(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Nancy Pelosi, the former octogenarian House speaker, falsely accused President-elect Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 protestors of inciting the 2022 brutal attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi.
Speaking with Margaret Brennan on CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Pelosi claimed the attempted kidnapping and assault of her husband by David DePape was an extension of the violence she alleged Trump incited on Jan. 6.
The conversation between Brennan and Pelosi centered on Trump’s potential pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants. Pelosi asserted that the violence “didn’t end that day,” further alleging that Trump “called out to these people to continue their violence, my husband being a victim of all of that.”
She added, “He still has injuries from that attack, so it just goes on and on. It isn’t something that happens and then it’s over. No, once you are attacked you have consequences that continue.”
Pelosi offered no evidence to support her claims. In reality, Trump was banned by Big Tech shortly after releasing a video statement demanding Jan 6. protestors respect law enforcement and leave the Capitol, where they were protesting the results of the 2020 election.
NEW: 84-year-old Nancy Pelosi seen using a walker during Donald Trump's election certification.
Pelosi has stated frequently in recent months that Trump is "unwell" to be president of the United States.
Many Jan. 6 protesters were aggressively prosecuted by the Biden-led DOJ, facing horrific conditions in federal custody. Some even committed suicide under the weight of these prosecutions.
Despite this, Pelosi criticized Trump’s plan to pardon some, if not all, of the defendants. She claimed that “it’s really strange [for] a person who’s going to be president of the United States who thinks that it’s OK to pardon people who are engaged in an attack.”
Pelosi’s claims come after her husband suffered a fractured skull after DePape, a deranged illegal alien, broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked Paul with a hammer.
DePape was sentenced to life without parole after a state conviction on multiple charges, including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree residential burglary and false imprisonment of an elder by violence or menace.
A federal grand jury also convicted DePape of assault and attempted kidnapping—charges for which a judge sentenced him to 360 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release.
There is no evidence tying DePape’s attacks to Jan. 6 or Trump. As an illegal alien, DePape was, and remains, ineligible to vote in U.S. elections.
Hostin hostilely recalled Condoleezza Rice coming on The View and encouraging Americans to “move on from January 6.”
“I say no. You don’t move on because January 6 was an atrocity,” she told the audience. “It was one of the worst moments in American history, and when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, World World II, thing that happened… you know, like the Holocaust, Chattel slavery. We need to never forget because past becomes prologue.”
The View's Sunny Hostin is melting down: "You don't move on because January 6th was one of the worst moments in American history, like World War Two, the Holocaust, slavery." pic.twitter.com/zO6krRRgDB
Curley’s House Food Bank founder Lavern Spicer ripped Hostin by reminding her, “B**ch, 75-85 million people died in WWII. 6 Million Jews died in the holocaust. 12.8 million Africans were stolen from their homeland and sold into slavery.”
X influencer Paul A. Szypula called for ABC to “fire Hostin immediately.”
Dear Sunny Hostin;
How the fuck you fix your mouth to say January 6th was like World War Two, the Holocaust, and slavery?
Bitch, 75-85 million people died in WWII.
6 Million Jews died in the holocaust.
12.8 million Africans were stolen from their homeland and sold into…
“Sunny is not bright,” Outkick host buck Sexton remarked.
Pro-Jewish organization StopAntisemitism was appalled by Hostin’s comparison, expressing outrage by saying in part, “Over 6 million Jews were massacred during the Holocaust. For an entertainment host to compare a riot to such a massive stain in history is nauseating at best.”
StopAntisemitism is sickened to hear The View host Sunny Hostin compare the January 6th insurrection to the Holocaust.
Over 6 million Jews were massacred during the Holocaust.
For an entertainment host to compare a riot to such a massive stain in history is nauseating at best. pic.twitter.com/oDMbz6lQg1
News analyst Kyle Becker commented, “Here is some moral clarity: You lied about this non-deadly riot for four years. The American people saw through your lies. They elected Trump anyway. The End.”
“This is kind of unhinged rhetoric is one reason why they lost. It’s American voter repellant,” X user @WesternLensman said of the Democrats.
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
Cryer claimed it is more socially acceptable for children to transition and bizarrely compared it to being “left-handed.”
“There’s a societal suppression. It’s like left-handedism,” Cryer told Maher. “Left-handed, being left-handed, was suppressed for thousands of years amongst human beings.”
He continued the analog and implied there was nothing wrong with a child sex change.
“But once it was, apparently in the thirties, scientists basically said, There’s no … left-handedness doesn’t actually do anything bad, left-handedness just shot up. People just stopped training themselves to be right-handed,” Cryer added. “This has happened societally before and that’s the closest analogy that I can think of.”
Maher disagreed and noted children shouldn’t be able to make life-altering decisions as they know very little.
“Children don’t know s**t about anything,” Maher bluntly said. “The idea that I would, as a child, would have had to have dealt with something like this.”
The Two and a Half Men actor claimed no child would choose to be transgender, which caused Maher to once again disagree.
“Some kids these days actually do want to be trans,” Maher added. “It’s cooler, Jon. It’s a thing.”
Cryer also falsely claimed during the podcast President-elect Donald Trump only won because the country “hate[s] black women and they hate trans people.”
He also said millions were spent to “demonizing trans people.”
X users were quick to slam Cryer’s unhinged rant.
“What Jon doesn’t get in the ‘left handed’ analogy is that nobody got their left hand cut off to be right handed,” one user wrote.
What Jon doesn’t get in the “left handed” analogy is that nobody got their left hand cut off to be right handed.
(Brien Lundin, Money Metals News Service) While the speculative fervor has temporarily abated for gold, the fundamental, long-term drivers continue to support the price.
Every year at this time, we find ourselves having to think twice before writing a date.
If you’re like me, you’re going to be writing 2024 in a lot of places for a while. In fact, it’s going to be even tougher this year, because 2025 is one of those big numbers that tend to spark some reflection.
It’s hard to believe that 2000, the year when the last secular bull market in gold began, was a quarter century ago. It doesn’t seem that long ago.
Of course, the current bull market began only about 10 months ago… and it feels like much longer to me.
That’s because we’ve had so many remarkable moves over that time frame. The first six weeks were marked by a relentless rise, but then the price trend started to get bumpy as investor sentiment ebbed and flowed with the prospects of a Fed pivot.
More recently, gold has been largely range-bound as safe-haven demand has supported the price while Bitcoin and other factors have robbed it of speculative flows.
The three-month price chart above illustrates this trading range after the big sell-off that took the price to the low $2,500s.
But think about that statement: A big sell-off took the price down to the $2,500s. A year ago, who would have thought we’d be talking about that price as support?
It’s hard to be too depressed about gold’s lackluster action when you consider that it’s gained about 30% over the past year, and that the fundamental drivers for the metal remain firmly in place.
Great Commentary…From An Unlikely Source
When I recently saw a flurry of posts about an article on gold from Politico, a publication more famous for left-oriented political commentary, I initially didn’t even bother to read the piece.
But curiosity finally got the better of me…and I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, there wasn’t a single big point made that I disagreed with. Entitled “‘It’s a sign of impending wars’: Why a tense world is betting on gold,” the article focused on how central bank buying has been a big driver behind gold’s rally.
OK, maybe I’d disagree with the headline pushing fears of war, but that’s a direct quote from one of the sources…and there were lots of other great quotes and comments in the piece, like…
“As war, ideology, and protectionism divide the world into distinct blocs, developing countries, in particular, are hoarding bullion to prepare for the day when a global financial system dominated by the U.S. and Europe collapses, and a new one can take its place.”
And…
“Nor is it just about the fear of hostilities and sanctions, but also the failing reliability of the states that built the postwar global financial order. Both the U.S. and Europe are laboring under growing debt burdens that look unsustainable in the long term, as the International Monetary Fund highlighted at its annual meeting. With U.S. debt now at 124 percent of GDP and rising fast, Goldman’s Thomas noted, ‘many central banks have the bulk of their reserves in U.S. Treasury bonds, and policymakers may be increasingly concerned about their exposure to fiscal risks in the U.S.’”
And…
“…gold’s neutrality and immutability make it a suitable anchor for a parallel financial system still being built: one that the U.S. will not be able to dominate or manipulate.”
One area where I did disagree with Politico’s take is where the report notes that gold has been rallying even while interest rates have been rising. The author credits speculators following the central banks’ lead and ignoring that headwind, rather than noting that rising yields are a direct reflection of gold buyers’ concerns with the growing U.S. debt and related fiscal risks.
Still, it’s an outstanding summary, and well worth your read.
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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Joshua Steinman, who served four years on the first Trump administration’s National Security Council, has warned that the incoming administration is allowing Biden staff to remain on the NSC.
Steinman publicized his allegations Sunday in a Twitter/X post opposing Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Mike Waltz. Steinman said he opposed the selection of Waltz not because of his loyalty, but because he’s apparently reluctant to clean house at the NSC.
“I’m hearing (from multiple people) that a significant % of NSC Staff have been told that they will be allowed to stay. This is a serious error if true,” Steinman said.
When it comes to NSC Staff, PERSONNEL IS POLICY.
I'm hearing (from multiple people) that a significant % of NSC Staff have been told that they will be allowed to stay.
This is a serious error if true.
Removing people like this isn’t personal, its just prudent.
According to Steinman, about 50% of President Barrack Obama’s NSC staffers were allowed to stay on when Trump took office in 2017. That resulted in disaster, he said.
“Many who stayed undermined President Trump by PURSUING THEIR OBAMA GUIDANCE FROM UNTIL GIVEN EXPLICIT ORDERS TO STOP. (Some who stayed were great.) These civil servants had signed for a different POTUS. They weren’t mission aligned,” he said.
To Steinman’s point, Headline USA has covered how Trump’s Pentagon lied to him about the true number of troops in Syria—defying his orders for a draw-down.
Trump’s orders to withdraw from Syria came in 2018 and again in 2019, and each time officials either resigned in protest or outright deceived the President.
In December 2018, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned over the matter, as did Syria envoy Brett McGurk. And according to DefenseOne.com, military officials lied to Trump about how many troops were there.
Let me be clear: anyone working under President Trump in the NSC will be fully aligned with his America First agenda.
Any rumors or suggestions to the contrary are fake news and a distraction from the mission.
We will clear the decks to Make America Great Again! 🇺🇸
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” McGurk’s replacement, diplomat Jim Jeffrey, told the publication in November 2020.
Jeffrey added that the actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
Waltz responded to Steinman’s post on Monday, saying that his staff must be “fully aligned with his America First agenda.”
“Any rumors or suggestions to the contrary are fake news and a distraction from the mission,” he claimed—notably not denying the allegation that Biden staffers are being allowed to stay on board.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
Trump, who has repeatedly teased Trudeau about making Canada the 51st state of America, cracked down hard on the Canadian leader with threats of tariffs if his country fails to comply with his demands on the border and the economy.
Trump’s trolling came after Trudeau met him at his Mar-a-Lago estate after his historic election win.
NEW: Donald Trump says Mexico and Canada should become the 51st and 52nd states if we are going to keep subsidizing them.
“We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars a year. We're subsidizing Mexico for almost $300 billion.”
Trudeau served as leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party for nine years, Reuters noted.
His resignation leaves the party without a leader as Liberals are poised for defeat come an approaching election in late October.
Liberal parliamentarians have increasingly urged Trudeau to step down, according to Reuters.
This comes weeks after former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit with a letter accusing Trudeau of prioritizing “political gimmicks” over the betterment of Canada.
Trump supporters doused social media with memes following reports of Trudeau potential resignation.
“If Trudeau does resign, I’m thanking Trump for trolling him so hard that he had to quit,” X user Kat Kanada wrote with video of Trump flushing Trudeau’s head down a golden toilet.
If Trudeau does resign, I'm thanking Trump for trolling him so hard that he had to quit. 😂pic.twitter.com/fz8yGpzPQj
Another Trump supporter wrote, “Trump’s victory resulted in the end of Justin Trudeau’s political career,” with video of Trump throwing Trudeau into a green dumpster.
“HOLY S**T,” political commentator Gunther Eagleman reacted to the report. “Trump won the election and set off a cascade! This is HUGE!”
HOLY SHlT
Just Trudeau is set to RESIGN this week ahead of caucus meetings!
I know MANY are in denial, but TRUMP just literally saved Canada, all before he’s officially President 🇺🇸 He got FREELAND to resign causing internal chaos, and soon TRUDEAU. Big WIN 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/pJYXJUKQpc
Others believed Trump saved Canada, including @MelissaLRogers, who wrote, “I know MANY are in denial, but TRUMP just literally saved Canada, all before he’s officially President 🇺🇸 He got FREELAND to resign causing internal chaos, and soon TRUDEAU. Big WIN 🇨🇦”
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
(Money Metals News Service) The latest Money Metals Podcast featured a rich conversation between host Mike Maharrey and Stefan Gleason, President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange. Their discussion spanned 2024’s gold and silver trends, business dynamics, and strategic advice for 2025. Here’s a detailed summary of key takeaways.
(Interview Starts Around 3:13 Mark)
2024 Recap: A Year of Market Shifts
Gold experienced a significant bull run throughout 2024, with an acceleration in the second half of the year. This growth was largely fueled by strong central bank and Asian retail demand, rather than the traditional interest from Western markets like the U.S. and Europe.
In the U.S., retail demand, which had been strong during 2020-2022, began to taper off following the regional bank crisis in early 2023. This change marked a shift in investor behavior, with more U.S. investors selling their holdings, particularly gold, to capitalize on recent price gains of 30-40%.
Meanwhile, silver selling remained comparatively subdued.
On the global stage, Chinese gold demand surged late in the year, with the People’s Bank of China officially increasing its reserves—a trend supported by investigative findings that revealed China had been consistently accumulating gold behind the scenes.
The Business Perspective: Physical Demand and Market Volatility
For dealers, 2024 brought a noticeable shift in market dynamics. Unlike the overwhelming demand and high premiums seen in previous years, increased selling by retail investors led to lower premiums and created opportunities for new buyers to enter the market at competitive prices.
The U.S. presidential election also played a role in market activity. Anxiety surrounding the election initially drove increased buying, but post-election sentiment, especially after Donald Trump’s win, brought a sense of relief to many investors.
This eased demand, although transaction volumes remained high.
The Strategic Expansion: Money Metals Depository
Money Metals capped the year with the unveiling of its state-of-the-art bullion depository in Idaho. Spanning 40,000 square feet, the facility offers low-cost, highly secure storage for physical precious metals.
Unlike Fort Knox, the Money Metals Depository undergoes regular independent audits, ensuring full transparency for its clients. This expansion represents a culmination of years of planning and responds to customer demand for a safe, accessible storage option outside the banking system and Wall Street.
The Money Metals Depository also integrates buying, selling, and storage services, eliminating logistical challenges faced by investors who previously relied on separate dealers and storage providers.
Instead, investors should focus on bullion products with modest premiums.
Fractional gold products also provide unique benefits, allowing investors to acquire gold at lower price points and offering flexibility in case of barter needs or crisis scenarios.
Gleason also highlighted the critical role of silver, which he views as undervalued and often referred to as “leveraged gold.” Silver’s unique industrial uses, combined with its monetary qualities, make it a strategic asset for long-term investment. Its current high gold-to-silver price ratio near 90 suggests significant potential for future growth.
Economic Outlook and Market Predictions
Looking ahead, Gleason predicts the Federal Reserve will resume aggressive rate cuts in response to economic pressures, fueling inflation and driving demand for hard assets like gold and silver. The U.S.’s growing federal debt makes sustained inflation a likely tool for economic management, reinforcing the need for precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation.
Gleason also cautioned against overestimating the potential for federal budget reductions, citing structural challenges within the bureaucracy that make meaningful cuts unlikely.
Final Thoughts
Both Maharrey and Gleason stressed the importance of strategic, informed investments in precious metals. With a debt-driven economy and geopolitical uncertainties, gold and silver remain indispensable elements of a sound financial strategy.
As 2025 unfolds, Money Metals stands ready to support investors with transparent services, valuable insights, and a commitment to integrity.
For more information and updates, visit MoneyMetals.com and explore their comprehensive news section.
Key Questions & Answers
The following are the key questions and answers from the Money Metals Podcast interview with host Mike Maharrey and Money Metals’ President and CEO, Stefan Gleason:
How did gold and silver markets perform in 2024, and what drove the trends?
Gold saw a significant bull run in 2024, particularly during the second half of the year. This growth was driven primarily by central bank and Asian retail demand, rather than traditional interest from Western markets like the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., retail investors showed reduced demand compared to 2020-2022, with many choosing to sell their holdings after realizing gains of 30-40%. This selling was particularly notable in gold, while silver holdings were less impacted. On the global stage, Chinese demand increased dramatically late in the year, supported by the People’s Bank of China officially adding gold to its reserves and investigative findings that revealed consistent gold accumulation by China throughout the year.
How did the U.S. presidential election affect precious metals demand?
Leading up to the election, investor anxiety drove a surge in precious metals purchases, particularly from larger buyers. However, after Donald Trump’s victory, the market experienced a sense of relief that tempered demand. Although transaction volumes remained high, the dollar amounts of purchases decreased, with many investors adopting a wait-and-see approach. This election-driven shift highlighted the sensitivity of the market to geopolitical and economic uncertainties.
What strategic advancements did Money Metals make in 2024?
Money Metals expanded its capabilities by launching a 40,000-square-foot bullion depository in Idaho. This state-of-the-art facility provides low-cost, highly secure storage outside the banking system and Wall Street. It represents a culmination of years of planning and addresses customer demand for integrated services, allowing seamless buying, selling, and storage. The facility also undergoes regular independent audits, ensuring transparency and trust for investors. This integration eliminates the logistical challenges faced by customers who previously dealt with separate dealers and storage providers.
Why should investors avoid celebrity-endorsed precious metals dealers?
Stefan Gleason cautioned against firms that use celebrity endorsements and television advertising. These companies often employ aggressive sales tactics, leading customers to purchase overpriced rare coins or proof items. While celebrity endorsements may appear trustworthy, they frequently involve high costs that are passed on to the customer in the form of inflated premiums. Gleason recommended focusing on bullion products with modest spreads over spot prices to ensure better value and investment returns.
What are the benefits of fractional gold?
Fractional gold offers accessibility to investors who may not afford full-ounce products, which are priced around $2,700. These smaller denominations, such as half-ounce or one-tenth-ounce coins and bars, allow investors to enter the market with smaller amounts of money. Fractional gold can also serve as a practical option for barter in crisis scenarios. While these products often carry slightly higher premiums relative to their size, they remain a flexible and viable choice for accumulating wealth incrementally.
Why is silver an important investment in 2025?
Silver, often referred to as “leveraged gold,” remains undervalued relative to its historical performance and current gold-to-silver price ratio, which hovers near 90. This ratio indicates significant growth potential for silver, particularly as it tends to outperform gold during mature bull markets. Silver also boasts unique industrial uses, including applications in solar technology, electronics, and medical fields, making it both a strategic and monetary asset. Gleason emphasized that while gold dominates the market, investors should not overlook silver’s long-term potential.
What economic trends might impact precious metals in 2025?
Gleason predicts that the Federal Reserve will resume aggressive rate cuts to manage the economy, fueling inflation and increasing the appeal of hard assets like gold and silver. With U.S. federal debt levels continuing to rise, inflation is likely to remain a key policy tool. He also expressed skepticism about the potential for significant federal budget reductions, citing entrenched bureaucracy and systemic inefficiencies as major obstacles. These economic factors are expected to drive continued demand for precious metals as a hedge against devaluation and uncertainty.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the wake of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, the FBI conducted more than 100 eyewitness interviews along with talking to the friends and family of James Alex Fields Jr.—the 20-year-old Ohio man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors, killing onlooker Heather Heyer and injuring several others in the process.
The FBI also tapped into its network of confidential informants for its investigation, according to records released by the bureau last week. The records document the FBI’s investigation into the killing of Heyer, which ultimately resulted in Fields being sentenced to life in prison.
The records are heavily redacted, with dozens of them still sealed by order of a judge. But the FBI’s file does show that more than 50 pages of the records are redacted subject to section b7D of the Freedom of Information Act, which is the part of the law that protects the identities of confidential human sources—also known as informants.
🚨 FBI informants were used in the investigation into the death of Heather Heyer, the counterprotestor killed at the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. Indeed, more than 50(!!!!) pages of records released last week are redacted subject to FOIA section b7D, which is the… pic.twitter.com/m4Vca7Ypgm
Some of the pages are withheld entirely, while others reveal snippets of conversations the FBI had with its informants.
“[REDACTED] was currently out of town … [REDACTED] stated that he would be returning to [REDACTED] shortly and has agreed to have further contact with the FBI,” one bureau memo from Aug. 15, 2017, stated, appearing to show that agents had successfully recruited an informant.
Another memo’s two line-synopsis said that a confidential informant reported something—it doesn’t say what—to the FBI on Aug. 14, 2017.
It’s unclear why the FBI was utilizing informants in a case that seemed relatively clearcut. Fields was arrested later in the day that he hit Heyer, and he admitted to law enforcement that he drove his car into the crowd because he was “scared” and thought he was under attack. Several other rallygoers were later charged for marching with torches the night before, but information from FBI informants didn’t come to play in those cases, either.
Earlier in the day, Fields had been carrying a shield with a white nationalist group called Vanguard America, which has since rebranded as the Patriot Front. Fields and the group both say they had no prior connection.
The FBI may have been using its informants to see if Fields was a Vanguard America member, or whether he had any other associations in the white nationalist movement. As Headline USA has reported, the FBI has informants throughout the U.S. neo-Nazi movement.
Indeed, the National Socialist Movement, which participated and committed violence at the “Unite the Right” rally, was established in the 1970s as an FBI front group—as revealed by a Headline USA investigation in September 2023.
Court records further show that the NSM was part of a larger neo-Nazi coalition called the Nationalist Front, an alliance comprising a number of other groups at Charlottesville that were allegedly infiltrated by the FBI, including the League of the South. Vanguard America, which is now Patriot Front, was also part of that Nationalist Front.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
Just two weeks before he leaves office, Biden moved to ban offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 acres of the ocean, spanning all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and parts of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska, according to Reuters, which described the decision as “mostly symbolic.”
Incoming Trump administration Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took aim at Biden’s energy setback in a statement, saying, “This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices. Rest assured, Joe Biden will fail, and we will drill, baby, drill.”
This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices. Rest assured, Joe Biden will fail, and we will drill, baby, drill. https://t.co/NvWx7oA2vU
Trump made restoring U.S. energy dominance a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, pushing the slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill,” as a rallying cry for ending reliance on foreign oil and gas imports.
Trump commented after Biden made the move to ban offshore drilling.
“I see it just came over that Biden has banned all oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory. It’s ridiculous. I’ll unban it immediately,” Trump said Monday.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: "I see it just came over that Biden has banned all oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory. It's ridiculous. I'll unban it immediately."
Republican lawmakers took to social media to speak out against Biden’s offshore drilling ban, celebrating the fact that Trump takes office in two weeks.
“By banning a large portion of offshore drilling, Joe Biden is enriching our adversaires and making America more dependent on foreign energy,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote on X. “His failed presidency can’t end soon enough.”
Is Pres. Biden trying to hurt Americans on his way out the door by kneecapping our ability to produce affordable, reliable energy here at home?
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., added, “Is Pres. Biden trying to hurt Americans on his way out the door by kneecapping our ability to produce affordable, reliable energy here at home?”
The Biden Administration:
✅ Give the world's largest state sponsor of terror a $1 billion free pass.
❌ Ban new oil drilling and prevent energy workers from unleashing American oil on American soil. pic.twitter.com/6DkYGhaVCQ
The American people voted for energy independence this November. But at the tail end of his term, Biden is trying to placate his activist base instead.
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress will fight this drilling ban.https://t.co/lNg3liUCt2
“On his way out the door, Biden is taking extra steps to restrict domestic energy production. He wants his legacy to be remembered as one that drove up costs and the price at the pump,” Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan, the House Republican Conference chairwoman, chimed in. “Republicans are unleashing American energy.”
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, criticized the Biden administration for unfreezing $1 billion for Iran, “the world’s largest state sponsor of terror,” while stopping American energy workers from harnessing the country’s natural resources.
“The American people voted for energy independence this November. But at the tail end of his term, Biden is trying to placate his activist base instead,” Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nev., wrote. “The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress will fight this drilling ban.”
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
Two listed qualifications for the job are “experience in academic dentistry” and a “track record in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies,” according to the job description.
The non-tenure track faculty position is open rank and will receive a salary of $110,000-$170,000 per year, “depending on rank and commensurate with education and experience,” according to the description.
“The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading strategic initiatives, fostering inclusive environments, and demonstrating a visionary approach to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion within an academic or healthcare setting,” the job description stated.
Additionally, the ideal candidate “will be passionate about driving systemic change” as well as “committed to fostering a culture where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is the norm.”
The Center Square reached out to the University of Maryland School of Dentistry’s Dean Mark Reynolds, chief of staff George David, and assistant director of the office of communications Holly Selby for comment. None responded.
The position was posted on Nov. 8, 2024. Based on USMOD’s EDI staff webpage, it is unclear whether the position has been filled yet.
The position previously was filled by Eleanor Fleming. In 2022, UMSOD released a story on Fleming—the inaugural assistant dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion—who was hired in the fall of 2021.
Fleming stated that she “didn’t really see dentistry engaged in the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and so her inspiration for a change following the death of George Floyd and ensuing riots made the position at UMSOD a good fit for her.
Fleming apparently still fulfills the role of assistant dean for EDI, as observed on her school bio.
The Center Square reached out twice to Fleming for comment, receiving no reply.
UMSOD operates as a place of dental care in addition to being a place of education, according to its webpage.
UMSOD’s DEI page states that the school is “committed to ensuring an environment of inclusion, equity and equality for minority faculty, patients, staff, and students.”
The job description for UMSOD’s assistant dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion also states the person will help “to develop and advance an equity, diversity, and inclusion strategy,” in collaboration with “the Dean, Chief of Staff, administration, faculty, and the broader University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) community.”
When reached twice for comment, University of Maryland media relations specialist Laura Lee did not respond.
While UMSOD is searching to fulfill a DEI position, many other schools are taking steps to diminish DEI, such as the University of Michigan, and some states are banning the ideology altogether, such as Idaho, the Center Square previously reported.
