THERE MAY BE NO GREATER THREAT
TO AMERICA THAN AS PERPETRATED
BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN AND NARCOMEX!
JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGES AMERICA'S ENERGY LIKE HE DOES AMERICA'S BORDER WITH NARCOMEX.
Frontpage Editorial: Defund UCLA
"No one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies."
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Earlier this month, Joseph H. Manson, a respected anthropologist and the former winner of a Leakey Foundation Research Grant, announced that he was walking away from his tenured position at the university after what he described as the “woke capture” of the institution.
After writing about the ruthless political persecution of P. Jeffrey Brantingham, a fellow anthropology department academic who was canceled for studying crime patterns, he also listed other purged UCLA faculty.
"Emeritus Professor Val Rust (Graduate School of Education) was banned from campus after incurring the wrath of graduate student adherents of Critical Race Theory. Researcher James Enstrom (Environmental Health Sciences) and lecturer Keith Fink (Communication Studies) were fired from dissenting from the woke orthodoxy. Gordon Klein, after being suspended by UCLA’s business school in Spring 2020 for refusing to use race-based grading criteria, mobilized mass support and legal assistance, was reinstated, and is now suing the university."
Klein came under such sustained attack that he had to be placed under armed guard.
The academic documented campus antisemitism including a talk by bigoted antisemite Rabab Abdulhadi, who had falsely accused a Jewish student of "white supremacy" for supporting Israel resulting in a complaint filed with the Department of Education. UCLA has been the subject of complaints over antisemitism by StandWithUs, the Zachor Legal Institute and others.
UCLA anti-Israel activists, as documented by the civil rights group Canary Mission, have boasted that they're members of terrorist groups, supported terrorism and called for the murder of Jews without any action being taken by the university.
Leftist hate and violence at UCLA has not only been directed at Jews and pro-Israel students.
Manson’s principled resignation comes after Johnathan Perkins, the director for Race and Equity at the University of California-Los Angeles, recently tweeted, "No one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies."
Unlike the academics targeted by leftist campus lynch mobs, Perkins faced no consequences.
Despite UCLA's growing extremism, its core budget in past years was funded at as much as a third by California taxpayers. In 2015, UCLA received $440 million from the state. And the nation's taxpayers, through the federal government, provide a majority of its research grants amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars more in money flowing through the system.
As a public university, UCLA is a non-profit under 501(c)(3) even though it has long ceased to function as a non-partisan institution and has become an aggressive leftist political machine.
UCLA spends over $1 million on political lobbyists.
Its personnel rank as 47 out of 25,950 in political funding and have provided almost $1 million to the DNC, $400,947 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, $181,468 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $151,650 to the House Majority PAC in the 2022 cycle alone. Even though Senator Raphael Warnock, a racist Georgia politician, is on the other side of the country, UCLA's leftists still poured $124,881 into his campaign.
In 2020, UCLA personnel funded Biden to the tune of almost $4 million and nearly another million to Bernie Sanders, along with millions more to various leftist election PACs.
UCLA is no longer a serious academic institution. Its “woke” faculty are purging credible academic figures like Joseph H. Manson and others, while cultivating an atmosphere of hatred on campus and using a taxpayer-funded institution for political and anti-American activity.
It’s time for the IRS to pull UCLA’s non-profit status.
With a $5.1 billion endowment, there’s no reason for taxpayers to fund UCLA either directly or indirectly. If UCLA wants to drive out serious academics while promoting radical discourse, it should do this with its own money and if it wants to function as an arm of the Democrats, it should not enjoy non-profit status while interfering in and subverting our political system.
While the IRS has targeted conservative non-profits, it has continued to allow leftist non-profits, including UCLA to operate without oversight or accountability. Department of Education investigations have failed to clean up UCLA, lifting its non-profit status is the nuclear option.
California and this country deserve great public universities. UCLA and its institutions can no longer claim to be serving any such function. By lifting UCLA’s non-profit status, donors may be redirected to contribute to emerging institutions like the University of Austin that are dedicated to serious academic inquiry and honor free speech: values that UCLA no longer believes in.
Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed
Eliminating the crime doesn’t eliminate the consequences.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Last year, Squad members and leftist Democrats introduced the Drug Policy Reform Act which would decriminalize drugs at a federal level. The Act falsely claims that the drug war led to "the deaths of countless black and brown people".
Rep. Cori Bush contended that ending "criminal penalties for drug possession at the federal level" would help "repair harm in black and brown communities".
But even without a federal law, drug decriminalization has swept the country.
While 38 states decriminalized marijuana, that's just the first step. Oregon decriminalized heroin and cocaine even though the state has the second-highest substance abuse rate. Last year, drug overdose deaths in the state rose 41% compared to 16%nationwide.
Despite that, New York, Washington and a number of other states are considering also decriminalizing “personal possession” of small amounts of drugs. Beyond legislative and proposition decriminalization, numerous jurisdictions dropped prosecutions, lightened existing laws, and rolled back street level enforcement creating urban drug overdose paradises.
Over 1,300 people died from drug overdoses in San Francisco in the last two years on pro-crime DA Chesa Boudin’s watch. "The days of giving dealers a free pass to flood the streets with fentanyl are over," DA Brooke Jenkins, the black female replacement for the white leftist pro-crime activist, promised. “We cannot allow our residents to die on the street of overdose."
Supporters promoted Oregon’s drug decriminalization as a way to “dismantle systemic racism.”
Oregon's Secretary of State and the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission claimed that racial disparities would be almost entirely eliminated by drug decriminalization.
But racial disparities in drug convictions were caused by disparities in drug use. And while you can eliminate disparities in sentencing by eliminating the crime, you can’t eliminate the real world consequences.
That’s what the latest CDC report shows.
Drug overdose deaths shot up 44% among black people nationwide.
The number of black overdose deaths rose from 5,452 in 2019 to 7,467 in 2020 leading to over 2,000 extra black deaths.
Among young black men, 15 to 24, the demographic that Democrat and some Republican politicians had particularly taken care to protect from the impact of the so-called "prison pipeline" through drug decriminalization, overdoses skyrocketed 92%. Among black people 25-44, drug overdoses climbed 55% and even among black people in their sixties, overdoses were up 44%.
2020, the year of the Black Lives Matter race riots, proved particularly deadly to black people due to the black nationalist hate group’s insistence on dismantling the criminal justice system.
The number of black people murdered in 2020 rose 62% as the culture of lawlessness unleashed by police defunding, prison releases, court shutdowns and general decriminalization claimed the lives of 5,839 black people.
That was an increase of 2,244 black deaths in one year.
Combined with the over 2,000 extra overdose black deaths, that’s 4,259 added black deaths due to criminal activity in the year when black lives were supposed to finally “matter”.
While black nationalists and their leftist allies falsely accused law enforcement of committing "genocide", the culture of criminality that they unleashed was so horrifying that a Johns Hopkins report on gun deaths in 2020 found that “In 2020, one out of every 1,000 young Black males (15–34) was shot and killed.” It noted that, “More than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence.”
The over 13,000 total black deaths from criminal activity in 2020 and, in particular the catastrophic increases in criminal deaths among young black men, look a lot more like a genocide, but it’s a self-inflicted genocide enabled by white wokes who claim to want to save black people from a fictious “systemic racism” while causing thousands of black deaths.
The CDC’s drug overdose death report shows that drug decriminalization proved to be as deadly to black people as the rest of the leftist and black nationalist agenda. In the face of these numbers, the media and pro-crime activists claim that the real problem is the lack of treatment.
But the CDC's own report notes that "among black persons, the drug overdose rate during 2020 in areas with the highest mental health provider availability (46.7) was more than 2.5 times as high as the rate in areas with the lowest rate of providers."
Drug overdoses increased across the board in 2020, but the highest impact was on those who were the most vulnerable, not because of false constructs like “systemic racism”, but a history of addiction. The populations most likely to use drugs were most affected by drug overdoses.
That included not only black people, but American Indians as well who also have high abuse rates.
Back in Oregon, black people were twice as likely to die of drug overdoses than white people. Decriminalizing drugs hadn’t defeated systemic racism, it led to more black deaths.
None of this is a surprise.
Pro-crime leftists accuse President Nixon of racism over the drug war, but he was frantically trying to win black votes. It was former Rep. Charles Rangel who had urged Nixon to go to war on drugs. “Public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive,” he had argued.
In 1973, 71% of African-Americans in New York wanted drug dealers to be sentenced to life in prison without parole while some civil rights ministers and black intellectuals were calling for the death penalty for the men who were destroying black communities.
"Those of us who fight for our children's lives know what we have to do," Orde Coombs, a contributing editor to New York Magazine wrote. "We must walk through our Harlems and find the black pushers and kill them in their burgundy jump suits."
His was not a lone view.
The only thing surprising about what happened in 2020 was that anyone was surprised by it.
The drug war, like the war on crime, was not the invention of white racists, but black community leaders who were seeing their neighborhoods devastated by drugs and drug dealers. Black nationalists advocated against any kind of law enforcement, not because they cared about black lives, but out of a separatist agenda aimed at dismantling the country and its institutions. Leftists joined the campaign to take apart the criminal justice system out of the same overriding goal.
13,000 black deaths in one year are a small price to pay for the destruction of America.
Decriminalizing drugs, like decriminalizing all crime, has nothing to do with helping black people. Short of bringing back slavery, it’s hard to think of a single policy more likely to quickly destroy black neighborhoods and kill black people. Pro-crime activists claim that they want to save black people from racial inequity, when they are the single greatest force driving racial inequity.
Thousands of dead black people are the Left’s latest achievement in anti-racism and equity. From Planned Parenthood to pro-crime, the only thing leftists really help black people do is die.
Left-Wing Activists Tried To Cancel This Pro-Life Doctor. They Failed.
Dr. Kristin Collier delivers remarks at white coat ceremony in face of vocal resistance
Left-wing students at the University of Michigan Medical School on Sunday failed to block a pro-life physician from delivering a commencement address.
More than 300 students, alumni, and physicians, had petitioned to bar University of Michigan Medical School professor Dr. Kristin Collier from giving the keynote address at the school's annual white coat ceremony. Some students walked out when she took the stage, and others hung a banner from the auditorium's balcony that read: "Bans Off Our Bodies. Abortion Rights Now." No one interrupted. But other students defended Collier, and Dean Marschall Runge made it clear that the school "would not revoke a speaker because they have different personal ideas than others."
"The White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of controversial issues, and Dr. Collier never planned to address a divisive topic as part of her remarks," Dr. Runge wrote in the email, a copy of which was shared by Princeton professor Robert George on his blog. "Our values speak about honoring the critical importance of diversity of personal thought and ideas, which is foundational to academic freedom and excellence."
University administrators' defense of free speech has become increasingly rare, as professors have lost their jobs or been removed from courses for voicing controversial opinions. Princeton University fired tenured classics professor Joshua Katz in May because he had failed to exercise his free speech "responsibly" on campus, the Washington Free Beacon reported. In November, faculty and students at the University of Michigan ousted a music professor from a course after he screened a film deemed racially insensitive. The university’s policy affirms a "deep commitment to freedom of speech and artistic expression."
The effort to cancel Collier surprised colleagues and former students. A well-respected professor who has published peer-reviewed articles in some of the nation’s most prestigious medical journals, Collier had been chosen by a student honors society to deliver the speech. A faculty member since 2005, she had until four years ago been "a pro-choice atheist," and credits her change in views to open debate. Dr. William Chavey, a professor of family medicine who has taught for 25 years at the medical school, told the Free Beacon the petition to stop Collier from giving the speech "did not reflect who she is."
"I suspect that the people who signed it don’t know Dr. Collier," Chavey said. "She’s obviously been valued for her clinical skills, her educational skills, and her scholarship. To criticize or demean her for her opinion is narrow minded and inappropriate."
The petition, which was sent to the entire student body by Medical Students For Choice (MSFC), said Collier had made remarks on social media and in interviews that were "antithetical to the tenets of reproductive justice." Having "an anti-choice speaker," they said, would violate the university’s stance on abortion.
The signatories argued that allowing Collier to speak would also perpetuate "a pattern of disregarding an[d] actively silencing the voice of students and members of our community." They went on to link her with a list of perceived institutional injustices, including "the expansion of [the university's] police force in the 1990s" and "delayed reporting of a child pornography scandal at UM Hospital under the past and interim President Mary Sue Coleman."
In an email responding to the student-led petition, Chavey noted the university’s stated commitment to "diversity" should have precluded "canceling Dr. Collier’s talk for her beliefs about abortion."
"Dr. Collier’s views, described by MSFC as fringe, are shared by roughly half of the population," Chavey wrote in a letter to the dean. "Current and entering medical students will encounter many patients and have numerous colleagues with whom they may disagree over this topic. They cannot all be canceled."
A separate group of medical students argued for keeping Collier as speaker, a move they said would "reinforce the Medical School’s commitment to DEI, rather than compromise its commitment to reproductive health."
"We see no indication that Dr. Collier’s personal views on abortion have compromised her care of patients or her teaching of trainees," the students wrote in a letter to Runge and the student council, a copy of which was shared with the Free Beacon. The students further cited studies showing that, while not a majority-held opinion, a significant minority of OBGYNs have denied patients abortifacients because of "personal, religious, or moral beliefs against abortion."
Around 50 percent of students who signed the petition promised to not attend if Collier was permitted to speak. It is unlikely they kept their word, given the size of the crowd. The signees hid their names from the public.
Court Overrules School District That Banned Father Who Exposed Obscene Library Books
A federal judge on Wednesday overruled a Maine school district that banned a parent from school property after he exposed library books promoting transgenderism and pornography.
The U.S. District Court for Maine issued a temporary restraining order allowing Shawn McBreairty back on school property after the father filed a lawsuit claiming the ban violated his constitutional rights. The court ruled that the First Amendment protects McBreairty's comments at board meetings, where he has spoken out against sexualized school library books. The court also determined that the school board selectively applied its speech policy, which prohibits "vulgarity," against McBreairty.
"Here, it is hard to shake the sense that the School Board is restricting the speech because the Board disagrees with both Mr. McBreairty’s opinions and the unpleasantness that accompanies them," wrote District Judge Nancy Torresen.
The school district's criminal trespass notice against McBreairty is just the latest example of a school board attempting to silence parents who speak out against controversial sex and gender curricula. The National School Boards Association, which represents more than 90,000 school board members, called on the FBI last year to investigate parents who spoke out against sexualized lesson plans as potential domestic terrorists. In April, a board chair barred a Georgia mother from school board meetings after she protested sexually explicit books at her son's middle school. Virginia's Prince William County School Board issued a rule limiting public comment, which parents said was an attempt to stifle debate around controversial issues.
The Hampden, Maine, school district had barred McBreairty from all virtual and in-person school gatherings, the Free Beacon reported last week. The criminal trespass notice came after McBreairty spoke out at board meetings against school library books that focus on transgenderism, including The Other Boy, the story of a 12-year-old who tries to conceal that he is transgender when his family moves to a new town, and All Boys Aren't Blue, which has been removed from libraries in at least eight states for concerns about "sexually graphic material."
Marc Randazza, the First Amendment lawyer who represents McBreairty, said that while the Maine father can return to school board meetings, other parents could still run afoul of the school board's vague speech policies, which prohibit "vulgarity," "gossip," and "irrelevance." The judge ruled McBreairty's remarks were not obscenities, as they made a "political or philosophical" point, meaning the ban against him was "unreasonable." Randazza said a court should rule that the speech policy is unconstitutional.
"There's a policy against criticizing any school employees or officials," Randazza said. "Now you can go there and say nice things about him, but you can't criticize him. Tell me how in the heck that passes the First Amendment muster."
Randazza cited a similar case where residents sued the Pennsbury School District in Pennsylvania for violating their First Amendment rights and settled for $300,000. McBreairty said he hopes parents across the country will continue to speak out against sexualized curricula.
"I'm trying to be the tip of the sword for people in Maine because cancel culture is so venomous here," McBreairty told the Free Beacon. "It's time that students, parents, taxpayers, and teachers start to find their own voice."
The lawyer representing the school board, Allison Economy, did not respond to a request for comment. The school district, Regional School Unit 22, did not respond to a request for comment.
The State Department Used Your Tax Dollars To Fund a Film Festival That Depicted Drag Queens, Incest, and Pedophilia
The State Department helped fund a film festival in September that featured movies depicting drag queens, incest, and pedophilia, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Queer Lisboa, an international queer film festival held in Portugal, was given $10,000 as part of the Biden administration's push to "support LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility efforts" abroad, according to a State Department spokeswoman. The festival's offerings included P.S. Burn This Letter Please, a documentary about drag culture in post-war New York City, Saint-Narcisse, a film about incestuous twins, and Minyan, a movie about a 17-year-old Jewish boy who leaves his parents to explore New York City’s gay scene and eventually has sex with an adult bartender.
The event was one of several bankrolled by taxpayers to promote LGBT acceptance abroad. In the last year, the State Department funded the "first gender and sexuality library in Lebanon," provided diversity and inclusion consulting to Latin American police forces, and hosted a transgender recognition webinar in Norway, according to an interagency report. The department said locals sometimes pushed back against LGBT promotion, perceiving it as "Western," "imported," or "against cultural or religious values."
The festival also screened a biopic of Harvey Milk, the United States’ first openly gay elected official. Milk, a city official in San Francisco during the 1950s, once dated a 16-year-old boy while Milk was in his 30s. He also tried to get another teenage boy to run away from home to live with him, according to a biography of the politician.
Top officials at the U.S. Embassy in Portugal launched the event as part of the State Department's effort to implement President Joe Biden’s "Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World." The head of the embassy expressed gratitude and said she was "very happy" to support the festival as part of its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
A spokeswoman for the State Department told the Free Beacon their grant also paid for high-profile director and Democratic donor Gus Van Sant to speak at the event and facilitated travel to the luxurious island chain on which it was held. In its initial communication, the department declined to provide a dollar amount for the festival grant.
This GOP Primary Challenger Detests ‘America’s Crime Epidemic.’ His Top Consultant Robbed a Subway.
Trump-backed campaign is run by ex-con who escaped jail time for felony robbery
A GOP congressional primary challenger in Michigan says he detests "America's crime epidemic." His top consultant was convicted of robbing a Subway restaurant years after receiving a felony cocaine charge.
John Gibbs, who is challenging Rep. Peter Meijer (R., Mich.), since December has paid Cool Strategies LLC more than $20,000 for "campaign management," according to campaign finance disclosures. The firm is registered to Florida native Daniel Cool, who in 2014 was convicted of second-degree felony robbery after he held up a local Subway in Orlando, court records show. While robbing the sandwich chain, Cool placed his hand under his shirt to act as if he had a gun and told a clerk to "give me all the money that you have," the Orlando Sentinel reported. Cool then fled the scene in a convertible Chrysler Sebring.
Gibbs's decision to employ Cool is at odds with his campaign rhetoric. The Republican has railed against "America's crime epidemic" and criticized prosecutors who "refuse to put violent criminals behind bars where they can't hurt innocent Americans." Cool may be familiar with that issue—he did not go to prison for his crime, despite multiple prior arrests.
After an initial not guilty plea, Cool pleaded no-contest and later received an adjudication of guilt from the Florida judge handling the case. As part of his plea deal, Cool was sentenced in January 2014 to just five years probation. His probation was terminated early in March 2018, roughly a decade after Cool was arrested for felony cocaine possession. The Gibbs campaign consultant also saw his driver's license suspended in 2008 after he was charged with fleeing the scene of an accident with property damage. Court records show that Cool moved to Michigan by May 2017, while he was still on probation. He began his work for the Gibbs campaign in the Great Lakes State roughly four years later.
Gibbs told the Washington Free Beacon he is "aware" of Cool's criminal past but stood by the operative, saying he looks forward to Cool "continuing to play an important role in defeating Peter Meijer on August 2 and Hillary Scholten in November."
"I've worked with Dan in a close capacity for the entirety of my campaign and can vouch for his character as a Christian, a family man, and a hard-working member of my staff," Gibbs said. "I was aware that Dan made a mistake during a difficult time in his life. And he has served his time and paid the price."
Cool did not serve time for his robbery.
Cool has appeared at high-profile events with the Gibbs campaign as part of his consulting role. In February, Cool posted a photo alongside Dr. Ben Carson, who has endorsed Gibbs, at a campaign event. Two months later, Cool attended another Gibbs event with Carson and former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Cool also helped recruit volunteers to walk with the Gibbs campaign in a Fourth of July parade.
Prior to his congressional run, Gibbs served in Trump's Department of Housing and Urban Development. He landed Trump's endorsement in November, with the former president saying he decided to back Gibbs in part because of Gibbs's affinity for law enforcement.
Meijer, meanwhile, joined Congress in 2021 after defeating Democratic attorney Hillary Scholten by 6 points. He has raised $2 million to Gibbs's $340,000. The two Republicans will square off during Michigan's August 2 primary, with the winner moving on to face Scholten—who is running unopposed in her primary—in November.
Tax-Hiking Dem Under Fire for Unpaid Taxes
Swing-district candidate Greg Landsman owes thousands in federal loans
The state of Ohio is going after a tax-happy Democratic candidate for unpaid business taxes, according to court documents.
The state in March filed a tax lien against Greg Landsman, a Cincinnati councilman and Democratic candidate for a competitive House race, ordering him to pay interest on unpaid taxes he owes through his firm Landsman & Associates. But while Landsman struggles with tax delinquency, he voted over a four-year span on the Cincinnati City Council to raise taxes and fees at least eight times—even as he acknowledged that Ohio families were "struggling" with taxes.
The state taxes are not the only debt Landsman owes the government. His business in 2020 received a $16,647 Paycheck Protection Program loan that has not been paid or forgiven. The firm is owned entirely by Landsman and listed only one employee on its loan application. The loan went entirely to payroll, according to data provided by the Small Business Administration.
Landsman helped pass seven tax and fee increases in June 2018 alone, even though he acknowledged at the time that "the average homeowner is really struggling with their property taxes." The city councilman voted five months earlier to hike property taxes for city residents, citing the city's multimillion-dollar budget shortfalls. Landsman's Republican colleagues warned against the tax hike, which brought in $7 million for the city.
"We can't ask working-class families to keep footing the bill. They can't afford it," Councilman Jeff Pastor (R.) told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Dan Lusheck, a spokesman for the Ohio GOP, said Landsman's financial malfeasance would make him a perfect fit with Democrats in Washington, D.C.
"Greg Landsman, who has proven incapable of managing his own finances, would only perpetuate the economic disaster caused by Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden's inability to govern," Lusheck told the Washington Free Beacon.
As Democrats confront an unfavorable midterm election cycle, Landsman's history of left-wing proposals could be a liability for his campaign to win Ohio's First Congressional District. After national Democrats tapped the city councilman last year to challenge Rep. Steve Chabot (R.), Landsman has faced criticism over his proposals to eliminate cash bail and defund the city's police department budget in the wake of George Floyd's death. The Democrat's proposals came amid a surge of violent crime in the city.
The tax lien against Landsman & Associates is for $656 with an interest rate of 3 percent. Landsman's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed Ohio's First Congressional District as a top target in the midterms. Landsman, who ran uncontested in the state's May primary election, will face off against Chabot in November.
Arizona Dem: If You Marry a White Guy, You Ain’t Latina
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) accused Tanya Contreras Wheeless, a Hispanic woman running for Congress in Arizona’s fourth district as a Republican, of not being authentically Latina because she took her husband’s last name.
Gallego suggested that Wheeless deliberately "hid" her Hispanic identity before running for office to avoid discrimination. "If you were Latino in Arizona around 2010 people were telling us to go back to Mexico," he said, "you would hear I am not voting for a ‘spic.’"
"Tanya is Latina," Gallego tweeted, "cuando le conviene," meaning, "when it suits her."
Following Republican Mayra Flores's upset victory this year in Texas's 34th Congressional District, which had traditionally been a Democratic stronghold, liberal pundits have smeared conservative Latinas. CNN said the conservative Hispanic women running for Congress were "not the ‘real deal,’" whereas the New York Times referred to the "Rise of the Far-Right Latina."
Democrats have sought to mend their faltering ties with the Latino community ahead of the 2022 election. Some of those gestures have fallen flat. First Lady Jill Biden, for instance, received backlash for suggesting that Hispanics are "as unique as … breakfast tacos" at a Latinx IncluXion Luncheon in San Antonio.
Wheeless hit back at Gallego in a statement by pointing out that "many women change their name when they get married, but that doesn’t change who they are or where they came from." She called the jab "sexist and racist" and bemoaned how common attacks like Gallego’s have become.
Gallego’s ex-wife Kate Gallego, formerly Kate Widland, kept the influential congressman's last name following their divorce in 2017 and subsequently was elected mayor of Phoenix. She is the daughter of white Jewish attorneys from Chicago.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that President Joe Biden takes 'pills' to boost his cognitive performance before public appearances.
Biden, 79, has strenuously rejected similar allegations in the past, but Carlson claimed on his Friday evening show that he had spoken 'directly' to a witness who saw the alleged medication on the 2020 campaign trail.
'His staff, supervised by Dr. Jill, his wife, was giving him pills before every public appearance. Checking the time, and at the certain hour giving him a dose of something,' said Carlson.
'Before taking the medications, this person said Biden was 'Like a small child.' You could not communicate with him, he changed completely because he was on drugs and he clearly still is on drugs,' the pundit alleged.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson (above) has claimed that President Joe Biden takes 'pills' to boost his cognitive performance before public appearances
Biden is seen on the campaign trail in Iowa in 2019. He has strenuously denied claims that he takes any cognitive boosters, and his medical report lists no such drugs
Carlson's unproven allegation came during a lengthy monologue in which he argued that Biden is 'incapacitated' and suffering from 'dementia.'
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com late on Friday.
According to the latest report from his White House doctor, Biden takes prescription medication for an irregular heartbeat, high cholesterol, and seasonal allergies.
None of those medications are considered cognitive enhancers.
White House Physician Kevin C. O'Connor did not mention any cognitive issues in the November report, and wrote that Biden 'is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.'
Nevertheless, Biden has a lifelong history of verbal gaffes, and as he approaches 80, even some Democratic strategists have begun to question whether he should seek re-election.
If re-elected, Biden would be 86 at the end of his second term.
Carlson, a fierce critic of the Biden administration, is not the only Republican to accuse Biden of using cognitive enhancing drugs.
During the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly leveled the claim, without evidence, that Biden is on drugs, saying in one in interview: 'that's what I hear.'
'It is probably, possibly drugs involved. That's what I hear,' Trump said in September 2020, weeks before Biden won the presidential election.
'I mean there's possibly drugs. I don't know how you can go from being so bad where you can't even get out a sentence,' Trump continued, accusing Biden of weak performance on the debate stage.
Carlson claimed that the First Lady supervised Biden's medication, though he may have been making a mocking reference to her use of the Dr. prefix, which refers to her Ed.D degree
Trump, who also accused Biden of taking drugs, once repeated the words 'person, woman, man, camera, TV' several times as a demonstration of his mental acuity
In the 2020 primary campaign, Biden managed to prevail over a crowded Democratic field.
He stumbled in some debates, but many critics wrote that he improved as the debates wore on. His rivals ended up endorsing him en masse after they were defeated.
Trump, now 76, also faced questions about his mental fitness on the 2020 campaign trail.
In one memorable television interview, he repeated the words 'person, woman, man, camera, TV' several times as a demonstration of his mental acuity.
Carlson's allegation about Biden's fitness comes as the president takes a four-day tour of the Middle East, with stops in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The trip was originally meant to be rolled in with a visit to Europe last month, but the New York Times reported that aides worried the resulting 10-day schedule would be taxing for Biden -- or 'crazy,' as one official told the outlet.
Biden is seen on Friday laughing at a question from a DailyMail.com reporter, who asked him about his fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince MBS. White House insiders say Biden remains 'intellectually engaged' but they also 'quietly watch out for him'
Biden recently fell off his bike during a ride near his beach house in Delaware and then hopped around in an effort to prove he wasn't injured in the accident
Staffers told the Times they find themselves holding their breath during Biden's speaking engagements to see if he makes it to the end without a blunder.
His presidency has seen several gaffes during events, including a recent one when he appeared to read speaking instructions off of his teleprompter.
Last month, he fell off his bike during a ride near his beach house in Delaware and then hopped around in an effort to prove he wasn't injured in the accident.
The Times reported that staffers cringed over the coverage the bike fall story received, but said many insisted the president remains sharp and inquisitive.
Aides allege Biden's health is a 'sensitive topic' throughout the White House.
However, more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisers 'uniformly reported' Biden is mentally engaged in his role as president.
They told the Times he asks 'smart questions' during meetings, grills his aides on points of dispute and helps them revise weak points in his speeches.
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