‘LIARS!’: Conservatives React to DOJ’s Arrest of 21-Yr-Old Alleged Pentagon Leaker

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‘LIARS!’: Conservatives React to DOJ’s Arrest of 21-Yr-Old Alleged Pentagon Leaker

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s intelligence division, was arrested by FBI agents on Thursday for his alleged role in the leaking of U.S. intelligence classified documents on the internet.

The New York Times, along with other journalists, claimed it first identified Teixeira, whom they quickly labeled as a “Christian” man who loved “racist” memes. The Times reportedly relied on photos posted on social media, gaming profiles and other publicly available information to identify the suspect.

The DOJ’s delayed capture of the suspect and The Times’s role in identifying the suspect prompted conservative voices to criticize Biden officials.

“This guy was a Christian, anti-war, just wanted to inform some of his friends about what’s going on,” a person tied to the suspect told The Times. “We have some people in our group who are in Ukraine. We like fighting games, we like war games.”

“A 21-year old gamer might have just prevented WW3 and so of course the government and their media puppets are trying to paint him as some nefarious Russian double agent,” Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec tweeted mocking the Biden administration. “You got embarrassed by a kid, GAE Own it.”

Author Glenn Greenwald responded to the arrest raising doubts about the veracity of the suspect’s role. “Bellingcat, funded by the US Security State and the EU, worked with the NY Times to do the FBI’s work of finding the 21-year-old leaker of classified documents. They got ’em!,” Greenwald tweeted on Thursday. “This year’s FBI agent of the Year will be jointly awarded to the NYT, WPost and Bellingcat.”

“Say what you will about the Ukraine leaks, but a 21-year-old intel analyst just exposed Joe Biden and the entire woke military industrial complex as a propaganda riddled fraud,” conservative TV host Charlie Kirk tweeted. “LIARS!”.

CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings questioned why the 21-year-old had access to classified documents.

Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross responded to the arrest, calling it “insane.” “Just absolutely insane, if true, that a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman would have access to this kind of sensitive intel,” Ross tweeted. “And that the New York Times found him before the FBI.”

President Joe Biden had attempted to dismiss concerns that the leaks presented a national security threat to the U.S., claiming hours before the arrested that federal officials were getting “close.”

“There’s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the Justice Department [DOJ], and they’re getting close,” Biden told the press. “I’m not concerned about the leak. I’m concerned that it happened. But there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that’s of great consequences.”

The U.S. intelligence documents were posted online last month and exposed details behind U.S. efforts in spying on Russia and other American allies, including South Korea and Israel, NBC News reported Thursday.

The FBI has yet to comment on how they were able to identify and/or if they relied on the Times to find the suspect.

REPORT: Rep. Katie Porter Described As Physically, Verbally Abusive By Ex-Husband

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REPORT: Rep. Katie Porter Described As Physically, Verbally Abusive By Ex-Husband

(Headline USA) Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., was reportedly abusive towards her ex-husband, according to divorce records, and would scream verbal insults at him and physically throw “toys, books, and other objects” at him.

Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, submitted a request for a restraining order against Porter in April of that year. He claimed Porter was prone to rage, and would “routinely” call him a “f***ing idiot” and “f***ing incompetent.” He alleged she shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough. And in 2006, Hoffman said Porter poured a “ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes” on his head, “burning my scalp,” because she didn’t like the way he had prepared them for dinner. 

“When she gets angry, she will claw and scratch her arms and then say to me ‘Look what you made me do!’” Hoffman also said in the records, first obtained by the Daily Mail. “She regularly says that I am a bad parent in front of the kids … Recently the children began spitting at me and throwing their food at me, calling me ‘bad daddy.’”

Hoffman also said Porter “would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f***ing dumb to operate it.’”

In response to Hoffman’s allegations, Porter filed her own restraining order request against him, claiming he ordered her out of the house in April 2013 and called her a “dumb b***h,” a “despicable person,” and “f***ing evil.”

Porter also alleged Hoffman punched a bathroom light switch until it shattered and threw a newspaper at her.

In her first congressional campaign, Porter described herself as a “victim of domestic violence.”

“I don’t have a shady background,” she told HuffPost in May 2018. “I’m the most boring person in America. I’m a mom of three kids, I protected my family, I ended a marriage that was troubled.”

However, reports have since revealed that Porter is allegedly abusive toward her congressional staff. A Navy veteran who worked in Porter’s office alleged in December that Porter has ridiculed staffers and cracked racist jokes. She also accused Porter of firing her for allegedly exposing Porter to COVID-19.

Tenn. Insurrectionist Rep. Has History of Violent Protest

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Tenn. Insurrectionist Rep. Has History of Violent Protest

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Footage of insurrectionist Tennessee state Democrat Rep. Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers during summer protests outside of the state Capitol in 2020 surfaced Thursday, as Jones was reinstated to the state House after being ousted, along with another Democrat, earlier this week.

In his 2021 tweet, Jones claimed at the time that the narrative that he was violent was false, even though the footage proves otherwise.

“They will try to push a false narrative portraying me as ‘violent’ as a way to deflect from their own actions. They will suggest that I am out of order. That is their strategy. However, I’m hopeful for the chance to present our evidence in a transparent manner,” he tweeted.

In 2021, the local blog Scoop Nashville featured violent footage.

“In June of 2020, Justin Bautista-Jones, better known as ‘Brother Jones’ locally, was one of the publicly visible (often by design) protestors at the State Capitol,” the blog stated.

“He received a lot of pushback from his own community after it was discovered he was often only making appearances when he knew there would be media coverage, and eventually had a falling out with one of the other most visible female members of the group.”

“Throughout the entire time, he has faced over a dozen charges but always denied that he was violent – despite multiple assaults, assault on an officer, and reckless endangerment charges,” the blog added. “In the newly obtained video, one of his assaults was captured, and presented to the Grand Jury – and he was indicted on two counts of reckless endangerment.”

According to the Post Millennial, Jones, who was expelled for inciting an anti-gun trans mob storming of the state Capitol last month, was reinstated to the House on Monday afternoon after the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted unanimously to reinstate Jones, with all 36 members of the council voting to reappoint him as an interim representative for the 52nd District.

Another Democrat politician, Rep. Justin Pearson, who participated in the storming of the Tennessee Capitol was also reinstated.

Jones previously claimed that the reason why he was removed was because of a “white supremacist system.”

“Though their vote was racist, though their vote was to expel the two youngest black lawmakers, their attack on democracy hurts all of us, whether you’re black, brown or white, it’s an assault on all of us,” Jones said to Al Sharpton on MSNBC.

Jones was previously barred from contacting certain “lawmakers and visiting the legislative building until April 22, 2020,” the Post Millennial reported.

All three politicians who were involved in the storming of the Capitol — Jones, Pearson and Gloria Johnson — voted against a sweeping school safety bill.

EPA Targets End of Gasoline Vehicles w/ New Emission Standards

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EPA Targets End of Gasoline Vehicles w/ New Emission Standards

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced new proposed federal vehicle emissions standards critics claim will “effectively ban gasoline and diesel vehicles” while making the U.S. dependent on China.

The EPA proposal of light and heavy-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards is for model years 2027-2032. The EPA projects that its proposal could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 56% by 2032 and help increase electric vehicle light-duty sales by 67% by 2032.

“By proposing the most ambitious pollution standards ever for cars and trucks, we are delivering on the Biden-Harris Administration’s promise to protect people and the planet, securing critical reductions in dangerous air and climate pollution and ensuring significant economic benefits like lower fuel and maintenance costs for families,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, in a media release.

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers said the EPA decision to “fixate on tailpipe emissions rather than full fuel and vehicle lifecycle is a huge error that will stymie investment and artificially cap the potential of carbon abatement for liquid fuels and vehicles on the road today.”

“EPA’s proposal to effectively ban gasoline and diesel vehicles is bad for consumers, the environment, our freedom of mobility and U.S. national security,” American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers’ President and CEO Chet Thompson said in a press release.

Henry Payne, auto columnist for the Detroit News, said the Biden administration is trying to radically transform the auto energy sector.

“A century after the alcohol Prohibition era, a second Temperance Movement has formed to ban carbon-emitting products as immoral,” Payne said in an email to The Center Square. “Popular consumer items like incandescent light bulbs, gas stoves, and gas cars are targeted. The effects are already being felt as Dodge has discontinued its successful Challenger and Daytona cars, and taxpayers are transferring $7,500 to wealthier Americans to buy expensive EVs [electric vehicles].”

Payne continued: “The Biden Administration is radically transforming auto/energy sectors in a comprehensive effort to eliminate fossil fuel use. The effort appears blind to the fact that China is championing global EV adoption because they are the Saudis of battery minerals. The U.S. spent 50 years becoming energy independent and is now poised to become dependent on China for its energy sector production.”

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers also raised concerns about being dependent on China for EVs.

“It’s unconscionable that the Administration would propose this knowing full well that China controls 80% of global battery production capacity,” Thompson said. ” … and even with robust U.S. investment to fortify our own electric grid and grow our battery supply chains by a magnitude of 10, we will not come close to overtaking China’s dominant position and will be left more dependent and financially beholden to them as a result.”

Tim Carroll, EPA spokesperson, responded to the criticism

“These proposals do not mandate or ban specific technologies; they are performance-based standards for emissions, allowing each automaker to choose what set of emissions control technologies is best suited for their vehicle fleet to meet the standards,” Carroll said in an email to The Center Square. “EPA’s analysis indicates that one pathway the industry could take is to meet the standards by increasing the percentage of electric vehicles. The proposed standards are complementary with the direction the auto industry and consumers are already headed, given manufacturers’ public announcements of plans to transition their fleets to zero emission vehicles, which are supported by the historic financial incentives under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.”

The Michigan League of Conservation Voters applauded the EPA’s stance.

“Addressing the climate crisis will require a swift reduction in transportation pollution and the EPA’s proposed auto emissions standards are a strong step in the right direction,” said Bentley Johnson, Federal Government Affairs Director for Michigan League of Conservation Voters, in a media release.

“The EPA must now strengthen the proposed rules to reduce harmful fossil fuel emissions, something that we know is critical for the health of frontline communities disproportionately impacted by pollution sources like heavy-duty diesel trucks in neighborhoods along shipping routes. These stronger rules – combined with federal clean energy investments – will help Michigan’s automakers go further and faster toward a zero emissions future while growing jobs and opportunity in the transportation sector.”

‘Young Turks’ Co-Host Apologizes for False Claims about DeSantis’s Pandemic Response

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‘Young Turks’ Co-Host Apologizes for False Claims about DeSantis’s Pandemic Response

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Ana Kasparian, a leftist co-host on The Young Turks, tendered an apology to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this week for false claims about how he handled the COVID pandemic.

According to the Daily Wire, the leftist host stated that she has no regrets about her biases against DeSantis, as she does not agree with everything he has done as a Florida governor. 

“I want to correct all of those errors that we had previously reported. And I want to be clear that out of everyone who works on the main show, the only person who should be held responsible for that is me,” Kasparian said. 

“I screwed up royally. And part of the reason why I screwed up is because I had all these biases, of course, against Ron DeSantis,’” she confessed. “But it becomes a problem when that bias blinds you to what the facts of various stories happen to be. And I should have done my due diligence. I failed to do so.”

Kasparian also admitted that she “misled the audience into thinking that Rebecca Jones,” a twice-failed Democrat congressional candidate fired by the DeSantis administration “is some sort of hero.”

The Young Turks host continued, “Now, to be fair to myself, and to be fair to other independent media sources, if you’re not doing your own original reporting, you’re relying on the mainstream media narrative a lot of the time, and if they’re not doing their due diligence, if they’re allowing their personal biases to stand in the way of actual factual reporting, well, that’s, unfortunately, going to trickle into the way independent news sources cover these types of stories as well.”

“Fact of the matter is, I want to make sure that I correct my errors,” she added. “I get you guys accurate information, and I avoid helping someone who might be a grifter, from fundraising off of our own audience members.”

Trans Radicals Attempt to Cancel HBO’s New ‘Harry Potter’ Series

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Trans Radicals Attempt to Cancel HBO’s New ‘Harry Potter’ Series

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Radical leftists are attempting to cancel a new, decade long Harry Potter series scheduled to run on HBO Max, because of J.K. Rowling’s political ideas about transgenderism.

HBO Max just announced that it will stream a decade-long, faithful Harry Potter TV series with J.K. Rowling as the executive director of the project, according to RollingStone.

This announcement has triggered radical leftists and the media into waging an all-out war of censorship on Rowling and the new franchise. Kathryn VanArendonk, writing for the aptly named Volture, attacked the concept of fidelity itself.

“Faithfulness is a meaningless goal, a quixotic and doomed exercise that’s both creatively bankrupt and almost inevitably dull,” she wrote. “Actually, faithfulness is bad because it is — stay with me here — impossible and boring.”

VanAnderdonk argued that even if a faithful adaption of Harry Potter was possible, it would be bad because of the bigotry of Rowling.

Indeed, the project is aiming to establish something bad because “the series will follow the books exactly,” she wrote. “[There will be] no messing around with new interpretations of characters (racial or gendered or otherwise), no incorporation of Potter-skeptical ideas like ‘Hey, maybe it’s not great that the goblin bankers resemble certain antisemitic tropes.'”

For VanAnderdonk, the problem is that the morality of the story will faithfully reflect the morality of Rowling and her era.

Movieweb.com published an article entitled “Six Reasons Why a Harry Potter Series Is a Bad Idea.” The articles number one reason is “The Controversy of J.K. Rowling.”

“While the Harry Potter books may have taught a generation of young fans tolerance, the author’s own personal views have aligned with the hateful and bigoted point of view of many of the villains in Harry Potter,” it reads. “J.K. Rowling’s involvement in Harry Potter makes it difficult to go back and enjoy the original works and makes it impossible to look forward to any new Harry Potter project knowing she will profit from it.”

“It is up to the individual viewer if they can separate the artist from the art, but Rowling makes the situation especially difficult.”

Indeed, the article categorized Rowling with the radical Left’s biggest enemies.

“J.K. Rowling now carries the same baggage as eating at a Chick-fil-A or shopping at Hobby Lobby.”

The ever woke Daily Beast managed to produce an article entitled, “No One Wants Max’s Harry Potter TV Series From J.K. Rowling.” Surely, HBO Max is fronting a 10-year project because its executives think no one will watch it.

Jonathan Turley produced an article comparing the political blackballing of Rowling to McCarthy-era censorship of communist actors.

The comparison of censorship is apt, but as veteran reporter M. Stanton Evans showed in his book Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies, McCarthy was correct about the presence of communists running the deep state in America. McCarthy’s Marxist enemies in the Universities and the state created the cultural Marxism attacking Rowling today.

Seymour Hersh: CIA Knows Zelenskyy Regime Has Stolen $400 Million

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Seymour Hersh: CIA Knows Zelenskyy Regime Has Stolen $400 Million

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh released another bombshell report Wednesday, alleging that the CIA has knowledge that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials have siphoned some $400 million in U.S. aid.

Citing at least one unnamed intelligence official, Hersh wrote that Ukraine has been buying diesel fuel at a premium from the country it’s at war with, Russia.

Moreover, Zelenskyy and his cronies have been skimming “untold millions” from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments, according to Hersh.

“One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, ‘although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine,’” Hersh wrote.

The issue of corruption in Ukraine was reportedly raised by CIA Director William Burns to Zelenskyy at a meeting last January. Hersh reported that Zelenskyy was presented with a list of 35 generals and senior Ukrainian officials that have apparently been whetting their beaks.

Hersh was told that the meeting “was out of a 1950s mob movie.”

“The senior generals and government officials in Kiev were angry at what they saw as Zelenskyy’s greed, so Burns told the Ukrainian president, because ‘he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals,’” Hersh wrote.

However, Zelenskyy reportedly responded to the CIA director with a shrug. Hersh said Zelenskyy’s “half-hearted response,” coupled with the “lack of concern” in the White House, has seriously angered some top U.S. intelligence officials.

“They have no experience, judgment, and moral integrity. They just tell lies, make up stories. Diplomatic deniability is something else,” an official reportedly told Hersh, adding that there was a “total breakdown between the White House leadership and the intelligence community.”

Hersh’s latest expose follows his massive story about President Joe Biden ordering the attacks on Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipelines last September.

The Pulitzer Prize winner has been criticized for relying on anonymous sources for his recent stories, but his reporting has been largely validated.

Indeed, the New York Times initially wrote a counternarrative to Hersh’s report, but earlier this month had to admit that its story about a “pro-Ukrainian group” being the attackers was likely bogus.

“Locals scoffed at the idea a 50-foot pleasure yacht could pull off such a spectacular attack — and so have naval experts from Germany, Sweden and Denmark,” the Times said last Friday.

And perhaps having caught wind of Hersh’s impending scoop, the Pentagon announced Tuesday that its Inspector General, General Robert Storch, plans to launch a probe into Ukraine corruption allegations.

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

Obama Stenographer: Biden ‘Knew’ Hunter Was on Burisma Board

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Obama Stenographer: Biden ‘Knew’ Hunter Was on Burisma Board

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) A former White House stenographer who accompanied then-Vice President Joe Biden to Ukraine during the Obama administration confirmed that Biden “knew” his son Hunter was on the Burisma board and was involved in a “kickback scheme” while pushing for natural gas in the country.

The whistleblower account from Mike McCormick further calls into doubt the current president’s debunked claims that he did not consult with his son regarding the latter’s corrupt foreign business deals. It comes just days after the revelation that Hunter’s business associates visited the Obama White House more than 80 times.

“I’m sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking,” McCormick told Fox and Friends First. “His answer is, well, we’re bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that’s what I recorded, and that’s in a White House transcript.”

McCormick also talked to Fox News host Jesse Watters and said he didn’t see anything wrong at the time of transcription. In fact, he explained that he was carrying out his role as the White House stenographer, having been directed by a then-senior administration official, Jake Sullivan, now the national security adviser for the Biden administration.

“What happened on that trip was, Joe Biden was in the front of the plane,” McCormick told Watters. “My job as the White House stenographer was to be in the back of the plane in the press cabin and if Joe or a senior administration official came back and did a briefing, then I would record it and make a transcript.”

Hunter’s swift acceptance to the Ukrainian natural gas firm’s board seemed like a questionable move, considering Biden’s soon-to-be arrival in Kyiv. Though this information was kept under wraps for nearly a month, it wasn’t long before a new theory began to emerge. According to McCormick, this was an unethical abuse of influence, meant to help Hunter take advantage of American resources and line the Biden family pockets with extra wealth.

“This is a conspiracy. This is a crime. This is public corruption. That’s what the FBI is supposed to investigate,” McCormick said. “That’s the bottom line. I don’t care if he goes to Timbuktu or Ireland or anywhere, he’s a criminal and I’ve got the evidence.”

As Air Force Two soared to Kyiv, Ukraine on April 21, 2014, a dialogue between then-Vice President Joe Biden, his aide Jake Sullivan, and the press revealed their true intentions: to strengthen U.S. investment in the Ukrainian energy sector. After this meeting, Hunter Biden soon joined the board of Burisma, and Congress later allocated a whopping $50 million to Ukraine’s energy market months later.

This wasn’t a coincidence, according to McCormick.

“I’m sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we’re bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that’s what I recorded, and that’s in a White House transcript,” McCormick said. “In the transcript, you don’t know who Jake Sullivan is.”

“It’s a senior administration official,” McCormick explained of the conversation regarding Burisma and U.S. aid. “I’m the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family.”

Joe Biden is a criminal, the whistleblower said. “He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there’s more… Obama officials involved in it, I believe.”

The former stenographer is determined to reveal information before the grand jury in Delaware that is looking into Hunter’s business dealings.

“In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website,” McCormick recounted on Thursday. “If you do that, and you’re lying to them, you go to jail. I’m not lying. I’m telling the truth, and I’m not going to jail.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz Blames Big Pharma for Mass Shootings by Unhinged Leftists

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Blames Big Pharma for Mass Shootings by Unhinged Leftists

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., floated the idea this week that Big Pharma products may contribute to mass shootings on the part of crazed leftists.

According to Gaetz, easy access to mind-warping pharmaceuticals may have had, and will likely continue to have, devastating consequences, the Tampa Free Press reported. He began by addressing SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a type of antidepressant that is frequently prescribed by doctors and psychologists.

“My first question would be: Are these people on SSRIs? Are they taking anti-anxiety medications or antidepressants?”

For Gaetz, the fact that “we are the most drugged-up generation in all of human history” is enough cause for concern. But making matters worst, he said, “these drugs are being handed out like candy, not behind some Walmart, or on some street corner, but by Big Pharma.”

The pharmaceutical industry, of course, has had a stranglehold on Americans for decades, culminating in the lockdowns and forced vaccinations for millions of Americans.

“Maybe the whole regime of Big Pharma is built on this fiction that they have to convince us that we are so broken, and fragile and frail, that we have to take these drugs forever to be functioning in society,” he said.

According to Gaetz, the ill effects are unlikely to stop anytime soon.

“Big Pharma knows there are a lot of side effects to these drugs that they push that can cause psychosis, and even make feelings of suicide and depression and violence all the more acute,” he noted, adding that numerous mass shooters were hooked on such drugs.

He also suggested that parents have partnered with the state to avoid “thoughtful parenting” or “behavioral modification,” in pursuit of “chemical solutions” to problems among children and teenagers.

But chemical solutions–aside from being questionable as long-term treatments–might also have more acute side-effects.

“Maybe shooting people full of hormones doesn’t make them less likely to shoot us,” Gaetz continued.

“Just what a mentally unstable person needs: massive mood swings caused by hormone therapy. It’s quite literally a recipe for mass violence, and frequently.”

Operation Lone Star Seizes 3.1 million Doses of Fentanyl in Single Stop

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Operation Lone Star Seizes 3.1 million Doses of Fentanyl in Single Stop

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Operation Lone Star officers continue to disprove Biden administration claims that 90% of fentanyl being brought in from Mexico by cartels and their operatives is seized at ports of entry.

On Monday, a Texas state trooper working through OLS seized 14 pounds of fentanyl in a single traffic stop in Mission, Texas. The amount is enough to kill over 3.1 million people. The seizure is one of the largest single fentanyl seizures since Gov. Greg Abbott launched the state’s border mission in March 2021.

“Fentanyl is the single greatest drug threat our state and country has ever known, and this record amount of fentanyl seized would have otherwise made its way into communities across Texas and the nation because of President Joe Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said. “Through Texas’ historic Operation Lone Star mission, a DPS [Department of Public Safety] trooper prevented 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl – enough to kill every Texan in Austin, Dallas, and El Paso combined – from taking more innocent lives during a single traffic stop. I thank our brave DPS troopers, and all Operation Lone Star mission personnel, for their work to secure our border and keep Texans safe.”

“Because of this single seizure, millions of lethal doses of fentanyl will not make their way into communities across our state, and really our country, and millions of lives are potentially saved,” DPS Director Steve McCraw said. “This seizure clearly shows the important work that is happening along our border through the Operation Lone Star mission, and I want to thank Governor Abbott for his continued leadership in the fight against fentanyl.”

A Texas Highway Patrol trooper made the drug bust after stopping the driver of a black Cadillac SUV for a traffic violation at the intersection of 43 Street and Gumwood Avenue in Mission. He found that inside the vehicle were five tape-wrapped bundles containing a white powdery substance. The substance tested positive for fentanyl in the field and at a DPS crime laboratory, and had an estimated street value of roughly $312,000.

The driver, a male Mexican national, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and booked in the Hidalgo County Jail.

The seizure is an example of how Texas law enforcement officers are catching fentanyl being brought into the U.S. not caught at ports of entry, despite claims made by those in the Biden administration.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified that “96% of the fentanyl coming to the United States is coming through legal ports of entry” and that by expanding technology at the ports, more would be seized.

A week later, before the same committee, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that over 90% of fentanyl coming into the U.S. is seized at ports of entry.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, interrupted him, saying, “That’s a totally made up number. You had over a million people evade Border Patrol detection and detention between 2022 and 2023. You have no idea how many of those people were carrying fentanyl or other drugs with them, do you?”

Mayorkas repeated the 90% claim from an “expert view” he said he was given, without identifying the expert or saying who gave him that information.

Cornyn again said, “That’s a totally made up number and you know it.”

A month earlier, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, claimed the majority of fentanyl, 90%, was being seized at the southern border at ports of entry and that over 80% of those apprehended for smuggling it were American citizens.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol Chief John Modlin disputed the claim, stating half the fentanyl his agents have seized is in the field. Fentanyl is being brought in in backpacks by foreign nationals who are mostly single military age men who’ve entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico, he said.

Since March 2021, as of April 7, Texas OLS officers have seized more than 380 million lethal doses of fentanyl not at ports of entry but all over Texas, enough to kill more than everyone in the U.S.

Law enforcement officers have expressed concern that the amount they’re seizing is a fraction of what’s coming through.

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