Tuesday, April 9, 2024

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (Legals) FIGHT BACK THE OBAMA - SOROS - MEAT PUPPET BIDEN NEO-FASCIST REGIME TO SERVE THE RICH

Lifelong Democrats Are Turning to Trump. Roseanne Barr Explains Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMXMx2xPSs

The Dirty Trick Both Parties Have Pulled on Americans | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.



People rising up to rescue America

On the evening of April 6, 2024, an event for President Trump in Florida raised about $50 million.  Earlier the same day, Republicans in Colorado held their State Assembly in Pueblo, Colorado.

Both events — one ritzy and glitzy, the other humble and focused on process — had something important in common: individuals stepped up to serve and donate when they had never done so before.

Lara Trump said on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that some of the people who came to the event in Florida contributed at a level that they never had before.

As a delegate to the State Assembly at the State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colorado, I noticed all the Coloradoans who showed up as candidates ready to run for office when they never had run before.  To me, that stood out after all the processes of the assembly and the speechifying — Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and Congressman Matt Gaetz keynoted — and jockeying for position were done and we were headed home.

Also, my husband Peter commented that several individuals told him the same story as his own about how they had decided to run for office at this time.  They had not intended to seek office but had wished for someone else to do it instead.  When no one did, they felt called to run, so they stepped up.  Most of them were running for county or state offices, wanting to rescue Colorado and save the USA.

Greg Lopez, former mayor of Parker, Colorado, has been in the news recently as the person who was picked to be a placeholder in Congress for Rep. Ken Buck’s seat in CD4.  He expressed that he felt led to step up just to be a placeholder, and not to run for office later, which is unusual for someone who has run for office numerous times.  His doing so enabled Rep. Lauren Boebert to serve out her term for CD3 on Colorado’s western slope and wait to participate in the primary for CD4 on Colorado’s eastern plains in June.  (“Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert will appear in the first position on the Republican primary ballot for the Fourth Congressional District,” according to Just the News.)

So why is all this goodwill arising at this time?  My theory is that God is saving the USA, and He is calling some people to serve as candidates and other people to support candidates.  My theory is informed by what leaders and prophetic voices in the Christian community have been saying about these things.

Flashpoint is a program where guests share what is going on at the nexus of politics and faith.  During a January Flashpoint episode, when the Iowa Primary was going on during a cold snap, host Gene Bailey talked with Dutch Sheets of Dutch Sheets Ministries.  Sheets said, “The American People are waking up, Gene.  They just are.”

Bailey asked him to talk about praying.  Sheets said, “I try to keep it in a vein that is Kingdom-minded, not political. ... You can pray without politicizing it just by praying for truth, praying for integrity, praying for wisdom, praying for God to turn the nation.  He knows how to do it. He knows how to orchestrate things.  The one thing I pray about very specifically is I pray against deception.”  

He also said he prays for protection for President Trump, and he went on to pray, at Bailey’s request, with the other guests and the audience.

During the same show, Pastor Hank Kunneman, of Lord of Hosts Church in Nebraska, a Prophet, said to Bailey, “America’s had enough. ... Even though it’s cold outside, there’s a fire burning inside us.  We want our country back.  We want our freedom.  We want election integrity.  We want closed borders.  The list goes on and on and on, and what the Democrats have done, and the RINOs, is touch people at a personal level, and we say enough.”

After a discussion of prophecies and dreams concerning the election, Bailey interpreted to the audience, “You have a part to do.  We have a responsibility.  You have skin in this game.”

Lance Wallnau (LanceWallnau.com) said, “This time the Church is on the front lines, and they are trying desperately to suppress Christian engagement.  They’ve made a full-court decision that they’re going to go after Christian Nationalism. ... This is the year the Church shows up.”

Bailey concluded, “That should be encouraging.  It ought to light you up, man.  This is what we’re seeing.  God is on the move.  Listen, we have our part to play.”

God is raising people up for that purpose, to serve and to donate.

CS Boddie writes for Meadowlark Press, LLC.

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Joe Biden’s America: Wealthiest 1% Set Record with $44 Trillion Total Net Worth

President Joe Biden attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the
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The wealthiest one percent in President Joe Biden’s America set a record with a net worth of $44 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter, U.S. Federal Reserve data revealed.

Biden casts his administration as opposed to the widening wealth gap, even though a majority of Americans still live paycheck to paycheck, a recent LendingClub study found, raising concerns that so-called “Bidenomics” failed to help average Americans.

A majority of voters are “worse off financially” under Biden, up 25 points since he assumed office in 2021, a Fox News poll found Wednesday.

The fourth quarter gains resulted from stock holdings, thanks to an end-of-year rally, CNBC reported:

The total net worth of the top 1%, defined by the Fed as those with wealth over $11 million, increased by $2 trillion in the fourth quarter. All of the gains came from their stock holdings. The value of corporate equities and mutual fund shares held by the top 1% surged to $19.7 trillion from $17.65 trillion the previous quarter.

While their real estate values went up slightly, the value of their privately held businesses declined, essentially canceling out all other gains outside of stocks.

The quarterly gain marked the latest addition to an unprecedented wealth boom that began in 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic market surge. Since 2020, the wealth of the top 1% has increased by nearly $15 trillion, or 49%. Middle-class Americans have also seen a rising wealth tide, with the middle 50% to 90% of Americans seeing their wealth increase 50%.

A U.S. Federal Reserve chart shows the wealth of the top one percent in America.

A U.S. Federal Reserve chart shows the wealth of the top one percent in America.

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

Unfortunately for his electoral prospects, however, Biden’s attempts to present himself as a “man of the people” have become increasingly strained. “Middle-class Joe” has been displaced by “Genocide Joe” in public consciousness, as he has become indelibly associated with the war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza, armed and financed by the Biden administration.

An election for the billionaires

Former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. [AP Photo/Associated Press]

There are two presidential elections taking place in the United States in 2024. The voting by the American population, which culminates on Election Day on November 5, will receive the bulk of the media attention.

Far more decisive, however, is the second election, which is going on right now, in which a relative handful of billionaires and corporate oligarchs decide which of the candidates of the two established capitalist parties, Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican ex-President Donald Trump, will better serve their class interests.

As of March 31, the Biden campaign had more than double the cash on hand of Trump and the Republicans, $192 million compared to $93.1 million. The Biden campaign is touting the fact that its war chest is the highest total amount amassed by a Democratic candidate in US history. It includes $26 million raked in two weeks ago in Manhattan, where three Democratic presidents—Biden, Obama and Clinton—and an array of Hollywood and Broadway performers appeared before an audience with ticket prices that topped out at $500,000.

Trump’s efforts were given a boost at a record fundraiser Saturday night, held at the estate of hedge fund billionaire John Paulson in Palm Beach, a short distance from Trump’s own Mar-a-Lago compound. The price of admission ranged up to $800,000, and the 117 guests ponied up a total of $50.3 million in campaign pledges, nearly double the Biden total at Radio City Music Hall.

“Tonight, we raised an historic $50.5 million for the re-election of President Trump,” Paulson wrote in a statement to the media Saturday evening. “This sold-out event has raised the most in a single political fundraiser in history. This overwhelming support demonstrates the enthusiasm for President Trump and his policies.”

The enthusiasm of the assembled billionaires was no doubt fueled by Trump’s 2017 tax cut for the wealthy and by the fact that the exemption for “pass-through” corporations, worth $700 billion to private equity firms and other speculative ventures, will expire in 2025, the first year of the new presidency. Trump’s open embrace of fascist violence is seen by an increasing section of the ruling elite as necessary to crush social opposition to its policies of austerity and war.

If money is any indication, however, there is even more “enthusiasm” among the billionaires for Democrat Joe Biden, whose war against Russia is seen as critical to the global interests of the American ruling elite. Dominant sections of the capitalist class see Trump as too erratic on foreign policy and recognize that Biden’s occasional anti-corporate demagogy is purely for show, a means of deluding the population and defusing popular resistance to the war policies of American imperialism.

Unfortunately for his electoral prospects, however, Biden’s attempts to present himself as a “man of the people” have become increasingly strained. “Middle-class Joe” has been displaced by “Genocide Joe” in public consciousness, as he has become indelibly associated with the war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza, armed and financed by the Biden administration.

Biden continues to collect multimillion-dollar amounts at closed-door meetings with wealthy supporters on virtually every campaign swing. On Monday, for example, he traveled to Wisconsin to unveil his latest political swindle, a proposed reduction in college student loan repayment, which will provide little actual benefit. Air Force One then touched down at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, so Biden could attend a fundraiser that collected $2.5 million from about two dozen individuals (roughly $100,000 apiece).

The co-hosts of this affair were Michael Pratt, who runs GCM Grosvenor, a $77 billion hedge fund specializing in “alternative,” i.e., socially “progressive” investments, and Laura Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and daughter of the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade. 

Over the weekend, Politico published a revealing account of the 2024 campaign headlined, “Big-dollar fundraisers are back,” which noted that both parties are relying on small affairs where Trump and Biden schmooze with the super-rich to raise the bulk of their campaign funds. This is particularly important for the Democrats, the website reported, citing the comments of former Obama fundraiser Ami Copeland.

For Biden, burying Trump in cash is central to his general election strategy. He’s started with a sizable financial advantage over the former president, and hosting splashy, high-dollar fundraisers helps to further pad that edge. “His cash advantage is existential,” Copeland said, because “it’s the thing working the best on the campaign right now.”

The fundraising for both campaigns seems inversely related to their actual support, given that polls and media accounts generally concede that Biden and Trump are the two most unpopular political figures in America. Small-donor fundraising, which was up substantially in 2016 and 2020, driven initially by support for the self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders and later by opposition to (or support for) Trump’s fascist demagogy, has slowed significantly this year.

The massive domination of money is only one aspect of an electoral process that is completely undemocratic and aimed at excluding any opposition to the capitalist two-party system. The Democratic Party in particular has taken the lead in waging an “all-out war” on third party and independent candidates, which will be focused on challenging their efforts to meet massive signature requirements to gain a place on the ballot.

This is the state of American democracy in 2024: One of the two major parties is controlled by the perpetrator of an attempted fascist coup to overturn the 2020 election, while the other party will renominate the president responsible for an ongoing war against nuclear-armed Russia and the first genocide of the 21st century.

The Socialist Equality Party entered the 2024 elections to provide a genuine choice for the working class, Joe Kishore for president and Jerry White for vice president, running on a socialist and antiwar program.

In a statement posted on X/Twitter Monday responding to the massive domination of money over the election, Kishore wrote:

As Marxists have long explained, the state is not a neutral arbiter but an instrument of class rule. It is controlled by a ruling class that supports the genocide in #Gaza and an escalating global war, while waging a war on the social and democratic rights of the working class at home.

The Socialist Equality Party campaign is aimed at developing a movement in the working class. The existential questions confronting workers in the US and throughout the world will not be resolved by tinkering around the edges, by hoping for “change” within the existing political structure. The working class has to take up the fight against the entire social and economic system of capitalism. This is the essential question, and the only way to oppose the drive of the ruling class to world war, dictatorship and capitalist barbarism.

The central issue in the 2024 elections is to bring the class questions of jobs, living standards, social benefits, democratic rights and war before the widest possible audience and to win the most politically advanced sections of workers and youth to the program of revolutionary Marxism.


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Sarah Chayes uses her considerable analytical skills to tell the story of corruption in America and the scale of our current corrupt systems, exemplified by the network of Corporations, politicians, enabling lawyers and other agencies who have effectively corroded in the furtherance of their profit, all that was good and just and egalitarian in US society. Please read, please vow to support the changes she calls for. Our morality, our souls are at stake.

 

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From the prizewinning journalist, internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world, author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security ("I can't imagine a more important book for our time,"--Sebastian Junger; "Required reading,"--Tom Friedman; "compelling, fascinating . . . a call to action,"--The Huffington Post), a major, unflinching book that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future.

Now, bringing to bear all of her knowledge, grasp, sense of history and observation, Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, as Chayes sees it, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members.
From the titans of America's Gilded Age (Carnegie, Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth, as well as the Kennedy presidency, to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution, undermining the middle class and the unions; from the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment to Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, systematically undoing the Constitution and our laws, Chayes shows how corrupt systems are organized, how they enforce the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they are overlooked and downplayed--shrugged off with a roll of the eyes--by the richer and better educated, how they become an overt principle determining the shape of our government, affecting all levels of society.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars The 21st century successor to Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020

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Reading Sarah Chayes's descriptions of Gilded Age and modern kleptocracy from Reagan to Trump, I couldn't help remembering Upton Sinclairs' observation that he had aimed for the nation's heart with his novel _The Jungle_ but hit its stomach. Chayes's history of the Gilded Age, in my opinion, is at least as good if not better than Howard Zinn's and Thomas Frank's, and some of her detailed descriptions of American corruption from 1873 to present often made me feel physically ill.

Not a few money-obsessed Democrats come in for scathing criticism alongside the expected bevy of Republicans (including the heirs to the Dixiecrats). It is not a matter of party or class per se: Chayes argues, correctly I think, that the Great Depression and World War II not only enabled the fulfillment of many of the goals of the strikers and protestors of the six decades from 1873 to 1933 but also taught most Americans a kind of social empathy that has been systematically and deliberately attacked by networks of moneyed interests from 1980 to the present day.

Some readers may be a bit put off by Chayes's reliance on Greek and Christian allegories for thematic continuity, but I appreciated them. In any case, she more than redeems herself by drawing from her personal experiences in "third world" nations to expose, again and again, the hubris of Americans like Trump, whose infamous comment about "shithole" African countries reveals so much of the kleptocratic mindset and his personal psychopathy.

Chayes offers many specific ideas for digging ourselves out of the quagmire of kleptocracy and corruption, but no simple solutions. Given climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, will we survive long enough to pursue them, let alone turn the tide?

 WHERE DID ALL OF JOE BIDEN'S LOOT COME FROM???

Jesse Watters : WOW, this is just OUTRAGEOUS!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDVORGTg_A

 

 

There it is.  That's the issue.  To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden.  They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years.  The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars.  How is this possible on his salary?  It's not.  So where did his wealth come from?  Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE

 

“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation  (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?)  and the Obamas (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK)  corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the (GAMER LYING LAWYER )Warren  and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, (GAMER LAWYER) CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON, AND NOT BE VERY LEAST, (GAMER LAWYER) ERIC SWALWELL, THE CHINESE SPY AND HO CHASING BRIBES SUCKER, AND OF COURSE, PREDATOR LAWYER AND COVID LIAR (GAMER LAWYER) ANDREW CUOMO.

    BRIAN C JOONDEPH


Lifelong Democrats Are Turning to Trump. Roseanne Barr Explains Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMXMx2xPSs

It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:


Biden Admin Gives $6.6 Billion to Project Run By Ex-Solyndra CEO

Brian Harrison led green energy company to bankruptcy after receiving $500 million in Obama admin loans

former Solyndra head Brian Harrison (Twitter/@AZRegents)
April 8, 2024

The Biden administration is giving $6.6 billion to a semiconductor project run by the former CEO of Solyndra, the failed solar energy company at the center of an Obama-era scandal over government misspending.

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s Arizona subsidiary, whose president is former Solyndra head Brian Harrison, will receive $6.6 billion to build a factory in Phoenix, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Monday.

Harrison was CEO of Solyndra when it declared bankruptcy in 2011 after receiving over $500 million in loans from the Obama administration.

The funding could fuel criticism from Republicans over the Biden administration’s energy spending. The Department of Energy’s loan office has poured billions into companies with an array of financial and legal problems, leading to investigations by GOP lawmakers.

President Joe Biden touted the funding to TSMC in a press statement on Monday. The company said it will invest an additional $65 million into its manufacturing compound in Arizona, where it already has two factories and is building a third.

"Thanks to this investment, TSMC will also build a third chip factory in Phoenix, increasing its total investment in Arizona to $65 million and creating over 25,000 direct construction and manufacturing jobs, along with thousands of indirect jobs," Biden said.

The funding comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed by Biden in 2022 and is intended to boost U.S. chip manufacturing and counter China’s dominance of the semiconductor industry.

Harrison, who is overseeing TSMC’s projects in Arizona, said he was involved in securing the federal financing in a media interview last August.

"We’re in the process of applications for the CHIPS Act funding," he told CNBC.

Harrison joined TSMC Arizona in 2021 and has served as president since last April, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was CEO of Solyndra from 2010 to 2011.

Solyndra received over $500 million in loans from the Obama administration under a 2009 stimulus program. During Harrison’s tenure, the company declared bankruptcy and defaulted on the loans. Federal investigators also reportedly seized Solyndra records from Harrison in 2011, but no charges were ever brought against him or other executives at the company.

An inspector general investigation found that Solyndra executives provided misleading information to Department of Energy officials during the loan negotiations in 2009 and later "while drawing down loan proceeds." The IG report said the "actions of certain Solyndra officials were, at best, reckless and irresponsible or, at worst, an orchestrated effort to knowingly and intentionally deceive and mislead the Department."

Republicans held up Solyndra as an example of reckless government spending. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a press conference outside the company’s headquarters, calling it a "symbol" of "failure."

In the wake of the scandal, the Obama administration scaled down the operations of the Department of Energy’s loan programs office, which had issued the funding.

But now the Biden administration has revived and expanded the office—giving it a massive $400 billion budget for green energy loans.

The spending has come under fire from Republicans, who have noted that the loan office’s director, Jigar Shah, appears to have conflicts of interest with some of the loan recipients.

"Solyndra is going to look like chump change compared to the amount of money that’s been wasted by this administration," Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) warned in December.

The Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment.

The DOJ sued DISH network for $3.3 billion but dismissed the suit after its chair donated to Biden

Two sayings are pertinent to this essay. The first is that correlation does not imply causation. Just because two events seem connected doesn’t mean they are. The second is that timing is everything. Think about both as you consider the Department of Justice’s decision to dismiss a massive corporate fraud lawsuit a short time after the corporation’s founder made a sizable donation to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

DISH Network is an American satellite network. In 2015, the DOJ sued DISH under the False Claims Act. The suit was based on Whistleblower Vermont National Telephone Company, Inc.’s allegation that DISH and its affiliates were allegedly using fraud to get small business discounts for wireless spectrum licenses. As recently as November 2023, a federal judge kept the case alive in the face of DISH’s motion for a judgment on the pleadings (i.e., DISH contended that the DOJ’s complaint contained within it the seeds of its own destruction).

On December 15, 2023, less than one month after the federal court refused to dismiss the DOJ’s suit, one of DISH’s founders, Charlie Ergen, along with his wife, Candy, donated a total of $113,200 to keep Biden in the White House…and, inevitably, to keep his currently constituted Department of Justice in power.

Image: A downed DISH receiver by frankieleon. CC BY 2.0.

On January 10, 2024, only three-and-a-half weeks after Ergen sent his money to Biden, and while the fraud suit was still pending, DISH received $50 million in taxpayer funds when the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced an $80 million round of five grants. The other four grantees divided the remaining $30 million in grant money.

A mere two days after the $50 million grant, the attorney for Vermont Telephone, which had triggered the DOJ’s initial action against DISH, complained that the DOJ was putting pressure on Vermont Telephone to enter into “an unethical settlement” or it would dismiss the suit:

The move to dismiss the case scrapped plans to depose the Ergens about their knowledge of the allegedly fraudulent scheme, prompting Vermont Telephone’s attorneys to accuse the Justice Department of political interference.

“[I]t appears that the effect — if not the purpose — of the DOJ’s rush to seek dismissal of this case is to protect Mr. Ergen from being questioned under oath,” Ross wrote in a Feb. 8 letter to the lead DOJ attorneys handling the case, according to a copy reviewed by The Post.

“We do not believe it is a coincidence that Mr. Ergen, his wife (who also is scheduled to be deposed next week), and DISH’s Political Action Committee collectively contributed in excess of $5 million to Democratic candidates and causes between 2008 and 2022,” he added.

“With the upcoming election, this case looks like just the latest example of the DOJ’s two-tiered justice system under which the well-heeled, politically connected are treated one way, while everyone else is treated differently.”

The last item in this chronology is that on March 8, the DOJ moved to dismiss the case. You can read more details about the whole case, from its inception to the motion to dismiss, in this New York Post article. Indeed, the article is worth reading as an expose about how corporate money and politics work in D.C., with most money flowing to Democrats but surprisingly large sums keeping individual Republicans afloat.

As I noted at the start of this post, just because there seems to be a connection between things, that doesn’t mean there is a connection. The chronology suggests that, once Ergen started throwing large sums of money at a sitting president whose re-election campaign is in trouble, that same president told his Department of Justice to lay off his good friend. It could just be, though, that the case has been kicking about for years so that the DOJ decided it was time to unload it because it was hogging resources without any discernable benefit to the American people.

But as always, timing is everything, and the appearance of impropriety can be just as powerful as actual impropriety. We’ve long known that Garland’s DOJ is driven by politics, not principle. Now, we have the strong suggestion that it can be bought, too.

 demented.  In the process, they’re insulting America’s poor and black citizens, branding them too stupid to obtain identification necessary for daily life. Reasonable people might call that racist.

Reasonable people might also think our republic is better off if people who can’t get identification, and can’t be bothered to get to the polls on election day, don’t vote. Obviously, people who have legitimate reasons for being unable to be present on election day, like our military serving overseas and the handicapped, must be allowed absentee ballots, but with effective safeguards and verification.

Using taxpayer resources and the power of the federal government to violate Supreme Court decisions and enable vote fraud on a never before imagined scale is among the most un-American, anti-republican acts of a thoroughly corrupt administration. Reasonable people might call that tyrannical. And they’d be right, and consistent. They’re absolutely perpetuating “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

That’s great for “our democracy—a permanent, one-party, Democrat/socialist/communist state, but terrible for our constitutional, representative republic. I wonder if Garland has heard about that?

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor. 

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The DOJ sued DISH network for $3.3 billion but dismissed the suit after its chair donated to Biden


Merrick Garland Risks Contempt Proceedings After Stonewalling Biden/Hur Interview Audio 

Biden Hunter - WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testif
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Attorney General Merrick Garland risks being held in contempt of Congress after he refused on Monday to divulge the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.

Biden’s Justice Department offered to provide the transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden’s book ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, Axios reported, but Republicans say Biden’s transcript and audio are needed to conduct oversight of the president’s classified document scandal.

“The Biden Administration does not get to determine what Congress needs and does not need for its oversight of the executive branch,” the House Oversight Committee told reporters.

“It’s curious the Biden Administration is refusing to release the audio of President Biden’s interview with the Special Counsel after releasing the transcript,” it continued. “Why shouldn’t the American people be able to hear the actual audio of his answers? The American people demand transparency from their leaders, not obstruction.”

Further responses to Garland’s stonewalling are reportedly forthcoming. Republicans previously threatened to brand Garland in contempt for not producing the audio.

During the president’s interview with Hur, Biden, 81, experienced mental lapses and “poor memory” at least seven times, according to a transcript obtained by Breitbart News.

Hur’s investigation, which concluded in February, found Biden “willfully” retained classified documents but declined to prosecute him, citing “insufficient evidence.” Hur characterized Biden as “an elderly man with a poor memory.”

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

Once such legislation is passed by a Democrat-controlled House and Senate and signed into law by a Democrat president, expect Barack or Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence Tribe, Arthur Engoron, Fani Willis, Stacey Abrams, Norm Eisen, or Eric Holder to be nominated and immediately confirmed to the high court. A Senate GOP minority could do nothing to stop it.

Democrats Plan to Kneecap Trump’s Candidacy

Donald Trump holds a 1 point advantage over President Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Many of these polls oversample Democrats. Most survey registered voters or whoever answers the phone when the pollster calls.

Rasmussen Reports surveys U.S. likely voters, those who actually cast votes, and they show Trump with an 8 point lead. They also found little impact from third party candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, or Cornell West.

The deep state, swamp, blob, ruling class, establishment, uni-party, or whatever is today’s term de jour for the permanent administrative state has been pulling out all the stops to vanquish Trump.

Trump.

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Nonsensical lawfare investigations, lawsuits, special counsels, and baseless accusations are thus far having no effect on “Teflon Don.” That could change, but the Democrats and Never-Trumpers are determined and resourceful. What’s their plan, given that Trump has so far been unstoppable?

President Trump added three relatively conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court over the histrionics of the left, going so far as to accuse one of the nominees of participating in “rape trains” during high school.

Ironically, this current right-leaning court may be Trump’s undoing. And Democrats and Never-Trump “Republicans” are ready to take advantage. SCOTUS placed the knife between Trump’s electoral ribs, the “Trumpophobes” will shove it in deep.

Formerly red, now deep blue, Colorado, with a feckless Republican Party as dysfunctional as a circular firing squad, attempted via their far-left Secretary of State, to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot claiming he is an “insurrectionist.”

Never mind that he has neither been accused nor convicted (other than by Democrats and the media) of insurrection. That did not matter to the Colorado Supreme Court which in their self-proclaimed wisdom deemed that Trump did indeed incite an insurrection.

Perhaps Colorado justices believed that Trump’s words on January 6, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" was a call to overthrow the government that at the time, Trump was in charge of.

Some insurrection.

A few hundred unarmed protesters, wandering through the Capitol, one dressed as a shaman, were about to take control of the three branches of the federal government including the military.

Perhaps the thin air in the Mile High City led to some hypoxic confusion at the Supreme Court building. Or more likely four of the justices just didn’t like Trump and wanted him banished to one of his many golf courses.

As expected, this case arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court where a March 4 decision stated:

The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass “appropriate legislation” to “enforce” the Fourteenth Amendment.

A concurring judgment by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson clarified:

The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In other words, Congress, by a simple majority, can pass a bill claiming that Trump is disqualified from election due to being an “insurrectionist.” An insurrection can be whatever Congress says it is, just like a man wearing a dress can be a woman. When Joe awakens from his nap, he will sign the bill, making it law.

Easy peasy.

This may explain why several Trumpophobe Republican House members have bugged out, trimming what was already a thin House Republican majority.

GOP Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Ken Buck, and Mike Gallagher all abruptly resigned from Congress, leaving Republicans with only a one-vote majority in the House.

Buck hinted that more of his colleagues may resign, potentially leaving Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats controlling U.S. House.

Republicans foolishly expelled Rep. George Santos, a reliable conservative vote, rather than letting him finish his term. He already stated that he wouldn’t run for reelection. Another R vote gone.

Note that Santos was indicted but not convicted. So was Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez and he is still serving in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Republican “principles” lost them a much-needed vote.

If you don’t believe the Democrats would try to disqualify Trump in this manner, such a bill is already in the works, introduced by Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Per Axios:

Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.

"We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court's decision," Raskin said.

Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an "insurrection" and that those involved "engaged in insurrection."

If the House flips to the Democrats, this is a done deal. Even if it doesn’t, don’t be surprised if 1-2 House Republicans, on their way out via resignation or not running for reelection, vote with the Democrats. GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, if still in Congress, would certainly vote with the Democrats on this one, as would GOP Sens. Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski.

Since the SCOTUS decision mentioned, “Subject of course to judicial review,” that would stop such a scheme, right?

Review by whom?

Why would SCOTUS block such an act of Congress, especially if they green-lighted it in their recent decision. But Democrats have an insurance policy.

They could just add four more far left justices to SCOTUS. Why not? Congress has that power and has exercised it in the past.

Sen. Ed Markey and House of Representatives members Jerrold Nadler, Hank Johnson and Mondaire Jones have scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce the introduction of the legislation in both chambers. The measure would expand the number of justices from the current nine to 13, according to a copy of the Senate bill reviewed by Reuters.

Once such legislation is passed by a Democrat-controlled House and Senate and signed into law by a Democrat president, expect Barack or Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence Tribe, Arthur Engoron, Fani Willis, Stacey Abrams, Norm Eisen, or Eric Holder to be nominated and immediately confirmed to the high court. A Senate GOP minority could do nothing to stop it.

Trump as an “insurrectionist” will be removed from the ballot. And the Bill of Rights and much of the inconvenient Constitution will be reinterpreted by a “new and improved” SCOTUS.

Who needs unconstitutional election law changes? Forget ballot-harvesting, voter I.D., signature verification, social media election censorship and interference, or any other non-legal means of rigging the election. The above plan is Constitutional and will be applauded across corporate media as “democracy in action.”

With Trump gone, we will get a Koch brothers and Chamber of Commerce-approved Republican candidate like Nikki Haley. Whether she or Biden wins won’t matter.

The borders will remain open with likely amnesty for those already here. We will continue to fund endless wars. Some $10 billion will be added to the national debt every day. America’s cultural rot will continue. And the deep state will thrive, controlling the next president as they have most past presidents.

The donor class will get richer and average Americans will fall further into a hole. America First will become America Last.

The Democrats have the perfect solution for kneecapping Trump and keeping Washington, D.C. in a business-as-usual mode for the foreseeable future.

If it’s a possibility to me, Trump is aware of what’s ahead and hopefully has a plan and solution. Otherwise, the GOP will once again shoot itself in the foot over their so-called “principles”  on which they can comfortably sit while warming the back benches as a permanent irrelevant minority party, watching the Democrats destroy America as we know it.

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. Follow me on Twitter @retinaldoctor, Substack Dr. Brian’s Substack, Truth Social @BrianJoondeph, and LinkedIn @Brian Joondeph.


Attorney General Garland promises election lawfare

Who can forget October of 2020, when Joe Biden committed a gaffe? He certainly does that more or less constantly, but this one was a classic, because a gaffe is properly defined as what happens when a politician accidently tells the truth:

‘We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,’ Biden said in the video. 

It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:

Speaking [in March of 2024] to a predominantly African-American crowd at a Black Selma church service, [AG Merrick Garland] said:

The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. We are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions who implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements.

No, AG Garland, the right to vote is NOT under attack. Georgia, which passed its reform laws after the 2020 election and invited a boycott of woke companies, including Major League Baseball (which canceled the All-Star game in Atlanta), reported that more voters and more minority voters participated in the 2022 elections than at any time in Georgia history. Even Stacey Abrams, the losing candidate for governor in 2018, who never conceded her defeat and became a media darling, accepted that she lost her rematch against Brian Kemp. 

How is it possible the chief law enforcement officer in America doesn’t know drop boxes, refusing to enforce ID laws and mail-in ballots are among the best methods of cheating?  Or perhaps he does…

Is it possible AG Garland is unaware of the Supreme Court’s 2008 Crawford .v Marion County Election Board decision? NBC was aware, and disappointed:  

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. [skip]

The law "is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,'" Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy. 

Is it possible AG Garland, and the entire DOJ is unable to use Internet search engines, like the engine that provided the URLs I’ve embedded? Or is it more likely they’re simply ignoring the Supreme Court, which they’ve proved more than willing to do? Not every state has voter ID laws. Is Garland worried there aren’t enough states without them to provide the necessary margin of voter fraud for 2024?

Beyond experience and common, adult, sense, there is substantial evidence drop boxes and mail-on balloting are primary sources of virtually untraceable vote fraud. How can it be Garland and the DOJ Voting Rights Section don’t know that?  And if that’s so, if they really are that incompetent, that unaware of human and political nature, how is it there are apparently no other attorneys in the entire DOJ who have not set them straight?

Obviously, Garland and his cronies know exactly what they’re doing. They’re enabling vote fraud, surely to ensure illegal immigrants can vote in the millions to put over the electoral finish line a man most legal Americans know is

When Biden politicizes the Justice Department to go after parents, Catholics, Trump, and Trump supporters who mostly peacefully trespassed at the Capitol, people understand how dangerous and biased the Justice Department is. 

When the Justice Department lets Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden off for crimes and taking massive kickbacks for access, the result is we get more corruption in government and people further lose the trust in government institutions. The damage is massive and intentional. 

With Biden and his Democrats, the damage is intentional

When you have companies in third world countries do the mining for electric vehicle (EV) minerals, is it a surprise that they don't care about the damage that is caused to the environment?

The green pushers also don't seem to care about all the wildlife killed by wind  and solar farms. 
 
When California forces certain businesses to pay unreasonably high wages, the result is clearly going to be destructive. Businesses will close, layoffs will occur and higher prices will harm everyone.

Like AB5, CA's Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Results in Layoffs, Closures, and Higher Prices

Businesses will clearly have to automate more. Some are employing cashiers from foreign countries on Zoom screens. Businesses that were exempt would also have to raise their wages to compete. A $20 an hour wage actually costs businesses $25 to $30 an hour with all the mandatory taxes and benefits. Wages for higher paid workers would also have to go up.
The damage has to be intentional. The policy does not make things more affordable for the poor and middle class.

It's more damage when states enact no bail laws and let career criminals roam the streets, because it is obviously dangerous.
 
When Oregon and other Democrats decriminalize drugs or make them free, it does not make things better.
 
When California and other places make theft under $950 a non-crime, they will get more of it. It is not a surprise when businesses close and costs go up.
 
When a presidential candidate campaigns on opening borders and issues executive orders opening the border and when Democrats run cities and states are sanctuaries that don't punish illegals, the flooding of the country with illegals is intentional. The policies are causing massive harm to the United States. Blaming Trump and Republicans for the problem is a lie. 
 
Closing schools and keeping children out of sports was clearly going to cause massive harm to children, especially vulnerable children who were already behind.  Yet supposedly educated people claimed they had no idea these things would happen and they absolve themselves of the harm they intentionally caused.
 
Democrats always say they are the party for children. They say they like freedom of choice. They claim they are for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, when policies are suggested to offer poor and minority children to leave poorly performing schools and go to schools that better off parents can send their kids to, Democrats block those options. The intentional destructive result is to hold those vulnerable children back.
 
When the CDC, and White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, continually lied to push the dictatorial edicts on COVID and its lockdowns, it was obviously going to cause people not to trust them. Yet the media and other Democrats continue to pretend they should be trusted and everything they did was based on science. 
 
When Democrats hand out freebies to buy votes, intentionally open borders and flood the country with millions of illegals, and when they have a goal to destroy companies that produce reasonably priced energy, the result is going to be one problem after another. Continually blaming others is an intentional lie. 
 
When Biden's policy is to destroy oil companies, it is clearly going to raise prices which helps Russia and Iran finance their wars and their terrorism. The high prices also greatly harm all Americans, especially the poor and middle class.
 
The results are so predictable that the destruction has to be intentional. 
 
Are Biden and Obama so stupid that they believe giving the tyrants in Iran access to hundreds of billions of dollars that it would make the world and the Iranian people safer? How is that working out?
 
Instead of focusing on defending America, our military seems to have prioritized pronouns, DEI, CRT, white privilege and going after right wing extremists (Trump supporters). Now there is a major shortage of recruits. While China and other adversaries are building their military we are focused on not hurting people's feelings. The damage is intentional. 
 
Forcing women to compete against men in sports and to share locker rooms with men is clearly going to harm women. Democrats should stop pretending that they are the party that respects women's rights. 
  
Democrats implemented great society and anti-poverty programs sixty years ago that essentially promoted the breakup of families. The clear result is that we now have a huge percentage of single parents and generational poverty. The fact that Democrats continue to promote and expand these policies indicates that the results are intentional. 
 
Forcing people to buy specific health insurance policies with massive mandates including no lifetime or annual limits was clearly going to take away choice, reduce competition, and raise prices. For fourteen years, insurance costs have skyrocketed, and for fourteen years Democrats have lied that Obamacare has made healthcare more affordable. The bad results are intentional because the goal of Democrats is to force government insurance on all of us. 
 
Forcing businesses to make electric vehicles and forcing people to buy them makes vehicles more unaffordable. Forcing people to switch out their furnaces, appliances, lawn mowers will greatly harm the poor and middle class and these radical green policies will not have any effect on temperatures or storms or sea levels. The intentional destruction is massive. 
As America has an explosive increase in demand for power due to data centers, AI, Crypto, electric vehicles and factories pretending to be green Democrats are focused on closing down oil, gas, and coal plants as fast as they can.  That is intentionally destructive. While Democrats want to close down efficient plants with affordable energy, China is rapidly building coal plants. Which country will be more successful? 

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country,

Democrats are throwing money at daycare expenses to supposedly make it more affordable, but the policy, like all subsidies, makes prices go up much faster for people who pay. The policy is intentionally damaging.
 
Since the 1960s, the government has been throwing money at colleges to supposedly make them more affordable. The result of this largess is that colleges have used these funds to jack up their costs rapidly. Instead of having colleges control their costs, throwing money at the problem disincentivizes cost-control.  After all, most educators vote for Democrats so they don't care. The result is students have massive debt. Biden's solution is not to hold colleges accountable for screwing parents and kids, it is to dictatorially and unconstitutionally force taxpayers to pay off the debt to buy votes. 
 
When Biden politicizes the Justice Department to go after parents, Catholics, Trump, and Trump supporters who mostly peacefully trespassed at the Capitol, people understand how dangerous and biased the Justice Department is. 
 
When the Justice Department lets Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden off for crimes and taking massive kickbacks for access, the result is we get more corruption in government and people further lose the trust in government institutions. The damage is massive and intentional. 
 
When the Biden administration closed the air force base in Afghanistan, cleared out a prison with terrorists, and left billions in weapons for the Taliban. did they expect good results? The Taliban just brought back stoning.
 
Obama ran on remaking America. The disastrous consequences of Democrat policies are so obvious that they must be intentional. It is as if a community organizer who is a disciple of the radical Saul Alinsky was intentionally trying to destroy America so he could remake it in the radical image. Sadly, most of the media just cheer while this intentional destruction of America is clearly happening. Either the journalists don't understand or  don't care how many people and businesses they intentionally destroy. 
 
I would challenge everyone to name current Democrat policies that are meant to help the poor and middle class vs. making the government more powerful. I can't think of any.
 
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James Biden admitted to Congress in February that he earned money to organize some of the loans for the company. He received a $200,000 loan from Americore and on the same day, cut Joe Biden a $200,000 check, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed in October.


Biden-appointed Judge Rips DOJ for Ignoring House Subpoenas While Navarro in Prison

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U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes slammed lawyers for the Department of Justice for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. House of Representatives when Peter Navarro is sitting in prison for the same conduct.

Navarro is serving a four-month sentence for refusing to obey a subpoena from the January 6 Committee. Navarro argued that it would have been a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers for a presidential aide to comply.

The Biden Department of Justice has relied on the same argument in shielding two of its lawyers, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan, from subpoenas by the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

The committee wants to ask Daly and Morgan about their role in investigating the president’s son, Hunter Biden, for tax violations that were slow-walked and almost dropped before a federal judge in Delaware questioned a plea deal.

Politico reported:

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee on the federal District Court in Washington, spent nearly an hour accusing Justice Department attorneys of rank hypocrisy for instructing two other lawyers in the DOJ Tax Division not to comply with the House subpoenas.

“There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena,” Reyes said, referring to the recent imprisonment of Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. “And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. … And you don’t have to show up?”

Republicans Demand Garland Reveal if DOJ Investigating Biden Whistleblowers

Attorney Gen. Garland Speaks At The Nat'l Legal Aid & Defender Association's Commemoration Of 60th
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Top House Republicans recently demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland reveal if the Justice Department launched an investigation into Biden family whistleblowers.

The probe into the Department of Justice (DOJ) underscores the ongoing House impeachment inquiry’s investigation into President Joe Biden and his family members involved in the Biden business.

Biden Family

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“The Committees will not tolerate any retaliatory conduct by the Department against these or any other whistleblowers,” Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY), and Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith (R-MO) wrote Garland this week:

Whistleblowers play an integral role in identifying and rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and corruption within federal agencies. Federal law protects whistleblowers from retaliation.

Any efforts, including those by the Department, to investigate whistleblowers for making lawful disclosures raise serious concerns about the continued weaponization of the federal government. Any and all attempts to intimidate or retaliate against Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler for their protected disclosures to Congress must stop.

Two IRS whistleblowers disclosed politically damaging information about the Biden administration and the Biden family business:

  • Alleged Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “the big guy”
  • Alleged the DOJ twice prevented U.S. Attorney David Weiss from bringing stronger charges against Hunter
  • Alleged Garland refused to name a special counsel in the tax investigation
  • Alleged the IRS recommended charges against Hunter that were not approved by Garland

After the disclosures to Congress, Hunter Biden’s attorneys reportedly pushed the DOJ to prosecute IRS whistleblowers. In June, the committee voted to make public multiple instances of alleged political interference in which the DOJ “thwarted, hampered or interfered” with the IRS tax investigation into Hunter.

The House began investigating the Bidens in November 2022. During the probe, investigators found a massive web of wire transfers, 20 shell companies, and associates who helped the Biden family business rake in at least $24 million from foreign nationals over the course of approximately five years.

They also revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. In addition, they showed that nine additional family members received payments from the Bidens’ foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

RELATED — CNN’s Jackson: We Wouldn’t Be Here with Hunter ‘if It Were Not for the Whistleblowers’

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.



Obviously, Garland and his cronies know exactly what they’re doing. They’re enabling vote fraud, surely to ensure illegal immigrants can vote in the millions to put over the electoral finish line a man most legal Americans know is demented.  In the process, they’re insulting America’s poor and black citizens, branding them too stupid to obtain identification necessary for daily life. Reasonable people might call that racist.

It all starts at the top. Joe Biden has made a career out of using the government and the legal system to attack his political enemies. He has the backing of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the IRS. Trump supporters Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, and Peter Navarro have seen their civil rights disappear. The same goes for the January 6th defendants.

Destroying the American system of justice

Some days I think I must be dreaming. Two deranged “public servants” -- the vindictive New York State attorney general and a leftist judge with a bad haircut -- are being given free rein to subvert our justice system by placing titanic barriers against the Republican nominee’s ability to run for president. What is happening to our country and who will stop it?

How is it possible that someone with Trump’s extraordinary accomplishments can be brought down by two vile and inconsequential persons such as Letitia James and Arthur Engoron? Their lawsuit has the support of, and is the consequence of, the Democratic Party’s efforts to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.

To begin with, James’ fraud case against Trump is a farce. There is no crime and no victim. No one has been harmed. It is purely a weaponization of the legal system for political ends. As Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary has observed, what Trump is alleged to have done -- overvalue his real estate properties when applying for a bank loan -- is normal business practice all over the globe. The bank made money and is anxious to do business with him again.

Thanks to a publicity-hungry, overtly anti-Trump judge, James’ phony indictment has been backed up with an unheard-of $460-million judgment. And they want it now. No one has that kind of cash floating around. Unless he comes up with an impossible-to-obtain bond, Trump is precluded from his right to appeal.

Without waiting for the outcome of an appeal, James wants to seize Trump’s real estate holdings. Adding insult to injury, Judge Engoron has ordered a court to oversee the Trump organization for a minimum of three years. This is the Soviet-style textbook for “How to Take Down a Billionaire.”

If the Democrats can get away with this partisan assault on someone like Donald Trump, imagine what they will do to you and me in pursuit of their leftist policies. The American public is no longer protected by due process and the rule of law. The rule has just changed to, “Whatever the Democrats want.”

It all starts at the top. Joe Biden has made a career out of using the government and the legal system to attack his political enemies. He has the backing of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the IRS. Trump supporters Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, and Peter Navarro have seen their civil rights disappear. The same goes for the January 6th defendants.

There is a glimmer of hope. The James/Engoron anti-Trump judgment could be overturned by the New York State Appellate Division. It would be a massive miscarriage of justice if it is not overturned, but given the Democratic Party’s hold on New York judges and juries, the judgment may be upheld. Even if it is overturned, Trump will have been irreparably harmed by the seizure of his assets.

If the Democrats succeed in destroying Trump, the doors will be open to perverting the legal system as required for the leftist agenda of the Democratic Party. In short, we will have a one-party state and America’s justice system will be history.

Will anyone stop them? “The whole world is watching,” said Kevin O’Leary. “Where are the adults in this crazy narrative? We need an adult in the room. This is the United States of America under siege.”

Ed Brodow is a conservative political commentator and author of two No. 1 Amazon Best Sellers, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden, and THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.

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It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:

Lifelong Democrats Are Turning to Trump. Roseanne Barr Explains Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMXMx2xPSs

It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:


Biden Admin Gives $6.6 Billion to Project Run By Ex-Solyndra CEO

Brian Harrison led green energy company to bankruptcy after receiving $500 million in Obama admin loans

former Solyndra head Brian Harrison (Twitter/@AZRegents)
April 8, 2024

The Biden administration is giving $6.6 billion to a semiconductor project run by the former CEO of Solyndra, the failed solar energy company at the center of an Obama-era scandal over government misspending.

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s Arizona subsidiary, whose president is former Solyndra head Brian Harrison, will receive $6.6 billion to build a factory in Phoenix, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Monday.

Harrison was CEO of Solyndra when it declared bankruptcy in 2011 after receiving over $500 million in loans from the Obama administration.

The funding could fuel criticism from Republicans over the Biden administration’s energy spending. The Department of Energy’s loan office has poured billions into companies with an array of financial and legal problems, leading to investigations by GOP lawmakers.

President Joe Biden touted the funding to TSMC in a press statement on Monday. The company said it will invest an additional $65 million into its manufacturing compound in Arizona, where it already has two factories and is building a third.

"Thanks to this investment, TSMC will also build a third chip factory in Phoenix, increasing its total investment in Arizona to $65 million and creating over 25,000 direct construction and manufacturing jobs, along with thousands of indirect jobs," Biden said.

The funding comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed by Biden in 2022 and is intended to boost U.S. chip manufacturing and counter China’s dominance of the semiconductor industry.

Harrison, who is overseeing TSMC’s projects in Arizona, said he was involved in securing the federal financing in a media interview last August.

"We’re in the process of applications for the CHIPS Act funding," he told CNBC.

Harrison joined TSMC Arizona in 2021 and has served as president since last April, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was CEO of Solyndra from 2010 to 2011.

Solyndra received over $500 million in loans from the Obama administration under a 2009 stimulus program. During Harrison’s tenure, the company declared bankruptcy and defaulted on the loans. Federal investigators also reportedly seized Solyndra records from Harrison in 2011, but no charges were ever brought against him or other executives at the company.

An inspector general investigation found that Solyndra executives provided misleading information to Department of Energy officials during the loan negotiations in 2009 and later "while drawing down loan proceeds." The IG report said the "actions of certain Solyndra officials were, at best, reckless and irresponsible or, at worst, an orchestrated effort to knowingly and intentionally deceive and mislead the Department."

Republicans held up Solyndra as an example of reckless government spending. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a press conference outside the company’s headquarters, calling it a "symbol" of "failure."

In the wake of the scandal, the Obama administration scaled down the operations of the Department of Energy’s loan programs office, which had issued the funding.

But now the Biden administration has revived and expanded the office—giving it a massive $400 billion budget for green energy loans.

The spending has come under fire from Republicans, who have noted that the loan office’s director, Jigar Shah, appears to have conflicts of interest with some of the loan recipients.

"Solyndra is going to look like chump change compared to the amount of money that’s been wasted by this administration," Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) warned in December.

The Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment.

The DOJ sued DISH network for $3.3 billion but dismissed the suit after its chair donated to Biden

Two sayings are pertinent to this essay. The first is that correlation does not imply causation. Just because two events seem connected doesn’t mean they are. The second is that timing is everything. Think about both as you consider the Department of Justice’s decision to dismiss a massive corporate fraud lawsuit a short time after the corporation’s founder made a sizable donation to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

DISH Network is an American satellite network. In 2015, the DOJ sued DISH under the False Claims Act. The suit was based on Whistleblower Vermont National Telephone Company, Inc.’s allegation that DISH and its affiliates were allegedly using fraud to get small business discounts for wireless spectrum licenses. As recently as November 2023, a federal judge kept the case alive in the face of DISH’s motion for a judgment on the pleadings (i.e., DISH contended that the DOJ’s complaint contained within it the seeds of its own destruction).

On December 15, 2023, less than one month after the federal court refused to dismiss the DOJ’s suit, one of DISH’s founders, Charlie Ergen, along with his wife, Candy, donated a total of $113,200 to keep Biden in the White House…and, inevitably, to keep his currently constituted Department of Justice in power.

Image: A downed DISH receiver by frankieleon. CC BY 2.0.

On January 10, 2024, only three-and-a-half weeks after Ergen sent his money to Biden, and while the fraud suit was still pending, DISH received $50 million in taxpayer funds when the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced an $80 million round of five grants. The other four grantees divided the remaining $30 million in grant money.

A mere two days after the $50 million grant, the attorney for Vermont Telephone, which had triggered the DOJ’s initial action against DISH, complained that the DOJ was putting pressure on Vermont Telephone to enter into “an unethical settlement” or it would dismiss the suit:

The move to dismiss the case scrapped plans to depose the Ergens about their knowledge of the allegedly fraudulent scheme, prompting Vermont Telephone’s attorneys to accuse the Justice Department of political interference.

“[I]t appears that the effect — if not the purpose — of the DOJ’s rush to seek dismissal of this case is to protect Mr. Ergen from being questioned under oath,” Ross wrote in a Feb. 8 letter to the lead DOJ attorneys handling the case, according to a copy reviewed by The Post.

“We do not believe it is a coincidence that Mr. Ergen, his wife (who also is scheduled to be deposed next week), and DISH’s Political Action Committee collectively contributed in excess of $5 million to Democratic candidates and causes between 2008 and 2022,” he added.

“With the upcoming election, this case looks like just the latest example of the DOJ’s two-tiered justice system under which the well-heeled, politically connected are treated one way, while everyone else is treated differently.”

The last item in this chronology is that on March 8, the DOJ moved to dismiss the case. You can read more details about the whole case, from its inception to the motion to dismiss, in this New York Post article. Indeed, the article is worth reading as an expose about how corporate money and politics work in D.C., with most money flowing to Democrats but surprisingly large sums keeping individual Republicans afloat.

As I noted at the start of this post, just because there seems to be a connection between things, that doesn’t mean there is a connection. The chronology suggests that, once Ergen started throwing large sums of money at a sitting president whose re-election campaign is in trouble, that same president told his Department of Justice to lay off his good friend. It could just be, though, that the case has been kicking about for years so that the DOJ decided it was time to unload it because it was hogging resources without any discernable benefit to the American people.

But as always, timing is everything, and the appearance of impropriety can be just as powerful as actual impropriety. We’ve long known that Garland’s DOJ is driven by politics, not principle. Now, we have the strong suggestion that it can be bought, too.

 demented.  In the process, they’re insulting America’s poor and black citizens, branding them too stupid to obtain identification necessary for daily life. Reasonable people might call that racist.

Reasonable people might also think our republic is better off if people who can’t get identification, and can’t be bothered to get to the polls on election day, don’t vote. Obviously, people who have legitimate reasons for being unable to be present on election day, like our military serving overseas and the handicapped, must be allowed absentee ballots, but with effective safeguards and verification.

Using taxpayer resources and the power of the federal government to violate Supreme Court decisions and enable vote fraud on a never before imagined scale is among the most un-American, anti-republican acts of a thoroughly corrupt administration. Reasonable people might call that tyrannical. And they’d be right, and consistent. They’re absolutely perpetuating “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

That’s great for “our democracy—a permanent, one-party, Democrat/socialist/communist state, but terrible for our constitutional, representative republic. I wonder if Garland has heard about that?

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor. 

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The DOJ sued DISH network for $3.3 billion but dismissed the suit after its chair donated to Biden


Merrick Garland Risks Contempt Proceedings After Stonewalling Biden/Hur Interview Audio 

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Attorney General Merrick Garland risks being held in contempt of Congress after he refused on Monday to divulge the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.

Biden’s Justice Department offered to provide the transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden’s book ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, Axios reported, but Republicans say Biden’s transcript and audio are needed to conduct oversight of the president’s classified document scandal.

“The Biden Administration does not get to determine what Congress needs and does not need for its oversight of the executive branch,” the House Oversight Committee told reporters.

“It’s curious the Biden Administration is refusing to release the audio of President Biden’s interview with the Special Counsel after releasing the transcript,” it continued. “Why shouldn’t the American people be able to hear the actual audio of his answers? The American people demand transparency from their leaders, not obstruction.”

Further responses to Garland’s stonewalling are reportedly forthcoming. Republicans previously threatened to brand Garland in contempt for not producing the audio.

During the president’s interview with Hur, Biden, 81, experienced mental lapses and “poor memory” at least seven times, according to a transcript obtained by Breitbart News.

Hur’s investigation, which concluded in February, found Biden “willfully” retained classified documents but declined to prosecute him, citing “insufficient evidence.” Hur characterized Biden as “an elderly man with a poor memory.”

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Once such legislation is passed by a Democrat-controlled House and Senate and signed into law by a Democrat president, expect Barack or Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence Tribe, Arthur Engoron, Fani Willis, Stacey Abrams, Norm Eisen, or Eric Holder to be nominated and immediately confirmed to the high court. A Senate GOP minority could do nothing to stop it.

Democrats Plan to Kneecap Trump’s Candidacy

Donald Trump holds a 1 point advantage over President Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

Many of these polls oversample Democrats. Most survey registered voters or whoever answers the phone when the pollster calls.

Rasmussen Reports surveys U.S. likely voters, those who actually cast votes, and they show Trump with an 8 point lead. They also found little impact from third party candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, or Cornell West.

The deep state, swamp, blob, ruling class, establishment, uni-party, or whatever is today’s term de jour for the permanent administrative state has been pulling out all the stops to vanquish Trump.

Trump.

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Nonsensical lawfare investigations, lawsuits, special counsels, and baseless accusations are thus far having no effect on “Teflon Don.” That could change, but the Democrats and Never-Trumpers are determined and resourceful. What’s their plan, given that Trump has so far been unstoppable?

President Trump added three relatively conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court over the histrionics of the left, going so far as to accuse one of the nominees of participating in “rape trains” during high school.

Ironically, this current right-leaning court may be Trump’s undoing. And Democrats and Never-Trump “Republicans” are ready to take advantage. SCOTUS placed the knife between Trump’s electoral ribs, the “Trumpophobes” will shove it in deep.

Formerly red, now deep blue, Colorado, with a feckless Republican Party as dysfunctional as a circular firing squad, attempted via their far-left Secretary of State, to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot claiming he is an “insurrectionist.”

Never mind that he has neither been accused nor convicted (other than by Democrats and the media) of insurrection. That did not matter to the Colorado Supreme Court which in their self-proclaimed wisdom deemed that Trump did indeed incite an insurrection.

Perhaps Colorado justices believed that Trump’s words on January 6, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" was a call to overthrow the government that at the time, Trump was in charge of.

Some insurrection.

A few hundred unarmed protesters, wandering through the Capitol, one dressed as a shaman, were about to take control of the three branches of the federal government including the military.

Perhaps the thin air in the Mile High City led to some hypoxic confusion at the Supreme Court building. Or more likely four of the justices just didn’t like Trump and wanted him banished to one of his many golf courses.

As expected, this case arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court where a March 4 decision stated:

The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass “appropriate legislation” to “enforce” the Fourteenth Amendment.

A concurring judgment by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson clarified:

The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In other words, Congress, by a simple majority, can pass a bill claiming that Trump is disqualified from election due to being an “insurrectionist.” An insurrection can be whatever Congress says it is, just like a man wearing a dress can be a woman. When Joe awakens from his nap, he will sign the bill, making it law.

Easy peasy.

This may explain why several Trumpophobe Republican House members have bugged out, trimming what was already a thin House Republican majority.

GOP Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Ken Buck, and Mike Gallagher all abruptly resigned from Congress, leaving Republicans with only a one-vote majority in the House.

Buck hinted that more of his colleagues may resign, potentially leaving Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats controlling U.S. House.

Republicans foolishly expelled Rep. George Santos, a reliable conservative vote, rather than letting him finish his term. He already stated that he wouldn’t run for reelection. Another R vote gone.

Note that Santos was indicted but not convicted. So was Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez and he is still serving in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Republican “principles” lost them a much-needed vote.

If you don’t believe the Democrats would try to disqualify Trump in this manner, such a bill is already in the works, introduced by Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Per Axios:

Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.

"We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court's decision," Raskin said.

Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an "insurrection" and that those involved "engaged in insurrection."

If the House flips to the Democrats, this is a done deal. Even if it doesn’t, don’t be surprised if 1-2 House Republicans, on their way out via resignation or not running for reelection, vote with the Democrats. GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, if still in Congress, would certainly vote with the Democrats on this one, as would GOP Sens. Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski.

Since the SCOTUS decision mentioned, “Subject of course to judicial review,” that would stop such a scheme, right?

Review by whom?

Why would SCOTUS block such an act of Congress, especially if they green-lighted it in their recent decision. But Democrats have an insurance policy.

They could just add four more far left justices to SCOTUS. Why not? Congress has that power and has exercised it in the past.

Sen. Ed Markey and House of Representatives members Jerrold Nadler, Hank Johnson and Mondaire Jones have scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce the introduction of the legislation in both chambers. The measure would expand the number of justices from the current nine to 13, according to a copy of the Senate bill reviewed by Reuters.

Once such legislation is passed by a Democrat-controlled House and Senate and signed into law by a Democrat president, expect Barack or Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence Tribe, Arthur Engoron, Fani Willis, Stacey Abrams, Norm Eisen, or Eric Holder to be nominated and immediately confirmed to the high court. A Senate GOP minority could do nothing to stop it.

Trump as an “insurrectionist” will be removed from the ballot. And the Bill of Rights and much of the inconvenient Constitution will be reinterpreted by a “new and improved” SCOTUS.

Who needs unconstitutional election law changes? Forget ballot-harvesting, voter I.D., signature verification, social media election censorship and interference, or any other non-legal means of rigging the election. The above plan is Constitutional and will be applauded across corporate media as “democracy in action.”

With Trump gone, we will get a Koch brothers and Chamber of Commerce-approved Republican candidate like Nikki Haley. Whether she or Biden wins won’t matter.

The borders will remain open with likely amnesty for those already here. We will continue to fund endless wars. Some $10 billion will be added to the national debt every day. America’s cultural rot will continue. And the deep state will thrive, controlling the next president as they have most past presidents.

The donor class will get richer and average Americans will fall further into a hole. America First will become America Last.

The Democrats have the perfect solution for kneecapping Trump and keeping Washington, D.C. in a business-as-usual mode for the foreseeable future.

If it’s a possibility to me, Trump is aware of what’s ahead and hopefully has a plan and solution. Otherwise, the GOP will once again shoot itself in the foot over their so-called “principles”  on which they can comfortably sit while warming the back benches as a permanent irrelevant minority party, watching the Democrats destroy America as we know it.

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. Follow me on Twitter @retinaldoctor, Substack Dr. Brian’s Substack, Truth Social @BrianJoondeph, and LinkedIn @Brian Joondeph.


Attorney General Garland promises election lawfare

Who can forget October of 2020, when Joe Biden committed a gaffe? He certainly does that more or less constantly, but this one was a classic, because a gaffe is properly defined as what happens when a politician accidently tells the truth:

‘We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,’ Biden said in the video. 

It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:

Speaking [in March of 2024] to a predominantly African-American crowd at a Black Selma church service, [AG Merrick Garland] said:

The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. We are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions who implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements.

No, AG Garland, the right to vote is NOT under attack. Georgia, which passed its reform laws after the 2020 election and invited a boycott of woke companies, including Major League Baseball (which canceled the All-Star game in Atlanta), reported that more voters and more minority voters participated in the 2022 elections than at any time in Georgia history. Even Stacey Abrams, the losing candidate for governor in 2018, who never conceded her defeat and became a media darling, accepted that she lost her rematch against Brian Kemp. 

How is it possible the chief law enforcement officer in America doesn’t know drop boxes, refusing to enforce ID laws and mail-in ballots are among the best methods of cheating?  Or perhaps he does…

Is it possible AG Garland is unaware of the Supreme Court’s 2008 Crawford .v Marion County Election Board decision? NBC was aware, and disappointed:  

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. [skip]

The law "is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,'" Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy. 

Is it possible AG Garland, and the entire DOJ is unable to use Internet search engines, like the engine that provided the URLs I’ve embedded? Or is it more likely they’re simply ignoring the Supreme Court, which they’ve proved more than willing to do? Not every state has voter ID laws. Is Garland worried there aren’t enough states without them to provide the necessary margin of voter fraud for 2024?

Beyond experience and common, adult, sense, there is substantial evidence drop boxes and mail-on balloting are primary sources of virtually untraceable vote fraud. How can it be Garland and the DOJ Voting Rights Section don’t know that?  And if that’s so, if they really are that incompetent, that unaware of human and political nature, how is it there are apparently no other attorneys in the entire DOJ who have not set them straight?

Obviously, Garland and his cronies know exactly what they’re doing. They’re enabling vote fraud, surely to ensure illegal immigrants can vote in the millions to put over the electoral finish line a man most legal Americans know is

When Biden politicizes the Justice Department to go after parents, Catholics, Trump, and Trump supporters who mostly peacefully trespassed at the Capitol, people understand how dangerous and biased the Justice Department is. 

When the Justice Department lets Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden off for crimes and taking massive kickbacks for access, the result is we get more corruption in government and people further lose the trust in government institutions. The damage is massive and intentional. 

With Biden and his Democrats, the damage is intentional

When you have companies in third world countries do the mining for electric vehicle (EV) minerals, is it a surprise that they don't care about the damage that is caused to the environment?

The green pushers also don't seem to care about all the wildlife killed by wind  and solar farms. 
 
When California forces certain businesses to pay unreasonably high wages, the result is clearly going to be destructive. Businesses will close, layoffs will occur and higher prices will harm everyone.

Like AB5, CA's Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Results in Layoffs, Closures, and Higher Prices

Businesses will clearly have to automate more. Some are employing cashiers from foreign countries on Zoom screens. Businesses that were exempt would also have to raise their wages to compete. A $20 an hour wage actually costs businesses $25 to $30 an hour with all the mandatory taxes and benefits. Wages for higher paid workers would also have to go up.
The damage has to be intentional. The policy does not make things more affordable for the poor and middle class.

It's more damage when states enact no bail laws and let career criminals roam the streets, because it is obviously dangerous.
 
When Oregon and other Democrats decriminalize drugs or make them free, it does not make things better.
 
When California and other places make theft under $950 a non-crime, they will get more of it. It is not a surprise when businesses close and costs go up.
 
When a presidential candidate campaigns on opening borders and issues executive orders opening the border and when Democrats run cities and states are sanctuaries that don't punish illegals, the flooding of the country with illegals is intentional. The policies are causing massive harm to the United States. Blaming Trump and Republicans for the problem is a lie. 
 
Closing schools and keeping children out of sports was clearly going to cause massive harm to children, especially vulnerable children who were already behind.  Yet supposedly educated people claimed they had no idea these things would happen and they absolve themselves of the harm they intentionally caused.
 
Democrats always say they are the party for children. They say they like freedom of choice. They claim they are for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, when policies are suggested to offer poor and minority children to leave poorly performing schools and go to schools that better off parents can send their kids to, Democrats block those options. The intentional destructive result is to hold those vulnerable children back.
 
When the CDC, and White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, continually lied to push the dictatorial edicts on COVID and its lockdowns, it was obviously going to cause people not to trust them. Yet the media and other Democrats continue to pretend they should be trusted and everything they did was based on science. 
 
When Democrats hand out freebies to buy votes, intentionally open borders and flood the country with millions of illegals, and when they have a goal to destroy companies that produce reasonably priced energy, the result is going to be one problem after another. Continually blaming others is an intentional lie. 
 
When Biden's policy is to destroy oil companies, it is clearly going to raise prices which helps Russia and Iran finance their wars and their terrorism. The high prices also greatly harm all Americans, especially the poor and middle class.
 
The results are so predictable that the destruction has to be intentional. 
 
Are Biden and Obama so stupid that they believe giving the tyrants in Iran access to hundreds of billions of dollars that it would make the world and the Iranian people safer? How is that working out?
 
Instead of focusing on defending America, our military seems to have prioritized pronouns, DEI, CRT, white privilege and going after right wing extremists (Trump supporters). Now there is a major shortage of recruits. While China and other adversaries are building their military we are focused on not hurting people's feelings. The damage is intentional. 
 
Forcing women to compete against men in sports and to share locker rooms with men is clearly going to harm women. Democrats should stop pretending that they are the party that respects women's rights. 
  
Democrats implemented great society and anti-poverty programs sixty years ago that essentially promoted the breakup of families. The clear result is that we now have a huge percentage of single parents and generational poverty. The fact that Democrats continue to promote and expand these policies indicates that the results are intentional. 
 
Forcing people to buy specific health insurance policies with massive mandates including no lifetime or annual limits was clearly going to take away choice, reduce competition, and raise prices. For fourteen years, insurance costs have skyrocketed, and for fourteen years Democrats have lied that Obamacare has made healthcare more affordable. The bad results are intentional because the goal of Democrats is to force government insurance on all of us. 
 
Forcing businesses to make electric vehicles and forcing people to buy them makes vehicles more unaffordable. Forcing people to switch out their furnaces, appliances, lawn mowers will greatly harm the poor and middle class and these radical green policies will not have any effect on temperatures or storms or sea levels. The intentional destruction is massive. 
As America has an explosive increase in demand for power due to data centers, AI, Crypto, electric vehicles and factories pretending to be green Democrats are focused on closing down oil, gas, and coal plants as fast as they can.  That is intentionally destructive. While Democrats want to close down efficient plants with affordable energy, China is rapidly building coal plants. Which country will be more successful? 

Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country,

Democrats are throwing money at daycare expenses to supposedly make it more affordable, but the policy, like all subsidies, makes prices go up much faster for people who pay. The policy is intentionally damaging.
 
Since the 1960s, the government has been throwing money at colleges to supposedly make them more affordable. The result of this largess is that colleges have used these funds to jack up their costs rapidly. Instead of having colleges control their costs, throwing money at the problem disincentivizes cost-control.  After all, most educators vote for Democrats so they don't care. The result is students have massive debt. Biden's solution is not to hold colleges accountable for screwing parents and kids, it is to dictatorially and unconstitutionally force taxpayers to pay off the debt to buy votes. 
 
When Biden politicizes the Justice Department to go after parents, Catholics, Trump, and Trump supporters who mostly peacefully trespassed at the Capitol, people understand how dangerous and biased the Justice Department is. 
 
When the Justice Department lets Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden off for crimes and taking massive kickbacks for access, the result is we get more corruption in government and people further lose the trust in government institutions. The damage is massive and intentional. 
 
When the Biden administration closed the air force base in Afghanistan, cleared out a prison with terrorists, and left billions in weapons for the Taliban. did they expect good results? The Taliban just brought back stoning.
 
Obama ran on remaking America. The disastrous consequences of Democrat policies are so obvious that they must be intentional. It is as if a community organizer who is a disciple of the radical Saul Alinsky was intentionally trying to destroy America so he could remake it in the radical image. Sadly, most of the media just cheer while this intentional destruction of America is clearly happening. Either the journalists don't understand or  don't care how many people and businesses they intentionally destroy. 
 
I would challenge everyone to name current Democrat policies that are meant to help the poor and middle class vs. making the government more powerful. I can't think of any.
 
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James Biden admitted to Congress in February that he earned money to organize some of the loans for the company. He received a $200,000 loan from Americore and on the same day, cut Joe Biden a $200,000 check, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed in October.


Biden-appointed Judge Rips DOJ for Ignoring House Subpoenas While Navarro in Prison

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U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes slammed lawyers for the Department of Justice for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. House of Representatives when Peter Navarro is sitting in prison for the same conduct.

Navarro is serving a four-month sentence for refusing to obey a subpoena from the January 6 Committee. Navarro argued that it would have been a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers for a presidential aide to comply.

The Biden Department of Justice has relied on the same argument in shielding two of its lawyers, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan, from subpoenas by the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

The committee wants to ask Daly and Morgan about their role in investigating the president’s son, Hunter Biden, for tax violations that were slow-walked and almost dropped before a federal judge in Delaware questioned a plea deal.

Politico reported:

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee on the federal District Court in Washington, spent nearly an hour accusing Justice Department attorneys of rank hypocrisy for instructing two other lawyers in the DOJ Tax Division not to comply with the House subpoenas.

“There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena,” Reyes said, referring to the recent imprisonment of Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. “And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. … And you don’t have to show up?”

Republicans Demand Garland Reveal if DOJ Investigating Biden Whistleblowers

Attorney Gen. Garland Speaks At The Nat'l Legal Aid & Defender Association's Commemoration Of 60th
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Top House Republicans recently demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland reveal if the Justice Department launched an investigation into Biden family whistleblowers.

The probe into the Department of Justice (DOJ) underscores the ongoing House impeachment inquiry’s investigation into President Joe Biden and his family members involved in the Biden business.

Biden Family

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“The Committees will not tolerate any retaliatory conduct by the Department against these or any other whistleblowers,” Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY), and Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith (R-MO) wrote Garland this week:

Whistleblowers play an integral role in identifying and rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and corruption within federal agencies. Federal law protects whistleblowers from retaliation.

Any efforts, including those by the Department, to investigate whistleblowers for making lawful disclosures raise serious concerns about the continued weaponization of the federal government. Any and all attempts to intimidate or retaliate against Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler for their protected disclosures to Congress must stop.

Two IRS whistleblowers disclosed politically damaging information about the Biden administration and the Biden family business:

  • Alleged Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “the big guy”
  • Alleged the DOJ twice prevented U.S. Attorney David Weiss from bringing stronger charges against Hunter
  • Alleged Garland refused to name a special counsel in the tax investigation
  • Alleged the IRS recommended charges against Hunter that were not approved by Garland

After the disclosures to Congress, Hunter Biden’s attorneys reportedly pushed the DOJ to prosecute IRS whistleblowers. In June, the committee voted to make public multiple instances of alleged political interference in which the DOJ “thwarted, hampered or interfered” with the IRS tax investigation into Hunter.

The House began investigating the Bidens in November 2022. During the probe, investigators found a massive web of wire transfers, 20 shell companies, and associates who helped the Biden family business rake in at least $24 million from foreign nationals over the course of approximately five years.

They also revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. In addition, they showed that nine additional family members received payments from the Bidens’ foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

RELATED — CNN’s Jackson: We Wouldn’t Be Here with Hunter ‘if It Were Not for the Whistleblowers’

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.



Obviously, Garland and his cronies know exactly what they’re doing. They’re enabling vote fraud, surely to ensure illegal immigrants can vote in the millions to put over the electoral finish line a man most legal Americans know is demented.  In the process, they’re insulting America’s poor and black citizens, branding them too stupid to obtain identification necessary for daily life. Reasonable people might call that racist.

It all starts at the top. Joe Biden has made a career out of using the government and the legal system to attack his political enemies. He has the backing of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the IRS. Trump supporters Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, and Peter Navarro have seen their civil rights disappear. The same goes for the January 6th defendants.

Destroying the American system of justice

Some days I think I must be dreaming. Two deranged “public servants” -- the vindictive New York State attorney general and a leftist judge with a bad haircut -- are being given free rein to subvert our justice system by placing titanic barriers against the Republican nominee’s ability to run for president. What is happening to our country and who will stop it?

How is it possible that someone with Trump’s extraordinary accomplishments can be brought down by two vile and inconsequential persons such as Letitia James and Arthur Engoron? Their lawsuit has the support of, and is the consequence of, the Democratic Party’s efforts to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.

To begin with, James’ fraud case against Trump is a farce. There is no crime and no victim. No one has been harmed. It is purely a weaponization of the legal system for political ends. As Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary has observed, what Trump is alleged to have done -- overvalue his real estate properties when applying for a bank loan -- is normal business practice all over the globe. The bank made money and is anxious to do business with him again.

Thanks to a publicity-hungry, overtly anti-Trump judge, James’ phony indictment has been backed up with an unheard-of $460-million judgment. And they want it now. No one has that kind of cash floating around. Unless he comes up with an impossible-to-obtain bond, Trump is precluded from his right to appeal.

Without waiting for the outcome of an appeal, James wants to seize Trump’s real estate holdings. Adding insult to injury, Judge Engoron has ordered a court to oversee the Trump organization for a minimum of three years. This is the Soviet-style textbook for “How to Take Down a Billionaire.”

If the Democrats can get away with this partisan assault on someone like Donald Trump, imagine what they will do to you and me in pursuit of their leftist policies. The American public is no longer protected by due process and the rule of law. The rule has just changed to, “Whatever the Democrats want.”

It all starts at the top. Joe Biden has made a career out of using the government and the legal system to attack his political enemies. He has the backing of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the IRS. Trump supporters Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, and Peter Navarro have seen their civil rights disappear. The same goes for the January 6th defendants.

There is a glimmer of hope. The James/Engoron anti-Trump judgment could be overturned by the New York State Appellate Division. It would be a massive miscarriage of justice if it is not overturned, but given the Democratic Party’s hold on New York judges and juries, the judgment may be upheld. Even if it is overturned, Trump will have been irreparably harmed by the seizure of his assets.

If the Democrats succeed in destroying Trump, the doors will be open to perverting the legal system as required for the leftist agenda of the Democratic Party. In short, we will have a one-party state and America’s justice system will be history.

Will anyone stop them? “The whole world is watching,” said Kevin O’Leary. “Where are the adults in this crazy narrative? We need an adult in the room. This is the United States of America under siege.”

Ed Brodow is a conservative political commentator and author of two No. 1 Amazon Best Sellers, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden, and THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.

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It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is working hard to keep that organization up and running:


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