‘People have every right to consider it’: Hillary Clinton points out problem with Biden

Hillary Clinton, a twice-failed presidential candidate, has identified a major issue with President Joe Biden and says ‘people have every right to consider it’ when they decide who to vote for in 2024. Clinton specifically talks about Joe Biden’s age and potential for dwindling mental stamina that may be required to keep up the pace on a hot-paced job like running the best country on the planet.

However, despite her open commentary about Joe Biden’s age, the withering wife of affair-happy Bill Clinton says she’ll still support Joe Biden if he’s the main Democrat running against the Republicans.

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The Hillprovided additional details on Hillary Clinton’s interview that took place at the Financial Times Weekend Festival located in Washington DC, where she was interviewed:

During an appearance at the Financial Times Weekend Festival in Washington, D.C., Clinton, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016, was asked by Financial Times editor Edward Luce about the moment when Biden almost fell walking down the stairs during the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

“Every time that happens, your heart is in your mouth, because these things could be consequential. Is that a concern?” Luce asked Clinton.

“Well, I mean, it’s a concern for anyone. And we’ve had presidents who’ve fallen before who are a lot younger, and people didn’t go into heart palpitations,” Clinton responded. “But his age is an issue. And people have every right to consider it.”

Hillary Clinton mentioned the dilemma with Joe Biden’s age, but suggested he has a ‘good record’ in office, something critics would highly disagree with in current times. Hillary further said to Luce: “And I am of the camp that I think he’s determined to run. He has a good record that three years ago people would not have predicted would have gotten done.”

“He doesn’t get the credit yet that he deserves for what is happening out in the country, in terms of jobs and growth and planning for the future, with chips and other stuff,” Clinton added. “So I obviously hope he stays very focused and able to compete in the election, because I think he– I think he can be re-elected, and that’s what we should all hope for.”

The election of 2024 is already starting to warm up with candidates like Donald Trump throwing a hat back into the action and getting his supporters excited for the future. The Democrats don’t have a clear front-runner other than Joe Biden, but anything could happen between now and the time when Republicans and Democrat designate their top candidate as we move closer to the election.

GOP left ‘without words’ as FBI official makes admission on Durham Report

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) was left “without words” when he questioned the FBI’s Jill Murphy and she admited that she has NOT read former special counsel John Durham’s Report.

Murphy also could not name anyone in the FBI who read the Durham Report. She then said she intends to read it, but there’s no guarantee or evidence that she will read it unless she does it live on video.

Rep. Matt Gaetz has also been in the news recently when it comes to the Durham Report. Gaetz had some things to say about failed 2016 Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton after he had some time last week to peruse special counsel John Durham’s blockbuster report on the origins of the “Trump-Russia collusion” hoax.

In particular, the Florida Republican honed in on the report’s finding that no less than four federal probes into Clinton and her questionable charity, the Clinton Foundation, were suspiciously dropped in the weeks before the November election in which Donald Trump soundly defeated her.

Gaetz called for those criminal investigations into the Clintons to be reopened. He said: “The Clintons had a team of people at the FBI running interference for them to avoid criminal culpability. It’s not dissimilar to what we see with the Biden Crime Family today. These matters absolutely warrant additional exposure and review.”

What is the Durham Report?

The Durham report refers to an investigation led by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed by former Attorney General William Barr to examine the origins of the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The investigation, known as the Durham investigation or the Durham probe, aimed to determine whether any misconduct or wrongdoing occurred during the early stages of the investigation, including potential abuses of power or politically biased actions.

John Durham was granted special counsel status in October 2020 by then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, which provided him with greater independence and allowed him to continue his work into the next administration. The investigation focused on examining the actions of various government officials, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement personnel involved in the Russia investigation, including the handling of the Steele dossier and surveillance warrants against Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the Durham investigation was ongoing, and the final report had not been released. It is important to note that the progress and findings of the Durham investigation may have evolved since then. It is advisable to consult up-to-date and reliable sources for the latest information on the Durham report.

Ron DeSantis is officially running for president, will take on Donald Trump for GOP nod

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has filed paperwork to make it official that he’s running for president in the 2024 election and plans to take on Donald Trump for the Republican nod in hopes to go against Joe Biden or whomever Democrats pick.

This was speculated many times over the last year, but finally made official and Ron DeSantis, 44, looks to begin his first presidential campaign for the 2024 election in hopes to take down Trump for the GOP nomination. However, Trump will be a very difficult opponent to defeat as he’s already won one election and looks to win a second. This situation with Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump will put Republican voters at odds.

DeSantis will formally announce his run for president on Twitter at 6pm EST in a conversation with Elon Musk, giving Twitter users a first glance at who could be their future president amid a rivalry with a former president in Donald Trump. The rivalry is heating up with Trump throwing words towards DeSantis, or about him, in various ways as reported byCNBC:

Trump has already pummeled the governor with relentless attacks for months. Trump and his allies have assailed DeSantis’ record, his political abilities and even his personality, while amplifying negative news about the governor. One pro-Trump PAC even cut an ad depicting an anecdote about DeSantis eating pudding with his fingers, which the governor has denied.

Trump’s aggression may have paid off. Polls of the potential primary field have showed DeSantis, once Trump’s close competitor, consistently losing ground for months, even as the governor toured key battlegrounds and racked up policy wins with his state’s GOP-held Legislature.

By making his bid official, DeSantis solidifies the emerging rivalry between himself and Trump, effectively ending their previously close relationship. Some members of the GOP see DeSantis as a potential replacement for Trump as the party’s standard-bearer.

A recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, released earlier on Wednesday, highlights DeSantis’ challenge. In a hypothetical primary matchup, Republican and GOP-leaning voters overwhelmingly favored Trump over DeSantis, with 56% choosing Trump and only 25% supporting DeSantis. This result indicates Trump’s continued popularity and DeSantis’ decline since the previous Quinnipiac survey conducted in late March.

Pro-life group claims 60,000 abortions were prevented after move by Supreme Court

The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) group claims that approximately 60,000 abortions have been prevented in pro-life states since Roe V. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court last year. SBA had a press conference to discuss the matter in those specific states and how the numbers of abortions has declined significantly since Supreme Court made their decision that sparked a major debate across America.

The statistics may not be fully accurate as SBA suggested they don’t have data from every single state just yet, but the pro-life states are seeing a decrease in abortions and the data is currently being updated, according to a report onDaily Caller.  That report further discussed the press conference held by the SBA to inform the public:

SBA held a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the state of the pro-life movement in the states over the last year and noted that the number of abortions has fallen since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. SBA Pro-Life America Vice President of State of Affairs Stephen Billy responded to a question about the impact of the number of abortions since Dobbs and said that while specific data is hard to obtain, rough estimates have shown 60,000 abortions have been prevented due to legislation in the states.

Billy spoke about the data being difficult to get from some other states who aren’t providing information to the CDC. Billy was quoted saying the following:

“Yeah, so data is really tough on this issue, states like California and New York don’t even provide a lot of data to the CDC, but what we do know from looking at WeCount, which is a pro-abortion group, who has put out data and done surveys of the abortion centers across the country… We’ve seen about 60,000 abortions that have decreased from prior to Dobbs to now in the states that have pro-life laws in place.”

Of course, this could change at any moment if there’s any further action by the Supreme Court in one way or another. Statistics on topics like this are difficult to manage when the data comes from so many sources, or if the data is not being reported. That leads researches to make their best estimate with the data they’re given.

The report on Daily Caller further said:

Billy also said that he expects that once the abortion restrictions in two dozen states go into effect over 200,000 abortions could be prevented each year. WeCount found that from July 2022 to December 2022 there were 32,260 fewer abortions than during the same period post-Dobbs.

States that continue to permit the practice saw an increase in abortions post-Dobbs with clinics recording 1,858 more per month. In December 2022, telehealth clinics provided an average of 8,540 abortions each month, which was a significant increase from 3,590 in April of that same year.

Activists and pro-lifers have been in a constant debate for decades over abortion and that is likely to never change.

Photo: James McNellis from Washington, DC, United States, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

WATCH: Newt Gingrich dissects Joe Biden after multiple reports of ‘corruption’ – Says president must be ‘corrupt or out of touch with reality’

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blasted Joe Biden following multiple reports from various outlets and claims by whistleblowers that the president allegedly has many ties to corrupt foreign dealings.

Gingrich made his allegations in an interview with Fox News. Here’s a partial transcript(see video below):

NEWT GINGRICH, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Look, I mean, the Biden administration is either corrupt or lives in a fantasyland.

In either case, it’s dangerous to the United States. If Yellen actually believes what she’s saying, she’s in a total fantasyland. And when I watch, for example, the secretary of state, who’d been paid, I think, over a million dollars a year by the University of Pennsylvania with money which I think came directly from communist China, I’m not particularly reassured.

So I think, whether it’s on a fantasy front or a corruption front, the Biden administration is enormously dangerous to the survival of America and an enormous asset in the creation of a Chinese communist dominant system. I think it’s enormously difficult.

BARTIROMO: This is just stunning. What you’re saying is stunning.

BARTIROMO: Well, and they have ramped up on Joe Biden’s watch, Newt.

I mean, and it’s incredible to me that these are some of the most serious allegations leveled against a president, all of this influence peddling, and the mainstream media will not discuss it, although you had a mention of his granddaughter by Maureen Dowd, right?

Look, I think you’re beginning to see a break in the system, because it’s becoming so sickening. It’s so obvious. Frankly, the research by the House Republicans is so compelling that I think the whole thing is going to break down.

And I think, even for a lot of liberals, watching a president of the United States turned their granddaughter into a nonperson, literally canceling her in a way that is, I think, horrifying, lets you know how cold and ruthless and calculating the Bidens are, and also tells you how much you can count on them to be honest about Hunter or about money or you name it.

This is a — this is the most corrupt administration in American history, surrounded by people who live in a fantasyland in terms of how the world works. And the combination, I think, is an enormous danger to the very safety and survival of the United States.

Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany takes down Chris Christie over a campaign strategy she says is a sure loser with GOP voters

Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany isn’t shy about letting people know how she feels about political issues, and she let GOP presidential contender Chris Christie have it with both rhetorical barrels on Wednesday.

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Former Trump spokesperson McEnaney says Christie’s defense of former President Trump’s FBI director Christopher Wray will not go over with Trump’s voters in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

Earlier on Fox News, Christie, a former New Jersey governor and federal prosecutor, said in reference to Wray’s testimony before a House committee earlier in the day: “I did recommend him to President Trump and I’m proud that I did.

“Those things they’re talking about today, and the director made this point over and over again, are all things from when Jim Comey, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch were in charge of the Justice Department — before he got put in charge,” Christie said. “He fired the entire Comey leadership team out of the FBI, they’re all gone.”

“Is it all fixed? Of course, it’s not all fixed. Jim Comey and Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch drastically harmed the Department of Justice and the FBI. And Chris Wray has now spent years fixing that,” Christie said. “What you saw today was an animated and combative FBI director who is defending the men and women who work for him… and do a great job…”

He added: “So yeah, I think Chris Wray has done a very good job and I think a lot of the stuff you see today is theater, people trying to raise money for campaigns.”

McEnany doesn’t think that stance will win him many GOP voters.

“Wray: “Best of luck to Chris Christie with that message in a GOP primary, which has tremendous distrust for the FBI,” she said.

After noting that Wray has made some positive changes and done some good things at the bureau, she also said much of what is wrong today he hasn’t addressed.

“There’s a lot of questions for him — this ‘radical traditionalist Catholic’ memo which he rescinded, he said he was ‘aghast’ by it. But yet he won’t allow the authors of that before Congress,” she added.

“None of this instills confidence in the American people, many of whom have distrust for the FBI.”

.@kayleighmcenanyon Chris Christie's inexplicable defense of corrupt FBI Director Chris Wray: "Best of luck to Chris Christie with that message in a GOP primary, which has tremendous distrust for the FBI…"pic.twitter.com/Gq8tnp23oj

— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94)July 12, 2023

WATCH: ‘You are distressed that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks?’ Tucker Carlson lambasts Mike Pence in brutal fashion

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Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson began hosting a 2024 Republican presidential candidate forum on Friday and there were quite a few fireworks, including an exchange between him and former Vice President Mike Pence over the United States’ continued support for Ukraine.

The Biden administration, with bipartisan agreement in Congress, has been supplying Ukraine with so many American weapons that some weapons stocks are now running low.

But that’s not what Carlson honed in on: He rapped Pence over his unmitigated support for continuing to focus on Ukraine, perhaps at the expense of Americans and U.S. cities.

Here’s a partial transcriptof the exchange(see video below):

TUCKER CARLSON: I’m sorry, Mr. Vice President, I know you’re running for president.

MIKE PENCE: Thanks for noticing.

TUCKER CARLSON: You are distressed that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks? Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There is not one city that’s gotten better in the United States. And it’s visible. Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased, and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can’t find on a map, who have received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don’t have enough tanks?

I think it’s a fair question to ask: Where’s the concern for the United States in that?

MIKE PENCE: That’s not my concern. I’ve heard that routine from you before but that’s not my concern. I’m running for president of the United States because I think this country is in a lot of trouble. I think Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad. And as president of the United States we’re going to restore law and order in our cities. We’re going to restore law and order in our cities, secure our border, get this economy moving again, and we’re going to make sure that we have men and women on our courts at every level who will stand for the right to life and defend all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution.

Anybody who says we can’t be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth. We can do both. And as President of the United States, we will secure our border, support our military, revive our economy, and stand by our values, and we will also lead the world for freedom under my administration.

‘The View’ co-hosts have a meltdown over one scenario that almost guarantees Trump the presidency in 2024

The ladies on the view had another meltdown on Monday over the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning again next year under an increasingly likely scenario.

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During Monday’s program, a portion of the show was dedicated to discussing the No Labels group, a movement that aims to establish its own presidential ticket in the event that Democrats and Republicans are unable to embrace more moderate positions and find common ground.

The segment began with a clip featuring former politicians Joe Lieberman and Doug Jones, who shed light on the aspirations of the No Labels movement. They emphasized the movement’s objective to offer a third-party alternative for a significant portion of the American population who feel unrepresented by the existing two-party system.

However, the co-hosts expressed varying opinions on the matter, displaying a mix of support and caution. While some co-hosts favored the idea of presenting a centrist alternative, others raised concerns that such a candidacy could inadvertently assist Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency.

Ana Navarro specifically highlighted that a No Labels campaign might act as a spoiler against Joe Biden, potentially attracting votes from his crucial demographic. Navarro strongly criticized the No Labels plan, referring to it as “the stupidest thing ever” and deeming it “dangerous.”

“This is not Bill Clinton versus George Herbert Walker Bush with Ross Perot playing spoiler. No, this is Donald Trump. He is a threat to national security. He has threatened our democracy. He caused an insurrection. He has weaponized government against his enemies,” Navarro railed.

“And so if you, John Huntsman, or Joe Lieberman, I love you Joe Lieberman, but you’ve got to stop this… this is insane. And you cannot do anything, anything, that could possibly help Donald Trump become president. You cannot be an accomplice on that,” she added.

However, Sunny Hostin put forth a different viewpoint, expressing her disappointment in the polarization within the United States. She proposed that a multi-party system could be an ideal solution but acknowledged that it currently faces obstacles due to the nation’s unresolved issues.

In conclusion, Whoopi Goldberg chimed in, suggesting that both major parties are experiencing a sense of panic as they recognize that President Biden’s strength primarily lies in his ability to oppose Trump or any other potential Republican candidate.

Jim Jordan says he’ll give FBI Director Christopher Wray one chance to ‘correct the record’ following misleading testimony before taking action

GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mike Johnson of Louisiana, with the House Judiciary Committee, have just announced their next move after FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony last week.

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In a Twitter post, Johnson wrote, “[Jim Jordan]& I will send Chris Wray a letter this week to give him a chance to correct the contradictions in his testimony to Congress. Either he was being untruthful or he is unaware of the egregious & unconstitutional activities of his agency. Either scenario is alarming.”

.@Jim_Jordan& I will send Chris Wray a letter this week to give him a chance to correct the contradictions in his testimony to Congress.

Either he was being untruthful or he is unaware of the egregious & unconstitutional activities of his agency.

Either scenario is alarming.pic.twitter.com/LIurZ6WMUg

— Rep. Mike Johnson (@RepMikeJohnson)July 17, 2023

In an interview with Fox News host and former South Carolina Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, Johnson remarked that there were “two things [to get the attention of the FBI- Jim Jordan and I are preparing a letter that we will issue probably Monday or Tuesday to ask the director to correct his testimony.

“We are going to point out the contradictions in what he said under oath and we will start with that. Secondly…the appropriations process is a very important part of this. We have to get their attention,” he said.

“They want a $4 billion new headquarters for the FBI, I have been on the record many times saying I don’t believe they deserve that if they cannot uphold the most fundamental constitutional rights of the people that they are supposed to be protecting and serving. We have to get their attention, we can’t impeach every agency head in the Biden administration,” Johnson continued.

He added that “a lot of them probably deserve it [impeachment], but we have to start with the power that we have and…in the House, the power of the purse is a big one.”

Another member of the House Judiciary Committee expressed concerns regarding the decline of the rule of law in the United States, specifically pointed out instances of federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, allegedly abusing their power and engaging in misconduct.

“We are a nation of laws. We are not some Orwellian dystopia where these things are appropriate or allowed, but we’ve allowed this to happen. Yesterday’s [committee] hearing with [Law Professor Jonathan Turley] unpacked how Congress can reform FISA and stop this abusive federal overreach,” Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.),noted.

Last month, Jordansent a letterto Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers to a list of questions about the FBI’s involvement.

It was the FBI, of course, that conspired with Democrats during the 2016 election to fabricate the “Russiagate” collusion conspiracy theory against Trump and pursue it as if there was any evidence. Special Counsel John Durham’s years-long investigation concluded there wasn’t.

That, among other things, has left “public trust in the FBI … low,” Jordan explained.

So his letter, warning of “the institutional rot that pervades the FBI,” demanded to know about FBI agents working on special counsel Jack Smith’s case, which is to investigate the 2020 election circumstances, the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even presidential documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

“The extent of the FBI’s bias and reckless disregard for the truth, which Special Counsel Durham laid out in painstaking detail, is nothing short of scandalous. The FBI has tried to dismiss the report’s findings by claiming to have ‘already implemented dozens of corrective actions’ to prevent similar misconduct in the future,” Jordan charged.

“The FBI’s window dressing is not enough. The special counsel’s report serves as a stark reminder of the need for more accountability and reforms within the FBI,” he said.

New Harvard poll spells bad news for Joe Biden – As Trump pulls away from GOP field most voters reveal they don’t think he’s fit for office

Another day, another really bad poll for President Joe Biden.

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According to the latest Harvard Harris Pollconductedin July 2023, two notable areas of concern among the American public are Joe Biden’s mental acuity and the forthcoming 2024 Republican primary.

The issue of Biden’s mental acuity has been a subject of discussion since his presidential campaign. A mere 32% of respondents believe that Biden is mentally fit to hold the office of President, while a substantial 68% harbor doubts about his mental capabilities.

In a Democratic contest, Biden is the favored candidate. However, if Biden decides not to run, Kamala Harris emerges as the top contender. In the scenario where Biden intends to run, RFK Jr. follows closely at 16%. Conversely, if Biden decides not to run, Kamala secures a substantial lead at 44%, surpassing RFK’s 22%, effectively doubling his support, the survey found.

The results of the poll indicate that this matter might have an impact on the 2024 Presidential Election. Despite Biden’s overall approval rating hovering around 40%, the question of his mental fitness could play a pivotal role for undecided voters.

To secure a second term for Biden, the Democratic Party should take proactive measures to address these concerns, the poll’s analysis noted.

?? 2024 Presidential Election Poll

(R) Trump: 45% (+5)(D) Biden: 40%

(R) Trump: 47% (+9)(D) Harris: 38%——(R) DeSantis: 41% (+1)(D) Biden: 40%

(R) DeSantis: 41% (+2)(D) Harris: 39%

Harvard/Harris | 07/19-20 | 2,068 RVhttps://t.co/BbGbKXin6bpic.twitter.com/ezGCiHU5Bd

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022)July 21, 2023

On the Republican side, the 2024 primary appears to lack significant competition. Former President Donald Trump remains the clear frontrunner, even though his support has slightly declined.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, although currently in the second position, is experiencing a gradual decline in momentum compared to Ramaswamy.

According to the poll, 54% of the GOP believe that Trump will secure the nomination. However, if Trump does not become the nominee, DeSantis takes the lead at 29%, followed by Ramaswamy at 19%, and Pence at 13%.

In hypothetical matchups, Trump leads Biden by a five-point margin and surpasses Harris with a nine-point advantage. In direct matchups, DeSantis shows an even standing against both Biden and Harris.

Six out of ten people believe that Biden should not pursue a second term, and nearly six in ten shares the same sentiment for Trump, the poll said.

Voters from diverse political backgrounds have shown a willingness to contemplate supporting a moderate independent candidate if a Biden-Trump rematch were to occur. An overwhelming 70% of voters expressed their belief that the country needs “another choice” beyond the options of Biden and Trump, the survey found.

Noted MSNBC legal analyst turns heads with update on Jan. 6 case involving Donald Trump – Says he believes former president should be locked up BEFORE trial

A noted legal analyst for far-left MSNBC has made a shocking statement when discussing the latest information regarding special counsel Jack Smith’s pursuit of a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

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The former president should be thrown into a jail cell for pretrial detention if, as expected, he is indicted on charges related to the Jan. 6 incident at the U.S. Capitol Building, in the opinion of MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirchner.

Last week, the 2024 GOP frontrunnerrevealedthat he had received a letter from the Biden regime’s special counsel, “Deranged Jack Smith” informing him that he is officially a target of a Washington, D.C. grand jury investigation and that his arrest is imminent.

Rather than be released after arraignment as would normally be the case, Kirschner argued that Trump is far too dangerous to be allowed to remain free and needs to be locked down, likely in the special D.C. gulag that J6 protesters have been detained in under deplorable conditions that some have likened to that of a Chinese gulag.

The former federal prosecutor appeared on the latest edition of SiriusXM’s “The Dean Obeidallah Show” to make his appeal to have Trump jailed ahead of any trial.

Obeidallah set up Kirchner by claiming that a “cornered Donald Trump whose only chance at all to stay out of prison is winning” will get even “more dangerous and becomes a threat to the community and openly starts almost calling for violence or just on just the edge of it.”

“Well that’s why Donald Trump should be ordered detained pending trial,” Kirschner responded. “And I say that you know, not from my own personal preference or any animosity I have toward the man. I say it because the law provides that when there’s clear and convincing evidence that a defendant pending trial presents a danger to the community, he’s supposed to be detained, or she’s supposed to be detained pending trial.”

“That’s the law,” he added. “Everyone has ignored that when it comes to Donald Trump. And we do it at our peril, as a system as institutions of government, do it at our peril.”

“What did we see Donald Trump do recently?” Kirschner asked. “He posted President Obama’s home address, one of his followers, a guy named Taylor Taranto read it, reposted it on his social media platform, and then armed themselves… himself with two guns, 400 rounds of ammunition, a machete, and headed toward President Obama’s home.”

That was a reference to a strange story of an individual being apprehended near former President Obama’s home as he reportedly ran “toward the residence” last month.

He was referring to the bizarre story of an individual apprehended near the former president’s house as he was reportedly “running toward the residence last month.

Jan. 6 fugitive arrested after 'running toward' Barack Obama's DC homehttps://t.co/nu739QZTN5

— American Wire News (@americanwire_)June 30, 2023

“So maybe, maybe when he gets indicted for the insurrection, Jack Smith will move for his detention pending trial because the evidence is there to support that request,” Kirschner concluded, using a term the left has used since the J6 riot to somehow claim it was an uprising led by Trump.

JUST IN: Court-ordered release conditions for Hunter Biden have been revealed – Judge laid out what first son has to do to next

The release conditions for Hunter Biden have been disclosed after U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika signed them following his Wednesday court appearance.

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These conditions impose strict limitations on Biden’s lifestyle and carry the potential for immediate arrest if any of the conditions are violated.

Biden’s current conditions follow a significant development in his legal case, wherein Noreikaset asidehis initial plea deal earlier this morning, ultimately leading to Hunter’s decision to enter a not-guilty plea.

The severity of the charges Biden is facing, coupled with the weightiness of the legal hurdles ahead, is reflected in these stringent rules and restrictions imposed upon him.

The conditions listed in the court order are comprehensive and detailed, and they include:

No possession of firearms: This provision, though a standard requirement in many legal situations, further underscores the severity of Biden’s case.

Prohibition on using or possessing any controlled substances: This includes substances such as marijuana unless specifically prescribed by a doctor. This mandate reflects the court’s concern about substance abuse issues.

Full federal supervision: Biden will be under the watchful eye of federal authorities, marking an unprecedented level of scrutiny for the son of a sitting president.

Total abstinence from alcohol: This absolute ban on alcohol use appears to address concerns about Biden’s previous struggles with substance addiction.

Seek active employment: This provision, while somewhat unusual, signifies the court’s insistence that Biden lead a constructive, law-abiding life.

Regular testing for prohibited substances: This condition provides a mechanism for the court to enforce the substance use restrictions.

Participation in substance abuse therapy: This requirement, while addressing Biden’s past issues with addiction, could also serve as a therapeutic route for recovery.

The conditions are not advisory they are mandatory, with violations carrying penalties, including:

Immediate issuance of an arrest warrant: This immediate consequence would place Biden back in custody, a stark turnaround for the son of the President.

Revocation of release: Violation of any condition could result in Biden’s release being revoked, signifying a return to detention.

Forfeiture of bond: If violated, Biden risks losing any bond posted, reflecting the financial repercussions of non-compliance.

Prosecution for contempt of court: This additional legal trouble could further complicate Biden’s already intricate legal saga.

?#BREAKING: The new "Conditions of Release" for Hunter Biden have just hit the docket, signed by Judge Maryellen Noreika, who shelved Hunter's plea deal today

If Hunter does NOT comply with any part of the order, he could be immediately arrested

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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor)July 26, 2023

Earlier, CNNreportedthat Noreika described the agreement federal prosecutors reached with Hunter Biden for his gun possession offense as “unusual.”

She also pointed out that the deal, which involves Biden entering a diversion program to resolve the charge, includes some “non-standard terms,” notably granting “broad immunity” from potential additional charges.

“We don’t usually make diversion agreements public,” the judge said, a reference to the decision by both parties to make that aspect of the plea agreement public and then discuss it openly in court.

CNN concluded that “Noreika said she was not ready to accept the plea deal, and the hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty for the time being. The judge asked the sides to file additional briefs explaining the plea deal’s legal structuring.”

Bad news for the first son – Hunter Biden’s cushy plea bargain with federal prosecutors hits major snag in court as judge intervenes

Hunter Biden was expected to show up for court Wednesday morning and plead guilty to a cushy bargain he struck with his father’s Justice Department that would keep him out of jail.

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Only things didn’t immediately work out that way.

“The judge overseeing a deal reached between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden has reportedly thrown out the plea agreement over concerns that details of the ongoing investigation are not being considered in the prosecution’s decision to spare the president’s son from jail time in exchange for pleading guilty to tax and gun charges,” Trending Politicsreported.

Kara Scannell from CNN reported that during the court session, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Norieka directly inquired with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware about the inclusion of evidence from an investigation into whether Hunter Biden should have registered as a foreign agent.

The investigation is related to his representation of overseas companies from which he received substantial sums of money, and alleged false reporting to the Internal Revenue Service. In response, representatives for U.S. Attorney David Weiss informed the judge that this specific aspect of their office’s investigation would not be part of the plea deal, the outlet added.

“If you can charge that, then what does this mean?” asked Judge Norieka.

Attorneys for Hunter Biden said if foreign agent charges were to move forward, then their client would not be pleading guilty as planned.

“Then there is no deal,” the judge concluded.

?BREAKING: Hunter Biden's plea deal just fell apart in court due to investigations that are still on going into potential FARA violations.pic.twitter.com/wn6qoXGMSD

— Greg Price (@greg_price11)July 26, 2023

Fox News added: “Hunter Biden was also expected to enter into a pretrial diversion agreement regarding a separate felony charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.”

The judge called a second recess in the Hunter Biden plea proceedings as it appeared that the agreements the president’s son had reached with prosecutors had begun to unravel.

The judge said she had “concerns” about the parties seemingly linking the tax plea agreement to the deal on the gun charge. During the proceedings, prosecutors confirmed that the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son was ongoing.

The judge is asking Hunter Biden a series of questions about the facts that are included in the charging documents.

The judge asked Biden for the names of the foreign companies where he has worked.

“The Ukrainian energy company was Burisma,” Biden said. Biden has also mentioned his work for a Chinese energy company, CEFC. His ties to that company have come under intense scrutiny by House Republicans.

The judge asked Biden, “You did know that you owed tax money, right?”

Biden said, “Yes, your honor.”

CNN added that Noreika described the agreement federal prosecutors reached with Hunter Biden for his gun possession offense as “unusual.”

She also pointed out that the deal, which involves Biden entering a diversion program to resolve the charge, includes some “non-standard terms,” notably granting “broad immunity” from potential additional charges.

“We don’t usually make diversion agreements public,” the judge said, a reference to the decision by both parties to make that aspect of the plea agreement public and then discuss it openly in court.

CNN concluded that “Noreika said she was not ready to accept the plea deal, and the hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty for the time being. The judge asked the sides to file additional briefs explaining the plea deal’s legal structuring.”

This story was updated to reflect the latest information.

They’re Coming For You, Hakeem: Another Socialist Beats Another Democrat Incumbent

It’s happening right before our eyes. The Democrat Party, which has already been to the left of Vladimir Lenin since the rise of Barack Obama, is sprinting even further left. What’s more, the current crop of Democrat leaders either don’t see what is coming or they’re trying to dismiss it as just a ‘faction’ of their party that happens to be experiencing a little growth spurt right now.

That includes ‘leader’ Hakeem Jeffries of New York.Just the other day, Dollar Store Obama appeared to dismiss the rising socialist faction within his partyas if it weren’t a big deal.

After two Mamdani-backed, card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) political party won their respective House primaries last Tuesday in New York, all eyes turned to Colorado’s 1st Congressional District Democrat primary, which featured longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette facing off against DSA member Melat Kiros.

The primary was Tuesday night, and, with 78 percent reporting as of this writing, Decision Desk HQ has called it for Kiros in what may be the biggest primary upset for an incumbent Democrat House member this midterm election cycle.

DeGette, 68, is Colorado’s longest-serving member of Congress, having been in office since 1997 in a district drawn for Democrat victories. Though she faced two opponents in the primary, the one who worried establishment Democrats the most was Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer and former barista who, like many other DSA candidates, was backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Decision Desk HQ projects Melat Kiros wins the CO US House 1 Democratic Primary#DecisionMade: 10:31 PM EDTpic.twitter.com/ExYwfWhKv3

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ)July 1, 2026

Ahead of Colorado's results, read DDHQ's preview of the key races. (link below)

Perhaps the top race is#CO01, where democratic socialist Melat Kiros is primarying longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D) from the left. This is just the latest left-vs.-establishment clash for Dems.pic.twitter.com/RfhLFZ5nHp

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ)June 30, 2026

In addition to being an anti-capitalism socialist, Kiros is a vile human being for other reasons too, such as claiming America somehow deserved 9/11:

The socialists' foreign policy advisor is apparently Osama bin Laden. This is word-for-word how the Taliban justified 9/11. The DSA wants to destroy society altogether.pic.twitter.com/IZHj0h6Veb

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt)June 29, 2026

Naturally, she also blamed Israel for the October 7 deadly surprise attack by Hamas, and won’t call out deadly anti-Semitism in her own neighborhood. Once more, why most American Jews vote for these horrible ‘Democrats’ is beyond my comprehension:

Melat Kiros has said the massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct 7 was “the inevitable consequence of apartheid.”

I asked Kiros if she thought the same thing about 9/11 and US foreign policy.

And she declined to call the firebombing of Jews in Boulder an act of anti-semitism.pic.twitter.com/WYTETFLNeX

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark)June 23, 2026

Denver socialist Melat Kiros has refused to call a firebomb attack on Jews an act of anti-Semitism.https://t.co/eC9ygNzkQ6She insists that she cannot say what "was in the heart" of Mohamed Sabry Soliman when he burned to death an elderly Jewish woman at a pro-Israel rally…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley)June 29, 2026

Oh, and she hates normal Democrats (there aren’t many, I know, but…), especially those who support Israel’s right to exist(bad language alert):

Melat Kiros said her campaign made a mistake posting an ad from a progressive PAC that said centrist Democrats "fellate Israel" and "suck shit."

"We didn't catch the language that was on the screen. Had we caught it, we wouldn't have reposted it, and we've since taken it down."pic.twitter.com/C1UrrpKjXb

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark)June 23, 2026

And here’s the merry little socialist celebrating Coloradans losing their jobs because “muh defense contractors” or something:

Democrats cheering for elective job losses in their state will never cease to be absolutely wild to me.https://t.co/q8yb2gB8Gm

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest)June 23, 2026

Socialists talk about ‘good jobs for all’ unless they come from disfavored companies, like those who actually exist todefendthese whack jobs.

Kiros immigrated from Ethiopia as a baby, then got fired from her corporate law gig after publicly defending pro-Hamas protests and questioning Israel’s right to exist right after Oct 7. Now she’s running on ending all U.S. aid to Israel, an “arms embargo,”, accusing establishment Dems of profiting from “genocide.”, Medicare for All and Dismantling ICE.

This district typically leans heavily Democratic, so even though Kiros has a Republican opponent, newcomer Christy Peterson, in the upcoming fall election, she is likely to be the favorite to win. Last Tuesday, members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were seen in New York City taunting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), suggesting he might be “next” on their list of Democratic leaders to challenge. This challenge would likely take place in 2028, assuming he runs for reelection.

These socialists will continue to win in blue regions because pushing jealousy of success and promising the moon for free will get you votes. But I don’t expect this to move into red America anytime soon. That said, buckle up, Temu Obama. Your time is coming.

DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon Just Gave Gavin Newsom A Big Ol’ Second Amendment Headache

It’s an exciting time for advocates of the Second Amendment. The right to keep and bear arms has gained significant support from several recent court decisions, particularly in the case ofNew York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which has fundamentally changed the legal landscape regarding the Second Amendment.

As a result of the Bruen decision, many anti-gun laws and proposed legislation have been effectively challenged. Now, Harmeet Dhillon, the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, announced a new lawsuit filed by the Justice Department (DOJ) against California’s ban on Glocks and its handgun roster law:

The Supreme Court made clear: the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right. Some states aren’t getting the message.Every gun-grabber should note: Banning the most popular pistol in America, violates the 2nd Amendment and@CivilRightsis taking action!https://t.co/LiHKJorK1w

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon)July 1, 2026

“The Supreme Court made clear: the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right. Some states aren’t getting the message. Every gun-grabber should note: Banning the most popular pistol in America, violates the 2nd Amendment and @CivilRights is taking action!” she wrote on X.

According to a DOJ press release on the matter:

“The Civil Rights Division will defend law-abiding citizens from states that seek to disarm them illegally,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This lawsuit is yet another example of this Justice Department enforcing the Second Amendment by protecting citizens against unconstitutional state regulation of firearms.”

California’s new law would ban the retail purchase of common handguns manufactured by Glock and guns with similar firing mechanisms. The state’s existing “Handgun Roster” further limits the types of handguns citizens can lawfully purchase in California. The United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to carry handguns outside the home for self-defense in Wolford v. Lopez. The Court reiterated that states cannot prevent citizens from using commonly used firearms for self-defense.

Yes, the absolute right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Constitution’s Second Amendment is most definitely a civil right. Only members of the Domestic Terrorist Party don’t understand or acknowledge that. A reminder, by the way: The Second Amendment doesn’t “grant” the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, itrecognizesthat it’s afundamentalright.

California’s attempted Glock ban is particularly egregious. This piece of overt stupidity targets Glock handguns because of the possibility that criminals – who are already legally precluded from possessing any kind of firearm – might install a “Glock switch,” the manufacture and possession of which is already illegal, thus converting the gun to fire fully-automatic. So, California’s gun owners are to be deprived of the nation’s most popular handgun, in direct violation of the Second Amendment, because of what some criminals might do.

This seems tailor-made for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division to take on. And, in the post-Bruen world, the DOJ may just win this one, even if it requires taking it to the Supreme Court.

Having said all this, again, it’s a great time to be a fan of the Second Amendment. Court rulings and such have certainly been going our way lately. And Dhillon’s lawsuit against Gavin Newsom’s California is another reminder of how good it was that Kamala lost.

Illegal Aliens Stole Food From the Mouths of America’s Poorest — and They Did It for Nearly a Year

You really cannot detest Democrats enough. They are responsible for every bit of this.

Let’s be crystal clear about what happened here. Two Romanian nationals who had no legal right to be on American soil waltzed into this country, set up a sophisticated multi-state identity theft operation, and spent the better part of a year systematically looting a taxpayer-funded program designed to feed America’s most vulnerable citizens. Over $760,000 stolen. More than ten victims left in what federal prosecutors themselves described as “substantial hardship.” Real Americans — poor Americans, struggling Americans, the very people the left constantly claims to champion — had their food benefits wiped out by criminals who shouldn’t have been here in the first place.

This is what open borders actually looks like in practice. Not the sanitized talking points. Not the carefully curated sob stories. This. Foreign nationals, here illegally, running skimming devices across multiple states, draining SNAP accounts belonging to people who depend on that money to eat. And then reselling the goods for profit like it was a small business venture.

Catalin Dumitru and Marian Ovidiu Dumitru — brothers, both here illegally, both now facing up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud — didn’t stumble into this operation by accident. This was organized. This was deliberate. This was a calculated decision to exploit a system that the American taxpayer funds to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and that the left has spent decades making easier to access and harder to police. They found a gap, they exploited it ruthlessly, and they kept doing it for nearly a year because they apparently saw no reason to stop.

U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson didn’t mince words: these individuals came here illegally and preyed on some of the most vulnerable citizens in the country. They stole benefits from people who genuinely needed them, then turned those benefits into profit.

“These individuals came to the United States illegally and preyed on some of our most vulnerable citizens—those receiving SNAP benefits,” he said in a statement.

“They stole benefits from those who actually need them and then resold products bought with those benefits for their own profit. We will use the full force of the federal government to hold accountable those who exploit taxpayer funded programs and victimize citizens on government assistance,” Ferguson added.

That’s not a border policy failure in the abstract. That’s a direct, tangible, human cost of a broken immigration system that Democrats have spent years defending, obstructing fixes to, and in some cases actively celebrating.

And here’s the part that should make every taxpaying American’s jaw tighten: this case is almost certainly the tip of the iceberg. SNAP fraud has been rampant for years — a dirty secret that the previous administration had little interest in confronting because confronting it would have meant admitting the program has massive structural vulnerabilities that bad actors have been exploiting on an industrial scale. The Trump administration is finally doing what should have been done long ago: treating SNAP fraud as the serious federal crime it is, and going after the states that are actively blocking the federal government’s ability to verify who is actually receiving benefits.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said it plainly — the Trump administration has asked the Justice Department to compel Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan to hand over the SNAP data the federal government needs to weed out fraud. Four blue states, refusing to cooperate with federal verification efforts, while illegal aliens run skimming operations across state lines and drain accounts belonging to American citizens who are genuinely struggling to put food on the table.

The Democrat left will frame this as an attack on the poor. It is the exact opposite. Cracking down on SNAP fraud is the only way to protect a program that poor Americans actually depend on from being hollowed out by criminals and fraudsters. Every dollar stolen by non-citizens running a skimming operation is a dollar that didn’t feed an American family. Every unverified account is an open invitation for the next crew of fraudsters to move in and start draining it.

The Dumitru brothers are going to prison. Good. But the real question is how many more operations just like theirs are still running right now — in how many states, hitting how many accounts, stealing from how many American families — while Democrats running blue states sit on the data that could stop them.

Jeanine Pirro Just Destroyed the Media’s Reflecting Pool Spin — and It Was Glorious

The mainstream media has a new hobby: cheerleading for vandals who attack America’s most iconic monuments. And on Thursday, Jeanine Pirro had seen enough of it.

At a press conference announcing the felony indictment of three-time Olympic canoeist David Hearn — charged with deliberately ripping apart the newly installed sealant lining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — Pirro walked into a room full of reporters determined to minimize, excuse, and gaslight their way through the story. She walked out having steamrolled every single one of them. It wasn’t even close.

First, some necessary context the media would rather you not have. The Reflecting Pool — one of the most recognizable landmarks in the entire country, the backdrop for some of the most historic moments in American history — has been repeatedly and deliberately targeted by anti-Trump activists since restoration work began. These aren’t spontaneous acts of passion. This is organized, targeted vandalism against a national treasure, carried out by people who hate the president so much they’re willing to destroy a monument that belongs to every American to make a political point. A 350-foot gash was sliced into the pool’s newly installed liner. Damage has been documented repeatedly. The restoration effort has faced sabotage at every turn.

David Hearn, 67 years old and a three-time Olympian who absolutely knew better, now stands accused of using his bare hands to rip apart that same liner. A federal felony charge. Over $1,000 in documented damage. Caught on camera.

Enter the press corps, armed with every minimization tactic in the playbook.

A reporter challenged Pirro on how she could possibly prove $1,000 in damages. Her response was five words: “With an expert. Come to the trial.” Next question. Another reporter pressed her on whether Hearn had used tools — as if the method of vandalism somehow changes the fact that it happened. Pirro’s answer was flat and devastating: both bare hands. No tools needed when you’re committed enough to destruction. Yet another reporter tried to suggest the pool might have already been damaged before Hearn got to it, as if that somehow distributes the blame. Pirro wasn’t interested: “He damaged the pool.” Full stop:

U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro: “The damage is over $1,000 [on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool].”

Reporter: “How do you prove that $1,000 [in damage]?”

Jeanine Pirro: “With an expert. Come to the trial.”

Reporter: “Did he have any tools or was it just…pic.twitter.com/ZmcUaZY2wb

— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress)July 2, 2026

And then — because apparently no press briefing about anything can be held in this country without somebody dragging January 6th into it — a reporter actually tried to connect Reflecting Pool vandalism to the Capitol riot.

Pirro’s response should be required viewing for anyone who has ever watched the media try to control a narrative in real time: “Are you REALLY talking about January 6th? I’M NOT. Okay — who’s next? NOT YOU.”

Jeanine Pirro just pummeled a reporter who asked about J6. (They just won’t let the riot go away. Yes, riot).

Pirro: “Already this is a PROBLEM… Are you REALLY talking about January 6th?”

PIRRO: “I'M NOT! Okay, who's next? NOT YOU!”

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson)July 2, 2026

Not you. Two words. Perfect.

Here’s what the media coverage of this story has consistently gotten wrong, and what Pirro was right to push back on hard: this is not Trump’s Reflecting Pool. It is not a partisan renovation project. It is a national monument that belongs to every American regardless of party, and the effort to repair and restore it should be something that unites the country rather than divides it. The fact that the left has decided that sabotaging a historic landmark is an acceptable form of political protest tells you everything you need to know about where the Democratic base has gone ideologically.

One liberal outlet — which we won’t dignify by naming — actually described the felony indictment as being about an Olympian “touching” the pool. Touching it. As if a man using both hands to tear apart a newly installed liner is roughly equivalent to trailing a finger across the surface. The gaslighting is so brazen it would be funny if the stakes weren’t so serious.

The media spent years telling America that norms matter, that institutions matter, that the fabric of civil society matters. They were right about that — and that’s exactly why what’s happening to the Reflecting Pool is a story worth taking seriously. Monuments like this one don’t belong to any administration. They belong to history. They belong to the country. And the people vandalizing them aren’t making a political statement. They’re just destroying something beautiful that took decades to build and will take years to repair.

Jeanine Pirro understands that. The reporters in that room didn’t want to. She wasn’t going to let them pretend otherwise.

Happy Independence Day — The Green Energy Gravy Train Just Ran Out of Track

There is no better way to celebrate America’s 250th birthday than watching $141 billion worth of taxpayer-funded green energy welfare finally get shut off. As of Saturday, July 4th, federal subsidies for new wind and solar projects are finished. Dead. Done. And not a moment too soon.

Let’s talk about what that number actually represents. $141 billion. Not million. Billion. Extracted from the paychecks of working Americans over sixteen years and funneled into an industry that couldn’t survive a single day without government life support. An industry whose fundamental product — electricity — is supposed to be reliable, affordable, and available on demand. And which, by its own physical nature,is none of those things:

The Trump administration is set to cut subsidies for new solar and wind power projects on Saturday. Estimates suggest the subsidies have cost taxpayers more than $141 billion over the past 16 years, more than any other energy source.

The Working Families Tax Cuts, a signature piece of President Trump’s tax legislation signed a year ago, set Saturday as the deadline for federal tax credit subsidies on any new solar or wind projects not currently under construction.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright touted the subsidy deadline and criticized solar and wind energy projects in a video posted to social media Thursday.

“The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine,” Wright said. “They drive up the system costs and increase Americans’ electricity prices.”

He’s right. Intermittent energy sources don’t just fail to replace reliable ones — they actively make the entire grid more expensive and more fragile. Every time a wind farm goes dark because the air is still, or a solar installation goes offline because it’s cloudy, something else has to pick up the slack. And that something else — natural gas, nuclear, coal — has to be kept running in the background anyway, eating costs the whole time, just waiting for the moment the wind dies and the panels go dark.

So what did sixteen years of green energy subsidiesactually buy America? Higher electricity bills. Increased grid instability. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land covered in solar panels that can be destroyed by a single hailstorm or sliced apart by a moderately strong tornado. Eagle-killing wind turbines stretching across the landscape as far as the eye can see. And a supply chain so dependent on Chinese rare earth minerals that we essentially handed Beijing enormous leverage over our own energy future in the name of saving the planet.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation ran the numbers, and they’re ugly. Solar and wind received more federal subsidies than any other energy source in America over that period — more than nuclear, more than natural gas, more than anything. And the return on that investment, measured in reliable, affordable electricity for American families? Deeply underwhelming. What it produced instead, as the researchers documented, was artificially distorted wholesale prices, scarcity spikes during periods of peak demand, inefficient use of existing infrastructure, and skyrocketing transmission costs. The entire scheme was a wealth transfer — from ordinary Americans paying their electric bills to politically connected green energy developers collecting federal tax credits.

The Trump administration’s Working Families Tax Cuts set Saturday as the hard deadline for these credits to expire on any new projects not already under construction. Congress put it into law. The president signed it. And now it’s done.

None of this means solar panels or wind turbines are inherently worthless. If a homeowner in Arizona wants to put panels on the roof because the math makes sense for their situation, God bless them — that’s their call to make with their own money. If a company wants to build a wind farm and make the economics work without a federal handout, let them try. That’s called a free market. What it is not called is a free market when the government puts its thumb on the scale to the tune of $141 billion because politically favored industries can’t compete on their own merits.

The green energy lobby spent years telling America that wind and solar were the future — that they were on the verge of becoming cost-competitive, that just a little more subsidy was all they needed to stand on their own two feet. That argument has been running for sixteen years and $141 billion, and the industry still can’t survive without the handout. At some point, the argument stops being an optimistic projection and starts being a scam.

That point arrived a long time ago. The Trump administration just finally acknowledged it.Affordable, reliable, American energy. That’s the goal. That’s always been the goal. And it’s a goal that doesn’t require picking winners and losers, propping up intermittent energy sources with borrowed money, or pretending that covering farmland with solar panels is the same thing as energy independence.

This Fourth of July, while the fireworks light up the sky, American taxpayers have one more thing to celebrate: the green energy gravy train has finally, mercifully, hit the end of the line.

Joe Biden Is the Reason Why Rent Skyrocketed During His Term – Here’s Why

You didn’t imagine it. Your rent really did skyrocket under Joe Biden. And now we have the receipts — straight from the Federal Reserve.

A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has confirmed what every working American already felt in their wallet: the Biden administration’s open border policy didn’t just flood the country with millions of illegal aliens — it drove up housing costs for every American familytrying to keep a roof over their heads:

A new Federal Reserve working paper found the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration triggered higher home prices and rents.

The findings arrive as immigration remains a polarizing political issue. Republicans argue former President Joe Biden’s border policies strained housing and public resources, while Democrats say immigration helped ease labor shortages and supported economic growth.

The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines immigration court records with government administrative data to measure how the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

The numbers are brutal. For every 1% increase in unauthorized workers relative to a local labor force, home prices rose roughly 2.2% and rents climbed 1.4%. And here’s the kicker — homebuilding didn’t come close to keeping up with the demand surge. The market was already stretched thin, and Biden dumped millions of additional housing consumers into it without a second thought for the American citizens already struggling to afford a place to live.

The scope of the damage is staggering. Between March 2021 and March 2024 — the heart of the Biden border catastrophe — illegal immigration accounted for approximately 30% of home price growth and 20% of rent growth in the average American metro area. One in five dollars of your rent increase. Courtesy of Joe Biden’s deliberate decision to abandon the border.

Democrats spent years wringing their hands about housing affordability. They held hearings. They gave speeches. They blamed landlords, blamed developers, blamed zoning laws, blamed everything and everyone except the policy they were actively implementing that was pouring fuel on the fire. Not one of them will touch this Federal Reserve report with a ten-foot pole. Don’t hold your breath waiting for CNN to lead with it.

Here’s the part that cuts through all the noise: this didn’t have to happen. None of it. The laws were already on the books. The border infrastructure existed. What was missing was a president willing to enforce the law — something so basic, so fundamental to the job, that its absence should disqualify everyone responsible from ever holding public office again.

Trump enforced the law. And since January 2025, housing cost growth has already begun to moderate. These things don’t reverse overnight. But they do reverse — when you stop deliberately making them worse.

Joe Biden made a choice. He chose open borders over affordable housing for American families. They chose illegal immigration over the working-class voters they claimed to represent. And millions of Americans paid for that choice every single month when the rent came due.

It’s A Great Day for Justice: More Antifa Terrorists Go Down In Texas

For years, the left told us Antifa was just an idea. A concept. Nothing to worry about. Just passionate activists exercising their First Amendment rights. Tell that to the ICE officer they shot. Tell that to the federal judges now handing down sentences that are making these domestic terrorists cry in open court.

More Antifa terrorists were sentenced in Texas this week, and the scenes playing out in that Fort Worth courtroom are everything law-abiding Americans have been waiting years to see. Tears. Despair. The slow, dawning realization that the laws they spent years flouting actually apply to them too. One defendant was so terrified of facing the consequences of her own actions that she allegedly tried to take her own life before sentencing.

This comes on the heels of last week’s landmark punishment — 450 years of collective prison time handed down to the first batch of convicted members from the same North Texas Antifa terror cell. The group that ambushed an ICE detention facility and put a law enforcement officer in the hospital. The same group that the mainstream media barely covered, and that Democratic politicians treated as a cause worth defending.

Seven more members of that cell faced the music this week before U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor — two federal judges, by the way, who are now reportedly receiving threats from Antifa’s allies for having the audacity to enforce the law. Let that sink in. The left is threatening federal judges for sentencing convicted terrorists. And the silence from Democratic leadership is deafening.

The sentences handed down ranged from 22 months for those who cooperated fully with prosecutors to 50 years for Ines Soto, the defendant who refused a plea deal and forced the court’s hand. The others — Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Rebecca Morgan, Lynette Sharp, Seth Sikes, and John Thomas — received sentences ranging from 22 months to 15 years each after accepting plea agreements.

Independent journalist Andy Ngo, who has spent years documenting Antifa’s violence while legacy media outlets dismissed him and covered for the group, broke the news of the sentencing and provided the courtroom details that mainstream outlets couldn’t be bothered to report. Once again, it took one relentless independent journalist to tell the American people what was actually happening — because the corporate press was too busy running interference for the movement:

Remember how Texas Antifa terrorists were sentenced to 450 years in federal prison? It’s not over yet. More were sentenced today. There was crying in court. One of the convicts even tried to k*ll herself before sentencing.

Read my Ngo Comment report:https://t.co/uSnRqGMzXPpic.twitter.com/S4ofZNbPBa

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo)July 1, 2026

Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody.

U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week’s 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group’s first batch of trial defendants.

With the exception of Ines Soto, all of Wednesday’s defendants had accepted plea agreements before trial.

Another defendant, Susan Kent, had her sentencing rescheduled to next week. Ngo reported that defendant Rebecca Morgan tried to harm or kill herself prior to sentencing, but no additional records were available. Of the 16 defendants, at least a quarter identify as trans, but they are all being housed in a facility matching their biological sex.

Here’s what the left doesn’t want you to focus on: these weren’t misguided kids who got caught up in a moment of passion. This was an organized terror cell. They planned an ambush on a federal law enforcement facility. They shot a federal officer. And for a long time, they believed — reasonably, based on years of experience — that the justice system would look the other way. Blue city prosecutors. Sympathetic judges. Charges dropped. Wrists slapped.

The message being sent from that Fort Worth courtroom is one that should have been sent years ago: if you wage war on law enforcement officers, attack federal facilities, and terrorize communities in the name of radical left-wing ideology, the full weight of the American justice system will come down on you. Hard. And no amount of crying in court will change that.

The next batch of Antifa terrorists is watching. They should be very, very worried.

Someone Inside Newsom’s World Was Wearing an FBI Wire — And People Are Terrified

The walls are closing in on Gavin Newsom’s political empire, and this time it isn’t a Republican attack ad or a conservative media narrative. It’s a federal wiretap. And the person wearing it was someone Newsom’s inner circle trusted completely.

We now know that Alexis Podesta — Sacramento insider, Democratic operative, former aide to Dianne Feinstein, appointee of Gavin Newsom himself — was fitted with an FBI wire as far back as June 2024. She was recording conversations with Dana Williamson, Newsom’s former chief of staff, who now stands indicted on dozens of felony corruption charges.

Williamson stands accused of diverting about $225,000 in funds from then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra’s dormant campaign account. Named as co-conspirator 2 in the indictment, Podesta had taken over Williamson’s book of business, including the Becerra account, when Williamson went to work for Newsom. But she was never charged. Why? Now we know.

As Williamson’s own attorney put it with brutal simplicity: “Alexis wore a wire, and Dana did not.”

While Gavin Newsom was busy positioning himself as the future of the Democratic Party — flying around the country, doing media hits, auditioning for a 2028 presidential run — the FBI had a cooperating witness wired up inside his own operation. The same operation he built. The same people he trusted. The same Sacramento machine he’s been running for years.

This isn’t a fishing expedition. This isn’t a political hit job dreamed up by Republicans. This is the federal government methodically working its way through the rot at the heart of California’s Democratic establishment — and they’ve been doing it quietly, patiently, and very, very effectively.

The details that have emerged are damning. Williamson allegedly fed Podesta — who was already cooperating with the FBI — sensitive inside information about an ongoing state lawsuit against Activision. She then lied to federal investigators about it. She also apparently orchestrated a settlement in that case and had the state’s own Chief Counsel fired when that attorney had the audacity to object to Newsom’s interference. This isn’t bureaucratic bungling. This is a sitting governor’s office allegedly manipulating state legal proceedings for political and financial benefit.

And then there’s the broader picture that should make every California taxpayer furious. Podesta, Williamson, and their entire network didn’t build this operation overnight. These women go back to PG&E — yes, that PG&E, the utility company that sparked the wildfires that killed Californians and burned entire towns to the ground. They worked together there before cycling through Jerry Brown’s administration and eventually landing in Newsom’s orbit. This is how California’s Democratic machine actually works: the same insiders rotating through government agencies, utility companies, and campaign operations, enriching each other and covering each other’s tracks, decade after decade.

And now the FBI has been listening.For over a year:

The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.

Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney.

The revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024 explains why a swath of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls had been intercepted during the investigation — despite many having little or no connection to Williamson.

The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife — whose nonprofit has been burning through money in recent years — as well as members of the governor’s inner circle are under federal investigation.

The reach of this investigation is already sending shockwaves through Sacramento. Multiple lobbyists and officeholders — from both parties — received letters from the FBI informing them that their communications may have been intercepted during the probe. Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover described it plainly: the FBI cast a very wide net across the Capitol community to see what they could find.

That net is still in the water. And there are a lot of very nervous people in Sacramento tonight who have very good reasons to be nervous.

Newsom, meanwhile, is still out there campaigning for a job he hasn’t earned in a state he’s run into the ground. But while he’s busy making speeches and cutting ads, federal investigators are piecing together a picture of his administration that no amount of media management is going to be able to spin away. You can’t spin a wiretap. You can’t charm your way out of a transcript. And you can’t fire the FBI’s Chief Counsel when they get too close to the truth.

The only question left is how far up the chain this goes — and whether Gavin Newsom has already retained the lawyers it sounds like he and his ‘first partner’ will need.

The Graham Platner Nightmare For Dems Just Got A Lot Worse

Graham Platner is running out of time, running out of excuses, and now — running out of luck. Because the same woman who helped blow up Eric Swalwell’s congressional career has entered the chat, and she didn’t show up to make friends.

Cheyenne Hunt — attorney, progressive influencer, and the key figure behind the sexual harassment revelations that sent Swalwell packing from Congress in disgrace — is now working with multiple women who had personal relationships with Platner. Her organization, Reckoning Action, is providing pro bono legal counsel. She’s helping these women navigate press attention. And if her track record with Swalwell is any indication, she’s not doing any of this because she expects nothing to come of it.

Let’s back up and take stock of what Graham Platner — Bernie Sanders’ handpicked candidate to unseat Susan Collins in Maine — is already dragging into this race. There’s the Nazi tattoo. The sexting scandal. The domestic abuse allegations from a former girlfriend. The New York Times story that, according to widespread reporting, was already a watered-down version of what the paper actually had — because Platner’s legal team apparently got to the Times in the 24-hour window before publication and strangled the more explosive details before they could see daylight.

That last part deserves to be repeated loudly and often: a Democratic Senate candidate’s legal team is credibly accused of running an active suppression operation against women trying to tell their stories to the press. The same media that spent years lecturing America about believing women, about the sacred importance of speaking truth to power, about holding powerful men accountable — has been largely silent about a Democratic candidate allegedly using campaign resources to keep accusers quiet.

Here's how to read between the lines. This is a "process piece." There are allegations out against Graham Platner. Ones you haven't heard about yet. At least some of these allegations have gone to the press, but have not been published yet. The women have legal representation.pic.twitter.com/dMg57kSNcl

— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay)July 2, 2026

This is what is essentially undeniable. Graham Platner and his team are using campaign resources to suppress these stories. There are multiple allegations of violence against women & Graham Platner's legal team is likely working to strangle the stories.

— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay)July 2, 2026

But the polls are turning. Susan Collins just took a three-point lead for the first time. Even a separate poll that still showed Platner slightly ahead contained what Politico described as massive warning signs — a majority of voters saying his controversies have either shaken their support or cost him it entirely. Collins is pulling ten percent of voters who actually want Democrats to win the Senate back. Read that again. People who want a Democratic majority are still choosing Collins over Platner. That’s not a polling blip. That’s a candidate in freefall.

And now Hunt is involved. Which means there are almost certainly additional allegations that haven’t been published yet. That’s not speculation — that’s exactly what Hunt’s involvement signals. She doesn’t organize pro bono legal teams for women with nothing to say. She doesn’t insert herself into a Senate race in the final weeks of the campaign as a hobby. There are stories out there. They’re with the press. Platner’s lawyers are working overtime to kill them.

Here’s the critical detail everyone needs to understand: July 14th is the last day Platner can legally withdraw from the race and allow Maine Democrats to replace him on the ballot. After that date, whatever comes out — and based on everything swirling around this race, something is coming — Maine Democrats will be stuck with him. No substitutions. No do-overs. Just a deeply compromised candidate limping toward November with whatever new bombshells land on top of the ones already burying him.

The Democrats made their bed with Graham Platner. They saw the warning signs, ignored them, and bet the Senate on a candidate with a Nazi tattoo and a legal team busy silencing women. Now Cheyenne Hunt has shown up, and the clock is ticking toward a deadline that can’t be extended.

On Message: GOP’s Campaign Arm Is Hitting Democrats Where It Will Hurt Most

Democrats are…well, a mess. Their party is in the midst of a civil war pitting old school liberals and moderates against the surging left-wing craziness of the ‘democratic socialists.’ But beyond that, the party’s priorities are decidedly anti-American and anti-working class. All of them sought to raise everyone’s taxes by voting against making President Trump’s first-term tax cuts permanent. That tax cut package also included no taxes on tips or overtime.

Trump signed that bill into law almost one year ago – July 4, 2025. And the vast majority of American workers have been able to keep more of their hard-earned money as a result.

In April, millions of Americans filed their taxes and discovered that refunds had increased by 11 percent, with the average refund exceeding $3,400. This includes 25 million taxpayers who took advantage of the No Tax on Overtime provision, six million who benefited from the No Tax on Tips, and 27 million who claimed the No Tax on Social Security.

Additionally, 12 million small business owners experienced an average tax reduction of $7,000. Families with children born between 2028 and 2028 are also eligible for $1,000 government contributions to Trump Accounts, which will help their children start off on solid financial footing.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said at the time that it was proof that Republicans’ “pro-growth, pro-worker policies deliver.”

Did I mention that every House Democrat voted against the tax cuts? I think I did. Now, a year later, the NRCC is rolling out a campaign to remind everyone of that fact:

“One year ago today, President Trump and Republicans passed big tax cuts for working families,” the ad says. “There’s more to do, but the real question, whose plan works better for you?”

“Republicans lowered taxes on the working class, stopped welfare for illegals, more jobs for Americans,” the ad continues. “But Democrats want to take it all away. Their plan? You pay thousands more. Inflation, higher gas prices, open borders. The choice is clear: Republicans keep fighting to lower our costs.”

The ad is spot-on. Democrats do want to repeal the Working Families Tax Cuts.

Arizona congressional candidate Amish Shah has called the Working Families Tax cuts “abominable” and called for their “wholesale repeal.”

Wholesale repeal. That would literally mean a massive tax increase. Like Trump or not, I’m betting most Americans aren’t fans of that.

“One year later, the contrast for America couldn’t be clearer,” said NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella. “Republicans put more money back in Americans’ pockets with bigger refunds, lower costs, and historic tax relief. Democrats voted to raise taxes on working families after fueling historic inflation, and they’d do it again if they get the chance.”