In his remarks outside Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, President Joe Biden called for “equality and democracy to be protected.” Nonetheless, people around the country voiced criticism of Biden’s Philadelphia speech, claiming that he stoked division and inflamed partisanship. The uniformed Marines accompanying him were, for most Americans tuning into the prime-time speech, only part of the speech’s backdrop. Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s Attorney General and Senate candidate, criticized President Biden’s Philadelphia speech as divisive, during an interview with Lisa Boothe. “I think it’s meant to distract from his abysmal record as president,” the attorney general said in the recent interview with the…
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In response to thousands of migrants arriving by bus from Arizona and Texas in the nation’s capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public health emergency. Over 7,900 migrants have been transported by Texas governor’s office to the District on more than 190 buses. More than 2,200 migrants have been bused to New York and more than 300 migrants on more than five buses to Chicago. Arizona sent 46 buses carrying 1,677 migrants to the capital. At a press conference, Bowser announced a new government office in charge of the local response to migrants arriving which will also support newcomers seeking…
The request by former President Donald Trump to appoint a “special master” was granted by a federal judge. The special master will review the documents that the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago last month. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision is a major victory for Trump, who has railed against the Biden administration and the Justice Department since the search was carried out four weeks ago. Judge Aileen Cannon was appointed by Trump. “As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Cannon wrote.…
A number of Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, were sanctioned by Russia this week in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians because of the conflict in Ukraine. There are several US senators on the new sanctions list including Arizona senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, North Dakota senator Kevin Cramer, South Dakota senator Mike Rounds, Florida senator Rick Scott, and Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey. The list also included Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Before that, Russia had sanctioned over a dozen other serving senators. The Russian Foreign Ministry has stated that the group, which would also include academics,…
As Republican candidate Mehmet Oz continued to criticize Fetterman for not engaging in a debate, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman promised to debate him. During a recent interview, Fetterman said, “We’re absolutely going to debate Dr. Oz, and that was really always our intent to do that. It was just simply only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of the stroke, the auditory processing, and we’re going to be able to work that out.” Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May, had speech problems in recent public appearances. He estimates the debate will take place in…
Tennessee’s disgraced former House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide were taken into custody on federal charges including kickbacks, bribery and conspiracy to launder money. If found guilty, they could each face up to 20 years in prison. The two pleaded not guilty and have been granted pretrial release with restricted travel to the Middle District of Tennessee or elsewhere if approved. Rep. Glen Casada and his former chief of staff Cade Cothren were indicted for allegedly running a sham direct mail scheme for personal gain. The indictment came from a federal grand jury, the Justice Department reported. It…
According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, President Biden’s anti-Trump and anti-MAGA remarks in Philadelphia were “not political.” She also stated that having Marines in uniform in the background was not problematic. Those comments occurred during a White House press briefing. In Philadelphia, Biden said during his speech that the current Republican Party is “dominated” by “MAGA Republicans.” “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,” Biden declared. “There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.…
The Republican base has set their sights on impeaching President Joe Biden and also hopes to seize control of the House in November. Keen to avenge the two impeachments by the Democrats of former President Donald J. Trump, who is still the most popular figure in the GOP, a number of high ranked Republicans see it as a top priority for the next year. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), in support of the impeachment, stated that he had “… consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe. “Congress has a duty to…
John Eastman, a Trump campaign lawyer who has sought to overturn the 2020 election results, said that a search warrant led the FBI to seize his iPhone and search it outside a restaurant last week. Allegedly agents patted Eastman down and seized his iPhone Pro 12 before coercing him to unlock it using facial recognition software. A search warrant was only provided to Eastman after his phone was seized, Eastman claimed. According to Eastman’s court filing, the warrant authorizes the seizure of “any electronic or digital device” and “all information contained therein.” A prominent speaker at this month’s House Select…
Former President Donald Trump has engaged a leading Florida lawyer to handle his defense in the FBI raid case. In the wake of the Aug. 8 FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, Trump has struggled to recruit top lawyers to join his legal team. Chris Kise, a former state solicitor general, decided to accept the position. In the Southern District of Florida, many criminal defense lawyers said they were unable to represent the former president due to his controversial status. Attorney and law experts familiar with the legal effort have stressed that representing Trump could be a tedious job. His reputation as…
Former Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger is expected to serve up to two decades in prison for rape. According to court documents obtained by several media outlets, the 40-year-old Idaho lawmaker was convicted of the criminal rape of a teenage intern in April and was given a sentence totaling 20 years in state prison. During von Ehlinger’s sentencing hearing, Judge Michael Reardon ruled that the defendant would be eligible for parole after serving at least eight years behind bars, per reports from Associated Press. A judge imposed a no-contact order on the defendant, which is expected to extend until 2055, as…
According to a State Bar review and bankruptcy filings, Tom Girardi, who used to be one of California’s top attorneys, misappropriated millions of dollars of client funds over the last decades. Girardi appears to have used the money on the opulent lifestyle he and his wife, Erika Jayne, displayed on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Luxurious parties and dinners the couple used to host for the legal community have also contributed. Furthermore, Girardi allegedly transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars that were owed to cancer victims and other residents of a polluted Inland Empire community, to his mistress, Tricia Bigelow.…
The tensions between former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden are revealed for the first time in a new biography documenting the pair’s frequently tense relationship. The book, “The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama”, exposes that the past and present president did not have a comfortable “bromance” over the course of their nearly 20-year relationship, as many assume. During their eight years together in the White House, Obama and Biden were constantly surrounded by headlines about their “bromance.” But according to excerpts from the book obtained by the Daily Mail, long before…
Lisa Boothe, a Fox News contributor and political commentator, joined guest host Jason Chaffetz to discuss President Joe Biden’s latest attack on Americans during a speech in Maryland last week. “I respect conservative Republicans, I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans,” Biden declared to the crowd, comparing the notion of America First to “semi-fascism,” BPR reported. Now, Boothe fought back citing various reasons why she thinks Biden is not a good person. “Mary Ellen Bork, the late Robert Bork’s wife, even wrote to The Wall Street Journal heading into the 2020 election warning us that Joe Biden is a man without…
The bakery falsely accused of racism won a major court victory, sending bad news to ‘woke’ colleges with bad practices. Gibson’s Bakery, an Ohio family-owned business with a long history of serving the Oberlin community, has won a major victory in its feud with Oberlin College. According to the case, Oberlin College encouraged and supported false accusations made by students and faculty members against the bakery in 2016. Following Oberlin’s sustained campaign against the bakery, a jury awarded the store $36 million in damages. The state Supreme Court rejected Oberlin’s appeal. That means the school must eventually pay the bakery…
FBI agent Timothy Thibault resigned late last week and was walked out from the FBI, according to two US officials, after being criticized for his investigations into Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden. However, those officials also noted Thibault had reached retirement age, and they added that anyone retiring must surrender their badges and weapons and be escorted from the building. After working at FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thibault had recently been removed from his duties as assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, which covers the entire District of Columbia and Northern Virginia.…
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who claims to oppose police funding, has been co-chairing a left-wing group that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to anti-police activists. It is well known that Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election to Republican incumbent Brian Kemp, whom she will face again this year. She falsely accused Kemp of stealing the election from her. She served as a board member of the Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation. This foundation hosted an event in early February, titled, “Becoming Abolitionists—A History of Failed Police Reforms & Vision for True Public Safety,” According to her financial…
A coalition of more than 650 activist organizations is calling on Capitol Hill Democratic leaders to double down on Senator Joe Manchin III, who was crucial to the passage of the party’s massive climate and tax spending legislation. A letter urging Democrats in California and New York to abandon their promise to Manchin to pass legislation streamlining energy projects – including fossil fuels – was set to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer by hundreds of Democratic-aligned climate and other advocacy groups. “We are writing to express our strenuous opposition to any additional fossil fuel…
The 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera S used in Paul Pelosi’s DUI crash was listed on Copart.com with only 2,738 miles and a retail value of $168,576. Paul Pelosi’s 2021 Porsche Carrera, destroyed in a May DUI crash in California – to which he pleaded guilty – is showing up on an online auction site. The damage to the vehicle seen in the photos on the auction website is consistent with the damage sustained in the DUI collision. The vehicle was removed from the scene using a tow truck when Pelosi was arrested, per police reports. According to the complaint, responding…
Several Democratic Senate candidates suffered meltdowns, rejecting President Biden’s student loan relief plan a few hours after it was released, putting them at risk of losing their midterm elections this November. There doesn’t seem to be an agreement among Democrats at all levels, especially among those who are at risk of losing their seats to Republican opponents in the midterm elections this year. For many, this is a sign of concern that has the potential to alienate swing voters in November. Among the most vulnerable House and Senate Democrats seeking re-election this fall, a mere six have openly declared their…
Last week, the Biden administration unveiled a much-anticipated plan to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt owed by millions of Americans and as much as $20,000 for low-income borrowers. But the White House didn’t mention how President Biden’s decision to forgive student debt for some Americans will be paid off in the long-term. Administration officials didn’t explain how the additional spending will be made up or if it will increase tax bills even for average Americans. That said, many have been arguing in the past few days that the national deficit is actually already plunging under the…
Fox News Channel swept its cable news competitors in primetime in July, data shows. It was also the most-watched ‘throughout the day’ cable news network. This category takes in account adults aged 25 to 54, the most valuable demographic for advertisers. According to audience data compiled by Nielsen, Fox News is one of the few cable news networks to report an increase year-over-year, which averaged 1.35 million total day viewers in July 2022. This is an increase of 14% in total day viewers from the same period last year. In the second place overall was MSNBC (765,000 total day viewers)…
The legal license of former longtime Louisiana state senator Karen Carter Peterson was revoked after she pled guilty to wire fraud earlier this month. In addition to being a senator, Peterson also chaired the state’s Democratic party, which she admitted to stealing funds from. Additionally, she admitted to siphoning funds and falsely reporting expenses to cover her tracks. Here is video of her resignation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ykEZumBek After being indicted in a nearly seven-year fraudulent scheme, Karen Carter Peterson has appeared in court. The former senator defrauded contributors to the Karen Carter Peterson Campaign Fund according to court documents received by WGNO…
With more than five decades of service in the government, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced he would leave the federal government in December. But, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stepped in and promised that Dr. Fauci would still need to testify before Congress. Fauci is one of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts and the victim of partisan attacks during the pandemic. “I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career,” said Fauci, who angered many Americans with his management of the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci stressed that he will “not retire,” vowing…
The vulnerable Democratic House representative, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, is not happy with President Biden’s announcement on student loan forgiveness. And he isn’t alone. The opposition to Biden’s plan is voiced by a long list of Democrats who are objecting to Biden’s massive $300 billion student debt distribution. Some representatives went as far as to label the plan to forgive student loans – despite the nation’s already rising debt – as a left-wing dream. Pappas expressed his disappointment in Biden’s plans to use $300 billion in taxpayer dollars to repay student loan debt. In his opinion, any debt relief…