Biden Admin Sued for Communications about Cabinet Secretary’s Daughter

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Biden Admin Sued for Communications about Cabinet Secretary’s Daughter

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Protect the Public’s Trust, a government accountability watchdog group, sued the Biden administration Monday for failing to disclose communications with the lobbyist daughter of a Cabinet secretary. 

According to a Fox News report, the two lawsuits alleged that the Biden administration violated federal laws by hiding communications involving Somáh Haaland, the 28-year-old daughter of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

PPT filed Freedom of Information requests with the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management on Jan. 2. Following the refusal to comply with these requests, PPT filed lawsuits against both agencies to compel compliance. 

The requests reportedly came after Fox News reported that Somáh Haaland—a media organizer for the New Mexico-based environmental activist group Pueblo Action Alliance—lobbied federal lawmakers on hot-button oil- and gas-leasing issues supervised by her mother.

“Her daughter’s activism and lobbying efforts certainly have the potential to create the perception in the minds of the public that Secretary Haaland could be conflicted on issues under her authority,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain said.

“Further complicating matters is the participation of an organization that claims Somáh Haaland among its leadership in the protest that turned into a riot at the Interior headquarters,” he added.

As is the case with Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, the fact PPT’s complaint outlines a pattern of behavior rather than an isolated incident indicates a systemic culture of nepotism and corruption within the Democrat administration.

“Each of these items alone would point to the need for DOI to provide more transparency into any relationships and interactions between Somáh Haaland and senior Department officials,” Chamberlain said. “Taken together, this need is magnified.” 

Fox News also previously reported about Somáh Haaland’s December trip to Washington, D.C., with an activist group to lobby lawmakers. The group asked the lawmakers to block fossil-fuel drilling near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

The report also added that the group screened a film narrated by Somáh Haaland that “showcases the threats” posed by oil and gas leasing in the region. Sen. Martin Heinrich, and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, attended the screening with some agency officials.

“The Biden Administration promised a return to normalcy but the ties of Interior leaders to activist organizations that sometimes employ controversial tactics represents anything but a return to normalcy,” Chamberlain said.

House GOP Seemingly Abandons Plan to Impeach Mayorkas

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House GOP Seemingly Abandons Plan to Impeach Mayorkas

(Headline USA) House Republicans have gone silent on their past threats to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The GOP made Mayorkas’s impeachment a top issue during the November midterms, but lawmakers have yet to act on a resolution to remove the immigration czar.

Two impeachment resolutions against Mayorkas were introduced last year, but have not been touched by House GOP leadership.

Two GOP aides admitted to the Washington Examiner this week that Republican leadership would rather focus on bolstering border security via legislative efforts. No impeachment action has been taken against Mayorkas, said one of the aides, because Republicans are “hard at work right now on a border package.”

However, Republicans are “still working on their investigations into Mayorkas’s handling of the border crisis and the facts will dictate their next steps,” the aide added.

Even Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has publicly distanced himself from outright demands for Mayorkas’s impeachment, opting to hold further interviews with Border Patrol agents instead.

“These interviews will inform future oversight so we can hold Secretary Mayorkas and others accountable for the border crisis,” Comer said in a statement on Monday.

This is a far cry from the pledge last November by now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to force Mayorkas to resign on Jan. 3 of this year.

If Mayorkas refused to do so, said McCarthy at the time, Republicans would investigate “every order, every action, and every failure and determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry.”

Senate Republicans, on the other hand, are still vocal about removing Mayorkas from office.

On Tuesday, for example, during a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed budget, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., blasted Mayorkas for turning a blind eye to the migrant crisis and the “indentured servitude” of migrant children.

“You have in every stage facilitated this modern-day indentured servitude of minor children,” Hawley said to Mayorkas. “Why should you not be impeached for this?”

Thug w/ 11 Prior Arrests Bashes NYPD Officer in the Head w/ Bottle

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Thug w/ 11 Prior Arrests Bashes NYPD Officer in the Head w/ Bottle

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Harrowing surveillance video from the Bronx shows a man allegedly perpetrating a sidewalk sneak attack on a female NYPD cop by striking her in the head with a bottle.

The broad-daylight assault from behind on Monday afternoon occurred when the officers were on a smoke-shop inspection detail routinely carried out to determine if any illegal marijuana sales are taking place in delis or other establishments. Whether that constitutes a good use of police resources is a separate matter entirely.

The NYC Scoop Twitter feed shared the disturbing clip. “CCTV footage shows the moment a man approaches a police officer from the [50th precinct] and hits her in the head with an object,” the tweet read.

The Daily Mail posted another version showing the brutal attack from two vantage points:

The suspect, age 45, was taken into custody at the scene, after a struggle, with the help of a New York City sheriff.

Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that the suspect’s record includes 11 previous arrests.

The officer received treatment at a local hospital and is said to be in stable condition. Authorities reportedly charged the suspect with assault, obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment.

Whether the man is already back on the street owing to New York’s so-called bail reform law, which is essentially a catch-and-release process, is speculative at the moment.

In the meantime, politicians in the Democrat-controlled state have supposedly reached a legislative deal for changes to bail reform to give criminal court judges more discretion or leeway, but its terms seem unlikely to substantially alter the lawless trajectory on the ground.

“The compromise would remove the requirement that judges impose the ‘least restrictive means’ when determining whether to set bail for violent felonies but would still define bail strictly as a means of ensuring a defendant’s return to court. The governor had originally proposed removing that strict definition of bail,” City & State New York explained on Monday.  “New York is currently the only state that does not include a dangerousness standard for setting bail.”

Running, in part, on a law-and-order agenda, Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain, won the multi-candidate June 2021 Democrat primary for mayor (which essentially guaranteed his November general election victory in overwhelmingly blue Gotham) over more far-left rivals.

Not much seems to have changed, however, in terms of public safety (or perhaps officer safety, for that matter) in the crime-ridden city.

In the neighboring borough of Manhattan, the Soros-funded, soft-on crime district attorney who is averse to putting even violent offenders behind bars has, instead, prioritized prosecuting former President Trump on which appears to be a bookkeeping error, if that.

The nightlife-loving Adams has spent a lot of his time pandering on woke issues, the latest is trying to discourage consumers from eating nutrient-rich meat in the name of climate change mitigation.

MTG Seeks Probe of Groomer Allegations against Far-Right Provocateur

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MTG Seeks Probe of Groomer Allegations against Far-Right Provocateur

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Right-wing political infighting has blown up on the public stage after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Monday that the FBI should investigate pedophilia accusations levied against political operator Ali Alexander, a key figure in the MAGA “Stop the Steal” movement.

Greene was reacting to a report that came out earlier that day from the left-leaning Daily Beast, which detailed allegations that Alexander had solicited nude photographs from teenagers multiple times, including from a 15-year old in 2017 and a 17-year old in 2019.

“This is disgusting textbook predation of underage boys. And Nick Fuentes was in on it,” Greene said, referring to Fuentes, the controversial Christian nationalist who had dinner with Donald Trump and Kanye West late last year.

It should be noted that Greene’s former intern, Milo Yiannopoulos, has been in a public feud with Alexander and Fuentes since the trio had a falling out in the wake of the Trump–West–Fuentes dinner last year. Some observers suspect that the entire spectacle was engineered by Yiannopoulos, a notorious alt-right provocateur who also weathered past allegations of pedophilia.

Fuentes pointed out the connections between Greene and Yiannopoulos on Monday, after Yiannopoulos posted purported screenshots of Alexander’s solicitations. Fuentes said Yiannopoulos still lives in Greene’s “rented campaign house.”

But regardless of whether Yiannopoulos was behind Greene’s call for the FBI to investigate Alexander and Fuentes, the facts do appear to be damning against the two.

Citing a March 2023 podcast appearance, the Daily Beast reported that the 15-year old did, in fact, send a nude photograph to Alexander at his request.

“In 2017, Aidan Duncan—a 15-year-old boy in Colorado interested in right-wing politics—sent Alexander nude pictures after the MAGA activist asked him for them,” the Daily Beast reported.

“While Duncan was a high-school sophomore just starting out in politics, Alexander was a 32-year-old with a decade of political work for the Republican Party behind him,” it continued. “And now he was willing to share the connections he had gained through that work with Duncan, as long as the teenager met certain preconditions, including secrecy.”

According to the Daily Beast, Alexander told Duncan that “you’ll have [me] sharing my entire network with you” in exchange for sexual favors.

Alexander has reportedly apologized for his actions.

“I apologize for any inappropriate messages sent over the years,” Alexander wrote, according to the Daily Beast.

“When I’ve flirted or others have flirted with me, I’ve flexed my credentials or dropped corny pick up lines,” he continued. “Other times, I’ve been careless and should’ve qualified those coming up to me’s (sic) identities during flirtatious banter at the start.”

Fuentes also indicated that Alexander will be taking a break from public life.

“And I urged him to do that,” Fuentes said.

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

State Dept. Plays Dumb in Report on Child-Trafficking as Exploitation Skyrockets

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State Dept. Plays Dumb in Report on Child-Trafficking as Exploitation Skyrockets

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Continuing their pattern of ignoring real issues, the Government Accountability Office caught the Biden administration disregarding warnings about heightened rates of child trafficking through the southern border and exploited for cheap labor.

According to the Daily Caller, officials both in and out of the federal government made several attempts to tell the Department of Health and Human Services about the risk of exploitation for migrant children.

Those warnings went unheeded, and recently the Department of Labor opened an investigation into child labor at American snack factories.

“It’s unacceptable that companies are using child labor, and this administration will continue working to strengthen the system to investigate these violations and hold violators accountable,” Robyn M. Patterson, a White House spokeswoman, said.

Statistics from the border patrol show that more than 250,000 unaccompanied migrant children traveled across the border since Biden took office.

Several government officials working in shelters, including Linda Brandmiller, attempted to contact higher-ups about the problem. After her attempts, Brandmiller lost her job at the shelter where she worked and banned from entering the building.

A recent report from the GAO discovered that, despite their knowledge and resources, the State Department is also neglecting the issue.

The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, also known as TIP, has not set any “measurable goals,” or introduced “plans to sustain ongoing efforts.”

“Without information on partner government contributions and sustainability measures, the TIP Office lacks knowledge on partner country contributions and plans to sustain progress under the CPCs,” the report read.

The GAO made several recommendations as to how the department can improve its efforts to stop child exploitation, which the state department agreed to enact.

The Biden administration has been roundly apathetic in their response to the border crisis. With the lifting of Title 42 approaching, border agents were simply told to “brace for f***ing impact” and deal with the consequences.

AOC Blasts NYC Mayor Eric Adams for Increasing Police Salaries

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AOC Blasts NYC Mayor Eric Adams for Increasing Police Salaries

(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week for increasing police wages for the New York City Police Department, claiming the Democrat mayor is “defunding safety” and “militarizing” law enforcement.

During an interview with The Daily Show, Ocasio-Cortez said the additional funding for police officer salaries should be redirected to public schools and violence prevention programs.

“We’re now at a point where officially, most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master’s degree serving the same kids, involved in the same [violent] incidents,” she said.

“We are defunding safety. Defunding our public schools. Defunding our public pools. Defunding our parks. Defunding our libraries. When we are taking all of those resources and demanding every single department except the militarized ones be cut, we are sending a message about who and what we care about,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.

Adams recently announced the additional funding after negotiating with the NYPD’s union. The increased salaries are meant to help the NYPD make up for a mass exodus of officers.

Under the agreement, new NYPD officers would begin making $60,000, including holiday pay and a uniform allowance, starting in August.

The average New York City public school teacher makes a starting salary of $61,070 if he has a bachelors’ degree, and $83,972 if he has a master’s degree with eight years prior teaching experience, according to the city’s Education Department.

Aside from union issues, the NYPD has been battered by an exodus of officers, while the city’s crime rate continues to climb.

Ocasio-Cortez also took aim at Adams last week over his support for a plan to move 250,000 retired city workers off of government-funded Medicare and into a privately managed version of the program.

“It’s a bad decision. It is not good,” Ocasio-Cortez during a virtual town hall Thursday. “This is something I oppose. We are in this fight with you and we oppose this shift.”

Feds Claim Black Doctors Raise Life Expectancy of ALL Blacks in County

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(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently published study—performed by a group of “equity” researchers and paid for by American tax dollars—claimed that black doctors simply existing in a county raised the life expectancy for black people throughout the whole area.

According to the Daily Wire, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the story on Friday. Authors of the report include several federal employees with the Health and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Researchers also received funding from the HRSA’s Office of Health Equity.

The study asserted that black doctors should be more common because black people who live in counties with black doctors have a life expectancy of 30 additional days, whether or not those black people receive treatment from said doctor.

Despite their argument that the race of a particular doctor in a specific county can mean early life or death for any citizen, the report insists that “race is a social construct” and “racial differences frequently observed in population health outcomes studies are generally considered to result form fixable health system factors, such as differences in the availability and quality of care.”

They maintained that from a biological standpoint, there was no difference—meaning that it should not be used to justify changes in treatment from doctors who were not black but only as a way to further augment black healthcare demands.

“Race as a study variable, in and of itself, is not considered a biological determinant of health outcomes; rather, it is a social construct that serves as a proxy measure for the structural inequities inherent in our society, and specifically in the health system,” the study said.

It comes as some medical schools and AMA-linked organization are pushing to lower their standards to admit more minorities without acknowledging that their reasons for doing so are largely political and that their actions may be detrimental to the overall field of healthcare.

Other, more reasonable studies found that individual characteristics such as dietary habits and weight have much more to do with health than the general proximity of black doctors.

Nonetheless, the JAMA study continued, emphasizing the importance of shared cultural background between doctor and patient.

“Some [b]lack patients may prefer to seek care from racially concordant physicians due in part to the value placed on certain shared aspects of culture and experience,” it said.

Woke health professionals fawned over the vague implication that simply being near black doctors may slightly increase life span.

“That a single [b]lack physician in a county can have an impact on an entire population’s mortality, it’s stunningly overwhelming,” said Monica Peek, a primary care physician and health equity researcher at UChicago Medicine.

“This is adding to the case for a more diverse physician workforce,” said Michael Dill, director of workforce studies at the American Association of Medical Colleges. “What else could you ask for?”

The study did not address the fact that black medical school applicants consistently have the lowest MCAT scores and GPAs of any racial group. Another study found that black doctors had the lowest scores on exams for family medicine residents.

The Nixons Predicted Trump Presidential Victory Over 30 Years Ago

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The Nixons Predicted Trump Presidential Victory Over 30 Years Ago

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Former President Trump Donald Trump shared a poignant letter on Truth Social from his upcoming book Letters to Trump with his followers on Monday. It was a message from President Nixon revealing a prophetic look at the potential for the mogul’s success — confirming the then-unknown prophecy of Trump’s presidential victory.

“My new book is almost here!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “In 1987, President Richard Nixon wrote to me, that when I decide to run for office — I will be victorious.”

The letter reads:

“I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show,” the letter written said. “As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!”

Another letter that will be in the book is from TV personality and actress Oprah Winfrey, who sent him a letter in 2000, advising him to run for office, “Too bad we’re not running for office. What a team!” This came after Trump sent her a copy of his book, The America We Deserve.

“Americans respect and admire Oprah for her intelligence and caring,” Trump wrote at the time.

“She has provided inspiration for millions of women to improve their lives, go back to school, learn to read, and take responsibility for themselves. If I can’t get Oprah, I’d like someone like her.”

President Trump was known to engage in a wide range of correspondences, with his connections of over 40 years ranging from Bill and Hillary Clinton to world-renowned celebrities like Princess Diana, Jay Leno, Liza Minnelli and Joel Osteen.

Many who no longer support him.

Every letter was handpicked by Trump and is accompanied by his original commentary.
 Letters to Trump is second official book since leaving the White House and expected to be released on April 25.

Illegal Alien Arrested for Killing 6-Year-Old with Car

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Illegal Alien Arrested for Killing 6-Year-Old with Car

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) An illegal alien has been arrested and charged for running over and killing a six year old boy in North Dakota.

Julian Montoya, the 19-year-old illegal alien that ran over the boy, was driving a 2012 Toyota Tundra in the parking lot of Madison Heights Apartments in Watford City, according to KXNET.

An eyewitness reported the events of the death to police. The boy was adjusting his bicycle seat in the middle of the parking garage when the Toyota was seen taking the corner at a very high speed.

The witness reported yelling at the boy to move, but the speed of the Toyota was so high that he didn’t have time to react.

The witness also reported that the truck did not try to stop. The police confirmed this observation. Police report that there were black skid marks on the concrete where the illegal had turned. They say this means he did not attempt to slow down, and was rapidly accelerating. No evidence suggested any attempt to break or swerve to avoid the child.

After the collision the illegal reported fleeing the scene, but returned when police arrived.

The posted speed-limit of the garage was 10 mph. The weather was clear and sunny, and no ice or obstructions were on the road at the time of the homicide.

The illegal has been charged with negligent homicide and driving without a license, a charge that only carries 5 years of prison time and a $10,000 fine, according to KFYRtv.

Montoya, despite being an illegal alien suspected of killing a young boy, was also granted bail, though it was set at $1 million because of his illegal status in America, according to Breitbart News.

A go-fund-me page has been started for the boy’s funeral costs.

It is not apparent if this particular illegal immigrant was part of Biden’s million plus illegals pardoned and released in America.

Notorious LinkedIn Co-Founder Bankrolling Rape Lawsuit against Trump

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Notorious LinkedIn Co-Founder Bankrolling Rape Lawsuit against Trump

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Big Tech billionaire and left-wing activist Reid Hoffman is bankrolling the rape lawsuit from 79-year-old New York socialite and columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump, Front Page Magazine reported.

Hoffman, who cofounded the professional networking platform LinkedIn, is a major Democratic donor. According to the Daily Beast, he routinely expresses a “distaste for Trump’s authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies.”

Ironically, Hoffman’s Trump Derangement Syndrome has led him to engage in several anti-democratic practices of his own, including a 2018 scheme to spread disinformation in an Alabama senatorial race that allowed the Democrat candidate, Doug Jones, to narrowly win.

The latest allegation against Hoffman was made by Trump’s attorney, who wrote in a court filing that Hoffman was the money behind Carroll’s funding, as well as the notorious Steele Dossier that helped propel the yearslong Russia-collusion hoax.

“Previously, Hoffman contributed more than $600,000 to the legal defense fund of Bean LLC6—otherwise known as Fusion GPS, the company responsible for the creation of the Steele Dossier,” the attorneys wrote.

They suggested more directly that Hoffman himself covered “certain expenses and legal fees.”

Because of the financial ties to the Jeffrey Epstein-linked mega-donor, Trump’s lawyers suggested that Carroll’s credibility in court has been undermined.

“Plaintiff’s potential political ties are pertinent to her motivation for filing her lawsuits, her potential bias against Defendant, and her credibility as a witness,” the letter states.

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, denied the allegations.

“Carroll has never met and has never been party to any communications (written or oral) with anyone associated with the nonprofit,” she said.

Although Kaplan insisted that the accusation had “nothing directly to do with the ultimate merits of the case,” it could “perhaps prove relevant to the question of the plaintiff’s credibility,” she acknowledged.

“One thing is clear—Trump will stop at nothing to avoid having a jury hear Carroll’s claims,” Kaplan added.

Hoffman finances Trump’s political and legal opponents by way of a nonprofit that he founded in 2019, the American Future Republic.

According to Dmitri Mehlhorn, one of Hoffman’s philanthropic advisors, Hoffman generally supports Democrats, but has also helped never-Trump Republicans since 2016.

Mehlhorn noted that Hoffman went out of his way to support “Republicans who have stood up for the safety and security of our Democracy, from Rusty Bowers in Arizona to Brad Raffensberger in Georgia.”

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