(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she supports presidential candidate Joe Biden despite recent evidence that has corroborated sexual assault allegations made against him by a former staffer.
“I do support Joe Biden,” Pelosi told CNN on Thursday, right after declaring her support for the #MeToo movement.
“I’m satisfied with how he has responded,” she continued. “I know him. I was proud to endorse him Monday, very proud to endorse him, so I’m satisfied with that.”
Tara Reade, who worked in Biden’s Senate office as a staffer, has accused Biden of assaulting her and then vindictively firing her afterward.
Her story has now been corroborated by four independent sources, and contemporaneously by a CNN clip in which her now-deceased mother described what happened to Reade during a call to Larry King Live.
Biden’s campaign has dismissed the allegation has “untrue” but has not yet addressed the recent evidence supporting Reade’s claim.
Biden has not personally addressed the allegation at all. Nonetheless, Pelosi said that would suffice for her.
“It’s a matter he has to deal with,” she said, adding that she’s “impressed” that several other former staffers in Biden’s office “absolutely never heard one iota of information about this.”
When Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was facing unsubstantiated allegations of sexual assault, for which there was no evidence at all, Pelosi sang a much different tune.
“Far too few people are recognizing Dr. Ford’s sheer bravery in sharing her story today,” Pelosi tweeted after California professor Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate in 2018. “That *must* not be overlooked,” Pelosi said.
‘Information gained through biomedical research … provides a critical foundation for generating appropriate countermeasures…’
Anthony Fauci / IMAGE: Face the Nation via Youtube
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a crucial adviser for President Donald Trump during the coronavirus pandemic, but some evidence suggests he may be more a part of the cover-up than the solution.
Already, Fauci has come under criticism for his veiled partisan commentary, presumptuous second-guessing of the president and his role in delaying the pace of progress as Trump calls for streamlined solutions to circumvent the swamp’s normally sluggish scientific apparati.
Reports now suggest that, during the Obama administration, Fauci’s organization, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funneled $7.4 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to the New York Post.
Despite China‘s propagandist efforts to conceal the virus’s origin, an increasing amount of evidence indicates that it may have hailed from the Wuhan lab, which deals in biological weapons, uses bats for research and was flagged for safety concerns in a 2018 report.
To make matters worse, at least half of the NIAID’s allocation of U.S. tax dollars was earmarked specifically to fund a “5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses,” reported Newsweek.
Only facing intense pressure from the Trump administration and other GOP critics did NIAID’s parent organization, the National Institutes of Health, finally cut funding for its research grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which was conducting the study.
“At this time, NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities,” Michael Lauer, the agency’s deputy director for extramural research, wrote in a letter, as reported by Politico.
Sources have indicated that the breach which led to the current crisis likely was not a malicious military act but a careless miscalculation as part of China’s efforts to keep pace with U.S. research, resulting in the “costliest government cover-up of all time,” said Fox News.
Nonetheless, in a statement to Newsweek responding to the new developments, NIH continued to deny that the virus was lab-based.
“Most emerging human viruses come from wildlife, and these represent a significant threat to public health and biosecurity in the US and globally, as demonstrated by the SARS epidemic of 2002-03, and the current COVID-19 pandemic…. scientific research indicates that there is no evidence that suggests the virus was created in a laboratory,” said the statement.
Thus far, many in the left-wing media have remained complicit in the attempted cover-up, which encompasses not only the NIH and China, but also the U.N.-backed World Health Organization.
Wuhan Institute of Virology / IMAGE: TVB Anywhere Life via YouTube
Most have thus dismissed the evidence of a lab-based origin as a “conspiracy theory,” even though Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and leading GOP senators all support the idea.
As for Fauci, the liberal Newsweek eloquently waxed that he is considered by the Left to be “something of an American folk hero for his steady, calm leadership during the pandemic crisis.”
Citing its own poll, the magazine claimed “that Americans trust Fauci more than Trump on the coronavirus pandemic—and few scientists are portrayed on TV by Brad Pitt,” it added, further validating Fauci’s scientific bona fides.
Fauci and the NIH recently touted the development of a prospective treatment, Gilead Science’s remdesivir, which is supported by WHO-backed research with trials being conducted in China.
Already that raises questions over their financial stake in the drug, particularly after a concerted effort by the globalist conglomerate to trash a Trump-endorsed treatment, hydroxychloroquine.
But as more details emerge about the Wuhan laboratory’s research, Fauci’s failure to take ownership of his role in creating the crisis might ultimately harm his credibility and hinder the pursuit of a cure.
Newsweek revealed that the current pandemic would not be the first time that Fauci had played fast and loose with risky research practices.
He also supported controversial research on bird-flu viruses, ignoring the calls of more than 200 scientists to halt the work, which increased the likelihood of a pandemic, they said.
Fauci defended it, saying in a December 2011 Washington Post op-ed that it was worth the risk.
“Decades of experience tells us that disseminating information gained through biomedical research to legitimate scientists and health officials provides a critical foundation for generating appropriate countermeasures and, ultimately, protecting the public health,” he claimed.
‘They’re writing COVID on all the death certificates…’
(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) A new undercover video from the investigative journalism group Project Veritas shows multiple New York City funeral home directors questioning the official Wuhan virus death count.
“To be honest with you, all of the death certificates are writing COVID on it—they’re writing COVID on all the death certificates,” said Michael Lanza, director of Staten Island’s Colonial Funeral Home.
“I think it’s political,” he said, “So, I’m going to turn around and say: ‘You know, like, not everybody that we have here that has COVID on the death certificate died of COVID.’ Can I prove that? No, but that is my suspicion.”
The shocking comments come amid widespread concern that Wuhan virus death totals are being artificially inflated.
The controversy began when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance earlier this month allowing for death certificates to list COVID-19 even if infected people die from other causes.
Additionally, the CDC has allowed hospitals to blame COVID-19 even when patients haven’t tested positive for the virus. If an untested person died of the flu, for example, then their coronavirus-like symptoms would be enough to qualify for a coronavirus cause of death.
But in many cases, the reasoning is even weaker.
A hidden-camera interview at a Queens-based funeral home called DiMiceli and Sons highlights such a scenario.
Josephine DeMiceli, president of the funeral home, said that the sister of a deceased woman contacted her about funeral arrangements and explained that the deceased woman had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease but was never treated for the Wuhan virus. Yet, COVID-19 was listed as her cause of death.
The women’s cousin was allegedly a Supreme Court justice. After the family insisted on an autopsy, DeMiceli said, “I called her and I said to her that the doctor signed the death certificate [to] the autopsy—no COVID-19.”
Another segment in the video shows a Brooklyn funeral home director saying that people who die outside of the care of a private physician will likely be labeled as a coronavirus casualty.
“Two weeks ago, I had a 40-year-old man that died in his house, OK? They didn’t even go to the house—the guy had no underlying causes, no medical conditions—they released him from the house without even going saying he had COVID-19 because he had a fever,” he said.
‘What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?’
Michael Flynn / IMAGE: Fox Business via YouTube
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The Justice Department’s release of new material from corrupt FBI agents blew open the agency’s plot to frame Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, in a perjury trap during the early days of the Trump administration.
The disclosure included handwritten notes, believed to be from former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap, and email correspondence from Priestap’s deputy, Peter Strzok, who was overseeing the field operations for the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into Russian collusion.
Strzok’s secret lover, Lisa Page, who was one of the attorneys advising FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, was also among those included in the email chain, although several other names remained redacted.
In his notes, Priestap indicated that the FBI was “playing games” with Flynn during his January 2017 interrogation, according to Just the News.
He also openly questioned whether the FBI’s objective in pursuing the interview was ethically and legally sound.
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” said the notes.
Flynn, who was charged with lying to the FBI officials as part of the Mueller investigation, was due to be sentenced in February.
But a last-minute appeal to Attorney General William Barr at the behest of Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, led to the release of the new case evidence, which now seems poised to exonerate him fully.
Prominent conservatives are calling for Flynn’s former boss, President Donald Trump, to pardon him, while others speculate that he may seek damages for the harm that was done.
‘Playing Games’ with Justice
Flynn, a three-star general and lifelong Democrat who had served in the Obama administration, became embroiled in the FBI’s anti-Trump sting operation after taking phone calls from then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016, prior to Flynn’s official appointment as national security adviser for the incoming Trump administration.
Acting in an unofficial capacity, he sought to ease tensions after President Barack Obama belatedly expelled Russian diplomats and retroactively imposed sanctions for their alleged interference in the 2016 election.
Obama had avoided action prior to the election out of concern that it could undermine public confidence in a victory for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Peter Strzok / IMAGE: CBS News
Flynn’s January 2017 interrogation itself was set up under false pretenses, with Strzok and others intending to surprise him by the line of questions about his contacts with the Russian diplomat.
In the newly released materials, in fact, Strzok appears to ask then-FBI General Counsel James Baker for legal advice on how to conduct the ruse should Flynn become suspicious or uncooperative during the interview.
Strzok debates with the lawyers how best to time the issuance of a Miranda Rights-style “admonition” and whether the agents doing the interrogating should read it at the start or wait until Flynn gave what they believed to be a false statement.
Priestap’s notes also discuss the apparent consensus that interrogators shouldn’t show evidence to Flynn.
The Conspiracy Unravels
Prior to the interrogation, the FBI not only knew of the call between Flynn and the Russian diplomat, but it likely also access to the full transcript due to its wiretapping of Trump campaign officials.
Yet, the circumstance surrounding the agency’s authorization to spy on Trump officials via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has itself become the subject of tremendous scrutiny.
The FISA abuse revealed last December in a report by the DOJ inspector general returned to headlines after a recent revelation that Christopher Steele—whose now-discredited dossier provided the backbone, if not the only source, for the FBI surveillance warrants—had been deeply involved in a Russian disinformation campaign.
Declassified footnotes from the IG report further revealed that FBI officials (Strzok and Priestap) were aware of Steele’s credibility concerns prior to launching the operation but proceeded anyway.
Leading GOP senators, including powerful committee chairs Charles Grassley of Iowa, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have called for the Justice Department to release additional details about the role that the dubious dossier played in the probe.
Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, poses in January 2017 with his Obama administration predecessor, Susan Rice, who may have been complicit in his FBI framing. / IMAGE: Fox Business via YouTube
Coincidentally, on Wednesday it was revealed that Steele recently testified in a British court saying he believed then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—in addition to Susan Rice, Flynn’s immediate predecessor as national security adviser during the Obama administration—both were directly aware of his anti-Trump research in the summer of 2016.
Last week, after maintaining silence on social media for the past 31 months, Flynn tweeted out a declaration he had filed requesting to withdraw his former guilty plea over the allegations that he had violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act and had lied to FBI investigators.
Like the interrogation itself, in which Flynn was deliberately tricked into falsely incriminating himself, he said his original attorneys with the law firm of Covington and Burling had offered him bad counsel, leaving him unprepared for the case and then encouraging him to accept the original plea deal.
Another tweet on Wednesday from Flynn suggested that he was enjoying his freedom after the exculpatory revelations.
The tweet’s image, panning from a thicket of green trees to an open sky with an American flag waving from it, seemed a fitting coda to the former national security adviser’s bit part in what history may deem one of the most disgraceful perversions of justice ever orchestrated by the U.S. intelligence community.
Flynn’s tweet—whether by design or not—seemed to mirror a March 2019 tweet from disgraced former FBI Director James Comey in the immediate aftermath of the Mueller Report‘s release, which showed Comey gazing upward in a copse of towering trees with the words “So many questions.”
But one of the questions now lingering is precisely what the former director’s role was in engineering the setup.
Comey—the subject of his own inspector general investigation last year, which reported evidence of misconduct but stopped short of recommending prosecution—is known to have leaked classified memos of his early meetings with Trump for the express purpose of triggering the Mueller probe.
He publicly acknowledged that he was conducting his own intelligence assessment on Trump during a January 2017 meeting in which he told the president-elect about the salacious innuendo contained in the Steele Dossier. The dossier leaked to the media shortly thereafter.
During another meeting outlined in his memos, Comey said that Trump asked him to call off the FBI’s attack on Flynn.
Robert Mueller, James Comey and Barack Obama / IMAGE: The Obama White House via Youtube
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump allegedly told Comey. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Comey used the statement to suggest publicly that Trump was trying to unduly influence the FBI’s investigation. But the exchange is now cast in a far more sinister light as Comey was likely aware of the calculated set-up that his agents were conducting.
Currently, “Justice Department officials are investigating whether Priestap’s notes were written in conjunction with meetings he had with top leaders” including Comey and McCabe reported Just the News.
Justice Department special prosecutor John Durham, who has overseen the far-reaching criminal probe into the origins of the Russia hoax and all related matters, is also said to be investigating how an illegal leak of Flynn’s conversation with the Russian emissary made it into the hands of a Washington Post reporter.
Attorney General Barr, meanwhile, has given recent signals that Durham’s investigation is nearing an end and that there may be indictments in the pipeline.
Retail chain had been warned by Rowan County that opening would put a ‘strain’ on law enforcement…
PHOTO: NBC4 Columbus
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) As North Carolina’s Rowan County warned a Hobby Lobby store against reopening because of alleged coronavirus restrictions — which don’t prevent large retailers from operating in the state — county officials set up a portal for residents to report businesses that don’t comply with health officials’ social distancing guidelines.
Hobby Lobby had obtained approval from the North Carolina Department of Revenue to reopen its locations in the state, but Rowan County warned the store that it would send law enforcement to monitor its business if it decided to do so.
County officials acknowledged that they cannot prevent Hobby Lobby from reopening since the decision was the state’s to make, but now they’re encouraging local residents to report alleged violations.
Rowan County Health Department spokesperson TJ Brown said residents can submit complaints via the county’s website, and that the complaint will go directly to the county’s COVID-19 email address and the 911 director if needed, according to the Salisbury Post.
Depending on the complaint, law enforcement might decide to visit the business to enforce social distancing, Brown added.
If Hobby Lobby repeatedly violates social distancing, the county will draft criminal charges, said Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten.
The state government requires businesses that open to maintain at least 6 feet of distance between individuals in the store, to provide hand soap and/or hand sanitizer regularly, and to clean high-touch surfaces frequently.
The stores must also limit how many people they have within the buildings to prevent overcrowding.
County Attorney Jay Dees said that county law enforcement will spot-check Hobby Lobby to make sure the store is following these guidelines.
“We want all of our local businesses to survive and ultimately thrive as the executive orders allow more complete openings,” Dees said in an email to Hobby Lobby’s general counsel, Alicia Wiley, according to the Salisbury Post. “We just hope that by complying with these orders now, that date may be much sooner than if businesses push to open too quickly and do not comply.”
Dees apparently received criticism from the public over his perceived poor treatment of Hobby Lobby. He issued a statement on Tuesday claiming his email to Wiley was “misconstued.”
“My email merely restated the State Department of Revenue’s determination that Hobby Lobby is not an essential business, but that it, like any other business, may operate if they follow current separation standards,” Dees said in his statement. “The County has not approved, or denied any business opening because we do not have that legal authority.”
‘It is impossible to cut off all oxygen to a story like this one. There are just too many outlets covering this stuff…’
Joe Biden / IMAGE: MSNBC
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The walls appeared to be closing in on Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, even as his campaign aggressively sought to control the messaging from its liberal media allies over an escalating rape scandal.
BuzzFeed led the defection as progressive #MeToo activists, facing a problematic choice between accountability and electability, began to splinter off.
The leftist click-bait site disclosed that Biden’s campaign had distributed a set of highly implausible talking points in the hope of defusing the growing sexual-assault scandal following a credible accusation from former staffer Tara Reade, which has been corroborated by several sources.
The campaign talking points grossly distorted the conclusion of an already obsequious New York Times “investigation.”
The Grey Lady’s much delayed coverage concluded—after what it claimed were extensive interviews with Reade and others who worked with her in Biden’s Senate office—that there was no evidence to support a pattern of sexual abuse.
Yet, under pressure from the campaign, the Times admitted to stealth-editing the story to remove references from seven other women to Biden’s inappropriate touching and physical contact.
The article also painted a false equivalency to uncorroborated accusations against President Donald Trump, and it accepted with little push-back a canned statement, carefully crafted by Biden’s public-relations handlers, which reaffirmed the #BelieveWomen mantra while simultaneously attempting to discredit the accuser.
Nonetheless, Biden’s talking points falsely asserted that the Times piece had conclusively debunked the allegation.
“The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible,” she told CNN on Tuesday. “I believe Joe Biden.”
Tarana Burke, a founder of the #MeToo movement, seemed less convinced, calling it “inconvenient” but not so deeply so that it was disqualifying.
The inconvenient truth is that this story is impacting us differently because it hits at the heart of one of the most important elections of our lifetime. And I hate to disappoint you but I don’t really have easy answers.
3/14
She credited Biden with having undergone a “learning curve” in the intervening quarter-century, despite the fact that he continued to garner new accusations of uncomfortable hair-sniffing up through the 2018 midterm election.
But at least two other outlets on the extreme Left went even farther in their criticism.
The Atlantic called on Biden to release the archival papers from his 40 years in the Senate, allowing scrutiny of this and other problematic episodes from his past.
“Biden’s papers may help explain some of his most consequential actions in the Senate: his conduct during the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill hearings, his sponsorship of the 1994 crime bill, his vote for the Iraq War,” said the article.
Joe Biden poses with Stephanie Carter and her husband, former Defense Secretary Ash Carter. / IMAGE: Wochit News via YouTube
“But Reade’s accusations make access to the papers even more crucial,” it continued. “Biden himself has said that sexual-harassment claims should be carefully investigated. … But the press can’t thoroughly and diligently evaluate Reade’s claims without access to Biden’s papers.”
Meanwhile, CNN’s Chris Cillizza, who issued a tepid rebuke of Biden earlier in the week, came out even more forcefully after seeing that the former vice president clearly aimed to stonewall and hope for the best.
Cillizza published two separate articles on Wednesday—addressing the news about the campaign talking-points and about a staged town-hall event in which Biden blatantly sidestepped the rape issue.
“Biden and his team appear to be playing by an old set of campaign rules in which starving a story of oxygen kills it,” Cillizza wrote.
“That is not the political or media environment we live in now,” he continued. “It is impossible to cut off all oxygen to a story like this one. There are just too many outlets covering this stuff…”
Cillizza expressed his clear discomfort with the moral hypocrisy of the campaign’s stance, as well as outlining several other conditions that pointed to a cascading crisis for Democrats.
While Clinton is sometimes viewed on the Left as being the victim of her husband’s notorious sexual dalliances, she is regarded more often as an apologist of the former president’s misconduct.
She also has a troublesome history of victim-shaming the women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, inviting an unwelcome comparison to Biden’s current dilemma.
That parallel was not lost on Reade, who said she was a former Hillary voter.
Tara Reade / IMAGE: Hill.Tv screenshot via Twitter
“Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct,” Reade said in a statement issued to Fox News.
“We don’t need that for this country,” she added. “We don’t need that for our new generation coming up that wants institutional rape culture to change.”
Many continue to believe that the Democratic Party establishment could stage a coupe this and other reservations about Biden continue to build.
That could, perhaps, lead to a brokered convention in which former First Lady Michelle Obama, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Biden’s former campaign rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, are poised to be the main contenders to replace him.
Some also have speculated that if Biden, himself, is complicit in the plot, the stage may be set for a scenario in which he defeated Trump in the November election, was inaugurated in January and, shortly thereafter, stepped aside, citing the 25th Amendment to declare himself unfit to fulfill his elected duties.
‘Survivors deserve more than being used as a political football by disinterested parties…’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The founder of #MeToo, Tarana Burke, said Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is an “inconvenient truth.”
But she clarified that it hasn’t changed Biden’s electability in a significant manner.
There are no perfect survivors. And no one, especially a presidential candidate, is beyond reproach. So where does that leave us?
4/14
Burke helped found the #MeToo movement in 2006 as a social-media campaign to raise rape awareness.
However, it was only in 2017, after the election of President Donald Trump, that it merged with other activist movements and began to mobilize as a partisan political weapon.
Burke vocally opposed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination in 2018 because of unsubstantiated accusations made against him.
She said Reade, just like any other survivor, has the “right to speak” and to be “given the space to heal.”
She also blamed the system for forcing Democrats to choose between “accountability” and “healing.”
“What we have now is a zero-sum game where absolutely no one wins,” she said, accusing those interested in Reade’s allegation against Biden of being “entertained by the trauma of others.”
Biden deserves to be heard not because he’s a “good guy” or “our only hope,” Burke added, but because he’s “demonstrated [a] learning curve around boundaries with women.”
Survivors deserve more than being used as a political football by disinterested parties. And a culture of acknowledging harm can’t exist if we continue to view sexual violence as a catastrophic outlier rather than an embedded toxic element of our culture.
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Reade alleged that Biden assaulted her when she was a staffer in his congressional office.
Her account has been corroborated by at least four independent sources, and contemporaneously by a 1993 video of Larry King Live, in which a caller believed to be Reade’s now-deceased mother outlined a sexual assault by a prominent political figure.
Biden’s campaign has denied the allegations, calling them “untrue,” but the presumptive Democrat nominee has yet to personally address them.
‘Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states … when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help?’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump suggested that his administration might tie immigration policy to future federal assistance for states that need it.
Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help? I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?
Liberal states and cities that have embraced sanctuary policies—which prevent law enforcement from working with federal immigration officials—may need to rethink their policies, Trump said.
“People are being protected that shouldn’t be protected,” he continued. “And a lot of bad things are happening with sanctuary cities… If we’re going to do something for the states, I think we probably want something having to do with sanctuary cities.”
Donald Trump / IMAGE: The Sun via Youtube
As the coronavirus quarantine continues to inflict financial pain and suffering on Americans everywhere, Democrats who already were pushing toward expansive, socialism-laced welfare policies have been loath to consider letting “nonessential” businesses reopen.
Instead, left-wing state executives are seeking to force the federal government’s hand on additional stimulus packages that already have added more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
Some blue states—such as California—have even pledged to provide illegal immigrants with substantial state-funded stipends to supplement their lost wages.
Republican leaders, in turn, have been hesitant to promise additional financial assistance to the “Democrat run” states where reckless spending on controversial policies has led to poor financial stewardship.
It wouldn’t be fair to the other states to reward “bad management and give them the money that they lost,” Trump said.
The Trump administration already withholds certain funding from sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration policies.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled in February that Trump’s Justice Department has every right to do this, since some of the funding is discretionary.
As per recent Federal Court ruling, the Federal Government will be withholding funds from Sanctuary Cities. They should change their status and go non-Sanctuary. Do not protect criminals!
‘The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible…’
Stacey Abrams / IMAGE: MSNBC via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams continued her unofficial campaign for the vice presidency on Tuesday night, declaring that she believes that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden did not sexually assault his former staffer, Tara Reade.
“I believe that women deserve to be heard and I believe they need to be listened to, but I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources,” Abrams told CNN.
“The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible,” she continued. “I believe Joe Biden.”
The New York Times report Abrams referenced did not come to a decisive conclusion on the credibility of Reade’s allegations, although it acknowledged making stealth edits to the article under pressure from the Biden campaign.
On Monday, a former neighbor of Reade’s said she has discussed the allegations with Reade shortly after they allegedly transpired. This is the fourth independent source who has confirmed Reade’s allegation.
And last week, video of a 1993 Larry King Live episode surfaced in which a caller believed to be Reade’s now-deceased mother offered details about the sexual assault shortly after it took place.
Many Democrats, Abrams included, have flat-out ignored the emerging new evidence.
Likewise, Biden’s campaign has largely avoided Reade’s allegations, dismissing them in a statement as “untrue.”
When asked if Biden should do more to address the growing evidence in support of Reade, Abrams claimed that he has already said enough.
“I believe his campaign has been very clear,” she said.
“I believe that that is the approach that they intend to take, and I support the approach because, again, we don’t want women to ever be afraid to come forward,” she continued. “But we also have to recognize that allegations should be investigated and that those investigations need to be borne out.”
‘Anytime you push against the grain, you are going to have people who don’t like it…’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) YouTube‘s brazen attempt to remove a viral video questioning leftist dogma about the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic backfired after conservative media outlets exposed the censorship.
Last week, two California doctors who have been working on the state’s front lines in its fight against virus the urged U.S. government officials to reopen the country.
The two physicians, Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, Calif., said in an interview with KERO-TV that, based on their experiences, the coronavirus is not as dangerous as the public has been led to believe.
COVID-19 and the seasonal flu are “similar in their prevalence and death rates,” Erickson said.
“Do we need to still shelter in place? Our answer is emphatically no,” Erickson said. “Do we need businesses to be shut down? Emphatically no. Do we need to test them and get them back to work? Absolutely.”
The video of the press briefing gained more than 5.46 million views in just a few days.
Then, YouTube removed the video for allegedly violating the platform’s “Terms of Service.”
The video (embedded above; backup available here) was restored on Wednesday afternoon and was available for viewing at press time.
When asked why YouTube censored the video, a spokesperson for the company, Ivy Choi, said in a statement that the video included content that “explicitly disputes the efficacy of local health authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance.”
YouTube rolled out this policy toward the beginning of the pandemic and has continued to defend it.
Anything that is “medically unsubstantiated, like … take vitamin C, you know, take turmeric,” and anything that goes “against World Health Organization recommendations” will be taken down, YouTube CEO Susa Wojcicki said last week on CNN.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcocki says users are using the platform during the coronavirus crisis.
It started with basic information but now users “want to know about life under quarantine… like exercise at home. How do I fix my freezer? How do I give myself a haircut.” pic.twitter.com/p8jxTUBRte
