CNN Shutters Its Once Vaunted Atlanta Headquarters

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CNN Shutters Its Once Vaunted Atlanta Headquarters

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Financially troubled CNN is fleeing its longtime downtown Atlanta, Georgia headquarters in order to take up residence in the suburbs, the Washington Examiner reported.

The news comes as the network faces flagging ratings and deepening financial troubles, despite its recent hire of RINO ex-Rep. Adam Kinzinger as a political consultant.

For at least three years, rumors have swirled that the network, founded in 1978 by media mogul Ted Turner, might try to unload its flagship former headquarters.

CNN previously announced that would leave the old CNN Center in search of greener pastures at the Warner Bros. Discovery’s Techwood Turner Broadcasting campus, north of the city.

Former CNN President Tom Johnson, who left the network in 2001, lamented the decision

“I am heartbroken,” he said, mourning the loss of the CNN logo atop the tower.

“So many of my friends tell me how they’re going to miss that wonderful CNN logo on top of CNN Center. It just meant so much to us.”

According to a TVNewser report, the move has already begun and will be complete by the end of 2023. The corporation has already moved its master control operations to the new location.

The Techwood campus houses numerous other cable networks, such as TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and truTV.

After former CNN president Jeff Zucker left the network last year in the midst of a sex scandal that also touched on the ethical lapses of former primetime host Chris Cuomo, CNN has taken several measures to shake up its lineup and, to some extent, shed its image as a left-wing propaganda mouthpiece.

But it continues to dwell in the gutter in the ratings war with Fox News, while running neck-and-neck with top left-wing competitor MSNBC.

Things are so bad that new CEO Chris Litch posted security guards outside his office during recent layoff announcements.

Adding an additional layer of drama, CNN is departing the building that it all but encouraged violent mobs to burn down in the summer of 2020, when its headquarters came under siege as part of the race riots triggered by the death of George Floyd.

At the time, the looters vandalized its iconic sign with profane graffiti and hurled bricks through its glass entrance.

As the building was attacked, the WarnerMedia-owned outlet was forced to rely on the very police who were being blamed for the insurrections to defend its property interests.

Sheila Jackson Lee’s Bill Makes It Illegal for Whites to Criticize Minorities

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Sheila Jackson Lee’s Bill Makes It Illegal for Whites to Criticize Minorities

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, recently introduced a bill, H.R. 61, that would criminalize white people speaking out against illegal immigration, Red State reported.

Lee’s radical anti-white bill immediately made waves on Twitter.

“Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for White people, and White people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify “a non-White person or group,” the National Conservative tweeted.

The bill, were it to pass, would carve out a new type of crime, a “white supremacy-inspired hate crime,” which the bill defines very broadly as an instance in which “white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”

Its explicitly stated purpose is “to prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime and to amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of hate crimes.”

In other words, it is a leftist attempt to redefine “hate crimes” to include the activities of white people, including social media posts or public messages promoting “replacement theory”, or “hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group.”

The new powers would fall under the interpretative authority of the politicized Department of Justice, which “shall have the authority to investigate, intercede, and undertake other actions that it deems necessary and appropriate to interdict, mitigate, or prevent such action from culminating in violent activity.”

If the law were to pass, white people would no longer be permitted to criticize any minority or minority-oriented group, such as Black Lives Matter, without a high likelihood of being charged with a hate crime.

Soros Snubs World Economic Forum Meeting, Will Speak in Munich

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Soros Snubs World Economic Forum Meeting, Will Speak in Munich

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Billionaire Democrat donor George Soros has announced that a “scheduling conflict” is keeping him from attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, but the hedge fund tycoon said he’ll be speaking at the upcoming Munich Security Conference—another consequential, if lesser known, gathering of world leaders.

Soros, a frequent speaker at WEF events, made his announcement last week on Twitter, just days before the WEF annual meeting was set to begin in Davos. He said “details [are] to come” about his Munich trip.

The WEF has received more publicity than the annual Munich Security Conference in recent years due to its participants, such as Bill Gates, advocating for COVID-19-related policies such as lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and vaccine passports—all part of what the WEF calls its “Great Reset initiative.” However, the Munich Security Conference has been equally impactful on world events, if not more so.

At last year’s Munich Security Conference, for instance, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to his country reacquiring nuclear weapons to counter Russia. Five days following Zelensky’s Feb. 19, 2022, speech, Russia invaded Ukraine.

A year before that, President Joe Biden spoke at the Munich event in the weeks after taking office. Biden declared that “America is back” in a bellicose speech in which he pitted the United States and its allies against Russia.

“The Kremlin attacks our democracies and weaponizes corruption to try to undermine our system of governance,” Biden said in Munich in 2021.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has also spoken at Munich Security Conferences before U.S.-Russia relations deteriorated. In 2007, Putin decried the ongoing expansion of NATO in a speech that some observers say portended the current conflict.

“What happened to the assurances our Western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?” Putin asked, referring to promises U.S. leaders made to Russia in the 1990s that NATO would not expand east of Germany.

The Munich Security Conference has also focused on WEF-related themes, such as when Bill Gates spoke there about pandemics in 2017.

“We ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril,” Gates said in an ominous speech three years ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10-15 years.”

This year’s Munich Security Conference, set to take place Feb. 17-19, is again focused on Russia.

“What does the world look like a year after the beginning of the invasion? Is the war an indicator of a more violent world, in which impunity prevails, the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must? Or can it be a catalyst for a global recommitment to a rules-based international order?” the event’s website asks.

“These and other questions will be at the center of the discussions in Munich.”

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

N.Y. Gov. Hochul Goes after Cigarette Smokers, Just Weeks after Legalizing Weed

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N.Y. Gov. Hochul Goes after Cigarette Smokers, Just Weeks after Legalizing Weed

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is implementing a hefty tax for cigarette smokers weeks after legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana.

According to Breitbart, the Democrat governor proposed a plan to raise the cigarette tax by another dollar, making the minimum cost for a pack of cigarettes $5.35.

Hochul legalized the sale of recreational weed in December under the guise of “equity,” increasing revenue for public schools and community revitalization.

“We set a course just nine months ago to start New York’s adult-use cannabis market off on the right foot by prioritizing equity, and now, we’re fulfilling that goal,” Hochul said.

“The industry will continue to grow from here, creating inclusive opportunity in every corner of New York State with revenues directed to our schools and revitalizing communities,” she added.

Critics pointed out the apparent incongruence between the two proposals, citing health issues on both sides.

Harvard University published a study last year documenting the cognitive decline of habitual pot smokers.

“Long-term cannabis users’ IQs declined by 5.5 points on average from childhood, and there were deficits in learning and processing speed compared to people that did not use cannabis.” wrote researcher Kevin Hill, the director of addiction psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

“The more frequently an individual used cannabis, the greater the resulting cognitive impairment, suggesting a potential causative link,” Hill said.

A newly published report by Columbia University found that the rates of asthma among teenagers are rising in states that legalized marijuana—particularly in places with a greater population of minorities.

Research form the National Institutes of Health also pointed in a worrisome direction, linking marijuana use with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.

Additionally, it is unlikely that routine cigarette smokers will simply drop their habit due to rising prices. New Yorkers—and Americans who live in other states with high cigarette taxes—simply find ways to avoid the increased charge.

“Nationwide, New York continues to have the greatest rate of cigarette smuggling, with smuggled cigarettes accounting for 53.5 percent of total cigarette consumption in the state,” said the Tax Foundation a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank, according to a recent analysis.

“New York also has one of the highest state cigarette taxes ($4.35 per pack), not counting the additional local New York City cigarette tax ($1.50 per pack), yielding a combined rate of $5.85 per pack,” it noted.

Marijuana is currently legal in 28 states, though some allow it only for medicinal purposes.

REPORT: Children Under 14 Die from Fentanyl More Than Any Other Age Group

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REPORT: Children Under 14 Die from Fentanyl More Than Any Other Age Group

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A newly released report from Families Against Fentanyl, a nonprofit group spreading awareness about the opioid, revealed that deaths in children 14 and under are increasing at a faster rate than any other age group.

FAF founder Jim Rauh said that many of the deaths in the young age group are due to accidental ingestion, according to a press release.

It only takes a small amount for fentanyl poisoning to set in for both adults and children. The drug is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.

“It’s so prevalent in society now,” said Rauh, who lost his 37-year-old son to fentanyl poisoning in 2015.

“Distribution goes to dispersion by entropy. That’s the law of physics. And it’s showing out because of the mass quantity of this material,” he said.

“It’s so prevalent that just our innocent children, by incidental contact, are being killed,” Rauh added. “And now it’s creeping into the schools and other enclosed environments.”

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that deaths by accidental exposure of the drug to children tripled in the 1-4 year old age group and quadrupled in children ages 5-14.

Fentanyl deaths among children 14 and under increased by 1,400% since 2015.

The Drug Enforcement Administration seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill everyone in America—double what was seized in 2021.

Out of the 379 million lethal doses of the synthetic drug, 50.6 million doses were fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl.

The CDC reported that it is common for illegal fentanyl powder to be laced with other drugs because of its extreme potency, which makes it dangerous.

It only takes two milligrams of fentanyl, the size of 10 to 15 grains of salt, to kill, said Deb Cullen, who lost her 22-year-old son Zachary to illegal fentanyl.

“One packet of Sweet ‘N Low filled with fentanyl is enough to kill 500 people,” she said.

FAF is encouraging Congress to treat fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

House Republicans recently announced the formation of a a special committee on China, where the drug is largely trafficked from, which will investigate the fentanyl issue as part of its work.

Biden Lies about Attending a Black Church in High School after Catholic Mass

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Biden Lies about Attending a Black Church in High School after Catholic Mass

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) During an appearance Sunday at the former church of Martin Luther King Jr., President Joe Biden falsely declared that he had attended a black church in Delaware after attending daily Catholic Mass in high school.

Biden was visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, in honor of King’s federal holiday on Monday, Breitbart reported.

“I may be a practicing Catholic, we used to go 7:30 a.m. mass every morning in high school and college before I went to the black church,” he said. “Not a joke.”

Several congregants of the church Biden claimed to attend said they do not remember meeting Biden or even seeing him at a service, despite his claims that he formed a relationship with the church.

Biden made a similar claim on the campaign trail in 2020 when speaking at a Baptist church in South Carolina.

“I’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Reverend Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do,” he said.

Biden repeatedly made the claim on the campaign trail, also making similar remarks at an NAACP event in Iowa in 2020.

“I was raised in the black church politically—not a joke,” he said during a speech at an NAACP event in Iowa in 2020.

Among his many whoppers, Biden also has claimed repeatedly to have been arrested during a civil rights protest, although no records exist to corroborate the tale.

Through the course of his speech on Sunday, Biden, who turned 80 in November, made other questionable claims about his six-decade-long track record in social justice.

At times, he seemed to lose his thread and meander discursively from one yarn to the next.

“When I started off as a 22-year-old on the east side of the civil rights movement,” Biden said. “I got elected to the United States Senate when I was 29 and wasn’t old enough to take office.”

The president also insisted he fought apartheid in South Africa.

Left-leaning fact checkers rated both of these claims as false. Biden also admitted the latter story to be untrue.

The president also took a moment to call out an unknown female audience member, asking to get a picture with them. The audience cheered and applauded in response to his unprompted pause.

Biden’s falsehoods have long been a part of his political persona. He was forced to drop out of the 1988 presidential primary after he was caught plagiarizing a speech and has falsely claimed in the past to have fought in Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War when he was in his second year of law school.

Biden also has lied about his academic credentials.

But his patterns of dishonest have taken on a new pall during his time as president. Biden currently is under investigation for his mishandling of classified documents.

But left-wing operatives in the political realm and in the media—including View cohost Joy Behar and Rob Reiner, the actor who portrayed “Meathead” on All in the Family—have insisted that Biden deserves to be taken on good faith due to his integrity.

Despite his claims of being a civil-rights champion, Biden also has a long and troubled history of making racially insensitive and offensive remarks.

With newly elected Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., drawing calls from many on the left and right to resign, Democrats’ willing to look the other way in allowing Biden and others within their own party to brazenly lie about their background has undermined their moral authority in the matter.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

As Globalist ‘Elites’ Arrive in Davos, Suspicion Abounds

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As Globalist ‘Elites’ Arrive in Davos, Suspicion Abounds

(Headline USA) When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems.

The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, which opens Monday, has increasingly become a subject of alarm from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit.

The WEF’s own published agenda, which couches its nefarious agenda in thinly veiled euphemisms, has been the source of much of that concern as it openly advocates a collectivist one-world government achieved through a “Great Reset” of the current political and economic orders.

Despite having itself coined many of the buzzwords associated with the conspiracies, the WEF now claims it is a victim of misinformation. But few in the public are having it following several years of globalist collusion on matters like coronavirus lockdowns; massive inflation; a war in Ukraine that has allowed wealthy weapons manufacturers to profit; and the blatant interference in the democratic political process for several nations, including the United States.

“This isn’t a conspiracy that is playing out on the extreme fringes,” said Alex Friedfeld, a researcher with the far-left Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish-based nonprofit that often tries to dox and censor critics of government overreach and intrusion, as well as smearing many with spurious claims of anti-Semitism, its go-to response.

“We’re seeing it on mainstream social media platforms being shared by regular Americans, Friedfeld said. “We were seeing it being spread by mainstream media figures right on their prime time news, on their nightly networks.”

He suggested that such criticism of efforts to establish a new-world order could result in stochastic terrorism that would put the lives of the Davoisie at risk.

“Creating all that kind of stuff can generate enemies that people believe are responsible for whatever bad thing is happening in the world,” Friedfeld said.

“Once that happens, when you believe that that things are happening in the world and a certain person or group of people is responsible for these attacks, all of a sudden, the idea of using violence to resist becomes more plausible.”

Indeed, some memes suggested that the public would not openly endorse the possibility of Russia nuking the summit, but would not entirely oppose it either.

Though it’s always unclear how much concrete action will emerge, the meeting is slated to take on pressing global issues from climate change and economic uncertainty to geopolitical instability and public health.

Hundreds of public sessions are planned, but the four-day conference is also known for secretive backroom meetings and deal-making by business leaders. This gap between what’s shown to the public and what happens behind closed doors helps make that makes the meeting a flashpoint for justifiable conspiracy theories.

“When we have very high levels of ambiguity, it’s very easy to fill in narratives,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, another leftist “think-tank” that is eager to dismiss valid suspicions as being a product of “misinformation.”

Theories about influential global leaders are not new, she said, but scrutiny of the forum and its chairman, Klaus Schwab, intensified in 2020 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That year, the theme of the annual meeting was “The Great Reset.” The initiative envisioned sweeping changes to how societies and economies would work to recover from the pandemic and build a more sustainable future.

Now, in increasingly mainstream corners of the internet and on conservative talk shows, “The Great Reset” has become shorthand for what skeptics say is a reorganization of society, using global uncertainty as a guise to take away rights.

Believers argue that measures including pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates are tools to consolidate power and undercut individual sovereignty.

At a rally staged on the grounds of an upstate New York church last fall, a photo of Schwab was displayed on the center of a large screen alongside other “villains” accused of threatening American values.

Participants discussed “The Great Reset,” among a host of other theories, as an assault on America’s foundations.

The phrase was used more than 60 times across all programs on Fox News in 2022, according to one tally generated by the Internet Archive’s TV news database. That’s up from 30 mentions in 2021 and about 20 in 2020. It was discussed most frequently on The Ingraham Angle and Tucker Carlson Tonight.

And in August, Infowars host Alex Jones released a book called The Great Reset: And The War For the World. It’s described as an analysis of “the global elite’s international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet.”

As the World Economic Forum has become intertwined with this narrative, a steady stream of claims have plagued the organization—namely that it hosts wealthy executives who fly in on emissions-spewing corporate jets.

Stories last month circulated that Schwab publicly encouraged the decriminalization of sex between children and adults, drawing tens of thousands of shares on Twitter and Facebook.

Meanwhile, the popular claim that the forum wants people to replace meat with bugs is a reference to an article once published on the organization’s website but has continued to be openly embraced by powerful leaders affiliated with Davos, including billionaire Bill Gates.

In another instance, a widely shared post claimed that the forum had “appointed” U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House before the actual vote had taken place.

Yann Zopf, head of media for the forum, says the organization has increased its monitoring of this kind of online activity and carefully watches for direct threats.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

House GOP Demands Visitor Logs in Biden Classified Docs Case

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(Headline USA) Newly empowered House Republicans on Sunday demanded the White House turn over all information related to its searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden’s home and former office in the wake of more records found at his Delaware residence.

“We have a lot of questions,” said Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Comer said he wants to see all documents and communications related to the searches by the Biden team, as well as visitor logs of the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, from Jan. 20, 2021, to present. He said the aim is to determine who might have had access to classified material and how the records got there.

The White House on Saturday said it had discovered five additional pages of classified documents at Biden’s home on Thursday, the same day a special counsel was appointed to review the matter.

In a letter Sunday to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Comer criticized the searches by Biden representatives when the Justice Department was beginning to investigate and said Biden’s “mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security.”

Comer demanded that the White House provide all relevant information including visitor logs by the end of the month.

Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Comer referred to Biden’s home as a “crime scene” though he acknowledged that it was not clear yet what laws were broken.

For many, the mishandling of classified documents would be considered a felony with a very low threshold for proving intent due to the national security risk.

Unlike former President Donald Trump, Biden did not have declassification power at the time of their removal, and in the case of documents found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., it is clear that the documents were transported at least once after having been removed.

Moreover, Comer noted suspicious timing of the special counsel’s appointment—two months after the initial discovery and once the story had already broken—and the fact that Biden’s personal lawyers were able to conduct the search for additional documents, rather than law enforcement.

“My concern is that the special counsel was called for, but yet hours after that we still had the president’s personal attorneys, who have no security clearance, still rummaging around the president’s residence, looking for things—I mean that would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak,” Comer said.

Biden, who is estimated to have spent some 40% of his presidency on vacation—much of that at his home in Wilmington—did not have any logs of his visitors at the private residence, officials said.

“Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.”

While the U.S. Secret Service provides security at the president’s private residence, it does not maintain visitor logs, agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Sunday.

“We don’t independently maintain our own visitor logs because it’s a private residence,” Guglielmi said. He added that the agency does screen visitors to the president’s properties but doesn’t maintain records of those checks.

Democrat Barack Obama’s administration initially fought attempts by Congress and conservative and liberal groups to obtain visitor records. But after being sued, it voluntarily began disclosing the logs in December 2009, posting records every three to four months. Those logs notably appeared to be incomplete or have substantial gaps in them, investigations showed.

A federal appeals court ruled in 2013 that the logs can be withheld under presidential executive privilege. That unanimous ruling was written by Judge Merrick Garland, who is now serving as Biden’s attorney general.

Asked about Comer’s request for logs and communications regarding the search for documents, Sams responded: “I would simply refer you to what Congressman Comer himself told CNN this morning: ‘At the end of the day, my biggest concern isn’t the classified documents to be honest with you.’ That says it all.”

In that CNN interview, Comer had added that House Republicans did not trust the Justice Department to give the matter of Biden’s classified documents an appropriate level of scrutiny.

The House Judiciary Committee on Friday requested that Garland turn over information related to the discovery of documents and Garland’s appointment of special counsel Richard Hur to oversee the investigation.

White House officials “can say they’re being transparent, but it’s anything but,” the committee chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures.

White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement Saturday that a total of six pages of classified documents were found from Biden’s time serving as vice president in the Obama administration during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.

The latest disclosure was in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden’s garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.

Sauber said that Biden’s personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening.

Sauber found the remaining material Thursday, as he was “facilitating” their retrieval by Justice Department.

Sauber did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting. The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said the Justice Department rightfully appointed special counsels to “get to the bottom” of the Biden classified documents matter as well as in a separate investigation into the mishandling of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida.

But Raskin also predictably deflected from the gravity of Biden’s offense by insisting, without evidence, that Trump’s was much worse, even though the alleged crime was the same.

“We should keep a sense of proportion and measure about what we’re talking about,” Raskin told CNN.

Asked Sunday if his oversight committee would investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents as well, Comer demurred.

“There have been so many investigations of President Trump, I don’t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time investigating President Trump, because the Democrats have done that for the past six years,” he said.

Garland has appointed special counsels to oversee both cases. Trump’s is Jack Smith, a notorious partisan attack-dog who helped target a former Republican governor of Virginia and advised the IRS in its targeting of Republican groups during the Obama administration.

Biden’s is Robert Hur, who maintains close ties to FBI Director Chris Wray and former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was forced out of the Trump administration after offering to wear a wire to ensnare the former president.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

New Details Show Biden’s Special Counsel Is a ‘Fixer,’ Not a Prosecutor

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New Details Show Biden’s Special Counsel Is a ‘Fixer,’ Not a Prosecutor

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Robert Hur, the recently appointed special counsel tasked with probing President Joe Biden’s mismanagement of classified documentation, has several deep-state connections.

Among them is notorious Democrat “fixer” Terry Lenzner through his son, Jonathan, who served as Hur’s deputy attorney.

The elder Lenzner acquired his reputation in Washington when President Bill Clinton held office. According to Real Clear Investigations, he acted as a “private CIA,” learning the secrets of Clinton’s mistresses and enemies in order to suppress negative media.

Terry Lenzner retired in 2015, and his son, Jonathan, took over the private investigation firm his father founded. Jon is a known Democrat and donor to the Clintons.

Paul Sperry, reporter for Real Clear Investigations, discovered that Lenzner worked with newly-appointed Special Counsel Hur in the latter’s capacity as U.S. attorney in Maryland.

Moreover, Lenzner currently works as chief of staff for FBI director Christopher Wray, under whose leadership the FBI has continued to morph into a politicized weapon for the Left, following the lead of his predecessor, James Comey.

His wife, Matea Gold, works as a national editor for the Washington Post. Before her husband was promoted to FBI chief of staff, the paper barred her from reporting on the FBI and Justice Department due to an alleged conflict of interest.

Gold previously reported on alleged Russian collusion by former President Donald Trump and his advisors.

Hur also worked closely with Wray, having served previously as his top deputy at the FBI.

Wray, Hur and Lenzer all had some kind of involvement during the Russian collusion probe led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller, which the Left used to prevent Trump from completing many goals during his presidential term.

Hur also has ties to former U.S. acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was in charge of the Mueller investigation.

The two are so close that Rosenstein even announced Hur’s initial DOJ appointment, praising him for his “experience and judgment [that] will advance our efforts to deter crime, promote the rule of law, and ensure equal justice for everyone.”

NBC’s Chuck Todd Obtusely Denies Evidence of Hunter Biden’s Criminal Conduct

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NBC’s Chuck Todd Obtusely Denies Evidence of Hunter Biden’s Criminal Conduct

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) During a Meet the Press interview on Sunday with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., about the GOP’s many investigations into the activity of Hunter Biden, NBC News hack Chuck Todd insisted he had yet to see any evidence of criminal conduct from the president’s son.

“Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed?” Todd asked. “I have yet to see anybody explain. It’s not a crime to make money off your last name.”

According to RealClearPolitics, Todd stopped Johnson mid-explanation for using the phrase “potential crimes” when referencing a report.

Hunter Biden is currently under a Justice Department-run grand jury investigation in Delaware and stands accused of committing several serious financial crimes.

Evidence from his abandoned laptop has revealed others that he has yet to be charged for, including illegal possession of a handgun, illegal drug use and possession of child pornography.

Johnson was likely referring to having a special counsel look into the offenses for the crimes that involve the president.

“Let me stop you there, ‘potential’ is innuendo,” Todd said, dismissing the argument altogether. “I’ll take it your ethically bothered by Hunter Biden?”

“Are you not?” Johnson replied. “You don’t invite me on to interview me, you invite me on to argue with me.”

Todd once again dismissed Johnson, saying his objection to hyper-partisan media “is part of his identity” and insisting that he personally “deals in facts.”

“Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it’s part of your identity,” Todd told Johnson.

Sens. Johnson and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are investigating the financial relationship between President Biden, his son and their many business entanglements.

Despite Todd’s insistence that “it’s not a crime to make money off of your last name,” the senators maintain that Biden used more than just his last name to garner funds from foreign powers.

However, published reports of their findings are rarely reported on by the national media.

“Once we issued our… reports, which were based almost exclusively on U.S. sourced documents and interviews with U.S. citizens, the media largely ignored it,” Johnson said in a statement. “When they did write a story on it, they declared that our reports found nothing new. A classic media cover-up.”

Democrat politicians and the media have gone to great lengths to protect the Biden family, blocking investigations and ignoring or making light of breaking reports.

House Republicans are preparing to launch a new probe into Joe Biden’s business relationship with his son, as well as Hunter’s business deals—starting with his mysterious energy deal with China.

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