Hunter Biden: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Benefited ‘MAGA’

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Hunter Biden: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Benefited ‘MAGA’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disgraced former first son Hunter Biden claimed that “MAGA” benefited from the senseless murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. 

Speaking on the Wide Awake Podcast on Nov. 6, Biden also urged Democrats to amplify their rhetoric against Republicans. 

“I don’t know why Charlie Kirk was shot, but I do know this. It’s only served one group of people, Charlie Kirk’s death: MAGA,” Biden said. “They have taken this. They have wrapped themselves in it. They have righteous indignation.”

Biden then claimed without evidence that “data” shows political violence is mostly initiated “by right-wing extremists.” 

His comment ignores that left-wing individuals have carried out some of the most high-profile acts of violence.

President Donald Trump, for instance, was twice targeted in assassination attempts. Kirk was allegedly killed earlier this year by Tyler Robinson, whom authorities say acted out of frustration with Kirk’s “hatred.” 

Earlier in the podcast, Biden rejected calls for political figures to temper their rhetoric. 

“I’m going to get myself in trouble for saying this: no, we need to turn the temperature up. We need to turn the temperature up and we need people to see it for what it is,” Biden said. 

He added: “What I mean by that is … that I do not believe that we are going to get to the bottom until we get to the bottom. And I want to get to the bottom faster rather than through this slow kind of process of just being picked apart—a death by a thousand cuts here.” 

He later tried to walk back his comments, insisting he was “absolutely 100% not saying that it needs to be violence” but framed his statement as part of an effort to “speak truth to power.” 

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Hillary ‘Clinin’? Comey Misspelled Clinton’s Name to Hide Records from Searches

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Hillary ‘Clinin’? Comey Misspelled Clinton’s Name to Hide Records from Searches

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Evidence released last week in the case against disgraced former FBI Director James Comey showed what appeared to be intentional misspellings to circumvent public-information requests as he tried to cover for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

A confidential email dated Oct. 28, 2016, showed an exchange between Comey, using the alias Reinhold Niebuhr, and Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman about the discovery of Clinton’s classified emails on the laptop of former congressman Anthony Weiner.

Comey’s email sought to justify his decision to reopen the Operation Mid-Year Exam investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of her emails, which included routing them through a private server in the bathroom of her New York home.

“What am I gonna do,” he asked. “I gotta authorize the work and correct the record with congress. Imagine what I would have done to my institution if I didn’t do both of those things. Not a hard call although I hate having to do it.”

Clinton was accused of circumventing the normal government channels during her time as secretary of state for the Obama administration in order to avoid FOIA requests that might jeopardize her political aspirations.

But it appears that Comey, while investigating Clinton, was using the very same tactics to avoid scrutiny himself.

In his email correspondence to Richman, Comey misspelled Weiner’s name as “Weiser,” Clinton’s as “Clinin” and that of Huma Abedin (Clinton’s personal assistant and Weiner’s then-wife) as “Abeddin.”

No other misspellings were evident in the email.

Social-media influencers, including watchdog Robby Starbuck, pointed out that the trick “makes it much harder for a FOIA to find.”

Starbuck slammed the FBI leader for presuming himself above the law, even while being tasked with policing the crimes of others.

“Think about how messed up this is,” Starbuck wrote. “The FBI has long behaved as if it should be allowed to do whatever it wants. This must end.”

Comey currently faces charges of obstruction and making a false statement to Congress after he denied, under oath, having leaked information to the New York Times to undermine President Donald Trump.

Richman is presumed to have been his pass-through conduit to the newspaper, although it is unclear whether he currently faces any charges.

The email disclosure was one of many damning revelations that have come to light recently.

U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, who is overseeing Comey’s prosecution, released several pieces of evidence in response to his attempt to have the case dismissed.

Among them was a handwritten note dated Sept. 26, 2016, in which Comey referenced an “HRC [Clinton] plan to tie Trump” to phony allegations of Russia collusion during an apparent meeting with then-CIA Director John Brennan.

On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, also released a tranche of documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee showing that Comey’s FBI had refused to open investigations into Clinton and the Democratic National Committee for concealing payments in the Russia-gate hoax.

“Courageous whistleblowers came to my office years ago to sound the alarm that the Justice Department inappropriately interfered in efforts to investigate potential criminal activity committed by Hillary Clinton and her campaign,” Grassley said in a statement.

“These records show the same partisans who rushed to cover for Clinton rabidly pursued Arctic Frost, which was a runaway train aimed directly at President Trump and the Republican political apparatus,” he added.

Other recently released documents detailed the FBI’s correspondence with a left-wing journalist seeking to launder the discredited Steele dossier that the Clinton campaign used to smear Trump.

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

Trump Says US ‘May Be Having Discussions’ With Venezuela’s Maduro

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Trump Says US ‘May Be Having Discussions’ With Venezuela’s Maduro

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that the US “may be having discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, suggesting his administration has not entirely cut off diplomacy with Caracas as previous reports have said.

Trump made the comments when asked about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that the State Department would be designating the so-called Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” though the group doesn’t actually exist.

The term “Cartel of the Suns” was first used in the 1990s, before Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, came to power, to describe two Venezuelan military generals with sun insignias on their uniforms who were involved in the drug trade. One of the generals was working with the CIA at the time, according to a 1993 60 Minutes report.

Today, the term is used to describe Venezuelan military and government officials who allegedly profit from drug trafficking, but the Cartel of the Suns doesn’t exist as a structured organization.

Regardless of the reality, the US claims that Maduro is the leader of the Cartel of the Suns, signaling it will use the terror designation as a pretext to target him. Trump was asked if the designation could justify the US targeting Maduro’s assets or infrastructure inside Venezuela, and claimed that it “allows us to do that,” though any military action without congressional authorization would be illegal under the Constitution. Trump then suggested that the US and Venezuela are talking.

“It allows us to do that, but I haven’t said we’re going to do that, and we may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out, but they would like to talk,” he told reporters.

Maduro has made clear that he’s willing to reach some kind of deal with the US and sent a letter to Trump after the US began bombing alleged drug-running boats in the region. In the letter, the Venezuelan leader urged for diplomacy to resolve any issues and said he was ready to talk to Trump’s special envoy, Ric Grennel, at any time.

The New York Times reported in early October that Trump called off diplomacy with Venezuela, though another Times report on Friday cited an administration official who said the talks with Venezuela were “not entirely dead.” Officials say the arrival of the US aircraft carrier Gerald Ford is meant to be used as leverage over Maduro, but it’s unclear what sort of deal would satisfy the US.

Trump has reportedly been briefed in recent days on options to bomb Venezuela, and the US strikes on boats in the region have continued, killing at least 82 people since the bombing campaign began in early September.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com. 

NFL Player Shot and Wounded in Downtown Manhattan

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NFL Player Shot and Wounded in Downtown Manhattan

(Headline USA) New York Jets cornerback and special teams standout Kris Boyd was critically injured in a shooting in midtown Manhattan early Sunday, according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office.

The shooting happened just after 2 a.m. outside a business on West 38th Street near 7th Avenue, according to the New York Police Department. A 29-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, police said. The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical, but stable condition. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. Adams’ office said that the man shot was Boyd.

Adams said in a message posted on social media that he is praying for Boyd and his loved ones.

“Although we’ve gotten shootings to historic lows in our city, we must continue to work to end gun violence,” Adams said. “Too many young lives have been tragically altered and cut short by this epidemic.”

“We are aware of the situation involving Kris Boyd and will have no further comment at this time,” a Jets spokesperson said in a statement. Boyd’s agent didn’t immediately respond to a text message inquiring about the incident.

Boyd hasn’t played this season, his first with the Jets, after going on the season-ending injured reserve list on Aug. 18 with a shoulder injury that required surgery to repair.

He signed with New York as a free agent in March and was expected to be a key part of a revamped special teams unit under new coach Aaron Glenn and special teams coordinator Chris Banjo. But Boyd was hurt during training camp practice on Aug. 2 and carted from the field.

Boyd was regarded as a special teams standout during his first six NFL seasons, including most of the last two with Houston.

He made headlines during the Texans’ divisional playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in January when he celebrated a forced fumble on a kickoff by ripping off his helmet and nearly shoving his special teams coach to the ground.

Boyd played his first four seasons with Minnesota after being a seventh-round pick by the Vikings out of Texas in 2019. He signed with the Arizona Cardinals in 2023 and then joined Houston’s practice squad later that season.

Teammates asked for prayers for Boyd in social media posts on Sunday afternoon.

“Everybody please send prayers to my brother and teammate Kris Boyd and his family!!! Lord please hold your healing hand over Kris and guide him back to health and safety,” linebacker Jermaine Johnson said in a post.

“Lord, place your mighty hand on him as he fights lord God. Guide every doctor, nurse, and surgeon who touches him lord,” defensive tackle Harrison Phillips said in a post. “Give his family strength! Kris is a fighter and we’re all here for him.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

New York Times Deems Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Case a ‘Sideshow’ as FBI Promises Results Soon

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New York Times Deems Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Case a ‘Sideshow’ as FBI Promises Results Soon

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bombs incident represents the most significant—and arguably only—act of terrorism that occurred on that day.

Indeed, the convoys for then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both drove by one of the bombs that day. Furthermore, law enforcement discovered the bombs right as violence at the Capitol was beginning, which distracted them and diverted their resources.

But according to the New York Times, the pipe bombs case is “an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans.”

“The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance,” the Times reported Saturday. “But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.”

The “conspiracy” the Times is referring to is the notion that a government agent planted the pipe bombs, both to ensure violence would kick off at the Capitol and to smear the conservative movement.

While such a conspiracy hasn’t been proven, observers have questioned for years how the bombs remained by RNC and DNC headquarters for some 15 hours without being detected—evading even a sweep by the Secret Service in the case of the DNC device.

Moreover, FBI records released in September revealed that agents didn’t interview the woman who discovered a pipe bomb near the RNC around 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 6 until days later. That woman, former counterterrorism analyst and then-Commerce Department worker Karlin Younger, said she found the bomb while doing laundry.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris continues to be tight-lipped on the subject, despite the fact that her motorcade drove past the DNC pipe bomb on Jan. 6. Harris left the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. arrived to the DNC at 11:25 a.m., but the nearby pipe bomb wasn’t discovered until 1:07 p.m. by a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.

As Headline USA revealed in March 2024, the FBI had a suspect identified by Jan. 10, 2021 in the pipe bomb case, but never made any arrests.

However, FBI Director Kashyap Patel is promising results soon.

“As it relates to major investigations like the pipe bomber, again I say: stay tuned,” Patel said Sunday on Fox News.

 

Earlier this month, Blaze Media reported that the person who allegedly planted pipe bombs is likely a former Capitol Police officer who now works for the CIA.

However, DOJ special attorney Ed Martin said that the DOJ has not identified the former officer as the suspect, and the former officer’s attorney has called the Blaze report false and defamatory.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Sen. Fetterman is Back Home after Hospitalization

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Sen. Fetterman is Back Home after Hospitalization

(Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman says he has returned home to his family in Pennsylvania after being hospitalized due to what his office said was a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that caused him to feel light-headed and fall during an early morning walk Thursday.

Fetterman, D-Pa., posted a picture Saturday on X that showed the aftereffects to his nose and forehead, saying “20 stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home” with his wife, Gisele, and their children.

The smiling Fetterman also said he was grateful for the medical team in Pittsburgh that “put me back together.”

“See you back in DC,” he concluded.

Ventricular fibrillation is the most serious form of abnormal heartbeat and can lead to cardiac arrest — when the heart suddenly stops beating — and sudden cardiac death, according to the American Heart Association.

Ventricular fibrillation occurs in the heart’s lower chambers, and the heart association says its causes include cardiomyopathy, which Fetterman was diagnosed with in 2022. Cardiomyopathy can impede blood flow and potentially cause heartbeats so irregular they can be fatal.

Fetterman, 56, disclosed that he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and another type of abnormal heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, after he had a stroke during his 2022 campaign.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Is Jeff Bezos Constructing Remote Mountaintop Lair to ‘Rebuild’ Humanity?

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Is Jeff Bezos Constructing Remote Mountaintop Lair to ‘Rebuild’ Humanity?

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A viral social-media post highlighted shocking revelations that Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos may be plotting to build a mountaintop hideaway in west Texas where he could ride out global destruction before implementing plans to remake humanity.

“It’s almost as if they expect a large cataclysmic event with the potential for the oceans to spill over,” wrote Open Minded Approach, an account dedicated to examining the occult and “explaining the esoteric symbolism.”

In a separate post, it shared a video about the “Rosetta Project,” an effort by the Bezos-backed Long Now Foundation to archive humankind’s most valuable information by microscopically etching it onto a 3-inch disk.

Bezos has been openly discussing the organization’s plans for at least two years, according to a 2023 Fox News report that touted his $42 million investment in a 10,000-year clock at a remote site in the Sierra Diablo mountain range.

The clock, powered by the Earth’s thermal energy and synchronized to solar cycles, is expected to be 500 feet tall, spanning the entire height of the mountain.

“The clock also has five room-sized anniversary chambers, one for each of the first, 10th, 100th, 1,000th and 10,000th-year anniversaries,” Fox News reported. “The chambers are sealed spaces for time-related artifacts and messages about humanity’s future.”

The idea was first conceived in 1995 by computer scientist Danny Hillis “as a way to foster long-term thinking and responsibility.”

But Bezos may have offered hints at some ulterior motives during an interview last year with podcaster Lex Fridman.

“We’re really affecting the planet now—we’re really affecting each other,” Bezos said.

“We have weapons of mass destruction,” he added. “We have all kinds of things where we can really hurt ourselves, and the problems we create can be so large.”

Bezos said the clock site was so remote that “visitors have to make a pilgrimage” and that its lifespan would likely outlast that of the United States.

However, he expressed hope that humanity would evolve to ensure its own survival over the next decamillennium.

“Do I think humans will be here? Yes,” he said. “How will we have changed ourselves and what will we be and so on and so on? I don’t know, but I think we’ll be here.”

Bezos also suggested that he, himself, intended “to stay alive for as long as possible,” provided he could find a way to avoid deteriorating health and a “long decay.”

The Blue Origin founder did not elaborate on whether he was seeking long-term preservation through means such as cryogenic freezing but signaled his curiosity about exploring ways to cheat death.

“I want to see how things turn out. I’d like to be here [in 10,000 years],” he said.

“I love my family and my close friends, and I’m curious about them, and I want to see,” he added. “So, I have a lot of reasons to stay around, but mortality doesn’t have that effect on me that it did maybe when I was in my 20s.”

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

Jasmine Crockett, Marc Elias Now Airing Concerns about Dominion Voting Machines

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(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said the quiet part aloud last week, admitting that vulnerabilities in Dominion Voting Systems’ software and equipment could potentially be used to rig an election.

“It’s going to be really important for us to educate all states that we can to make sure that their secretary of states are like, ‘We don’t want the Dominion machines,’” Crockett said on the Nov. 9 installment of the “Defending Democracy” podcast.

“I think that they’re trying to solidify their cheat potentially with the voting machines,” she added.

Crockett’s concerns followed Trump supporting ex-GOP official Scott Leiendecker’s purchase last month of the company, which was at the forefront of several vote-fraud allegations during the disputed 2020 election.

“I personally believe that that ally purchased Dominion so that he could potentially play with the machines,” Crockett said. “Because we know that they’re trying to cheat by changing the lines for the midterms, and I think they’re [going] to solidify their cheat with the voting machines.”

Although Crockett is no stranger to making unhinged, off-the-cuff claims that undermine Democratic messaging, she also happened to be speaking with Marc Elias—the Steele Dossier mastermind once dubbed Democrats’ “best Election-stealing lawyer.”

Elias spearheaded many of the post-election lawsuits in 2020 that prevented or forestalled serious investigations into the Dominion machines, including the Arizona Senate’s forensic audit of Maricopa County.

Never-Trumpers insisted at the time that 2020 had been “the most secure in American history,” while aggressively using lawfare to prosecute or sue any who raised public doubts to the contrary.

Among the most notable cases was a defamation lawsuit that Dominion waged against Fox News, which ultimately settled the case for $787 million in order to prevent embarrassing leaks of Fox personalities’ private text messages that were obtained in the trial’s discovery phase.

Other high-profile prosecutions included a Nevada case brought against former election official Tina Peters, which landed the would-be whistleblower a nine-year prison sentence, and the racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia.

Willis, a George Soros-backed prosecutor who campaigned on a “Get Trump” platform in 2020, succeeded in securing indictments for President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants while claiming their efforts to challenge the election results were part of a grand conspiracy.

The case was stalled indefinitely after Willis’s own ethical issues and Trump’s 2024 re-election rendered the prosecution moot. Trump federally pardoned several of his co-defendants earlier this month.

Crockett, meanwhile, stands poised to lose her seat in Congress after Texas approved a redistricting measure that will make her district more competitive.

That effort comes in response to years of Democratic attempts to gerrymander themselves into power using a “sue till blue” strategy that Elias also helped to spearhead.

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

Trump’s Feud w/ MTG Deepens MAGA Rift

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(Headline USA) When President Donald Trump addressed Congress earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there holding an American flag and wearing a red baseball cap that said “Trump was right about everything.”

After the speech, he gave her a kiss and she beamed. Trump was back in power and Greene was positioned to be one of his most ardent political foot soldiers with Republicans controlling all levers of power in Washington.

Their alliance didn’t last the year. Now it has fractured in an explosive feud that could foreshadow more rifts within Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement before next year’s midterm elections.

In recent weeks, Greene has escalated her criticism of Trump’s focus on foreign policy over what she has said should be an agenda that concentrates on Americans, as well as his reluctance to release more documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein case. On Friday, the Republican president said he would support a primary challenge against the Georgia congresswoman.

“All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Trump wrote on his social media platform as his motorcade whisked him from Air Force One to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

On Saturday, Trump tested out a new nickname for her, calling her “Marjorie Taylor Brown” because “Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!”

Trump has successfully stamped out other challenges to his power over the years, but Greene is not backing down. She even suggested that she, not Trump, may be the true champion of the “America First” agenda.

“I believe in the American people more than I believe in any leader or political party and the American people deserve so much better than how they have been treated by both sides of the aisle,” she wrote in her own post Saturday.

She also said she is worried about her safety because “threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”

Trump backed Greene from the start

Greene is not the first lawmaker to earn Trump’s anger. Their split, however, is the most notable of his second term. She has been closely tied to him since 2020, when she began her political career in Georgia’s rural northwest.

Greene was initially opposed by party leaders but supported by Trump. He called her a “future Republican Star” and “a real WINNER!”

Tension seemed to begin earlier this year when Greene was exploring a potential 2026 campaign against Jon Ossoff, one of Georgia’s two Democratic senators. Trump said he sent Greene a poll showing that she “didn’t have a chance.” She ultimately passed on the race and later declined to run for Georgia governor while attacking a political “good ole boy” system that she accused of endangering Republican control of the state.

A new Greene?

Greene has recently set a different, more conciliatory tone.

She went on ABC’s “The View,” a daytime talk show considered a safe space for Democrats, to say “that people with powerful voices,” especially women, “need to pave a new path.”

The rhetoric sparked speculation that Greene might be considering a run for president herself, which was later denied by her boyfriend, Brian Glenn, a conservative reporter known for his friendly questioning of Trump.

Greene also has been criticizing Trump, particularly his work with other countries. She told Tucker Carlson last month that the administration’s support for Argentina was “a punch in the gut” at a time when Americans are angry about prices for everyday needs.

Greene is one of a handful of Republicans supporting an effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents involving Epstein, a convicted sex offender who was connected to some of the country’s most powerful people. Trump has struggled to stop questions about his own links to Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019 in what authorities have ruled was a suicide.

Trump has dismissed Greene’s criticism, telling reporters on Monday that “she’s lost her way.”

Shawn Harris, a retired Army general and Democrat who lost to Greene in 2024, is running against her again in 2026. He said Greene’s shift is part of her attention-seeking behavior.

“Marjorie always picks fights with people to stay in the news and it’s finally President Trump’s turn,” Harris wrote in a text message. “But neither of them has done a single thing for the hardworking people here in northwest Georgia. The way things are going lately, it’s not clear his endorsement would help anyone.”

Trump battles Democrats and Republicans in the midterms

It’s common for political coalitions to fray over time, especially when presidents are serving their second term and members of their party start pondering a future without them at the helm.

Trump has mostly avoided that so far. He has flirted with the possibility of running for a third term, despite the constitutional prohibition on extending his time in office, and exerted ironclad influence over the Republican-controlled Congress.

He faces a crucial political test next year as Democrats try to retake control of the House, which would empower them to block legislation and launch investigations of his administration.

The president has been trying to improve his party’s chances by pressuring states to redraw congressional districts to benefit Republicans, but he also is trying to purge lawmakers whom he considers disloyal. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is already the target of a Trump-backed primary challenge, and Greene could be the next if she and the president do not reconcile, as has occasionally happened after Trump falls out with allies.

Although no one immediately announced they were jumping into the race, some are considering it.

State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican from the region who previously floated a run against Ossoff, criticized Greene. “I’m more frustrated with her than President Trump and she doesn’t care,” he said.

On Saturday, he complained about getting the “runaround” any time he called her office seeking help. He also praised Trump’s handling of the economy.

“I also have a passport full of countries from across the globe I’ve visited in the last year,” he said. “All worse than U.S.”

Asked if he would challenge Greene, Moore said in a text that “I have only one objective in life … to put America First.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Man Who Attacked U.S. Attorney Alina Habba’s Office is Arrested

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Man Who Attacked U.S. Attorney Alina Habba’s Office is Arrested

(Headline USA) A man has been arrested after federal officials alleged that he destroyed property while trying to confront New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, Alina Habba.

Keith Michael Lisa, 51, has been arrested, FBI spokesperson Emily Molinari confirmed Saturday.

Molinari did not say when or where Lisa was arrested, what charges he might face, whether he was in jail, or when he might go before a judge.

The FBI on Friday had offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information about Lisa, saying he was wanted on charges of destroying government property and possession of a dangerous weapon inside a U.S. court facility. That bulletin said Lisa tried to enter a federal office building in downtown Newark on Wednesday with a bat and was turned away. Lisa returned without the bat, the bulletin said, and was admitted. He then went to the U.S. Attorney’s office, where Habba works, and destroyed property, the bulletin said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a post on X on Saturday that the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations had worked together to arrest Lisa.

“No one will get away with threatening or intimidating our great U.S. attorneys or the destruction of their offices,” Bondi wrote.

Habba was previously President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, representing him in various cases and acting as his spokesperson on legal matters. She served as a White House adviser briefly before Trump named her as interim U.S. attorney in March.

“We got him,” Habba wrote on X on Saturday. “This Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi and our federal partners will not tolerate any acts of intimidation or violence toward law enforcement. So grateful to the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations for their tireless work to capture him. Now justice will handle him.”

Bondi had vowed that federal officials would find and prosecute the person, writing earlier that “Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period.”

Trump formally nominated Habba as New Jersey’s permanent U.S. attorney on July 1, but the state’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim opposed it, stalling the confirmation process.

A few weeks later, as Habba’s 120-day interim appointment was expiring, New Jersey federal judges moved to replace her with her second-in-command. Bondi then fired that prosecutor and renamed Habba as acting U.S. attorney.

Last month, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a case challenging her appointment. It hasn’t ruled.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

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