House Dems Seek to Give FDA Power over Abortion Drug after Court Ruling

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House Dems Seek to Give FDA Power over Abortion Drug after Court Ruling

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrat representatives attempted to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate abortion-causing medications, such as mifepristone, as state and federal-level governments grapple for power over legal jurisdiction on the matter.

Reps. Pat Ryan, N.Y., and Lizzie Fletcher, Texas, reintroduced the bill in response to a Texas judge’s ruling halting the FDA approval process on the drug.

According to Breitbart, the bill would also protect doctors and telehealth workers who shipped abortifacient medications across the country, particularly in states that outlawed the practice. Both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed the bill.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives will likely kill the bill.

“A woman’s right to choose is one of our country’s foundational freedoms,” Ryan claimed. “These deeply personal and private medical decisions should be made by women and their families, not by extremist judges, courts, or politicians.”

Ryan argued that mifepristone is “safe and effective” and decried Texas officials for making “unscientific decisions” in order to institute a national abortion ban.

The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit against the FDA in November 2022 over the approval of four different chemical abortion drugs.

The suit gave six examples of agency actions taken to protect mifepristone and misoprostol since their legalization, and requested the U.S. District court for the Northern District of Texas hold the agency accountable.

The ADF argued that the only way the FDA could have approved these drugs “was to use its accelerated drug approval authority, necessitating the FDA to call pregnancy an ‘illness’ and argue that these dangerous drugs provide a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit’ over existing treatments.”

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that the FDA did indeed approve of mifepristone unlawfully, arguing that “even a limited approval of this sort would still not render pregnancy an ‘illness.'”

“And surgical abortion — a statistically far safer procedure — would still be available to her. But in any case, that is not what FDA did,” Kacsmaryk wrote in his 67-page opinion on the case. “Instead, FDA manipulated and misconstrued the text … to greenlight elective chemical abortions on a wide scale.”

Mifepristone accounted for over half of all abortions in the United States. Cases fighting the use of the drug continue to crop up all over the country, in hopes of banning or at least severely limiting its use.

US Names Veterinary Drug, Fentanyl Mixture ‘Emerging Threat’

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US Names Veterinary Drug, Fentanyl Mixture ‘Emerging Threat’

(Headline USA) The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an “emerging threat” when it’s mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy announced the designation Wednesday, the first time the office has used it since the category for fast-growing drug dangers was created in 2019.

Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the drug policy office, said xylazine (pronounced ZAI’-luh-zeen) has become increasingly common in all regions of the country.

It was detected in about 800 drug deaths in the U.S. in 2020 — most of them in the Northeast. By 2021, it was present in more than 3,000 fatalities —with the most in the South — according to a report last year from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“We cannot ignore what we’re seeing,” Gupta said. “We must act and act now.”

Xylazine was approved for veterinary use in 1971. Sometimes known as “tranq,” it’s been showing up in supplies of illicit drugs used by humans in major quantities in only the last several years.

It’s believed to be added to other drugs to increase profits. Officials are trying to understand how much of it is diverted from veterinary uses and how much is made illicitly.

The drug causes breathing and heart rates to slow down, sometimes to deadly levels, and causes skin abscesses and ulcers that can require amputation. Withdrawal is also painful.

While it’s often used in conjunction with opioids, including fentanyl and related illicit lab-made drugs, it’s not an opioid. And there are no known antidotes.

Gupta said his office is requesting $11 million as part of its budget to develop a strategy to tackle the drug’s spread. Plans include developing an antidote, learning more about how it is introduced into illicit drug supplies so that can be disrupted, and looking into whether Congress should classify it as a controlled substance.

That last measure is already drawing criticism.

The “outcry for reactionary measures to reduce the presence of tranq on the black market is misguided. Not only will expanding the scope of our failed five-decade War on Drugs end up only harming society,” wrote Peter Clark.

“If Tranq is placed on the Schedule I list, there is no doubt that clandestine labs will attempt to replicate the sedative. A molecularly altered variant of the drug may surface as means to evade drug laws, possibly creating a more deadly substance.”

Gupta said it needs to be available for veterinary uses even amid crackdowns on the supply used by people. He also said systems to detect the drug and data about where it’s being used need to be improved.

The drug is part of a deepening overdose crisis in the U.S.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 107,000 people died from overdoses in the 12 months that ended Oct. 31, 2022. Before 2020, the number of overdose deaths had never topped 100,000.

Most of the deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Like xylazine, they’re often added to other drugs — and users don’t always know they’re getting them.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

NYPD Revives ‘Creepy,’ ‘Dystopian’ Robot Dogs amid Crime, Budget Crises

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NYPD Revives ‘Creepy,’ ‘Dystopian’ Robot Dogs amid Crime, Budget Crises

(Headline USA) New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago.

The new devices, which also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and a cone-shaped security robot, will be rolled out in a manner that is “transparent, consistent and always done in close collaboration with the people we serve,” said police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who joined Mayor Eric Adams and other officials at a Times Square press conference where the security robot and the mechanical canine nicknamed Digidog were displayed.

“Digidog is out of the pound,” said Adams, a Democrat and former police officer. “Digidog is now part of the toolkit that we are using.”

The city’s expanded toolkit might be worthless, given the soft-on-crime approach embraced by leftist prosecutors and Democrat officials. The Big Apple has seen its crime rate skyrocket, along with losing a bulk of its police force as officers flee the city in droves.

The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’s predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.

Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.

“A few loud people were opposed to it and we took a step back,” the mayor said. “That is not how I operate. I operate on looking at what’s best for the city.”

Adams said the remote-controlled, 70-pound Digidog will be deployed in risky situations like hostage standoffs starting this summer.

“If you have a barricaded suspect, if you have someone that’s inside a building that is armed, instead of sending police in there, you send Digidog in there,” he said. “So these are smart ways of using good technologies.”

The tracking system called StarChase will allow police to launch a GPS tag that will attach itself to a stolen car so that officers can track the vehicle’s location. The New York Police Department’s pilot program for using the system will last 90 days, officials said.

The Autonomous Security Robot, which Adams compared to a Roomba, will be deployed inside the Times Square subway station in a seven-month pilot program starting this summer, police officials said.

The device, used in shopping centers and other locations for several years, will at first be joined by a human partner, police said.

Civil libertarians and police reform advocates questioned the need for the high-tech devices.

“This latest announcement is just the most recent example of how Mayor Adams allows unmitigated overspending of the NYPD’s massively bloated budget,” said Ileana Mendez-Penate, program director of Communities United for Police Reform. “The NYPD is buying robot dogs and other fancy tech while New Yorkers can’t access food stamps because city agencies are short-staffed, and New Yorkers are getting evicted because they can’t access their right to counsel.”

Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said: “The NYPD is turning bad science fiction into terrible policing. New York deserves real safety, not a knockoff RoboCop.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

FSU Prof. Accused of Faking Data to Make Racism Seem More Common

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FSU Prof. Accused of Faking Data to Make Racism Seem More Common

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A Florida State University criminology professor, Eric Stewart, has been accused of fabricating data to make racism seem more common and widespread.

His fabrication is so extensive that six of his studies–going back to 2006–have been retracted, and he has left his former post at FSU, the Daily Mail reported.

Stewart denied criticisms of fabrication in the past, but after yet another investigation into his research, it seems that he and the university have decided to part ways, ending his 16-year tenure.

He was called out specifically for a 2011 study by colleague Justin Pickett, another criminologist at the University of Albany with whom he had co-authored that paper.

The two studied whether or not there was a connection between the increase in minority populations and an increase in prison sentences for crimes committed. Stewart concluded that there was indeed a correlation.

According to Pickett, however, the real data collected in the investigation showed no relation between the spike in minority populations and longer criminal sentences for minorities, but Stewart tampered with the evidence to support his thesis.

“The data were also altered–intentionally or unintentionally–in other ways, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings,” Pickett wrote in a subsequent paper.

After reviewing the tampered data, Pickett concluded that “the sample was not just duplicated in the analysis for the published article; the data were also altered, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and those alterations produced the article’s main findings.”

Pickett also noted that “there’s a huge monetary incentive to falsify data and there’s no accountability. If you do this, the probability you’ll get caught is so, so low.”

In response, Stewart, who is white, claimed that Pickett “lynched me and my academic character,” presumably comparing himself to a 19th-century black lynching victim.

Walmart Plans to Close 4 Chicago Stores after Losing Millions

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Walmart Plans to Close 4 Chicago Stores after Losing Millions

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Walmart has decided to shut down four of its eight Chicago stores effective on Sunday, a decision that came on the heels of Democrats tapping the crime-riddled city as their 2024 convention site.

In the context of the underperforming stores, a Walmart rep told the Wall Street Journal that “there was no single cause for the increase in losses and that theft wasn’t a driving factor.”

That assessment could perhaps be public relations spin, however, given the ongoing crime wave in the Windy City, similar to what is occurring in many of America’s lawless municipalities in the grip of far-left Democrats.

In a statement about its “difficult decision” that sought to explain the abrupt location closures, and that did not mention shoplifting or any other form of wrongdoing for the red ink, Walmart corporate suggested that consolidation may provide a solution:

“The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties, but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community.”

Walmart also noted that it has “invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the city, including $70 million in the last couple years to upgrade our stores and build two new Walmart Health facilities and a Walmart Academy training center,” but that costly commitment along with other “different strategies” failed to alter the fiscal trajectory.

Unfortunately, help is not on the way for Chicago.

Through the efforts of the public sector union machine, Chicago just elected a radical socialist Democrat as the city’s mayor who appears to be even more soft on crime than his predecessor Lori Lightfoot.

Perhaps reflective of the extreme ideological direction of the party, Democrats have selected Chicago as the host city for their 2024 national convention where Joe Biden (or someone else) will be named as their presidential nominee.

Unironically, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said that “I am thrilled that Democrats will take the stage in Chicago to share our party’s vision and values.”

Democrats also claim that the Chicago event aims to “showcase President Biden’s economic agenda.”

Walmart, America’s largest department store chain, previously implemented store closures elsewhere across the country. This included closing its two Portland, Ore., stores. To date, about 20 of its stores nationwide have ceased or will cease doing business.

In a related development, Whole Foods announced earlier this week that it is closing down its flagship, downtown San Francisco shop after opening its doors just a year ago. A Whole Foods spokesperson alluded to the possibility of reopening the store, if the public safety situation improves.

Walmart employees at the shuttered Chicago retail outlets will receive four months’ pay after which severance benefits will kick in if they haven’t found work at another Wall Mart or Sam’s Club.

 

Partisan ‘Report’ Attacking Clarence Thomas Dismissed as ‘Big, Breathless Nothingburger’

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Partisan ‘Report’ Attacking Clarence Thomas Dismissed as ‘Big, Breathless Nothingburger’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent report on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed he violated ethics rules by accepting lavish gifts, drawing the ire of conservative legal experts who appropriately dubbed it a “big, breathless nothingburger.”

The report, compiled by ProPublica, condemned Thomas for not disclosing several vacations paid for by real estate developer Harlan Crow, a personal friend of the Justice.

Thomas “sought guidance” from colleagues about the trips, who in turn told him the vacations were not reportable, according to the Daily Caller.

Conservative legal experts slammed Democrats’ attempt to smear the Justice—who clashes with left-wing ideologues on a regular basis—as a partisan hit job attempting to push Thomas out of his seat on the highest court.

“The new ethics rules that would require disclosure of some of these gifts didn’t go into effect until last month (March 2023) and the previous rules excluded personal gifts of all kinds—anything other than a third-party paying for commercial travel/hotel,” said Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute.

Shapiro noted that the transportation on these trips was “not reportable,” as they still counted as personal hospitality.

Democrats called for Thomas’s resignation, an investigation into his actions and an overhaul of the entire court, despite the incorrect aspects of the report.

“It’s all political grandstanding and continued left-wing frustration at their loss of control over the Court,” Shapiro told the DCNF. “The ProPublica report is a big breathless nothingburger.”

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, defended Thomas as well, decrying the report as a “partisan attack.”

“The recent disgusting attempt to discredit Justice Clarence Thomas is yet another inexcusable and blatant partisan attack, designed only to mislead the public and smear an honorable man,” Lee wrote on Friday. “Justice Thomas is a brilliant jurist who has served the American people with distinction, tirelessly defending our Constitution. Justice Thomas’s accomplishments and legacy should be celebrated and cherished, not maliciously attacked.”

REPORT: 2M People Have Fled Dems’ Urban Hell-Holes Since 2020

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REPORT: 2M People Have Fled Dems’ Urban Hell-Holes Since 2020

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) An estimated two million people escaped urban areas from 2020 to 2022, a new report found. And most of the cities listed are woke, Democrat-run, crime-infested pits.

New research shows that the pandemic has had a massive impact on urban centers, with over two million people leaving between 2020 and 2022.

The Economic Innovation Group discovered that 1.2 million people moved away from large urban counties between July 2020 and July 2021, and another 860,000 left between July 2021 and July 2022. Meanwhile, data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association found homicides in big cities went up by two-fifths between 2019 and 2022,” The Hill reported.

There were population decreases in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, with the cost of lax laws, bloated bureaucracies and woke policies leading to the mass exodus from these blue cities.

Los Angeles County lost nearly 300,000 people in a three-year period ending in July 2022, according to Census data, the news outlet found. Chicago’s Cook County saw 166,000 people flee in the same time span, while Brooklyn, or Kings County, N.Y. experienced a loss of nearly 150,000 residents, representing a 5% hit. In New York County, Manhattan, there was a 6% reduction with the loss of almost 100,000 citizens.

Chris Fowler, associate professor of geography and demography at Pennsylvania State University, observed that with fewer people, there is a direct hit to the vibrancy of cities.

“It’s not big cities in general. It’s a very small number of extremely large cities,” Fowler told The Hill. “What you see is that migration is moving down the urban hierarchy,” from larger cities to smaller ones.

What the report didn’t share was if you live in San Francisco or Los Angeles, there’s the proliferation of dangerous and unsanitary substances on the streets — causing people to leave.

Teachers must now have conversations about germs, waste and needles with toddlers, who are seeing more hazardous litter on a daily basis.

“Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year-old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched,” teacher Adelita Orellana told San Francisco’s NBC affiliate in 2022.

Moreover, infectious disease expert Dr. Lee Riley determined San Francisco is as filthy as a third-world slum.

Life is no better in Seattle, where people have to sidestep human fecal matter and homeless people on the sidewalk. New York City experienced a major spike in criminal activity in 2020, with robberies, burglaries and other crimes surging 22% in 2022.

Chicago’s crime infestation is causing people and corporations to flee.

According to Chicago Police Department statistics, robberies, thefts, motor vehicle thefts and sexual assaults all saw considerable increases, with the most extreme hike coming in the form of a 132% jump in motor vehicle thefts.

Did Zelenskyy Use U.S. Weapons to Attack Russian Territory?

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Did Zelenskyy Use U.S. Weapons to Attack Russian Territory?

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told numerous media outlets that his country is not planning to attack Russian territory.

But according to the recently leaked Pentagon documents, Ukraine may have indeed attacked Russian territory in February.

The leaked documents reportedly show that on Feb. 28, Zelenskyy “suggested striking Russian deployment locations in Russia’s Rostov Oblast” with unspecified drones. That same day, two drones filled with explosives detonated inside Russian territory, igniting a fire at an oil depot.

Reacting to this news, independent journalist Michael Tracey raised the distinct possibility that U.S. weaponry may have been involved in the Feb. 28 attack, which resulted in no casualties. Tracey noted that the leaked Pentagon documents did not know what drones Zelenskyy was planning to use for the attack.

“Given that US intel apparently has no clue what drones Zelenskyy is ‘suggesting’ be used other than that they’re ‘unspecified UAVs,’ it would seem the US has no clue whether any US materials/resources are being used to execute these long-rage attacks by Ukraine deep inside Russia,” he said on Twitter.

The leaked classified Pentagon documents also reportedly show that Zelenskyy wanted to use U.S. long-range missiles to attack Russia.

According to media reports on the documents, Zelenskyy “suggested striking Russian deployment locations in Russia’s Rostov Oblast” using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to compensate for not having long-range missiles.

The information about Zelenskyy’s desires to use drone strikes and long-range missiles against Russia is included in one of the Pentagon documents that hasn’t been widely publicized. While about 20 of the leaked records are available online, dozens of others have been obtained by media outlets.

Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti said it took some “interesting chicanery on our part” to obtain the full set.

The Pentagon has urged media outlets not to publish the leaked documents.

“It has no business—if you don’t mind me saying—on the front pages of newspapers or on television,” John Kirby, the White House coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, said Monday. “It is not intended for public consumption and it should not be out there.”

Some media outlets are abiding by the Pentagon’s request.

“Fox News has agreed, along with other news organizations, not to publish the leaked highly classified documents, which were discovered last week,” said Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.

Foreign policy expert Max Abrams noted the likely reason for the corporate media’s complicity: The leaks show that the outlets have been helping the Pentagon spread false war propaganda.

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

Musk Destroys BBC Reporter’s False Claims over Twitter Hate Speech

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Musk Destroys BBC Reporter’s False Claims over Twitter Hate Speech

(Headline USA) Twitter CEO Elon Musk called out an interviewer for the British Broadcasting Corporation who attempted to claim that the red-pilled, billionaire entrepreneur had facilitated a rise in hate speech after taking over the social-media platform.

In the interview, the audio of which was live-streamed on the platform, the BBC’s James Clayton attempted to use his own anecdotal observations to claim that Musk had allowed “racist” and “sexist” content to flourish, the Daily Caller reported.

When pressed for specific examples, however, Clayton demurred, trying to frame himself as the messenger and not the inventor of the claim while citing strawman polls from “many organizations” within the United Kingdom.

“Well then I say, sir, that you don’t know what you’re talking about,” Musk said. “… That’s false. You just lied.”

Activist groups like the Anti-Defamation League have attempted to cherry-pick data to advance a narrative that Musk’s efforts to return free-speech to the censorious, highly partisan platform have, instead, had a pernicious effect.

But, as Musk reasoned, such claims were highly subjective based on the arbitrary metrics they used to define so-called hate-speech. The ADL notoriously includes in its expansive database of alleged hate symbols the “Okay Hand Gesture” that former President Donald Trump frequently used during his speeches.

“I’m trying to see what you mean by hateful content,” Musk challenged Clayton.

“I’m asking for specific examples, and you just said that if something is ‘slightly sexist,’ that’s hateful content,” he continued. “Does that mean that it should be banned?”

Twitter users trolled Clayton in response, suggesting he seek out a new line of work.

Musk also told Clayton during the interview that running Twitter has been “quite painful” from a financial standpoint but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year.

Advertisers who had shunned the platform in the wake of Musk’s tumultuous acquisition have mostly returned, the billionaire said.

He predicted that Twitter could become “cash flow positive” in the current quarter “if current trends continue.” Because Twitter is a private company, information about its finances can’t be verified.

After acquiring the platform, Musk carried out mass layoffs as part of cost-cutting efforts. He said Twitter’s workforce has been slashed to about 1,500 employees from about 8,000 previously, describing it as something that had to be done.

“It’s not fun at all,” Musk said. “The company’s going to go bankrupt if we don’t cut costs immediately. This is not a caring-uncaring situation. It’s like if the whole ship sinks, then nobody’s got a job.”

Asked if he regretted buying the company, he said it was something that “needed to be done.”

“The pain level of Twitter has been extremely high. This hasn’t been some sort of party,” Musk said.

Nonetheless, he said the challenges had kept him engaged. “It’s not been boring. It’s quite a rollercoaster.”

At times, Musk laughed at his own jokes, mentioning more than once that he wasn’t the CEO but his dog Floki was.

He also revealed that he sometimes sleeps on a couch at Twitter’s San Francisco office.

Despite the tense exchanges, the interview was a rare chance for a mainstream news outlet to interview Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX. After buying Twitter for $44 billion last year, Musk’s changes included eliminating the company’s communications department.

Reporters who email the company to seek comment now receive an auto-reply with a poop emoji.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Roger Stone Floats ‘Dream Ticket’ of Trump, RFK Jr.

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Roger Stone Floats ‘Dream Ticket’ of Trump, RFK Jr.

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent post on his Substack blog, conservative impressario Roger Stone suggested that two 2024 presidential candidates—former President Donald Trump ande recently declared anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—form their own ticket in the upcoming election.

Stone noted that a mere 37% of Democrats support the unpopular President Joe Biden in his endeavor to run again, making 2024 ripe for a bipartisan coalition ticket that could unite MAGA conservatives and traditional, red-pilled liberals against the radical, Marxist Left.

Kennedy, whom Stone called a “scion of the Kennedy political legacy,” holds some progressive views, but he has made enemies on the Left by calling into question vaccine efficacy and safety.

Trump, meanwhile, despite his broad support on the Right, has raised eyebrows with his ongoing defense of the controversial COVID vaccines, even as evidence began to mount concerning adverse health affects among young people in particular.

Both, however, seem aligned in their view that government overreach and corruption are the No. 1 problem plaguing the nation.

Kennedy, who is currently running as a Democrat, has stated in the past that his top priority will be to end the “corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.”

And though Kennedy’s platform may be popular across America, Stone warned that the Democratic establishment would certainly not allow him to win the primary.

“Just as the Democrat Party machinery cheated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders out of the Democrat presidential nomination in 2016 and again in 2020; that same party machinery—now within the firm control of Barack Obama—can be counted on to kneecap RFK Jr. in the Democrat nominating process,” he wrote.

According to Stone, Trump and Kennedy were formerly “good friends,” and they could be interested in a future political reunion—this time on a presidential ticket.

“Given America’s state of peril, if RFK performs better than expected, the former President should consider the drafting of RFK as the Republican vice presidential candidate in a ‘bipartisan’ unity ticket,” Stone wrote.

He also argued that, given the criticism the former President has faced for allowing Americans to suffer under COVID lockdowns, Trump might be able to revitalize his image by partnering with Kennedy, who has made himself the anti-vax, anti-Fauci candidate.

Trump’s partnership with RFK would “silence those within the Republican Party who are today critical” of Trump’s handling of “the Covid-19 pandemic,”wrote Stone.

Such a move would also win over “thousands of Democrats and Independents disgusted by Biden’s fumbling foreign policy and the implication of the collapse of U.S. economic dominance to vote for Trump,” he added.

The move could add fuel to Democrat conspiracy theorists who have long sought to promote the notion that the QAnon movement wields major influence over mainstream conservative thought.

Among the bizarre theories covered credulously by leftist media outlets like Rolling Stone is one that Kennedy’s first cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., may have faked his death in a 1999 plane crash and will re-emerge to be Trump’s running mate.

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