inability to continue the investigation.

According to the AG, Weiss never asked him to appoint a special counsel.

“The only person with authority to make somebody a special counsel or refuse to make somebody a special counsel is the Attorney General,” he said. “Mr. Weiss never made that request to me.”

In response, McCarthy suggested that the facts need to be brought before Congress, “and that includes reconciling these clear disparities.”

“U.S. Attorney David Weiss must provide answers to the House Judiciary Committee,” he added.

In the wake of the Weiss revelations, other House Republicans have also slammed the preferential treatment that the Biden family—particularly Hunter—has received.

“The American people deserve to know that when it comes to criminal enforcement, they are not on the same playing field as the wealthy and politically connected class,”said Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chairman of the House Ways and Means committee.

“The preferential treatment Hunter Biden received would never have been granted to ordinary Americans,” he added.

GOP Bill Would Ban Biden Transportation Officials from Using Taxpayer-Funded Private Jets

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GOP Bill Would Ban Biden Transportation Officials from Using Taxpayer-Funded Private Jets

(Headline USA) A new GOP bill would prevent Transportation Department officials, including the agency’s secretary, Pete Buttigieg, from using private jets on the taxpayers’ dime.

The legislation, introduced by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., comes in response to allegations that Buttigieg improperly used a government-funded private jet for multiple trips.

“Secretary Buttigieg seems averse to traveling on the very commercial airlines that his department oversees. It’s far past time that Secretary Buttigieg travel commercially instead of wasting taxpayer dollars on private jet flights,” Schmitt said in a statement.

If the bill passes, Transportation Department officials would be prohibited from taking private flights except for in times of emergency or if the flight is projected to cost at least 5% less than a commercial alternative. The bill would also eliminate a current “loophole” that allows the federal government to hide the real costs of flying private, according to Schmitt.

The Republican senator said he hopes his bill will “make Secretary Buttigieg consider the most fiscally responsible option when flying on official business.”

Buttigieg is facing an ethics investigation over allegations that he improperly flew private more than a dozen times. A Fox News report last year found that Buttigieg used taxpayer-funded jets at least 18 times while in office, including for trips to Florida, Ohio and New Hampshire.

A government watchdog sued the Transportation Department last week for alleged withholding the release of Buttigieg’s flight records. Americans for Public Trust said in a lawsuit that the Federal Aviation Administration has yet to fulfill the three Freedom of Information Act requests that APT submitted last year.

Buttigieg has denied any wrongdoing, saying he welcomes the ethics investigation.

“Glad this will be reviewed independently so misleading narratives can be put to rest. Bottom line: I mostly fly on commercial flights, in economy class. And when I do use our agency’s aircraft, it’s usually a situation where doing so saves taxpayer money,” he said.

Trans Terrorist Suspected of Sending 100s of Letters Laced w/ White Powder

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Trans Terrorist Suspected of Sending 100s of Letters Laced w/ White Powder

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The author of a series of threatening letters that were laced with a mysterious white powder and sent to Republican legislators, President Donald Trump and Justice Clarence Thomas, may be a transgender terrorist.

“At least some of the letters were in envelopes with the names of transgender individuals who were killed or are prominent on the return address field,” according to the Wichita Eagle, which cited photographs and interviews with legislators as evidence.

“The return addresses on the envelopes were in some instances churches in the area of the recipient, which some legislators suggested made them more likely to open the mail,” noted the Eagle.

Other clues also indicate a possible transgender terrorist.

The letters received thus far have primarily targeted state legislators from Kansas, Tennessee and Montana—three states that recently sought to pass laws to rein in the growing number of trans-related issues, including gender-altering surgery for minors and the institutional protection of biological women.

In the last session, the Kansas legislature passed a ban on transgenders competing in women’s sports and a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which prohibited biological males from using women’s restrooms.

While many other states have followed suit in banning men from using women’s bathrooms and locker-rooms, “SB 180 [the Women’s Bill of Rights] was the first of its kind passed in the U.S.,” according to the Wichita Eagle.

The Montana legislature also made national news confronting transgenderism while dealing with the temper fit of its ‘transgender’ member, Rep. Zooey Zephyr.

Zephyr made graphic accusations against Republican lawmakers on the floor of the Montana state legislature and refused to apologize for this unprofessional conduct.

In response, lawmakers barred Zephyr from speaking until Republicans received an official apology from the transgender representative.

Zephyr instead recruited a bevy of activist protestors to storm the capitol and disrupt the operations of the Legislature, appearing to signal to the rioters in the gallery when it was time.Police arrested at least 7 rioters.

Zephyr later tweeted support for the rioters.

The House banned Zephyr from participating in the rest of the legislative session due to the above mentioned behavior.

Accordingly, both the Kansas and Montana legislatures have been notable in their opposition to the transgender agenda.

Just so, both President Trump and Justice Thomas are known for their socially conservative views and resistance to left-wing social ideologies, like transgenderism.

Earth News highlighted the importance of noting the ideological similarities between the victims when identifying a motive for the act of terrorism.

“Sending it [the white powder] in letters only to Republicans … is a political statement,” the outlet noted.

Fox News’ Big Primetime Shakeup Names Carlson Replacement

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Fox News’ Big Primetime Shakeup Names Carlson Replacement

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Reeling under accusations of selling out to woke activists and their myriad leftist agendas, Fox News is scrambling to right its embattled ship and announced on Monday a new primetime lineup that replaces former host Tucker Carlson and shifts slots for some its more popular personalities.

Leading the pack, host Jesse Watters’s 7 p.m. program will move to 8 p.m. and take Carlson’s old slot, while Laura Ingraham will have her program moved into Watters’s 7 p.m. hour. The eponymously titled Hannity, with host Sean Hannity, will remain at 9 p.m. and Gutfeld!, with host Greg Gutfeld, will begin at 10 p.m.. The changes will hit airwaves next month, FNC announced.

“FOX News Channel has been America’s destination for news and analysis for more than 21 years and we are thrilled to debut a new lineup,” said FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, adding that the hosts “unique perspectives” would provide the network’s viewers with “access to unrivaled coverage from our best-in-class team for years to come.”

The announcement comes as Fox has faced fierce backlash from viewers, slumping market share and floundering ad revenue after kicking Carlson to the curb. The network’s profile sunk even lower when it tried to strong-arm Carlson, who has launched a wildly successful Twitter platform, into keeping quiet and out of the public eye.

“Fox defends its very existence on freedom of speech grounds,” Carlson attorney Bryan Freedman said when the network accused his client of breach of contract. “Now they want to take Tucker Carlson’s right to speak freely away from him because he took to social media to share his thoughts on current events.”

Fox News also did itself no favors catering to woke pronouns, drag queens and transgender activists, according to a blockbuster report that network executives used artificial intelligence to monitor the company’s efforts towards diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. 

Entertainment site Variety noted that FNC’s latest shakeups, “also spotlight the growing power of the late-afternoon program, The Five, which now has two of its co-hosts leading primetime hours as well.”

Both Watters and Gutfeld will continue their roles co-hosting The Five, which has become Fox’s highest rated program.

MTG Suggests That TV is Spying on Her

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MTG Suggests That TV is Spying on Her

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Sunday that her television was hacked the night before, suggesting that someone or something is spying on her.

“Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV,” she said on Twitter.

Greene referenced the age-old trope of whistleblowers and other government dissidents dying mysteriously. She stressed that’s she’s not suicidal, nor does she have any health problems.

“I’m very happy. I’m also very healthy and eat well and exercise a lot. I don’t smoke and never have. I don’t take any medications. I am not vaccinated. So I’m not concerned about blood clots, heart conditions, strokes, or anything else. Nor do I have anything to hide,” she said.

“I just love my country and the people and know how much they’ve been screwed over by the corrupt people in our government and I’m not willing to be quiet about it, or willing to go along with it.”

Greene then linked to a CBS article titled, “Your smart TV might be spying on you, FBI warns,” which reported on how smart televisions are comparatively easier to hack than computers or phones.

“At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids inappropriate videos,” the article said, quoting a statement from the FBI. “In a worst-case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom TV’s camera and microphone and silently cyberstalk you.”

Even though the FBI and other government agencies have the technological capacity to hack smart televisions—and even though they have a well-documented history of spying on members of Congress—mainstream news outlets still downplayed Greene’s concerns. Newsweek noted that Greene’s allegations about her television “play into her previous conspiracy theories about the government spying on her.”

Greene’s comments come as former CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson continues to sue the government for allegedly hacking her devices. Attkisson is the reporter who broke numerous stories on the Obama-era Operation Fast and Furious scandal, which entailed the ATF purposely allowing firearms dealers to sell marked weapons illegally with the goal of tracking them to Mexican drug cartels.

Attkisson said she discovered she was hacked after noticing “anomalies” on her personal devices.

When she had her home and devices inspected, an investigator found that someone had attached an extra fiber optics line to her cable box.

“However, when we later went to retrieve the cable for examination by a trained specialist, it had been removed and was gone,” she said in a recent affidavit, outlining the spooky scenario. “I telephoned the Verizon technician daily to ask if he had returned to the house and retrieved the cable, but he never returned any of our calls.”

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

R.I. Dem Lawmaker Arrested for Keying Car with Anti-Biden Sticker

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R.I. Dem Lawmaker Arrested for Keying Car with Anti-Biden Sticker

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Joshua Miller, a Democrat state-level senator from Rhode Island faced arrest for keying an SUV with an anti-Biden sticker.

According to the Post Millennial, Miller initially fought the charges, claiming he did not key the vehicle.

“He was blocking my way, saying I scratched his car, I didn’t scratch his car,” Miller said. “I’m a state senator, I think he’d recognize. I think he’s one of the gun nuts.”

Miller previously reported to police that he allegedly saw “gun nuts” stalking him at the State House. He also claimed that the owner of the vehicle threatened him.

The man who accused Miller of the vandalism said he did not know who Miller was.

“I don’t even know any of the senators to be honest,” he explained.

When the police showed up at Miller’s home and showed him video evidence of the act, he confessed and police arrested him on a misdemeanor vandalism charge.

“Nobody is above the law, including those who make and enforce the laws,” Cranston Police Chief Michael Winquist proclaimed in a news release. “The officers who handled this investigation did so with fairness, integrity and without preferential treatment.”

Miller posted his $1,000 bail for his release and refused to comment further on the situation and his reportedly disgraceful behavior. Others were more vocal.

Rhode Island GOP Chairman Joe Powers called for Miller to step down from his position as a state senator after the scandal.

“This behavior is unbecoming of anyone holding a leadership position,” Powers wrote on Twitter. “State Senator Joshua Miller has proven once again the he does not have the composure required to represent every constituent in his district and must resign immediately.”

Miller previously cursed at reporters who questioned him about gun rights.

“The Second Amendment shall not be infringed, you people need to understand that,” the reporter said to Miller.

“Go f**k yourself,” Miller said in response.

BlackRock CEO Claims to Disavow ‘ESG’ Label after Pushing Woke Capitalism

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BlackRock CEO Claims to Disavow ‘ESG’ Label after Pushing Woke Capitalism

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has reportedly disavowed the “ESG” label after years of commitment to woke capitalism, embroiling the globalist corporate titan in a public spat over its links to radical activist movements while still trying to appease the same leftists.

ESG, short for Environment, Social and Governance, has long been a vehicle for woke capitalism. In a recent statement, Fink attempted to distance himself from hot-button political issues in order to maintain profitability, Axios reported.

“I’m ashamed of being part of this conversation,” he said before a large audience.

“When I write these [investment] letters, it was never meant to be a political statement. . . They were written to identify longterm issues to our longterm investors.”

But, after being pressed on the issue, Fink backtracked, claiming that he just wanted to avoid political extremism and focus on growing his company.

“I never said I was ashamed,” he said, contradicting his earlier statement. “I’m not ashamed. I do believe in conscientious capitalism.”

According to Fink, however, he still rejected “ESG” because “it’s been misused by the far left and the far right.”

The CEO ultimately reaffirmed his commitment to woke values, while still rejecting the label under which they often fall.

“We talk a lot about decarbonization, we talk a lot about governance … or social issues, if that’s something we need to addressed,” he said.

Though it appears that he still believes the same thing, Fink has taken a much softer rhetorical stance than in the past as he attempts to rebrand BlackRock.

In 2020, for example, he claimed that the climate apocalypse has arrived.

“A successful low-carbon transition will require a coordinated, international response from governments aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, including the adoption of carbon pricing globally, which we continue to endorse,” Fink wrote at the time.

“Companies and investors have a meaningful role to play in accelerating the low-carbon transition.”

Schweizer: Biden Used Secret Phone for Hunter’s Business Deals

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Schweizer: Biden Used Secret Phone for Hunter’s Business Deals

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, may have bought a secret cell phone for his father to use to conduct shady business during his time as vice president, Real Clear Politics reported.

Fox News contributor Peter Schweizer revealed the news in a recent appearance on Fox.

When asked about the phone, Schweizer said that it was the key link between Hunter, his father and their foreign business partners during the Obama administration.

“We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden’s business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president,” he said. “It was from AT&T, it was $300 a month, it was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world.”

He noted that the information had been sent to the House Oversight Committee in the hopes that Congress would subpoena the phone and investigate the Biden’s communications.

He also speculated that the phone may be the evidence needed to prove the Biden family’s connections to the Burisma operation, as well as Ukrainian corruption.

“And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the Burisma executive might have used in this allegation that the he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations.”

According to Schweizer, details about Biden’s relations to China may also be revealed, particularly “the espionage element” of those relations.

“Henry Zhao paid $5 million to Hunter Biden from an account that was part of a company that he co-owned with the family of the Minister of State Security of China, who’s in charge of the entire spy apparatus. And you see that in every deal that Hunter Biden did in China,” he added.

“These individuals that are sending him money have ties to Chinese intelligence.”

Those ties came under renewed scrutiny when new IRS whistleblower testimony showed a reported text message directly linking President Biden to his son’s alleged shady business dealings.

 

Texas Gov. Abbott Duped by Leftist Troll Site’s Fake Garth Brooks Story

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Texas Gov. Abbott Duped by Leftist Troll Site’s Fake Garth Brooks Story

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott retweeted a satirical article about fans booing country music star Garth Brooks off stage at a fake Texas festival.

According to Forbes, the article, published by the Dunning Kruger Times, claimed fans forced Brooks to leave the stage at the 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree in Hambriston, Texas.

Abbott applauded Texans festival goers for shaming Garth Brooks, who recently received backlash for opting to serve Bud Light at his new bar in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Go woke. Go broke,” Abbot said in the now-deleted tweet. “Good job Texas.”

The article is riddled with falsities—including the fake festival and the made-up town of Hambriston. There are also several fake quotes by other country artists and a fake mayor of Nashville.

The Dunning Kruger Times—named after the Dunning-Kruger Effect—went viral for another satirical article about Brooks recently, reporting that investors pulled out of his up-and-coming Nashville bar based on his insistence of serving Bud Light.

While it is true that Brooks will open a bar that serves Bud Light in Nashville, called Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk, it is false that investors pulled money from the project.

Brooks announced that his bar will serve “every brand of beer” once the establishment opens this summer, drawing backlash from his fanbase.

“I want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make.”

Country music fans rejected the family of Anheuser-Busch brands since the company featured transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign.

Actor Rob Schneider commented on the controversy in an interview with Fox News.

“I think the culture is in a very weird little place of hypersensitivity one way or the other. And I think that’s why most people shut their mouths.” Schneider said. “I mean, just from a business standpoint, just shut up, say I have nothing to do with it.”

 

News Org. Apologizes for Racist Vivek Ramaswamy Cartoon

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News Org. Apologizes for Racist Vivek Ramaswamy Cartoon

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A corporate news media outlet in Iowa that seeks to “share diverse ideas” has issued a formal apology for an “inexcusable” racist cartoon that attempted to disparage GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and the MAGA cohort.

In an approximately 200-word mea culpa, Quad-City Times executive editor Tom Martin insisted that “racist and hateful ideas, word or images have no place in our publications,” at the same time admitting that somehow the offensive carton “slipped through” the editorial process and wound up getting published on the editorial page.

The distasteful sketch, which depicts Ramaswamy delivering a speech to his Iowa MAGA slur-spewing “friends,” was apparently also published in the Dispatch-Argus sister paper.

Martin’s apology, which for some reason comes with an extra-large picture of himself, explained that the news organization deleted the offensive imagery from its online editions and that it will no longer do business with the cartoonist.

“The cartoon, while intended to criticize racist ideas and epithets, uses a phrase that is racist and insensitive to members of our Indian American community,” Martin wrote in what might perhaps be a form of unintended irony.

“The oversight that allowed it to run is inexcusable, and we can and will do better. We are sorry,” Martin concluded in the apology to Ramaswamy, the Indian-American community, and readers in general.

No mention was made, however, about an apology specifically for the way the cartoon demonized without evidence (to borrow a left-wing media term) the conservative/populist MAGA contingent.

Ramaswamy, who –if he become POTUS — has vowed to pardon former President Trump in the event of a federal conviction, previously shared the offensive material, which seems, in part, to be a lame callback to the Obama presidency, on Twitter.

“It’s sad that this is how the [mainstream media] views Republicans. I’ve met with grassroots conservatives across America & never *once* experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left. Iowa’s @qctimes absolutely has the right to print this, but it’s still shameful,” the pro-free speech entrepreneur and American First 2.0 advocate wrote.

The social media attention may have prompted the apology.

“Vivek Ramaswamy is a Hindu, not a Muslim. And, even if he was a Muslim, so what? In America, we celebrate religious freedom. It is conservative groups that do so most fervently,” Hot Air columnist Karen Townsend observed.

“Republican primary voters who are listening to Vivek are not the ones screaming slurs at him. That would be Democrats,” she added.

The late New York City talk show host Bob Grant, who pioneered conservative radio before it was cool and before syndication — let alone streaming — was a thing, often opined that when it comes to matters of race, liberals are the ultimate hypocrites.

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