Fauci Laughs Off Lab Leak, Regrets Not Pushing Mask Mandates Sooner

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Fauci Laughs Off Lab Leak, Regrets Not Pushing Mask Mandates Sooner

(Headline USA) Dr. Anthony Fauci said he regrets not pushing mask mandates sooner during the pandemic and laughed off questions about the lab leak theory during a documentary released this week.

Fauci allowed PBS to follow him around throughout 2021 and 2022 as he led President Joe Biden’s response to the pandemic. During one interview, Fauci blasted Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has been very critical of his role in the National Institutes of Health and the agency’s funding of gain-of-function research. Fauci claimed Paul’s assertion that COVID-19 originated from gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China was unfounded, calling the theory “molecularly impossible.”

“Rand Paul was insidiously throwing into his suggestions that the work done in the Wuhan lab, funded by a small grant from NIH … created a virus that made COVID,” Fauci said. “The microbe that we were working on, not only was not SARS-CoV-2, it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it into SARS-CoV-2. They were so different, it’s kind of like you have a Chevrolet and you got a motorcycle and you say, ‘I want to make that Chevrolet into the motorcycle.’”

Fauci then dismissed the lab leak theory as the product “hyper far-right conservative members of Congress.”

“People believe anything that somebody puts in front of them,” he said.

The lab leak theory has been validated by multiple government agencies, including the FBI, the Energy Department and the State Department.

During another interview in the documentary, Fauci said he regrets discouraging people from wearing masks during the very beginning of the pandemic.

“Maybe I should have done that,” he said when asked if he wished he had recommended mask mandates sooner. “Yeah, I was wrong.”

The documentary also shows Fauci crying at Biden’s inauguration.

Many of the interviews with Fauci were conducted in his multi-million dollar home, which was weirdly filled of memorabilia of himself, including throw pillows with his face on them and bobbleheads.

J6 Prison Choir Stays On Top of Charts Despite Big Tech Suppression

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J6 Prison Choir Stays On Top of Charts Despite Big Tech Suppression

(Headline USA) “Justice for All,” a song released by the J6 Prison Choir featuring former President Donald Trump, soared to the No. 1 spot on iTunes last week despite efforts by Apple and Big Tech to suppress it.

The song, released earlier this month, surpassed hits released by top artists, including Tim McGraw, Morgan Wallen and Miley Cyrus.

“J6 Prison Choir consists of individuals who have been incarcerated as a result of their involvement in the January 6, 2021 protest for election integrity after President Donald J. Trump stated ‘I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,'” the choir’s website reads.

The J6 Prison Choir includes several prisoners who are in jail either awaiting trial or serving sentences for their role in the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising. They sing the National Anthem every night, according to multiple reports.

“Justice for All” is a recording of the prisoners singing the National Anthem, with Trump citing the pledge of allegiance at various parts. It concludes with chants of “USA! USA! USA!”

The song has continued to remain among the top hits on all streaming platforms, even though Apple removed it from iTunes last week. The Big Tech company later returned the song to the site, claiming its removal was part of a “miscommunication.”

“Seems to have been miscommunication between our communications department and our music operations team,” an Apple Music representative said in a statement. “The issue has been escalated and should be back up on our platform soon.”

Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official who helped organize the song, pointed out that all proceeds raised from the song will go to benefit the families of Jan. 6 prisoners.

“If we were raising money for Ukraine, like Brad Paisley did, they would never pull this song,” Patel said in a statement.

Federal Reserve Rate Hike is 9th since March 2022

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Federal Reserve Rate Hike is 9th since March 2022

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Federal Reserve announced a key interest rate hike Wednesday, the ninth time it has done so since early 2022 in its effort to combat rising inflation.

The rate got a quarter-point increase to 0.25% to 0.5% on March 17 of last year; the latest hike moves it to a range of 4.75% to 5%, according to the central banking system’s website. Another hike, perhaps a final one in this trend according to policymakers, could move it to 5.1%.

“Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production,” the Federal Reserve Board of Governors said in a statement. “Job gains have picked up in recent months and are running at a robust pace; the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated.”

Government reports say 311,000 jobs were added in February, and unemployment rose from 3.4% to 3.6%.

Inflation has soared in the last two years, making everyday goods and services more expensive for Americans. The Feds’ key interest rate was 1% to 1.25% when the impact of COVID-19 slammed the country in early March 2020, and the rate dropped to 0 to 0.25% on March 16, 2020. In the next two years, stimulus and relief funds flowed into the economy as businesses struggled amid lockdowns and mandates; the rate stayed low until inflation took off last spring.

Some experts feared that the recent bank collapses would make the economy too frail to withstand the rate hike, which are aimed at lowering inflation at a cost to economic growth.

“The [Federal Reserve] should pause on Wednesday,” Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square, wrote on Twitter ahead of the news. “We have had a number of major shocks to the system. Three US bank closures in a week wiping out equity and bond holders. The demise of Credit Suisse and the zeroing of its junior bondholders.”

Because of the recent economic scares, others called for an actual decrease in interest rates. The Federal Reserve seemed to acknowledge those concerns in its announcement.

“In assessing the appropriate stance of monetary policy, the committee will continue to monitor the implications of incoming information for the economic outlook,” the group said. “The committee would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate if risks emerge that could impede the attainment of the committee’s goals. The committee’s assessments will take into account a wide range of information, including readings on labor market conditions, inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and financial and international developments.”

Biological Male Lawmaker Named Minn. Woman of the Year

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Biological Male Lawmaker Named Minn. Woman of the Year

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) USA Today decided to give a Woman of the Year award to a male Minnesota politician who advocates for child mutilations and “identifies” as a woman.

Leigh Finke, the first transgender legislator who was appointed to the Minnesota House of Representatives in November, was selected as part of USA Today’s project to honor “local and national heroines who make a positive impact in their communities every day.”

Finke started to identify as a female in 2017 and was campaigning for other “transgenders,” focusing on ensuring that minors would be able to have access to experimental and irreversible medical sex change procedures, according to the Post Millennial.

“It’s a dramatic understatement to say that I am beyond honored to see my name among this list of honorees,” Finke wrote on Twitter. After he received an award, Finke was interviewed by SC Times.

“The people I hear the most from are parents of trans children,” Finke said and explained that parents often struggle to find hope that their child can thrive after undergoing a sex change. SC Times also said that Finke has been “an activist for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as Black Lives Matter, almost [his] whole life.”

Hot Air writer David Strom, who calls Minnesota home, roasted the disgraceful absurdity of Finke being named anyone’s “woman” of anything.

“‘She’ looks like a dude in a dress, and that is because ‘she’ is a dude in a dress. Yet we are to believe that a man cosplaying as a woman is the most praiseworthy woman in the state,” Strom wrote.

It was amazing, he said, how Finke rose from being just an ordinary guy six years ago, to become the state’s most praiseworthy “woman”.

“It’s the same path that transgender athletes take so often: a mediocre man becomes an exceptional woman, not through hard work, diligence, accomplishment, or anything similar,” Strom wrote. “They do it by pretending to be a woman, and the rest of society applauds them and plays along.”

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this article

Biden Played Title 42 Shell Game Flying Illegals to Southern Border

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Biden Played Title 42 Shell Game Flying Illegals to Southern Border

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security flew illegal immigrants from the northern border to the southern border to expel them under Title 42, a public health expulsion order that was implemented by Donald Trump.

Last year, the Biden administration decided to end Title 42 because it was one of the laws that prevented them from filling the United States with illegal immigrants. That plan was sidetracked when the Supreme Court decided to keep Title 42.

Biden didn’t like the decision and expressed his disdain for the policy earlier this year.

“I wanted to make sure that I knew what the outcome or at least the near outcome was on Title 42 before I went down, we don’t have that yet, so I had to operate — I don’t like Title 42,” he said.

“But it’s the law and now we have to operate within it. My prediction is… Title 42 is going to go away before the end of the year in terms of the Supreme Court, my prediction.”

A U.S. government official familiar with the matter told the Daily Caller that the flights, which are operated by contractor World Atlantic Airlines, also began with a program to move Border Patrol agents from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Canadian border to help with the surge. The source added, however, that the Title 42 flights have been costly, with each costing between $150,000 and $200,000, meaning they are not likely to continue.

On Tuesday, the northern border’s second Title 42 flight departed Plattsburgh, N.Y., for El Paso, Texas, the memo stated. The Daily Caller reported that the flights coincide with a surge in illegal immigration at the northern border, where Border Patrol saw a roughly 846% increase in apprehensions.

According to the email, the Tuesday flight carried Mexicans who crossed the U.S. border illegally from Canada. Mexicans don’t need to have a visa to fly to Canada. The only thing they need to have is an Electronic Travel Authorization, which costs seven Canadian dollars.

Trump Eager to Be Handcuffed in Porn-Star Probe

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Trump Eager to Be Handcuffed in Porn-Star Probe

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing for a “spectacle” should he be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, but believes that such a visual could be the best thing for his 2024 campaign.

According to The Guardian, Trump rejected a proposal by the Secret Service to voluntarily turn himself in to prosecutors in a discreet location to avoid media attention. He said he didn’t care if the arrest was public, or even if someone tried to shoot him during it, because then he would become “a martyr” and easily win the 2024 presidential election, the report alleged.

Trump also reportedly told advisers that he wants to be handcuffed if he has to make an in-person court appearance, saying that if he is going to be fingerprinted and taken in for a mug shot, he might as well use the event to benefit his campaign.

Amidst the looming threat of an indictment, Trump’s support among voters has surged. A new Morning Consult poll shows him leading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 54% to 26%.

Republicans have blasted Bragg for abusing the justice system to go after Trump. On Wednesday, Bragg was accused by Robert Costello, the former legal adviser of key witness Michael Cohen, of withholding hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence from the grand jury.

According to Costello, the grand jury had received only “six cherry-picked documents” of the tranche of files that he had handed over to Bragg, Becker News reported.

House Republicans sent a letter to Bragg this week demanding that he appear before Congress to explain his political prosecution of Trump.

“In light of the serious consequences of your actions, we expect that you will testify about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in the letter.

An indictment of Trump, the letter continued, “will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the court of the 2024 presidential election.”

In Jan. 6 Case, Merrick Garland Recycles Dirty Spy Tactic Used in OKC Bomb Prosecution

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In Jan. 6 Case, Merrick Garland Recycles Dirty Spy Tactic Used in OKC Bomb Prosecution

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Attorney General Merrick Garland is allegedly using the same tactic he may have learned nearly 30 years ago when he helped prosecute Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: using FBI informants to spy on defense teams.

Zachary Rehl, one of the defendants in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition conspiracy trial, filed a motion Wednesday for the DOJ to provide him with all government records about FBI informants or other witnesses that may have provided the bureau with information about the defense.

Rehl’s filing came after he said he learned that a person he planned on using as a defense witness had, in fact, been working as an FBI informant from at least April 2021 to January 2023.

“During this period of time, the [informant] has been in contact via telephone, text messaging and other electronic means, with one or more of the counsel for the defense and at least one defendant … The [informant] also participated in prayer meetings with members of one or more of the defendants’ families,” Rehl said in his motion.

“The [informant] also engaged in discussions with one of the defendant’s family members about replacing one of the defense counsels.”

The defendants requested an immediate emergency hearing and adjournment of the court proceedings until these issues have been considered and resolved. The presiding judge reportedly ordered the DOJ to respond to the motion by Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

The DOJ using FBI informants to spy on defense teams has precedent. This happened to McVeigh’s defense team in May 1995—right at the time when Garland was helping the DOJ to prosecute the bomber.

The May 1995 FBI memo said a special agent received information from an informant that a woman named Wilma Sparks was joining McVeigh’s team.

“The [informant] advised that WILMA SPARKS is a close associate of the [informant] and that SPARKS is taking on the responsibility of investigating certain aspects of the investigation,” the memo said. “SPARKS advised the [informant] that although this was a distasteful assignment, she was willing to accept the assignment to ensure that the case against MCVEIGH will not be overturned due to incompetent counsel.”

McVeigh’s lead defense counsel, Stephen Jones, declined to comment on the memo, which was first discovered by Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue and his fellow investigator, Roger Charles.

Trentadue used this memo—as well as a slew of records showing that the FBI had informants in the media—to sue the FBI for all records about its “sensitive informant program,” which is used to embed informants in the media, congressional offices, churches, defense teams and other “sensitive” institutions.

Trentadue’s lawsuit was ultimately unsuccessful, as a judge ruled in 2015 that the FBI could  to exercise FOIA’s national security exemptions to keep information about its sensitive informants secret.

Trentadue has told Headline USA that he hopes the newly formed House select subcommittee to investigate the weaponization of the federal government will resume what his lawsuit started.

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

Pro-Pedophilia Prof. Redefines Child Rape as ‘Intergenerational Sex’

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Pro-Pedophilia Prof. Redefines Child Rape as ‘Intergenerational Sex’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In a rediscovered Zoom interview, Canadian univeristy professor Rachel Hope Cleves explained her disgust for the term “pedophilia,” instead describing the abuse of children as “intergenerational sex.”

She also claimed that calling victims of sexual abuse “survivors” was incorrect, according to the Daily Caller.

In the November 2020 interview—hosted by the Chicago University Press—Cleves promoted her newly published biography of British author and convicted pedophile Norman Douglas.

“I felt like that contemporary language would have made it impossible really for us to reckon with this prior historical system,” Cleves said, suggesting that the modern-day concept of pedophilia did not exist in early 20th-century, post-Victorian England.

“So I do talk about intergenerational sex, to get to this terminology question,” she continued. “This is a contentious term because by the standards of our time—we don’t see any possibility for sex between adults and children; we see it as rape, and not following within the framework of sex and sexuality.”

Cleves argued that Douglas’s “alleged crime” was not pedophilia, but simply the exploitation of power structures—an idea itself based on the work of pedophile philosopher Michel Foucault, whose writings also informed the Marxist-oriented Critical Race Theory and other controversial concepts in leftist orthodoxy.

While laughing, Cleves described Douglas as constantly bragging about his relations with children “on the cusp of puberty,” and his preference for boys between the ages of 10-12.

Douglas also “made fun of” the children he assaulted in his books. She claimed the references were meant to be “titillating” and enlightening to readers about “a very common type of sex in that time period.”

Although the radical Left has been at the forefront of the current child-grooming movement, which seeks to sexualize elementary-school students and normalize practices once considered to be sexual deviancy, Cleves’s support even appeared to cross party lines.

In 2017, she published an article in defense of Judge Roy Moore, the Alamaba Senate candidate who ran as a Republican to replace then-newly appointed Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

During the campaign, Moore was accused of several sexual attacks against young girls. However, Cleves insisted that even if the allegations were true, Moore was not a pedophile, per se.

“Moore’s alleged crime was not a sexual orientation toward children,” wrote Cleves and her co-author, Kansas University professor Nicholas L. Syrett. “It was his willingness to exploit the unequal power structures of gender and age to victimize young girls who couldn’t stand up to him.”

By such standards, only the act of exploitation itself might be considered illegal, paving the way for consensual sex—or less egregious offenses, such as the possession of child pornography—to gain popular acceptance.

Cleves is a professor of History at the University of Victoria, but is currently on leave for unknown reasons.

She recently penned an article for the Washington Post that claimed Republicans are rejecting historical patterns by banning drag events in order to protect children.

Michigan University to Have 5 Different Graduations for ‘Diversity’

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Michigan University to Have 5 Different Graduations for ‘Diversity’

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Grand Valley State University, an alleged institution of higher learning located in Allendale, Michigan, will host five different graduations for five different ‘minority’ groups.

The five groups honored with their own graduation ceremony are Asian, black, Latino, Native American and an “LGBTQIA+,” according to The Blaze.

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, a devout Roman Catholic, noted an absent population.

“There will be no special celebrations for straight white people,” he wrote.

The LGBT special event is to be called “The Lavender Graduation.” It will be, mockingly, held in the Pere Marquette room at GVSU. Father James Marquette was a 17th-century Jesuit missionary who founded two Michigan cities. Father Marquette spent most of his life converting the natives of the Great Lakes region of America.

The sexual degenerates will also receive their own award at their special ceremony. Their gay pride center, “the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center” will give one student the “Outstanding LGBTQIA+ Graduate Award.”

The recipient will be “a member of the LGBTQIA+ community … who has excelled in leadership and academically during their time at Grand Valley.”

GVSU defended its decision to have a Native American only graduation.

The University website reads that the graduation produces “an opportunity to offer appreciation to those who were stewards of the land on which our beautiful campus was built, long before most of our ancestors arrived.”

Specifically, the website honors “the Three Fires People, who include the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi, on whose ancestral lands we now live and work.”

GVSU seems to be following in the footsteps of Michigan’s flagship University. The University of Michigan spends $18.1 million annually on diversity, equity and inclusion administrators.

Wokeism is also taking over Universities outside of Michigan. The New York State University system now requires all students to pass a DEI course before graduating.

Bragg Accused of Withholding Exculpatory Trump Evidence from Grand Jury

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Bragg Accused of Withholding Exculpatory Trump Evidence from Grand Jury

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Taking a page from the erstwhile House Jan. 6 committee and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s politicized Department of Justice, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was accused Tuesday of withholding hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence from the grand jury considering whether to indict former President Donald Trump.

Robert Costello, the former legal adviser of key witness Michael Cohen, levied the allegations Tuesday night on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.

He said Bragg was hiding “all of the files he had previously turned over to the D.A. that corroborated Cohen’s original story.”

According to Costello, the grand jury had received only “six cherry-picked documents” of the tranche of files that he had handed over to Bragg, Becker News reported.

Cohen served as Trump’s personal lawyer until the Mueller investigation raided his New York office, leading to his own criminal indictment in the alleged hush-money payoff of porn-star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.

His initial story refuted the allegations of Daniels and co-conspirator Karen McDougal, a former Playboy bunny, that Trump had any knowledge the payments Cohen had made to the two aging sex-workers, both of whom claimed to have had trysts with Trump roughly 10 years prior to his run for president.

Costello, who testified before the grand jury earlier in the week, has publicly spoken out about Cohen’s unreliability as a witness.

In response to Costello’s bombshell, Gregg Jarett, a Fox News legal analyst and prominent investigative journalist, called for the disbarment of the prosecuting attorneys involved in the cover-up.

“You know, hiding from grand juries exculpatory information is reprehensible and unconscionable,” Jarett said. “And the conduct of Alvin Bragg and his henchman Mark Pomerantz—who specifically says in his book, ‘We’re targeting zombies because we don’t like his beliefs’—those guys should face disbarment proceedings.”

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a red-pilled liberal law expert, praised Costello as a game-changer in the probe.

“I think that Bob Costello has changed this case dramatically,” Dershowitz said.

“I think that Bragg note now only has two possible results from that: No. 1, he can say, ‘Alright, I’m going to try to make the case without Cohen.’ He cannot use Cohen as a witness anymore; that would be unethical because of the testimony that Costello gave,” Dershowitz said.

“Or he could say, ‘Look, I have to drop the case,’” Dershowitz continued. “He may not be able to make it without Cohen, but if he can’t make it without Cohen, he can’t make it, because no ethical prosecutor is allowed to put on as a witness somebody who has told the lies and has contradicted himself so much.”

Although it was widely speculated that the grand jury might indict Trump early this week, leading to what the former president himself said would be a Tuesday arrest, the Left’s hopes were dashed when nothing happened.

The grand jury reportedly will not meet again until Thursday at the earliest.

However, Dershowitz speculated that the cause for the delay might be related to Costello’s surprise testimony.

“I think maybe that’s a reason for the delay here,” he said. “I think ethical experts are now telling Bragg, ‘Wait a minute, you cannot use Cohen.”

Headline USA reached out to Cohen at his personal Gmail account and will update with any response.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

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