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margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">18 Mar 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26433973" data-dsqu="/politics/2024/03/18/8-in-10-americans-say-religion-losing-influence-public-life/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">31</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT2M42S" data-mp3l="2:42" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/8-in-10-americans-say-religion-losing-influence-public-life-26433973.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">2:42</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A strong majority of U.S. adults believe religion is losing its influence in public life, a new Pew Research Center <a class="x5l" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/03/15/religions-role-in-public-life/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">survey</a> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/03/15/8-in-10-americans-say-religion-is-losing-influence-in-public-life/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">found</a>.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall, 80 percent of U.S. adults say religion’s role in American life is shrinking, “a percentage that’s as high as it’s ever been,” according to the poll report. Nearly half (49 percent) say the decline of religious influence in public life is a “bad thing.” Eight percent say religious influence is “growing and this is good.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only 6 percent say religious influence is “growing and this is bad,” and 13 percent say religious influence is “shrinking and this is good.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A little over one in five Americans feel neutral about religious influence on public life, the poll found. Three percent say it is “growing and this doesn’t make a difference,” while 18 percent say it is “declining, and this doesn’t make a difference.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other polls in recent years have found that Americans <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/21/poll-majority-u-s-adults-say-religion-losing-influence-after-pandemic-faith-surge/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">perceive</a> a decrease in religious influence in the United States and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/24/survey-american-parents-place-less-importance-on-children-having-similar-religious-beliefs/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">place less value</a> on their children sharing their religious views. Other <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/22/surveys-show-church-attendance-belief-god-drops-u-s/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">polls show</a> that church attendance and general belief in God have dropped in the U.S. during the past few years.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wall Street Journal</em>-NORC poll in March 2023 <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/27/poll-support-traditional-american-values-patriotism-declines/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">notably found</a> that the percentage of Americans who said patriotism, religious faith, family, and other traditional American values are “very important” is on the decline.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_10752226" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/06/GettyImages-990913576.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="NEW YORK, NY - JULY 3: A new U.S. citizen holds a flag to his chest during the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library, July 3, 2018 in New York City. 200 immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony, one day before America's Independence Day. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-10752226" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/06/GettyImages-990913576.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Drew Angerer/Getty Images</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While 49 percent of respondents said, “I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it,” only 39 percent said religion is “very important” to them. Religion saw a precipitous decline in ranking of importance: 62 percent of Americans said religion was “very important” in 1998, a sentiment which tumbled down to 48 percent in 2019 before hitting 2023’s low percentage.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Younger respondents were less likely to rank religion as very important to them than seniors, 31 percent to 55 percent. Republicans (53 percent) were also more likely than Democrats (27 percent) and independents (38 percent) to say that religion is “very important.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Pew Research Center poll was conducted with 12,693 respondents between February 13-25, 2024. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Industry insiders agree with former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that China is looking to annihilate American auto manufacturing on President Joe Biden’s watch.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During a speech in Ohio on Saturday, Trump warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that if he is reelected in November, China’s premier automakers will not be allowed to export their cheap Electric Vehicles (EVs) to the United States market without facing massive tariffs.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most recently, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/16/china-premier-automaker-plans-factory-mexico-flood-u-s-market/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reports</a> circulated that China’s BYD is planning to build EV plants in Mexico to export the cars to the United States at low prices — thus drowning American-made competitors and dominating the EV market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump said Biden’s allowing China to do so would be a “bloodbath” for American auto workers.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi — and you and I are friends but he understands the way I deal — those big, monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that and you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us, no,” Trump said:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line. And you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected.</span> Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole, that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country; that’s going to be the least of it. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Several industry insiders have agreed with Trump, including auto workers.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In January, Tesla CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/25/elon-musk-without-u-s-tariffs-china-will-demolish-american-auto-industry/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a> if the U.S. does not hit China’s EVs with huge tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will have “pretty much delomish[ed]” the American auto industry.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world … so, I think they will have significant success outside of China depending on what kind of tariffs or trade barriers are established,” Musk said on a Tesla earnings call:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frankly, I think, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">if there are not trade barriers established, they will pretty much demolish most other companies</span> in the world. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In February the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) issued a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/on-a-collision-course-report-final-022324.pdf?emci=60e27eba-bad4-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=cd576ab9-bcd4-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=2891884" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> detailing an “extinction-level event” for American auto workers should Biden allow China to export cheap EVs to the U.S. market.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The introduction of cheap Chinese autos — which are so inexpensive because they are backed with the power and funding of the Chinese government — to the American market could end up being an extinction-level event for the U.S. auto sector, whose centrality in the national economy is unimpeachable,” AAM experts write:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More alarming, however, are Chinese firms’ heavy spending on plants in Mexico, through which they can access the United States by way of the more favorable tariffs</span> under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). This strategy is, in effect, an effort to gain backdoor access to American consumers by circumventing existing policies that are keeping China’s autos out of the U.S. market. [Emphasis added]</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is an auto industry backed by the Chinese state. It has invested heavily in foreign markets in order to access more of them. And there is cause for alarm that Chinese vehicles and parts will only increase their access to the U.S. market, overcoming existing tariffs and evading existing trade enforcement measures, to <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">directly challenge domestic automakers and threaten the jobs of millions of American manufacturing workers.</span> [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like Trump, AAM experts list hiking tariffs on China as the number one policy prescription for preventing the American auto industry from facing extinction.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Impose exclusionary tariffs on all Chinese automobile imports to the United States, including both EVs and internal combustion engine vehicles,” the AAM report lists as one of its “Policy Recommendation.” “This could be accomplished through the existing Section 301 tariffs, imposed in 2018 and currently under review, or by way of launching a new investigation under Section 301 or other U.S. laws.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the start of the year, the United Auto Workers (UAW) submitted <a class="x5l" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-trade/2024/01/22/uaw-urges-stricter-tariffs-ahead-of-usmca-review-00136900" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">comments</a> to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai urging her to increase tariffs on foreign cars, including EVs.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">UAW President Shawn Fain <a class="x5l" href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2023-0013-0013" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wrote</a> to Tai:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The UAW is calling to specifically increase [most-favored nation] tariffs rates on automobiles and automotive parts, particularly electric vehicles and related components.</span> The United States is clearly out of step with the rest of the world in only having 2.5% [most-favored nation] tariff rates on light vehicles and components. Given the current overcapacity of electric vehicles and electric vehicle components, a temporary or permanent increase in the rate would create space for the nascent electric vehicle industry to domestically take root. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ford Motor Co. executive Marin Gjaja has expressed immense concern over the China threat mentioned by Trump over the weekend, Bloomberg <a class="x5l" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/ford-sees-colossal-competitive-threat-in-low-cost-chinese-evs" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“They are ahead of us in this technology,” Marin Gjaja, chief operating officer of Ford’s EV unit, Model e, said Wednesday. “We look at that and say, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘That’s coming here eventually, so we’d better get fit now and better get going on EVs or we don’t have a future as a company.’”</span> [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gjaja said the potential for cheap China-made EVs in the American market is a “colossal strategic threat” to the American auto industry, including Ford.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The</em> <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Economist</em> and the <a class="x5l" href="https://www.ft.com/content/de696ddb-2201-4830-848b-6301b64ad0e5" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Financial Times</em></a> published pieces in the last few months warning of a similar impact should Biden not take any action.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Chinese carmakers are making inroads in Mexico, a country with a free-trade agreement with America … as long as the putative factories used enough locally made parts, their output would escape America’s prohibitive tariffs,” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Economist</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/01/11/western-firms-are-quaking-as-chinas-electric-car-industry-speeds-up" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> in January.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even lawmakers in Washington, DC, often considered the least proactive, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/12/12/house-select-committee-u-s-must-revoke-free-trade-with-china-hike-tariffs/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">have lobbied</a> the Biden administration to end U.S. free trade with China altogether as a warning that American leaders will not tolerate unfair trade practices at the expense of the nation’s working and middle class.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Congress should move [China] to a new tariff column,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, wrote, “that restores U.S. economic leverage to ensure that [China] abides by its trade commitments and does not engage in coercive or other unfair trade practices and decreases U.S. reliance on [Chinese] imports in sectors important for national and economic security.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. 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color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of </i><a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook/dp/B08PPYQSDZ" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="s2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Politics of Slave Morality</i></span></a><i>. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. 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font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">ABC News YouTube screen shot</span></u></i></a><i><span class="17" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">, and </span></i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><i><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Voice of America // public domain</span></u></i></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">LEGALIZED CORRUTION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">YOU MEAN BANKSTERS' SPEECH FEES FOR $500K OR SIPHONING OFF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION FEES SIPHONED OVER TO FAMILY MEMBERS AS "CONSULTANT FEES"?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;">Biden family scandals 'illustrate' why trust in media is low: Kosha Gada</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/6632693951053678126"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvGDvN5-HOA</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><h1 style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; 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padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. But an demented, enormously corrupt man who reeks of treason cannot be a president of the United States. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Please follow Veronika Kyrylenko, Ph.D on </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Twitter</span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. 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THE GOOGLE CENSORS ARE BUSY! - Media Research Center: Google Interfered in 41 U.S. Elections over 16 Years<p> </p><header style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Media Research Center: Google Interfered in 41 U.S. Elections over 16 Years</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/03/18/media-research-center-google-interfered-in-41-u-s-elections-over-16-years/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A new study by the Media Research Center alleges that Google has repeatedly interfered in U.S. elections, favoring leftist candidates and suppressing conservative voices.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google, the ultra-woke tech giant that dominates online search and advertising, has been accused of a staggering pattern of election interference spanning over 16 years and 41 separate instances, according to a <a class="x5l" href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/MRC%20Google%20Election%20Interference%20Report.pdf-1710439680476.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">bombshell report from the Media Research Center (MRC).</a> The study, conducted by MRC’s Free Speech America division, levels severe allegations against the Silicon Valley giant, claiming it has systematically utilized its immense technological prowess to sway electoral outcomes in favor of left-leaning candidates.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” asserted Dan Schneider, vice president of MRC Free Speech America, and Gabriela Pariseau, the division’s editor.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_14930677" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/11/Google-Biden-Search-Graph-lead.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Google Biden Search Graph lead" class="size-full wp-image-14930677" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/11/Google-Biden-Search-Graph-lead.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart’s Google search traffic on Joe Biden flatlined months before the 2020 election.</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The study cites a litany of apparent infractions, ranging from algorithmic manipulation to outright censorship. Among the most egregious claims are allegations that Google favored Barack Obama over his Republican rivals John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, refused to rectify a derogatory “Google bomb” smearing Rick Santorum during the 2012 GOP primaries, and excluded potentially damaging autofill results for Hillary Clinton in 2016 while not extending the same courtesy to Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, the researchers assert that Google disabled Tulsi Gabbard’s ad account during the 2020 Democratic debates, suppressed negative coverage of Joe Biden, concealed most Republican campaign websites in 2022’s competitive Senate races, and is actively aiding Biden’s 2024 campaign by “burying in its search results the campaign websites of every one of his significant opponents.”</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_11869892" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/11/tulsi-gabbard-breitbart-siriusxm-getty.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-11869892" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/11/tulsi-gabbard-breitbart-siriusxm-getty.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 07: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard talks with SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily” at SiriusXM Studios on November 7, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)<br /></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The authors of the study allege that this pattern of misconduct extends far beyond mere isolated incidents. “Utilizing the many tools in its arsenal, Google aided those who most closely aligned with its leftist values from election cycle to election cycle since as far back as the 2008 presidential election. Meanwhile, it targeted for censorship those candidates who posed the most serious threat,” they wrote, accusing the company of making election interference “an organizational mission.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Supporting these claims, the study cites research from <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/11/08/dr-robert-epstein-google-is-influencing-the-midterm-elections-using-ephemeral-experiences/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Robert Epstein</a>, who concluded that Google’s algorithm likely shifted at least 2.6 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in 2016, while its “results and get-out-the-vote reminders favored Democrats and shifted the 2020 election results by at least 6 million votes.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google has adamantly refuted the allegations, asserting it has implemented robust safeguards to ensure unbiased and accurate search results. “There is absolutely nothing new here – just a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and many that failed in the courts,” a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital, adding, “We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we have no desire to make them biased or inaccurate.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Read more at <a class="x5l" href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/MRC%20Google%20Election%20Interference%20Report.pdf-1710439680476.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MRC Free Speech here.</a></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.</i></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">would joe biden have been elected if big tech had not censored/deleted info on the biden crime family???</span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill: Big Tech Censorship Case Heads to U.S. Supreme Court</span></p><header style="font-size: 16px;"><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/17/exclusive-louisiana-attorney-general-liz-murrill-big-tech-censorship-case-heads-to-u-s-supreme-court/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ronald Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” When it comes to freedom of speech, that could not be more true.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One hundred and three pages of fact findings in district court, supported by five hundred and ninety-one footnotes, demonstrate a sprawling campaign of “unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office in the world” to “bend [social-media platforms] to the government’s will.” The Biden administration, however, claims that these platforms aggressively censored American voices because of Biden’s persuasive “eloquence,” rather than its threats and coercion.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the White House insisted that social media platforms view themselves as “partners,” on the same “team,” and benefiting from the government’s “help,” those same officials were subjecting the platforms to relentless abuse, accusations, and blatant threats. Of course, this abusive relationship between Big Government and Big Tech didn’t begin this way. It was a slow burn starting as early 2017, when the FBI began coordinating secret meetings in Silicon Valley with content-moderation officers across seven platforms. Even then, the platforms were threatened with “legislation” if they did not censor more, with encrypted lists demanding mass-censorship flooding their inboxes.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This soon escalated to more aggressive practices. By 2018, CISA, or the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, was highlighting “disinformation” from state and local officials to be censored across platforms, and in 2020, the “Election Integrity Partnership” was launched — a colossal mass-surveillance and mass-censorship project that entangled government agencies, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and social media platforms into an Orwellian knot. In time, this would be rebranded as “The Virality Project,” with the capability to monitor tens of millions of social media “engagements” per week and spur extensive censorship.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, this shadowy Ministry of Truth had completely embedded itself into the very fabric of our digital communications. As a result, it wasn’t difficult for President Biden to double down on such an insidious system, one conveniently engineered for “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” Like water carving into rock, the unrelenting pressure from the “highest (and I mean highest) levels of the White House” proved too much for these tech companies to bear, with one hand offering them a carrot for compliance and the other threatening the complete annihilation of their business model. One by one, they folded to pressure from the Biden White House, responding with “total compliance,” even when it meant censoring truthful information that did not violate existing platform policies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted an historic injunction in response to our 2022 lawsuit <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louisiana and Missouri v. Biden</em> on July 4, 2023. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit affirmed it — twice. Both courts have confirmed that the government’s coordinated campaign to censor domestic speech through private institutions violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Yet the Biden administration continues to unapologetically coerce platforms into censorship to this day, resulting in an oppressive editorial power that affects every American.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden’s attorneys have also made it clear that this administration has no intention of ceasing its unconstitutional conduct. Instead, they’ve expressed the firm intention to continue. That is why this case at the U.S. Supreme Court is so important to our nation. These censorship efforts were never vague or abstract but extremely specific, right down to individual speakers and posts flagged for “misinformation” or “disinformation” because they dared to criticize the government’s narrative. But the government does not have the power to secretly distort the marketplace of ideas or actively manipulate public discourse to suit its needs. Moreover, “a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish” (<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Norwood v. Harrison</em>).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our limited discovery has uncovered extensive suppression of speech that goes against the fundamental nature of American liberty. For our government, its institutions, or its officials to actively censor protected speech strikes at the core of who we are as citizens of a free nation with a government created by the people, for the people.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I invite you to listen to our oral argument on March 18, where evidence rather than Orwellian “eloquence” will be front and center.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liz Murrill is the Attorney General of Louisiana. She previously served as the state’s Solicitor General and has been with this case from the beginning. </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is Murthy v. 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If you look at non-white working-class voters, there has been a 61-point shift, that’s an incredible amount, from 2012, that’s in twelve years. Obama, in 2012…I think won it by 67 points, that demographic. Biden won it by 48. Now he’s only up by six. What’s going on there?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder answered, “I think, first off, you’re measuring March against November. We’re looking at where people are right now, I think you’ll probably see a movement with regard to working-class people of all races towards Biden by the time you get to November. You’re also comparing an extremely — an unbelievably popular African American running for the first time and who really galvanized people in all strata of life. And so, I think, in some ways, that’s not a fair comparison. But I think we should not be too alarmed by these March polls, you’ve got to take them into consideration. But March is a fundamentally different month than October and November, and we’ll see where these things turn out when we get to that part of the calendar year.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder continued, “There’s work to be done, but I’m actually optimistic that, if we stay committed, focused, and as the media turns its attention to making this a binary choice between a person who’s got some age and cognitive issues — that would be Trump — against somebody who has actually accomplished a lot, I think we’ll do just fine. And what you said in the monologue was really good, though, Trump’s popularity rating is higher now than it ever was during his presidency. It’s like, hey, America, remember? … People, they’re saying, are you better off now than you were four years ago? You’re damn right we are. So, let’s not lose sight of the chaos, the corruption, and all the negative things that Donald Trump meant and put a good man back in the White House.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p></div></h1><h1 style="clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. 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text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Sean Moran">SEAN MORAN</a></address><time datetime="2024-03-15T14:25:17Z" style="border-right: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">15 Mar 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26412513" data-dsqu="/politics/2024/03/15/exclusive-vance-files-brief-ohio-lawsuit-against-google/" data-fbc="6" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div data-mp3d="PT4M36S" data-mp3l="4:36" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/exclusive-vance-files-brief-ohio-lawsuit-against-google-26412513.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #111111; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT4M36S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">4:36</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) filed a brief in favor of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s case against Google, arguing the big tech platform should be regulated like a common carrier, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance’s brief in the case encourages the court of common pleas to give the case a full hearing and explains the legal rationale for Ohio’s case.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ohio populist’s brief is in support of Yost’s motion for summary judgment and to oppose Google’s motion to dismiss the case.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his brief, Vance calls out Google’s “hypocrisy,” as the big tech platform claims in varying legal cases that it is sometimes a “neutral platform” and other cases it is not a utility because Google search result webpages are “Google’s own creation or selection.” He wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whether this is true or not—and it is not—Google is playing fast and loose with the facts. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google has claimed <i>the exact </i><i>opposite </i>about its search service in other cases and before other courts.</span> When seeking to limit its liability for user content under Section 230 of the Communications Act, it has asserted that its search services are “neutral tools,” Google Rep. Mem., 2017 WL 3188006, <i>Gonzalez v. Google</i>, 282 F.Supp.3d 1150 (N.D. Cal. 2017), that are solely “information provided by another.” Google Br., 2018 WL 3496264, at *3, <i>Marshall’s Locksmith Service, Inc.</i><i>v. Google</i>, 925 F.3d 1263 (D.C.Cir. 2019).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, this hypocrisy has led at least<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> one federal judge to conclude it is “a fair point” that Google is judicially estopped from claiming that “the blind operation of ‘neutral tools’”</span> [in its algorithms and other sorting techniques] is actually “editorial discretion.” <i>NetChoice v. Paxton</i>, 49 F.4th 439, 467–68 (5th Cir. 2022), <i>cert. granted in part</i>, 144 S. Ct. 477 (2023). In short, Google cannot claim that there are no factual questions about whether <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">its services are susceptible to common carrier regulation suitable for resolution</span> at this stage of litigation—because at the very least, this Court must determine which version of the facts about search engines Google actually asserts. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/713679755/Amicus-Brief#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Amicus Brief on Scribd">Amicus Brief</a> by <a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/publisher/298980670/Breitbart-News#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Breitbart News's profile on Scribd">Breitbart News</a> on Scribd</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="853" id="doc_79265" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/713679755/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-IkWLzmahNiE3v3MzNTuY" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Amicus Brief" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance argues that Google operates in many ways like a common carrier, saying “its functions are essentially the same as any communications network: it connects people by transmitting their words and exchanging their messages. It functions just like an old telephone switchboard, but rather than connect people with cables and electromagnetic circuits, Google uses indices created through data analysis. As such, common carrier regulation is appropriate under Ohio law.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This follows a May 2022 <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/26/ohio-court-rules-google-may-be-designated-a-common-carrier/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ruling</a> that Yost’s lawsuit against Google, which labels the tech giant a common carrier subject to special regulations and litigation, can proceed.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance and the Claremont Institute <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/09/16/j-d-vance-claremont-institute-file-amicus-brief-in-ohio-lawsuit-against-google/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">filed</a> in September 2021 an amicus brief in support of this case against Google.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Common carriers are strictly regulated about who they can deny service to. Common carriers include utilities and telecommunications companies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Courts have held that infringing on a private actor’s speech by requiring that actor to host another person’s speech does not always violate the First Amendment,” wrote Ohio County Court Judge James P. Schuck wrote in his ruling. “There are several examples in which private companies involved in mass communications were prohibited from censorship.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Professor Adam Candeub, who led the Trump administration’s efforts to curb tech censorship, told Breitbart News at the time that this was a welcome ruling.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The court recognized that the First Amendment does not prevent reasonable anti-discrimination requirements on companies that hold themselves out as transmitters of speech,” Candeub explained.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is State of Ohio v. Google in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No. 21 CV H 06 0274</em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter </i><a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/SeanMoran3" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>@SeanMoran3</i></span></a><i>.</i></p></div><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"> </span></footer><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Biden’s cyber-mess flying under the radar</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Julio Rivera" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/juliorivera/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Julio Rivera</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden’s presidency has hit new lows in 2024. Despite what many media outlets and talking heads on the left wanted to portray as an “energetic” and “fiery” State of the Union address last week, most Americans were not impressed by the speech, as the customary post-SOTU polling spike that most presidents enjoy hasn’t been there for Joe Biden.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, multiple polls released in the days since the speech have gone in the opposite direction for Biden. According to the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-newsyougov-poll-no-state-of-the-union-bump-for-biden-190451496.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yahoo News/YouGov</a> poll, Biden’s approval rating went from 40% prior to the speech to 39% this week. This increasing dissatisfaction with the current president was echoed in polling conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">FiveThirtyEight</a>, where, prior to the SOTU, Biden held a 38% approval rating on March 6 vs. a 37% approval rating on March 12.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The speech itself was a clinic in Beltway gaslighting, with Biden making a number of questionable to outright dishonest claims related to job growth, inflation, and so many other issues of concern to Americans.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On job growth, Biden’s claim to have created “15 million new jobs” in three years fails to acknowledge the fact that about <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/24363/number-of-jobs-lost-since-february-2020/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">12 million of those jobs</a> can and should be classified as post-COVID “Return-to-Work” jobs that were actually created by his predecessor, President Donald Trump.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the topic of inflation, Biden actually told the joint session of Congress that the United States had achieved the “lowest in the world.” But in reality, the United States is experiencing higher inflation than a number of industrialized nations and new reports show that the rate has actually <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/46ca8249-8b81-4f25-a852-4bf9f9852085" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ticked upward</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite all the misleading chest-pounding during the address, one major issue that President Biden mostly stayed away from was America’s crumbling cybersecurity infrastructure. This was most likely by design, as the current administration has failed to distinguish itself as a global leader in the cybersphere. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/top-cyber-threats-2023-navigating-evolving-cybersecurity-landscape/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Twenty twenty-three</a> was a tough enough year for the U.S. in dealing with cyber events, with <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/topics/cyberthreats/ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ransomware</a> attacks, intrusive <a href="https://www.itfunk.org/topics/cyber-threats/browser-hijackers/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">browser hijackers</a>, and countless other threats compromising devices deployed for use in both the private and public sectors. But the first few months of 2024 have seen a rash of attacks against critical sectors, including health care, telecom, and state and local governments.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">These attacks come at a time where the cyber landscape has changed tremendously, with major changes at the top for <a href="https://www.spywareremove.com/behind-microsoft-s-security-shakeup-need-know-new-ciso-future-strategies.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">tech giant Microsoft</a>, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission ushering in a new era of <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/technews/secs-new-cybersecurity-rules-a-comprehensive-overview-for-all-companies/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">forced private sector compliance</a> regarding cyber events.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the more critical attacks has been the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cyberattack-causes-nationwide-outage-change-healthcare-largest-prescription-processor-north-america/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">cyber-attack against Change Healthcare</a>. The health care technology giant manages the medical records for roughly one third of American patients and manages billions of health care transactions annually. As of mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into the attack, due to the “unprecedented magnitude of the cyberattack.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Change Healthcare attack represents one of the largest data hauls ever accessed in the history of cyber-crime. The reason for this kind of attack boils down to one simple motive: money. On the “dark web,” where the personal data of victimized Americans is bought and sold every day, medical records sell can fetch as much as $60 per person, compared to $15 for a Social Security number or $3 for credit card information.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, warnings issued earlier this year from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), highlighted new threats against municipal and county governments, emergency services, educational institutions, public health care facilities, and critical infrastructure related to the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/us-critical-infrastructure-aggressively-targeted-by-phobos-ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Phobos ransomware gang</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has become apparent that the Biden administration is handling our digital borders as poorly as they have handled out physical southern border with Mexico, and the best advice we can take here is to become as vigilant as we possibly can when dealing with our own personal online security. Educating ourselves regarding new attack vectors that include phony security pop-up scams and <a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/basicstar-backdoor-used-by-iranian-threat-actor/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">backdoors</a>, which negate normal authentication procedures to access a system, is critical.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other than that, there really is little we can do to prevent the major data breaches that continue to afflict major data warehouses, but with commonsense precautions, we can make <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cybersecurity-2024-what-you-can-do-secure-your-personal-business-networks/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2024 a safer year online</a> as we hope for a much-needed leadership change in 2025.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Julio Rivera is a business and political strategist, cybersecurity researcher, and a political commentator and columnist. His writing, which is focused on cybersecurity and politics, is regularly published by many of the largest news organizations in the world.</span></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252836_5_.jpeg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 406px; margin: 4px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Gage Skidmore via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/48651174747" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Flickr</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode" style="background-attachment: initial; 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Tom Emmer (R-MN) suggested this weekend that Democrat President Joe Biden’s overtly political State of the Union address may have disintegrated the tradition of presidents being invited to deliver the annual speech before the House chamber.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While Republicans, including Emmer — who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in 2024 — hope Trump defeats Biden in November, if somehow Biden comes back and wins the election this year, Emmer said that House Republicans might not welcome Biden back for a State of the Union address next year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That was about the most divisive State of the Union — I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” Emmer said in an interview with Axios <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&stream=top" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published</a> on Sunday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This may set things down a slippery slope, too, whereby Republicans do not invite Democrat presidents to give a State of the Union address and vice versa in divided government.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26357268" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26357268" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Biden’s speech, he attacked Trump more than a dozen times — repeatedly calling Trump “my predecessor” throughout the speech. Biden also laid out an aggressively leftist agenda replete with tax increases, more spending, radical border and immigration policies, and even for sending U.S. military forces into Gaza to build a port to send aid there. Biden, in addition, regularly attacked the Republicans in the chamber.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nonetheless, Emmer’s argument extends even beyond Biden continuing as president and said that Congress should reconsider welcoming a president to deliver a speech to give their State of the Union update to Congress. For many years throughout U.S. history, a State of the Union address from the president to Congress just simply did not happen. In fact, while George Washington — the nation’s first president — did address Congress in person, it was not until President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 that presidents began appearing in person before Congress to give what has become known as the State of the Union address.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25304638" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25304638" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican candidates forum on October 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Since Washington’s first speech to Congress, U.S. Presidents have ‘from time to time’ given Congress an assessment of the condition of the union. Presidents have used the opportunity to present their goals and agenda through broad ideas or specific details. The annual message or ‘State of the Union’ message’s length, frequency, and method of delivery have varied from President to President and era to era,” the White House <a class="x5l" href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html#:~:text=Franklin%20Roosevelt%20began%20using%20the,to%20be%20broadcast%20on%20television." rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> from the George W. Bush administration said, explaining the history of the address. “For example, Thomas Jefferson thought Washington’s oral presentation was too kingly for the new republic. Likewise, Congress’s practice of giving a courteous reply in person at the President’s residence was too formal. Jefferson detailed his priorities in his first annual message in 1801 and sent copies of the written message to each house of Congress. The President’s annual message, as it was then called, was not spoken by the President for the next 112 years. The message was often printed in full or as excerpts in newspapers for the American public to read.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emmer seemed to suggest that Congress might do well to return to that model of doing business, given the fact that Biden seems to have ruined the tradition with his address this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’s not going to be there next year — it’ll be a different president,” Emmer told Axios. “But I think you’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A majority of voters are “struggling” under President Joe Biden’s soaring inflation, a McLaughlin and Associates poll found Monday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As citizens suffer from prices about 20 percent higher across the board since Biden assumed office, more than three-quarters of Americans said Biden’s economic plan negatively impacts them.</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Impacted (overall): 83 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Struggling: 50 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Small impact: 33 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">No change: 17 percent</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just 63 percent of respondents said Biden’s economy is getting worse, while 31 percent said it is getting better.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Biden assumed office, only 45 percent said the economy was getting worse, 18 points fewer than in March 2024.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The poll also found that Biden’s struggling economy is the number one issue for voters:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Economic issues: 42 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Social issues: 24 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Security issues: 23 percent</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The poll marked Biden’s approval rating at 42 percent, well below the 50 percent historic threshold of presidents who win reelection.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The poll <a class="x5l" href="https://mclaughlinonline.com/pols/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/National-March-Presentation-RELEASE-3-18-24.pdf" id="OWAeea73480-e5b3-96eb-e340-44e531de53cb" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sampled</a> 1,000 likely general election voters from March 9-14, 2024. The poll provided no margin of error.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More about Biden’s economy is <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/02/29/super-core-inflation-soared-in-january-worst-in-nearly-two-years/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of </i><a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook/dp/B08PPYQSDZ" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="s2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Politics of Slave Morality</i></span></a><i>. 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border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">279</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT1M56S" data-mp3l="1:56" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/report-laid-off-hollywood-executives-panic-as-jobs-vanish-this-is-a-full-scale-depression-26432513.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 15px; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hollywood suits who have been laid off amid the recent rounds of studio budget cuts are worried that they are facing the prospect of long-term unemployment as the industry and overall economy show few signs of rebounding, according to a new report.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This is a full-scale depression for the entertainment industry,” one TV executive <a class="x5l" href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/hollywood-job-losses-executives-full-scale-depression-1235841674/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> Deadline.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The situation is “bordering on worst-case scenario,” another executive said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hollywood executives have been hit hard in the past year as the major studios enacted deep budget cuts amid a perfect storm of economic chaos that includes Americans continuing to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2023/06/19/nolte-study-says-cord-cutting-will-crater-pay-tv-only-38-u-s-homes-bye-cnn/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cancel their cable TV subscriptions,</a> the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/04/hollywood-clobbered-by-weak-advertising-as-bidenflation-weighs-on-consumer-spending/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steep downturn in TV advertising</a>, and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/05/stream-pipe-dream-paramount-plus-pluto-tv-lose-more-than-a-billion-in-six-months/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">streaming losses in the billions of dollars</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition, the industry is still recovering from last year’s strikes by Hollywood writers and actors.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Studios that have slashed their headcount in recent months include the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/06/02/tragic-kingdom-disney-completed-7000-layoffs-goal-ahead-memorial-day-weekend/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Walt Disney Company</a>, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/02/24/paramounts-future-looks-grim-amid-perfect-storm-of-declining-cable-tv-streaming-woes/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paramount</a>, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/01/report-mass-layoffs-coming-this-month-to-cnn-parent-company-warner-bros-discovery/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Warner Bros. Discovery</a>, and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/01/10/hollywood-streaming-fail-amazon-laying-off-several-hundred-at-prime-video-mgm-studios/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon MGM</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Laid-off Hollywood executives are using LinkedIn to bemoan their predicament, according to Deadline.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some said they have sent hundreds of job applications and never got a response to the majority of them, not even from corporate HR. Meanwhile, some have been looking for more than a year while trying to make ends meet through consulting and part-time work.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lack of jobs is reportedly pushing down salaries in Hollywood.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“With fewer jobs and more demand, the companies can get away with that. An executive who made $500,000 in their last job would now be willing to take a $350,000 offer. 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American drivers pay 45 percent more to fuel their daily commutes since President Joe Biden ascended to the White House, AAA data shows.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The national average gas price on Monday <a class="x5l" href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">was</a> $3.46 per gallon, according to AAA, up about 20 cents from last month.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Biden assumed office, the national average was $2.38 per gallon, more than a dollar less than the current price. That is about a 45 percent increase since former President Donald Trump left office.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gas prices are high by historical standards — and not just compared with the very low gas prices seen during the pandemic lockdowns, when the weekly national average gas price fell below $1.80. In 2018, gasoline averaged around $2.72 per gallon. The following year, the average was $2.60.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gas prices remain high and could go higher due to industry and political factors. Biden’s economic <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/09/29/energy-leaders-slam-lisa-murkowski-harming-alaskan-oil-gas-sector/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">war</a> on American energy independence during instability in the <a class="x5l" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/oil-gas-prices-israel-gaza-war-middle-east-houthi-iran-2024-2" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Middle East</a> and in Ukraine are significant factors.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan <a class="x5l" href="https://www.kait8.com/2024/03/18/gas-prices-continue-march-upward/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> the increased price of gas is attributed to seasonal demand. But consumers say the prices are not easy to accept.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I need to fill up … yeah, I’m kind of getting used to it though,” Jessica Martinez, told NBC 7’s in Mission Valley, California.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Am I filling it up? No, I’m not filling it up all the way,” <a class="editor-rtfLink x5l" href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/gas-prices-on-the-rise-in-san-diego-county-amid-spring-break-travel-rush/3463738/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> Galina Betker, who drives to visit her family every weekend. “It is a new expense, honestly.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Central Florida, prices <a class="x5l" href="https://www.wftv.com/news/local/gas-prices-surge-florida-set-new-high-year/XFE4XVK5S5AVPLWLK7HNHLUAHE/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">surged</a> last week to set a new high for 2024. “The jump at the pump may not be over yet,” AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins <a class="x5l" href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/03/18/florida-gas-prices-keep-going-up/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>. “Drivers may be in line for another round of rising prices, after gasoline and crude oil futures rose to new 2024 highs last week.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to AAA, the top ten states with the largest <a class="OWAAutoLink x5l" href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/filling-up-wont-cost-a-pot-o-gold-this-st-patricks-day/" id="OWAe42b2f00-3a9c-adc8-2328-0b38503a6451" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">increased</a> gas prices are:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Texas (+10 cents), Alaska (+10 cents), Oregon (+9 cents), Washington, D.C. (+9 cents), Utah (+8 cents), New Mexico (+8 cents), Washington (+8 cents), Montana (+7 cents), Arizona (+6 cents) and Idaho (+5 cents).</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The nation’s most expensive markets to fill a tank of gas are:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">California ($4.87), Hawaii ($4.71), Washington ($4.24), Nevada ($4.14), Oregon ($3.98), Alaska ($3.76), Illinois ($3.70), Arizona ($3.64), Washington, D.C. 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><b>The food giant announced that it was <a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-us/tyson-foods-hoping-hire-40000-asylum-seekers-immigrants-labor-manufacturing-jobs" rel="noopener noopener external" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shutting</a> down an Iowa pork factory that will lead to the elimination of 1,200 jobs, but even as the plant announcement was made, the company also reported an effort in Manhattan to hire thousands of illegals for a plant in Tennessee, Fox Business Network reported.</b></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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This is the entire point of illegal immigration — and Republicans, we’ve got to hammer this point home.”</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the company is suffering a major backlash on social media where thousands of Americans are advocating for their friends to support a boycott of the company.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="color: #111111; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1769360586637279591" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1769360586637279591&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feconomy%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Ftyson-foods-faces-boycott-after-firing-1200-americans-would-like-employ-42000-migrants%2F&sessionId=e2cf5b20e379abd15e75338ca72d150a1d2dc767&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; 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color: #111111; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is now routine to see child labor in New York City subways. But the child workers are sacrosanct illegal migrants, so the once-proudly progressive authorities in the city and state now turn away and declare, “not my problem.”</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> came out with a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/nyregion/migrant-children-selling-candy-subway-laws.html?smid=tw-share" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> Wednesday detailing what any New Yorker already knows — that the subways are swarming with children as young as seven years old, slinging candy bars and packs of gum to commuters, sometimes with adults and sometimes alone, engaging in straight up child labor, after their mostly-Ecuadorian families landed in the Big Apple with no resources or connections in the area.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In scenes that are not familiar to people in first world countries but common in the places many of these migrants arrived from, kids are working out in the open, during the week, on hours their peers are all in school, and capitalizing on the sympathy their work elicits to pocket a few extra dollars for their parents.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25046842" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/new-york-2.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25046842" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/new-york-2.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel hoping for a place to stay on August 02, 2023, in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images).<br /></span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“‘It’s like a postcard from my country,’ said Soledad Álvarez Velasco, a social anthropologist originally from Quito who researches migration from Ecuador to the U.S. at the University of Illinois Chicago. ‘You will always see women there carrying their children, or with their children around them, selling whatever they can.’ In the U.S., she said, ‘they’re doing exactly what they did at home,'” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Magazine</em> quotes over the summer in a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.curbed.com/article/migrant-children-selling-candy-new-york-subways.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> on the same issue.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite Mayor Eric Adams (D) claiming during a trip to Ecuador in October that “In New York City, we do not allow our children to be in dangerous environments,” according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em>, scores <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</em>, and no one in the city or state governments feel like doing anything about it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Commendably, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> writes that it reached out to seven city and state agencies to ask about subway child labor, and all of them claimed it was someone else’s problem.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Department of Education, the State Labor Department, the Administration for Children’s Services, the State Office of Children and Family Services, all can’t be bothered, according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> report.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> also claims police, which would be the only authority able to be dispatched quick enough to respond before the children move, are not sent to calls that are not an emergency.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The paper writes:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are logistical hurdles to addressing the issue. By the time someone called the state hotline and the report was evaluated and passed along to A.C.S., a candy seller could have already moved to a different location. The police can respond more quickly, but they typically are dispatched only in emergencies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, cited its rule against unauthorized commercial activity, which carries a $50 fine, and referred further inquiries to the police and City Hall.</span></p></blockquote><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26350153" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 728px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/wi/ap/transit-security-politics-couple-of-heavily-armed-york-national-guard-soldiers-patrol-grand-central.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Associated Press" class="wp-image-26350153" height="476" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/wi/ap/transit-security-politics-couple-of-heavily-armed-york-national-guard-soldiers-patrol-grand-central-1024x679.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="718" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A couple of heavily armed New York National Guard soldiers patrol Grand Central terminal, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the unchecked illegality breeds more illegality.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turf wars are forming over train “territory,” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Mag</em> said in its report, as more migrants move into the subway to hustle and threaten each other over certain platforms.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Individuals and families who work in the same areas tend to look out for one another — but they don’t always get along. There are, increasingly, disputes over territory as more take to the trains. ‘That guy over there,’ one young candy-and-beverage seller from Ambato, Ecuador, said along the F train, pointing discreetly to a middle-aged man selling sodas from a cooler of ice farther down the platform. ‘He told us that bad things will happen to us if we keep selling here. That this is his place and no one else’s,'” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Mag</em> reported.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are working in an area that is apparently so dangerous that New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) just last week had to put the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/06/new-york-state-sending-national-guard-nyc-commuters-feel-safe/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Guard</a> in the subway. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The United States is experiencing <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an enormous surge of migrants</span>. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.6 million foreign born workers</span> during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnR" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole</span>. Another 3.7 million have arrived with the proper paperwork allowing them to work.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Democrat Border Crisis</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a political crisis for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing</span> as president. A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, <a class="x5l" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Gallup News</a>. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">top three issues</span> will not surprise you. They are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immigration </span>(19 percent),<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the economy </span>(9 percent), and<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> inflation </span>(5 percent).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_F5x8o9g.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Economist/YouGov survey</a> asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_26409013" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26409013" height="1280" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/GettyImages-1231479164.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61 percent say they disapprove</span>. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arguably</em> because <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove</span>, at 47 percent.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-growth-good" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proclaiming</a> that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases the supply of labor</span>. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages</span>, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy</span>. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20351765" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-20351765" height="1281" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/03/GettyImages-1236206410.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming more than they produce</span> because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s more, the current immigration surge is <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed</span>. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy</span>—and therefore <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans</span>—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A recent analysis</a> from the <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookings Institution</span> looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation.</span> Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnY" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">says that rising wages do not push up inflation</span> but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> flipping those disapproval ratings</span>. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s not going to happen. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration chaos</span> is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Olivia Murray" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/oliviamurray/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Olivia Murray</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Just yesterday, Breitbart News </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/11/nobel-economist-reverses-support-migration/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported</a> on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state <em>isn’t</em> such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">editorial</a> titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I had … seriously underthought my </span>ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that </span>immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. <em>I no longer think so</em> [emphasis added].</b></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Maybe the </span>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? <b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does </span><em>not</em> benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s it, class dismissed.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Holger Motzkau, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bidenomics</span> is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consumer sentiment index</span> slipped lower after climbing for two months.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse</span>, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">partisan politics</span>. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">party allegiance does not explain everything</span>.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">registered voters under 30</span> taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than noise</span>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better off financially than a year ago</span>. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42.9 percent say they are worse off financially</span> than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poll also shows <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters</span>. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s going on with younger Americans? The <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employment situation</span> appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The jump was driven by a big increase in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unemployment among young women</span>. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">political trouble for Biden</span>. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden’s age problem is about youth</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.75rem; 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Tom Emmer (R-MN) suggested this weekend that Democrat President Joe Biden’s overtly political State of the Union address may have disintegrated the tradition of presidents being invited to deliver the annual speech before the House chamber.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While Republicans, including Emmer — who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in 2024 — hope Trump defeats Biden in November, if somehow Biden comes back and wins the election this year, Emmer said that House Republicans might not welcome Biden back for a State of the Union address next year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That was about the most divisive State of the Union — I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” Emmer said in an interview with Axios <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&stream=top" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published</a> on Sunday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This may set things down a slippery slope, too, whereby Republicans do not invite Democrat presidents to give a State of the Union address and vice versa in divided government.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26357268" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26357268" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Biden’s speech, he attacked Trump more than a dozen times — repeatedly calling Trump “my predecessor” throughout the speech. Biden also laid out an aggressively leftist agenda replete with tax increases, more spending, radical border and immigration policies, and even for sending U.S. military forces into Gaza to build a port to send aid there. Biden, in addition, regularly attacked the Republicans in the chamber.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nonetheless, Emmer’s argument extends even beyond Biden continuing as president and said that Congress should reconsider welcoming a president to deliver a speech to give their State of the Union update to Congress. For many years throughout U.S. history, a State of the Union address from the president to Congress just simply did not happen. In fact, while George Washington — the nation’s first president — did address Congress in person, it was not until President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 that presidents began appearing in person before Congress to give what has become known as the State of the Union address.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25304638" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25304638" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican candidates forum on October 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Since Washington’s first speech to Congress, U.S. Presidents have ‘from time to time’ given Congress an assessment of the condition of the union. Presidents have used the opportunity to present their goals and agenda through broad ideas or specific details. The annual message or ‘State of the Union’ message’s length, frequency, and method of delivery have varied from President to President and era to era,” the White House <a class="x5l" href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html#:~:text=Franklin%20Roosevelt%20began%20using%20the,to%20be%20broadcast%20on%20television." rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> from the George W. Bush administration said, explaining the history of the address. “For example, Thomas Jefferson thought Washington’s oral presentation was too kingly for the new republic. Likewise, Congress’s practice of giving a courteous reply in person at the President’s residence was too formal. Jefferson detailed his priorities in his first annual message in 1801 and sent copies of the written message to each house of Congress. The President’s annual message, as it was then called, was not spoken by the President for the next 112 years. The message was often printed in full or as excerpts in newspapers for the American public to read.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emmer seemed to suggest that Congress might do well to return to that model of doing business, given the fact that Biden seems to have ruined the tradition with his address this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’s not going to be there next year — it’ll be a different president,” Emmer told Axios. “But I think you’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. 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margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">18 Mar 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26430848" data-dsqu="/entertainment/2024/03/18/la-la-land-exodus-ryan-gosling-eva-mendes-latest-celebrities-to-leave-los-angeles/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT2M15S" data-mp3l="2:15" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/la-la-land-exodus-ryan-gosling-eva-mendes-latest-celebrities-to-leave-los-angeles-26430848.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">2:15</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No more La La Land for Ryan Gosling.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can add Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes to the list of Hollywood celebrities who have bid farewell to Los Angeles. The celebrity couple moved out of L.A. with their two daughters to give their kids a quieter childhood, a source <a class="x5l" href="https://people.com/why-eva-mendes-and-ryan-gosling-moved-their-kids-out-of-los-angeles-8607294" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People</em> magazine.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“For them, the most important job is their girls. Everything else comes second,” the unnamed source told <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People</em>. “And their girls are thriving. They left L.A. to live a bit further north, away from Hollywood. They didn’t want the girls to grow up around other celebrity kids.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It remains unclear where Gosling and Mendes have put down roots.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gosling and Mendes join a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/31/10-hollywood-celebrities-who-fled-california-for-a-better-life/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">growing number of celebrities</a> to pack up and move out of L.A.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other stars who said goodbye include Mark Wahlberg, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Stewart, Scott Baio, Dean Cain, and Robert Davi.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even Angelina Jolie has stated she <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/05/angelina-jolie-says-she-plans-to-leave-los-angeles-hollywood-is-not-a-healthy-place/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wants to move</a> her family out of L.A.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I grew up in quite a shallow place,” she said. “Of all the places in the world, Hollywood is not a healthy place. So you seek authenticity.”</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Los Angeles has become mired in crime in recent years as the Democrat-controlled city and county have embraced soft-on-crime policies that have decriminalized large swaths of offenses. As a result, criminals have become emboldened, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/12/01/california-crime-wave-jacqueline-avant-wife-of-music-exec-clarence-avant-killed-in-home-invasion-robbery/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">targeting wealthy neighborhoods</a> that were once thought to be immune to lawlessness.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">L.A. District Attorney George Gascon (D) implemented a zero-bail policy that put alleged offenders back on the streets before their time in court. He later rescinded the policy when faced with a recall. But the policy <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2023/05/24/l-a-da-gascon-has-10000-case-backlog-as-no-cash-bail-returns/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">returned</a> in 2023.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gascon also <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/06/la-da-george-gascon-issues-policy-help-criminal-illegal-aliens-avoid-deportation/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">issued</a> a policy directive to help criminal illegal aliens avoid deportation.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News previously <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/02/04/jay-z-calls-out-grammys-racism-during-acceptance-speech-we-want-yall-to-get-it-right/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">noted</a>, Los Angeles experienced a nearly 12 percent surge in crime, including homicides, rape, robberies, armed assaults, and burglaries in the 12 months leading up to 2023.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow David Ng on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsDavidNg" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@HeyItsDavidNg</a>. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is now routine to see child labor in New York City subways. But the child workers are sacrosanct illegal migrants, so the once-proudly progressive authorities in the city and state now turn away and declare, “not my problem.”</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> came out with a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/nyregion/migrant-children-selling-candy-subway-laws.html?smid=tw-share" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> Wednesday detailing what any New Yorker already knows — that the subways are swarming with children as young as seven years old, slinging candy bars and packs of gum to commuters, sometimes with adults and sometimes alone, engaging in straight up child labor, after their mostly-Ecuadorian families landed in the Big Apple with no resources or connections in the area.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In scenes that are not familiar to people in first world countries but common in the places many of these migrants arrived from, kids are working out in the open, during the week, on hours their peers are all in school, and capitalizing on the sympathy their work elicits to pocket a few extra dollars for their parents.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25046842" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/new-york-2.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25046842" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/new-york-2.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel hoping for a place to stay on August 02, 2023, in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images).<br /></span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“‘It’s like a postcard from my country,’ said Soledad Álvarez Velasco, a social anthropologist originally from Quito who researches migration from Ecuador to the U.S. at the University of Illinois Chicago. ‘You will always see women there carrying their children, or with their children around them, selling whatever they can.’ In the U.S., she said, ‘they’re doing exactly what they did at home,'” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Magazine</em> quotes over the summer in a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.curbed.com/article/migrant-children-selling-candy-new-york-subways.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> on the same issue.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite Mayor Eric Adams (D) claiming during a trip to Ecuador in October that “In New York City, we do not allow our children to be in dangerous environments,” according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em>, scores <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</em>, and no one in the city or state governments feel like doing anything about it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Commendably, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> writes that it reached out to seven city and state agencies to ask about subway child labor, and all of them claimed it was someone else’s problem.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Department of Education, the State Labor Department, the Administration for Children’s Services, the State Office of Children and Family Services, all can’t be bothered, according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> report.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> also claims police, which would be the only authority able to be dispatched quick enough to respond before the children move, are not sent to calls that are not an emergency.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The paper writes:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are logistical hurdles to addressing the issue. By the time someone called the state hotline and the report was evaluated and passed along to A.C.S., a candy seller could have already moved to a different location. The police can respond more quickly, but they typically are dispatched only in emergencies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, cited its rule against unauthorized commercial activity, which carries a $50 fine, and referred further inquiries to the police and City Hall.</span></p></blockquote><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26350153" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 728px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/wi/ap/transit-security-politics-couple-of-heavily-armed-york-national-guard-soldiers-patrol-grand-central.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Associated Press" class="wp-image-26350153" height="476" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/wi/ap/transit-security-politics-couple-of-heavily-armed-york-national-guard-soldiers-patrol-grand-central-1024x679.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="718" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A couple of heavily armed New York National Guard soldiers patrol Grand Central terminal, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the unchecked illegality breeds more illegality.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turf wars are forming over train “territory,” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Mag</em> said in its report, as more migrants move into the subway to hustle and threaten each other over certain platforms.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Individuals and families who work in the same areas tend to look out for one another — but they don’t always get along. There are, increasingly, disputes over territory as more take to the trains. ‘That guy over there,’ one young candy-and-beverage seller from Ambato, Ecuador, said along the F train, pointing discreetly to a middle-aged man selling sodas from a cooler of ice farther down the platform. ‘He told us that bad things will happen to us if we keep selling here. That this is his place and no one else’s,'” <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Mag</em> reported.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are working in an area that is apparently so dangerous that New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) just last week had to put the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/06/new-york-state-sending-national-guard-nyc-commuters-feel-safe/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Guard</a> in the subway. Those soldiers are doing bag checks for the three million+ commuters who use the underground transit system daily, even as foreign children illegally sell candy around them.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The New York subway has become a microcosm of the way the left has done a 180 from the ideals that built the modern Democratic Party: a system where the military patrols subways, where children are exploited through illegal labor on turf governed by gangs — and the “progressive” party of FDR has nothing to say about it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i data-stringify-type="italic">Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The United States is experiencing <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an enormous surge of migrants</span>. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.6 million foreign born workers</span> during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnR" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole</span>. Another 3.7 million have arrived with the proper paperwork allowing them to work.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Democrat Border Crisis</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a political crisis for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing</span> as president. A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, <a class="x5l" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Gallup News</a>. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">top three issues</span> will not surprise you. They are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immigration </span>(19 percent),<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the economy </span>(9 percent), and<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> inflation </span>(5 percent).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_F5x8o9g.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Economist/YouGov survey</a> asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_26409013" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26409013" height="1280" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/GettyImages-1231479164.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61 percent say they disapprove</span>. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arguably</em> because <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove</span>, at 47 percent.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-growth-good" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proclaiming</a> that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases the supply of labor</span>. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages</span>, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy</span>. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20351765" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-20351765" height="1281" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/03/GettyImages-1236206410.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming more than they produce</span> because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s more, the current immigration surge is <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed</span>. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy</span>—and therefore <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans</span>—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A recent analysis</a> from the <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookings Institution</span> looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation.</span> Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnY" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">says that rising wages do not push up inflation</span> but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> flipping those disapproval ratings</span>. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s not going to happen. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration chaos</span> is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Olivia Murray" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/oliviamurray/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Olivia Murray</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Just yesterday, Breitbart News </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/11/nobel-economist-reverses-support-migration/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported</a> on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state <em>isn’t</em> such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">editorial</a> titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I had … seriously underthought my </span>ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that </span>immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. <em>I no longer think so</em> [emphasis added].</b></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Maybe the </span>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? <b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does </span><em>not</em> benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s it, class dismissed.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Holger Motzkau, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bidenomics</span> is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consumer sentiment index</span> slipped lower after climbing for two months.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse</span>, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">partisan politics</span>. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">party allegiance does not explain everything</span>.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">registered voters under 30</span> taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than noise</span>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better off financially than a year ago</span>. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42.9 percent say they are worse off financially</span> than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poll also shows <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters</span>. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s going on with younger Americans? The <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employment situation</span> appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The jump was driven by a big increase in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unemployment among young women</span>. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">political trouble for Biden</span>. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden’s age problem is about youth</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.75rem; 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Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/amp/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> by the<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York Post</em>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">RELATED ARTICLES:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/nearly-150-illegal-aliens-terrorist-watch-list-encountered-u-s-border-past-year/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; 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font-size: large;">Lawsuit: Biden’s DHS Withholding Details on Terror Suspects Caught Crossing Southern Border</span></a></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the interview on March 12, agents Mirandized the man who later admitted to being a member of a foreign terrorist organization.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ebbadi also reportedly admitted he trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member for an additional four years. His duties included guarding weapons locations.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the first four months of Fiscal Year 24, which began on October 1, 2023, nearly 60 migrants illegally entering the United States have been identified as being on the terror watch list. Approximately 270 more were apprehended in the prior two fiscal years — shattering prior records.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.breitbart.com/author/bob-price/&source=gmail&ust=1701966170961000&usg=AOvVaw2NwkHYq3RlmOkR5MA-SpPt" href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/bob-price/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Price</em></a><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s </em><a class="x5l" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.fox26houston.com/shows/whats-your-point&source=gmail&ust=1701966170961000&usg=AOvVaw0ewpX7E7Lgcl4yphJC4IUh" href="https://www.fox26houston.com/shows/whats-your-point" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">What’s Your Point?</a> Sunday morning<i> talk show. 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font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you thought 2023 was a record year for illegals crossing into the U.S, think again.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A new forecast holds that the U.S. is on track for a record additional 3.2 million illegal aliens coming into the states.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2922272/record-3-2-million-migrants-to-cross-in-take-us-jobs/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">A record 3.2 million <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/immigration/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">migrants</a> are expected to cross into the United States this year, 1 million more than during past spikes in the Reagan and Clinton eras, according to a new outlook.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We forecast U.S. southwest <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2911784/sheriffs-rip-biden-secured-border-disaster/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">border encounters</a> by Customs and Border Patrol at 2.7 million for FY 2024, based on the last three months of data, adjusted seasonally. Apprehensions look to come in just a hair above 2023 levels. Inadmissibles, those presenting at official <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2915847/thousands-of-haitians-dumped-in-us-but-dhs-wont-say-where/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">crossing points</a> without appropriate documentation, are slated to rise by almost 200,000,” Princeton Policy Advisors said in its latest analysis.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which points to the biggest problem with Joe Biden's open borders crisis: It's not stopping.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no end in sight to each year being a record year for illegal aliens rolling into the U.S. despite Biden's claims to have taken measures to stop the illegal flow and get it all under control.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">He's expanded and spread out the numbers of ways foreign nationals can get into the U.S. without authorization -- from the CBPOne border app to take asylum applications and set a port of entry date, to expanded asylum admissions for Nicaraguans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Cubans, supposedly vetted and with sponsors in the U.S., which is already falling apart as a claim.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">He visited the border, never mind that it was a non-busy stretch of the border. Bedard noted that he neglected to talk with communities in the U.S. most affected by the crisis and ignored going to the funeral of a Border Patrol agent killed on the job.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden sent his men to Mexico City to work out a deal with the Mexicans to stop the flow, and <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/in_mexico_biden_had_one_job.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">even went himself</a>, too, last year. The flow is now bigger.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Investigative reporter Todd Bensmann <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=todd+bensmann+deal+amlo+biden&sca_esv=a32461fe05b6239e&sxsrf=ACQVn0-QKBBcaGAU9o10RrKnnqnuwZltOw%3A1710770236516&source=hp&ei=PEj4ZammHajBkPIPrc-12A8&iflsig=ANes7DEAAAAAZfhWTKKDtzcqBp7a7AKFdKD3QTqZpFYd&ved=0ahUKEwiptPPh-_2EAxWoIEQIHa1nDfsQ4dUDCBg&uact=5&oq=todd+bensmann+deal+amlo+biden&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ih10b2RkIGJlbnNtYW5uIGRlYWwgYW1sbyBiaWRlbjIHECEYChigATIHECEYChigAUj1QlD5AVjKKHABeACQAQGYAcQPoAGqOKoBDzAuMy40LTYuMi4xLjAuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDaACjzioAhPCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIWEC4YAxiPARjlAhjqAhi0AhiMA9gBAcICFhAAGAMYjwEY5QIY6gIYtAIYjAPYAQHCAggQLhixAxiABMICBRAAGIAEwgIIEAAYgAQYxwPCAhcQLhixAxiABBiXBRjcBBjeBBjgBNgBAsICChAuGAoYsQMYgATCAgcQABiABBgKwgIKEAAYgAQYChjHA8ICGRAuGAoYsQMYgAQYlwUY3AQY3gQY4ATYAQLCAgcQABiABBgNwgIKEAAYgAQYDRjHA8ICBBAhGBWYAxq6BgYIARABGAu6BgYIAhABGBSSBw0xLjIuNC03LjIuMC4xoAfEOg&sclient=gws-wiz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported that there was even evidence</a> of a secret "dirty border deal" between Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tamp down the flow of illegals until election day in the states in order to help both men's chances either for re-election or their party's reelection in each country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this was to no avail -- the border crossings are now higher than ever. Three million this year, four million next year, five million the year after. There is no end in sight so long as Democfrat policies remain in place.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">And that shouldn't surprise anyone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a Gallup poll taken in 2021, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/468218/nearly-900-million-worldwide-wanted-migrate-2021.aspx" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">900 million people worldwide</a> would like to migrate, most of them to the U.S. The supply of migrants who want to come to the U.S., legally or not, is 16% of the world's population. The demand for residence in the U.S. on any terms is not going down down.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bedard <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2922272/record-3-2-million-migrants-to-cross-in-take-us-jobs/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">continued</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Undocumented entry has exploded under the Biden administration’s Open Borders policy, rising from an estimated 1.1 million in 2021 to our forecast of 3.2 million for 2024,” the report said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Steven Kopits added in <a href="https://www.princetonpolicy.com/ppa-blog/2024/3/7/illegal-immigration-outlook-2024" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">his report</a> that at 3.2 million, the flood of illegal immigrants will likely swamp new job openings, creating preelection tension from blue-collar and low-wage workers over President Joe Biden’s open border policies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We forecast that undocumented entry will exceed U.S. job growth in 2024. Thus, the resentments seen last year will likely become exacerbated as the U.S. economy is unable to fully absorb arriving migrants. For President Biden and Democrats, this represents a huge risk. The path to defeat in November is not principally through disaffected independents and moderate Republicans, but rather through low-wage blacks and Hispanics who will turn to Trump in fear that another four years of Open Borders will gut their wages,” Kopits said in his report <a href="https://www.princetonpolicy.com/ppa-blog/2024/3/7/illegal-immigration-outlook-2024" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">shared with Secrets</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bedard also points out that there's a such thing as "full up" in the states, too.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, the migrants entering now will not actually be able to find jobs, as jobs created in the U.S. are well below the numbers of migrants entering. That's just hard numbers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">The informal economy, such as we see in the bedlam taking over <a href="https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr.wwPmQ_hlrDkPwg9XNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1711978727/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fnypost.com%2f2024%2f03%2f17%2fus-news%2fnyc-neighborhood-in-aocs-district-blasted-as-third-world-overcrowded-with-prostitution-and-migrants%2f/RK=2/RS=bKK5Zl62lyEjFIXmgKa2OlzIEo4-" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district</a>, with illegals selling stolen goods, donated goods, any goods, as well as their bodies, on the streets is also exploding.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is also that emerging 'colonia' on the outskirts of Houston that is largely populated by illegals, an emerging shantytown if there ever was one.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">A society that once had a taxed, rule-of-law economy with title deed and property rights, is now rapdily moving towards a third-world "informal" economy, where no taxes are paid and any "order" that exists is made and enforced by gangsters. You see that all over in the world's shantytowns.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">How exactly, does that transformation service the interests of the U.S.?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">More to the point, the majority of new jobs filled during the Biden administration have been filled <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-likes-to-tout-a-great-american-comeback-but-most-recent-job-growth-is-among-foreign-born-workers" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">by immigrants, legal and illegal</a>. Biden's "great American jobs comeback" is not exactly about employing Americans. The data show that American workers are being shut out of these jobs in favor of immigration, meaning the urban and rural working classes of all colors aren't getting these jobs, and if they are, their wages are being down by the migrants.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for Mexico and other countries that ship large numbers of migrants -- those wages American workers would have made --- have become migrant remittances to the home countries. Mexico and several other of these countries have seen <a href="https://hsjchronicle.com/surprise-surprise-migrant-remittances-to-mexico-and-central-america-are-soaring/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">record remittances</a> since Biden's open borders policies, repurposed from the wages of U.S. workers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for housing, schooling and medical care -- there's already a shortage of those, too. Bedard didn't bring it up, but where are all these millions of migrants flowing in without cessation actually going to live and obtain the services they require?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">The question goes unanswered though we are hearing from blue-city mayors warning about going bankrupt on the cost of migrant services if the migrant flow is not stopped.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's not stopping.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's not even get into the high cost from crime and terrorism that also come of letting in all comers. The U.S. will soon become the headquarters of every illegal criminal organization in the world as criminals roll in. Nor the nations denuded of their workforces such as we see among Central American states, nor the nations that are falling into chaos in places like northern Mexico and Haiti as a result of the empowerment of gangs made rich on migrant "fees."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's not going to stop under Joe Biden. And the consequences of that will be a tranformed America that is indistinguishable from the third world. Like bankruptcy, it happens gradually then suddenly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">One better hope and pray that President Trump is re-elected in 2024 to put a stop to it. We are staring down an abyss now.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Screen shot from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuffRIaah9A" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">WPLG Local10 video, via YouTube</a></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><br /></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">JOE BIDEN HAS BANKRUTED AMERICA HANDING BILLIONS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES AS HE REFUSES TO DEFEND AMERICA'S BORDER WITH NARCOMEX.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">WE CAN'T SAVE AMERICA UNTIL WE GET RID OF JOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME!</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="">It Begins… FLORIDA Arrest Migrants🔥Desantis SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER! Florida troops STOP</yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pIFAvpu-0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pIFAvpu-0</a></yt-formatted-string></div><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 2rem;">Massive Wave of Haitian Migrants 🔥 Shocking Footage 🔥 Possible Invasion, Desantis 🚨 Migrant</span></p><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEUr069L5U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEUr069L5U</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Haiti: can't we put America first?</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McDaniel</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Haiti is coming apart, and as always, the US government is making it worse. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated the island, the Clintons<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37826098" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> grabbed on and never let go: </a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mrs Clinton was Secretary of State and Mr Clinton was UN Special Envoy to Haiti when the January 2010 earthquake struck, killing an estimated 220,000 people. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some $13.3bn (£10.9bn) was pledged by international donors for Haiti's recovery.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Clinton was appointed co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), along with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Clinton Foundation later said it raised some 30 million for Haiti and never took a dime for itself, but Haitians tend to disagree about the effectiveness of Clinton help:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In email exchanges with top Clinton Foundation officials, a senior aide to Mrs Clinton, who was then-secretary of state, kept an eye out for those identified by the abbreviations "FOB" (friends of Bill Clinton) or "WJC VIPs" (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC," wrote Caitlin Klevorick, a senior State Department official who was vetting incoming offers of assistance coming through the Clinton Foundation.</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Circa 2024, the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) continues its practice of <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2918260/house-republican-announces-rescue-of-americans-from-haiti/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">abandoning Americans in deadly danger: </a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252843_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: X Screenshot</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rep. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/house" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Cory Mills</a> (R-FL) announced the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/foreign-policy" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">successful rescue</a> of trapped American citizens from <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/haiti" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Haiti</a> Tuesday as reports of <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/violence" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">gang violence</a> and allegations of cannibalism continue to flow from the Caribbean nation. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I am proud to report that my team and I were successful in evacuating and rescuing a trapped, and at risk group of Americans from ‘Have Faith Orphanage’ in Haiti last night,” Mills posted on X.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This recent mission reiterates a disturbing reality that under President Biden’s leadership American lives are continually jeopardized.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the Americans Mills rescued was<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/12/michigan-residents-trapped-haiti-rescued-by-florida-republican-congressman-cory-mills-lisa-mcclain/72944162007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> best-selling author Mitch Albom.</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the most common mistakes Americans make, including—probably particularly—our State Department, is thinking residents of other nations and cultures are just like us. They think like us, want the same things, and are just dying for American-style democracy. To that end, we pour billions into foreign aid. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/america-should-stay-out-of-haiti/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That hasn’t worked out so well in Haiti: </a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since the 2010 earthquake, the United States has provided over $5 billion in aid to Haiti. That doesn’t include Biden’s latest batch of $133 million after gangs took over much of the country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The $100 million in security assistance announced by Biden is on top of the $312 million that we already provided to fund, train and arm Haiti’s police forces over the last decade and a half.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And with over $400 million in backing, Haiti’s police still can’t compete with gang members. But many of the gang members were once the police officers whom we helped to train.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier, the leader of the G9 gang which controls the streets and is the most powerful man in Haiti, was a former police officer who had been accused of playing a role in the murder, rape and arsons that burned 400 homes and killed 70 people.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">American troops have often tried to keep the peace, as have others, all to no avail.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the time Bill Clinton rushed in to exploit the 2010 earthquake, the situation was already hopeless. Haiti could be nothing else except a war zone and a fundraising tool for aid groups. It’s a permanent disaster area of the kind that keeps NGOs and UN officials in business for life.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lessons of Haiti are clear: it’s a hellhole of corruption, worsened by the UN, NGOs and all manner of foreign aid and meddling. It’s another Mogadishu where competing warlords fight for dominance, steal foreign aid, and kill off each other and anyone else they don’t like. We’ve already sent in Marines to secure our embassy, but sending in additional troops <a href="http://https//www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/13/marine-corps-sends-special-response-unit-haiti-after-partial-us-embassy-evacuation.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">is a fool’s errand. </a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The brokest nation in history—America—can’t afford to waste blood and treasure in vain attempts to make people who aren’t like us and don’t want to be, Americans. We’re going to be spending more than enough supporting the newest thousands of Haitians who illegally enter America, many, I’m sure, <a href="http://https//apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-haiti-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-trial-fac9dc853231ba04ff0ea4e7442057ef" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">flown to the destinations of their choice by the MMPA.</a> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can’t we, once again, put America and Americans first?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is <a href="http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com./" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stately McDaniel Manor. </a></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><br /></em></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">NO TWO PIGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE HAD AS MUCH CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW OR AMERICA'S BORDERS THAN THESE TWO GAMER LAWYERS!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; 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We must have them deliver the solution, rather than live with the problem.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “Now, we know the administration has been weighing executive action, under some kind of presidential authority that could bring those numbers down by restricting asylum access if people enter illegally. Will the President take that executive action?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas responded, “Amna, a couple of points: Very importantly, that what we are experiencing at the southern border is reflective of what the world is experiencing, the largest number of displaced people around the world since World War II, if not before then. And so, we mentioned the different nationalities of the individuals arriving at our border. That is what other countries across the Atlantic are experiencing and around the world, number one. Number two, the answer is exactly what the bipartisan group of senators presented to Congress, and that is legislation that provides for much-needed fixes to what everyone agrees is a broken system and much-needed resources to implement those fixes. Legislation is what is needed. That is what is enduring. Executive actions in the past have been challenged in the court[s], and executive actions without the accompanying resources will not meet the moment.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nawaz then asked, “But absent congressional action, because we know that that bill did not have a path forward in the Republican-led House, absent congressional action, does the President have authority? There is a <a class="x5l" href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&f=treesort&edition=prelim&num=0&jumpTo=true" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">section of the Immigration and Nationality Act</a> that says he can suspend entry if he finds that entry of migrants is, ‘detrimental’ to the United States. Should he use that authority to bring down those numbers that you know are taxing resources in our system?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas answered, “We have not given up on Congress in terms of its ability to actually fulfill its responsibility to the American people. We are always considering what we as an administration can do in the shadow of Congress’ failure to act, but we continue to believe that Congress must and can act. We must have them deliver the solution, rather than live with the problem.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nawaz followed up, “So no presidential action imminent?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas answered, “I am not in a position to talk about the deliberative process. I can share with you that we deliberate, each and every day, how we can address the challenges that we confront. We hope that Congress does the same, meets the moment, and passes the legislation that was bipartisan in nature.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="color: #990000;">OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN DOESN'T GIVE A FUK ABOUT THE DRUGS POURING IN THROUGH HIS OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS</span></b></p><p style="color: black; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's Joe Biden's so-called "vetting" of illegal migrants worth?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, according to a report by Fox News's Bill Melugin, pretty much nothing.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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That was a questionable program introduced by Biden in January 2023 to reduce the size of border surges in order to keep the Fox News cameras off of them. In so doing, the accused rapist then got flown into the U.S., and began his heinous crime spree in Massachusetts which claimed a vulnerable 15-year-old girl as his victim. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the left-leaning <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/biden-administration%E2%80%99s-humanitarian-parole-program-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and#:~:text=The%20new%20program%2C%20formally%20known%20as%20the%20Processes,using%20a%20legal%20mechanism%20known%20as%20%E2%80%9Chumanitarian%20parole.%E2%80%9D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">American Immigration Council:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On January 5, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intent to provide “safe and orderly pathways to the United States” for up to 30,000 nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The new program, formally known as the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), allows certain people from these four countries who have a sponsor in the U.S. and who pass a background check to come to the U.S. for a period of two years to live and work lawfully, using a legal mechanism known as “humanitarian parole.”</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Voice of America</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Applicants legally enter the country once they prove they have financial sponsors in the U.S. and pass background checks. The humanitarian parole authority allows the approved applicants to live and work legally in the U.S. temporarily.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Haitian passed a "background check," flew to the states on a flight that's still unclear whether it was free (the administration and its allies <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">say</a> such trips aren't free but already we see they've lied about "rigorous" vetting), got work authorization, and a host of other services from Uncle Sugar, yet it didn't take him long to start preying on Americans as standard violent criminal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What kind of people is Biden importing into the country? It's as if he's importing Haiti's criminal class, a truly violent bunch, under the dynamic modern Latin American dictators use, which is to use uncontrolled crime to control the law-abiding population.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't sound like anyone did a background check that was worth anything. Who did his background check? Why did he pass?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a leftist AIC source quoted by <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Every person approved for parole is vetted by the U.S. government prior to being granted the status. The idea that people arriving through this government program are 'unvetted' or 'illegal immigrants' is flagrantly wrong," Reichlin-Melnick said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson also told VOA those with approved applications and travel permission must buy a plane ticket to fly into the United States on a commercial airline — and they are screened and inspected when they arrive at a port of entry.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Neither of those sources explained how the accused Haitian rapist somehow got in with all that vetting and screening and inspecting.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And since he came in on "humanitarian parole," neither would say exactly what the “urgent humanitarian or significant public benefit reasons” for letting him in were, which is how parole is granted</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's more, many have asked where the hell was his sponsor? He reportedly wasn't living with his sponsor, suggesting that someone just signed him in and let him out, which ought to be investigated as some kind of fraud since that's not how sponsorship works. Meanwhile, officials just waved him through customs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back then, when Biden was touting his program, he insisted that his vetting would be "rigorous":</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">During a speech on January 5, 2023, Biden said an applicant must have a lawful sponsor in the United States.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then the applicant has to "undergo rigorous background checks and apply from outside the United States and not cross the border illegally in the meantime," Biden said. "If they apply and their application is approved, they can use the same app, the CBP One app, to present at a port of entry and be able to work in the United States legally for two years. That's the process."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CBPOne app? The one that lets in 99% of its applicants? Again, there doesn't seem to be any vetting, any more than there was among the hordes of humanity transported out of Afghanistan in chaotic flights out.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's worth nothing that all four of those countries are known to have emptied their jails, freeing their convicted violent felons specifically to migrate into the U.S., which underlines why this program is such a recipe for disaster In Venezuela's case, the convicts were reported freed <em>under the</em> <em>condition</em> that they migrate to the U.S. How many of them have gotten in under this program?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So many of Venezuela's criminals have in fact gotten in under Joe Biden's many open borders policies and programs that Venezuela's famously high crime rate has reportedly gone down.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now we are facing a Haitian deluge as that entire country collapses into lawlessness, run by some thug named "Barbecue." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are no doubt good and industrious Haitians who are endangered and should be able to come here as real refugees, the kind of refugees who go back when they can.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But obviously, Haitian criminals looking to hit the bigtime come in along with them, with Joe Biden's version of "rigorous" vetting, and they are getting in.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congress needs to start looking into these claims of 'vetting' and demand real vetting, as well holding both officials who vet and sponsors of these criminals criminally responsible for the people they let in, too. There are already signs of fraud all over this program and Americans are paying the price.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"> Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1768602198546808871" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Twitter screen shot</a></em></p></div></div><header style="font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSantis Announces Florida Law Enforcement Interdicted Vessel of Haitians with Arms, Drugs</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida law enforcement recently intercepted a vessel carrying Haitians armed with guns, drugs, and night vision gear, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking about the continued effort to keep the Sunshine State safe — particularly in the midst of the violent unrest in Haiti — DeSantis said Florida officers prevented 25 potential illegal immigrants hailing from Haiti from entering Florida.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Just recently within the last couple of weeks — and this will be made public later today — our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potentially illegal immigrants, from Haiti,” the governor announced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms. They had drugs. They had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly which would potentially endanger other folks,” he said, adding that the boat was “interdicted near the Sebastian inlet,” which is roughly 40 miles south of Port Canaveral.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation. So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this, and they’re gonna continue to do it,” DeSantis said, boasting of the “incredible amount of resources that are now on display.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is always a priority of officials, DeSantis said, but he explained that it is different now because there are more resources from the state, so it is an overall larger effort.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis went on to say that this issue — a matter of border security and illegal immigrants — should be the federal government’s responsibility, but the Biden administration has continued to shirk its duties and ultimately, the Coast Guard is “undermanned.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The Coast Guard does by and large a good job, but they’re undermanned. They’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps,” he said. “I think one difference now is, and we see this with our folks that we have at the border, you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world,” DeSantis continued, explaining that at this point it would actually be easier for potential illegal immigrants from Haiti to fly to Mexico once flights resume and enter the United States on the southern border.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I would anticipate if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks [go] who are trying to flee. If they want to come to the United States, they’re probably gonna go to Mexico and then come in through the border, knowing that Biden will just let everybody in,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">WATCH:</span></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1768653710047977715" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1768653710047977715&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fdesantis-announces-florida-law-enforcement-interdicted-vessel-haitians-arms-drugs%2F&sessionId=6949de1e0fd00b5c986afec10ff270cf32ce46b7&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 671px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis’s announcement comes just days after he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/gov-ron-desantis-deploys-assets-to-southern-florida-due-to-increased-risk-of-illegal-immigrants-from-haiti/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a> the deployment of additional assets to the southern portion of the state due to the increased risk of illegal immigrants coming from Haiti. That move is part of Operation Vigilant Sentry, and the additional assets included 39 officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 23 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 48 additional Guardsmen from the Florida National Guard, and 30 officers from the Florida Highway Patrol.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The decision comes as bloody gang violence rocks Haiti, which has continued to descend into chaos.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/12/haiti-exiled-pm-announces-plan-to-resign-as-gang-boss-barbecue-declares-bloody-revolution/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, announced on Monday night he would resign “immediately” after the creation of a “Presidential Transitional Council” meant to take steps towards organizing a presidential election.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry’s announcement followed the near-total collapse of the country’s political infrastructure this week after he traveled to Kenya seeking law enforcement aid to subdue the increasingly powerful gangs overrunning the country. While Henry was out of the country, organized armed militias led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the head of the G9 Family of gangs, orchestrated a massive prison break and surrounded Port-au-Prince’s airport, making it impossible for the prime minister to return. Cherizier has, for years, demanded the ouster of the entire Haitian political class and last week threatened to plunge the country into “genocide” if Henry did not resign.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — Rep. Cory Mills Helps Rescue Americans from Haiti amid Gang Violence, Anarchy</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Office of Rep. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/amp/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> by the<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York Post</em>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">RELATED ARTICLES:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/nearly-150-illegal-aliens-terrorist-watch-list-encountered-u-s-border-past-year/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; 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font-size: large;">Lawsuit: Biden’s DHS Withholding Details on Terror Suspects Caught Crossing Southern Border</span></a></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the interview on March 12, agents Mirandized the man who later admitted to being a member of a foreign terrorist organization.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ebbadi also reportedly admitted he trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member for an additional four years. 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background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you thought 2023 was a record year for illegals crossing into the U.S, think again.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A new forecast holds that the U.S. is on track for a record additional 3.2 million illegal aliens coming into the states.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2922272/record-3-2-million-migrants-to-cross-in-take-us-jobs/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">A record 3.2 million <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/immigration/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">migrants</a> are expected to cross into the United States this year, 1 million more than during past spikes in the Reagan and Clinton eras, according to a new outlook.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We forecast U.S. southwest <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2911784/sheriffs-rip-biden-secured-border-disaster/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">border encounters</a> by Customs and Border Patrol at 2.7 million for FY 2024, based on the last three months of data, adjusted seasonally. Apprehensions look to come in just a hair above 2023 levels. Inadmissibles, those presenting at official <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2915847/thousands-of-haitians-dumped-in-us-but-dhs-wont-say-where/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">crossing points</a> without appropriate documentation, are slated to rise by almost 200,000,” Princeton Policy Advisors said in its latest analysis.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which points to the biggest problem with Joe Biden's open borders crisis: It's not stopping.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no end in sight to each year being a record year for illegal aliens rolling into the U.S. despite Biden's claims to have taken measures to stop the illegal flow and get it all under control.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">He's expanded and spread out the numbers of ways foreign nationals can get into the U.S. without authorization -- from the CBPOne border app to take asylum applications and set a port of entry date, to expanded asylum admissions for Nicaraguans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Cubans, supposedly vetted and with sponsors in the U.S., which is already falling apart as a claim.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">He visited the border, never mind that it was a non-busy stretch of the border. Bedard noted that he neglected to talk with communities in the U.S. most affected by the crisis and ignored going to the funeral of a Border Patrol agent killed on the job.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden sent his men to Mexico City to work out a deal with the Mexicans to stop the flow, and <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/in_mexico_biden_had_one_job.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">even went himself</a>, too, last year. The flow is now bigger.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Investigative reporter Todd Bensmann <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=todd+bensmann+deal+amlo+biden&sca_esv=a32461fe05b6239e&sxsrf=ACQVn0-QKBBcaGAU9o10RrKnnqnuwZltOw%3A1710770236516&source=hp&ei=PEj4ZammHajBkPIPrc-12A8&iflsig=ANes7DEAAAAAZfhWTKKDtzcqBp7a7AKFdKD3QTqZpFYd&ved=0ahUKEwiptPPh-_2EAxWoIEQIHa1nDfsQ4dUDCBg&uact=5&oq=todd+bensmann+deal+amlo+biden&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ih10b2RkIGJlbnNtYW5uIGRlYWwgYW1sbyBiaWRlbjIHECEYChigATIHECEYChigAUj1QlD5AVjKKHABeACQAQGYAcQPoAGqOKoBDzAuMy40LTYuMi4xLjAuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDaACjzioAhPCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIWEC4YAxiPARjlAhjqAhi0AhiMA9gBAcICFhAAGAMYjwEY5QIY6gIYtAIYjAPYAQHCAggQLhixAxiABMICBRAAGIAEwgIIEAAYgAQYxwPCAhcQLhixAxiABBiXBRjcBBjeBBjgBNgBAsICChAuGAoYsQMYgATCAgcQABiABBgKwgIKEAAYgAQYChjHA8ICGRAuGAoYsQMYgAQYlwUY3AQY3gQY4ATYAQLCAgcQABiABBgNwgIKEAAYgAQYDRjHA8ICBBAhGBWYAxq6BgYIARABGAu6BgYIAhABGBSSBw0xLjIuNC03LjIuMC4xoAfEOg&sclient=gws-wiz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported that there was even evidence</a> of a secret "dirty border deal" between Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tamp down the flow of illegals until election day in the states in order to help both men's chances either for re-election or their party's reelection in each country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this was to no avail -- the border crossings are now higher than ever. Three million this year, four million next year, five million the year after. There is no end in sight so long as Democfrat policies remain in place.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">And that shouldn't surprise anyone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a Gallup poll taken in 2021, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/468218/nearly-900-million-worldwide-wanted-migrate-2021.aspx" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">900 million people worldwide</a> would like to migrate, most of them to the U.S. The supply of migrants who want to come to the U.S., legally or not, is 16% of the world's population. The demand for residence in the U.S. on any terms is not going down down.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bedard <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2922272/record-3-2-million-migrants-to-cross-in-take-us-jobs/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">continued</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Undocumented entry has exploded under the Biden administration’s Open Borders policy, rising from an estimated 1.1 million in 2021 to our forecast of 3.2 million for 2024,” the report said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Steven Kopits added in <a href="https://www.princetonpolicy.com/ppa-blog/2024/3/7/illegal-immigration-outlook-2024" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">his report</a> that at 3.2 million, the flood of illegal immigrants will likely swamp new job openings, creating preelection tension from blue-collar and low-wage workers over President Joe Biden’s open border policies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We forecast that undocumented entry will exceed U.S. job growth in 2024. Thus, the resentments seen last year will likely become exacerbated as the U.S. economy is unable to fully absorb arriving migrants. For President Biden and Democrats, this represents a huge risk. The path to defeat in November is not principally through disaffected independents and moderate Republicans, but rather through low-wage blacks and Hispanics who will turn to Trump in fear that another four years of Open Borders will gut their wages,” Kopits said in his report <a href="https://www.princetonpolicy.com/ppa-blog/2024/3/7/illegal-immigration-outlook-2024" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank" title="">shared with Secrets</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bedard also points out that there's a such thing as "full up" in the states, too.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, the migrants entering now will not actually be able to find jobs, as jobs created in the U.S. are well below the numbers of migrants entering. That's just hard numbers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">The informal economy, such as we see in the bedlam taking over <a href="https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr.wwPmQ_hlrDkPwg9XNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1711978727/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fnypost.com%2f2024%2f03%2f17%2fus-news%2fnyc-neighborhood-in-aocs-district-blasted-as-third-world-overcrowded-with-prostitution-and-migrants%2f/RK=2/RS=bKK5Zl62lyEjFIXmgKa2OlzIEo4-" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district</a>, with illegals selling stolen goods, donated goods, any goods, as well as their bodies, on the streets is also exploding.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is also that emerging 'colonia' on the outskirts of Houston that is largely populated by illegals, an emerging shantytown if there ever was one.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">A society that once had a taxed, rule-of-law economy with title deed and property rights, is now rapdily moving towards a third-world "informal" economy, where no taxes are paid and any "order" that exists is made and enforced by gangsters. You see that all over in the world's shantytowns.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">How exactly, does that transformation service the interests of the U.S.?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">More to the point, the majority of new jobs filled during the Biden administration have been filled <a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-likes-to-tout-a-great-american-comeback-but-most-recent-job-growth-is-among-foreign-born-workers" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">by immigrants, legal and illegal</a>. Biden's "great American jobs comeback" is not exactly about employing Americans. The data show that American workers are being shut out of these jobs in favor of immigration, meaning the urban and rural working classes of all colors aren't getting these jobs, and if they are, their wages are being down by the migrants.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for Mexico and other countries that ship large numbers of migrants -- those wages American workers would have made --- have become migrant remittances to the home countries. Mexico and several other of these countries have seen <a href="https://hsjchronicle.com/surprise-surprise-migrant-remittances-to-mexico-and-central-america-are-soaring/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">record remittances</a> since Biden's open borders policies, repurposed from the wages of U.S. workers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for housing, schooling and medical care -- there's already a shortage of those, too. Bedard didn't bring it up, but where are all these millions of migrants flowing in without cessation actually going to live and obtain the services they require?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">The question goes unanswered though we are hearing from blue-city mayors warning about going bankrupt on the cost of migrant services if the migrant flow is not stopped.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's not stopping.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's not even get into the high cost from crime and terrorism that also come of letting in all comers. The U.S. will soon become the headquarters of every illegal criminal organization in the world as criminals roll in. Nor the nations denuded of their workforces such as we see among Central American states, nor the nations that are falling into chaos in places like northern Mexico and Haiti as a result of the empowerment of gangs made rich on migrant "fees."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's not going to stop under Joe Biden. And the consequences of that will be a tranformed America that is indistinguishable from the third world. Like bankruptcy, it happens gradually then suddenly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">One better hope and pray that President Trump is re-elected in 2024 to put a stop to it. We are staring down an abyss now.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Screen shot from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuffRIaah9A" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">WPLG Local10 video, via YouTube</a></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">A Course in Biden Budgetology</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Christopher Chantrill" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/christopherchantrill/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Christopher Chantrill</a></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.165em;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">After President Biden’s award-winning SOTU speech on March 7, 2024, it was time, on Monday 11, 2024, for the President’s <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/budget/2025" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">FY2025 Budget</a>, which is now up and running on usgovernmentspending.com. Hey, nothing to see here. Deficits of $1.5 trillion as far as <a href="https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/site_map.php?fig=J.01f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">the eye can see</a>:</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252870_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 296px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">President Biden says that he’s cut the deficit by a trillion dollars. Yeah, Big Guy, and I got a bridge…</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It all adds up to sharply higher <a href="https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/site_map.php?fig=J.03f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">federal spending</a>:</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252872_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 296px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">And how about that <a href="https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/site_map.php?fig=J.02f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Gross Federal Debt</a>, budgeted at $44 trillion by 2029:</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252873_5_.png" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 263px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">How can this be? In <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2025-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2025-BUD.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">The Budget Message of the President</a> he proudly tells us that the budget is “CUTTING THE DEFICIT BY EXPANDING AMERICA’S PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND PROMOTING TAX FAIRNESS”.</p><div id="pub-7-9" style="font-size: inherit;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I don’t know about you, but I say that $1.5 trillion deficits as far as the eye can see is not “cutting.” Okay, you “fact checkers,” your turn. Hello “fact checkers!” Anybody there?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">For a start the president states that the budget</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">...would cut wasteful subsidies to Big Oil and other special interests; and it would introduce a minimum tax on billionaires, which alone would raise $500 billion for the American people.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Don’t worry. There’s more. The budget “Ensures Corporations Pay Their Fair Share” and “Denies Corporations Deductions for All Compensation Over $1 million Per Employee” and “Stops the Race to the Bottom in International Corporate Tax and Ends Tax Breaks for Offshoring” and “Quadruples the Stock Buybacks Tax” and “Repeals Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Reforms Capital Gains Tax to Ensure the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share” and “Closes Tax Loopholes” and “Cracks Down on Wealthy Tax Cheats” and “Addresses Expiring Tax Cuts after 2025.”</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Of course, over at the <em style="font-size: inherit;">Epoch Times,</em> Heritage Foundation analyst <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/recipe-for-economic-train-wreck-bidens-fy-25-budgets-10-massive-tax-increases-5607387?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=opinion-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Preston Brashers writes</a> that all this tax gluttony is going to tank the economy. That’s because “small and big businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and job and wealth creators” would pay more. Unfortunately, he writes,</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><img border="0" class="im_t" height="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssl-intgr-net/tags/7_74_19.gif" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="0" /><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Middle-class workers and consumers would be devastated by the economic collateral damage.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">How come? Well, it all goes back to the science of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism#Marginal_Revolution" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">marginal economics</a>, invented in about 1870 by a Brit, an Austrian, and a Swiss. That was about ten years after Marx said the workers were all going to starve. Anyway, in the 1970s this guy, name of Art Laffer, started bothering powerful people in restaurants by drawing a <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1439217" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Laffer Curve</a> on a napkin to show that lowering tax rates -- marginal tax rates -- would increase revenue and boost the economy. So Ronald Reagan tried “supply-side” economics and Donald Trump said #MeToo, and the rest is history.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Democrats have all agreed since the 1980s -- and I am sure that the experts agree too -- that this is nothing but “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">trickle-down</a>” economics. Who cares? Well, Biden does, because he declares that his budget is all about “rebuilding our economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down”. It says so, right there on page 1, as Lina Lamont would have said.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Earth to Uncle Joe. Here’s how the economy works. Some guy starts selling books online from a garage in the 1990s. The result in 2024 is a corporation, Amazon, today worth 1.8 trillion dollars. What do you say, President Biden? Is Amazon an example of supply-side, trickle down, middle out, or bottom up economics? Or is it a question of having the right idea at the right time and working your pants off? I wonder what experts agree.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Here’s the problem. Since Marx published his <em style="font-size: inherit;">Kapital</em> in 1860, all good lefties have known that the labor theory of value says the workers are going be “immiserated.” Since this truth had been carved in stone by Merlin before the 1870 marginal revolution, no lefty -- and I assume that goes for the kiddies at the Office of Management and Budget -- is aware that the labor theory of value was thrown upon the scrap heap of history 150 years ago.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">But who is right? Well, on my usgsovernmentrevenue.com I have <a href="https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/federal_income_tax_analysis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">published a little chart</a> on the income and income tax share of the Top One Percent of income earners.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252874_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 267px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You can see that the Top One Percent earns about 20 percent of income (in blue) and pays about 40 percent of federal income tax (in red). Interesting, isn’t it, that the share of income paid by the Top One Percent went up in the 1990s when today’s lefty tech billionaires were creating huge fortunes. Yes, but whatabout the years before 1986? Unfortunately, the <a href="https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-rates-and-tax-shares" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">IRS doesn’t publish numbers on that</a>.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">But never mind. Let’s just look at this <a href="https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_2009_2029USb_25c6li111mcny_F0f00f10f_SoSec_Medicare_and_the_Rest" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">chart</a>, which shows Social Security, Medicare, and all the remaining federal spending.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252875_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 256px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Do you see what it shows? Yes, the entitlements are growing, but the big takeaway is that the jolt in spending in 2020 and 2021 has been baked in, and is never going away. What a surprise!</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Government is all about the spending. And that is all.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.christopherchantrill.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Christopher Chantrill</em></a> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/chrischantrill" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">@chrischantrill</em></a><em style="font-size: inherit;"> runs the go-to site on US government finances, </em><a href="https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">usgovernmentspending.com</em></a><em style="font-size: inherit;">. Also get his</em> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074W5GBY5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">American Manifesto</a><em style="font-size: inherit;"> and his</em> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B2SSX5I?tag=roadtothemidd-20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Road to the Middle Class</a>.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"></span></span></p><article about="/blog/craig-bannister/bidenomics-after-37-months-six-charts-media-dont-want-you-see" class="node node--type-blog node--view-mode-full" data-history-node-id="586063" role="article" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0.5rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gas prices:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">average price</a> of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Gas Prices" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9f1254d2-fefd-465e-98dd-4ea72b09ad53" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Gas%20Price%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Real Wages:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">After accounting for inflation, real wages earned by Americans have declined under Biden. In the first quarter of 2021, median weekly real earnings averaged $373. But, by the fourth quarter of 2023, average real earnings had fallen to $371.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Under Trump, however, real wages rose from $352 on January 1, 2017, to $373 on January 1. 2021.</p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><br /></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Real wages</a> are calculated using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median usual weekly earnings for full-time employees at least 16 years old and are represented in terms of quarterly 1982-84 Consumer Price Index (CPI) seasonally-adjusted dollars.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Real Wages" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a8d8556-5fb4-4df7-83d3-770bd66eff36" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Real%20Wages%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mortgage Rates:</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It’s also costing far more to finance a home purchase under the Biden Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Mortgage rates today are more than twice the average rate home buyers paid when Trump left office, <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie Mac data</a> reveal. Under Biden’s predecessor, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell by a third, from 4.09% to 2.77%. But, by March 7, 2024, mortgage rates had more than doubled, to 6.9%.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Mortgage Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0482c2f7-5d9f-47ed-b506-b64fa479baa3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Mortgage%20Rates%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savings Rates:</b></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/brent-bozell-show-ep01-sean-spicer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">With Americans having to spend more than their earnings increased, their average savings rate has declined under Biden.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">From February 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021, the average personal savings rate increased 129%, from 5.6% to 12.8%. But, by January 1 of 2024, it had plunged to 3.8% - less than a third of its pre-Biden level – according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">(FRED) calculations,</a> incorporating BLS data.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Savings Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="77995833-2954-4953-a2fb-927667eea577" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Savings%20Rate%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consumer Price Index:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Consumer prices rose 7.6% in the 48 months of the Trump Administration, from a CPI of 243.618 in January 2021 to one of 262.035 in December 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In contrast, prices have already risen more than twice as much, 18.5%, in just 37 months under Biden. Three-fourths of the way through his term, the <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CPI has risen</a> from 262.518 in January of 2021 to 311.054 last month (February 2024), putting it on pace to increase nearly three times as much as it did during Trump's full, four-year term. On a monthly basis, inflation averaged 1.9% under Trump, compared to 5.6% under Biden, thus far.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Prices Going Up" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4b3acf8b-27b2-4fc8-8714-94ae5e9e69b3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Prices%20Going%20Up.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://www.mrc.org/donate?utm_source=intranet&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=donation" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="MRC Donation" src="https://cdn.mrc.org/intranet/images/MRCDonation.gif-1707413808674.gif" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Persistent Inflation" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="704c3d32-6412-46ee-b159-3706364d7e34" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Persistant%20Inflation.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The business and economic reporting of CNSNews.com is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eighteen people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 / <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police-news/14539604/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred “about 6:45 p.m. in West Garfield Park.” The victim, 45-year-old Sean Bailey, was shot in the head.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 38-year-old man was in a parking lot Saturday “near 75th and Stony Island” when he was shot in the chest and killed. A second man, 23 years of age, was shot and critically wounded in the same incident.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The weekend’s third fatal shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when a 27-year-old man was shot in “the 5200-block of South Central Avenue near 52nd Street.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 27-year-old was taken to a hospital, where he died.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fourth fatal shooting of the weekend occurred Sunday at 1:23 p.m. “in the 4200-block of North Kimball Avenue.” A 25-year-old man was sitting on a front porch when two men approached him and opened fire, shooting him five times.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 25-year-old later died at a hospital.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/03/18/mayor-brandon-johnsons-chicago-13-armed-robberies-8-hours/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">noted</a> there 13 armed robberies in Chicago during an 8-hour time frame on Saturday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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Walter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mwalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">M. Walter</a></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Remember the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/iOlovBGD5LU?si%3DDbRAgABaqjydpbC_&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw1LS1SfDm8dI1r9OakrxRqi" href="https://youtu.be/iOlovBGD5LU?si=DbRAgABaqjydpbC_" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">United Negro College Fund ads</a>? </p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/14/191796469/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw1DqmIWyGsxQfIJKm7jfTmu" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/14/191796469/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">A mind is a terrible thing to waste</a>”? </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These ads presumed our kids were being educated well enough to go to college; that graduates were not merely literate, but better than literate. Curious. Excited about learning. Educated broadly enough to have identified a line of work they wanted to pursue, such as chemistry or medicine or business or the arts or any one of a thousand paths any high school graduate might choose.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The latest news about educational attainment in two of Barack Obama’s hometowns, Washington D.C. and Chicago, is alarming.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/15/2024-is-shaping-up-to-be-the-we-were-right-about-everything-election/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw3HWQW42xJVuP0LCcbs-MC9" href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/15/2024-is-shaping-up-to-be-the-we-were-right-about-everything-election/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">The Federalist</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…Large urban school districts are failing in ways that should be a national emergency. Washington, D.C., high schools have a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dcist.com/story/23/11/30/osse-chronic-absenteeism-remains-high-dc-schools/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw0aiwzLifVmjNvylE9Ue5hb" href="https://dcist.com/story/23/11/30/osse-chronic-absenteeism-remains-high-dc-schools/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">60 percent</a> chronic absenteeism and a 47 percent truancy rate. (You read that correctly.) In <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wirepoints.org/not-a-single-student-can-do-math-at-grade-level-in-53-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-30-schools-wirepoints/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw2S9iEEN8nbyxijfLageUlZ" href="https://wirepoints.org/not-a-single-student-can-do-math-at-grade-level-in-53-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-30-schools-wirepoints/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">53 Illinois schools</a>, not one student can do math at grade level, and there are reportedly 30 where no one can read at grade level. If Democrats cared about kids, they would be moving heaven and earth right now to fix these schools. They don’t care about educating kids, but Democrats and their union funders will <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/parents-objecting-pornographic-material-school-libraries-arent-book-banners&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw0hCEqyPz0NcrpsZlp55m76" href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/parents-objecting-pornographic-material-school-libraries-arent-book-banners" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">fight a national political battle to make sure your kids can access pornography in schools</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Not one.” NO ONE??? This, in an environment where it is safe to assume everything imaginable was done to lower the "pass" threshold, cook the books, skew the results, because that’s what unchecked, unchallenged, well-funded institutions with monolithic power do, and that’s what these teachers’s unions have in these two cities.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The United Negro College Fund has been in running these ads for over <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/14/191796469/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw1DqmIWyGsxQfIJKm7jfTmu" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/14/191796469/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">forty years</a> but the United Negro College Fund might need a brother organization by now: the United Negro K-12 Literacy Fund. Hmmm… Brother… “Brother”? You know who has, quite literally, a “brother” organization? Barack Obama! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.obama.org/my-brothers-keeper-alliance/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw18HhETE4WYcKsoV_kCBwca" href="https://www.obama.org/my-brothers-keeper-alliance/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">My Brother’s Keeper</a>, a non-profit which has done… what exactly? We’ll get back to that, but back to the breakdown in urban education.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It wasn’t always like this. The always wonderful <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tsowell.com&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw0lJL3BrjfZT99sz-_Zmkrj" href="https://www.tsowell.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">Thomas Sowell</a>, who regularly reminds us that the black family survived Democrat-run slavery but could not survive Democrats’ Great Society, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw0WEKfjSGrl918j8nVJTnKY" href="https://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">tells us</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in 1899, in Washington, D. C., there were four academic public high schools-- one black and three white. In standardized tests given that year, students in the black high school averaged higher test scores than students in two of the three white high schools.</span></p></blockquote><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" class="im_t" height="0" qdoashne4="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssl-intgr-net/tags/7_74_19.gif" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="0" /></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mind you, this is just a couple of generations (at most) after Emancipation. The children attaining these results had parents and/or grandparents who either were slaves or remembered slavery very, very well.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What happened? Well, I can tell you what didn’t happen that may have helped save at least one mind, if not more: Barack Obama.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was very quick to say “if it saves just one life” when talking about taking away our Constitutional right to guns, but that standard seems inapplicable in other, shall we say, more politically fraught arenas, like the importance of giving children a primal benefit they have a right to: an ever-present father. <b>As America’s first black president, he had a unique opportunity to help in this area which is in desperate need of help: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39993685%23&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw2wsjJANizJBqH-C8CXcFY-" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39993685#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">72% of black babies are born to unmarried mothers.</a> </b>“This issue entered the public consciousness in 1965, when a now famous government report by future senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described a ‘tangle of pathology' among blacks that fed a (then) 24 percent black ‘illegitimacy’ rate.” An almost perfect mathematical reversal in the wake of “good” intentions. <b>Again, as Thomas Sowell says, the black family survived slavery, but not big government.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So what could Barack Obama have done that didn’t involve a big government program? Easy answer, and it should have come easily to a narcissist like him: just talk constantly about what a great role model he is. That’s all he had to do. Talk about himself and how great he is - in a very specific <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw2fLQ4mC9BW_Ls6h-Cgi7zS" href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">Brookings Institution</a> (below) kind of way. At every possible opportunity.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of all that came out of his presidency, most of it poisonously bad, the one thing he could have done, and should have done, and was the greatest missed opportunity imaginable, and in my opinion, a honest-to-God, very real tragedy, was to make a much bigger deal of his status as a married father of black children. He should have been constantly driving home the point that the way to succeed in life is to do what <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://federalsafetynet.com/a-98-proof-plan-to-avoid-poverty/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw2LxZjJLGaqnbsDYbdbr2J4" href="https://federalsafetynet.com/a-98-proof-plan-to-avoid-poverty/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">Brookings</a> found — which is exactly what he did: stay in school, get a full-time job, get married after 21, and before you have a baby. In that order. Everyone, regardless of demographics, has a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/editorials/2012/01/27/three-rules-staying-out-poverty/15877394007/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw1zQnBJmzoao5n8k5DzKeH6" href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/editorials/2012/01/27/three-rules-staying-out-poverty/15877394007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">98% chance of avoiding poverty if you do that, and a 74% chance of being in the middle class. </a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Does “My Brother’s Keeper” mean anything? Or nah? <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.obama.org/my-brothers-keeper-alliance/news/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw3rMmkoSp34K-YtOhXLAJ6X" href="https://www.obama.org/my-brothers-keeper-alliance/news/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">A check on their “News” page</a> on March 16, 2024 showed their last news item was dated April 11, 2023. Gosh, kind of a lot’s happened since then, huh? Seems they’re not very busy. Too bad. Chicago led the nation in 2023 — again — in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wirepoints.org/chicago-led-nation-in-homicides-for-12th-year-in-a-row-in-2023-murder-rate-still-5-times-higher-than-nycs-wirepoints/&source=gmail&ust=1710818553340000&usg=AOvVaw1qTTCjTOf4xLNp7Cc2--rw" href="https://wirepoints.org/chicago-led-nation-in-homicides-for-12th-year-in-a-row-in-2023-murder-rate-still-5-times-higher-than-nycs-wirepoints/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">number of homicides.</a> Hey, if you’re dead, you’re not failing at school, right?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What a sad state of affairs, truly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I’m thinking if a kid is sitting at the library doing his history homework, he’s less likely to be getting shot or doing the shooting. And chances are, a kid sitting at the library doing his history homework probably has a mother and or father on the scene who cares about whether or not he actually does his homework. Something Barack & Michelle Obama could have been pro-active, relentless, even noisy role models for, had they simply chosen to be, during or after their time in the White House. You don’t even have to agree with them. On anything. Even how they raised their kids (super expensive private schools, of course). Simply using their enormous stage to make being married parents cool again would have been enough. Enough to save who knows how many minds from terrible waste.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But what we’ve seen from them hardly qualifies as actually caring about people who look like them. What we’ve seen a lot of since they left is what we saw a lot of while they were at 1600 Penn.: glamorous vacations & insufferable pontificating about how very, very disappointed they are in all of us.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We must do better. Yes we must, Barack. We’re so very, very sorry.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are. So very, very sorry indeed that you, yes, you, didn’t use the biggest stage imaginable to preach the biggest, most urgently needed message imaginable: honor yourself, honor your commitments, and be good, honorable men other young men can look up to and emulate.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s the tragedy of it, the waste, the absolute waste of his presidency and post-presidential life. There’s still time to save his legacy and “do the right thing,” as his Martha’s Vineyard friend Spike Lee famously said in his movie of the same name. I hope he does. Maybe over cocktails at his palatial island home this August they can talk about it. Then act. Meaningfully.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">The black lives in his Chicago and D.C. hometowns either matter or they don’t.</span></b></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: <a href="https://pixabay.com/illustrations/obama-president-usa-america-8253625/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Pixabay</a> / Pixabay License</em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; 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color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; position: relative;"><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The Long Beach Police Department coordinated with stores in The Pike Outlets to close early following a large disturbance and multiple altercations on Saturday.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">There were reports that roughly 200 people gathered at the Long Beach shopping center after a post on social media indicated that two females, one adult, and one juvenile were going to fight went viral.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Long Beach police confirmed the department got word of the planned fight and had officers stationed near the property.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Video obtained by stringer service OC Hawk shows two young girls getting into a fistfight. There was a large group of teens surrounding the two girls as the fight continued, with many seen recording the confrontation on their phones.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Officers eventually intervened and broke up the crowd while arresting the two girls involved. A handful of police officers stayed at the scene to patrol the area. Police reportedly brought in a bus to The Pike Outlets in the event there would be a large number of juveniles to be detained.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The owners of The Pike Outlets and store owners elected to close shops early in response to the incident. The shopping center was closed at around 6 p.m. Saturday and guests were told to clear out. Officers made an announcement that anyone who didn’t comply would be arrested.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“Attention in the area, the property is now closed by management,” Long Beach police said in a statement. “Anyone who remains in the area in 10 minutes will be subject to arrest for trespassing.”</p><ul class="caas-list" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 1.538em;"><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 387px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 266.6px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3NrOjaOc3GrPi7rn3CPrvA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQxMztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/3a609227c8725dcb9f78a5094da5a1d4" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-0" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 413px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 285.2px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/mR2SAXLNto.NllvCtx3fgw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ0MjtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/fe5dde55cf3c7da0481f2ac69e452110" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-1" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 401px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 279px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/rMhwLa1FvUNHc3HBo71Z_g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQyODtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/6c5cc0807226739caa5446db466e9604" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-2" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 387px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 266.6px; position: relative;"><img alt="Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0i.h854uv8KuMfcdoMpj3A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQxMztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/2905b31d446573493efc6ed7d7c01792" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-3" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 407px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 279px; position: relative;"><img alt="Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/A18w.ZA8rNtUWdV4gnMSwA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQzNTtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/8ea67dc21d3ace15ff0b6ee9a507946c" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-4" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 446px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 310px; position: relative;"><img alt="Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/gyo9b0WmPT4o7l3JOQN3bA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ3NjtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/cdefb437a049b15873b2cf169e4d32bc" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-5" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A manhunt is underway following the Friday morning shooting death of New Mexico State Police officer Justin Hare on I-40 near Tucumcari.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">FOX News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-police-officer-fatally-shot-armed-dangerous-suspect-loose" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the shooting occurred near mile marker 320 around 5:30 a.m.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An X post from the New Mexico State Police indicates a search for Jaremy Smith is underway and <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/NMStatePolice/posts/pfbid02nVcvpTJfFB775p4fLjMbaYTgWbJcyBwksCX966qicRiVyLHiPuTemaCgkeY71GzGl" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">charges</a> of “First Degree Murder, Armed Robbery, Shooting at or from a Motor Vehicle, Tampering with Evidence, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Taking of a Motor Vehicle, and Criminal Damage to Property” have already been introduced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Smith, 32 years old, is from Marion, South Carolina.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1768892377702305976" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1768892377702305976&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F2nd-amendment%2F2024%2F03%2F16%2Fmanhunt-underway-for-jaremy-smith-after-nm-state-police-officer-fatally-shot%2F&sessionId=d6e00712eef0472c1c87c50544ccdd71688d05ff&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 800px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">KOB4 <a class="x5l" href="https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/new-mexico-state-police-officer-killed-near-tucumcari/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that Smith was “wearing a brown hoodie and jacket” when he allegedly shot Hare and “was last seen walking on the I-40 Frontage Road at mile marker 304.” He is considered armed and dangerous.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The shooting unfolded when Hare was sent to aid a motorist with a flat tire. The motorist turned out to be Smith, who approached Hare’s cruiser, talked to him about the flat, then allegedly pulled a gun and shot him dead.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hare had two young children.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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If “educators” had their way, those geniuses would be silenced, for as white men, they have nothing to contribute, and therefore they had no reason to continue their conversation with the world.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eventually, the literary achievements of the entire West were under assault (as well as the attainments in most other fields of creative endeavor), which meant that the prodigious accomplishments of European women were now included in the body of work that had become anathema to modern “scholars” ensnared by the fashionable allure of the current zeitgeist. The position women held on the intersectional totem pole was not enough to offset their inescapable association with the European colonizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This trajectory of shifting values is something the general public became cognizant of only gradually and with varying degrees of alarm. But it has been analyzed in depth by intellectual giants as far back as 1987, when Allan Bloom published <em>The Closing of the American Mind</em>. Roger Kimball of New Criterion has canvassed the development of this antipathy to the Western tradition in both the latter publication and his own books. But despite the erudition that these and other great thinkers have brought to bear on this subject, the dismantling proceeds apace.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A recent headline from Seattle provides evidence for just how commonplace destructive ideas have become in our educational institutions as they have trickled down from the universities, reinforcing the truth of Allan Bloom’s assertion that “what is influential in the higher intellectual circles always ends up in the schools.” A Seattle high school English teacher presented students with materials commonly found in anti-racism training manuals, in this case decrying the most important component of literary efforts (and civilizational progress): the love of reading and writing. The pamphlet averred, among other things, that a love of reading and writing is a characteristic of white supremacy. What interpretation could students glean from this assertion but that reading and writing should be viewed with mistrust or even avoided?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Decades ago, I found it shocking that anyone would openly disparage the staggering achievements of the Western literary mind, male <em>or </em>female, let alone that this assessment would become <em>de rigueur</em> in academia. It was as if someone were attempting to wrench the great passion of my life right out of my arms. Further, and more important, it had become obvious that the barbarians were dismantling the high points of achievement in civilization generally.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I am left numb with disbelief that any high school English teacher in the anglosphere could in all seriousness propose that reading and writing are activities “bad” by association with something our culture condemns. This attack is directed no longer toward the “high points of civilization,” but rather toward the building blocks of civilizational development — and maintenance.</span></p><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Jason Rantz from KTTH talk radio in Seattle, “as part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School in Seattle were given a handout with definitions of the ‘9 characteristics of white supremacy’” and were told that “Worship of the Written Word is white supremacy because it is ‘an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.’” According to this worksheet, white people “hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of ‘honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.’”</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I were a smart-aleck, I would recommend that the illiterate agitators who come up with these ideas go back in time and say all this to the (white) Greeks, who for centuries listened to poets <em>recite </em>the Homeric epics. Or tell this to the Sumerians, who, while also part of an oral poetic culture, invented writing for the practical purpose of record-keeping. And then tell the Chinese. And while you’re at it, the Mayans — the people of these last three cultures having each independently invented systems of writing.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Given the pervasiveness of these vacuous ideas under the reigning educational regime, we must ask, why the institutionalized attack on reading and writing, and why under the aegis of Black Lives Matter at School? When I searched the phrase “the invention of writing,” I couldn’t help but notice forums devoted to disputing the widely accepted claim that no sub-Saharan country ever invented a writing system. Well, if any one of them did, why don’t black educators and their white allies in DIE encourage study of these African accomplishments in celebration of black history rather than condemning a system of communication that was invented by brown and yellow people to enable them to transact business?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or could it be that this particular ill chosen cudgel is simply useful for beating white people over the head — for being white?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Jocelynn Cordes has published a collection of her essays under the title “Critical Musings from a Traditionalist.”</span></em></span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252791_5_.jpeg" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kendrick Marclain, 31, registered as a sex offender with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on January 8 after getting out of prison on December 31, Fox News </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-arrested-charged-sexual-assault-month-after-release-registering-sex-offender-sheriff" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Then, a woman accused the Panoma Park man of attacking her on February 3.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman told police that she had gotten into an argument with a family member while intoxicated that night and decided to leave the residence and go for a walk by herself. She reported noticing a strange man following her, and called her mother around 10:12 p.m. but lost connection. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The victim said the man continued to follow her and made contact with her near Dollar General asking for a cigarette,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victim gave the man a cigarette, which they shared.”</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before she could leave, the woman said the man grabbed her by the neck, hit her head on a wall, and raped her. </span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim said the man then attempted to take her to his residence, but it was at this time that her father came looking for her and she was able to escape to his vehicle. </span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Investigators were able to match surveillance footage and forensic evidence to Marclain on Monday, officials said.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He was arrested, charged with sexual assault on a person over the age of 18, and is being held in the Putnam County Jail without bond.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marclain had recently been released from prison for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12, Fox News reported.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This is a person who was given multiple opportunities to rehabilitate, and he chooses not to,” Sheriff H.D. DeLoach said. “He fails to comply with his sexual predator designation and has returned to prison several times.”</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Clearly, this is someone who cannot function in society and now a member of our community has suffered an inexcusable, horrific trauma at his hands. 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border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK00Mlb5J20">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK00Mlb5J20</a></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Los Angeles, CA one of the most dangerous cities in America that the media doesnt show you.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0dKWEtiqo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0dKWEtiqo</a></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">CAN YOU NAME A BLACK POL WHO DOES NOT HUCKSTER HIS/HER WAY TO JAIL?</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options. </span></b></span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></b></p><h1 style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Police: 8 Suspects Record the Abduction, Torture, and Rape of Alabama Mother Before Killing Her</span></h1><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Black Politics: The Case of Selma, Alabama</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Robert Weissberg" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/robert_weissberg/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Weissberg</a></div><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></p><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">American ethnic groups have relied on various paths to move up the economic ladder, but among African Americans the foremost pathway has been elections. This effort has produced notable successes. Voting rates are <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/21/key-facts-about-black-eligible-voters-in-2020-battleground-states/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">now roughly equal</a> and Blacks have been elected to the highest positions, including President of the United States. Few can deny that the “Black vote” plays a major role in American politics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, one can ask if this electoral process improves the life of the average African American. Does replacing White rule with a Black mayor and a majority Black city council translate into tangible benefits? After all, political power is a means to an end, not the final goal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One answer to this quandary can be found in the history of Selma, Alabama whose civil-rights battles have come to symbolize the African American quest for political equality. Selma recently received <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-03/attorney-general-tells-alabamas-bloody-sunday-service-that-voting-rights-are-under-attack" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">national attention</a> when Vice-President Kamala Harris along with <a href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/alabama/2024/03/02/lawmakers-selmas-bloody-sunday-still-relevant-in-america-right-now/72794241007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">eleven members of Congress</a> and the U.S. Attorney General, participated in the celebration of the 59<span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> “Bloody Sunday” march. In fact, the 1965 march has become so iconic that President Biden mentioned it in his recent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">State of the Union address</a>: “A transformational moment in our history happened 59 years ago today in Selma, Alabama: Hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Grand Dragon of the KKK, to claim their fundamental right to vote. They were beaten bloodied and left for dead.” This watershed moment facilitated in passing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>, an Act that greatly expanded Black voting.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Black voting in Selma <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma,_Alabama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sharply expanded</a>, and as most of the White population departed, Blacks eventually dominated the city’s politics. Today, Selma’s population is about 80% African American and a Black political stronghold.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">But, has this newfound political power in Selma brought improved conditions for Blacks? The answer, unambiguously, is “no.” Most notably, the mass exodus of Whites was accompanied by a sharp decline in the local economy and Selma today ranks among Alabama’s poorest cities with <a href="https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/alabama/selma/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">almost twice the poverty rate</a> of the rest of the state,. Efforts to attract tourists with murals and <a href="http://nvrmi.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">a museum recounting the voting rights struggle</a> have become the primary source of income but have failed to revitalize the decrepit downtown of shuttered stores, boarded-up buildings and abandoned residences. The average income of $35,000 per year is a third lower than the state’s average. Nearly a third of Black Selma residents l<a href="https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/alabama/selma/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ive below the poverty line</a> versus 11% of Whites.</span></p><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252657_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 301px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 450px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Crime is a serious problem with the odds of being victimized by violent crime in Selma about <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/al/selma/crime" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">twice the national average</a>, even higher than all of Alabama (whose crime rate exceeds the national average). The level of crime per square mile was nearly three times the average for the entire state. According to one <a href="https://www.areavibes.com/selma-al/crime/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">survey of city residents</a>, 87% expressed concerns about personal safety and feeling uncomfortable walking alone at night.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Selma’s <a href="https://www.niche.com/k12/selma-high-school-selma-al/academics/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">educational statistics</a> reveal a similar troubling picture. Despite a 92% high school graduation rate, Selma Hight School, one of two such schools in the city, had a reading proficiency score of 12% and 5% in math (no data are available from the other school), Selma HS is also highly segregated with 98.6% of the students <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/alabama/districts/selma-city/selma-high-school-313" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">being classified as “Black </a>and 85% “economically disadvantaged.” One half of one percent were White.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>While this picture is only a snapshot, it would be hard to argue that Black political power has uplifted the lives of Selma’s Black residents. Nor is the Selma story of towns going from White to Black rule unique. Comparable depressing tales can be told about Gary, Ind., Jackson, Miss., Camdem, N.J., East St. Louis, Ill., among others, where the promised reward of Black political control was disappointing. A comparable failure holds for many larger, Black politically-dominated cities, notably Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, N.J., Atlantic City, N.J., St. Louis, Mo, and Trenton, N.J., among others. Yes, newly achieved Black political control may have brought well-paying government jobs for at least some Blacks, plus government contracts for minority businesses, but for ordinary Blacks, the tangible payoff has been meager.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible.</span></b> In many, if not most, instances, the rise of Black political control triggers an exodus of Whites that lowers the quality of life for many Blacks -- closed stores, less tax revenue for social services, worse educational outcomes, and many other benefits that no longer exist compared to when Whites governed. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What lessons can be learned from this disjunction between relying on the vote to move up the economic ladder and the paltry results of this triumph? A disinterested observer might suggest that Blacks should abandon obsessing over electoral politics and embrace alternatives favored by other groups with the same aim, for example, Jews starting small businesses or the Irish working for large bureaucratic organizations like the police department and slowly advancing up the ranks. All have proven records of success that far exceed the emphasis on politics.</span></p><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alas, shifting strategies will not be easy. Many Blacks -- 40% according <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/01/22/black-americans-have-made-gains-in-u-s-political-leadership-but-gaps-remain/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to one recent poll</a> -- believe that the ballot box still remains the pathway to racial progress and this article of faith and will not be reversed by statistical data (only about a quarter of Whites saw politics this way). Nor can we expect Democratic Party functionaries to tell their most loyal supporters to deemphasize the vote. There is also enormous pride in seeing fellow Blacks achieve high political office, including mayors of major cities such as Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. Such pride may well transcend clear-eyed cost/benefit analysis. Politics is often about emotion, not statistical data.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But perhaps most important is the <a href="https://publicwise.org/publication/the-state-of-black-representation-in-the-us-today/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dramatic rise of elected Black officeholders</a>.These positions bestow power, prestige and, often, wealth to incumbents, and these officeholders are not about to minimize the value of electoral politics. And while a long tradition exists among Blacks of self-help organization and leaders who encouraged self-reliance, notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Booker T. Washington</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Marcus Garvey</a>, self-reliance is easily pushed aside by promising instant payoff if only fellow Blacks vote for them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For those who might raise doubt about the efficacy of electoral politics, the all-too-typical rejoinder is to double down and insist that progress will come only if yet more Blacks vote. When the promised paradise fails to materialize, the easy excuse is “voter suppression.” </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options. </span></b></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Image: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Tony Webster</a></span></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000;">Severed head found in apartment of Alvin Bragg's reported friend</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monicashowalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Doesn't everyone have a friend or two who keeps a severed head in his freezer?</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does, this one an ex-con who got let out of prison after serving only half of his 50-year term last year, and within that year, or possibly earlier, reportedly <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13171611/Nyc-justice-reform-activist-headless-torso-Joe-Rogan.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">made friends</a> with Bragg.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the pair in a shareable picture that reportedly ran on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/queensdefenders/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</a> (I don't see it now) and which is still being shared on Twitter:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765818206743035971" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765818206743035971&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fsevered_head_found_in_apartment_of_alvin_braggs_reported_friend.html&sessionId=3a4c9f763af7451ac553ba31081b8ce716120f5a&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 778px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which is pretty damning for Bragg's choice of associates. The guy was out of the can for only a year when someone got him an undoubtedly well-paid job at a legal firm called Queens Defenders, whose nstagram tagline reads: "Limiting the impact of a criminal record on employment, housing, education, & public benefits." <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-con-nyc-murder-suspect-smiles-da-bragg-shortly-before-shocking-arrest" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fox News reports</a> that they were among a group of legal defenders seeking a hundreds million dollars from the city for their "services."</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspected killer has been busy since getting out of prison last year, working as an advocate with the Queens Defenders, one of several public defenders groups that begged for hundreds of millions of dollars in increased funding last year, according to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-public-defender-groups-calls-funding-boost-amid-disaster-20230320-rgstdpksqvgiddkwfsqunlfhnu-story.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Daily News</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, this was a criminal justice "reform" organization in the Soros mode whose name of the game was to ensure no consequences for criminal behavior.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its Instagram is loaded with "know your rights" and other mechanisms for miscreants to employ to escape justice. Its NGO-like logo is a stylized mailed fist. I don't see anything on their site about reforming character.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So it should surprise no one that Johnson doesn't seem to have changed any, despite talking a good public relations line about reforming himself in prison to podcaster Joe Rogan ... and a month later reportedly chopping a guy up in his apartment as neighbors said he pleaded for mercy, stuffing the man's head and legs in his freezer, and quite possibly doing some kind of cement shoes thing with his other body parts, according to police evidence found in reports. He's quite a guy. It's hard to think that people didn't know he hadn't changed any.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But there Alvin Bragg is, posing with him with such joy in his eyes as one of his best friends forever in the picture, making one wonder how many other savages committing barbaric acts are also in his personal circle.</span></p><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It matters because Bragg spends all his time ignoring real crime in New York while palling around with these savages, and focusing his prosecutorial fire on President Trump, in some of the most questionable of all the Trump trials -- the Stormy Daniels case, and the E. Jean Carroll case. Trump is being prosecuted by a guy whose associates have been caught with body parts in their freezer? This sounds like the reign of savages.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And as for real crime, well: </span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p data-editable="overrideHeadline" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/alvin-bragg-to-do-away-with-prison-time-for-most-crimes.html" style="background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alvin Bragg Wants to Do Away With Prison Time for Most Crimes</span></a></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That must have made Johnson happy. It shouldn't surprise anyone then that Bragg was someone Johnson counted a friend. It would be interesting to see whether Bragg or his office prosecutes this murder at all, or somehow makes "mistakes" that redound in Johnson's favor. It would be even more interesting to see if Johnson's employer gets their hundreds of millions from the city.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bragg, recall, is the guy who touts his own "<a href="https://manhattanda.org/meet-alvin-bragg/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">courage</a>" on his official website and pontificates about having the "highest standards"?</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alvin also believes that police and prosecutors must be held to the highest standards in order to strengthen community trust in our justice system. </span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So hanging out with people like these are "the highest standards," Alvin?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">While prosecuting the former president of the United States as the "real" criminal?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the sort of garbage one sees in places like Venezuela, where only the dissidents get hit by the long arm of the law, and criminals are allowed to roam free to ensure few public gatherings and protests.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe Bragg should start answering questions about his "highest standards" friend of his in the picture, maybe through congressional hearings. Bragg sounds like he has potential conflicts of interest here -- and if so, that suggests that actual criminals may be among the people going after Trump. Let's hear Bragg explain this association.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveONE_TV/status/1765818206743035971" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Twitter screen shot</a></span></em></p></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?</span><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 48px;">Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 48px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.</span></i></b><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;">WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE</span></i></b><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Heather Mac Donald</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Public safety</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">The Social Order</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">As for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">and whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">whites, while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Anti-cop activist Shaun King says that his involvement in the campaign around the Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by reports that a white man had killed the seven-year-old girl, who was gunned down in Houston on December 30. According to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old sister, the white driver of a pickup truck had pulled up next to the family’s car before opening fire. The accusation set off a frenzy of hate-crime allegations and blanket coverage by the New York Times. King offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who located the suspect. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">As it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was killed by two black men, who opened fire on her mother’s car because they thought that they were targeting enemies of their gang. King passed along a tip about the real killers to the Houston police, and now says that he merely “internalized the pain of the family and tried to search as if it were my own child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had nothing to do with his activism. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">It’s worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">A sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis, as Black Lives Matter protesters were converging on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department to demand the resignation of the entire department. In August 2015, a nine-year-old girl was killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in Ferguson while doing her homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives Matter rioting thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015 Fourth of July weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September 2015, leading the black police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community only protests shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November 2015, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father’s gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All told, ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015; twelve victims were between the age of ten and seventeen. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">In 2016, a three-year-old girl in Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by shooting. In Chicago in 2016, two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot in drive-bys, including a three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016 who is now paralyzed for life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his pancreas, intestines, kidney, and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old was shot to death by a passing car last June. In September, three men killed three-year-old Azalya Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before Christmas in Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home from the candy store in a drive-by shooting.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Why did King let these shootings of black children go by without responding as he did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could it be because the perpetrators were black? You could end all white shootings of black children tomorrow and it would have zero effect on the death rate of black children by homicide, because such white-on-black shootings are extremely rare. Moral abominations, like the 2015 Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof, are aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic fringe of American society. The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage was immediate and universal, resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate flag, embraced by Roof as a white supremacist symbol, from official sites. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence against “black bodies” are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="\0022arial\0022" style="color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Walter Williams tackles the elephant in the room on crime</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/john_dale_dunn/"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">John Dale Dunn</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the years. This past week, I saw and read his </span><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/09/04/criminologists-mislead-us-n2552448"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">essay</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going was the </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/what-criminologists-dont-say-and-why-15328.html"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">article</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and Why."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end of one's professional career." </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior — chronicled in detail by many, particularly </span><a href="https://www.colinflaherty.com/"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Colin Flaherty</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">, whose investigative reports appear </span><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/colin_flaherty/"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">frequently</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported, mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists, commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash mob violence against people and property.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, </span></b><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists' claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say, "What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their neighbors."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the black community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated yesteryear."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is an emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney, policy and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC and the Heartland Institute of Chicago.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;">CITY JOURNAL</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;">BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;">Data,</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/hard-data-hollow-protests-15458.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.city-journal.org/html/hard-data-hollow-protests-15458.html</span></u></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">of crime and policing than this weekend’s demonstrations suggest.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/heather-mac-donald_122"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Heather Mac Donald</span></a><span style="color: #b5b5b5; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #b5b5b5; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">The </span><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2016-crime-statistics"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">FBI released</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">according</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> to the</span><i> Washington Post</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">. The </span><i>Post</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/ferguson-effect-lives-14919.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Ferguson Effect</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 </span><span class="19" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; line-height: 33.3333px; text-transform: uppercase;">AM</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research </span><a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/01/11/police-fatal-encounters-and-ensuing-protests/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">poll</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Four studies came out in 2016 alone </span><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-lies-matter/article/2600164"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">rebutting</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes. The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="29" style="border-top: 1pt solid rgb(0, 175, 207); line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 15.0000pt; margin-right: 15.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 15pt; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt solid rgb(0,175,207); padding: 15pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of </i><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;">City Journal.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">*</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;">Study: ‘Family Structure’ a Major Factor in Racial Disparities in School Conduct and Suspensions</span></b><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/23/study-family-structure-a-major-factor-in-racial-disparities-in-school-conduct-and-suspensions/"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/23/study-family-structure-a-major-factor-in-racial-disparities-in-school-conduct-and-suspensions/</span></u></a><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="468" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps2.png" width="624" /><span class="21" style="font-family: inherit;">Stock/Getty Images</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 5.25pt; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt dotted rgb(153,153,153); padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/dr-susan-berry/" title="Posts by Dr. Susan Berry"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; text-transform: uppercase;">DR. SUSAN BERRY</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">23 Nov 2019</span><b><span class="22" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 7.5pt;">2,338</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="24" style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">8:15</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study, </span><a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-black-white-divide-in-suspensions-what-is-the-role-of-family"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">conducted</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by senior fellows Nicholas Zill and W. Bradford Wilcox at the Institute for Family Studies, asserts education policymakers “must recognize that social and psychological problems in youth may manifest themselves at school but have their origins in family situations over which the school has little or no control.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="48" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps3.png" width="48" /><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span class="25" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt;">Brad Wilcox</span></u></b><u><span class="16" style="color: #697882; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">@WilcoxNMP</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/1196772301905248256"><u><span class="15" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="31" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NEW: On Black-White divide in school suspensions</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">-More than 50% of gap explained by Family Structure</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">-White children in non-intact families *more likely to be suspended* than black children in intact families</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><a href="https://t.co/G60srWHg1H" title="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-black-white-divide-in-suspensions-what-is-the-role-of-family"><u><span class="23" style="color: #2b7bb9; 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margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The authors find in their new analysis of the National Household Education Survey (NHES) that, in 2016, about 24 percent of black elementary and high school students had been suspended at least once, while eight percent of white students and only four percent of Asian students had the same experience.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="475" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps5.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The researchers note the NHES shows “black students are far more likely to be living apart from their married birth parents in the home (72%) compared to white students (37%) or Asian students (26%).”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="460" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps6.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These family structure differences, then, are likely to play a role in inter- and intra-racial disparities in student conduct and discipline,” the authors state, and add:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Indeed, among black students who do live with both married birth parents, suspension rates are less than half as large as those for black students living in other family types: 12% versus 28%. The suspension rate for black students living in intact families, 12%, is also less than the suspension rate for white students from non-intact families, 13%.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="455" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps7.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study also found that family structure even accounts for more of the racial disparities in school suspensions than socioeconomic factors.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When the researchers controlled for family structure, they discovered the racial disparities in school suspensions reduced by 55 percent. Controlling for socioeconomic status reduced the racial differences by only 38 percent.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These results, then, suggest that family structure is a signal factor in accounting for real differences in school conduct and school suspensions,” the authors state. “This is especially noteworthy because discussions related to racial disparities in school discipline often overlook the role of family structure and highlight socioeconomic explanations.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Zill and Wilcox assert that, while examples of racism exist, “there are legitimate reasons for believing that some of the racial differences in school suspensions and discipline are based upon real, not just perceived, differences in students’ behavior”:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We focus here on the possibility that some of these differences are related to family factors, including notable differences in family structure by race. Students who come from chaotic homes, single-parent families, or non-intact families are less likely to get the consistent attention, affection, and discipline they need to flourish and develop self-control. Their families typically have less money, which affects the quality of their neighborhoods and their neighborhood peers, which is also an important influence on school conduct. And they are also more likely to be exposed to conflict, stress, frequent moves, and neglect—all risk factors for delinquent and disruptive behavior. Indeed, our data indicate that rates of school contact for student misbehavior are nearly twice as high among students living with separated or divorced parents as among those living with stably married parents. And they are higher still among students who live apart from both biological parents, being cared for instead by grandparents or foster parents.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The researchers say that, in order to see a drop in school suspensions among black children and adolescents, black family life must be stabilized and reinforced:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Such efforts should include criminal justice reform, ending marriage penalties in means-tested policies, subsidizing the wages of low-income workers, and launching local and national campaigns directed by black religious, civic, and cultural leaders to strengthen marriage in the black community. Efforts like these are needed because, our research suggests, increasing the number of African American children who are raised by stably married parents would dramatically increase the odds that black girls and boys steer clear of the principal’s office—and increase the odds they flourish in school, avoid contact with the criminal justice system, and, later in life, excel in the labor force further down the road.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“[S]tronger black families would go a long way towards reducing racial disparities in school discipline,” Zill and Wilcox assert.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study comes as Obama-era holdovers and other progressives continue the narrative that racial disparities in school suspensions and discipline are due to systemic factors such as institutional racism.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Obama Departments of Education and Justice, under Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/18/obama-administrations-race-based-discipline-policies-increase-school-violence/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">issued</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> public school guidelines that claimed students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said led to a “school-to-prison pipeline” that discriminates against minority and low-income students.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The policy, however, essentially blamed systemic racism for the fact that black and other minority students have been punished and suspended more than white and Asian students. Recommended remedies for the problem included eliminating suspensions for unacceptable behavior by minority students and urging, instead, their participation in “restorative talking circles” and “positive behavior interventions.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In December 2018, the Trump administration revoked the Obama-era policy that urged public schools to employ these more lenient forms of discipline for students of color and of other minority groups.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/acting-attorney-general-whitaker-rescinds-69-guidance-documents"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">rescinded</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the Obama administration’s 2014 “Dear Colleague Letter” that a federal school safety commission </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/19/safety-commission-recommends-scrapping-obama-race-based-school-discipline-policy/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">said</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> “may have paradoxically contributed to making schools less safe.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The outcry from parents, teachers, some media outlets, and many education analysts and stakeholders has been piercing, with most pointing to the rise in “dangerousness” in public schools.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Nevertheless, in July, Democrat members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission urged the White House and Congress to continue the Obama-era race-based discipline policy.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The commission’s </span><a href="https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2019/07-23-Beyond-Suspensions.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">report</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, titled “Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities,” stated, “[D]ata have consistently shown that the overrepresentation of students of color in school discipline rates is not due to higher rates of misbehavior by these students, but instead is driven by structural and systemic factors.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The commission’s report was released as the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/26/report-serious-violence-on-rise-in-nations-public-schools/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">issued</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> its analysis indicating a rise in serious incidents of violence in the nation’s public schools:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="48" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps8.png" width="48" /><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdNCES"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span class="25" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">NCES</span></u></b><span class="27" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span class="23" style="color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 18pt;">✔</span></u><u><span class="16" style="color: #697882; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">@EdNCES</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdNCES/status/1154414006901334016"><u><span class="15" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="31" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NEW FINDING: During SY 2017–18, an estimated 962,300 violent incidents occurred in U.S. public schools nationwide.</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How did this compare w/ nonviolent incidents? Find more </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EdStats?src=hash"><u><span class="26" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">#</span></u><u><span class="17" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">EdStats</span></u></a><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> from the 2017–18 School Survey on Crime and Safety (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSOCS?src=hash"><u><span class="26" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">#</span></u><u><span class="17" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">SSOCS</span></u></a><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">): </span><a href="https://t.co/GZPJmq9x1q" title="https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2019061"><u><span class="23" style="color: #2b7bb9; 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mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even a Democrat state lawmaker — New York State Sen. Leroy Comrie — and Teamsters President Gregory Floyd, who represents school safety officers — </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/08/democrat-lawmaker-teamster-president-chaos-schools-since-obama-era-discipline-policy-no-accountability-dangerous-behavior/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">referred</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to the Obama-era policy as one that has led to “chaos” and a lack of “accountability” for dangerous behavior.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Two members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission — Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot — dissented from the commission’s majority report.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow </span><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/racial-disparities-and-school-discipline/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">wrote </span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">at </span><i><span class="18" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">National Review</span></i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the report is “essentially a defense of the Obama Department of Education’s 2014 ‘Dear Colleague’ letter that used disparate-impact theory to interpret racial disparities in school discipline as evidence of racial discrimination.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To progressives, “any racial disparity necessarily means invidious racial discrimination,” Kirsanow asserted, adding:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It’s undisputed that black students, as a group, are disciplined more than white students. For the commission majority, this is evidence of racially disparate treatment, as it’s an article of faith that discipline disparities aren’t due to disparities in behavior.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow observed the commission’s report ignored key statistics in order to craft its narrative of racial discrimination against students of color.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He pointed to his colleague Heriot’s </span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3424334"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">statement</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in which she said, “In the report, the Commission finds ‘Students of color as a whole, as well as by individual racial group, do not commit more disciplinable offenses than their white peers.’”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“That would be a good thing if it were true, but there is no evidence to support it and abundant evidence to the contrary,” she asserted, adding that what accounts for differing rates of misbehavior among students of color “likely” includes “differing rates of poverty, differing rates of fatherless households, differing parental education, differing achievement in school, and histories of policy failures and injustices.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow called for those truly concerned about improving education in the United States to “disregard” the report released by the majority of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Claiming that racism or dislike of children with disabilities accounts for disparate rates of discipline only stokes resentment and erodes personal responsibility,” he asserted. “The supposed cures of ‘restorative practices’ and ‘positive behavioral interventions and supports’ only make it more likely that children in minority neighborhoods who want to learn will be less able to do so, and that teachers and children will be at the mercy of school bullies.”</span><span style="color: #111111; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police officers in Chicago believed they had interrupted a man sexually assaulting a woman on Monday, when the suspect made a chilling claim.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident happened when officers were called to the scene of a sexual assault in progress on South Chappel just before 9:00 p.m., CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/i-wasnt-trying-to-rape-her-i-was-trying-to-kill-her-assailant-tells-chicago-cops-who-interrupted-violent-attack.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Friday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities reportedly found a woman, age 24, who was being attacked and who had also been sexually assaulted. Responding officers quickly detained the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Keenan Jackson.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/cwbchicago/status/1766080928718418232?s=46&t=wgtm_wPvunvfccDBvnX7gQ" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the man involved in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1766080928718418232" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1766080928718418232&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fchicago-police-man-says-wasnt-trying-rape-her-trying-kill-her-when-officers-stop-attack%2F&sessionId=533444ac5a732187c916edec885a8ccddb6fc938&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 760px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect reportedly told law enforcement officials, “I wasn’t trying to rape her, I was trying to kill her,” adding, “I will get out of jail and find that b**ch and kill her.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report said when Jackson was found, allegedly on top of the victim, officials noticed his pants had been pulled down and the woman’s lower clothing had been shredded.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect is accused of hitting her over and over in the head and face. She was eventually listed in critical condition at a hospital. The suspect claimed the woman took his money to buy drugs and that is why he attacked her.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Chicago Mayor on Increase in Most Violent Crime: “Reparations” Money Will Help:</span></span></p><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/2fF4PJw6-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A criminal complaint levied against the suspect said it was determined the victim suffered a fractured nasal bone, facial hematoma, and a laceration of her oral cavity.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Officials did not charge Jackson with sexual assault but charged him with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. The CWB Chicago report noted in conclusion that “Judge Charles Beach detained Jackson as a safety threat.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news comes as Chicago suffers under rampant crime.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Approximately 21 individuals were shot and four died over the weekend period of February 23 through 25 in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/02/27/at-least-21-shot-during-weekend-in-mayor-brandon-johnsons-chicago-2/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> February 27.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that she would deploy state law enforcement to the Big Apple subway network, as well as “teams of mental health workers,” to “help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe,” <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according</a> to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em>.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> reports:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additional law enforcement officers would add to an already large presence in the subways, where Mayor Eric Adams ordered an additional 1,000 officers in February following a 45 percent spike in major crimes in January compared with the same time last year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grand larcenies — thefts without the use of force — were a main driver of the January spike in crime, according to the police. Grand larcenies are defined by the police as major crimes, along with homicides, assaults and robberies.</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hochul is sending 1,000 members of State Police, National Guard, and MTA cops, ostensibly to conduct “bag checks.” It is unclear how that plan will be executed on the service that sees upward of three million riders per day.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul said Wednesday. “No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon.”</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) was not present at Hochul’s announcement.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Subway crime rates surged in the first two months of this year — spiking by nearly 20% compared to this time last year, NYPD stats show. This year alone, three New Yorkers have been shot dead on trains and subway platforms,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/gov-hochul-to-deploy-1000-national-guardsman-state-cops-to-carry-out-bag-checks-in-nyc-subways/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In addition to the patrol boost, Hochul said she will introduce a new law that allows judges to ban anyone who has been convicted of a violent transit assault from riding the Big Apple’s subway or bus system,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> wrote.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hochul did not get into details about how this part of her “plan” would be enforced — especially given the skyrocketing rates of turnstile hoppers, which <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/mta-reveals-farebeating-cost-690m-last-year-as-it-rolls-out-plan-to-cut-losses/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cost</a> the subway system $690 million in unpaid fares in 2022 — other than installing cameras in conductors’ booths and having the NYPD and district attorneys “create a new early warning system” for subway recidivists.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The deployment is part of what Ms. Hochul described as a five-point plan, which would provide $20 million and pay for 10 teams of mental health workers who would help people on the subway,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> additionally reported.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felony assaults on New Yorkers are continuing to rise across New York City, specifically in the borough of Manhattan, as Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/04/violent-assaults-across-nyc-surge-as-officials-exhaust-resources-on-trump/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>In 2022, violent crime in New York City rose <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2022.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">23 percent,</a> with more than 126,500 arrests made for murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, felony assault, rape, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto — the seven major crime categories.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Felony assaults, often <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/suspect-in-violent-unprovoked-attack-in-the-bronx-back-in-custody-after-being-released-without-bail/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">random attacks</a> on New Yorkers by <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/12/10/new-york-city-man-accused-of-baseball-bat-attack-released-on-bail/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">career criminals</a> with extensive rap sheets, totaled more than 26,000 last year. This represents a 60 percent increase from 2008, when felony assaults were at a significant low.</b></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even compared to recent prior years, felony assaults in 2022 were way up.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">For example, felony assaults rose 14 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, 27 percent compared to 2020, 26 percent compared to 2019, 29 percent compared to 2018, and 30 percent compared to 2017.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last year’s surge in felony assaults on New Yorkers is now continuing this year (2023).</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The announcement also comes as New York maintains its “bail reform law,” which allows perps to be released with no bail.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/05/of-nyc-violent-crime-suspects-freed-without-bail-go-on-to-commit-more-crimes/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> the effect of this law has been perps being more likely to reoffend than they were before the edict came into effect:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felony suspects released without bail thanks to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested for more felonies, including violent crimes, than suspects who were given bail before the law went into effect.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In all three categories, felonies, violent crimes, and firearm charges, felony suspects had a higher rate of rearrest after they were released without bail than those who were arrested and required to post bail before the new law went into effect.</span></p></blockquote><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayor Adams <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1765453947441992132" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">posted</a> on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday, that “Murders are DOWN. 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:38</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A young Alabama mother was allegedly abducted before being tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed by a group of eight suspects in a horrific attack recorded by the perpetrators.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Videos obtained by the Birmingham Police Department show Mahogany Jackson, 20, being beaten and forced to perform sex acts at gunpoint, Detective Mark Green testified in court Monday. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mother of one arrived at the home of one of the suspects, 24-year-old Brandon Pope, to hang out with friends on February 25, WBRC </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wbrc.com/2024/03/05/mahogany-jackson-suspects-court-denied-bond-horrific-barbaric-acts/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. However, she was allegedly being set up to be raped and murdered.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Green said the first video shows Jackson naked outside, with 25-year-old Teja Lewis beating her and 23-year-old Si’nya McCall kicking her. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After that, McCall can allegedly be heard directing the others to “put her in the trunk.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jackson was reportedly able to contact her mother, Gail Maddox, around 8:00 a.m., writing, “Send the police apt 3 held hostage don’t call.” She also sent her location to her sister, Maddox posted on Facebook.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police believe the suspects transported Jackson to Lewis and McCall’s apartment, where more violent acts were allegedly recorded.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Birmingham investigators say Jackson was handcuffed and continually assaulted by the group, including being spat on, slapped, and pistol-whipped.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Detective Green, videos of the young mom being forced to perform sex acts were even posted on social media. In the footage, the suspects can allegedly be heard telling Jackson that she’s about to die. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jackson’s body was found at an illegal dumping site the next day with a gunshot wound to the back of her head, WBRC reported. One attorney described the location as “dead man road.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prosecutors have charged Giovonnie Clapp, 23, and Blair Green, 25, with felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree sodomy.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">McCall got hit with felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree sodomy while Lewis was charged with felony murder.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah McDowell, 18, Francis Harris, 25, and Pope were all charged with capital murder during a first-degree kidnapping, as well as capital murder during first-degree sodomy.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ariana Lashay Robinson, 23, was the last suspect to be </span><a class="x5l" href="https://police.birminghamal.gov/media-release-39-eighth-arrest-made-in-the-mahogany-jackson-homicide-investigation/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">caught</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the Birmingham police, nine days after Jackson’s body was found. She was also charged with felony murder and kidnapping.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police Chief Scott Thurmond said the alleged actions of the group were some of the worst he’d seen in his career.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The actions displayed by these defendants were barbaric and have no place in society,’’ said Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr. “The senseless and inhumane treatment perpetuated on young Mahogany Jackson was very disturbing and violent.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Heartbroken mom Gail Maddox has pleaded with the public to stop sharing videos of her daughter’s violent torture.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“THAT’S MY CHILD PLEASE STOP I CAN’T TAKE IT,’’ she </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/gail.maddox.52/posts/pfbid02Rh4WwKgGhg2JcdCkwAPRVowkJdAkbduBFQdDUM8zBcBWxTXPJR1nnDfHJnLFi4Aml" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wrote</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Facebook.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What am I going to tell my granddaughter when she asks for her mother,” she posted, alongside a photo of Jackson’s little girl.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson’s sister, Jazmyne Maddox, also shared her pain on social media.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Y’all took my fucking sister from us man she ain’t deserve this shit,” she wrote the day her body was found.</span></p><br /></div><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"></footer><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">USAGM senior official suspended for calling white people 'snow roaches'</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monicashowalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the Biden administration, anything goes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So look who's out there representing the actual voice of the United States before international audiences in the agency known as U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees outlets like the Voice of America:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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I learn something new every day.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1763541705985290641" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1763541705985290641&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fusagm_senior_official_suspended_for_calling_whites_snow_roaches.html&sessionId=8773975f63dcce47ddacf7797b2ed10ff9d9a5b2&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 719px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And if whites are 'snow roaches' in this hater's humanity-loving universe, what is he? A rain roach? A tornado roach? A mudslide roach? This could go on all day.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bottom line here is that this is a freak who hates more than half the country and whose positioning near the top of the leadership of the U.S.'s flagship international communications operation, its voice and public relations arm, is very much an insult in itself to the country. and an international embarrassment.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Imagine seeing the same kind of scandal in China if a Uyghur official representing China were to make such remarks about the country's Han Chinese? If it happened, that guy would be in the laogai. Rest assured, the Chicoms are laughing up their sleeves at this kind of loathing from a top official of the nation and people he represents, including the taxpayers who pay his salary.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to National Review, the public outcry did get him <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-s-agency-for-global-media-suspends-official-after-claim-he-called-white-people-snow-roaches/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">suspended, though</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The federal agency that oversees <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/voice-of-america-staffers-posted-anti-israel-content-to-facebook/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Voice of America</a> and other U.S.-funded international media outlets suspended a member of its executive team following <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-s-global-media-agency-investigates-claim-that-official-called-white-people-snow-roaches/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">allegations</a> that he referred to white people as “snow roaches” in several social-media posts.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. Agency for Global Media told National Review that the executive had been placed on paid administrative leave today, pursuant to federal law. It did not specify the legal requirements with which it was complying.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The claims against the official in question, USAGM chief information officer and IT director James Reeves, one of the agency’s top officials, initially surfaced on a right-wing page on X called “End Wokeness.” It posted screenshots from a social-media account whose owner repeatedly used the phrase “snow roaches” in its posts: “Last I checked it’s the snow roaches that are mad about immigrants,” this person had written in February.</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">...which means, he'll be back, and the statement didn't say whether it was a paid or unpaid suspension. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to openpayrolls.com, he makes a pretty penny indeed from that position:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) records show James L Reeves held one job from 2019 to 2022. One of the most recent records in 2022 lists a job of Information Technology Management and a pay of $183,456. This is 102.7 percent higher than the average pay for co-workers and 164.5 percent higher than the national average for government employees.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But with that temperament, does it sound like he could get hired anywhere? Who the heck hired this rabid hater who couldn't stop fighting with some stranger on Twitter, and kept on and on with his hate-speech, quite possibly on company time? Is that all he does all day? Because if he has time for that kind of nonsense, spewing hate for huge parts of the country, maybe he belongs somewhere else.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This freak is just the latest in a series of questional characters burrowing their way into the government and then spewing out their contempt for the taxpayers and citizens. We had <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/meet-sam-brinton-non-binary-biden-official-arrested-over-stolen-suitcase/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sam Brinton</a> regulating nuclear waste at the Department of Energy. We still have Amy McFadden over at the CIA. The list is enormous and plenty of these people never get ousted for moral turpitude or zero professionalism as they should be.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The USAGM is a troubled agency that was plagued with Obama-era holdouts who refused to leave office during President Trump's term. Now we find out just what they're like as they spew racism on Twitter. Can someone get us a professional over there or is that the way Joe Biden likes things?</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1763541705985290641" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Screen shot from Twitter</a></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> </p><p><b style="text-align: center;">DOES ANYONE HAVE THE NUMBERS ON HOW MANY STORES WERE LOOTED ACROSS AMERICA THIS PAST WEEK?</b></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"></b></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 19 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14487910/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> one of the weekend’s fatal shootings a 17-year-old boy who was shot in a parking lot in the “500-block of West Roosevelt Road near Canal Street” Saturday night.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 17-year-old was <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-teen-killed-shot-south-loop/14487744/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">identified</a> as Jeremy Smith. The Chicago PD <a class="x5l" href="https://home.chicagopolice.org/media_notification_types/person-shot/page/2/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that Smith was shot in the chest and neck.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 15-year-old was shot as well but is expected to survive.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 22-year-old man was <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14487910/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shot and killed</a> while sitting inside a vehicle at a stop sign Saturday night.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He was in a vehicle in “the 2500-block of South Trumbell Avenue in Little Village” when someone got out of a sedan and opened fire, shooting him in the head.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The man died shortly thereafter at Mt. Sinai hospital.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sixty-five people have been killed in Chicago thus far in 2024, <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to</a> the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former Missouri middle school principal pleaded guilty to charges related to a murder-for-hire plot he orchestrated against a woman, with whom he was having an affair, after she became pregnant.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cornelius Green, the married principal of Carr Lane Visual Performing Arts School in St. Louis, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13151511/Missouri-principal-murder-hire-plot-hitman-pregnant.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">admitted</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to paying a friend $2,500 to kill Jocelyn Peters and “their unborn child,” reports the Daily Mail. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Peters, a 30-year-old teacher at the nearby Mann Elementary school, was 27 weeks along in her pregnancy when Green’s childhood friend, Phillip Cutler, allegedly entered her apartment with keys provided by Green and shot her in the head on March 24, 2016.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Court documents viewed by First Alert 4 say Green was </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">romantically </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/02/29/former-st-louis-principal-pleads-guilty-murder-hire-teacher-unborn-babys-death/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">involved</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with multiple other women as well.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later that day, Green “went to Peters’ apartment and called 911 to report she was shot,” the local outlet reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The former principal’s plea agreement states that Green also admitted that the $2,500 he paid Cutler was stolen from his school. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Green expects to be sentenced to life in prison for murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire,” </span><i>People </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://people.com/married-principal-got-teacher-pregnant-paid-to-have-her-killed-8603012" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. “If he is sentenced to life, state prosecutors will drop murder charges against him, for which he could have faced the death penalty.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cutler was also charged for his involvement, with his trial to begin on March 11.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Soon after Peters was discovered dead, Mann Elementary School principal Nicole Conaway dedicated a memorial garden in the teacher’s honor.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“She was someone who cared deeply about children, not only about their learning, but about who they were in making them into better people,” Conaway </span><a class="x5l" href="https://fox2now.com/news/murdered-teacher-remembered-as-champion-of-children-with-memorial-garden/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fox 2 Now at the time. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A suspect with a criminal history was caught Wednesday after being accused of attacking a cellist playing in the New York City subway.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the 23 year old suspect <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/woman-23-arrested-for-attacking-nyc-cello-player-in-subway-station-after-weeks-on-the-lam/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">identified</a> as Amira Hunter was freed on Thursday, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> reported.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1763531355487359429" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1763531355487359429&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F03%2F01%2Fnyc-woman-nabbed-after-attack-on-subway-cellist-is-released-without-bail%2F&sessionId=97e996882e0b22e8c069ff256ea6ff45af3c1dd2&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; 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Forrest in the head with a bottle as he played his cello at the Union Square station. Due to the incident, Forrest <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/16/watch-nyc-subway-cellist-clobbered-random-attack-suspect-still-large/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suspended</a> his performances “indefinitely,” according to Breitbart News.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IainSForrest/status/1757901533549600875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1757901533549600875%7Ctwgr%5Eda255c049414615d1e0c27cbc9ae1ee5bd32f99a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F16%2Fwatch-nyc-subway-cellist-clobbered-random-attack-suspect-still-large%2F" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 848px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In regard to the suspect, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article said “At her arraignment Thursday on second-degree assault charges, Manhattan prosecutors argued for $15,000 cash bail or $45,000 bond, noting that Hunter has failed to appear at three of her five court dates in other criminal cases last year.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prosecutor Alexandra Robertson explained to Judge Marva Brown that it was not likely the suspect would come back to court of her own volition.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the young woman had a bench warrant out for her arrest in a pair of cases linked to petit larceny.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Her last arrest was in October on grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing two bathing suits worth $2,050 from Bergdorf Goodman, sources said,” the outlet continued, noting law enforcement reportedly previously arrested her two times for assaulting her mother.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, Brown cut Hunter loose on supervised release. The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> noted the decision came even after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office wanted the suspect jailed.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS New York <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47WiyvyfR6E" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> February 23 that crime in the city’s transit system had risen 18 percent this year compared to 2023:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/47WiyvyfR6E?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Crime in NYC transit up 18% so far this year compared to last year" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Per the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the cellist is part of the MTA’s Music Under New York program. In addition, he helped create the coalition dubbed Subway Performers Advocacy Group that pushes for more security around musicians.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social media users shared their thoughts on the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/flygriz/status/1763544185179685136" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “You get what you vote for.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“NYC is practically lawless now. It is as if it were competing with SF or Chicago to see how bad things can get,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CleavageCrumbs/status/1763533414492160281" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">ALL ACROSS AMERICA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ARE BOUGHT AND OWNED BY OBAMA GODFATHER GEORGE SOROS. THEIR POLICY IS TO MAKE SURE CRIMINALS ARE BACK OUT ON THE STREET ASAP TO WRECK MORE DAMAGE. WHEN SOROS HAS NEARLY DESTROYED AMERICA'S CITIES FROM CRIME, PEOPLE WILL HOWL TO HAVE SOROS' BOY OBAMA RESTORED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO SAVE US. GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!</span></p><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d;">VIDEO: Macy’s to Shutter 150 Stores Across U.S. in Massive Reorganization</span></h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/02/27/video-macys-shutter-150-stores-u-s-massive-reorganization/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 38px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Macy’s said Tuesday it is planning to close about 150 stores across the nation to reorganize and refocus its business.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The company <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/macys-closing-150-stores-nationwide-where-what-cities-rcna140663" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explained</a> the initiative will close down “underproductive” stores to put more emphasis on luxury sales, NBC News reported.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The closures will leave approximately 350 Macy’s locations, as well as Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury beauty and skincare stores,” the outlet said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is those latter brands that the company sees as its future: It said it plans to take advantage of its leadership position in the luxury market, where it said Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury have been ‘outperformers’ within the Macy’s portfolio,” the report continued.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the coming three years, the company’s leadership plans to build out 15 Bloomingdale’s locations, 30 Bluemercury stores, and remodel 30 Bluemercury locations.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news comes about a month after Macy’s said it was <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-_cp9IOKE" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">planning</a> to slash 2,350 jobs and shut down five stores:</span></p><figure class="F-ci-w" id="bbd_incontent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; background: url("/t/assets/i/forms/in-content/bbd/in-content-bg@2x.jpg") center top / contain no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; width: 282.41px;"><br /></label></form></figure><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MW-_cp9IOKE?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Macy's cutting 3.5% of its workforce" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Per the recent NBC News article, “Macy’s has been under pressure from investor activists seeking an outright sale of the company due to its decade-long underperformance, with Macy’s real estate considered its most valuable asset,” the outlet said, adding the company has refused a takeover offer.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Macy’s is the biggest department store chain in America, KTVU <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngApix8mgE" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Tuesday, noting the locations of the 150 stores that are set to close have not yet been revealed.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>In September, high-end stores in the Beverly Hills area of California reportedly began <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/06/beverly-hills-high-end-retail-stores-shuttered-amid-smash-and-grab-epidemic/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">closing</a> because of rampant smash-and-grab robberies.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Earlier in 2023, Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/17/walmart-target-other-retailers-shutter-stores-due-to-overwhelming-thefts/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> that Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and other major stores were closing some of their locations across America due to a rise in thefts.</b></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; 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California has seen 35 retail outlets close while New York closed 23 and Illinois closed 18. Florida also closed 21 stores.”</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND FUKED SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!</span></p><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">WATCH: Chicago Jewelry Store Employee Opens Fire on Alleged Robber</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="69" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/02/26/watch-chicago-jewelry-store-employee-opens-fire-on-alleged-robber/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Chicago jewelry store employee with a concealed carry permit opened fire on an alleged robber just before 11 a.m. Saturday morning, striking him with at least two bullets.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CWChicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/chicago-smash-and-grab-shooting-charges-considered.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the alleged 27-year-old robber walked to a jewelry case near the store’s front door and allegedly swung at it, in order to smash the glass. As this was happening, “a man behind the counter draws a pistol, racks the slide, and fires as the [alleged] thief appears to be turning toward the door.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The alleged robber then falls out of the door, but quickly reaches back inside to pick up something that he dropped. He then ran to the “L” platform, suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen and one to the buttocks.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1761786563250307567" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1761786563250307567&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F2nd-amendment%2F2024%2F02%2F26%2Fwatch-chicago-jewelry-store-employee-opens-fire-on-alleged-robber%2F&sessionId=03d5d74ca543d27bf8ff347ac1a7a199af3bf67b&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 648px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The alleged robber was released from custody Sunday but CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/thief-shot-by-ccl-holder-chicago-loop/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> charges “are pending.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christine lives near the jewelry story and she told CBS News, “I think to throw all the responsibility on the business owners or the residences is really not the right way to go.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">She added, “The crime is just escalating, and it’s getting worse and worse. We had kids killed a few weeks ago. Now this armed robbery, it’s a shame.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">breitbart.com/downrange</a>. 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Mississippi police officer was arrested by her own chief after allegedly attempting to walk out of a sporting goods store with stolen shoes on her feet.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robin Conner, 33, had served with the Columbus Police Department for two years when she was </span><a class="x5l" href="https://cdispatch.com/news/officer-arrested-at-dicks-for-shoplifting-kicks/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">busted</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Wednesday at a Dick’s Sporting Goods for allegedly trying to steal a $140 pair of tennis shoes, Chief Joseph Daughtry told the </span><i>Columbus Dispatch</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not only was Conner on duty when the incident occurred — she was in uniform. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When a Dick’s employee stopped Conner from leaving and called 911 to report a uniformed officer trying to shoplift, dispatchers called a supervisor at Conner’s own precinct.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Myself, the assistant chief, and the captain over patrol all responded,” Daughtry said. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conner was taken into custody in her own squad car, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wtva.com/news/local/city-of-columbus-fires-officer-arrested-for-shoplifting/article_7dbef6c6-d1ad-11ee-84fa-4759caeb9d74.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> WTVA.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We’re putting her in jail,” said the chief. “It’s embarrassing for the department, but we’re going to treat her like we would anybody else.”</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The disgraced cop was first placed on administrative leave but was soon fired when the Columbus city council unanimously voted to remove her on Thursday.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conner has been </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wcbi.com/columbus-police-officer-arrested-for-allegedly-shoplifting-on-duty/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">charged</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with misdemeanor shoplifting for stealing goods worth less than $1,000 and was given an $862 surety bond, WCBI reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We have a job to do, and we’re held to a higher standard. And the community is just starting to trust us, and to take this gut punch really hurts. That’s why we fulfilled our obligation, not only to the store but to the community,” said Daughtry.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conner happily commemorated “National Law Enforcement Day” in January with several smiling photos in uniform:</span></span></p><div class="fb-post" data-con-need="1" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wMScAf4ZZEXCqHT5epRRw5hFPLX1cPmPxiCHQsGJU3hRMrfT5dxvWPui5LE7T7avl&id=100084008086185" data-width="640" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote cite="https://graph.facebook.com/100084008086185/posts/343900875086846/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tuesday, January 9, 2024</a></p></blockquote></div></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">NYC Officials Indict Woman for ‘Intentionally’ Ramming Policeman with Car</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/24/nyc-officials-indict-woman-for-intentionally-ramming-policeman-with-car/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A woman has been indicted after being accused of intentionally hitting a policeman with her car in New York City on January 17, breaking his leg.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a press release Friday, Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. (D) <a class="x5l" href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-indictment-of-sahara-dula-for-intentionally-hitting-nypd-officer-with-car/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">announced</a> the indictment against 24-year-old Sahara Dula, who was reportedly high on marijuana when the incident happened.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The suspect was charged with one count of attempted assault in the first degree, one count of attempted aggravated assault upon a police officer, two counts of assault in the second degree, one count of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs, and a single count of reckless driving.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dula is accused of driving her black Lexus northbound in the southbound lanes on Park Avenue for several blocks, the DA’s office said:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She swerved in and out of traffic and changed speeds until she reached East 71st Street, where she paused in the middle of the intersection while she was blocked by traffic.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A police officer in the area approached DULA’s vehicle on foot to direct her into the proper lane of traffic. Instead of complying, DULA accelerated and hit him with her vehicle, causing him to roll up onto the hood of the car and fall to the ground. She was eventually arrested by another police officer in the area.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When investigators spoke with Dula after the incident, she reportedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/01/20/video-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told</a> them she hit the officer on purpose, according to Breitbart News, which also noted that she is a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“F–k these cops! He wouldn’t move!” she allegedly said at the time of the incident. The woman then reportedly stated, “F–k these cops; it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully, he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/OSiiNT/status/1748203298195202555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1748203298195202555%7Ctwgr%5Ecfee12af68bd4404ba46999d0696160ed0e7f9cb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> what happened:</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officials said the officer involved has not been able to return to his job due to the pain he continues to endure.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The number of police officers in Democrat-run New York City <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/18/nypd-officer-injuries-skyrocket-migrants-pour-city/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">injured</a> during incidents with alleged criminals has increased in recent years, Breitbart News reported Sunday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2023, 5,363 officers were hurt during their shifts.</span></p></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities Arrest 2 Attackers Who Broke into SUV of Biden’s Granddaughter</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/23/authorities-arrest-2-attackers-who-broke-into-suv-bidens-granddaughter/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0px; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="suspect Robert Kemp" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/suspect-Robert-Kemp-640x480.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Superior Court of the District of Columbia</cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities arrested two of the three alleged attackers who broke into a Secret Service SUV of President Joe Biden’s granddaughter, according to authorities and court documents.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The arrests represent seemingly rare cases in which authorities arrested suspects accused of crime. The timing of the arrests suggests the Biden administration recognizes soaring crime as a political vulnerability for the Democrat party.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crime in the Democrat-controlled city <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spiked</a> in 2023, according to police department data:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homicides: Up 35 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robberies: Up 67 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Crime: Up 39 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent</span></li></ul><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_15222107" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/12/GettyImages-1248266118.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="People walk down 16th street after “Defund The Police” was painted on the street near the White House on June 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. After days of protests in DC over the death of George Floyd, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed that section of 16th street "Black Lives Matter Plaza". (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-15222107" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/12/GettyImages-1248266118.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">People walk down 16th street after “Defund The Police” was painted on the street near the White House on June 8, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/21/biden-granddaughter-vehicle-break-in-arrests/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the specifics of the first arrest, which occurred on February 14:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The arrests of 19-year-old Robert Kemp and the youth came after authorities said a D.C. police officer found the getaway car, a stolen red Toyota Corolla, abandoned in 16th Street Heights. Inside it were items taken from the Secret Service vehicle, including a protective vest, night-vision goggles, a first aid bag and a computer router. Authorities also found a McDonald’s bag and food receipt; the affidavit says fingerprints on the items led them to the arrests.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. Secret Service says in the affidavit that Kemp, who lives in Northwest Washington, was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle pertaining to the Corolla and theft in connection with the items taken from the Secret Service vehicle, a black Ford Expedition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A charging document filed in court shows only the unauthorized-use charge, typically filed when authorities cannot prove a person linked to the vehicle is the same person who stole it. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. said she could not comment on charging decisions. Prosecutors can file additional charges as the investigation continues.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities also arrested an unidentified 14-year-old on Friday. They charged him with three counts of armed carjacking and alleged he was involved in several additional crimes around the District. The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> reported police said the 14-year-old was linked to the Secret Service SUV incident. Authorities charged him as a juvenile.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Residents in the District blame Biden-appointed U.S. attorney Matthew Graves for the crime surge. Graves <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/29/biden-appointed-u-s-district-attorney-refused-to-prosecute-67-of-those-arrested-in-nations-capital/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refused</a> to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested who would have been<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>put on trial in the D.C. Superior Court, according to 2022 District statistics. In 2023, he did not <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/10/28/meet-joe-bidens-d-c-prosecutor-who-let-56-of-arrestees-off-the-hook-in-2023/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">prosecute</a> 56 percent of those arrested.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25336808" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/Matthew-Graves.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: U.S. Attorney for DC Matthew Grav" class="size-full wp-image-25336808" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/Matthew-Graves.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Much of the D.C. crime is carried out by juveniles. For instance, 65 percent of those <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/07/police-perplexed-dc-carjackings-spike-111-lack-prosecutions/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">arrested</a> for carjacking are juveniles, according to police data. In the first ten months of 2023, 760 carjackings <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/carjacking" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">occurred</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Graves said in August that his office would crack down on some crimes committed by juveniles, but his office generally <a class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1 x5l" href="https://wtop.com/dc/2023/08/5-teens-arrested-and-charged-in-robberies-carjackings-one-tied-to-viral-video-incident/" id="OWAb4650ffb-1edc-8d6d-ebcb-22e7691a4b8d" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">does not prosecute</a> them. Because the D.C. juvenile court maintains <a class="x5l" href="https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/jcs96/glos.html#rfr" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">jurisdiction</a> over delinquent acts, prosecutors in juvenile court must file a petition to transfer juveniles to criminal court for prosecution as adults. 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text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Charles Hilu</a></div><div class="w-fit-content md:text-xs" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: fit-content;">February 21, 2024</div></div></span></div></div><div class="article-content" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin: 1.75rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">A California Democrat last week introduced a bill that would divert reserve funds from an economic relief fund to pay for reparations amid a historic budget deficit in the state.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">California law requires unspent money from the state's General Fund to go to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties (SFEU), a reserve that lawmakers have broad discretion to use for public purposes. Democratic state senator Steven Bradford's <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1331" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">S.B. 1331</a> would require the state's controller, its chief fiscal officer, to put 6 percent of the money transferred to the SFEU into a reparations fund the bill would create.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"The bill would require the controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Restorative Justice an amount equal to 6 percent of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified," the text reads.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The reparations fund would give money to support "policies that indemnify African-American descendants of a chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford told the <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Free Beacon </em>in a statement that the reparations fund would implement potential reparations policies approved by the legislature and governor. He also defended his proposal to allocate money to it from the state's reserve funds.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"SB 1331 does not take funding from any existing program but would be funded from general fund budget reserves," Bradford said. "The bill moves the discussion from the rhetorical to reality. ... By making a deposit in a public fund for reparations, we will be acknowledging the importance of addressing systemic inequalities rooted in policies like redlining and the racially motivated use of eminent domain laws to displace Black families and Black businesses. These are harms that have actually happened in California and are documented in the California Reparations Task Force report."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford's bill came days before a government watchdog <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/california-budget-deficit-swells-to-73-billion-watchdog-reports/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">warned</a> that California's budget deficit swelled to $73 billion, due to a $24 billion decrease in revenues. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) had <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/analysts-question-newsoms-optimistic-take-on-californias-budget/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">predicted</a> last month that the deficit would be under $40 billion.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">In addition to Bradford's bill, the state's Legislative Black Caucus introduced a package of 14 proposed bills on Wednesday to address the issue of reparations. Although there was no legislation to provide for direct cash payments to descendants of slaves, it did <a href="https://blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2024-01-31-california-legislative-black-caucus-introduces-2024-reparations-legislative-0" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">include</a> an apology for human rights violations and the prioritization of African-American applicants—especially descendants of slaves—for occupational licensing.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford's introduction of the bill comes after he served on the state's Reparations Task Force, which last summer released an 1,100-page <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/the-craziest-recommendations-from-californias-reparations-task-force/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">report</a> with recommendations that included decriminalizing public urination and defunding school police.</p><div class="tag-list" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man is accused of shoplifting numerous times in Chicago after he was released due to Illinois’ elimination of cash bail.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials charged the suspect, identified as James Tolbert, 43, in August with felony shoplifting as he was on bail for another felony shoplifting case, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/loop-serial-shoplifter-commit-new-crimes-after-safe-t-act-release-chicago.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 688px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the man could not put up the $1,600 deposit for bail in order to be freed with an ankle monitor. However, a few weeks later the state scrubbed its cash bail system, and the suspect was allowed to return home under conditions set by Judge Kenneth Wadas that he must stay at his residence during the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since that time, Tolbert has been accused of shoplifting or robbing two stores in the Loop and on the famous Magnificent Mile 12 times. He is currently behind bars.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminated</a> cash bail in September, which was a move that brought heavy criticism, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, social media users shared their thoughts on the CWB Chicago report, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Tom80107524/status/1760663061369692472" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “He didn’t learn his lesson? The voters haven’t either apparently.”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prosecutors charged Tolbert on July 15 with shoplifting at an Ulta Beauty store on Michigan Avenue. Judge William Fahy released the man on his own recognizance but he did not show up for his court date and a warrant was issued for his arrest.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago article continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The long arm of the law caught up with him on August 10. Prosecutors said he shoplifted from the same Ulta location. They said he walked in, grabbed a basket, went directly to the fragrances, filled the basket, and walked out.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charged with felony retail theft and operating a continuing financial crime enterprise, Judge Susana Ortiz ordered him to pay a $600 bail deposit to be released on electronic monitoring, and the judge handling the July shoplifting case ordered him to pay another $1,000 deposit. He couldn’t raise the money.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was not long before cash bail was eliminated across the state and Tolbert was released without the monetary conditions but was ordered to stay at home during those designated hours.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, Tolbert was arrested on February 8 at a Macy’s where he allegedly walked out of the store with several pairs of sunglasses worth more than $2,000.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moments later, on the street outside, he allegedly kicked a loss prevention agent, knocking her down. However, the woman’s partner was able to handcuff the suspect as they waited for law enforcement to arrive and take over.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities reportedly found metal knuckles connected to a switchblade and a credit card that did not belong to Tolbert on his person. Officials eventually levied several charges against him.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report also noted Tolbert was accused of shoplifting from several Sunglass Hut stores in January.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In court on February 9, Judge Ankur Srivastava decided that Tolbert would be released with a 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew on the new charges. But he detained Tolbert for violating pretrial release in the already-pending case until the judge handling that matter reviews the new allegations. Tolbert is due in court again today,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will County state’s attorney Jim Glasgow (D) previously <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/20/first-day-illinois-cashless-bail-system-delivers-absurd-incoherent-results/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">criticized</a> the Illinois law regarding cashless bail, stating, “It will destroy the state of Illinois,” Breitbart News reported in September.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">THIS IS A LAWYER WHO CLAIMS TO KEEP A VAST FORTUNE OF MYSTERY MONEY UNDER HER BED. HER DADDY TOLD HER TO. 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--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis (D.) on Wednesday secured over $600,000 in taxpayer funds to buy her staff a fleet of brand new cars—even though lawmakers don’t know what she plans to use them for.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Four of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners’ Democratic members voted to approve Willis’s request, with one Democrat joining the board’s two Republicans to block the request. The trio objected that the embattled district attorney, who has already spent over $1.2 million on vehicles for her office since 2021, gave no justification for the purchase of 16 additional vehicles.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The Republicans also objected to giving Willis the funds as she stonewalls the county audit committee, which is investigating her potential misuse of taxpayer funds to hire her lover to prosecute former president Donald Trump.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"So we’re just supposed to blindly approve vehicles without knowing exactly what they’re being used for?" commissioner Bridget Thorne asked during Wednesday’s recess meeting.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"I’ve got a list of all the vehicles in her pool. It looks like a lot of them have been unassigned. She has over 20 that are unassigned here. I don’t know why she would need more vehicles if she’s not using the vehicles she has."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">As Willis secures the taxpayer-funded bag, Judge Scott McAfee is weighing whether to boot her off the Trump case over her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who used his earnings from the case to take Willis on lavish vacations. Willis testified in court last week that her relationship with Wade began after she hired him in 2022, and that she repaid Wade with cash for her share of the vacation expenses. But a former friend of Willis <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/witness-testifies-that-fani-williss-affair-with-prosecutor-started-before-trump-case/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">testified</a> that the district attorney began her relationship with Wade years before, in 2019. McAfee is expected to rule on Willis’s disqualification as early as next week.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis’s written justification for the request stated only that she would use the funds to purchase 16 various 2023 Ford model law enforcement administrative vehicles for her office. "The County is able to save money by participating in volume buying," Willis wrote in her <a href="https://fulton.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12596550&GUID=EB39E2B4-DF18-45D0-A4CF-FA5E188AFFEE" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">request</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Commissioner Bob Ellis, the chair of the county audit committee, added that the board should not consider Willis’s requisition request until she complies with his Jan. 19 <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/19/fulton-county-request-fani-willis-funds/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">letter</a> demanding information on her office’s transactions with Wade.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"There is an outstanding request to the district attorney from the audit committee that’s been outstanding for over a month now and there has not been a cooperative response to that," Ellis said.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis also faces scrutiny at the federal level over her use of taxpayer funds.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jim-jordan-subpoenas-embattled-georgia-da-fani-willis-following-free-beacon-report/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">subpoenaed</a> Willis on Feb. 2 for documents related to allegations she fired a whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, who tried to stop the district attorney from misappropriating a $488,000 federal youth gang prevention grant to pay for "swag," travel, and computers.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; 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line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Timpson recorded herself warning Willis during a November 2021 meeting about the attempted misuse of funds. Willis did not dispute the whistleblower’s claims during the meeting, but she fired Timpson less than two months later and had her escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators, the <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Free Beacon</em> <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/fani-willis-axed-employee-who-blew-whistle-on-misuse-of-federal-funds/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis refused to accept the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena by email, forcing the U.S. Marshals Service to hand-deliver it, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/09/fani-willis-congressional-subpoena-judiciary-committee-fulton-county-marshals-service/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">according</a> to the<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Daily Caller</em>. Willis has until Friday morning to respond to the subpoena.</p></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nolte: Three Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants Flee Democrat-Run Chicago</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/22/nolte-three-kentucky-fried-chickens-flee-democrat-run-chicago/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 38px; margin: 0px; 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margin: 0px; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="FILE - A logo on a sign is displayed above a branch of KFC in the Surbiton suburb of south" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/KFC-Chicago-640x480.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" title="KFC Chicago" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File</cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT4M21S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">4:21</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three Kentucky Fried Chickens (KFC) “abruptly shut off” the lights and fled Chicago’s South Side this week, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/3-kfc-restaurants-close-south-side-chicago" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a> Fox 32.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One utterly useless alderman is all kinds of butthurt.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“A closed business is not only a sore eye, but it’s a gateway for violence because when you see abandonment, it looks as if there is no love, no hope in the community,” Ald. William Hall of the 6th Ward told local news.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alderman Useless added, “It’s something we’re seeing across the city, but nevertheless, [in] neighborhoods, it hits differently.” He continued, “Any job lost is a life lost, in my opinion, because everyone deserves the opportunity to make an honest and clean living.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">KFC was a 35-year staple of the neighborhood, and it’s now gone forever.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fox 32 adds, “This comes less than one month after Cinema Chatham, a local movie theater, shut down. It came as a surprise to community members.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">surprise</em>…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s fascinating here — outside of the obvious — is that these businesses have wised up. Rather than announce their intent to close — which means weeks of protests and being smeared as racist — they “abruptly shut off” the lights and hightail it out of town. I love it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — “FOR LEASE”: Closed, Vacant Businesses Line San Francisco Street as Retailers Flee</span></span></em></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tiny-Remove-3734 / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/VLkGyfPK-o73dHpYz.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen, I’ve lived in some bad neighborhoods, what we used to call the ghetto, but you could still do business because as bad as crime was in the mid-eighties, the police could still police. There were consequences. You could hold shoplifters, kick out rowdy patrons, and count on the police to show up. Democrats have created an entirely new culture where anything goes, and everyone’s released with no bail. And if you complain because some pig jumps over the counter and rubs her stink all over your food and slaps a cashier, you’re the bad guy.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">These idiots who live on the South Side of Chicago, these moron voters who vote for Alderman Useless and will keep voting for him no matter how many storefronts close — this is on them. That is the beauty of America: you get what you vote for.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The South Side doesn’t need to be this way. I’m very familiar with the area. It was never great, but for a time, businesses were moving in because there was a gentrification push. But now gentrification is racist, so…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is what you call urban blight, and when you vote for Democrats, that’s what you get: blight, decay, crime, and worsening standard of living.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25615068" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Chicago Immigration" class="size-full wp-image-25615068" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/12/Chicago-Immigration.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants are camped outside of the 1st District police station on October 7, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the worst things about losing chain stores, be it a KFC or a grocery store, is what happens to your buying power. Where are you going to shop now? The only place you can: the local gas station or convenience store. And suddenly, you’re paying $3 for a quart of milk, $5 for a small box of cereal, $7 for a 12-pack of Pepsi, and $4 for a can of chili.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Thursday, I did Breitbart Radio, and the guy asked me what keeps me up at night… <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it illegal aliens, crime, inflation, the culture?</em> he asked. I told the truth. <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing</em> keeps me up at night. Nothing. 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OnlyFans model and Fortnite gamer Corinna Kopf took a shot at President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) after her house was reportedly ransacked by burglars in the Democrat-controlled city of Los Angeles.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“thank you gavin newsom, honorable mention to joe biden,” Kopf wrote in a social media post, sharing footage of fellow model Abigail Ratchford’s LA home being robbed after her own house was <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/los-angeles-crime-wave-rolls-on-instagram-model-corinna-kopfs-home-burglarized/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">invaded</a> by burglars.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1759793109511409924" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1759793109511409924&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fentertainment%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fmodel-corinna-kopf-thanks-joe-biden-gavin-newsom-after-her-home-was-burglarized%2F&sessionId=65d62281ac54b7e847bb5f32db8a86892f491465&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1108px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police <a class="x5l" href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/19/corinna-kopf-burglary-los-angeles-home-burglarized/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> TMZ that Kopf’s Los Angeles home was burglarized last week by thieves who smashed through glass to get inside the house. the model was out of town when it happened, but received a notification on her phone that someone had broken in.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The burglars were gone by the time law enforcement arrived at the scene. It remains unclear what was stolen, as authorities told TMZ at the time of publishing that Kopf still needed to go through her belongings to see if anything is missing.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, police are reviewing video from Kopf’s home and trying to see if there was more footage taken around the neighborhood. The case is still under investigation and there have not yet been any arrests.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, fellow model Abigail Ratchford also had her Los Angeles home invaded, but unlike Kopf, the model was still inside her house when three men broke into it, according to a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/02/model-abigail-ratchford-home-broken-into-burglars-while-inside/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> by TMZ.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The men, who smashed through a large window in the backyard and got into the house, ended up running away without stealing anything, as they appeared to have become frightened over the sounds of the alarm that went off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident was also caught on Ratchford’s surveillance video.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch Below:</span></em></p></div></div><header style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police: Wisconsin Pizza Hut Worker Kills Manager over $7,000 Inheritance</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Wisconsin Pizza Hut employee has been accused of killing his manager over a $7,000 inheritance check and leaving his body in the restaurant’s dumpster, local authorities said.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just days after store manager Alex Stengel showed off his newly cashed check to his co-workers, employee Kavonn Ingram allegedly killed him and wheeled his body out to the trash, the South Milwaukee Police Department said.</span></span></p><div class="fb-post" data-con-need="1" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthMilwaukeePD/posts/pfbid05G1pth9wbzB1pVF8Jg4Lc8ufQUb3gzhzbxu7McGbgYmguJ81vQaMgTwGFJcBcskYl" data-width="640" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote cite="https://graph.facebook.com/100064636307639/posts/786100690221134/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">***PRESS RELEASE***</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Posted by <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthMilwaukeePD" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">South Milwaukee Police Department</a> on <a class="x5l" href="https://graph.facebook.com/100064636307639/posts/786100690221134/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Friday, February 16, 2024</a></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the Friday press release, the body of Stengel, 55, was found on February 7, and Ingram, 31, was arrested on February 11.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We believe money was the motive for this crime,” the department stated, adding that it is not looking for any other suspects. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stengel was found shot with his throat slashed, WISN </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-pizza-hut-employee-charged-with-killing-manager-and-leaving-body-in-trash/46821965" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police believe that the murder took place two days before Stengel’s body was found, and they reportedly have </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/south/2024/02/16/pizza-hut-employee-charged-in-south-milwaukee-homicide/72631922007/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proof</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that after Ingram allegedly stashed the body, he clocked the victim out of Pizza Hut’s system, according to the </span><i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The store’s general manager also said he received messages from Stengel’s phone stating he did not feel well and was heading out for the day. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stengel’s wallet, cellphone, and keys had all been removed from his possession before his body was found.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Authorities said the text message was sent by the suspect to explain Stengel’s absence and, combined with the logging out of the computer, shows the suspect is familiar with Pizza Hut procedures and the individual workers at the restaurant,” the outlet reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A California library is shutting down because rampant criminal activity has threatened patrons and employees.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Contra Costa County Library <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/antioch-library-closing-crime/3456892/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Friday that the decision to close the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antioch Community Library branch on Saturday was made after “repeated dangerous incidents,” NBC Bay Area reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a social media post, the county library <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explained</a> the branch will be closed until further notice:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the closure, the library will be working to implement further security measures so we can reopen as soon as possible. These will take some time to complete, and we do not have an estimated date for reopening. We will continue to keep you updated on our progress.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media users shared their thoughts on the news. One person <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=937327074556048" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">speculated</a> the reason was “low police staffing, slow response time, and a soft-on-crime city.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Hopefully, this gets resolved soon. The public library is a very important place to any community,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=387471120555678" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>, while someone else <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=277813925183143" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, “OMG. Libraries are supposed to be our safe places. I am so sorry!”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to KTVU, Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe <a class="x5l" href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/antioch-public-library-shut-due-to-dangerous-incident" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">claimed</a> city officials did not see the decision coming.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“No one in the City of Antioch, including the police chief, was informed of safety concerns by Contra Costa County regarding the library,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The outlet noted authorities are planning to improve security measures so the library can get back up and running to serve the community.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Contra Costa County Library said, “We apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience, but the safety of our patrons and staff is a top priority.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly, a 54-year-old Denny’s restaurant in Democrat-run Oakland recently <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/01/video-its-sad-beloved-dennys-in-democrat-run-oakland-closes-permanently-due-to-rampant-crime/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">closed</a> permanently due to crime, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, the outlet <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/01/banks-closing-across-san-francisco-area-often-without-warning/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> in November that local bank branches in San Francisco were closing because the city suffers from economic decline, the result of which has been crime, homelessness, and a drug epidemic.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pennsylvania judge is accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head while he slept — just a few years after being cleared of criminal intent for shooting her ex-husband.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael McCoy, 54, is now blind in one eye after being shot in his Harrisburg-area home on February 9, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/17/us-news/pennsylvania-judge-sonya-mcknight-charged-with-shooting-ex-boyfriend-in-head-as-he-slept-leaving-him-blind-in-one-eye/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the </span><i>New York Post</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, was arrested Thursday and has been charged with first-degree attempted murder and aggravated assault, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">court records</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/MdjCourtSummary?docketNumber=MJ-12101-CR-0000102-2024&dnh=27RHGr75YPNk93%2Bwd7USqA%3D%3D" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> show</a>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Susquehanna Township Police arrest affidavit obtained by the outlet stated that McCoy had made “numerous” attempts to end the year-long relationship with his live-in girlfriend when she allegedly tried to kill him. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“McCoy had returned home from a tavern to find McKnight relaxing on his couch in her pajamas and again told her she needed to leave, saying he would enlist the help of her mother to get her out of his home if he had to,” the </span><i>Post</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reported of that Friday’s events. “She allegedly agreed to go.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Michael McCoy stated that it was like she finally understood that it was over,” police said in the affidavit.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McCoy then went to bed around 11:00 p.m. with the understanding that McKnight realized that the pair were broken up.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometime later that night, he woke up with a “massive head pain” and could not see.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While he screamed in pain, McKnight reportedly came into the bedroom and asked, “Mike, what did you do to yourself?” </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The judge called 911 shortly before 1:00 a.m. reporting McCoy’s injuries, but police said she “could not explain what happened and stated that she was sleeping and heard him screaming.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A gunshot wound to McCoy’s right temple that had exited his left temple was found after first responders rushed him to the hospital.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bullet left him blind in his right eye.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The affidavit also stated that a gun registered to McKnight was discovered at the scene, and her hands were positive for gunshot residue.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McCoy also asserted multiple times that he had not shot himself.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The ex-lovers both said that no one else was home at the time of the incident. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While McKnight claimed to police that she did not leave the house that night, this was disputed with footage from a neighbor’s security camera showing the judge leaving the home at some point.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to McCoy, his ex-girlfriend may have followed him to the tavern before he returned. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McKnight has since been suspended from her judiciary duties and is being held at the Dauphin County Prison with a $300,000 bail.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To avoid a prosecutorial conflict of interest, the case will be heard in the neighboring county of Cumberland. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In August 2019, McKnight was cleared of criminal intent in the shooting of her estranged husband, Enoch McKnight, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/08/harrisburg-judge-back-on-bench-after-being-cleared-in-husbands-shooting.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> PennLive. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following a long series of domestic disputes, police calls, and protection orders, the judge shot her husband in the groin while he was helping her move furniture at her home. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Upon reviewing the case, the attorney general’s office declined to file criminal charges, citing self-defense.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We can confirm the investigation is closed, and no charges have been filed,” said Jacklin Rhoads, an office spokeswoman.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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POLLAK</a></address><time datetime="2024-02-17T09:32:11Z" style="border-right: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">17 Feb 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26203058" data-dsqu="/middle-east/2024/02/17/leading-black-church-pours-salt-on-jewish-wounds-with-mass-genocide-claim/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">234</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT3M22S" data-mp3l="3:22" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/leading-black-church-pours-salt-on-jewish-wounds-with-mass-genocide-claim-26203058.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT3M22S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:22</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Council of Bishops of the American Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a leading church among African Americans, issued an extraordinary statement Thursday accusing Israel of “mass genocide,” exacerbating a rift between black Americans and Jews.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://mailchi.mp/6640b1d7ce56/council-of-bishops-calls-for-immediate-withdrawal-of-financial-support-from-israel?fbclid=IwAR2OTKVnXc3JRbKTsEQZi9sKyqxYfEjO_WaFo4W_kz-L83pNSrau5lhM4xM" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement</a> reads, in part:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel has trapped 1.6 million desperate Palestinians in the southern Gaza city called Rafah. Most of them are women and children. They have denied them access to food, water, shelter, and health care. After this torture, they plan to murder them. The United States of America will have likely paid for the weapons they use. This must not be allowed to happen.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church calls on the United States Government to immediately withdraw all funding and other support from Israel. Since 1954, Israel has shown a willful disregard for the human dignity of Palestinians. Since October 7, 2023, in retaliation for the brutal murder of 1139 Israeli citizens by Hamas, Israel has murdered over 28,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. The United States is supporting this mass genocide. This<br />must not be allowed to continue.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">There must be an immediate and permanent ceasefire between these two communities.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The statement also refers to Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew” — reflecting the false claim of Palestinian nationalists that Jesus identified as “Palestinian.” The term “Palestine” <a class="x5l" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">was not used until a century later</a>, after a failed revolt by Jews against Romans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel is a multiracial society, one in which non-European Israelis are in the majority. Israel also rescued the Ethiopian Jewish community from famine and oppression, marking the first time in history in which black people were brought <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en masse</em> out of Africa, but to freedom and not to slavery. Today, black Israelis serve — and fall — alongside Israelis of every other color, and of every other faith, in a fight to save their country from the genocidal aims of the Palestinian Hamas terrorists that attacked them.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The statement by the AME Church will pour salt on the wounds of October 7 for many Jews — and re-open old wounds in the black-Jewish relationship. Many Jews participated in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, but were alienated by the racial nationalism adopted by some black leaders in the years that followed. In 2020, many Jews and Jewish organizations supported the Black Lives Matter movement, only to be betrayed when that movement supported Palestinians against Israel.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of </em>Breitbart News Sunday<em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent book, “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it)</a>,” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook/dp/B08PNN54BB" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election</a>. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign album <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> has abruptly been removed from iTunes and Apple Music just as the album was surging in the charts and hitting the No. 1 spot in various countries.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures</em> 1 was removed from the platforms Thursday after its distributor, Fuga, reportedly said its upload violated a service agreement.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fuga is a distribution platform owned by the Downtown Music Holdings. On Thursday. the company said it had declined an offer to work with West last year, but the album was nevertheless uploaded by a Fuga “client.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It remains unclear what the company meant by a “client.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> was released Wednesday after a number of delays. Though it has been pulled by Apple, the album still appears to be available on Spotify.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Upon its release, the estate of Donna Summers complained about the track “Good (Don’t Die),” which was later removed from Spotify, according to a <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Billboard</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/kanye-west-vultures-1-distributor-takedown-fuga-1235608363/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>, the independently produced <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> has hit the No. 1 spot in multiple countries.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The album marks Kanye West’s first major work since his anti-semitic meltdown in 2022.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">West’s career imploded that year when he made a series of antisemitic remarks — including <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-praises-hitler-on-alex-jones-show-nazis/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">praising Adolf Hitler</a> — causing his corporate partners, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including Adidas</a>, to cut ties with him. Others who headed for the exits included <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/26/soled-out-foot-locker-pulls-kanye-wests-yeezys-from-stores-websites/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foot Locker</a>, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/22/vogue-and-balenciaga-will-no-longer-work-with-kanye-west-reports/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balenciaga, <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vogue</em> magazine</a>, and Hollywood mega-talent agency <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/24/hollywood-mega-talent-agency-caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-following-anti-semitic-comments/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CAA</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At one point, West claimed he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/27/kanye-west-says-he-lost-2-billion-following-antisemitic-comments-the-money-is-not-who-i-am/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lost $2 billion in just one day</a> following his series of antisemitic comments.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow David </em><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ng on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsDavidNg" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@HeyItsDavidNg</a>. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police arrested a suspect Wednesday after a brazen theft inside an Apple Store in Berkeley, California, where shocked customers watched the scene unfold.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Detectives with the Emeryville Police Department took Tyler Mims into custody, Fox Business <a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/masked-california-thief-nabbed-being-caught-video-snatching-dozens-iphones-apple-store" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Thursday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1755819923602067474" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect, wearing all black and a pair of red shoes, allegedly grabbing items inside the store and ripping their cords out of the display tables. The store’s alarm is heard, and people are seen watching from a distance.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, no one appears to say anything to the suspect as he allegedly continues grabbing items and shoving them down the front of his pants:</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He then exits the store and jogs past a police car before approaching another vehicle waiting outside:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1755819923602067474" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1755819923602067474&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fwatch-police-california-man-steals-49k-worth-of-iphones-from-apple-store%2F&sessionId=d64584930e564b564a27c27f8376b997e1feb743&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 848px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mims was charged with burglary, grand theft, and additional crimes regarding the incident that happened on Monday. The Fox report said the person who called for help said the suspect took 50 iPhones.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bundle was valued at $49,230, the outlet continued, adding, “Since Jan. 19, the department has responded to four grand thefts from the Apple Store in town,” and police say they are part of organized retail crime.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is important to note that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recently <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/01/watch-newsom-shocked-to-hear-californians-blame-him-for-shoplifting-problem/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a> he was shocked to hear a Target worker blame him for the shoplifting plaguing the state, which erupted after it adopted criminal justice reforms he supported, Breitbart News reported on February 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newsom relayed the incident during a Zoom call:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1752759720363065387" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1752759720363065387&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fwatch-police-california-man-steals-49k-worth-of-iphones-from-apple-store%2F&sessionId=d64584930e564b564a27c27f8376b997e1feb743&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 719px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The outlet continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newsom relayed a story of visiting Target and watching someone steal from the store. He expressed surprise that the clerk did not pursue the thief, only to be told that no one stopped shoplifters because the governor lowered the threshold for punishing thieves.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The governor, whom the clerk did not recognize, protested: “That’s just not true,” he said. However, Proposition 47 of 2014, which he backed, and whose repeal he continues to oppose, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Prop-47-Information.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reduced</a> the penalty for theft up to $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition, the California State Senate <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/06/07/california-senate-passes-bill-preventing-employers-from-requiring-staff-to-stop-shoplifters/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">passed</a> a bill in the summer of 2023 that would bar employers from requiring their workers to help stop shoplifters, per Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Chicago man with an ankle monitor who was already up on 160 charges, including murder, has been charged in a new shooting after allegedly being found with two guns in a stolen car.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Torrey Lewis, who has a long criminal record, was found wounded in a stolen car in the parking lot of an auto parts store in the south suburban Chicago town of Dolton, police said on Wednesday. Officers found a rifle and a handgun on the front passenger seat, and a second man was found shot in the back seat, WLS-TV <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/dolton-shooting-auto-zone-shoot-out-torrey-lewis-safe-t-act-electronic-monitoring/14396666/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Police say Lewis was involved in a gun fight that injured four people. The gunfight occurred when multiple people jumped out of two cars and began firing at each other.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Cook County Sheriff’s department has admitted to having the suspect in the electronic monitor system but also noted that the convict was on one of his “free movement days,” and they were not monitoring him at the time he was involved in the shooting.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This “free movement day” consists of two days a week automatically granted to suspects and convicts on ankle monitors, a mandate that is contained in the state’s recently enacted soft-on-crime <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/13/illinois-mayor-blasts-gov-jb-pritzker-horrible-bail-reform-law/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SAFE-T Act</a> that also eliminated cash bail in the Land of Lincoln.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25190297" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/J.B.-Pritzker.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Interview" class="size-full wp-image-25190297" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/J.B.-Pritzker.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">J.B. 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(Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officials did review the monitor’s GPS data and found that Lewis was either being chased or was allgedly chasing someone in the stolen car.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tracking data revealed that Lewis left his home at 8:48 a.m. and “proceeded to travel at high rates of speed throughout the South Suburbs, at times reaching speeds of over 100 miles an hour, until he arrived at the scene of the shooting,” the <i>Southland Journal</i> <a class="x5l" href="https://thesouthlandjournal.com/em-participant-awaiting-trial-for-murder-of-disabled-man-charged-in-new-shooting-while-on-free-movement/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lewis was on electronic monitoring (EM) while awaiting trial for murder in a shooting from July that left Timothy Horace dead. Horace, who was disabled and in a wheel chair, was shot outside a movie theater in front of his girlfriend in Country Club Hills in 2017.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The suspect was initially held in jail. But in May 2020, his bond was reduced and he was placed on EM after posting the required ten percent.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lewis has now been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for the incident in Dolton. But he is currently in the hospital for his injuries.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The incident is just another example of how badly the Democrat-driven SAFE-T Act has been for the state.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On its first day, Illinois county attorneys and sheriffs <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/20/first-day-illinois-cashless-bail-system-delivers-absurd-incoherent-results/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">denounced</a> the law as “absurd” for delivering “incoherent” results as judges are required to release a host of repeat offenders after their cases are heard.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former Illinois Democrat state senator is in hot water for allegedly submitting false insurance policies after leaving her position and starting a career selling insurance.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Federal prosecutors on Friday <a class="x5l" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/9/24067670/feds-say-ex-lawmaker-found-job-selling-insurance-where-she-was-caught-submitting-bogus-policies" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">accused</a> Annazette Collins of submitting the policies for individuals who did not request them or were not even real people, the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> reported, noting officials have so far not filed criminal charges against her regarding the allegations.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1756078326840443312" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the woman in question:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1756078326840443312" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1756078326840443312&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F02%2F10%2Ffeds-democrat-former-lawmaker-illinois-submitted-false-insurance-policies-nonexistent-people%2F&sessionId=db380c2563bce8d28b23a9c5ea5229bfb3be3409&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 712px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Those policies were tied to bank accounts controlled either by Collins or her daughter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Parthum told a judge,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Collins recently said she would testify for allegedly evading almost $100,000 in taxes.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Prosecutors had previously disclosed Collins was fired from her job at American Income Life Insurance, but they said they would not seek to disclose the reason unless she decided to take the stand,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> report said, noting she was later fired from her position as an insurance agent with the company for allegedly violating its policies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jurors were permitted to hear about the allegations if she decided to take the stand, but she apparently decided against it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A verdict was not reached on Friday afternoon. Therefore, jurors plan to come back on Monday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> report also said, “Federal investigations have swirled around Collins for years. Her name surfaced in two separate corruption trials last year, including the trial of four political insiders convicted of a nearly decade-long conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to her <a class="x5l" href="https://www.ilga.gov/senate/senator.asp?GA=97&MemberID=1801" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">profile</a> on the Illinois General Assembly website, Collins’ biography reads:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Served as an Administrator for the Chicago School Board. Previously served in the Department of Children and Family Services, the Cook County Probation Department, and as a Prison Correctional Officer. Received her bachelor degree in Sociology from Chicago State University and received an M.S. in Criminal Justice and has completed further graduate work in counseling from Chicago State University. Lives on Chicago’s West Side with her husband Keith Langston and daughters Angelique Nicole and Taylor Kourtnie.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a class="x5l" href="https://content.naic.org/cipr-topics/insurance-fraud" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">National Association of Insurance Commissioners</a>, “Insurance fraud occurs when an insurance company, agent, adjuster or consumer commits a deliberate deception in order to obtain an illegitimate gain.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is possible for such fraud to occur when someone is buying, using, selling, or underwriting insurance, the group said, noting fraud also hurts the financial situations of consumers and businesses.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) website <a class="x5l" href="https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/insurance-fraud" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">says</a>, “<span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The insurance industry consists of more than 7,000 companies that collect over $1 trillion in premiums each year.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The massive size of the industry contributes significantly to the cost of insurance fraud by providing more opportunities and bigger incentives for committing illegal activities,” the site stated.</span></span></p><div><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">HOW MANY AMERICAN CITIES ARE IN MELTDOWN DUE TO BLACK CRIME?</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND RACIST SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two 17-year-olds have been charged after a fight and stabbing erupted at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, on Thursday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Queens Chronicle</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.qchron.com/editions/eastern/two-teens-arrested-and-stabbed-in-queens-village/article_32a3e5c2-c445-11ee-baea-032c34aead32.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Monday that the two defendants were stabbed during the incident that occurred at approximately 1:30 p.m.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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At one point, the pair falls and slams against a wall. Moments later, another young person is seen stomping on one person’s head as the individual struggles on the floor:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1754564379138261076" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1754564379138261076&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fvideo-the-brutality-was-chilling-two-teens-charged-after-brawl-and-stabbing-at-nyc-high-school%2F&sessionId=51cebf758685d7aa2081c5f8086128405f5f98b8&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 897px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a Saturday press release, Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz’s office <a class="x5l" href="https://queensda.org/queens-teens-charged-with-attempted-gang-assault-in-brawl-at-high-school/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">detailed</a> the charges against the two 17-year-olds, noting they face up to 15 years behind bars if convicted:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Defendant 1, a 17-year-old from 106<span style="bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Avenue in Queens Village, is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds. Defendant 2, a 17-year-old from 131<span style="bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span> Road in Rosedale, is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree and assault in the second degree.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Katz stated, “As detailed in the complaint, this was a vicious attack. The brutality was chilling under any circumstance, but that it occurred in what parents should be able to assume is a safe place for their children is as unsettling as the violence captured on video.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We will not allow the critical role public schools play in the life of our city to be brazenly and violently jeopardized,” Katz added.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After one of the defendants was searched in the principal’s office following the incident, a pistol with a round in the chamber and seven in the magazine was found, the district attorney’s office said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police in Chicago have charged a 23-year-old suspect with shooting a woman in the face in November while inside a car.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the incident, which occurred in Jefferson Park, law enforcement said a person inside another vehicle shot the woman while she was in another car, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/chicago-jefferson-park-shooting-charges-filed.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Saturday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, investigators and prosecutors now say that is not what happened.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect charged in the case was identified as Nathan Frazer, a Skokie resident. 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About two hours later, the group all entered the Lexus to give Frazer a ride home, according to a written proffer filed by prosecutors.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frazer was apparently in the seat behind the driver next to two other people. The victim in the case had taken the passenger seat. When the suspect yelled and demanded to be returned home, the driver told him the car was warming up and they were waiting for it to finish doing so.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, once the vehicle began moving, the suspect tried to exit and the victim pleaded with him to behave, the CWB Chicago report continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After Frazer unsuccessfully lunged toward the victim, she yelled that he would not do anything to her “because this is a nice white neighborhood,” the proffer said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Who isn’t going to do anything, b***h?” allegedly Frazer replied, in sum and substance, as he pulled a gun from his waistband and immediately shot her in the face.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Following the incident, the woman was hospitalized for nearly a week due to her jaw being fractured. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago prosecutors have finally charged 56-year-old Mark Barber with the April 2023 murder of his ex-girlfriend, 35-year-old teacher Sa’Mon Richardson, whom he allegedly killed while on parole for domestic violence against his previous partner.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Richardson, who taught at Chicago International Charter School Washington Park, was found dead in her apartment by a neighbor on the morning of April 4, 2023, with a gunshot wound to the head.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The case seemed to go nowhere, at least publicly, for months,” </span><a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/parolee-charged-with-murder-samon-richardson-chicago-teacher.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> CWBChicago. “Behind the scenes, though, Chicago detectives methodically built a case against Richardson’s ex, 56-year-old Mark Barber.”</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barber was sentenced to 15 years for residential arson and seven more for strangling his domestic partner in 2012 but was paroled in October 2019 before eventually beginning a relationship with Richardson.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Court records obtained by the local outlet show that prosecutors believe the couple broke up in the spring of 2022 but continued communicating and occasionally seeing each other.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barber allegedly sent texts to a third party that threatened Richardson in March 2023, about two weeks before the teacher was murdered.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the day before Richardson’s body was found, security camera footage captured Barber holding a hammer and handgun in the kitchen of her apartment without her being there. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Richardson arrived home about an hour later, prosecutors said, citing the video.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additional videos from the Chicago Police Department show officers later finding the hammer in Barber’s trunk. They were able to track his cell phone location data to the scene of the crime.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Due to the ongoing murder investigation, Barber’s parole was revoked in the summer of 2023, and he is expected to remain in prison until June 2025.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CWB Chicago reported that a grand jury charged Barber with eight counts of murder in January, citing court records.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">BLACK AMERICA IS THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA. 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(AP Photo/Erin Hooley)" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/Brandon-Johnson-You1TV-ap-640x480.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" title="Brandon-Johnson-You1TV-ap" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Election2023ChicagoMayor/652bf510c8b840d5be179791d011e3d8/photo?Query=mayor%20brandon%20johnson&mediaType=photo&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=177&currentItemNo=140" rel="nofollow noopener external" style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">AP Photo/Erin Hooley</a></cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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padding-right: 7px;">25 Jan 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26020188" data-dsqu="/politics/2024/01/25/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-ridiculed-demanding-ceasefire-gaza-city-continues-violence-spiral/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">120</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT3M19S" data-mp3l="3:19" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/01/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-ridiculed-demanding-ceasefire-gaza-city-continues-violence-spiral-26020188.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT3M19S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:19</time></div></header><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago’s self-professed “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson is demanding a “ceasefire” in the action between Israel and Hamas terrorists, even as his city remains awash in gang violence.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson spoke out on Wednesday as the city council debated a formal resolution condemning Israel for its efforts to root out and destroy the terror group responsible for the raid into Southern Israel that ended in more than a thousand dead Israeli civilians and more than 230 kidnapped citizens. More than 130 still remain in captivity at the hands of Hamas and several other terror groups.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During his comments on Jan. 24, Johnson claimed that “we” need a ceasefire. He prefaced his comments by speaking of “the violence that broke out several months ago,” but refused to properly define the Hamas foray into Southern Israel as a terror attack.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He went on, saying, “But at this point now, I believe we’re looking at 25,000 Palestinians that have been killed during this war. The killing has to stop. So, yes, we need a cease-fire,” Johnson <a class="x5l" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-ceasefire-gaza-brandon-johnson-20240124-mnxruubc3nb3na2i6t4amdqkua-story.html" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, according to the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The debate on the resolution in the council chambers was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Hamas supporters screaming from the visitor’s gallery. But ultimately, the aldermen decided to set the resolution aside and delay taking a final vote on the measure.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The delay was requested in a letter signed by 28 of the city’s 50 aldermen who protested having to vote on the resolution so close to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Saturday, according to <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-ceasefire-resolution-vote/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WBBM-TV</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sources in Israel report that the Israeli Defense Forces have taken out roughly 10,000 Hamas terrorists, but about 15,000 civilians have also lost their lives. For its part, the IDF has lost 556 soldiers, more than 200 of whom died in actions inside Gaza.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, as Mayor Johnson is proclaiming that “we need a cease-fire” in Gaza, his city continues to drown in the blood of the city’s black and Hispanic citizens as gang warfare and drug dealers continue their weekly shooting sprees.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many on social media have taken note of Johnson’s “concern” for Hamas while his city burns.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Windy City saw a slight drop in homicides in 2023, but still ended the year with 617 murders and 2,450 shootings, according to <a class="x5l" href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/01/02/shootings-homicides-chicago-drop-13-2023-and-returned-pre-pandemic-levels-violence" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WTTW-TV</a>. Chicago suffers the <a class="x5l" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-numbers-poised-hit-record-decline-nationwide-americans/story?id=105556400" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highest</a> murder rates in the country strictly by the numbers and is <a class="x5l" href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/cities-with-most-murders" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tenth</a> in per capita numbers.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 18 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the first two days of the Christmas weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The weekend’s first shooting fatality occurred at 12:44 p.m. Saturday when a 28-year-old man was shot “in the 2400 block of West 55th Street” while on the sidewalk, CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-christmas-weekend-shootings-dec-22-to-26/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; 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The shots were fired by someone inside a vehicle.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 28-year-old was struck in the head and transported to a hospital, where he died.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police-department/14221411/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that the weekend’s second shooting fatality occurred at 9:40 p.m. Saturday, when a 24-year-old man was shot in the backyard of a residence “in the 8700 block of South Cregier Avenue.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two men approached the 24-year-old and opened fire, striking him multiple times. 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The deceased is a 19-year-old man who was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest and pronounced dead upon arrival.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The concealed carry permit holder is a 68-year-old man.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 30-year-old woman was shot in the head and killed while driving the day after Christmas in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-crash-austin-news/14228718/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that police received reports of a vehicle crash “in the 4800-block of West Thomas Street” around 8:44 p.m. Tuesday. They responded to find a 30-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the head behind the wheel of a vehicle that had hit two others.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman was deceased.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Witnesses reported seeing a man and a woman fleeing the deceased woman’s vehicle after the crash.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/25/at-least-18-shot-chicago-first-two-days-christmas-weekend/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">noted</a> at least 18 people were shot in Chicago during the first two days of the Christmas weekend alone, and two of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A homicide database <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">maintained</a> by the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> indicates that 580 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through December 26, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other news, a concealed carry permit holder <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/24/chicago-concealed-carrier-foils-alleged-armed-robbery/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">foiled</a> an alleged armed robbery Saturday afternoon in Chicago, shooting and killing one of the suspected robbers, according to reports.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2023/12/concealed-carry-holder-shoots-robber-during-holdup-chicago.html" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that the incident occurred just prior to 5:00 p.m. “in an alley behind the 1700 block of West Cortez,” and that one of the alleged robbers was fatally wounded. The deceased is a 19-year-old man who was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest and pronounced dead upon arrival.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The concealed carry permit holder is a 68-year-old man.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for <a class="x5l" href="http://www.armedamericanradio.org/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Armed American Radio</a> and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that the first of the weekend’s shooting fatalities was discovered at 8:50 p.m. in “the 6000 block of South Laflin Street.” An 18-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the driver’s seat of a vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around 10:00 p.m. on Friday, 42-year-old Ismael Yanez was shot in the back of the head while driving his vehicle “in the 4500 block of South Pulaski Road.” Yanez was transported to a hospital, where they pronounced him dead.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 44-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded during an exchange of gunfire Saturday at 1:17 a.m. He was riding in a car with someone who allegedly opened fire on a 31-year-old concealed carry permit holder. The 31-year-old returned fire and one of his rounds struck the 44-year-old.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fourth fatal shooting of the weekend was discovered at 9:16 p.m. Saturday, when a 32-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest was found inside a vehicle “in the 0-100 block of West Cermak Road.” ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/south-loop-shooting-chicago-man-shot-killed/14161417/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that the 32-year-old was found in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> maintains a <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/#:~:text=554%20victims%20have%20been%20killed%20in%20Chicago%20in%202023." rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">database</a>, which shows 555 people were killed in Chicago from January 1, 2023, through December 10, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 30 people were shot, one of them fatally, over Thanksgiving weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-thanksgiving-weekend-shootings-nov-23-to-27/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> 25 people were shot in the Windy City by Saturday night alone, with one of those shooting victims succumbing to their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the non-fatal shootings was as a drive-by incident just after midnight on Thursday that left five teens wounded near the United Center. The teens ranged from 15 to 18 years in age and, although wounded, were in good condition.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-thanksgiving-weekend-shootings-nov-23-to-27/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that by Monday morning the total number of shooting victims in Chicago for the Thanksgiving Weekend has reached at least 30. They reported five non-fatal shootings on Sunday, three of which were incidents in which people were walking their dog or simply walking down the sidewalk when someone opened fire on them.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1728779099282317500" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1728779099282317500&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F2nd-amendment%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fat-least-30-shot-in-brandon-johnsons-chicago-over-thanksgiving-weekend%2F&sessionId=c77ff18f7195ef91b5188b83f8af76aea7553d43&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 616px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 49-year-old woman “in the 100 block of South Sacramento Boulevard” was robbed at gunpoint just before 8 a.m. Sunday and one of the suspect’s shot her in the abdomen after stealing her belongings.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim was hospitalized in good condition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chicago, like all of Illinois, has a licensing requirement for legal gun ownership, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, and an “assault weapons” ban, which includes a ban on “high capacity” magazines. Moreover, Chicago sits in Cook County and that county has an additional “assault weapons” ban.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, nearly 540 people <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">have been killed</a> in Chicago during 2023, according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> 24 people had been shot and wounded and one person had been shot and killed in Chicago during the holiday weekend.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fatal shooting occurred Wednesday night at 6:09 p.m. “in the 2500 block of West 63rd Street,” where a 27-year-old man was shot multiple times. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hours later, just after midnight on Thursday, five teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, were shot in a drive-by incident “neat the United Center.” Each of the five emerged from the attack in good condition, surviving their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 / <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-uninvited-thanksgiving-guest-man-shot-park-manor/14100014/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that a man confronted then shot a 44-year-old man around 3:50 a.m. Friday “in the 6700 block of South Eberhart Avenue.” The armed man was upset the 44-year-old had not invited him to Thanksgiving Dinner.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 44-year-old was transported to a hospital, where he was listed in fair condition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A database <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">maintained</a> by the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> shows 537 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through November 25, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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DUE TO BLACK LOOTING!</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">IN S.F. ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION ARE BLACK, BUT THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME (THESE ARE PRE-COVID NUMBERS AND BEFORE STORE LOOTING, CARJACKINGS AND ASSAULT WHERE EVERY DAY ACROSS THAT CITY).</span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Walgreens: getting out while they still can</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McDaniel</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/dennys_joins_innout_burger_abandoning_sole_its_sole_oakland_store_due_to_crime.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thomas Lifson recently wrote </a>about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, California. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to car in the drive-up lane, robbing customers as they waited for their orders.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This kind of wanton, and unrestrained criminality isn’t limited to California. It’s everywhere Democrats/socialist/communists rule, places across the country<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/squad-democrat-accuses-walgreens-racism-leaving-boston-neighborhood-shame" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> like Boston:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/video-san-francisco-walgreens-chain-freezers-shut-shoplifters-rob-store-20-times" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Walgreens was</a> accused of "racial discrimination" by a Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts after the pharmacy giant closed another location in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-calls-allowing-incarcerated-citizens-and-16-year-olds-to-vote" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.</a>, railed against the "multi-billion dollar corporation" for their decision to pull out of the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Roxbury during a speech on the House floor on Wednesday. It is the fourth Walgreens store to close in Boston in a little over a year.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251874_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: C-SPAN screenshot</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-closes-community-center-public-shelter-migrants-prompting-backlash" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">in the Massachusetts</a> 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th," Pressley began.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When a Walgreens <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/in-n-out-closing-oakland-due-crime-issues-part-degradation-bay-area-local-candidates-say" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">leaves a neighborhood</a> they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination," she stated.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walgreens is taking what little remains on the shelves after “the entire community” took everything else without the intermediate step of paying for it.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/sen-ed-markey" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Senator Ed Markey</a> and Senator Elizabeth Warren, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, the Democratic lawmakers protested the store's closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/dozens-protest-closure-popular-boston-walgreens/LX2GZ2ELU5EGJHRCOS46W7HFDA/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston25 News</a> reported.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a shame no one could have possibly foreseen that when crime runs rampant, and constant, organized shoplifting destroys any hope of making a profit, businesses tend to go where crime is not rampant and they can make a profit. In Boston, apparently profit is racist.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities," she said.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The community had plenty or input, or more accurately, output, which is why Walgreens is fleeing.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2022, Walgreens was accused of racism by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/boston" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston officials</a> after it closed three other stores in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the company said "several factors are taken into account" when choosing to close a location, such as "the dynamics of the local market and changes in the buying habits of our patients and customers."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such as not bothering to pay for things by the dynamic criminals operating in the “local market?” One would think adults, having lived in such places long enough to experience reality, like being robbed and constantly burglarized, would come to understand cause-effect relationships. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-ag-residents-city-cannot-prosecute-arrest-crime-crisis-madness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Places like Washington, DC, for example?</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251875_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">s</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, because “don’t” has worked so well to deter Iran, it will surely work on domestic criminals.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We as a city and a community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people and their families with resources if we want to be safer in the long run," Shwalb said in a viral clip from Fox 5. "We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schwalb is obviously a scientific socialist/communist who knows, like Kamala Harris, we must find and address the “root causes” of crime. Normal Americans are soooo simplistic. They actually believe arresting criminals and putting them in jail will keep those criminals from committing crimes and will deter others. The self-imagined elite like Schwalb know better. And so do the folks at In-N-Out and Denny’s, which is why they’re fleeing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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 <a href="http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com./" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stately McDaniel</a></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><br /></em></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Woke Congresswoman Demands Walgreens Let BLACK People STEAL</yt-formatted-string></h1><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqyGRBDgG4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqyGRBDgG4</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p><header style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ex-Trump Official Mike Gill Dies: Casualty of D.C. 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font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Former Trump administration official Mike Gill, who was shot during a carjacking spree on the 900 block of K Street Northwest in Washington, DC, has died. He was 56.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The father of three previously worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under former President Donald Trump and was gunned down after his assailant entered his Jeep in an attempt to steal it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident also claimed the life of another innocent man, as Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/01/31/former-trump-official-mike-gill-shot-in-d-c-carjacking/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“His sudden departure has left a void in our lives that can never be filled,” Kristina Gill said in the statement as <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-trump-administration-official-shot-washington-dc-carjacking-spree-d-rcna137127" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> by NBC News, calling Mike Gill “not only a devoted husband and father but also a cherished son, brother, and friend.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — FIERY! Suspect Throws Molotov Cocktails at Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC</span></span></em></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cuban Embassy in US via Storyful</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/IBTN3Jf4-5YHnKzra.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gill was dedicated to improving others’ lives, being an active member of his church, befriending and mentoring coworkers, serving on the District of Columbia Board of Elections and coaching his daughter’s soccer team, Kristina Gill added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo called Gill “one of the most wonderful, honest, earnest, and open-hearted persons on this earth.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2024/013024a.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Latest collated data shows former and current <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/02/d-c-crime-crisis-touches-5-high-profile-people-in-2023/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">public figures</a> in the District have been targets before while crime in the Democrat-controlled city <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spiked</a> in 2023, according to police department numbers previously cited by Breitbart:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homicides: Up 35 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robberies: Up 67 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Crime: Up 39 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent</span></li></ul></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carjacking incidents in Washington, DC, have notoriously risen in recent years, prompting frustration and concern from law-abiding residents. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint last October.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In November 2023, D.C. police recorded 250 homicides from January through November — the highest numbers the city had seen since 2003. 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text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington DC</a></li><li style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></li><li><span style="color: #666666;"><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">WALGREENS HAS CLOSED ALL THEIR STORES IN MELTDOWN S.F. DUE TO BLACK LOOTING!</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">IN S.F. ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION ARE BLACK, BUT THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME (THESE ARE PRE-COVID NUMBERS AND BEFORE STORE LOOTING, CARJACKINGS AND ASSAULT WHERE EVERY DAY ACROSS THAT CITY).</span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Walgreens: getting out while they still can</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McDaniel</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/dennys_joins_innout_burger_abandoning_sole_its_sole_oakland_store_due_to_crime.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thomas Lifson recently wrote </a>about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, California. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to car in the drive-up lane, robbing customers as they waited for their orders.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This kind of wanton, and unrestrained criminality isn’t limited to California. It’s everywhere Democrats/socialist/communists rule, places across the country<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/squad-democrat-accuses-walgreens-racism-leaving-boston-neighborhood-shame" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> like Boston:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/video-san-francisco-walgreens-chain-freezers-shut-shoplifters-rob-store-20-times" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Walgreens was</a> accused of "racial discrimination" by a Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts after the pharmacy giant closed another location in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-calls-allowing-incarcerated-citizens-and-16-year-olds-to-vote" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.</a>, railed against the "multi-billion dollar corporation" for their decision to pull out of the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Roxbury during a speech on the House floor on Wednesday. It is the fourth Walgreens store to close in Boston in a little over a year.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251874_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: C-SPAN screenshot</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-closes-community-center-public-shelter-migrants-prompting-backlash" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">in the Massachusetts</a> 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th," Pressley began.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When a Walgreens <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/in-n-out-closing-oakland-due-crime-issues-part-degradation-bay-area-local-candidates-say" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">leaves a neighborhood</a> they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination," she stated.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walgreens is taking what little remains on the shelves after “the entire community” took everything else without the intermediate step of paying for it.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/sen-ed-markey" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Senator Ed Markey</a> and Senator Elizabeth Warren, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, the Democratic lawmakers protested the store's closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/dozens-protest-closure-popular-boston-walgreens/LX2GZ2ELU5EGJHRCOS46W7HFDA/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston25 News</a> reported.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a shame no one could have possibly foreseen that when crime runs rampant, and constant, organized shoplifting destroys any hope of making a profit, businesses tend to go where crime is not rampant and they can make a profit. In Boston, apparently profit is racist.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities," she said.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The community had plenty or input, or more accurately, output, which is why Walgreens is fleeing.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2022, Walgreens was accused of racism by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/boston" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston officials</a> after it closed three other stores in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the company said "several factors are taken into account" when choosing to close a location, such as "the dynamics of the local market and changes in the buying habits of our patients and customers."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such as not bothering to pay for things by the dynamic criminals operating in the “local market?” One would think adults, having lived in such places long enough to experience reality, like being robbed and constantly burglarized, would come to understand cause-effect relationships. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-ag-residents-city-cannot-prosecute-arrest-crime-crisis-madness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Places like Washington, DC, for example?</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251875_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">s</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, because “don’t” has worked so well to deter Iran, it will surely work on domestic criminals.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We as a city and a community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people and their families with resources if we want to be safer in the long run," Shwalb said in a viral clip from Fox 5. "We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schwalb is obviously a scientific socialist/communist who knows, like Kamala Harris, we must find and address the “root causes” of crime. Normal Americans are soooo simplistic. They actually believe arresting criminals and putting them in jail will keep those criminals from committing crimes and will deter others. The self-imagined elite like Schwalb know better. And so do the folks at In-N-Out and Denny’s, which is why they’re fleeing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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 <a href="http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com./" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stately McDaniel</a></span></em></p></div></span></li></ul><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">OAKLAND IS A BLACK CRIME WAR ZONE! S.F. ACROSS THE BAY IS WORKING HARD TO BEAT THEM AT THEIR CRIMES!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Oakland Now Famous For NONSTOP Robberies (WTF)</yt-formatted-string></h1><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzT3HHUJPk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzT3HHUJPk</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning sole its sole Oakland store due to crime</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Thomas Lifson" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/thomas_lifson/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas Lifson</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations -- despite six-figure starting salaries. There's more going on than that, though. The departure of two prominent restaurant chains from the city reveals a horrifying pattern that the national media entirely miss.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">First, In-N-Out Burger announced that it was <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/in-n-out-to-close-first-location-in-its-75-year-history-due-to-a-wave-of-ca/#:~:text=The%20fast%2Dfood%20burger%20joint,officer%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">closing its only Oakland store</a>, despite it being profitable. The company’s CEO issued a <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/in-n-out-to-close-first-location-in-its-75-year-history-due-to-a-wave-of-ca/#:~:text=The%20fast%2Dfood%20burger%20joint,officer%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">statement</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies. Our last day of business in Oakland will be March 24, 2024.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are grateful for the local community, which has supported us for over 18 years, and we recognize that this closure negatively impacts our Associates and their families. Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and wellbeing of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment.</span></p></blockquote><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251851_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 643px; max-width: 100%; width: 500px;" /></span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251852_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 253px; max-width: 100%; width: 501px;" /></span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TyKax3B4U&t=42s" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">screengrabs</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, Denny’s <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/dennys-closing-only-restaurant-in-oakland-due-to-crime/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">closed its sole Oakland diner</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">…the safety and well-being of Denny’s team members and valued guests is our top priority,” <a href="https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1752841210568626238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1752841210568626238%7Ctwgr%5E41f37dd165a704c3d78bf43ff4a64e695b3db071%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fnews%2Fdennys-shuts-down-for-good-in-oakland-citing-crime-concerns" role="link" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank"><span>the restaurant stated</span></a>. “Weighing those factors, the decision has been made to close this location.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On their face, these announcements reveal deep problems in the Democrat-run city. But there is a special factor in the closure of both restaurants that the national media entirely miss. It is the same reason that I have eaten at both outlets in the past: both are located on the main approach road to Oakland International Airport. This means that lots of drivers of rental cars stop for a quick bite before or after domestic flights that, these days, very rarely provide any food to coach passengers. After the renters park and go inside, the gangs of thieves, who realize that expensive items like laptop computers can be found in the luggage locked in the trunk, strike within minutes. So, they target such rental car returns, which are pretty easy to spot since they are late-model cars and usually have stickers identifying the fleet that they belong to.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I actually heard about this a couple of years ago when I was warned to stay away from the In-N-Out Burger store very close to SFO Airport, in Millbrae, California. The same logic of robbing rental car drivers operates, and the person who warned me mentioned that, on average, it took at most a few minutes for targeted cars to be hit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, I am standing by and waiting to see if the Millbrae <span font-size:="" new="" times="">In-N-Out Burger store </span>joins Oakland in being closed. It may be that the Millbrae police are more effective than Oakland’s Finest, and perhaps they stake out the parking lot regularly, something the understaffed OPD is unlikely to match.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Either way, we see that criminals are being allowed to take control of city neighborhoods, much as the cartels of Mexico are the de facto government of parts of that nation. It can only be understood as the breakdown of civilization.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;"><em>The View</em> accuses black voters turning their backs on the Democrats of being ‘grifters’ in a ‘downward spiral’</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Jack Hellner" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/jack_hellner/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Hellner</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">As Joe Biden angrily screeched: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black!” Independent thinking is not allowed, just servitude.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">Black Americans are </span><em>not</em> permitted to leave the Democrat reservation, but when they disobey there’s hell to pay, and bigoted mudslinging attacks ensue—they’re denigrated with the “Uncle Tom” or “race traitor” moniker, and now, according to Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, black Americans leaving the left are in a “downward spiral” and guilty of grifting. See here, from a NewsBusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/01/31/view-previews-black-history-month-downward-spiral-black" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">report</a> yesterday:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">The View Previews Black History Month: ‘Downward Spiral of Black Republicans’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">In anticipation of the start of Black History Month on Wednesday, ABC’s </span>The View decried “the downward spiral of black Republicans” and smeared ALL of them as “grifters” that would betray America and their race for “power.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">They spoke with race baiter and author Clay Cane about his new anti-black Republican book: “</span>The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">Teeing up her guest, </span>Goldberg agreed that ‘grifters’ was ‘the right word for them.’ Cane, a liberal extremist, said he was ‘so saddened at the direction’ black Republicans were going.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Behar and Cane then attacked [Tim] Scott’s recent engagement to a white woman. They mocked how their names rhymed and suggested he only decided to marry her because it was good optics for a shot at being vice president[.]</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Would they have attacked Tim Scott if he were a white man? No, of course not; they’re attacking him specifically because of the color of his skin. Call me crazy, but that’s pretty bigoted.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">So by Behar and Goldberg’s standard…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who support school choice because they don’t want their children locked in failing schools so bad teachers can have job security, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who don’t want illegals flooding into the country because the former is disproportionately affected, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who support more police because they too value safe cities and neighborhoods, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who want lower taxes and less regulation because they’re entrepreneurs and want to achieve the American dream, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who don’t support abortion because they detest the anti-black eugenics ideology underpinning the agenda, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">The entire premise of Black History Month is offensive, because it presupposes that black Americans are an “other” and relegates them to a place outside the rest of the citizenry; American history </span><em>is</em> black history, and black history <em>is</em> American history. Dedicating a separate month to celebrate “black history” as if these stories somehow don’t have a place in the mainstream American historical record is manufacturing an unnecessary divide; yet they pretend President Trump is the racist causing disunion.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Here's how AWFUL Oakland, California is Today. Is it Unfixable?</yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHixc-QAhZQ&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHixc-QAhZQ&t=2s</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #990000;">Oakland In-N-Out to close due to concerns about crime</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hh-6V2B68">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hh-6V2B68</a></yt-formatted-string></div></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's What Downtown Oakland, California Looks Like Today</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="goog_1992064558"><br /></a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-v3aB8BwQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-v3aB8BwQ</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div></yt-formatted-string></div><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">BLACK GRINS WHEN SENTENCED FOR MURDERING INNOCENT TEEN. 50 YEARS!</span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sltr-sqRO_c">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sltr-sqRO_c</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">WE WILL SOON REACH A POINT WHEREBY ALL OF AMERICA IS CLOSED DOWN DUE TO BLACK CRIME.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">IN ACROSS THE BAY SAN FRANCISCO, ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION IS BLACK. THESE PEOPLE PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME. THESE STATS ARE PRE-COVID. CAR JACKINGS, STORE LOOTINGS AND ASSAULTS ARE TYPICALLY ALL BLACK CRIMES.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL D.C., PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AT NIGHT DUE TO BLACK CRIME. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;">In a statement </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dionlimtv/status/1749182162845442070?s=46&t=XHTt7crz0jAu-2_PuczCSQ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">confirmed</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;"> by an ABC7 reporter and obtained Sunday by The Standard, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick spoke plainly about the company's "repeated steps to create safer conditions," saying "our customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies."</span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Another historic first: In-N-Out closes a restaurant in Oakland on truly scary crime concerns</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monica_showalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In crime-plagued Oakland, the city achieved a "historic first" of they kind they'd probably rather not advertise:</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">According to the <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/21/in-n-out-to-close-crime-plagued-oakland-location/?taid=65ad9a12d6f23c000172229b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">San Francisco Standard</a>:</p><div style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In-N-Out Burger announced Sunday that it plans to close its Oakland location within the next two months due to what it described as "ongoing issues with crime."</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Fine and undandy.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In California, especially Southern California, but also in the north, In-N-Out Burgers is an institution. </p><div id="pub-7-9" style="font-size: inherit;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Older than McDonald's, it's popular because of its non-processed food with no chemicals to give you a headache, and for its simple menu with the best prices on the fast food scene of California. People love the place, it's iconic, they hop off from airplanes at LAX and other airports and make a beeline to the In-N-Out nearby. They buy branded merchandise with its cute little palm tree designs from the place. Movie stars go there and yes, it is to be seen.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I just went to In-N-Out this weekend in San Diego where I carefully timed my visit to make sure I got in ahead of the crowd at the drive-thru because the car lines can be very long, though the restaurant is pretty good at making it move quickly anyway. A young man in a traditional 1950s white military-style hat greeted me and took my order from the window, well before I got to the order intercom or the pay window. My order was all done and ready to go by the time I got to the pickup window.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Still, it's competitive from even the road to get into the line and frequently, the car line snakes out into the road, so I know the visit needs to be timed and planned. Once through, though it's delicious!</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The details of that closure, from the company are <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/21/in-n-out-to-close-crime-plagued-oakland-location/?taid=65ad9a12d6f23c000172229b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">ugly enough</a>:</p></div><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In a statement <a href="https://twitter.com/dionlimtv/status/1749182162845442070?s=46&t=XHTt7crz0jAu-2_PuczCSQ" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;">confirmed</a> by an ABC7 reporter and obtained Sunday by The Standard, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick spoke plainly about the company's "repeated steps to create safer conditions," saying "our customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies."</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The company said the store's last day of business would be Sunday, March 24.<br style="font-size: inherit;" /><br style="font-size: inherit;" />In-N-Out thanked the community for its 18 years of support before acknowledging the impact the sudden closure would have on workers and their families, stating that "this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and well- being of our Customers and Associates—we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment."</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It's pretty bad if you have to close a profitable restaurant because the crime hitting your customers and staff outweighs even the profit. As with LAX, this In-N-Out is located on the highway to Oakland's airport which makes it a convenient place to eat in the era of no-meal airline flights. </p><div style="font-size: inherit;"> It's an area that has grown bleak. A correspondent who has been there noted to me by message this morning:</div><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div style="font-size: inherit;">Almost no residents nearby. Car dealers, gas stations, and office buildings. Across the freeway is the Oakland. Coliseum, abandoned by its basketball, football, and (rumored soon) baseball tenants. </div></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It gets even worse when you read the San Francisco Chronicle's account of what was <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-in-n-out-18610993.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">going on there</a>:</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The In-N-Out, a convenient pit stop for travelers headed to Oakland International Airport and a buzzy hangout after A’s games at the Coliseum, has become <a data-link="native" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-rockridge-crime-college-avenue-18117744.php" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">the epicenter</a> for crime in a <a data-link="native" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-robbery-assault-victims-18177355.php" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">city grappling with a surge in violence and theft</a>. Since 2019, police have logged 1,335 incidents in the vicinity of the diner on 8300 Oakport St. — more than any other location in Oakland.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">...and...</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div data-block-type="text" data-dropcap="false" style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">That number includes nine robberies, two commercial burglaries, four domestic violence incidents and 1,174 car break-ins, according to Oakland police data. Chaotic scenes unfold daily. Sean Crawford, who works in a building around the corner from the diner, said he’s watched robbery crews bust doors of work vans and heard In-N-Out customers loudly confronting burglars.</p></div><div data-block-type="text" data-dropcap="false" style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In one instance last year, Crawford and some co-workers were driving by the diner when they saw a car pull up to the drive-thru line. Two people jumped out and methodically went from vehicle to vehicle, robbing people at gunpoint, Crawford said.</p></div></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">This is the kind of horror that happens in Latin America, in the bad parts of Venezuela, or Colombia, or maybe Brazil during its worst years. You can't build a society with trust with that kind of unpunished crime going on, and obviously, it's been going on a long time for it to get to that level.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In-N-Out is apparently no stranger to these security concerns, either, what with its long car lines. Here is the one I went to -- and I had no idea there had been problems until I saw this CBS8 report from a few years ago:</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="337" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qADApyR_9zc?si=BBFXeQIN3Po4FPpm" style="font-size: inherit !important;" title="YouTube video player" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">What a nightmare.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">San Diego's is still there but Oakland has another 'historic first' -- the first blue city to send In-N-Out fleeing for refuge based on the conditions of the city -- even though they were making money.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I hope the leftists running that city are proud of themselves.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; 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font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A driver accused of hitting a police officer in New York City apparently did it on purpose, sources <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/metro/shocking-video-shows-moment-nyc-driver-intentionally-plows-into-policeman-f-k-these-cops/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Authorities and sources said the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Sahara Dula, was behind the wheel of her Lexus going the wrong way on the Upper East Side on Wednesday when she allegedly hit the New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1748454196834107809" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 605px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article noted Dula was allegedly high on marijuana at the time. The article continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn’t move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose,’’ Dula later told investigators, according to court papers.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“F–k these cops! He wouldn’t move!’’ she screamed a few minutes after the incident, the documents claim — with a source saying Dula added, “F–k these cops, it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dash camera footage <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdGaebcvqlo" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">caught</a> the moment the incident unfolded, showing the officer approaching the black vehicle, which was pointed the wrong way on the street, according to PIX 11 News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Someone yells, “Hey! Be careful!” seconds before the car lurches forward and smashes into the officer. After his body slams into the hood, it flips and lands on the street. The driver exits the vehicle with her hands in the air shortly after the collision.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1748203298195202555" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1748203298195202555&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F&sessionId=d93fb9b896ccf1d6afc72f5bb5b87b35b69d8c5a&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 993px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the incident happened as officers were investigating an unrelated robbery at a store and had closed off the area. The officer involved suffered a broken leg and bruising.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The outlet also said Dula has a degree in criminal justice and reportedly runs a business mentoring children through music to keep them off the streets and away from drugs.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, the suspect also reportedly has bipolar disorder, takes several medications, and is a mental health patient.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a social media post on Thursday, Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngô <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1748205795190178233" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">described</a> Dula as a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1748205795190178233" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1748205795190178233&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F&sessionId=d93fb9b896ccf1d6afc72f5bb5b87b35b69d8c5a&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The report also noted that the suspect has a history of run-ins with the law.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Pix 11, the suspect is held on a $25,000 cash bail and is in custody on Rikers Island</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></p></div></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><header style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 19-year-old man in Chicago is accused of stealing a car after getting into trouble for a pair of similar cases in 2023.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Officials charged the man with stealing the vehicle while he was wearing an ankle monitor for two other stolen car incidents in March, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/01/chicago-auto-theft-charges-three-cases-electronic-monitoring.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> on Tuesday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect, identified as Jonathan Curtis, is behind bars and labeled a public safety threat and flight risk in two of the cases.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1748152292191219846?s=20" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the man in question:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 640px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Clearly wasn’t monitored well enough! Smh,” one social media user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/dangen24/status/1748157078357622955" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a> on the story, while another <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/hrbekroenick/status/1748153517095698646" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, “Well who could have seen that coming?”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report continued:</span></div><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">North Riverside cops arrested Curtis on March 2, saying he struck one of their patrol cars with a stolen Jeep Cherokee and also possessed a loaded firearm, according to court records. After appearing before Judge Sheree Henry, he posted a $500 bail deposit and went home on an ankle monitor the next day.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two months later, Judge Geary Kull ordered the sheriff’s office to remove Curtis’ ankle monitor.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, two months after that, on July 13, cops arrested Curtis for allegedly possessing a stolen Toyota Camry in the 600 block of North Lorel. Prosecutors charged him with possessing a stolen motor vehicle and fleeing and attempting to elude.</span></p></blockquote></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois became the first state in the nation to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminate</a> cash bail in September, Breitbart News reported at the time. The decision brought heavy criticism to the Democrat-controlled state.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Per the CWB Chicago article, the suspect was told to go home in October and was fitted with an ankle monitor. However, a few months later, police allegedly watched Curtis steal a car its owner left running as it was parked on North Campbell.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The officers tailed him until he exited the vehicle on North Juneway Terrace. When he got back into the car, the officers tried to make a traffic stop but were forced to stop pursuing when he busted through a pair of red lights.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect’s ankle monitor GPS reportedly showed he was there when those incidents occurred.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is important to note that in 2020, Chicago police <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/07/18/chicago-cops-forced-stop-pursuing-vehicle-carrying-murder-suspects-this-departments-joke/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">introduced</a> a vehicle pursuit policy that gave officers a list to consider when deciding if they should chase a vehicle, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The recent CWB Chicago article said the suspect was arrested for this third case and charged with aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle as well as aggravated fleeing. 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s scary,” one neighbor told the outlet. “I’m so happy that they caught him”:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_6pAdl2-vHk?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="NYPD shares new details about Queens stabbing spree" width="640"></iframe><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first incident happened on January 8 when a grandfather was stabbed in the back while walking to a laundromat. The victim claimed the suspect smiled at him as he walked away from the scene, the elderly man told the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A woman was stabbed as she walked home from work Tuesday evening and three other victims were stabbed early Wednesday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) alerted the public to the situation and manhunt on Wednesday morning before they found him hours later.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“On top of the five slashings, police are probing whether Rigueur is the same suspect who attacked a man on a Brooklyn subway platform Wednesday,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> report said.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surveillance video <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqURW0la_kU" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect, wearing a grey hoodie and dark colored pants, walking down a sidewalk and passing in front of a shop. Moments later, he turns around and produces what appears to be a large knife from his pocket:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bqURW0la_kU?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="VIDEO: Unhinged hospital greeter, 27, suspect in Queens stabbing spree - holding knife before arrest" width="640"></iframe><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CBS report said the man has no criminal history and the hospital has placed him on administrative leave.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="color: #111111; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shacoria Elly was a barista at the Harvest & Grounds inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when she got into an argument with a co-worker about espresso shots on January 13, according to a </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-airport-employee-fight-viral-video-fired-harvest-ground" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">police report</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 800px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The manager in a red polo shirt attempts to subdue her as she fights, saying, “No, you can walk away. I’ll get your fucking stuff.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He repeatedly points to the exit and tells Elly to “get out” as she continues to push him while yelling and then turning her attention to the second manager in a green shirt.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elly can then be seen swinging her arms at the other manager as he tries to defend himself before she screams, “Bitch!” and grabs a nearby metal chair.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before she can do damage with the improvised weapon, the taller manager snatches it from her grasp while the shorter one blocks her punches. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The video escalates even more when Elly, again, rushes at the red-shirted man, this time only to find herself tossed onto the floor to the horror of shocked onlookers. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gasps erupt from the crowd as Elly connects with the floor before quickly bouncing back up to her feet and continuing to fight.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The young woman again swings at both of the managers before storming out of the store as the managers say to “call the police.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elly’s departure lasts all of two seconds before she makes a sharp 180-degree turn, sprints back into the store, and leaps over the coffee bar to the back of the shop.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both managers grab Elly as she flings store products and equipment around before she eventually manages to grab a black jacket and bag. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman slips and falls to the floor again before making her final exit as the video ends. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police said Elly was “terminated from her position” in their report, and airport security confiscated her badge.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Elly was no longer in the area when the officer arrived. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 61-year-old Chicago woman is reportedly brain dead and may not live after she was beaten during a robbery on a train, prosecutors say.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect in the case is an eight-time felon who is on parole for a separate robbery involving a police officer, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/01/chicago-cta-red-line-attempted-murder-loop.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Wednesday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Judge William Fahy granted the state’s petition to detain Mijawon Johnson, 36, as a public safety threat during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. State officials have also moved to revoke his parole,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1745112641591202186" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1745112641591202186" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1745112641591202186&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fprosecutors-chicago-woman-left-brain-dead-after-eight-time-felon-attacked-her-on-train%2F&sessionId=ce0622bf001f99cfa7c841582de1f77ec51d5632&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 736px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson was apparently caught on surveillance footage allegedly trying to swipe the woman’s bag as she rode the Red Line train on January 4.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is accused of repeatedly hitting her in the head and stomach and stomping on her body before leaving the train.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After she was found unresponsive, the victim was put on a ventilator. Prosecutors say she is brain-dead and not expected to live very long.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5hvzoxcTvo" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> crews near an ambulance outside the Red Line station where the incident occurred:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/y5hvzoxcTvo?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Man arrested in brutal attack on CTA Red Line" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect was identified, and police officers found him and took him into custody once they spotted him riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He now faces charges of attempted murder along with two counts of aggravated battery in the case.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report noted that “Prosecutors also charged him with violating an order of protection for allegedly entering a 27-year-old Old Town woman’s residence on New Year’s Eve after being ordered to stay away.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect’s parole came in August after he served a portion of time for robbing a covert narcotics officer in 2021. At the time, he was on parole for aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois Department of Corrections records report that the suspect was given prison sentences numerous times for narcotics over the course of several years, per the CWB Chicago article.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Social media users commented on the report, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Turningoftheti1/status/1745449784771776831" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “You get what you vote for Chicago!!!”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; 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She says he warned her that she belonged to him and no one else.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials also say that Ferguson stole the woman’s credit cards and ID before he left the premises.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and later entered an order of protection against the TV personality.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Details about the pair’s relationship or any motivations for the attack have not been made public.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ferguson pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance on Jan. 10 and bond was set at $10,000.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The suspect has appeared in several episodes of Food Network star Guy Fieri’s <i>Tournament of Champions</i>, and season two of his Food Network series <i>SuperChef: Grudge Match</i> began last month.</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nH1lZeh4CCQ?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Darnell Ferguson's Tips for Making Surf & Turf | Superchef Grudge Match | Food Network" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His two Louisville restaurants, “Tha Drippin’ Crab,” and “SuperChefs” have both gone out of business.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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max-width: 640px; position: relative;"><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span>FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.</span> - A retail theft ring was caught after attempting to steal more than $4,500 worth of designer handbags from a high-end store at Tysons Center, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:Fairfax County;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/us/va/fairfax-county" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fairfax County</a> police say.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Just after 5 p.m. Friday, the detectives with the Tysons Urban Team received an alert about the theft. The suspects reportedly grabbed multiple bags, ran out and hopped into a Chevrolet Suburban, attempting to flee the area.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Detectives began to search along I-495 South in Annandale in the direction the suspects were believed to have fled.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Police say despite the heavy traffic, detectives were able to navigate through the Express Lane to catch up to the crew. With the help of <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:Virginia;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/us/va" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Virginia</a> State Police, the detectives were able to make a traffic stop and successfully apprehended all four suspects on the interstate.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">All four were taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center where they were charged.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Paris Teresa Hooks, 20, of Washington D.C was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Miyara Ghiselle Fletcher, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Shaniya Briyanna Clark, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny. She was held on a $1000 secured bond from another jurisdiction.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Kevin Wormley, 32, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The detectives successfully <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:retrieved the stolen goods;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/crime-publicsafety" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">retrieved the stolen goods</a> and it was all returned to Bloomingdale’s.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Detectives ask anyone with additional information to contact Tysons Urban Team at 703-556-7750 or submit an anonymous tip to 866-411-8477.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><header style="font-size: 16px;"><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="color: #232a31; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man is accused of dragging a woman into an alleyway and sexually assaulting her at knifepoint on Saturday at 12:30 a.m. in the Queens area of New York City.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are searching for the man who targeted the 45-year-old victim as she was walking near Northern Boulevard and 110th Street, the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/07/metro/nyc-woman-sexually-assaulted-at-knifepoint-by-mugger-cops/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; 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According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the victim was transported to a local hospital and listed in stable condition.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, police are asking those with more information regarding the case to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Spanish speakers may call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social media users were quick to share their thoughts about the incident, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/325AIR1/status/1744047007885406389" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “And when he’s caught, he’ll be immediately released without bail – just like that last rapist home invader.”</p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The suspect was probably released 32 times the last 2 months for other violent crimes,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/LapioBomb/status/1744046804293898471" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is important to note that felony suspects <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/05/of-nyc-violent-crime-suspects-freed-without-bail-go-on-to-commit-more-crimes/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">released</a> without bail due to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested than those given bail before the law was implemented, Breitbart News reported in April 2023.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The outlet continued:</p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A <a class="x5l" href="https://datacollaborativeforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RecidivismReport-1.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">study</a> by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reviewed cases prior to the New York law taking effect and cases after the law was implemented where most suspects arrested for crimes are not required to pay any bail to be released from jail.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.</p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In December, Fox 5 New York <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERawctgNMA" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highlighted</a> several violent crimes that occurred in New York City.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In one instance, a Queens man killed four of his family members by stabbing them to death:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rERawctgNMA?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Crime in the City full episode: December 8, 2023" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To make matters worse, more of New York City’s police officers are reportedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/07/08/squeezed-from-every-direction-nypd-cops-continue-leaving-force-in-droves/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rushing</a> to leave their jobs as crime bears down on citizens, according to a Breitbart News article published in July 2023.</p></div></div><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue;">https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. 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The man who was caught on camera attacking a Las Vegas judge was sentenced to up to four years in prison in an unrelated case. Redden leapt over the bench and attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus in her courtroom last week after trying to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past. 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Redden stood in court in shackles with a mask on his face and orange mitts on his hands, flanked by a group of jail officers. His lawyer, Caesar Almase, declined to comment outside the courtroom. In the attack last week, Redden had to be wrestled off the judge by several court and jail officers and courtroom staff members — including some who were seen throwing punches. One courtroom marshal was hospitalized for treatment of a bleeding gash on his forehead and a dislocated shoulder. Redden launched himself at the judge just after asking for leniency and describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">When it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, the court marshal moved to handcuff Redden and take him into custody. That's when the defendant started yelling expletives and charged forward as people in the courtroom audience began to scream.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Redden vaulted a defense table, dove over the judge’s bench and landed atop Holthus. The video showed the judge falling back against a wall and an American flag toppling on them.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Redden “supermanned over the judicial bench,” Jerry Wiese, the court’s chief judge, said in describing the event.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Holthus suffered some injuries but was <a class="link" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:back to work the next day;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/judge-attacked-las-vegas-deobra-redden-be4d961d1255b8841aa8ace661ac4681" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">back to work the next day</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Wiese credited court clerk Michael Lasso for acting quickly to protect the judge, saying he was the “primary person” who pulled Redden off “and probably kept her from having more severe injuries.”</p><div class="view-cmts-cta-wrapper" id="view-cmts-cta-5806e905-a3a0-389d-930a-91fb779aa51e"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h1 align="center" style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt solid rgb(229,231,235); 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box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">As many Democrat-run cities are being ravaged due to soft-on-crime policies, new Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is poised to bring a harsh crackdown on crime after taking office on the first day of the new year.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/news/philadelphia-police-departments-first-dei-officer-is-fired/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">New York Post</a> reports that one of Parker’s first steps after becoming mayor was to sign an executive order on January 2, which declared public safety in Philadelphia to be an emergency. “I want the world to know that I am fully committed to ending this sense of lawlessness and bringing order back to our city and a sense of lawfulness,” the mayor declared.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Despite being a Democrat, Parker has been a proponent of “stop and frisk” police tactics and has promised sweeping measures in order to address the causes of major crime in Philadelphia. These involve getting “every available resource into the neighborhoods struggling from the scourges of crime, gun violence, drugs and addiction,” and “permanently shut down all pervasive open-air drug markets.” Parker also dismissed those who characterized her approach as “too aggressive,” noting that it was of greater concern that Philadelphia residents might have a “loved one on the streets openly using intravenous drugs.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">At the same time as Parker is pursuing a tough stance on crime, at least one local official promoting radical-left ideology <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/leslie-marant-fired-dei-philadelphia-police-department-20240103.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">has been removed</a> from the government payroll. Leslie Marant, a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) official with the Philadelphia Police Department, lost her job just before Parker was sworn in as mayor. Marant, who was paid a salary of $170,569, had no law enforcement experience when she was hired. The Philadelphia Police Department did not comment on why she was removed from the position, but it appears as though they may eventually hire a replacement.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Remarkably, it seems that at least one Democratic politician is looking to take meaningful action to stem the burgeoning crime in one of America’s major cities.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 6.0000pt; margin: 6pt 0pt 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 27pt;">Crime Killed a Quarter of a Million Black People.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 27pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 9.0000pt; margin: 9pt 0pt 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;">And the racist pro-crime Left wants more.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 22.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 22.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">April 14, 2023 by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Daniel Greenfield</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.5pt;">20 Comments</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="420" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps1.png" width="750" /><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 0.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt solid rgb(238,238,238); mso-padding-alt: 0.7500pt 0.7500pt 0.7500pt 0.7500pt; width: 590.65pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom: none; border-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-style: none; border-top: none; border-width: initial; mso-border-bottom-alt: none; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: none; mso-border-top-alt: none; padding: 5.25pt;" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: top; word-break: break-all;"><span style="background: rgb(178, 178, 178); font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-shading: rgb(178,178,178);"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps2.jpg" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Over the last decade, BLM, and assorted leftist and libertarian groups dismantled our criminal justice system. Police forces were defunded, pro-crime prosecutors refused to lock up criminals, federal and state prison systems released tens of thousands of them, and a wave of legislative decriminalization legalized everything from shoplifting, to drug dealing and mugging.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The pro-crime policymaking that eliminated public safety and cost </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">over 3,000 lives</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in 2020 alone was done under the guise of fighting racism. Statistics which showed that black people were more likely to be arrested, imprisoned or shot during criminal encounters with police were used to spread conspiracy theories falsely accusing the criminal justice system of systemic racism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What all of these racist conspiracy theories popularized by politicians, the media, and the entertainment industry ignored was that black people were also far more likely to be crime victims. Even as the BLM riots got underway, black people in surveys were strongly opposed to police defunding. The opposition was so vehement that Democrats not only abandoned the issue, but claimed that they had always been opposed to it and ran against their own position.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Despite years of false claims portraying black people as victims of a biased criminal justice system whose police forces are descended from “slave catchers” who repress minorities at the behest of white suburbanites, surveys of black people continue to tell a very different story.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A Pew survey found that while only 33% of white Democrats wanted to reduce crime, 63% of Hispanics and 66% of black people thought that fighting crime should be a priority.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And that’s nothing new.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Leftists and libertarians lied that the War on Drugs was racist when it was actually pushed by black groups, including the NAACP, which demanded the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">death penalty</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> for drug dealers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That same Pew survey showed that while only 38% of white Dems answered that reducing the availability of illegal drugs should be a priority, 57% of Hispanics and 60% of black people believed that it should be.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now a Kaiser Family Foundation survey </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">shows that</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> black people are far more likely to suffer from crime than white people. The survey, meant to generate support for unconstitutional gun ban measures, instead unintentionally demonstrated that crime hurts black people more.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The KFF survey noted that “three in ten black adults (31%) have personally witnessed someone being shot”, “one-third of black adults (34%) have a family member who was killed by a gun” and (32%) say that they worry all the time about themselves or a family member being shot.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One in six of black adults say they don’t feel “safe at all” from gun violence in their neighborhood, compared to 2% of white adults. 1 in 4 also bought a gun to protect themselves.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Gun violence is just another way of saying crime.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Black people are disproportionately affected by crime. Pro-crime policies led </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to the deaths</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of an additional 2,244 black people in 2020. According to a </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Johns Hopkins report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, “in 2020, one out of every 1,000 young black males (15–34) was shot and killed” and, “more than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">CDC numbers showed that homicide is a</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"> leading cause of death </span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">among black men under the age of 20, and from the ages of 20 to 44. White men are killed by guns at the rate of 3.15 per 100,000 while black men die at the rate of 48.16 per 100,000. Pro-crime policies increase crime and kill thousands of black people. That’s what a real disproportionate impact looks like.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Every time pro-crime politicians free criminals, pro-crime prosecutors refuse to prosecute violent offenders, and legislatures eliminate bail, the impact is felt most strongly in the black community.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Law enforcement isn’t racist, but getting rid of it is. When a community depends more on a particular service, losing it has a clear disproportionate impact. Keeping the peace, arresting offenders and dispensing justice is one of the few primal duties of government. The breach in the social contract when the government fails to provide peacekeeping services is devastating.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Most crimes are committed by repeat offenders. The only way to interrupt the cycle of violence is to lock them up. Successful tough on crime policies in the 90s made cities safe once again and led to an economic boom in inner cities. Manhattan’s Harlem went from a danger zone to hosting Bill Clinton’s office, but in 2022, crime </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">increased 44%</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The Clinton offices have mostly moved down to the Wall Street area, but where they remain in Central Harlem, crime is up 32%. Next door in West Harlem, it’s up 133%. That means Bill is less likely to tour the Apollo Theater, but it also means that the mostly black residents are the ones feeling the worst of it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pro-crime activists have spent years regaling us with the suffering of convicts while caring very little about the shattered lives they have left in their wake. Foundations, protest groups, activist organizations and even PACs have spent hundreds of millions lobbying for criminals, fighting for their release and remaking our system to favor perpetrators, not victims. Their political success has come with a very high cost. And much of that burden has fallen on black people.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is hard to think of any single policy in the last generation that has done more harm to black people or claimed more lives than the pro-crime agenda. Pro-crime activists have falsely claimed that police shootings of black men are a form of genocide. They’re not. Crime is.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"> study</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">counted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 286,075 firearm deaths among black people from 1990 to 2021. That’s over a quarter of a million deaths. Some of them are due to suicide, but suicides are much lower among black people than white people, and the majority of black gun deaths were homicides.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And seeing a quarter of a million deaths, the pro-crime Left wants even more bodies.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Those quarter of a million deaths have been largely self-inflicted, but, much as with the welfare state, they were aided and abetted by white liberal policymakers who had come to believe that what the black community really needed was for the government to enable its criminals.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Racist liberal condescension continues to destroy black communities, families and lives.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2020 demonstrated that tough on crime policies can save thousands of black lives and, over time, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of black lives. Pro-crime policies are a racist disaster which reduced black people to criminals and then set out to free criminals to help black people.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s why 1 out of every 1,000 young black men are dead.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pro-crime policies are racist. They enable a crime epidemic that has killed more black people than the total number of battlefield casualties for all races in the Civil War. More black people died in the year of Black Lives Matter than our entire death toll in the Iraq War.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Can it get worse than this? In 1991, 12,226 black people were murdered. For the first time, more black people were killed than white people. The numbers are trending that way once again. While the Left claims that highways and dress codes are systemically racist, their pro-crime policies are a racist program that promises liberation but offers only mass death.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-bottom: 37.5pt; margin-left: 11.25pt; margin-right: 11.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><img height="200" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps3.jpg" width="200" /><span face="sans-serif" style="mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><h1 align="right" style="margin-bottom: 37.5000pt; margin-left: 11.3000pt; margin-right: 11.3000pt; margin-top: 6.0000pt; margin: 6pt 11.3pt 37.5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); color: #008285; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Daniel Greenfield</span></u></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><p align="right" class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 11.3000pt; margin-right: 11.3000pt; margin-top: 37.5000pt; margin: 37.5pt 11.3pt 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-shading: rgb(245,245,245); mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-left: -0.75pt; margin-right: -0.75pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h2><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF BLACK CRIME ONLY! STORE LOOTING, CAR JACKING, RAPPER ASSAULT, MURDER, HOME INVASION </span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: lato, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1; margin: 8px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Glazov Gang: ‘I Want All the White People Dead’</span></h1><h3 class="fpm-subtitle-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steven Hutcherson stabbed two teenage girls in NYC. Why was he on the streets? </span></h3><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 1em 0px;"><time class="entry-time" datetime="2024-01-05T05:10:54+05:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: inherit;">January 5, 2024</time> by <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="entry-author-link" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/glazov-gang/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008285; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Glazov Gang</a></span> <span class="entry-comments-link" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/glazov-gang-i-want-all-the-white-people-dead/#comments" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008285; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">1 Comment</a></span></p></header><p><span style="color: #b45f06; 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Louisiana police chief and his wife, who is a police captain, were both allegedly shot by the chief’s mistress, who is also a police officer, after the chief’s wife confronted the affair partners.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Opelousas Police Chief Graig LeBlanc and his wife, St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Captain Crystal LeBlanc, were wounded outside Opelousas Officer Savannah Butler’s house on December 22, according to the sheriff’s office.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz reported that Butler surrendered to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on New Year’s Day and was booked on two counts of negligent injury, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of illegal discharge of a firearm. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The investigation revealed that LeBlanc and his wife were shot at Butler’s home on Garnet Drive just outside the city limits of Opelousas,” Guidroz said in a statement posted to Facebook, detailing how “Crystal LeBlanc went to Garnet Drive to speak to her husband who was inside Butler’s home,” prompting an argument between the married couple.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Butler then entered the doorway armed with a gun. When Chief LeBlanc put his hand out in front of the weapon to retrieve the gun, he was shot in the hand,” the sheriff said. “The bullet then traveled through the chief’s hand and hit his wife Crystal in the arm.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Police said that both shooting victims admitted themselves to local hospitals to be treated for their injuries. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Guidroz, the subsequent investigation “revealed that Savannah Butler cleaned up the scene to cover up evidence prior to notifyin</span></span></p></div></article></div></div></footer></div></div></div></div></div></footer></div></div></div></footer></span></span></div></div></footer></div></footer></div></div></span></div></div></footer></footer></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></footer></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please Email This Post To Your Family & Friends</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440581937224467578.post-47552769831143437392024-03-18T08:01:00.000-07:002024-03-18T08:05:39.668-07:00THE WOKE FASCIST DIVISIONIST PARTY<p> </p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="">RFK Jr.: Why Our Economy Is Headed For Collapse</yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="goog_647245628"><br /></a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnBdCHBhL0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnBdCHBhL0</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="color: #38761d;">ARE YOU YET TIRED OF THEIR CRAP AS YOU WITNESS THE UNRAVELING OF A NATION???</span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Dems: Roads, Trees, Dogs, Cameras, and the Outdoors are Racist</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Noel S. Williams" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/noel_s_williams/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Noel S. Williams</a></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.165em;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Per recent polls, former President Trump is garnering more support from traditional Democrat constituencies. One way Dems are desperately trying to cement their cobbled coalition is by fostering race-based jealousy and disillusionment. Their dispiriting message of systemic racism now includes roads, trees, animate dogs, inanimate dogs, cameras, and the great outdoors.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who would’ve known that roads are racist</span>?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Department of Transportation sees everything through the prism of racial equity. It issued the <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2022-02/USDOT-National-Roadway-Safety-Strategy.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">National Roadway Safety Strategy</a> (NRSS), which emphasizes a <a href="https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/winter-2022/01" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Safe System approach</a>. The DoT’s strategy “seeks a better understanding of the <em style="font-size: inherit;">intersection of equity and roadway safety</em>, and a comprehensive approach to incorporating equity into all of the Department’s efforts to achieve zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries.”</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">That’s important because the roads <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/08/09/racist-freeway-planning-led-damage-milwaukees-freeway-system/10202078002/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">in places like in Milwaukee</a> are racist. That’s why Biden recently went to the battleground state -- to pander and promote a multi-million dollar project to <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/13/president-joe-biden-visit-to-milwaukee-wisconsin-to-promote-streets-project-live-updates-today/72958116007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">redo some of the racist streets</a>. But how about this: in addition to reengineering racist roads, allow law enforcement to pursue fleeing criminals? That ought to curb reverse road racism, which benefits minority groups disproportionately.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Miraculously in Seattle, the roads are not only racist but “self-enforcing.” To stymie abysmal traffic safety trends, they devilishly <a href="https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/safety-first/vision-zero/vision-zero-review" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">devised a plan</a> worthy of leftist nutcases: “Peer agencies are moving away from enforcement as a leading strategy, pointing instead to a safe systems model and designing roads to be ‘<em style="font-size: inherit;">self-enforcing</em>.’” [Emphasis added]</p><div id="pub-7-9" style="font-size: inherit;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Perhaps it is not the streets in Seattle that are racist. Consider that <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tammy_Morales" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Seattle city councilmember Tammy Morales</a> viewed street safety through a racist prism when <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/seattle-cops-give-out-90-less-traffic-tickets-as-car-deaths-rise/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">blabbering this nonsense</a>, “I don’t think any of us want police involved in traffic stops.” No, she’d rather they self-enforce.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who would have known that trees are racist</span>?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252877_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; font-size: inherit; height: 323px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 450px;" />Malcontents determined to find racism everywhere have discovered there’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-25/mapping-the-unequal-distribution-of-trees" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">tree inequality in America</a>. Somehow, I don’t think planting more trees in the hood will soothe the souls of thugs out for mayhem. If anything, it may just give them an extra place to hide.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Is there an inequitable distribution of trees based on race, or do they just thrive more in leafy suburban communities? Communities where they are nurtured; where they are free of graffiti and wounds from stray bullets. Communities, by the way, where <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/people-of-color-made-big-homeownership-gains-in-the-past-decade-especially-this-group-d0fa14df" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">homeownership for people of color is up</a>, though divisive Dems would never harken on such positivity.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who would have known dogs are racist</span>?</p><img border="0" class="im_t" height="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssl-intgr-net/tags/7_74_19.gif" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="0" /><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Research results are often untrustworthy (<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">not reproducible</a>) as they veer away from <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-sciences-suffer-from-severe-publication-bias/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">null results</a> that don’t justify social activist warriors’ efforts. Nevertheless, some social science busybodies have investigated whether dogs are racist, of all things. Members of the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois Springfield claim that a <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201909/can-dogs-be-racist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">dog will inherit the disposition of its owner</a>. It’s like prejudice is transferred through osmosis from master to dog. Who pays these academics?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I just hope that when the homeowner of color takes his <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201909/can-dogs-be-racist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">racist dog</a> for a walk, that it doesn’t leave a calling card on the neighbor’s lawn. That might be recorded by the <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/wired-says-ring-cameras-are-racist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">racist Ring doorbell camera</a> that contributes to racial profiling.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Of course, that problem wouldn’t occur with a robotic <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robotic-police-dog-digidog-rejoins-nypd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">police dog like Digidog</a>. Rather than seeking scents for a relief spot, Digidog is just prowling the obvious places for some action to overcome Digi-boredom. For that, he was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312547/AOC-slams-NYPDs-75-000-robotic-police-dog-named-Digidog-racist.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">once deemed racist</a>.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who would have known the great outdoors is racist</span>?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Per the American Hiking Society, there is <a href="https://americanhiking.org/hiking-resources/racism-in-the-outdoors/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">racism in the outdoors</a>. All I know is that if one fails to plan and equip oneself properly, then mercurial nature will taunt you. It doesn’t care what your skin’s color is, or even if you’re human.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Is it racist if one cannot afford safety equipment to explore our wilderness? They probably could afford it under the Trump boom, which <a href="https://manhattan.institute/article/the-trump-boom-lifted-black-americans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">disproportionally benefited low-income</a> and middle-class households. African-Americans <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/01/donald-trump-african-american-black-economic-progress-vote-column/6081310002/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">thrived economically</a>. That’s likely why they are now repudiating the<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/12/race-hustlers-take-diversity-scam-to-new-levels-by/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;"> race hustlers</a> in the Democrat party.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I just wonder why electric vehicles haven’t been tagged as racist more often; after all, they’re very expensive, too. Perhaps the greenies take precedence over race-hustlers.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">If outdoor pursuits are racist, then how about sports, particularly basketball? Perhaps it is racist. (You'd certainly think so, considering the <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/caitlin-clark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">open racial hysteria</a> that has greeted the spectacular rise of Caitlin Clark.) Not only because “white men can’t jump,” but most of the renowned public basketball courts <a href="https://www.legendssf.com/blogs/legends-blog/16487032-10-best-playground-basketball-courts-in-america" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">are in inner cities</a>, not Pleasantville. In fact, basketball courts are <a href="https://www.urbancincy.com/2010/06/urban-basketball-courts-offer-tremendous-opportunity-within-cities/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">ideal for an urban environment</a>, partly due to their small footprint. The problem is, rather than fast-breaks, ally oops and slam dunks, crime <a href="https://www.athleticbusiness.com/facilities/outdoor-fields/article/15144930/addressing-crime-on-park-basketball-courts" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">tends to hold court</a>.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">As the saying goes, “if everything is racist, nothing is racist.” But if anyone is racist, it is not common-sense conservatives like Trump, but Democrats. They are desperately trying to cling to power by inflaming racial passions and tensions.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Disturbingly, leftist policies are not only racist (toward Whites), but they tend to exacerbate problems in lower-income neighborhoods. For example, Uber and Lyft plan to exit the Minneapolis market over its arbitrarily determined <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lyft-and-uber-say-theyll-leave-minneapolis-after-city-requires-drivers-to-be-paid-more-02a7420f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">minimum wage rule</a>. People with low incomes (of all races) and the disabled particularly depend on those services.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Another example: Seattle’s minimum pay ordinance is <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/seattles-minimum-pay-ordinance-hurting-delivery-drivers-meant-help" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">hurting those whom it was supposed to help</a>. How long before these companies are charged with racism (if they haven’t been already) for simply making a sound business decision?</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take some non-racist roads to the non-racist outdoors where I can forest-bathe amidst a bunch of non-racist trees with my non-racist dog. My non-racist doorbell camera will monitor suspicious interlopers while I’m gone, irrespective of their race or ethnicity.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Image: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">PickPik</a></span></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">WE ALL HEARD JOE TELL US HE WANTED TAX PAYERS TO PAY FOR THE WIFI HIS TECH BILLIONAIRE CRONIES NEED TO EXPAND THEIR CENSORSHIP EMPIRE. 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Tom Emmer (R-MN) suggested this weekend that Democrat President Joe Biden’s overtly political State of the Union address may have disintegrated the tradition of presidents being invited to deliver the annual speech before the House chamber.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While Republicans, including Emmer — who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in 2024 — hope Trump defeats Biden in November, if somehow Biden comes back and wins the election this year, Emmer said that House Republicans might not welcome Biden back for a State of the Union address next year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That was about the most divisive State of the Union — I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” Emmer said in an interview with Axios <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&stream=top" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published</a> on Sunday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This may set things down a slippery slope, too, whereby Republicans do not invite Democrat presidents to give a State of the Union address and vice versa in divided government.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26357268" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26357268" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Biden’s speech, he attacked Trump more than a dozen times — repeatedly calling Trump “my predecessor” throughout the speech. Biden also laid out an aggressively leftist agenda replete with tax increases, more spending, radical border and immigration policies, and even for sending U.S. military forces into Gaza to build a port to send aid there. Biden, in addition, regularly attacked the Republicans in the chamber.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nonetheless, Emmer’s argument extends even beyond Biden continuing as president and said that Congress should reconsider welcoming a president to deliver a speech to give their State of the Union update to Congress. For many years throughout U.S. history, a State of the Union address from the president to Congress just simply did not happen. In fact, while George Washington — the nation’s first president — did address Congress in person, it was not until President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 that presidents began appearing in person before Congress to give what has become known as the State of the Union address.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25304638" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25304638" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican candidates forum on October 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Since Washington’s first speech to Congress, U.S. Presidents have ‘from time to time’ given Congress an assessment of the condition of the union. Presidents have used the opportunity to present their goals and agenda through broad ideas or specific details. The annual message or ‘State of the Union’ message’s length, frequency, and method of delivery have varied from President to President and era to era,” the White House <a class="x5l" href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html#:~:text=Franklin%20Roosevelt%20began%20using%20the,to%20be%20broadcast%20on%20television." rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> from the George W. Bush administration said, explaining the history of the address. “For example, Thomas Jefferson thought Washington’s oral presentation was too kingly for the new republic. Likewise, Congress’s practice of giving a courteous reply in person at the President’s residence was too formal. Jefferson detailed his priorities in his first annual message in 1801 and sent copies of the written message to each house of Congress. The President’s annual message, as it was then called, was not spoken by the President for the next 112 years. The message was often printed in full or as excerpts in newspapers for the American public to read.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emmer seemed to suggest that Congress might do well to return to that model of doing business, given the fact that Biden seems to have ruined the tradition with his address this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’s not going to be there next year — it’ll be a different president,” Emmer told Axios. “But I think you’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. That was a campaign speech.”</span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">would joe biden have been elected if big tech had not censored/deleted info on the biden crime family???</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill: Big Tech Censorship Case Heads to U.S. Supreme Court</span></p><header style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; 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margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ronald Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” When it comes to freedom of speech, that could not be more true.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One hundred and three pages of fact findings in district court, supported by five hundred and ninety-one footnotes, demonstrate a sprawling campaign of “unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office in the world” to “bend [social-media platforms] to the government’s will.” The Biden administration, however, claims that these platforms aggressively censored American voices because of Biden’s persuasive “eloquence,” rather than its threats and coercion.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the White House insisted that social media platforms view themselves as “partners,” on the same “team,” and benefiting from the government’s “help,” those same officials were subjecting the platforms to relentless abuse, accusations, and blatant threats. Of course, this abusive relationship between Big Government and Big Tech didn’t begin this way. It was a slow burn starting as early 2017, when the FBI began coordinating secret meetings in Silicon Valley with content-moderation officers across seven platforms. Even then, the platforms were threatened with “legislation” if they did not censor more, with encrypted lists demanding mass-censorship flooding their inboxes.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This soon escalated to more aggressive practices. By 2018, CISA, or the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, was highlighting “disinformation” from state and local officials to be censored across platforms, and in 2020, the “Election Integrity Partnership” was launched — a colossal mass-surveillance and mass-censorship project that entangled government agencies, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and social media platforms into an Orwellian knot. In time, this would be rebranded as “The Virality Project,” with the capability to monitor tens of millions of social media “engagements” per week and spur extensive censorship.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, this shadowy Ministry of Truth had completely embedded itself into the very fabric of our digital communications. As a result, it wasn’t difficult for President Biden to double down on such an insidious system, one conveniently engineered for “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” Like water carving into rock, the unrelenting pressure from the “highest (and I mean highest) levels of the White House” proved too much for these tech companies to bear, with one hand offering them a carrot for compliance and the other threatening the complete annihilation of their business model. One by one, they folded to pressure from the Biden White House, responding with “total compliance,” even when it meant censoring truthful information that did not violate existing platform policies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted an historic injunction in response to our 2022 lawsuit <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louisiana and Missouri v. Biden</em> on July 4, 2023. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit affirmed it — twice. Both courts have confirmed that the government’s coordinated campaign to censor domestic speech through private institutions violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Yet the Biden administration continues to unapologetically coerce platforms into censorship to this day, resulting in an oppressive editorial power that affects every American.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden’s attorneys have also made it clear that this administration has no intention of ceasing its unconstitutional conduct. Instead, they’ve expressed the firm intention to continue. That is why this case at the U.S. Supreme Court is so important to our nation. These censorship efforts were never vague or abstract but extremely specific, right down to individual speakers and posts flagged for “misinformation” or “disinformation” because they dared to criticize the government’s narrative. But the government does not have the power to secretly distort the marketplace of ideas or actively manipulate public discourse to suit its needs. Moreover, “a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish” (<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Norwood v. Harrison</em>).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our limited discovery has uncovered extensive suppression of speech that goes against the fundamental nature of American liberty. For our government, its institutions, or its officials to actively censor protected speech strikes at the core of who we are as citizens of a free nation with a government created by the people, for the people.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I invite you to listen to our oral argument on March 18, where evidence rather than Orwellian “eloquence” will be front and center.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liz Murrill is the Attorney General of Louisiana. She previously served as the state’s Solicitor General and has been with this case from the beginning. </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is Murthy v. 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If you look at non-white working-class voters, there has been a 61-point shift, that’s an incredible amount, from 2012, that’s in twelve years. Obama, in 2012…I think won it by 67 points, that demographic. Biden won it by 48. Now he’s only up by six. What’s going on there?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder answered, “I think, first off, you’re measuring March against November. We’re looking at where people are right now, I think you’ll probably see a movement with regard to working-class people of all races towards Biden by the time you get to November. You’re also comparing an extremely — an unbelievably popular African American running for the first time and who really galvanized people in all strata of life. And so, I think, in some ways, that’s not a fair comparison. But I think we should not be too alarmed by these March polls, you’ve got to take them into consideration. But March is a fundamentally different month than October and November, and we’ll see where these things turn out when we get to that part of the calendar year.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder continued, “There’s work to be done, but I’m actually optimistic that, if we stay committed, focused, and as the media turns its attention to making this a binary choice between a person who’s got some age and cognitive issues — that would be Trump — against somebody who has actually accomplished a lot, I think we’ll do just fine. And what you said in the monologue was really good, though, Trump’s popularity rating is higher now than it ever was during his presidency. It’s like, hey, America, remember? … People, they’re saying, are you better off now than you were four years ago? You’re damn right we are. So, let’s not lose sight of the chaos, the corruption, and all the negative things that Donald Trump meant and put a good man back in the White House.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p></div></h1><h1 style="clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. 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text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Sean Moran">SEAN MORAN</a></address><time datetime="2024-03-15T14:25:17Z" style="border-right: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">15 Mar 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26412513" data-dsqu="/politics/2024/03/15/exclusive-vance-files-brief-ohio-lawsuit-against-google/" data-fbc="6" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div data-mp3d="PT4M36S" data-mp3l="4:36" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/exclusive-vance-files-brief-ohio-lawsuit-against-google-26412513.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #111111; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT4M36S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">4:36</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) filed a brief in favor of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s case against Google, arguing the big tech platform should be regulated like a common carrier, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance’s brief in the case encourages the court of common pleas to give the case a full hearing and explains the legal rationale for Ohio’s case.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ohio populist’s brief is in support of Yost’s motion for summary judgment and to oppose Google’s motion to dismiss the case.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his brief, Vance calls out Google’s “hypocrisy,” as the big tech platform claims in varying legal cases that it is sometimes a “neutral platform” and other cases it is not a utility because Google search result webpages are “Google’s own creation or selection.” He wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whether this is true or not—and it is not—Google is playing fast and loose with the facts. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google has claimed <i>the exact </i><i>opposite </i>about its search service in other cases and before other courts.</span> When seeking to limit its liability for user content under Section 230 of the Communications Act, it has asserted that its search services are “neutral tools,” Google Rep. Mem., 2017 WL 3188006, <i>Gonzalez v. Google</i>, 282 F.Supp.3d 1150 (N.D. Cal. 2017), that are solely “information provided by another.” Google Br., 2018 WL 3496264, at *3, <i>Marshall’s Locksmith Service, Inc.</i><i>v. Google</i>, 925 F.3d 1263 (D.C.Cir. 2019).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, this hypocrisy has led at least<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> one federal judge to conclude it is “a fair point” that Google is judicially estopped from claiming that “the blind operation of ‘neutral tools’”</span> [in its algorithms and other sorting techniques] is actually “editorial discretion.” <i>NetChoice v. Paxton</i>, 49 F.4th 439, 467–68 (5th Cir. 2022), <i>cert. granted in part</i>, 144 S. Ct. 477 (2023). In short, Google cannot claim that there are no factual questions about whether <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">its services are susceptible to common carrier regulation suitable for resolution</span> at this stage of litigation—because at the very least, this Court must determine which version of the facts about search engines Google actually asserts. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/713679755/Amicus-Brief#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Amicus Brief on Scribd">Amicus Brief</a> by <a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/publisher/298980670/Breitbart-News#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Breitbart News's profile on Scribd">Breitbart News</a> on Scribd</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="853" id="doc_79265" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/713679755/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-IkWLzmahNiE3v3MzNTuY" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Amicus Brief" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance argues that Google operates in many ways like a common carrier, saying “its functions are essentially the same as any communications network: it connects people by transmitting their words and exchanging their messages. It functions just like an old telephone switchboard, but rather than connect people with cables and electromagnetic circuits, Google uses indices created through data analysis. As such, common carrier regulation is appropriate under Ohio law.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This follows a May 2022 <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/26/ohio-court-rules-google-may-be-designated-a-common-carrier/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ruling</a> that Yost’s lawsuit against Google, which labels the tech giant a common carrier subject to special regulations and litigation, can proceed.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance and the Claremont Institute <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/09/16/j-d-vance-claremont-institute-file-amicus-brief-in-ohio-lawsuit-against-google/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">filed</a> in September 2021 an amicus brief in support of this case against Google.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Common carriers are strictly regulated about who they can deny service to. Common carriers include utilities and telecommunications companies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Courts have held that infringing on a private actor’s speech by requiring that actor to host another person’s speech does not always violate the First Amendment,” wrote Ohio County Court Judge James P. Schuck wrote in his ruling. “There are several examples in which private companies involved in mass communications were prohibited from censorship.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Professor Adam Candeub, who led the Trump administration’s efforts to curb tech censorship, told Breitbart News at the time that this was a welcome ruling.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The court recognized that the First Amendment does not prevent reasonable anti-discrimination requirements on companies that hold themselves out as transmitters of speech,” Candeub explained.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is State of Ohio v. Google in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No. 21 CV H 06 0274</em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter </i><a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/SeanMoran3" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>@SeanMoran3</i></span></a><i>.</i></p></div><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"> </span></footer><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Biden’s cyber-mess flying under the radar</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Julio Rivera" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/juliorivera/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Julio Rivera</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden’s presidency has hit new lows in 2024. Despite what many media outlets and talking heads on the left wanted to portray as an “energetic” and “fiery” State of the Union address last week, most Americans were not impressed by the speech, as the customary post-SOTU polling spike that most presidents enjoy hasn’t been there for Joe Biden.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, multiple polls released in the days since the speech have gone in the opposite direction for Biden. According to the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-newsyougov-poll-no-state-of-the-union-bump-for-biden-190451496.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yahoo News/YouGov</a> poll, Biden’s approval rating went from 40% prior to the speech to 39% this week. This increasing dissatisfaction with the current president was echoed in polling conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">FiveThirtyEight</a>, where, prior to the SOTU, Biden held a 38% approval rating on March 6 vs. a 37% approval rating on March 12.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The speech itself was a clinic in Beltway gaslighting, with Biden making a number of questionable to outright dishonest claims related to job growth, inflation, and so many other issues of concern to Americans.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On job growth, Biden’s claim to have created “15 million new jobs” in three years fails to acknowledge the fact that about <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/24363/number-of-jobs-lost-since-february-2020/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">12 million of those jobs</a> can and should be classified as post-COVID “Return-to-Work” jobs that were actually created by his predecessor, President Donald Trump.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the topic of inflation, Biden actually told the joint session of Congress that the United States had achieved the “lowest in the world.” But in reality, the United States is experiencing higher inflation than a number of industrialized nations and new reports show that the rate has actually <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/46ca8249-8b81-4f25-a852-4bf9f9852085" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ticked upward</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite all the misleading chest-pounding during the address, one major issue that President Biden mostly stayed away from was America’s crumbling cybersecurity infrastructure. This was most likely by design, as the current administration has failed to distinguish itself as a global leader in the cybersphere. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/top-cyber-threats-2023-navigating-evolving-cybersecurity-landscape/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Twenty twenty-three</a> was a tough enough year for the U.S. in dealing with cyber events, with <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/topics/cyberthreats/ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ransomware</a> attacks, intrusive <a href="https://www.itfunk.org/topics/cyber-threats/browser-hijackers/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">browser hijackers</a>, and countless other threats compromising devices deployed for use in both the private and public sectors. But the first few months of 2024 have seen a rash of attacks against critical sectors, including health care, telecom, and state and local governments.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">These attacks come at a time where the cyber landscape has changed tremendously, with major changes at the top for <a href="https://www.spywareremove.com/behind-microsoft-s-security-shakeup-need-know-new-ciso-future-strategies.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">tech giant Microsoft</a>, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission ushering in a new era of <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/technews/secs-new-cybersecurity-rules-a-comprehensive-overview-for-all-companies/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">forced private sector compliance</a> regarding cyber events.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the more critical attacks has been the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cyberattack-causes-nationwide-outage-change-healthcare-largest-prescription-processor-north-america/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">cyber-attack against Change Healthcare</a>. The health care technology giant manages the medical records for roughly one third of American patients and manages billions of health care transactions annually. As of mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into the attack, due to the “unprecedented magnitude of the cyberattack.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Change Healthcare attack represents one of the largest data hauls ever accessed in the history of cyber-crime. The reason for this kind of attack boils down to one simple motive: money. On the “dark web,” where the personal data of victimized Americans is bought and sold every day, medical records sell can fetch as much as $60 per person, compared to $15 for a Social Security number or $3 for credit card information.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, warnings issued earlier this year from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), highlighted new threats against municipal and county governments, emergency services, educational institutions, public health care facilities, and critical infrastructure related to the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/us-critical-infrastructure-aggressively-targeted-by-phobos-ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Phobos ransomware gang</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has become apparent that the Biden administration is handling our digital borders as poorly as they have handled out physical southern border with Mexico, and the best advice we can take here is to become as vigilant as we possibly can when dealing with our own personal online security. Educating ourselves regarding new attack vectors that include phony security pop-up scams and <a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/basicstar-backdoor-used-by-iranian-threat-actor/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">backdoors</a>, which negate normal authentication procedures to access a system, is critical.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other than that, there really is little we can do to prevent the major data breaches that continue to afflict major data warehouses, but with commonsense precautions, we can make <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cybersecurity-2024-what-you-can-do-secure-your-personal-business-networks/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2024 a safer year online</a> as we hope for a much-needed leadership change in 2025.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Julio Rivera is a business and political strategist, cybersecurity researcher, and a political commentator and columnist. His writing, which is focused on cybersecurity and politics, is regularly published by many of the largest news organizations in the world.</span></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252836_5_.jpeg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; height: 406px; margin: 4px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;" /></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Gage Skidmore via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/48651174747" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Flickr</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:39</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) suggested this weekend that Democrat President Joe Biden’s overtly political State of the Union address may have disintegrated the tradition of presidents being invited to deliver the annual speech before the House chamber.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While Republicans, including Emmer — who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee in 2024 — hope Trump defeats Biden in November, if somehow Biden comes back and wins the election this year, Emmer said that House Republicans might not welcome Biden back for a State of the Union address next year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That was about the most divisive State of the Union — I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” Emmer said in an interview with Axios <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&stream=top" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published</a> on Sunday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This may set things down a slippery slope, too, whereby Republicans do not invite Democrat presidents to give a State of the Union address and vice versa in divided government.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_26357268" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26357268" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Joe-Biden-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Biden’s speech, he attacked Trump more than a dozen times — repeatedly calling Trump “my predecessor” throughout the speech. Biden also laid out an aggressively leftist agenda replete with tax increases, more spending, radical border and immigration policies, and even for sending U.S. military forces into Gaza to build a port to send aid there. Biden, in addition, regularly attacked the Republicans in the chamber.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nonetheless, Emmer’s argument extends even beyond Biden continuing as president and said that Congress should reconsider welcoming a president to deliver a speech to give their State of the Union update to Congress. For many years throughout U.S. history, a State of the Union address from the president to Congress just simply did not happen. In fact, while George Washington — the nation’s first president — did address Congress in person, it was not until President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 that presidents began appearing in person before Congress to give what has become known as the State of the Union address.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25304638" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25304638" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/GettyImages-1753245433.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Republican candidates forum on October 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Since Washington’s first speech to Congress, U.S. Presidents have ‘from time to time’ given Congress an assessment of the condition of the union. Presidents have used the opportunity to present their goals and agenda through broad ideas or specific details. The annual message or ‘State of the Union’ message’s length, frequency, and method of delivery have varied from President to President and era to era,” the White House <a class="x5l" href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html#:~:text=Franklin%20Roosevelt%20began%20using%20the,to%20be%20broadcast%20on%20television." rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> from the George W. Bush administration said, explaining the history of the address. “For example, Thomas Jefferson thought Washington’s oral presentation was too kingly for the new republic. Likewise, Congress’s practice of giving a courteous reply in person at the President’s residence was too formal. Jefferson detailed his priorities in his first annual message in 1801 and sent copies of the written message to each house of Congress. The President’s annual message, as it was then called, was not spoken by the President for the next 112 years. The message was often printed in full or as excerpts in newspapers for the American public to read.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emmer seemed to suggest that Congress might do well to return to that model of doing business, given the fact that Biden seems to have ruined the tradition with his address this year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’s not going to be there next year — it’ll be a different president,” Emmer told Axios. “But I think you’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. 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In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated the island, the Clintons<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37826098" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> grabbed on and never let go: </a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mrs Clinton was Secretary of State and Mr Clinton was UN Special Envoy to Haiti when the January 2010 earthquake struck, killing an estimated 220,000 people. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some $13.3bn (£10.9bn) was pledged by international donors for Haiti's recovery.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Clinton was appointed co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), along with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Clinton Foundation later said it raised some 30 million for Haiti and never took a dime for itself, but Haitians tend to disagree about the effectiveness of Clinton help:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In email exchanges with top Clinton Foundation officials, a senior aide to Mrs Clinton, who was then-secretary of state, kept an eye out for those identified by the abbreviations "FOB" (friends of Bill Clinton) or "WJC VIPs" (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC," wrote Caitlin Klevorick, a senior State Department official who was vetting incoming offers of assistance coming through the Clinton Foundation.</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Circa 2024, the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) continues its practice of <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2918260/house-republican-announces-rescue-of-americans-from-haiti/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">abandoning Americans in deadly danger: </a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252843_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: X Screenshot</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rep. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/house" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Cory Mills</a> (R-FL) announced the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/foreign-policy" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">successful rescue</a> of trapped American citizens from <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/haiti" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Haiti</a> Tuesday as reports of <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/violence" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">gang violence</a> and allegations of cannibalism continue to flow from the Caribbean nation. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I am proud to report that my team and I were successful in evacuating and rescuing a trapped, and at risk group of Americans from ‘Have Faith Orphanage’ in Haiti last night,” Mills posted on X.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This recent mission reiterates a disturbing reality that under President Biden’s leadership American lives are continually jeopardized.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the Americans Mills rescued was<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/12/michigan-residents-trapped-haiti-rescued-by-florida-republican-congressman-cory-mills-lisa-mcclain/72944162007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> best-selling author Mitch Albom.</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the most common mistakes Americans make, including—probably particularly—our State Department, is thinking residents of other nations and cultures are just like us. They think like us, want the same things, and are just dying for American-style democracy. To that end, we pour billions into foreign aid. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/america-should-stay-out-of-haiti/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">That hasn’t worked out so well in Haiti: </a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since the 2010 earthquake, the United States has provided over $5 billion in aid to Haiti. That doesn’t include Biden’s latest batch of $133 million after gangs took over much of the country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The $100 million in security assistance announced by Biden is on top of the $312 million that we already provided to fund, train and arm Haiti’s police forces over the last decade and a half.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And with over $400 million in backing, Haiti’s police still can’t compete with gang members. But many of the gang members were once the police officers whom we helped to train.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier, the leader of the G9 gang which controls the streets and is the most powerful man in Haiti, was a former police officer who had been accused of playing a role in the murder, rape and arsons that burned 400 homes and killed 70 people.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">American troops have often tried to keep the peace, as have others, all to no avail.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the time Bill Clinton rushed in to exploit the 2010 earthquake, the situation was already hopeless. Haiti could be nothing else except a war zone and a fundraising tool for aid groups. It’s a permanent disaster area of the kind that keeps NGOs and UN officials in business for life.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lessons of Haiti are clear: it’s a hellhole of corruption, worsened by the UN, NGOs and all manner of foreign aid and meddling. It’s another Mogadishu where competing warlords fight for dominance, steal foreign aid, and kill off each other and anyone else they don’t like. We’ve already sent in Marines to secure our embassy, but sending in additional troops <a href="http://https//www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/13/marine-corps-sends-special-response-unit-haiti-after-partial-us-embassy-evacuation.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">is a fool’s errand. </a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The brokest nation in history—America—can’t afford to waste blood and treasure in vain attempts to make people who aren’t like us and don’t want to be, Americans. We’re going to be spending more than enough supporting the newest thousands of Haitians who illegally enter America, many, I’m sure, <a href="http://https//apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-haiti-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-trial-fac9dc853231ba04ff0ea4e7442057ef" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">flown to the destinations of their choice by the MMPA.</a> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can’t we, once again, put America and Americans first?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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. He is a published author and blogger. 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We must have them deliver the solution, rather than live with the problem.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “Now, we know the administration has been weighing executive action, under some kind of presidential authority that could bring those numbers down by restricting asylum access if people enter illegally. Will the President take that executive action?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas responded, “Amna, a couple of points: Very importantly, that what we are experiencing at the southern border is reflective of what the world is experiencing, the largest number of displaced people around the world since World War II, if not before then. And so, we mentioned the different nationalities of the individuals arriving at our border. That is what other countries across the Atlantic are experiencing and around the world, number one. Number two, the answer is exactly what the bipartisan group of senators presented to Congress, and that is legislation that provides for much-needed fixes to what everyone agrees is a broken system and much-needed resources to implement those fixes. Legislation is what is needed. That is what is enduring. Executive actions in the past have been challenged in the court[s], and executive actions without the accompanying resources will not meet the moment.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nawaz then asked, “But absent congressional action, because we know that that bill did not have a path forward in the Republican-led House, absent congressional action, does the President have authority? There is a <a class="x5l" href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&f=treesort&edition=prelim&num=0&jumpTo=true" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">section of the Immigration and Nationality Act</a> that says he can suspend entry if he finds that entry of migrants is, ‘detrimental’ to the United States. Should he use that authority to bring down those numbers that you know are taxing resources in our system?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas answered, “We have not given up on Congress in terms of its ability to actually fulfill its responsibility to the American people. We are always considering what we as an administration can do in the shadow of Congress’ failure to act, but we continue to believe that Congress must and can act. We must have them deliver the solution, rather than live with the problem.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nawaz followed up, “So no presidential action imminent?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayorkas answered, “I am not in a position to talk about the deliberative process. I can share with you that we deliberate, each and every day, how we can address the challenges that we confront. We hope that Congress does the same, meets the moment, and passes the legislation that was bipartisan in nature.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="color: #990000;">OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN DOESN'T GIVE A FUK ABOUT THE DRUGS POURING IN THROUGH HIS OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS</span></b></p><p style="color: black; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's Joe Biden's so-called "vetting" of illegal migrants worth?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, according to a report by Fox News's Bill Melugin, pretty much nothing.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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flex-grow: 1; height: 873px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's right, nothing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The man accused of this crime was a Haitian illegal who supposedly passed "a rigorous background check" after applying to get into the U.S. as an "asylum-seeker" through Biden's online CHNV parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. That was a questionable program introduced by Biden in January 2023 to reduce the size of border surges in order to keep the Fox News cameras off of them. In so doing, the accused rapist then got flown into the U.S., and began his heinous crime spree in Massachusetts which claimed a vulnerable 15-year-old girl as his victim. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the left-leaning <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/biden-administration%E2%80%99s-humanitarian-parole-program-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and#:~:text=The%20new%20program%2C%20formally%20known%20as%20the%20Processes,using%20a%20legal%20mechanism%20known%20as%20%E2%80%9Chumanitarian%20parole.%E2%80%9D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">American Immigration Council:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On January 5, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intent to provide “safe and orderly pathways to the United States” for up to 30,000 nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The new program, formally known as the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), allows certain people from these four countries who have a sponsor in the U.S. and who pass a background check to come to the U.S. for a period of two years to live and work lawfully, using a legal mechanism known as “humanitarian parole.”</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Voice of America</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Applicants legally enter the country once they prove they have financial sponsors in the U.S. and pass background checks. The humanitarian parole authority allows the approved applicants to live and work legally in the U.S. temporarily.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Haitian passed a "background check," flew to the states on a flight that's still unclear whether it was free (the administration and its allies <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">say</a> such trips aren't free but already we see they've lied about "rigorous" vetting), got work authorization, and a host of other services from Uncle Sugar, yet it didn't take him long to start preying on Americans as standard violent criminal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What kind of people is Biden importing into the country? It's as if he's importing Haiti's criminal class, a truly violent bunch, under the dynamic modern Latin American dictators use, which is to use uncontrolled crime to control the law-abiding population.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't sound like anyone did a background check that was worth anything. Who did his background check? Why did he pass?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a leftist AIC source quoted by <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Every person approved for parole is vetted by the U.S. government prior to being granted the status. The idea that people arriving through this government program are 'unvetted' or 'illegal immigrants' is flagrantly wrong," Reichlin-Melnick said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson also told VOA those with approved applications and travel permission must buy a plane ticket to fly into the United States on a commercial airline — and they are screened and inspected when they arrive at a port of entry.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Neither of those sources explained how the accused Haitian rapist somehow got in with all that vetting and screening and inspecting.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And since he came in on "humanitarian parole," neither would say exactly what the “urgent humanitarian or significant public benefit reasons” for letting him in were, which is how parole is granted</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's more, many have asked where the hell was his sponsor? He reportedly wasn't living with his sponsor, suggesting that someone just signed him in and let him out, which ought to be investigated as some kind of fraud since that's not how sponsorship works. Meanwhile, officials just waved him through customs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back then, when Biden was touting his program, he insisted that his vetting would be "rigorous":</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">During a speech on January 5, 2023, Biden said an applicant must have a lawful sponsor in the United States.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then the applicant has to "undergo rigorous background checks and apply from outside the United States and not cross the border illegally in the meantime," Biden said. "If they apply and their application is approved, they can use the same app, the CBP One app, to present at a port of entry and be able to work in the United States legally for two years. That's the process."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CBPOne app? The one that lets in 99% of its applicants? Again, there doesn't seem to be any vetting, any more than there was among the hordes of humanity transported out of Afghanistan in chaotic flights out.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's worth nothing that all four of those countries are known to have emptied their jails, freeing their convicted violent felons specifically to migrate into the U.S., which underlines why this program is such a recipe for disaster In Venezuela's case, the convicts were reported freed <em>under the</em> <em>condition</em> that they migrate to the U.S. How many of them have gotten in under this program?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So many of Venezuela's criminals have in fact gotten in under Joe Biden's many open borders policies and programs that Venezuela's famously high crime rate has reportedly gone down.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now we are facing a Haitian deluge as that entire country collapses into lawlessness, run by some thug named "Barbecue." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are no doubt good and industrious Haitians who are endangered and should be able to come here as real refugees, the kind of refugees who go back when they can.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But obviously, Haitian criminals looking to hit the bigtime come in along with them, with Joe Biden's version of "rigorous" vetting, and they are getting in.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congress needs to start looking into these claims of 'vetting' and demand real vetting, as well holding both officials who vet and sponsors of these criminals criminally responsible for the people they let in, too. There are already signs of fraud all over this program and Americans are paying the price.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"> Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1768602198546808871" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Twitter screen shot</a></em></p></div></div><header style="font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSantis Announces Florida Law Enforcement Interdicted Vessel of Haitians with Arms, Drugs</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida law enforcement recently intercepted a vessel carrying Haitians armed with guns, drugs, and night vision gear, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking about the continued effort to keep the Sunshine State safe — particularly in the midst of the violent unrest in Haiti — DeSantis said Florida officers prevented 25 potential illegal immigrants hailing from Haiti from entering Florida.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Just recently within the last couple of weeks — and this will be made public later today — our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potentially illegal immigrants, from Haiti,” the governor announced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms. They had drugs. They had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly which would potentially endanger other folks,” he said, adding that the boat was “interdicted near the Sebastian inlet,” which is roughly 40 miles south of Port Canaveral.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation. So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this, and they’re gonna continue to do it,” DeSantis said, boasting of the “incredible amount of resources that are now on display.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is always a priority of officials, DeSantis said, but he explained that it is different now because there are more resources from the state, so it is an overall larger effort.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis went on to say that this issue — a matter of border security and illegal immigrants — should be the federal government’s responsibility, but the Biden administration has continued to shirk its duties and ultimately, the Coast Guard is “undermanned.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The Coast Guard does by and large a good job, but they’re undermanned. They’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps,” he said. “I think one difference now is, and we see this with our folks that we have at the border, you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world,” DeSantis continued, explaining that at this point it would actually be easier for potential illegal immigrants from Haiti to fly to Mexico once flights resume and enter the United States on the southern border.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I would anticipate if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks [go] who are trying to flee. If they want to come to the United States, they’re probably gonna go to Mexico and then come in through the border, knowing that Biden will just let everybody in,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">WATCH:</span></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1768653710047977715" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1768653710047977715&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fdesantis-announces-florida-law-enforcement-interdicted-vessel-haitians-arms-drugs%2F&sessionId=6949de1e0fd00b5c986afec10ff270cf32ce46b7&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 671px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis’s announcement comes just days after he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/gov-ron-desantis-deploys-assets-to-southern-florida-due-to-increased-risk-of-illegal-immigrants-from-haiti/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a> the deployment of additional assets to the southern portion of the state due to the increased risk of illegal immigrants coming from Haiti. That move is part of Operation Vigilant Sentry, and the additional assets included 39 officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 23 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 48 additional Guardsmen from the Florida National Guard, and 30 officers from the Florida Highway Patrol.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The decision comes as bloody gang violence rocks Haiti, which has continued to descend into chaos.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/12/haiti-exiled-pm-announces-plan-to-resign-as-gang-boss-barbecue-declares-bloody-revolution/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, announced on Monday night he would resign “immediately” after the creation of a “Presidential Transitional Council” meant to take steps towards organizing a presidential election.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry’s announcement followed the near-total collapse of the country’s political infrastructure this week after he traveled to Kenya seeking law enforcement aid to subdue the increasingly powerful gangs overrunning the country. While Henry was out of the country, organized armed militias led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the head of the G9 Family of gangs, orchestrated a massive prison break and surrounded Port-au-Prince’s airport, making it impossible for the prime minister to return. Cherizier has, for years, demanded the ouster of the entire Haitian political class and last week threatened to plunge the country into “genocide” if Henry did not resign.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — Rep. Cory Mills Helps Rescue Americans from Haiti amid Gang Violence, Anarchy</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Office of Rep. Cory Mills/LOCAL NEWS X /TMX</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/qWsF33Uj-o73dHpYz.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the weekend, the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) said it was airlifting non-essential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti amid the rising unrest.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News’s John Hayward <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/14/u-s-sends-marine-anti-terrorism-team-into-haiti-to-protect-embassy/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> on March 14, “The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) <a class="x5l" href="https://www.southcom.mil/News/PressReleases/Article/3705148/statement-us-marine-fleet-anti-terrorism-security-team-fast-deployed-to-maintai/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">announced</a> on Wednesday that the Marine Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team (FAST) has been deployed to Haiti to ‘maintain strong security capabilities at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.’”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sen. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States is experiencing <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an enormous surge of migrants</span>. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.6 million foreign born workers</span> during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnR" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole</span>. 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A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, <a class="x5l" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Gallup News</a>. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">top three issues</span> will not surprise you. They are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immigration </span>(19 percent),<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the economy </span>(9 percent), and<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> inflation </span>(5 percent).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_F5x8o9g.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Economist/YouGov survey</a> asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_26409013" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26409013" height="1280" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/GettyImages-1231479164.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61 percent say they disapprove</span>. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arguably</em> because <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove</span>, at 47 percent.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-growth-good" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proclaiming</a> that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases the supply of labor</span>. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages</span>, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy</span>. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20351765" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-20351765" height="1281" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/03/GettyImages-1236206410.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming more than they produce</span> because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s more, the current immigration surge is <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed</span>. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy</span>—and therefore <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans</span>—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation</span>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A recent analysis</a> from the <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookings Institution</span> looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation.</span> Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnY" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">says that rising wages do not push up inflation</span> but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> flipping those disapproval ratings</span>. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s not going to happen. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration chaos</span> is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Olivia Murray" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/oliviamurray/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Olivia Murray</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Just yesterday, Breitbart News </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/11/nobel-economist-reverses-support-migration/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported</a> on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state <em>isn’t</em> such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">editorial</a> titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I had … seriously underthought my </span>ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that </span>immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. <em>I no longer think so</em> [emphasis added].</b></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Maybe the </span>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? <b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does </span><em>not</em> benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s it, class dismissed.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Holger Motzkau, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bidenomics</span> is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consumer sentiment index</span> slipped lower after climbing for two months.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse</span>, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">partisan politics</span>. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">party allegiance does not explain everything</span>.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">registered voters under 30</span> taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than noise</span>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better off financially than a year ago</span>. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42.9 percent say they are worse off financially</span> than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poll also shows <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters</span>. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s going on with younger Americans? The <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employment situation</span> appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The jump was driven by a big increase in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unemployment among young women</span>. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">political trouble for Biden</span>. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden’s age problem is about youth</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.75rem; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0.5rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gas prices:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">average price</a> of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Gas Prices" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9f1254d2-fefd-465e-98dd-4ea72b09ad53" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Gas%20Price%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Real Wages:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">After accounting for inflation, real wages earned by Americans have declined under Biden. In the first quarter of 2021, median weekly real earnings averaged $373. But, by the fourth quarter of 2023, average real earnings had fallen to $371.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Under Trump, however, real wages rose from $352 on January 1, 2017, to $373 on January 1. 2021.</p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://mrccruise.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Real wages</a> are calculated using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median usual weekly earnings for full-time employees at least 16 years old and are represented in terms of quarterly 1982-84 Consumer Price Index (CPI) seasonally-adjusted dollars.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Real Wages" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a8d8556-5fb4-4df7-83d3-770bd66eff36" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Real%20Wages%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mortgage Rates:</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It’s also costing far more to finance a home purchase under the Biden Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Mortgage rates today are more than twice the average rate home buyers paid when Trump left office, <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie Mac data</a> reveal. Under Biden’s predecessor, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell by a third, from 4.09% to 2.77%. But, by March 7, 2024, mortgage rates had more than doubled, to 6.9%.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Mortgage Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0482c2f7-5d9f-47ed-b506-b64fa479baa3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Mortgage%20Rates%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savings Rates:</b></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/brent-bozell-show-ep01-sean-spicer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">With Americans having to spend more than their earnings increased, their average savings rate has declined under Biden.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">From February 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021, the average personal savings rate increased 129%, from 5.6% to 12.8%. But, by January 1 of 2024, it had plunged to 3.8% - less than a third of its pre-Biden level – according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">(FRED) calculations,</a> incorporating BLS data.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Savings Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="77995833-2954-4953-a2fb-927667eea577" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Savings%20Rate%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consumer Price Index:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Consumer prices rose 7.6% in the 48 months of the Trump Administration, from a CPI of 243.618 in January 2021 to one of 262.035 in December 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In contrast, prices have already risen more than twice as much, 18.5%, in just 37 months under Biden. Three-fourths of the way through his term, the <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CPI has risen</a> from 262.518 in January of 2021 to 311.054 last month (February 2024), putting it on pace to increase nearly three times as much as it did during Trump's full, four-year term. On a monthly basis, inflation averaged 1.9% under Trump, compared to 5.6% under Biden, thus far.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Prices Going Up" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4b3acf8b-27b2-4fc8-8714-94ae5e9e69b3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Prices%20Going%20Up.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yHLCFX6irFO7WVO5Xkf-8j5ar-6WvhV-o6492ZCL6qY" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Persistent Inflation" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="704c3d32-6412-46ee-b159-3706364d7e34" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Persistant%20Inflation.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The business and economic reporting of CNSNews.com is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. Wold.</em></p><div><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></em></div><div><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">THE OBAMA-CLINTON SWAMP…. How close they came to destroying American democracy…. It’ what happens when two psychopath lawyers are permitted to run for office!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 30pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monty-pelerin-drain-swamp-becomes.html"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monty-pelerin-drain-swamp-becomes.html</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-shading: rgb(255,255,255); mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 30pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel and unusual punishment, the sentence I </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">would like to see imposed would place both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12 cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">AMERICAN THINKER com</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-shading: rgb(255,255,255); mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 32px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">HILLARY & BILLARY: THE CLINTON MAFIA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GLOBAL THIEVES</span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">The</span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> Clinton Crime Dual of Billary & Hillary, Parasite Lawyers - </span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> Looting of the Poor of Haiti</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-clinton-mafia-loots-poor-of-haiti.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue;">http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-clinton-mafia-loots-poor-of-haiti.html</span></u></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service” into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes. The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="StandardHeader StandardHeader--single-author" data-testid="StoryHeader" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; padding-top: 32px; position: relative;"><h1 class="StandardHeader__title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "Druk Web Italic", ArialNarrow-bold, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.6px; line-height: 75px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 3px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Bill Clinton's Shameful Haiti Legacy</span></h1><p class="StoryDescription" style="color: #6c6c6c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px; margin: 16px 0px 0px;">He may be playing the hero now, but the ex-president’s trip to Haiti is a reminder of the mess his administration left behind. Bob Shacochis on how Clinton wasted a good invasion.</p><div class="StandardHeader__extra" style="align-items: center; color: #02141f; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; font-size: 16px; margin: 16px 0px;"><div class="StandardHeader__byline-and-date" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap;"><div class="Byline Byline--single-author StandardHeader__byline StandardHeader__byline--single-author" style="align-items: center; color: #3f4d55; display: flex; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="Byline__author StandardHeader__byline-author StandardHeader__byline--no-jobtitle" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a aria-label="" class="TrackingLink Byline__photo-link StandardHeader__byline-photo-link" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/bob-shacochis" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid rgb(63, 77, 85); box-sizing: border-box; color: #02141f; 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display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: initial; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">Bob Shacochis</h1></a></div></div><span class="Byline__separator StandardHeader__byline-separator" style="background: rgb(213, 209, 209); display: block; height: 18px; margin: 0px 8px; width: 1px;"></span></div><div class="PublicationTime PublicationTime--show-modtime StandardHeader__publication-time StandardHeader__publication-time--show-modtime" data-testid="PublicationTime" style="color: #3f4d55; display: inline-block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><time class="PublicationTime__mod-time StandardHeader__publication-time-modtime" data-testid="DateTime" datetime="2017-07-14T14:40:53.737Z" style="display: inline; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="PublicationTime__date-label">Updated </span><span class="PublicationTime__date" style="display: inline-block;">Jul. 14, 2017 </span><span class="PublicationTime__time" data-testid="DateTime__time" style="display: inline-block;">10:40AM EDT </span><span class="PublicationTime__slash StandardHeader__publication-time-slash" style="display: inline;">/ </span></time><time class="PublicationTime__pub-time StandardHeader__publication-time-pubtime" data-testid="DateTime" datetime="2010-01-19T22:53:58.000Z"><span class="PublicationTime__date-label">Published </span><span class="PublicationTime__date" style="display: inline-block;">Jan. 19, 2010 </span><span class="PublicationTime__time" data-testid="DateTime__time" style="display: inline-block;">5:53PM EST </span></time></div></div><div class="StandardHeader__share-buttons" style="align-self: center; 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border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 690.675px;" width="221" /></picture></figure></div><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Like many Haitians and not a few Americans who know the island and its history, I had mixed feelings watching the video of former President Clinton step off a plane on to the tarmac at Toussaint Loverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince on Monday afternoon. Bill Clinton, the Second Coming of Hope. The First Coming, the U.S.-led invasion in 1994 adorned with 20,000 American troops, did not turn out so well. By 1996, when the American military decamped, you’d be hard pressed to find a Haitian on the streets of Port-au-Prince who wasn’t suffering miserably from hope. By 1996, Haitians were scratching their heads in bewilderment, asking themselves <i>Why has America come to save us? Who will save us now?</i> Ten years later, by almost every measure, Haiti was worse off than it was before Clinton had “rescued” it from the illegitimate regime of General Raoul Cedras and his gang of terrorist enforcers, known by the acronym FRAPH.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">I had heard the Haitians saying of the U.S. after the American troops went home: <i>“Lave men ou, siye li a te. It looks like you wash your hands and dry them in dirt.”</i></p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">It’s the proper time, of course, to ask what is the legacy of American foreign policy in Haiti, a beleaguered neighbor that we have invaded and occupied twice in the 20th century, the first time to preempt German influence there during and after World War I, the second time during the early years of the Clinton administration, an 18-month long intervention which I reported on for Harper’s magazine.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Looking at the images pouring out of Haiti these days, what comes immediately into focus is the near-sighted, irrational nature of what is out of focus in American foreign policy since the Marshall Plan worked its miracles on a shattered planet. I think that we can all agree that Haiti has finally found its bottom, but the descent, lubricated by man-made folly, was not inevitable.</p><div><div class="Storylines" id="storylines-target-middle" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);"></div></div><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">To be sure, Haiti brings out the cynic in me. Perhaps I should express that sentiment with more precision: The United States’ two-faced relationship with Haiti stirs a cynicism within me that I’d rather not claim.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">The U.S. Army came ashore in September 1994 locked and loaded to do battle with a military dictatorship composed of a tiny dysfunctional army and roving bands of FRAPH’s homicidal thugs, who threatened to send America’s sons and daughters back home in coffins. Essentially an absurd boast but from a genuine enemy. Colin Powell’s brinkmanship defused the potential for bloodshed on the eve of the invasion, yet the fact remained—our soldiers would be liberating villages, towns, and cities controlled by a terrorist organization that had brutalized the population.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Early on, there were shootouts between U.S. soldiers and FRAPH. Special Forces hunted down FRAPH leadership in the countryside, captured them and shipped the detainees to headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where, to general dismay, they were invariably released. One night, hunkered down with a detachment of Green Berets in the mountains south of Cap Haitien, I listened in alarm to a radio transmission from Col. Mark Boyatt, the overall commander of Special Forces in Haiti, telling his commandos to begin regarding FRAPH as Haiti’s “loyal opposition,” as if the terrorists, overnight, had become Haiti’s equivalent to the Republican Party, rehabilitated patriots eager to remake Haiti into a modern democratic nation.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Months later, when I challenged Colonel Boyatt on this highly counterproductive order to his troops, he clammed up on me. For the next two years, I tried to track down who in the chain of command had told Boyatt to whitewash the terrorist organization FRAPH. The trail finally led to the American Embassy in Port-au-Prince, and then it jumped to the mainland, Sandy Berger, and the White House.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Legacy No. 1: We left the poison in the system. The result: A Haiti rendered ungovernable by our heedless self-interest. The only Devil in Haiti is to be found in the deals we cut with the worst elements in that society. Sound familiar?</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">On March 31, 1996, the United States handed over Operation Restore Democracy to the United Nations and a peacekeeping force that has been there ever since. Early in the Clinton administration’s intervention in Haiti, the word came down to the boots on the ground from the White House: You have not been deployed to conduct nation-building. The mission turned out to be foolishly attenuated: Restore Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, to the National Palace. Hold elections that will remove the troublesome Aristide from the National Palace. Go home.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Ultimately, the mission ended up profoundly disillusioning not only the Haitians but the American troops as well. Back at Fort Bragg, I asked a Special Forces Master Sergeant if he was glad he went to Haiti. “Tough question,” he said. “No carpenter likes to build a house and see it crooked and leaning and ready to fall down the day he leaves. But if he builds a nice house, he’s happy about it, it’s something he’ll be proud of the rest of his life."</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">“You don’t think you have anything to be proud of?” I asked.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">“No.”</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">“That’s sad,” I said.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">“It is,” said the Master Sergeant. “It is.”</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">I told him what I had heard the Haitians saying about the United States after the American troops went home. <i>Lave men ou, siye li a te. It looks like you wash your hands and dry them in dirt.</i></p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);">Legacy No. 2: In Haiti, America wasted a perfectly good occupation. Call our post-earthquake presence there anything you want, but let’s hope it works out better this time around. Good luck, Bill. And remember, merry are the builders.</p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);"><i>Bob Shacochis, a professor at Florida State University, is the author of </i><a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0756760178/thedaibea-20/" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">The Immaculate Invasion</a><i>, a chronicle of the 1994 U.S. intervention in Haiti.</i></p><p style="color: #283741; font-size: 19px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px calc(16.6667% + 2.66667px);"><i><br /></i></p></div></div></article></div><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 40px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Protect and enrich.”</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">BOB MENENDEZ</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> STILL EVADING PRISON, AND NOT BE VERY LEAST, (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ERIC SWALWELL</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> THE CHINESE SPY AND HO CHASING BRIBES SUCKER.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 40px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 192pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> BRIAN C JOONDEPH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;">THE HIGHLY PROFITABLE LIFE OF A PARASITE LAWYER-POL OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKING LAWYERS: A LOOK AT HILLARY CLINTONM, INC.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; line-height: 48px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">This seems illegal BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO A GAMER LAWYER?!?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/597972982251276681/2496537872258301789"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMZFO-2ZeI</span></u></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #38761d; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">The main objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who have brought it down.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #38761d; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 32px;">On the other hand, Schweizer and Eggers note that Hillary Clinton actually violated federal election rules in 2016, in a case directly related to the work of G-A-I. Schweizer’s 2015 book, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/5464175791670318501"><u><span class="16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 32px;">Clinton Cash</span></u></a><i><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 32px;">, </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 32px;">exposed Hillary Clinton’s involvement with the takeover of an American uranium mining company by Russia. That revelation so terrified Clinton’s presidential campaign they decided to pay for the infamous Steele Dossier, with its lurid, unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump was a Russian stooge. Hillary’s campaign essentially accused the Trump campaign of doing what they were, in fact, guilty of themselves.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 32px;">Peter Schweizer</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></b></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Everyone knows she stood by her man, blamed his women, and perhaps was a psychological co-rapist for the sake of her political ambitions. </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Before the next president is elected, Hillary will not only have an albatross around her neck, she will be covered with names like Wellstone, Broaddrick, Moffet, Ward Gracen, Brown, Dowdy, Jones, Ferguson, Zercher, Willey, and more. A majority of those one hundred people will remember the evil the Clintons did, and their legacy will be lost in the folds of tattered dresses and bleeding lips.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">By </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/author/deborah_c_tyler/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #888888; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Deborah C. Tyler</span></u></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b></h1><div><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CUT AND PASTE YOUTUBE LINKS</span></b></div><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;">SAUDI DIRTY MONEY ENDS UP IN THE CLINTON FOUNDATION FAMILY SLUSH FUND</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; line-height: 48px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jesse Watters: The Clintons' crooked connections</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #38761d; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4353531530345659059"><u><span class="16" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPSvkxKuLg</span></u></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #134f5c; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">One topic that Hillary is quick to criticize President Trump on is his relationship with Saudia Arabia. It’s ironic given the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to state that they will no longer accept </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4353531530345659059"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">financial donations</span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #134f5c; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;"> from The Kingdom as others have.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #38761d; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">But the Clinton Foundation, to which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t ruling out continuing to accept them.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">The Clinton Foundation </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4353531530345659059"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">accepted </span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 36px;">between $10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;">Qatar's longstanding efforts to buy influence in the United States have, quite unsurprisingly, included substantial </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4353531530345659059"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;">donations</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;"> to the Clinton Foundation. In 2011, for example, the foundation </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4353531530345659059"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;">accepted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;"> a $1 million gift from Qatar in honor of former president Bill Clinton's 65th birthday. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b5394; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 48px;">Hillary was serving as secretary of state at the time, but failed to disclose the massive donation to the State Department despite her pledge to keep the agency apprised of the foundation's foreign donors.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;"><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Clinton pulled the 'dirtiest, dirtiest' tricks in American politics: Goodwin</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2055331038130387388/7234329940667929062"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MnyIh51EcY</span></u></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><h1 style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">All criminal roads lead back to Hillary Clinton: Former US attorney</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2055331038130387388/7234329940667929062" style="text-indent: 0pt;"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTyFs8gbpU</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if the Supreme Court did not act with “great speed” on the question of presidential immunity, they are “making a deliberate decision” to push special counsel Jack Smith 2020 election interference trial past the election.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anchor Dana Bash said, “It seems as though the Trump strategy to delay these cases is paying off. Do you think there’s a chance that he might not stand trial in any of these cases before election day?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schiff said, “There is a chance that he could evade justice by delaying justice. This is a tried-and-true tactic of Trump throughout his career, and I hope that the courts are aware of exactly what he’s doing and his incentive in trying to prolong this. I hope they will go along with that strategy in New York. I hope that they will look at the facts in terms of what caused the late release of this discovery if it was driven by the Trump defense team not requesting it earlier, they should not postpone the trial any further.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He added, “My greatest concern though, is over the January 6 case. That is the most serious a set of allegations against the president. It is the case brought by the Justice Department. The Supreme Court moved with great speed when it came to ruling that Trump could appear on the ballot. The question is, will it also move at great speed in rejecting this bogus immunity claim? If it doesn’t, it’s making a deliberate decision essentially to push the trial past the election, and I think that would be a terrible decision both for the interest of justice. It’ll be a terrible decision in depriving American voters of the information they would learn during the course of that trial, but it would also just further discredit this partisan and reactionary court.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/pamkeyNEN" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@</a></em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">WHAT IF THE BITCH SPENT EVEN ON DAY IN HER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ATTEMPTING TO FIX THIS MELDOWN CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, AND ONE LESS DAY INSIDE TRADING HER MILLIONS?</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">INSIDE TRADERS OF CONGRESS - No. ONE IS NANCY PELOSI. ONLY FEINSTEIN AND THE BIDENS HAVE MADE MORE OFF ELECTED OFFICE!</span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #38761d;">What JUST LEAKED out of Congress has me PISSED!</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSRnIkxOlo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSRnIkxOlo</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="color: black; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Democrats had to win the election because former President Donald Trump was “predicting a bloodbath.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday, at a rally in Dayton, OH, Trump said, “If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pelosi said, “But we have, we just have to win this election because he’s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler praising the Russians — honestly, I didn’t condemn our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. He said he was wrong with Russia. They defeated Hitler. What about the millions of Americans who risked or gave their lives? What about him saying that soldiers buried in Europe? He didn’t want to visit them because they were losers.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/pamkeyNEN" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@pamkeyNEN</a></em></p></div><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">BOB MENENDEZ</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. 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padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Printer Friendly, PDF & Email"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b>SCHIFF IS A RENT BOY FOR THE RICH AND RED CHINA'S SLUT!</b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b>THEY RELY ON A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER TO KEEP THE GIG RIGGED FOR THE SPECIAL INTERESTS!</b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Schiff knew that he faced a tougher fight in a deep-blue state if Porter or another Democrat qualified for the general election. Therefore he boosted Garvey — a deceptive yet effective tactic, symbolic of how Schiff has advanced his career.</b></p><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Democrat Calls Election ‘Rigged’ After Adam Schiff Boosts Republican Rival</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/08/democrat-calls-election-rigged-after-adam-schiff-boosts-republican-rival/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; 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Katie Porter of California claimed Wednesday that the election for U.S. Senate had been rigged, after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) boosted Republican rival Steve Garvey into second place to ensure a win in November.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Porter posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had faced “an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="color: #111111; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765513523050791023" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=joelpollak&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765513523050791023&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fdemocrat-calls-election-rigged-after-adam-schiff-boosts-republican-rival%2F&sessionId=63f9bdb5e140cc3645a0fe23ec7c27049b7b2128&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 320px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schiff was the most well-funded candidate, thanks in part to his role in impeaching Donald Trump.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, as Breitbart News noted, Schiff <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/05/california-primary-adam-schiffs-plan-to-boost-steve-garvey-works-as-both-advance-to-general/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spent</a> on advertising in which he focused on Garvey as “too conservative for California,” which made Democrats rally around Schiff and also let Republican voters that they actually had a candidate in the race.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In one case, Schiff’s campaign created a fake Facebook news page called “Golden State Pulse,” then used a Fox News headline about Garvey and falsely labeled it “Breitbart.com” so that conservative readers would pay more attention.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Under California’s “jungle” primary system, all of the candidates compete in one pool, regardless of party, and the top two finishers in the primary, from all parties, advance to the November general election, regardless of party affiliation.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Schiff knew that he faced a tougher fight in a deep-blue state if Porter or another Democrat qualified for the general election. Therefore he boosted Garvey — a deceptive yet effective tactic, symbolic of how Schiff has advanced his career.</b></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Porter was once a rising star among “progressive” Democrats, but was forced to court moderate voters in a failed effort to finish second to Schiff. (Her mentor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/01/19/new-york-times-endorses-amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-for-president/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">notorious</a> for calling the system “rigged.”)</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats are <a class="x5l" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/07/katie-porter-senate-race-rig-california-00145660" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">furious</a> at Porter for claiming the election was “rigged,” after their party’s entire message for the past four years has been the Trump and his supporters are a threat to democracy because of doubts about the 2020 election.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Porter <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/13/us/politics/trump-second-impeachment-vote.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">voted</a> to impeach Trump — a second time — for allegedly inciting the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, by claiming that the election had been rigged against him.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Porter will now depart Congress after given up her Orange County seat.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host </span>of </em>Breitbart News Sunday<em style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Rhoda-Comrade-Kadalie-Order-Biography/dp/1776413474/?tag=breitbart035-20" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’</a>. He is also the author of the recent e-book, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook/dp/B08PNN54BB" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election</a>. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/joelpollak" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@joelpollak</a>.</em></p></div><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 30px;"><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">“Protect and enrich.”</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">Obama</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">Joe, Hunter, James, Frank</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">DOCUMENTED LYING </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">GAMER LAWYER) 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 </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">(ALSO OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> (GAMER LAWYER) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">BOB MENENDEZ</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> STILL EVADING PRISON. TOSS INTO THE DUNG HEAP (GAMER LAWYER ) </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">ERIC SALWELL</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;">, A CHINESE HO AND SPY CHASER AND DEFUCT FORMER GOV OF NEW YORK, PREDATORY (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;">ANDREW CUOMO,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px; text-indent: 0pt;"> A DOCUMENTED COVID LIAR.</span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 40px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 192pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 42.6667px;"> BRIAN C JOONDEPH</span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The State of the Union</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="J.A. Frascino" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/jafrascino/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">J.A. Frascino</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Regardless of what POTUS says, it’s what he’s doing that counts.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump followers want to make America great again. No one seems to know what the Republican Party wants. But the goals of the Democratic Party are clear. The defining position of today’s left, now more than ever, is one of dissatisfaction and dissidence. Socioeconomic classes and inequalities are resultant of the oppressed being subjugated by the oppressors in an unjustly evolved social system based in racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and capitalistic greed. There is little or nothing in current American society that warrants perpetuation. The Democrats want to remake American society into a system they alone control.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">The Constitution. An illegitimate document framed by slaveowners. It must be reframed to show preference for favored groups, institutions, and policies to bolster the political influence of the Left.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">The Supreme Court. Strict adherence to the tenets of a flawed Constitution stands in the way of progressive liberalism. Judicial activism need replace jurisprudence. The Court needs to be expanded with progressive thinkers. Its jurisdiction should not be limited to Constitutional issues -- <em>Roe</em> should have been upheld.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Patriotism. Patriotism is a product of white nationalism and xenophobia. There is no American exceptionalism. We must totally and immediately embrace globalization as a moral imperative. Open borders is “who we are!”</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Democracy. Their concept of the democratic process is to jail their political opponent via a weaponized legal system instead of defeating him at the polls. And if that doesn’t work, there is always ballot harvesting and early and absentee mail-in voting.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Electoral college. A system imparting too much power to the states, particularly rural red zones over urban blue zones. And if it has to stay, we’ll have to grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico to establish a permanent electoral majority.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Free market economy. Unregulated markets, driven by private sector supply and demand, are innovative and efficient, but lack social responsibility and environmental stewardship. Better to have the economy driven by central planning in which the government promotes and subsidizes ventures aligned with its political agenda. (The subprime mortgage push, Solyndra, and current EV mandates are clear examples of central-planning outcomes.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Caucasians. A race which, while generating the bulk of mankind’s scientific and technical advances and evolving representative forms of government, has also found time to oppress other ethnic and racial groups and establish a culture of white supremacy and privilege. The DIE movement must be sustained to level the playing field.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Religion. Religious tenets can be in conflict with the objectives of the administrative state and so must be declared illegal. Society currently includes state and religion. But if society is to be consumed by and equated to state, there is simply no room for religion.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Family. The family structure, too, can conflict with the agenda of the state. Parents should have no input in developing public-school curricula. Single parenthood is fine, encouraging state dependency. In Obama’s “The life of Julia,” Julia was exalted as a cog in the wheel of the welfare state, without purpose or individuality.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Gender. We must achieve gender neutrality. “Toxic masculinity” fosters competition and reward for merit in direct opposition to our D-I-E initiative. It also embodies individualism, which hampers collectivism and the attainment of a compliant populace.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Human nature. Self-serving behavior is baked into human nature, so leftists seek to override the role of human nature in determining behavior because, if left unchecked, it introduces patterns that cannot be manipulated. Acceptable behavior must be molded primarily by environmental exposure. The best way to achieve compliant behavior is through indoctrination of the young.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Natural law. Natural law also is too inflexible and resistant to manipulation for the Left. Gender and race are thus to be looked upon as social structures rather than biological entities.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are fulfilling times for the Left, which thrives on stirring up discontent, thus creating an opportunity to display its moral certitude and superiority in defense of the “oppressed“ while weaponizing the forces of the administrative state to wreak revenge upon the “oppressors,” whom they strive to replace.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252631_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 500px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 500px;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;">Image: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ethan Hein</a></span></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">DOES ANYONE HAVE A DOUBT THAT JILL HAD JOE PUMPED UP WITH 'MEDS'?</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">The best comment about Biden’s demeanor came from Greg Gutfeld, who skipped over the usual take that Biden was completely hopped up on a variety of possibly illegal amphetamines: (BELOW)</span></b></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Biden’s SOTU address was, quite simply, horrible</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Andrea Widburg" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/andrea_widburg/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrea Widburg</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden’s State of the Union (“SOTU”) was unlike anything I’ve seen before, and I started watching these speeches in the mid-1980s. No president has ever been so maniacally wired, periodically incoherent, or viciously angry. That was style. The substance was worse. Biden opened by calling Trump a Nazi, shifted to Ukraine, promised to stamp out “insurrections,” and attacked Republicans—and then ended by calling for non-partisanship and comity. Throughout it all, he lied and then lied some more. <b>This was a Dark Brandon campaign speech, not an SOTU.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you didn’t watch Biden’s SOTU, count yourself lucky. It was a deeply disturbing experience. <b><span style="color: #990000;">The best comment about Biden’s demeanor came from Greg Gutfeld, who skipped over the usual take that Biden was completely hopped up on a variety of possibly illegal amphetamines:</span></b></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765935705887227979" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765935705887227979&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 224px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">When it came to the frenzied speed behind the speech, Ari Fleischer had the second-best description:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765932122596868147" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765932122596868147&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 320px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden was an angry Grandpa Simpson, with the volume cranked up and the speed out of control. This was the kind of guy who, in a rage, would readily push the red button. That alone was unnerving, demonstrating that we have a maniac in office—and, worse, his rage is against the American people.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden didn’t open by speaking to Americans about our wonderful country. He began by saying that America is facing a dystopian moment because Donald Trump is effectively Hitler, a point he returned to in an ad-lib during the speech. (All quotations are from <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/07/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery-2/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the official White House transcript</a>.)</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary moment. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tonight I come to the same chamber to address the nation.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.</span></p></blockquote><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1743372850180796801" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-4" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-4&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1743372850180796801&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 575px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">After telling Americans we’re all about to come under the thumb of the new Third Reich, Biden didn’t even return to America. Instead, he spent several minutes telling Americans we must fund the war in Ukraine. Yup. America’s under threat from Putin’s war in Eastern Ukraine. Show Joe the money.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next in the Democrat dog-and-pony show was January 6, the darkest day in American history.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">January 6th and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election, posed the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most Republicans and a large share of Democrats and Independents believe that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. That truly poses a grave threat to democracy (the voice of the people). Biden actually fears that reversing that fraud is <em>the gravest threat to the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Democrat party</span> since the Civil War.</em> No wonder Biden implicitly warned Americans, again, that if they push back against fraud, they will get a visit from the FBI.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having threatened Americans, Biden did a weird fistshake at the Supreme Court. Naturally, he complained about the <em>Dobbs</em> decision destroying a constitutional right when, in fact, the decision said no federal right ever existed, with abortion being a state’s right matter. But it was what followed that was so disturbing in tone, content, and incoherence:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765930544431550651" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-5" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-5&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765930544431550651&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 576px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is any of this normal?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nor is it normal for the president during a SOTU, which is supposed to tell Congress and the American people how we’re doing in terms of the economy, national security, and other national metrics, to keep attacking his election opponent. Biden didn’t stop at calling Trump the new Hitler. Instead, according to the official script, he referred negatively to Trump 13 times. (He ad-libbed multiple other insults):</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765934709828366551" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-6" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-6&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765934709828366551&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 725px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then there were the flat-out lies. One of the most obvious was Biden’s claim that he, personally, brought the cost of insulin down to $400 per month for seniors:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin seniors with diabetes only have to pay $35 a month!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For years people have talked about it but I finally got it done and gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs just like the VA does for our veterans.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The truth is that Trump had already lowered insulin prices via executive order. On his first full day in office, Biden reversed that order, causing prices to shoot up. Then, he signed <em>his own order, </em>for which he now takes credit:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765933295794053127" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-7" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-7&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765933295794053127&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 519px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a Herculean task to go through Biden’s SOTU and find every lie, whether by commission or omission, about national security, the economy, education, or anything else—and that’s the point. As Alex Jones told Tucker following the SOTU, it’s easy to rebut one lie. It’s almost impossible to rebut a hundred.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765953920864776383" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-8" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-8&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765953920864776383&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 622px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He's right. As a litigator, I saw that it takes a sentence to tell a lie but a paragraph or more to rebut it. Most people (judges included) have no patience for the rebuttal, especially when there are a hundred rebuttals. The “Big Lie” is equally effective when presented as 100 smaller lies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Throughout it all, the Democrats in the audience responded with partisan fervor, screaming, “Four more years,” not just when Biden entered the chamber but throughout his speech.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765934046897471562" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-9" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-9&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765934046897471562&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 677px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think that because they were in the House chamber for an official proceeding (it’s in the Constitution!), this was a clear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hatch Act violation</a>, as well as <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/campaign/general-prohibition-against-using-official-resources-campaign-or-political-purposes" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">violating House ethics rules</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jamie Raskin gleefully tagged Marjorie Taylor Greene for wearing a hat that wanted to Make America Great Again, which is a sentiment every American politician should endorse:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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flex-grow: 1; height: 677px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Greene, incidentally, scored the best moment of the SOTU when she demanded that Biden say Lakin Riley’s name. Biden processed the request and decided on the fly that he’d better comply. Therefore, he acknowledged that “Lincoln Riley” was killed by an “illegal” (<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/the_left_goes_bonkers_about_bidens_use_of_illegal_to_describe_accused_killer_of_nursing_student_laken_riley.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">infuriating his base</a>) before saying actual Americans are more dangerous and, by the way, did you know that his son died, too:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765971423204376995" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-11" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-11&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765971423204376995&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fbidens_sotu_address_was_quite_simply_horrible.html&sessionId=736d69b4565e0dfd1a9a38015c046ec470e5bb45&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 658px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden also demanded (again) that Republicans vote for the border bill, insisting that it will stem the flow of illegal aliens by giving him the power he needs. In fact, Biden already has plenary power to stop all illegal immigration instantly. What the bill will do is weaken America’s existing immigration laws to paper over the crisis Biden created by violating those same laws.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only unexpected part of a speech, which included predictable demands for gun control, crocodile tears about book banning, an effort to lessen election integrity, and a huge, boats-on-the-water relief effort for the same people in Gaza who enable Hamas, was Biden’s bizarre claim that Democrats are the pro-police party. Marinate on that one for a while.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">After this unnerving display of anger, hysteria, vengefulness, hate, and dishonesty, Biden closed his speech this way: “Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas. But you can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back. … There is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together!”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A coked-up demagogue is not what America needs, but it’s all that the Democrat party has to offer.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252637_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq9vmRd67lc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">YouTube screen grab</a> (cropped).</em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Gold Star father thrown out of Biden's SOTU and put in cuffs after shouting a call to remember his son</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monicashowalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden's State of the Union was long, at least and hour long, and boring as heck, going into minutia about ticket prices, shrinkflation, and abortion as "care," amounting to essentially a campaign speech.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Left unsaid was any mention of one of the worst failures on his watch, the horrendous U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. While he's running for re-election, he'd rather that be ... forgotten.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, not everyone has that luxury of forgetting and moving along.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13172019/Gold-Star-dad-thrown-Bidens-State-Union.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Daily Mail</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Gold Star father of a Marine killed during the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal was arrested during Thursday's State of the Union for heckling President <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/joe-biden/index.html" id="mol-9219b720-dd13-11ee-adaa-173ccc10d8ce" style="background: transparent;" target="_self">Joe Biden</a></span> during his speech. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Steve Nikoui, the father of slain Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, shouted 'Remember Abbey Gate!' 'United States Marines!' and 'Abbey Gate!' from the balcony of the House chamber in the middle of the president's remarks.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Abbey Gate is where Nikoui's son Kareem and 12 other service members were killed by a suicide bomber during the chaotic American exit from Kabul on August 26, 2021.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 51-year-old, who has blamed Biden for his son's death, was quickly removed from the public gallery and placed in handcuffs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Gold star father began his protest after Biden said 'America’s safer today than when I took office.' </span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">O.K., I can understand removing him from the speech owing to his heckle. When you make up your mind to do that, you pretty well know that you'll be stopped and taken out. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: x-large;">What's obnoxious here is that they saw fit to handcuff him, like a drunk or criminal, when he was clearly an aggrieved father who sought to have his son's needless death remembered given that it was done in selfless service to his country. Biden, remember, looked at his watch several times when his son's body was brought back in a box from Afghanistan. Had this father not been treated this badly by the Bidenites these past few years, his shoutout never would have happened.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But for that, they slap the cuffs on him, which is a lot more than they do for illegal aliens literally breaking into our country through its Southern border. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sheer lack of proportionality here, along with the extreme leadership failures that led up to his son's death does call for an explanation from Joe and his miserable lieutenants out on their <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/a_collapsing_afghanistan_was_not_enough_to_halt_secretary_of_state_blinkens_hamptons_vacay.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hamptons vacays</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But Joe doesn't want anyone to so much as remember this, let alone the lives of the 13 innocent servicemembers who were needlessly killed on the way out. That explains the draconian response on a Gold Star father.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats have screamed outrage at President Trump for his tiffs with some gold star families with activist agendas in other contexts.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where is their outrage now?</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/1765969329068085452" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Twitter screen shot</a></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Obama-Biden Administration Was Creeping Fascism</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Leo Goldstein" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/leo_goldstein/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Leo Goldstein</a></div><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">The similarities between the Obama administration and Italian fascism have been pointed out many times. Over a dozen articles about this are on this site alone (</span><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/09/obamas_fascist_economy.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">1</a>, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/the_distortion_of_fascism.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2</a>, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/corporatism_comes_to_america.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">3</a>, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/is_the_american_postmodern_left_a_fascist_movement.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">4</a>). It is usually said that <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/The-Fascist-era" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">fascism is a strain of socialism</a> in which the means of production are beneficially owned by private persons but controlled by the government.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Both the Obama administration and </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benito-Mussolini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mussolini </a>used a financial crisis to take over banks and industry. Mussolini openly assumed <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/The-Fascist-era" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">complete control of them</a>, even though partial private ownership was allowed to remain. The U.S. government bailed out banks and the auto industry in 2008, before Obama was inaugurated. It did not own the banks, but the bailout created public sentiment in favor of government control of the banks and more regulation of all businesses. Obama used this sentiment to its full extent. Elizabeth Warren led the creation of the <a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-crimes-against-democracy/#_Toc160525895" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">partisan Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a>, which wielded unprecedented powers and was unaccountable to Congress. By 2016, the corporate world was already subverted and controlled by the Democrat administration. For example, all banks refused to deal with Donald Trump in 2016. The democrat-controlled media <a href="https://archive.is/Jn27G" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">misrepresented the cause</a> of this discrimination. Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau effectively allowed the ruling administration to strangle its opposition financially.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><em>Citizens United v. FEC</em>, </span>decided by the Supreme Court in January 2010, very likely radicalized Democrats even further into total fascism. The Supreme Court confirmed that private corporations have the First Amendment right to use their money to support political candidates; Democrats concluded that they would have <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/corporatism_comes_to_america.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to control corporations</a> to win elections.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Starting in 2010, the Obama administration viciously targeted any effective opposition, including the </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-crimes-against-democracy/#_Toc160525890" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tea Party movement</a>, which was obliterated. The IRS was most notorious for targeting Tea Party organizations, but the DOJ (Eric Holder) and the FBI (Robert Mueller) also participated. What do we call regimes that destroy non-violent opposition movements?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">A few months before the 2012 elections, </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-crimes-against-democracy/#_Toc160525888" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Obama’s DOJ sued Gallup</a> for hinting that the government had manipulated unemployment numbers. Additionally, <a href="https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/obamas-sp-lawsuit-political-payback-for-downgrade/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Obama’s DOJ sued Standard & Poor’s</a> for $5 billion for downgrading the federal debt, Treasurys. As a result, nobody challenges the false current inflation numbers, and the credit rating agencies do not dare downgrade the Treasurys below their current AA+/AAA rating.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">The Obama administration also waged and eventually won </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-crimes-against-democracy/#_Toc160525892" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">the war on Fox News</a>. It also chilled media criticism of Obama and the administration’s agenda. The DOJ and FBI (Robert Mueller and James Comey) criminally prosecuted and <a href="https://archive.is/ealTr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">imprisoned filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza</a> and lied about the initiation and predication of that investigation. (D’Souza had produced a film criticizing and mocking Obama.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, climate scientists who opposed the administration's climate dogma were defunded and silenced. Then, the Obama administration intimidated businesses into not donating to nonprofits linked to climate dissent, essentially stifling corporate donations to almost all right-of-center think tanks.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><span style="font-size: large;">Much of this information was not known during the Obama administration, and most of the public missed it. How could this happen? Where was the media—the self-appointed guard dog of democracy? In the beginning, the mainstream media was enamored with Obama. By the time it realized the severity of Obama’s abuses of power, it was no longer able to mount any opposition.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">How did this happen? The Obama administration started by </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-hand-picked-bigtech-winners/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hand-picking tech corporations</a>, who then quickly and consequently became what we now call “Big Tech.” Combined with other measures, this effectively gave the administration control over the flow of information, including the news.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">As newspapers, journals, and magazines transitioned to the Internet, Google and Microsoft took authors’ </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/google-business-model-is-ip-theft/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">copyrighted content</a> without compensation and offered access to it through their search engines. Improvements in Google’s search engine meant exploiting other people’s work more efficiently.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><span style="font-size: large;">The Obama administration failed to enforce copyright laws on written works, in violation of Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which reads:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries</span>[.]</span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><span style="font-size: large;">By 2009, the news media was able to connect its financial difficulties to Google. Rupert Murdoch attempted to work out a compromise with Big Tech, but the administration waged war on him.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Instead of enforcing copyright laws, the Democrats arranged for Big Tech, specifically Google, to </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/how-google-funds-fake-news-media2/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">pay only</a> selected outlets, such as The New York Times. This resulted in the media becoming entirely dependent on the Big Tech corporations Obama chose. The administration also signed special agreements with these Big Tech corporations and patronized them with thousands of government accounts, effectively eliminating all other competitors.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Democrats also disregarded the second part of the above clause regarding Inventors and Discoveries. The seemingly bipartisan “America Invents Act”, passed under intense lobbying by Big Tech, made most </span><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/the_death_warrant_for_american_ingenuity.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">patents unenforceable retroactively</a>. Although there was a legitimate controversy about software patents, the leading cause for this reform was that the tech companies picked by the Obama administration were young and entirely based on inventions made by others. For example, Facebook was founded in 2004, after inventions that led to the creation of the interactive web had already been made. So, for Big Tech to not pay royalties or give credit to the original inventors, the government re-distributed wealth from the pioneers of the Internet to the multi-billion dollar corporations of its choice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/12/obamanet_vs_net_neutrality.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Obamanet</a></span> was another major strike against freedom, forcing all publishers and authors to go through Google and other internet gatekeepers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Thus, the opposition press was muzzled and driven almost to extinction without the public noticing. The Big Tech winners, </span><a href="https://defyccc.com/obama-administration-has-sold-the-united-states-to-big-tech/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">cherry-picked by the Obama administration</a>, became the administration’s most enthusiastic supporters. In addition to its monopoly of information, Big Tech also provided Democrats troves of private data and the capacity for mass surveillance and economic marginalization of dissenters. By 2013, Twitter was suspending <a href="https://twitter.com/LibsOwner/status/1765093546510446928" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">accounts criticizing Obamacare</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s victory in 2016 came as a shock for Democrats who thought they had a firm grip on both the corporations and the media. It was as if Mussolini decided to allow sham elections and suddenly lost them. While Obama expected to quit after his two terms, the corporations who had developed this symbiotic relationship with the ruling Democrat party needed it to remain in power. Together with young and hungry Democrat operatives, they launched the resistance.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">In 2016, the Democrat government apparatus, which had destroyed the Tea Party, jailed Dinesh D’Souza, hounded dissenting voices from Fox News to the Associated Press (some articles), and had now set its sights on Donald Trump. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 700;">In hindsight, this was predictable.</span></em></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">In 2021, Biden confirmed what many had suspected — Democrats wanted the Republican party as a controlled opposition. In January 2021, </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/01/08/biden-we-need-a-republican-party-that-is-principled-and-strong.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Biden was telling</a> the public what the Republican party should be. By March 2021, Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-says-he-has-no-idea-if-there-will-be-a-republican-party-in-2024-2021-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">was already saying</a> that he is not sure whether there will be a Republican party in 2024.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b5b341d0-7fff-37e1-553d-563d04cdd661">Obamaism and Italian fascism have more in common than ideological similarities. Before WWI, Mussolini was a non-fascist socialist; socialists were anti-war. What turned Mussolini against anti-war socialism was </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benito-Mussolini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Marx’s observation</a> that wars are followed by revolutions. If wars cause revolutions, let’s join the war! Notice how easy this switch was?</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image generated by AI.</em></p></div></div></div></div></footer></div></div></footer></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please Email This Post To Your Family & Friends</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440581937224467578.post-5023043213347698512024-03-17T15:56:00.000-07:002024-03-17T15:57:34.736-07:00Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill: Big Tech Censorship Case Heads to U.S. Supreme Court<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">would joe biden have been elected if big tech had not censored/deleted info on the biden crime family???</span></span></p><p><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ronald Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” When it comes to freedom of speech, that could not be more true.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One hundred and three pages of fact findings in district court, supported by five hundred and ninety-one footnotes, demonstrate a sprawling campaign of “unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office in the world” to “bend [social-media platforms] to the government’s will.” The Biden administration, however, claims that these platforms aggressively censored American voices because of Biden’s persuasive “eloquence,” rather than its threats and coercion.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the White House insisted that social media platforms view themselves as “partners,” on the same “team,” and benefiting from the government’s “help,” those same officials were subjecting the platforms to relentless abuse, accusations, and blatant threats. Of course, this abusive relationship between Big Government and Big Tech didn’t begin this way. It was a slow burn starting as early 2017, when the FBI began coordinating secret meetings in Silicon Valley with content-moderation officers across seven platforms. Even then, the platforms were threatened with “legislation” if they did not censor more, with encrypted lists demanding mass-censorship flooding their inboxes.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This soon escalated to more aggressive practices. By 2018, CISA, or the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, was highlighting “disinformation” from state and local officials to be censored across platforms, and in 2020, the “Election Integrity Partnership” was launched — a colossal mass-surveillance and mass-censorship project that entangled government agencies, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and social media platforms into an Orwellian knot. In time, this would be rebranded as “The Virality Project,” with the capability to monitor tens of millions of social media “engagements” per week and spur extensive censorship.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, this shadowy Ministry of Truth had completely embedded itself into the very fabric of our digital communications. As a result, it wasn’t difficult for President Biden to double down on such an insidious system, one conveniently engineered for “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” Like water carving into rock, the unrelenting pressure from the “highest (and I mean highest) levels of the White House” proved too much for these tech companies to bear, with one hand offering them a carrot for compliance and the other threatening the complete annihilation of their business model. One by one, they folded to pressure from the Biden White House, responding with “total compliance,” even when it meant censoring truthful information that did not violate existing platform policies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted an historic injunction in response to our 2022 lawsuit <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louisiana and Missouri v. Biden</em> on July 4, 2023. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit affirmed it — twice. Both courts have confirmed that the government’s coordinated campaign to censor domestic speech through private institutions violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Yet the Biden administration continues to unapologetically coerce platforms into censorship to this day, resulting in an oppressive editorial power that affects every American.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden’s attorneys have also made it clear that this administration has no intention of ceasing its unconstitutional conduct. Instead, they’ve expressed the firm intention to continue. That is why this case at the U.S. Supreme Court is so important to our nation. These censorship efforts were never vague or abstract but extremely specific, right down to individual speakers and posts flagged for “misinformation” or “disinformation” because they dared to criticize the government’s narrative. But the government does not have the power to secretly distort the marketplace of ideas or actively manipulate public discourse to suit its needs. Moreover, “a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish” (<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Norwood v. Harrison</em>).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our limited discovery has uncovered extensive suppression of speech that goes against the fundamental nature of American liberty. For our government, its institutions, or its officials to actively censor protected speech strikes at the core of who we are as citizens of a free nation with a government created by the people, for the people.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I invite you to listen to our oral argument on March 18, where evidence rather than Orwellian “eloquence” will be front and center.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liz Murrill is the Attorney General of Louisiana. She previously served as the state’s Solicitor General and has been with this case from the beginning. </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23-411 in the Supreme Court of the United States.</em></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em></span></p><header style="color: black;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">AMERICA SHOULD AS THE BANKSTERS' RENT BOY ERIC HOLDER WHAT HE, OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID FOR BLACK AMERICA. 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If you look at non-white working-class voters, there has been a 61-point shift, that’s an incredible amount, from 2012, that’s in twelve years. Obama, in 2012…I think won it by 67 points, that demographic. Biden won it by 48. Now he’s only up by six. What’s going on there?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder answered, “I think, first off, you’re measuring March against November. We’re looking at where people are right now, I think you’ll probably see a movement with regard to working-class people of all races towards Biden by the time you get to November. You’re also comparing an extremely — an unbelievably popular African American running for the first time and who really galvanized people in all strata of life. And so, I think, in some ways, that’s not a fair comparison. But I think we should not be too alarmed by these March polls, you’ve got to take them into consideration. But March is a fundamentally different month than October and November, and we’ll see where these things turn out when we get to that part of the calendar year.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holder continued, “There’s work to be done, but I’m actually optimistic that, if we stay committed, focused, and as the media turns its attention to making this a binary choice between a person who’s got some age and cognitive issues — that would be Trump — against somebody who has actually accomplished a lot, I think we’ll do just fine. And what you said in the monologue was really good, though, Trump’s popularity rating is higher now than it ever was during his presidency. It’s like, hey, America, remember? … People, they’re saying, are you better off now than you were four years ago? You’re damn right we are. So, let’s not lose sight of the chaos, the corruption, and all the negative things that Donald Trump meant and put a good man back in the White House.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p></div></h1><h1 style="clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">4:36</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) filed a brief in favor of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s case against Google, arguing the big tech platform should be regulated like a common carrier, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance’s brief in the case encourages the court of common pleas to give the case a full hearing and explains the legal rationale for Ohio’s case.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ohio populist’s brief is in support of Yost’s motion for summary judgment and to oppose Google’s motion to dismiss the case.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his brief, Vance calls out Google’s “hypocrisy,” as the big tech platform claims in varying legal cases that it is sometimes a “neutral platform” and other cases it is not a utility because Google search result webpages are “Google’s own creation or selection.” He wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whether this is true or not—and it is not—Google is playing fast and loose with the facts. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google has claimed <i>the exact </i><i>opposite </i>about its search service in other cases and before other courts.</span> When seeking to limit its liability for user content under Section 230 of the Communications Act, it has asserted that its search services are “neutral tools,” Google Rep. Mem., 2017 WL 3188006, <i>Gonzalez v. Google</i>, 282 F.Supp.3d 1150 (N.D. Cal. 2017), that are solely “information provided by another.” Google Br., 2018 WL 3496264, at *3, <i>Marshall’s Locksmith Service, Inc.</i><i>v. Google</i>, 925 F.3d 1263 (D.C.Cir. 2019).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, this hypocrisy has led at least<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> one federal judge to conclude it is “a fair point” that Google is judicially estopped from claiming that “the blind operation of ‘neutral tools’”</span> [in its algorithms and other sorting techniques] is actually “editorial discretion.” <i>NetChoice v. Paxton</i>, 49 F.4th 439, 467–68 (5th Cir. 2022), <i>cert. granted in part</i>, 144 S. Ct. 477 (2023). In short, Google cannot claim that there are no factual questions about whether <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">its services are susceptible to common carrier regulation suitable for resolution</span> at this stage of litigation—because at the very least, this Court must determine which version of the facts about search engines Google actually asserts. [Emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/713679755/Amicus-Brief#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Amicus Brief on Scribd">Amicus Brief</a> by <a class="x5l" href="https://www.scribd.com/publisher/298980670/Breitbart-News#from_embed" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="View Breitbart News's profile on Scribd">Breitbart News</a> on Scribd</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="853" id="doc_79265" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/713679755/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-IkWLzmahNiE3v3MzNTuY" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Amicus Brief" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance argues that Google operates in many ways like a common carrier, saying “its functions are essentially the same as any communications network: it connects people by transmitting their words and exchanging their messages. It functions just like an old telephone switchboard, but rather than connect people with cables and electromagnetic circuits, Google uses indices created through data analysis. As such, common carrier regulation is appropriate under Ohio law.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This follows a May 2022 <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/26/ohio-court-rules-google-may-be-designated-a-common-carrier/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ruling</a> that Yost’s lawsuit against Google, which labels the tech giant a common carrier subject to special regulations and litigation, can proceed.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vance and the Claremont Institute <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/09/16/j-d-vance-claremont-institute-file-amicus-brief-in-ohio-lawsuit-against-google/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">filed</a> in September 2021 an amicus brief in support of this case against Google.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Common carriers are strictly regulated about who they can deny service to. Common carriers include utilities and telecommunications companies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Courts have held that infringing on a private actor’s speech by requiring that actor to host another person’s speech does not always violate the First Amendment,” wrote Ohio County Court Judge James P. Schuck wrote in his ruling. “There are several examples in which private companies involved in mass communications were prohibited from censorship.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Professor Adam Candeub, who led the Trump administration’s efforts to curb tech censorship, told Breitbart News at the time that this was a welcome ruling.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The court recognized that the First Amendment does not prevent reasonable anti-discrimination requirements on companies that hold themselves out as transmitters of speech,” Candeub explained.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The case is State of Ohio v. Google in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No. 21 CV H 06 0274</em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. 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Despite what many media outlets and talking heads on the left wanted to portray as an “energetic” and “fiery” State of the Union address last week, most Americans were not impressed by the speech, as the customary post-SOTU polling spike that most presidents enjoy hasn’t been there for Joe Biden.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, multiple polls released in the days since the speech have gone in the opposite direction for Biden. According to the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-newsyougov-poll-no-state-of-the-union-bump-for-biden-190451496.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yahoo News/YouGov</a> poll, Biden’s approval rating went from 40% prior to the speech to 39% this week. This increasing dissatisfaction with the current president was echoed in polling conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">FiveThirtyEight</a>, where, prior to the SOTU, Biden held a 38% approval rating on March 6 vs. a 37% approval rating on March 12.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The speech itself was a clinic in Beltway gaslighting, with Biden making a number of questionable to outright dishonest claims related to job growth, inflation, and so many other issues of concern to Americans.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On job growth, Biden’s claim to have created “15 million new jobs” in three years fails to acknowledge the fact that about <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/24363/number-of-jobs-lost-since-february-2020/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">12 million of those jobs</a> can and should be classified as post-COVID “Return-to-Work” jobs that were actually created by his predecessor, President Donald Trump.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the topic of inflation, Biden actually told the joint session of Congress that the United States had achieved the “lowest in the world.” But in reality, the United States is experiencing higher inflation than a number of industrialized nations and new reports show that the rate has actually <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/46ca8249-8b81-4f25-a852-4bf9f9852085" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ticked upward</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite all the misleading chest-pounding during the address, one major issue that President Biden mostly stayed away from was America’s crumbling cybersecurity infrastructure. This was most likely by design, as the current administration has failed to distinguish itself as a global leader in the cybersphere. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/top-cyber-threats-2023-navigating-evolving-cybersecurity-landscape/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Twenty twenty-three</a> was a tough enough year for the U.S. in dealing with cyber events, with <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/topics/cyberthreats/ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ransomware</a> attacks, intrusive <a href="https://www.itfunk.org/topics/cyber-threats/browser-hijackers/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">browser hijackers</a>, and countless other threats compromising devices deployed for use in both the private and public sectors. But the first few months of 2024 have seen a rash of attacks against critical sectors, including health care, telecom, and state and local governments.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">These attacks come at a time where the cyber landscape has changed tremendously, with major changes at the top for <a href="https://www.spywareremove.com/behind-microsoft-s-security-shakeup-need-know-new-ciso-future-strategies.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">tech giant Microsoft</a>, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission ushering in a new era of <a href="https://www.rivitmedia.com/technews/secs-new-cybersecurity-rules-a-comprehensive-overview-for-all-companies/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">forced private sector compliance</a> regarding cyber events.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the more critical attacks has been the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cyberattack-causes-nationwide-outage-change-healthcare-largest-prescription-processor-north-america/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">cyber-attack against Change Healthcare</a>. The health care technology giant manages the medical records for roughly one third of American patients and manages billions of health care transactions annually. As of mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into the attack, due to the “unprecedented magnitude of the cyberattack.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Change Healthcare attack represents one of the largest data hauls ever accessed in the history of cyber-crime. The reason for this kind of attack boils down to one simple motive: money. On the “dark web,” where the personal data of victimized Americans is bought and sold every day, medical records sell can fetch as much as $60 per person, compared to $15 for a Social Security number or $3 for credit card information.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, warnings issued earlier this year from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), highlighted new threats against municipal and county governments, emergency services, educational institutions, public health care facilities, and critical infrastructure related to the <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/us-critical-infrastructure-aggressively-targeted-by-phobos-ransomware/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Phobos ransomware gang</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has become apparent that the Biden administration is handling our digital borders as poorly as they have handled out physical southern border with Mexico, and the best advice we can take here is to become as vigilant as we possibly can when dealing with our own personal online security. Educating ourselves regarding new attack vectors that include phony security pop-up scams and <a href="https://www.cyclonis.com/basicstar-backdoor-used-by-iranian-threat-actor/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">backdoors</a>, which negate normal authentication procedures to access a system, is critical.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other than that, there really is little we can do to prevent the major data breaches that continue to afflict major data warehouses, but with commonsense precautions, we can make <a href="https://www.enigmasoftware.com/cybersecurity-2024-what-you-can-do-secure-your-personal-business-networks/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2024 a safer year online</a> as we hope for a much-needed leadership change in 2025.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Julio Rivera is a business and political strategist, cybersecurity researcher, and a political commentator and columnist. 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color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; position: relative;"><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The Long Beach Police Department coordinated with stores in The Pike Outlets to close early following a large disturbance and multiple altercations on Saturday.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">There were reports that roughly 200 people gathered at the Long Beach shopping center after a post on social media indicated that two females, one adult, and one juvenile were going to fight went viral.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Long Beach police confirmed the department got word of the planned fight and had officers stationed near the property.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Video obtained by stringer service OC Hawk shows two young girls getting into a fistfight. There was a large group of teens surrounding the two girls as the fight continued, with many seen recording the confrontation on their phones.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Officers eventually intervened and broke up the crowd while arresting the two girls involved. A handful of police officers stayed at the scene to patrol the area. Police reportedly brought in a bus to The Pike Outlets in the event there would be a large number of juveniles to be detained.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The owners of The Pike Outlets and store owners elected to close shops early in response to the incident. The shopping center was closed at around 6 p.m. Saturday and guests were told to clear out. Officers made an announcement that anyone who didn’t comply would be arrested.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“Attention in the area, the property is now closed by management,” Long Beach police said in a statement. “Anyone who remains in the area in 10 minutes will be subject to arrest for trespassing.”</p><ul class="caas-list" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 1.538em;"><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 387px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 266.6px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3NrOjaOc3GrPi7rn3CPrvA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQxMztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/3a609227c8725dcb9f78a5094da5a1d4" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-0" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 413px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 285.2px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/mR2SAXLNto.NllvCtx3fgw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ0MjtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/fe5dde55cf3c7da0481f2ac69e452110" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-1" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 401px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 279px; position: relative;"><img alt="Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/rMhwLa1FvUNHc3HBo71Z_g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQyODtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/6c5cc0807226739caa5446db466e9604" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-2" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Two youths got into a fistfight at the Long Beach Pike Outlets as several hundred juveniles in the area arrived for a meetup. Long Beach Police broke up the fight and patrolled the area on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 387px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 266.6px; position: relative;"><img alt="Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0i.h854uv8KuMfcdoMpj3A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQxMztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/2905b31d446573493efc6ed7d7c01792" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-3" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 407px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 279px; position: relative;"><img alt="Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/A18w.ZA8rNtUWdV4gnMSwA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQzNTtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/8ea67dc21d3ace15ff0b6ee9a507946c" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-4" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Long Beach Police intervened after a fight broke out among two juveniles at The Pike Outlets in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 446px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 310px; position: relative;"><img alt="Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/gyo9b0WmPT4o7l3JOQN3bA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ3NjtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/cdefb437a049b15873b2cf169e4d32bc" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-5" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 471px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 322.4px; position: relative;"><img alt="Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/l05zym6WCntWt1nwmvoJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUwMztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/12944bea71da2cb8274a07b5965fe436" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-6" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Officers arrested one of the juveniles involved in the fist fight in Long Beach on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)</figcaption></div></figure></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><figure class="caas-figure" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="caas-figure-with-pb" style="max-height: 472px; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="caas-img-container" style="border-radius: 8px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 328.6px; position: relative;"><img alt="Long Beach Police officers patrol the area after breaking up a fight between two juveniles at the Long Beach Pike Outlets on March 16, 2024. (OC Hawk)" class="caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" loading="lazy" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/rbmk8wFJNEjT2zr1CEOFyg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUwNDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ktla_articles_362/46a30a27a1c2dfb90197721171aeba54" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; height: auto; left: 310px; line-height: 0; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" data-id="m-7" style="color: #6e7780; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 8px 0px;">Long Beach Police officers patrol the area after breaking up a fight between two juveniles at the Long Beach Pike Outlets on March 16, 2024. 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margin: 0px; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="Jaremy Smith Wanted" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/Jaremy-Smith-Wanted-640x480.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">@NMStatePolice on X</cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 13px; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A manhunt is underway following the Friday morning shooting death of New Mexico State Police officer Justin Hare on I-40 near Tucumcari.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">FOX News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-police-officer-fatally-shot-armed-dangerous-suspect-loose" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the shooting occurred near mile marker 320 around 5:30 a.m.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An X post from the New Mexico State Police indicates a search for Jaremy Smith is underway and <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/NMStatePolice/posts/pfbid02nVcvpTJfFB775p4fLjMbaYTgWbJcyBwksCX966qicRiVyLHiPuTemaCgkeY71GzGl" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">charges</a> of “First Degree Murder, Armed Robbery, Shooting at or from a Motor Vehicle, Tampering with Evidence, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Taking of a Motor Vehicle, and Criminal Damage to Property” have already been introduced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The shooting unfolded when Hare was sent to aid a motorist with a flat tire. The motorist turned out to be Smith, who approached Hare’s cruiser, talked to him about the flat, then allegedly pulled a gun and shot him dead.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hare had two young children.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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If “educators” had their way, those geniuses would be silenced, for as white men, they have nothing to contribute, and therefore they had no reason to continue their conversation with the world.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eventually, the literary achievements of the entire West were under assault (as well as the attainments in most other fields of creative endeavor), which meant that the prodigious accomplishments of European women were now included in the body of work that had become anathema to modern “scholars” ensnared by the fashionable allure of the current zeitgeist. The position women held on the intersectional totem pole was not enough to offset their inescapable association with the European colonizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This trajectory of shifting values is something the general public became cognizant of only gradually and with varying degrees of alarm. But it has been analyzed in depth by intellectual giants as far back as 1987, when Allan Bloom published <em>The Closing of the American Mind</em>. Roger Kimball of New Criterion has canvassed the development of this antipathy to the Western tradition in both the latter publication and his own books. But despite the erudition that these and other great thinkers have brought to bear on this subject, the dismantling proceeds apace.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A recent headline from Seattle provides evidence for just how commonplace destructive ideas have become in our educational institutions as they have trickled down from the universities, reinforcing the truth of Allan Bloom’s assertion that “what is influential in the higher intellectual circles always ends up in the schools.” A Seattle high school English teacher presented students with materials commonly found in anti-racism training manuals, in this case decrying the most important component of literary efforts (and civilizational progress): the love of reading and writing. The pamphlet averred, among other things, that a love of reading and writing is a characteristic of white supremacy. What interpretation could students glean from this assertion but that reading and writing should be viewed with mistrust or even avoided?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Decades ago, I found it shocking that anyone would openly disparage the staggering achievements of the Western literary mind, male <em>or </em>female, let alone that this assessment would become <em>de rigueur</em> in academia. It was as if someone were attempting to wrench the great passion of my life right out of my arms. Further, and more important, it had become obvious that the barbarians were dismantling the high points of achievement in civilization generally.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I am left numb with disbelief that any high school English teacher in the anglosphere could in all seriousness propose that reading and writing are activities “bad” by association with something our culture condemns. This attack is directed no longer toward the “high points of civilization,” but rather toward the building blocks of civilizational development — and maintenance.</span></p><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Jason Rantz from KTTH talk radio in Seattle, “as part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School in Seattle were given a handout with definitions of the ‘9 characteristics of white supremacy’” and were told that “Worship of the Written Word is white supremacy because it is ‘an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.’” According to this worksheet, white people “hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of ‘honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.’”</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I were a smart-aleck, I would recommend that the illiterate agitators who come up with these ideas go back in time and say all this to the (white) Greeks, who for centuries listened to poets <em>recite </em>the Homeric epics. Or tell this to the Sumerians, who, while also part of an oral poetic culture, invented writing for the practical purpose of record-keeping. And then tell the Chinese. And while you’re at it, the Mayans — the people of these last three cultures having each independently invented systems of writing.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Given the pervasiveness of these vacuous ideas under the reigning educational regime, we must ask, why the institutionalized attack on reading and writing, and why under the aegis of Black Lives Matter at School? When I searched the phrase “the invention of writing,” I couldn’t help but notice forums devoted to disputing the widely accepted claim that no sub-Saharan country ever invented a writing system. Well, if any one of them did, why don’t black educators and their white allies in DIE encourage study of these African accomplishments in celebration of black history rather than condemning a system of communication that was invented by brown and yellow people to enable them to transact business?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or could it be that this particular ill chosen cudgel is simply useful for beating white people over the head — for being white?</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Jocelynn Cordes has published a collection of her essays under the title “Critical Musings from a Traditionalist.”</span></em></span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252791_5_.jpeg" style="border: 0px; 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line-height: normal; text-align: right;">2:09</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">A Florida convicted pedophile has been arrested again less than two months after his release from prison, for allegedly raping a random woman.</span></b></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kendrick Marclain, 31, registered as a sex offender with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on January 8 after getting out of prison on December 31, Fox News </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-arrested-charged-sexual-assault-month-after-release-registering-sex-offender-sheriff" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Then, a woman accused the Panoma Park man of attacking her on February 3.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman told police that she had gotten into an argument with a family member while intoxicated that night and decided to leave the residence and go for a walk by herself. She reported noticing a strange man following her, and called her mother around 10:12 p.m. but lost connection. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The victim said the man continued to follow her and made contact with her near Dollar General asking for a cigarette,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victim gave the man a cigarette, which they shared.”</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before she could leave, the woman said the man grabbed her by the neck, hit her head on a wall, and raped her. </span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim said the man then attempted to take her to his residence, but it was at this time that her father came looking for her and she was able to escape to his vehicle. </span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Investigators were able to match surveillance footage and forensic evidence to Marclain on Monday, officials said.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He was arrested, charged with sexual assault on a person over the age of 18, and is being held in the Putnam County Jail without bond.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marclain had recently been released from prison for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12, Fox News reported.</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This is a person who was given multiple opportunities to rehabilitate, and he chooses not to,” Sheriff H.D. DeLoach said. “He fails to comply with his sexual predator designation and has returned to prison several times.”</span></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Clearly, this is someone who cannot function in society and now a member of our community has suffered an inexcusable, horrific trauma at his hands. 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-webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #38761d;">Inside BLACK NYPD's Bronx gang bust</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F52SmZZHsk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F52SmZZHsk</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="">HUCKSTER!</yt-formatted-string></h1><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="">Exposing Mayor Tiffany Henyard's Charity Scam</yt-formatted-string></h1><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYVBVdf-X-E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYVBVdf-X-E</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FBI Investigates Mayor's HISTORIC Misuse Of Taxpayer Funds </span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK00Mlb5J20">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK00Mlb5J20</a></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Los Angeles, CA one of the most dangerous cities in America that the media doesnt show you.</span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0dKWEtiqo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0dKWEtiqo</a></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">CAN YOU NAME A BLACK POL WHO DOES NOT HUCKSTER HIS/HER WAY TO JAIL?</span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options. </span></b></span></b></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></b></p><h1 style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Police: 8 Suspects Record the Abduction, Torture, and Rape of Alabama Mother Before Killing Her</span></h1><div style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Black Politics: The Case of Selma, Alabama</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Robert Weissberg" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/robert_weissberg/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Weissberg</a></div><p style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></p><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">American ethnic groups have relied on various paths to move up the economic ladder, but among African Americans the foremost pathway has been elections. This effort has produced notable successes. Voting rates are <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/21/key-facts-about-black-eligible-voters-in-2020-battleground-states/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">now roughly equal</a> and Blacks have been elected to the highest positions, including President of the United States. Few can deny that the “Black vote” plays a major role in American politics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, one can ask if this electoral process improves the life of the average African American. Does replacing White rule with a Black mayor and a majority Black city council translate into tangible benefits? After all, political power is a means to an end, not the final goal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One answer to this quandary can be found in the history of Selma, Alabama whose civil-rights battles have come to symbolize the African American quest for political equality. Selma recently received <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-03/attorney-general-tells-alabamas-bloody-sunday-service-that-voting-rights-are-under-attack" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">national attention</a> when Vice-President Kamala Harris along with <a href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/alabama/2024/03/02/lawmakers-selmas-bloody-sunday-still-relevant-in-america-right-now/72794241007/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">eleven members of Congress</a> and the U.S. Attorney General, participated in the celebration of the 59<span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> “Bloody Sunday” march. In fact, the 1965 march has become so iconic that President Biden mentioned it in his recent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">State of the Union address</a>: “A transformational moment in our history happened 59 years ago today in Selma, Alabama: Hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Grand Dragon of the KKK, to claim their fundamental right to vote. They were beaten bloodied and left for dead.” This watershed moment facilitated in passing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>, an Act that greatly expanded Black voting.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Black voting in Selma <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma,_Alabama" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sharply expanded</a>, and as most of the White population departed, Blacks eventually dominated the city’s politics. Today, Selma’s population is about 80% African American and a Black political stronghold.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">But, has this newfound political power in Selma brought improved conditions for Blacks? The answer, unambiguously, is “no.” Most notably, the mass exodus of Whites was accompanied by a sharp decline in the local economy and Selma today ranks among Alabama’s poorest cities with <a href="https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/alabama/selma/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">almost twice the poverty rate</a> of the rest of the state,. Efforts to attract tourists with murals and <a href="http://nvrmi.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">a museum recounting the voting rights struggle</a> have become the primary source of income but have failed to revitalize the decrepit downtown of shuttered stores, boarded-up buildings and abandoned residences. The average income of $35,000 per year is a third lower than the state’s average. Nearly a third of Black Selma residents l<a href="https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/alabama/selma/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ive below the poverty line</a> versus 11% of Whites.</span></p><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-03/252657_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 301px; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; width: 450px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Crime is a serious problem with the odds of being victimized by violent crime in Selma about <a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/al/selma/crime" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">twice the national average</a>, even higher than all of Alabama (whose crime rate exceeds the national average). The level of crime per square mile was nearly three times the average for the entire state. According to one <a href="https://www.areavibes.com/selma-al/crime/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">survey of city residents</a>, 87% expressed concerns about personal safety and feeling uncomfortable walking alone at night.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Selma’s <a href="https://www.niche.com/k12/selma-high-school-selma-al/academics/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">educational statistics</a> reveal a similar troubling picture. Despite a 92% high school graduation rate, Selma Hight School, one of two such schools in the city, had a reading proficiency score of 12% and 5% in math (no data are available from the other school), Selma HS is also highly segregated with 98.6% of the students <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/alabama/districts/selma-city/selma-high-school-313" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">being classified as “Black </a>and 85% “economically disadvantaged.” One half of one percent were White.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>While this picture is only a snapshot, it would be hard to argue that Black political power has uplifted the lives of Selma’s Black residents. Nor is the Selma story of towns going from White to Black rule unique. Comparable depressing tales can be told about Gary, Ind., Jackson, Miss., Camdem, N.J., East St. Louis, Ill., among others, where the promised reward of Black political control was disappointing. A comparable failure holds for many larger, Black politically-dominated cities, notably Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, N.J., Atlantic City, N.J., St. Louis, Mo, and Trenton, N.J., among others. Yes, newly achieved Black political control may have brought well-paying government jobs for at least some Blacks, plus government contracts for minority businesses, but for ordinary Blacks, the tangible payoff has been meager.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The argument that elected Black leaders know how to boost Black educational attainment or reduce Black-on-Black crime is just not credible.</span></b> In many, if not most, instances, the rise of Black political control triggers an exodus of Whites that lowers the quality of life for many Blacks -- closed stores, less tax revenue for social services, worse educational outcomes, and many other benefits that no longer exist compared to when Whites governed. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What lessons can be learned from this disjunction between relying on the vote to move up the economic ladder and the paltry results of this triumph? A disinterested observer might suggest that Blacks should abandon obsessing over electoral politics and embrace alternatives favored by other groups with the same aim, for example, Jews starting small businesses or the Irish working for large bureaucratic organizations like the police department and slowly advancing up the ranks. All have proven records of success that far exceed the emphasis on politics.</span></p><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alas, shifting strategies will not be easy. Many Blacks -- 40% according <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/01/22/black-americans-have-made-gains-in-u-s-political-leadership-but-gaps-remain/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to one recent poll</a> -- believe that the ballot box still remains the pathway to racial progress and this article of faith and will not be reversed by statistical data (only about a quarter of Whites saw politics this way). Nor can we expect Democratic Party functionaries to tell their most loyal supporters to deemphasize the vote. There is also enormous pride in seeing fellow Blacks achieve high political office, including mayors of major cities such as Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. Such pride may well transcend clear-eyed cost/benefit analysis. Politics is often about emotion, not statistical data.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But perhaps most important is the <a href="https://publicwise.org/publication/the-state-of-black-representation-in-the-us-today/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">dramatic rise of elected Black officeholders</a>.These positions bestow power, prestige and, often, wealth to incumbents, and these officeholders are not about to minimize the value of electoral politics. And while a long tradition exists among Blacks of self-help organization and leaders who encouraged self-reliance, notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Booker T. Washington</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Marcus Garvey</a>, self-reliance is easily pushed aside by promising instant payoff if only fellow Blacks vote for them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For those who might raise doubt about the efficacy of electoral politics, the all-too-typical rejoinder is to double down and insist that progress will come only if yet more Blacks vote. When the promised paradise fails to materialize, the easy excuse is “voter suppression.” </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse, and there is little prospect of a breakthrough. This is a harsh, undeniable truth, so perhaps it is time to examine this awkward failure. There are better options. </span></b></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Image: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Tony Webster</a></span></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000;">Severed head found in apartment of Alvin Bragg's reported friend</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monicashowalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"></em></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Doesn't everyone have a friend or two who keeps a severed head in his freezer?</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does, this one an ex-con who got let out of prison after serving only half of his 50-year term last year, and within that year, or possibly earlier, reportedly <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13171611/Nyc-justice-reform-activist-headless-torso-Joe-Rogan.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">made friends</a> with Bragg.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the pair in a shareable picture that reportedly ran on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/queensdefenders/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Instagram</a> (I don't see it now) and which is still being shared on Twitter:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765818206743035971" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765818206743035971&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fsevered_head_found_in_apartment_of_alvin_braggs_reported_friend.html&sessionId=3a4c9f763af7451ac553ba31081b8ce716120f5a&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 778px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which is pretty damning for Bragg's choice of associates. The guy was out of the can for only a year when someone got him an undoubtedly well-paid job at a legal firm called Queens Defenders, whose nstagram tagline reads: "Limiting the impact of a criminal record on employment, housing, education, & public benefits." <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-con-nyc-murder-suspect-smiles-da-bragg-shortly-before-shocking-arrest" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fox News reports</a> that they were among a group of legal defenders seeking a hundreds million dollars from the city for their "services."</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div id="pub-7-9"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspected killer has been busy since getting out of prison last year, working as an advocate with the Queens Defenders, one of several public defenders groups that begged for hundreds of millions of dollars in increased funding last year, according to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-public-defender-groups-calls-funding-boost-amid-disaster-20230320-rgstdpksqvgiddkwfsqunlfhnu-story.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Daily News</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, this was a criminal justice "reform" organization in the Soros mode whose name of the game was to ensure no consequences for criminal behavior.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its Instagram is loaded with "know your rights" and other mechanisms for miscreants to employ to escape justice. Its NGO-like logo is a stylized mailed fist. I don't see anything on their site about reforming character.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So it should surprise no one that Johnson doesn't seem to have changed any, despite talking a good public relations line about reforming himself in prison to podcaster Joe Rogan ... and a month later reportedly chopping a guy up in his apartment as neighbors said he pleaded for mercy, stuffing the man's head and legs in his freezer, and quite possibly doing some kind of cement shoes thing with his other body parts, according to police evidence found in reports. He's quite a guy. It's hard to think that people didn't know he hadn't changed any.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But there Alvin Bragg is, posing with him with such joy in his eyes as one of his best friends forever in the picture, making one wonder how many other savages committing barbaric acts are also in his personal circle.</span></p><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It matters because Bragg spends all his time ignoring real crime in New York while palling around with these savages, and focusing his prosecutorial fire on President Trump, in some of the most questionable of all the Trump trials -- the Stormy Daniels case, and the E. Jean Carroll case. Trump is being prosecuted by a guy whose associates have been caught with body parts in their freezer? This sounds like the reign of savages.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And as for real crime, well: </span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p data-editable="overrideHeadline" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/alvin-bragg-to-do-away-with-prison-time-for-most-crimes.html" style="background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alvin Bragg Wants to Do Away With Prison Time for Most Crimes</span></a></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That must have made Johnson happy. It shouldn't surprise anyone then that Bragg was someone Johnson counted a friend. It would be interesting to see whether Bragg or his office prosecutes this murder at all, or somehow makes "mistakes" that redound in Johnson's favor. It would be even more interesting to see if Johnson's employer gets their hundreds of millions from the city.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bragg, recall, is the guy who touts his own "<a href="https://manhattanda.org/meet-alvin-bragg/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">courage</a>" on his official website and pontificates about having the "highest standards"?</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alvin also believes that police and prosecutors must be held to the highest standards in order to strengthen community trust in our justice system. </span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So hanging out with people like these are "the highest standards," Alvin?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">While prosecuting the former president of the United States as the "real" criminal?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the sort of garbage one sees in places like Venezuela, where only the dissidents get hit by the long arm of the law, and criminals are allowed to roam free to ensure few public gatherings and protests.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe Bragg should start answering questions about his "highest standards" friend of his in the picture, maybe through congressional hearings. Bragg sounds like he has potential conflicts of interest here -- and if so, that suggests that actual criminals may be among the people going after Trump. Let's hear Bragg explain this association.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveONE_TV/status/1765818206743035971" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Twitter screen shot</a></span></em></p></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><br /></em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?</span><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 48px;">Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 48px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.</span></i></b><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;">WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE</span></i></b><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14929.html</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Heather Mac Donald</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Public safety</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">The Social Order</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">As for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">and whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">whites, while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">https://www.city-journal.org/jazmine-barnes-murder?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=acbb7c6b94-</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Anti-cop activist Shaun King says that his involvement in the campaign around the Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by reports that a white man had killed the seven-year-old girl, who was gunned down in Houston on December 30. According to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old sister, the white driver of a pickup truck had pulled up next to the family’s car before opening fire. The accusation set off a frenzy of hate-crime allegations and blanket coverage by the New York Times. King offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who located the suspect. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">As it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was killed by two black men, who opened fire on her mother’s car because they thought that they were targeting enemies of their gang. King passed along a tip about the real killers to the Houston police, and now says that he merely “internalized the pain of the family and tried to search as if it were my own child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had nothing to do with his activism. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">It’s worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">A sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis, as Black Lives Matter protesters were converging on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department to demand the resignation of the entire department. In August 2015, a nine-year-old girl was killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in Ferguson while doing her homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives Matter rioting thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015 Fourth of July weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September 2015, leading the black police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community only protests shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November 2015, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father’s gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All told, ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015; twelve victims were between the age of ten and seventeen. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">In 2016, a three-year-old girl in Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by shooting. In Chicago in 2016, two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot in drive-bys, including a three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016 who is now paralyzed for life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his pancreas, intestines, kidney, and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old was shot to death by a passing car last June. In September, three men killed three-year-old Azalya Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before Christmas in Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home from the candy store in a drive-by shooting.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Why did King let these shootings of black children go by without responding as he did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could it be because the perpetrators were black? You could end all white shootings of black children tomorrow and it would have zero effect on the death rate of black children by homicide, because such white-on-black shootings are extremely rare. Moral abominations, like the 2015 Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof, are aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic fringe of American society. The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage was immediate and universal, resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate flag, embraced by Roof as a white supremacist symbol, from official sites. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence against “black bodies” are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;">Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="\0022arial\0022" style="color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Walter Williams tackles the elephant in the room on crime</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/john_dale_dunn/"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">John Dale Dunn</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the years. This past week, I saw and read his </span><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/09/04/criminologists-mislead-us-n2552448"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">essay</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going was the </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/what-criminologists-dont-say-and-why-15328.html"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">article</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and Why."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end of one's professional career." </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior — chronicled in detail by many, particularly </span><a href="https://www.colinflaherty.com/"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Colin Flaherty</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">, whose investigative reports appear </span><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/colin_flaherty/"><u><span class="15" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="color: blue; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">frequently</span></u></a><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported, mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists, commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash mob violence against people and property.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, </span></b><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists' claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say, "What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their neighbors."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the black community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated yesteryear."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><i><span class="18" face=""\"times new roman\""" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is an emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney, policy and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC and the Heartland Institute of Chicago.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;">CITY JOURNAL</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; text-transform: uppercase;">BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24pt;">Data,</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/hard-data-hollow-protests-15458.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.city-journal.org/html/hard-data-hollow-protests-15458.html</span></u></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">of crime and policing than this weekend’s demonstrations suggest.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/heather-mac-donald_122"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Heather Mac Donald</span></a><span style="color: #b5b5b5; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #b5b5b5; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">The </span><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2016-crime-statistics"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">FBI released</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">according</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> to the</span><i> Washington Post</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">. The </span><i>Post</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/ferguson-effect-lives-14919.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Ferguson Effect</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 </span><span class="19" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; line-height: 33.3333px; text-transform: uppercase;">AM</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research </span><a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/01/11/police-fatal-encounters-and-ensuing-protests/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">poll</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 40px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">Four studies came out in 2016 alone </span><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-lies-matter/article/2600164"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00afcf; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;">rebutting</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"> the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes. The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 45px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="29" style="border-top: 1pt solid rgb(0, 175, 207); line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 15.0000pt; margin-right: 15.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 15pt; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt solid rgb(0,175,207); padding: 15pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of </i><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;">City Journal.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">*</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;">Study: ‘Family Structure’ a Major Factor in Racial Disparities in School Conduct and Suspensions</span></b><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/23/study-family-structure-a-major-factor-in-racial-disparities-in-school-conduct-and-suspensions/"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/23/study-family-structure-a-major-factor-in-racial-disparities-in-school-conduct-and-suspensions/</span></u></a><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="468" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps2.png" width="624" /><span class="21" style="font-family: inherit;">Stock/Getty Images</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 5.25pt; mso-border-right-alt: 0.7500pt dotted rgb(153,153,153); padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/dr-susan-berry/" title="Posts by Dr. Susan Berry"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; text-transform: uppercase;">DR. SUSAN BERRY</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">23 Nov 2019</span><b><span class="22" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 7.5pt;">2,338</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="24" style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">8:15</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study, </span><a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-black-white-divide-in-suspensions-what-is-the-role-of-family"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">conducted</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by senior fellows Nicholas Zill and W. Bradford Wilcox at the Institute for Family Studies, asserts education policymakers “must recognize that social and psychological problems in youth may manifest themselves at school but have their origins in family situations over which the school has little or no control.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="48" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps3.png" width="48" /><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span class="25" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt;">Brad Wilcox</span></u></b><u><span class="16" style="color: #697882; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">@WilcoxNMP</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/1196772301905248256"><u><span class="15" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="31" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NEW: On Black-White divide in school suspensions</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">-More than 50% of gap explained by Family Structure</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">-White children in non-intact families *more likely to be suspended* than black children in intact families</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><a href="https://t.co/G60srWHg1H" title="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-black-white-divide-in-suspensions-what-is-the-role-of-family"><u><span class="23" style="color: #2b7bb9; 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margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The authors find in their new analysis of the National Household Education Survey (NHES) that, in 2016, about 24 percent of black elementary and high school students had been suspended at least once, while eight percent of white students and only four percent of Asian students had the same experience.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="475" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps5.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The researchers note the NHES shows “black students are far more likely to be living apart from their married birth parents in the home (72%) compared to white students (37%) or Asian students (26%).”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="460" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps6.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These family structure differences, then, are likely to play a role in inter- and intra-racial disparities in student conduct and discipline,” the authors state, and add:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Indeed, among black students who do live with both married birth parents, suspension rates are less than half as large as those for black students living in other family types: 12% versus 28%. The suspension rate for black students living in intact families, 12%, is also less than the suspension rate for white students from non-intact families, 13%.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="455" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps7.jpg" width="624" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study also found that family structure even accounts for more of the racial disparities in school suspensions than socioeconomic factors.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When the researchers controlled for family structure, they discovered the racial disparities in school suspensions reduced by 55 percent. Controlling for socioeconomic status reduced the racial differences by only 38 percent.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These results, then, suggest that family structure is a signal factor in accounting for real differences in school conduct and school suspensions,” the authors state. “This is especially noteworthy because discussions related to racial disparities in school discipline often overlook the role of family structure and highlight socioeconomic explanations.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Zill and Wilcox assert that, while examples of racism exist, “there are legitimate reasons for believing that some of the racial differences in school suspensions and discipline are based upon real, not just perceived, differences in students’ behavior”:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We focus here on the possibility that some of these differences are related to family factors, including notable differences in family structure by race. Students who come from chaotic homes, single-parent families, or non-intact families are less likely to get the consistent attention, affection, and discipline they need to flourish and develop self-control. Their families typically have less money, which affects the quality of their neighborhoods and their neighborhood peers, which is also an important influence on school conduct. And they are also more likely to be exposed to conflict, stress, frequent moves, and neglect—all risk factors for delinquent and disruptive behavior. Indeed, our data indicate that rates of school contact for student misbehavior are nearly twice as high among students living with separated or divorced parents as among those living with stably married parents. And they are higher still among students who live apart from both biological parents, being cared for instead by grandparents or foster parents.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The researchers say that, in order to see a drop in school suspensions among black children and adolescents, black family life must be stabilized and reinforced:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Such efforts should include criminal justice reform, ending marriage penalties in means-tested policies, subsidizing the wages of low-income workers, and launching local and national campaigns directed by black religious, civic, and cultural leaders to strengthen marriage in the black community. Efforts like these are needed because, our research suggests, increasing the number of African American children who are raised by stably married parents would dramatically increase the odds that black girls and boys steer clear of the principal’s office—and increase the odds they flourish in school, avoid contact with the criminal justice system, and, later in life, excel in the labor force further down the road.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“[S]tronger black families would go a long way towards reducing racial disparities in school discipline,” Zill and Wilcox assert.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The study comes as Obama-era holdovers and other progressives continue the narrative that racial disparities in school suspensions and discipline are due to systemic factors such as institutional racism.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Obama Departments of Education and Justice, under Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/18/obama-administrations-race-based-discipline-policies-increase-school-violence/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">issued</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> public school guidelines that claimed students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said led to a “school-to-prison pipeline” that discriminates against minority and low-income students.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The policy, however, essentially blamed systemic racism for the fact that black and other minority students have been punished and suspended more than white and Asian students. Recommended remedies for the problem included eliminating suspensions for unacceptable behavior by minority students and urging, instead, their participation in “restorative talking circles” and “positive behavior interventions.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In December 2018, the Trump administration revoked the Obama-era policy that urged public schools to employ these more lenient forms of discipline for students of color and of other minority groups.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/acting-attorney-general-whitaker-rescinds-69-guidance-documents"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">rescinded</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the Obama administration’s 2014 “Dear Colleague Letter” that a federal school safety commission </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/19/safety-commission-recommends-scrapping-obama-race-based-school-discipline-policy/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">said</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> “may have paradoxically contributed to making schools less safe.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The outcry from parents, teachers, some media outlets, and many education analysts and stakeholders has been piercing, with most pointing to the rise in “dangerousness” in public schools.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Nevertheless, in July, Democrat members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission urged the White House and Congress to continue the Obama-era race-based discipline policy.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The commission’s </span><a href="https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2019/07-23-Beyond-Suspensions.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">report</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, titled “Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities,” stated, “[D]ata have consistently shown that the overrepresentation of students of color in school discipline rates is not due to higher rates of misbehavior by these students, but instead is driven by structural and systemic factors.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The commission’s report was released as the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/26/report-serious-violence-on-rise-in-nations-public-schools/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">issued</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> its analysis indicating a rise in serious incidents of violence in the nation’s public schools:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="48" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml14564/wps8.png" width="48" /><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdNCES"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span class="25" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">NCES</span></u></b><span class="27" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span class="23" style="color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 18pt;">✔</span></u><u><span class="16" style="color: #697882; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">@EdNCES</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdNCES/status/1154414006901334016"><u><span class="15" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="31" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">NEW FINDING: During SY 2017–18, an estimated 962,300 violent incidents occurred in U.S. public schools nationwide.</span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How did this compare w/ nonviolent incidents? Find more </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EdStats?src=hash"><u><span class="26" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">#</span></u><u><span class="17" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">EdStats</span></u></a><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> from the 2017–18 School Survey on Crime and Safety (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSOCS?src=hash"><u><span class="26" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">#</span></u><u><span class="17" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">SSOCS</span></u></a><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">): </span><a href="https://t.co/GZPJmq9x1q" title="https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2019061"><u><span class="23" style="color: #2b7bb9; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdNCES" title="View NCES's profile on Twitter"><u><span class="15" style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="color: #2b7bb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">See NCES's other Tweets</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even a Democrat state lawmaker — New York State Sen. Leroy Comrie — and Teamsters President Gregory Floyd, who represents school safety officers — </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/08/democrat-lawmaker-teamster-president-chaos-schools-since-obama-era-discipline-policy-no-accountability-dangerous-behavior/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">referred</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to the Obama-era policy as one that has led to “chaos” and a lack of “accountability” for dangerous behavior.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Two members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission — Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot — dissented from the commission’s majority report.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow </span><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/racial-disparities-and-school-discipline/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">wrote </span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">at </span><i><span class="18" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">National Review</span></i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the report is “essentially a defense of the Obama Department of Education’s 2014 ‘Dear Colleague’ letter that used disparate-impact theory to interpret racial disparities in school discipline as evidence of racial discrimination.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To progressives, “any racial disparity necessarily means invidious racial discrimination,” Kirsanow asserted, adding:</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It’s undisputed that black students, as a group, are disciplined more than white students. For the commission majority, this is evidence of racially disparate treatment, as it’s an article of faith that discipline disparities aren’t due to disparities in behavior.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow observed the commission’s report ignored key statistics in order to craft its narrative of racial discrimination against students of color.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He pointed to his colleague Heriot’s </span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3424334"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt;">statement</span></u></a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in which she said, “In the report, the Commission finds ‘Students of color as a whole, as well as by individual racial group, do not commit more disciplinable offenses than their white peers.’”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“That would be a good thing if it were true, but there is no evidence to support it and abundant evidence to the contrary,” she asserted, adding that what accounts for differing rates of misbehavior among students of color “likely” includes “differing rates of poverty, differing rates of fatherless households, differing parental education, differing achievement in school, and histories of policy failures and injustices.”</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Kirsanow called for those truly concerned about improving education in the United States to “disregard” the report released by the majority of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Claiming that racism or dislike of children with disabilities accounts for disparate rates of discipline only stokes resentment and erodes personal responsibility,” he asserted. “The supposed cures of ‘restorative practices’ and ‘positive behavioral interventions and supports’ only make it more likely that children in minority neighborhoods who want to learn will be less able to do so, and that teachers and children will be at the mercy of school bullies.”</span><span style="color: #111111; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police officers in Chicago believed they had interrupted a man sexually assaulting a woman on Monday, when the suspect made a chilling claim.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident happened when officers were called to the scene of a sexual assault in progress on South Chappel just before 9:00 p.m., CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/i-wasnt-trying-to-rape-her-i-was-trying-to-kill-her-assailant-tells-chicago-cops-who-interrupted-violent-attack.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Friday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities reportedly found a woman, age 24, who was being attacked and who had also been sexually assaulted. Responding officers quickly detained the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Keenan Jackson.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/cwbchicago/status/1766080928718418232?s=46&t=wgtm_wPvunvfccDBvnX7gQ" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the man involved in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1766080928718418232" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1766080928718418232&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fchicago-police-man-says-wasnt-trying-rape-her-trying-kill-her-when-officers-stop-attack%2F&sessionId=533444ac5a732187c916edec885a8ccddb6fc938&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 760px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect reportedly told law enforcement officials, “I wasn’t trying to rape her, I was trying to kill her,” adding, “I will get out of jail and find that b**ch and kill her.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report said when Jackson was found, allegedly on top of the victim, officials noticed his pants had been pulled down and the woman’s lower clothing had been shredded.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect is accused of hitting her over and over in the head and face. She was eventually listed in critical condition at a hospital. The suspect claimed the woman took his money to buy drugs and that is why he attacked her.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Chicago Mayor on Increase in Most Violent Crime: “Reparations” Money Will Help:</span></span></p><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/2fF4PJw6-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A criminal complaint levied against the suspect said it was determined the victim suffered a fractured nasal bone, facial hematoma, and a laceration of her oral cavity.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Officials did not charge Jackson with sexual assault but charged him with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. The CWB Chicago report noted in conclusion that “Judge Charles Beach detained Jackson as a safety threat.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news comes as Chicago suffers under rampant crime.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Approximately 21 individuals were shot and four died over the weekend period of February 23 through 25 in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/02/27/at-least-21-shot-during-weekend-in-mayor-brandon-johnsons-chicago-2/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> February 27.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that she would deploy state law enforcement to the Big Apple subway network, as well as “teams of mental health workers,” to “help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe,” <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according</a> to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em>.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> reports:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additional law enforcement officers would add to an already large presence in the subways, where Mayor Eric Adams ordered an additional 1,000 officers in February following a 45 percent spike in major crimes in January compared with the same time last year.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grand larcenies — thefts without the use of force — were a main driver of the January spike in crime, according to the police. Grand larcenies are defined by the police as major crimes, along with homicides, assaults and robberies.</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hochul is sending 1,000 members of State Police, National Guard, and MTA cops, ostensibly to conduct “bag checks.” It is unclear how that plan will be executed on the service that sees upward of three million riders per day.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul said Wednesday. “No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon.”</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) was not present at Hochul’s announcement.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Subway crime rates surged in the first two months of this year — spiking by nearly 20% compared to this time last year, NYPD stats show. This year alone, three New Yorkers have been shot dead on trains and subway platforms,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/gov-hochul-to-deploy-1000-national-guardsman-state-cops-to-carry-out-bag-checks-in-nyc-subways/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In addition to the patrol boost, Hochul said she will introduce a new law that allows judges to ban anyone who has been convicted of a violent transit assault from riding the Big Apple’s subway or bus system,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> wrote.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hochul did not get into details about how this part of her “plan” would be enforced — especially given the skyrocketing rates of turnstile hoppers, which <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/mta-reveals-farebeating-cost-690m-last-year-as-it-rolls-out-plan-to-cut-losses/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cost</a> the subway system $690 million in unpaid fares in 2022 — other than installing cameras in conductors’ booths and having the NYPD and district attorneys “create a new early warning system” for subway recidivists.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The deployment is part of what Ms. Hochul described as a five-point plan, which would provide $20 million and pay for 10 teams of mental health workers who would help people on the subway,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</em> additionally reported.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felony assaults on New Yorkers are continuing to rise across New York City, specifically in the borough of Manhattan, as Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/04/violent-assaults-across-nyc-surge-as-officials-exhaust-resources-on-trump/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>In 2022, violent crime in New York City rose <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2022.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">23 percent,</a> with more than 126,500 arrests made for murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, felony assault, rape, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto — the seven major crime categories.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Felony assaults, often <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/suspect-in-violent-unprovoked-attack-in-the-bronx-back-in-custody-after-being-released-without-bail/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">random attacks</a> on New Yorkers by <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/12/10/new-york-city-man-accused-of-baseball-bat-attack-released-on-bail/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">career criminals</a> with extensive rap sheets, totaled more than 26,000 last year. This represents a 60 percent increase from 2008, when felony assaults were at a significant low.</b></span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even compared to recent prior years, felony assaults in 2022 were way up.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">For example, felony assaults rose 14 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, 27 percent compared to 2020, 26 percent compared to 2019, 29 percent compared to 2018, and 30 percent compared to 2017.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last year’s surge in felony assaults on New Yorkers is now continuing this year (2023).</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The announcement also comes as New York maintains its “bail reform law,” which allows perps to be released with no bail.</span></p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/05/of-nyc-violent-crime-suspects-freed-without-bail-go-on-to-commit-more-crimes/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> the effect of this law has been perps being more likely to reoffend than they were before the edict came into effect:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Felony suspects released without bail thanks to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested for more felonies, including violent crimes, than suspects who were given bail before the law went into effect.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In all three categories, felonies, violent crimes, and firearm charges, felony suspects had a higher rate of rearrest after they were released without bail than those who were arrested and required to post bail before the new law went into effect.</span></p></blockquote><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayor Adams <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1765453947441992132" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">posted</a> on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday, that “Murders are DOWN. 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:38</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A young Alabama mother was allegedly abducted before being tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed by a group of eight suspects in a horrific attack recorded by the perpetrators.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Videos obtained by the Birmingham Police Department show Mahogany Jackson, 20, being beaten and forced to perform sex acts at gunpoint, Detective Mark Green testified in court Monday. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mother of one arrived at the home of one of the suspects, 24-year-old Brandon Pope, to hang out with friends on February 25, WBRC </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wbrc.com/2024/03/05/mahogany-jackson-suspects-court-denied-bond-horrific-barbaric-acts/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. However, she was allegedly being set up to be raped and murdered.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Green said the first video shows Jackson naked outside, with 25-year-old Teja Lewis beating her and 23-year-old Si’nya McCall kicking her. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After that, McCall can allegedly be heard directing the others to “put her in the trunk.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jackson was reportedly able to contact her mother, Gail Maddox, around 8:00 a.m., writing, “Send the police apt 3 held hostage don’t call.” She also sent her location to her sister, Maddox posted on Facebook.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police believe the suspects transported Jackson to Lewis and McCall’s apartment, where more violent acts were allegedly recorded.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Birmingham investigators say Jackson was handcuffed and continually assaulted by the group, including being spat on, slapped, and pistol-whipped.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Detective Green, videos of the young mom being forced to perform sex acts were even posted on social media. In the footage, the suspects can allegedly be heard telling Jackson that she’s about to die. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jackson’s body was found at an illegal dumping site the next day with a gunshot wound to the back of her head, WBRC reported. One attorney described the location as “dead man road.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prosecutors have charged Giovonnie Clapp, 23, and Blair Green, 25, with felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree sodomy.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">McCall got hit with felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree sodomy while Lewis was charged with felony murder.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah McDowell, 18, Francis Harris, 25, and Pope were all charged with capital murder during a first-degree kidnapping, as well as capital murder during first-degree sodomy.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ariana Lashay Robinson, 23, was the last suspect to be </span><a class="x5l" href="https://police.birminghamal.gov/media-release-39-eighth-arrest-made-in-the-mahogany-jackson-homicide-investigation/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">caught</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the Birmingham police, nine days after Jackson’s body was found. She was also charged with felony murder and kidnapping.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police Chief Scott Thurmond said the alleged actions of the group were some of the worst he’d seen in his career.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The actions displayed by these defendants were barbaric and have no place in society,’’ said Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr. “The senseless and inhumane treatment perpetuated on young Mahogany Jackson was very disturbing and violent.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Heartbroken mom Gail Maddox has pleaded with the public to stop sharing videos of her daughter’s violent torture.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“THAT’S MY CHILD PLEASE STOP I CAN’T TAKE IT,’’ she </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/gail.maddox.52/posts/pfbid02Rh4WwKgGhg2JcdCkwAPRVowkJdAkbduBFQdDUM8zBcBWxTXPJR1nnDfHJnLFi4Aml" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wrote</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Facebook.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What am I going to tell my granddaughter when she asks for her mother,” she posted, alongside a photo of Jackson’s little girl.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackson’s sister, Jazmyne Maddox, also shared her pain on social media.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Y’all took my fucking sister from us man she ain’t deserve this shit,” she wrote the day her body was found.</span></p><br /></div><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"></footer><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">USAGM senior official suspended for calling white people 'snow roaches'</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monicashowalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the Biden administration, anything goes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So look who's out there representing the actual voice of the United States before international audiences in the agency known as U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees outlets like the Voice of America:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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I learn something new every day.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1763541705985290641" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1763541705985290641&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F03%2Fusagm_senior_official_suspended_for_calling_whites_snow_roaches.html&sessionId=8773975f63dcce47ddacf7797b2ed10ff9d9a5b2&siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 719px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And if whites are 'snow roaches' in this hater's humanity-loving universe, what is he? A rain roach? A tornado roach? A mudslide roach? This could go on all day.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bottom line here is that this is a freak who hates more than half the country and whose positioning near the top of the leadership of the U.S.'s flagship international communications operation, its voice and public relations arm, is very much an insult in itself to the country. and an international embarrassment.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Imagine seeing the same kind of scandal in China if a Uyghur official representing China were to make such remarks about the country's Han Chinese? If it happened, that guy would be in the laogai. Rest assured, the Chicoms are laughing up their sleeves at this kind of loathing from a top official of the nation and people he represents, including the taxpayers who pay his salary.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to National Review, the public outcry did get him <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-s-agency-for-global-media-suspends-official-after-claim-he-called-white-people-snow-roaches/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">suspended, though</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The federal agency that oversees <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/voice-of-america-staffers-posted-anti-israel-content-to-facebook/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Voice of America</a> and other U.S.-funded international media outlets suspended a member of its executive team following <a data-testid="dynamic-link" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-s-global-media-agency-investigates-claim-that-official-called-white-people-snow-roaches/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">allegations</a> that he referred to white people as “snow roaches” in several social-media posts.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. Agency for Global Media told National Review that the executive had been placed on paid administrative leave today, pursuant to federal law. It did not specify the legal requirements with which it was complying.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The claims against the official in question, USAGM chief information officer and IT director James Reeves, one of the agency’s top officials, initially surfaced on a right-wing page on X called “End Wokeness.” It posted screenshots from a social-media account whose owner repeatedly used the phrase “snow roaches” in its posts: “Last I checked it’s the snow roaches that are mad about immigrants,” this person had written in February.</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">...which means, he'll be back, and the statement didn't say whether it was a paid or unpaid suspension. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to openpayrolls.com, he makes a pretty penny indeed from that position:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) records show James L Reeves held one job from 2019 to 2022. One of the most recent records in 2022 lists a job of Information Technology Management and a pay of $183,456. This is 102.7 percent higher than the average pay for co-workers and 164.5 percent higher than the national average for government employees.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But with that temperament, does it sound like he could get hired anywhere? Who the heck hired this rabid hater who couldn't stop fighting with some stranger on Twitter, and kept on and on with his hate-speech, quite possibly on company time? Is that all he does all day? Because if he has time for that kind of nonsense, spewing hate for huge parts of the country, maybe he belongs somewhere else.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This freak is just the latest in a series of questional characters burrowing their way into the government and then spewing out their contempt for the taxpayers and citizens. We had <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/meet-sam-brinton-non-binary-biden-official-arrested-over-stolen-suitcase/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sam Brinton</a> regulating nuclear waste at the Department of Energy. We still have Amy McFadden over at the CIA. The list is enormous and plenty of these people never get ousted for moral turpitude or zero professionalism as they should be.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The USAGM is a troubled agency that was plagued with Obama-era holdouts who refused to leave office during President Trump's term. Now we find out just what they're like as they spew racism on Twitter. Can someone get us a professional over there or is that the way Joe Biden likes things?</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1763541705985290641" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Screen shot from Twitter</a></em></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> </p><p><b style="text-align: center;">DOES ANYONE HAVE THE NUMBERS ON HOW MANY STORES WERE LOOTED ACROSS AMERICA THIS PAST WEEK?</b></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"></b></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 19 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14487910/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> one of the weekend’s fatal shootings a 17-year-old boy who was shot in a parking lot in the “500-block of West Roosevelt Road near Canal Street” Saturday night.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 17-year-old was <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-teen-killed-shot-south-loop/14487744/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">identified</a> as Jeremy Smith. The Chicago PD <a class="x5l" href="https://home.chicagopolice.org/media_notification_types/person-shot/page/2/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that Smith was shot in the chest and neck.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 15-year-old was shot as well but is expected to survive.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 22-year-old man was <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14487910/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shot and killed</a> while sitting inside a vehicle at a stop sign Saturday night.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He was in a vehicle in “the 2500-block of South Trumbell Avenue in Little Village” when someone got out of a sedan and opened fire, shooting him in the head.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The man died shortly thereafter at Mt. Sinai hospital.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sixty-five people have been killed in Chicago thus far in 2024, <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to</a> the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former Missouri middle school principal pleaded guilty to charges related to a murder-for-hire plot he orchestrated against a woman, with whom he was having an affair, after she became pregnant.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cornelius Green, the married principal of Carr Lane Visual Performing Arts School in St. Louis, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13151511/Missouri-principal-murder-hire-plot-hitman-pregnant.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">admitted</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to paying a friend $2,500 to kill Jocelyn Peters and “their unborn child,” reports the Daily Mail. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Peters, a 30-year-old teacher at the nearby Mann Elementary school, was 27 weeks along in her pregnancy when Green’s childhood friend, Phillip Cutler, allegedly entered her apartment with keys provided by Green and shot her in the head on March 24, 2016.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Court documents viewed by First Alert 4 say Green was </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">romantically </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/02/29/former-st-louis-principal-pleads-guilty-murder-hire-teacher-unborn-babys-death/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">involved</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with multiple other women as well.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later that day, Green “went to Peters’ apartment and called 911 to report she was shot,” the local outlet reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The former principal’s plea agreement states that Green also admitted that the $2,500 he paid Cutler was stolen from his school. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Green expects to be sentenced to life in prison for murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire,” </span><i>People </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://people.com/married-principal-got-teacher-pregnant-paid-to-have-her-killed-8603012" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. “If he is sentenced to life, state prosecutors will drop murder charges against him, for which he could have faced the death penalty.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cutler was also charged for his involvement, with his trial to begin on March 11.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Soon after Peters was discovered dead, Mann Elementary School principal Nicole Conaway dedicated a memorial garden in the teacher’s honor.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“She was someone who cared deeply about children, not only about their learning, but about who they were in making them into better people,” Conaway </span><a class="x5l" href="https://fox2now.com/news/murdered-teacher-remembered-as-champion-of-children-with-memorial-garden/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fox 2 Now at the time. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A suspect with a criminal history was caught Wednesday after being accused of attacking a cellist playing in the New York City subway.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the 23 year old suspect <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/woman-23-arrested-for-attacking-nyc-cello-player-in-subway-station-after-weeks-on-the-lam/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">identified</a> as Amira Hunter was freed on Thursday, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> reported.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1763531355487359429" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1763531355487359429&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F03%2F01%2Fnyc-woman-nabbed-after-attack-on-subway-cellist-is-released-without-bail%2F&sessionId=97e996882e0b22e8c069ff256ea6ff45af3c1dd2&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; 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Forrest in the head with a bottle as he played his cello at the Union Square station. Due to the incident, Forrest <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/16/watch-nyc-subway-cellist-clobbered-random-attack-suspect-still-large/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suspended</a> his performances “indefinitely,” according to Breitbart News.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IainSForrest/status/1757901533549600875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1757901533549600875%7Ctwgr%5Eda255c049414615d1e0c27cbc9ae1ee5bd32f99a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F16%2Fwatch-nyc-subway-cellist-clobbered-random-attack-suspect-still-large%2F" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 848px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In regard to the suspect, the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article said “At her arraignment Thursday on second-degree assault charges, Manhattan prosecutors argued for $15,000 cash bail or $45,000 bond, noting that Hunter has failed to appear at three of her five court dates in other criminal cases last year.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prosecutor Alexandra Robertson explained to Judge Marva Brown that it was not likely the suspect would come back to court of her own volition.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the young woman had a bench warrant out for her arrest in a pair of cases linked to petit larceny.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Her last arrest was in October on grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing two bathing suits worth $2,050 from Bergdorf Goodman, sources said,” the outlet continued, noting law enforcement reportedly previously arrested her two times for assaulting her mother.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, Brown cut Hunter loose on supervised release. The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> noted the decision came even after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office wanted the suspect jailed.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS New York <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47WiyvyfR6E" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> February 23 that crime in the city’s transit system had risen 18 percent this year compared to 2023:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/47WiyvyfR6E?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Crime in NYC transit up 18% so far this year compared to last year" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Per the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the cellist is part of the MTA’s Music Under New York program. In addition, he helped create the coalition dubbed Subway Performers Advocacy Group that pushes for more security around musicians.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social media users shared their thoughts on the <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/flygriz/status/1763544185179685136" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “You get what you vote for.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“NYC is practically lawless now. It is as if it were competing with SF or Chicago to see how bad things can get,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CleavageCrumbs/status/1763533414492160281" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">ALL ACROSS AMERICA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ARE BOUGHT AND OWNED BY OBAMA GODFATHER GEORGE SOROS. THEIR POLICY IS TO MAKE SURE CRIMINALS ARE BACK OUT ON THE STREET ASAP TO WRECK MORE DAMAGE. WHEN SOROS HAS NEARLY DESTROYED AMERICA'S CITIES FROM CRIME, PEOPLE WILL HOWL TO HAVE SOROS' BOY OBAMA RESTORED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO SAVE US. GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!</span></p><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d;">VIDEO: Macy’s to Shutter 150 Stores Across U.S. in Massive Reorganization</span></h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/02/27/video-macys-shutter-150-stores-u-s-massive-reorganization/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 38px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Macy’s said Tuesday it is planning to close about 150 stores across the nation to reorganize and refocus its business.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The company <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/macys-closing-150-stores-nationwide-where-what-cities-rcna140663" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explained</a> the initiative will close down “underproductive” stores to put more emphasis on luxury sales, NBC News reported.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The closures will leave approximately 350 Macy’s locations, as well as Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury beauty and skincare stores,” the outlet said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is those latter brands that the company sees as its future: It said it plans to take advantage of its leadership position in the luxury market, where it said Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury have been ‘outperformers’ within the Macy’s portfolio,” the report continued.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the coming three years, the company’s leadership plans to build out 15 Bloomingdale’s locations, 30 Bluemercury stores, and remodel 30 Bluemercury locations.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news comes about a month after Macy’s said it was <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-_cp9IOKE" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">planning</a> to slash 2,350 jobs and shut down five stores:</span></p><figure class="F-ci-w" id="bbd_incontent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; background: url("/t/assets/i/forms/in-content/bbd/in-content-bg@2x.jpg") center top / contain no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; width: 282.41px;"><br /></label></form></figure><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MW-_cp9IOKE?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Macy's cutting 3.5% of its workforce" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Per the recent NBC News article, “Macy’s has been under pressure from investor activists seeking an outright sale of the company due to its decade-long underperformance, with Macy’s real estate considered its most valuable asset,” the outlet said, adding the company has refused a takeover offer.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Macy’s is the biggest department store chain in America, KTVU <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngApix8mgE" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Tuesday, noting the locations of the 150 stores that are set to close have not yet been revealed.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>In September, high-end stores in the Beverly Hills area of California reportedly began <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/06/beverly-hills-high-end-retail-stores-shuttered-amid-smash-and-grab-epidemic/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">closing</a> because of rampant smash-and-grab robberies.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Earlier in 2023, Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/17/walmart-target-other-retailers-shutter-stores-due-to-overwhelming-thefts/" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> that Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and other major stores were closing some of their locations across America due to a rise in thefts.</b></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; 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California has seen 35 retail outlets close while New York closed 23 and Illinois closed 18. Florida also closed 21 stores.”</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND FUKED SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!</span></p><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">WATCH: Chicago Jewelry Store Employee Opens Fire on Alleged Robber</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="69" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/02/26/watch-chicago-jewelry-store-employee-opens-fire-on-alleged-robber/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Chicago jewelry store employee with a concealed carry permit opened fire on an alleged robber just before 11 a.m. Saturday morning, striking him with at least two bullets.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CWChicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/chicago-smash-and-grab-shooting-charges-considered.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the alleged 27-year-old robber walked to a jewelry case near the store’s front door and allegedly swung at it, in order to smash the glass. As this was happening, “a man behind the counter draws a pistol, racks the slide, and fires as the [alleged] thief appears to be turning toward the door.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The alleged robber then falls out of the door, but quickly reaches back inside to pick up something that he dropped. He then ran to the “L” platform, suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen and one to the buttocks.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1761786563250307567" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1761786563250307567&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F2nd-amendment%2F2024%2F02%2F26%2Fwatch-chicago-jewelry-store-employee-opens-fire-on-alleged-robber%2F&sessionId=03d5d74ca543d27bf8ff347ac1a7a199af3bf67b&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 648px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The alleged robber was released from custody Sunday but CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/thief-shot-by-ccl-holder-chicago-loop/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> charges “are pending.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christine lives near the jewelry story and she told CBS News, “I think to throw all the responsibility on the business owners or the residences is really not the right way to go.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">She added, “The crime is just escalating, and it’s getting worse and worse. We had kids killed a few weeks ago. Now this armed robbery, it’s a shame.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">breitbart.com/downrange</a>. 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Mississippi police officer was arrested by her own chief after allegedly attempting to walk out of a sporting goods store with stolen shoes on her feet.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robin Conner, 33, had served with the Columbus Police Department for two years when she was </span><a class="x5l" href="https://cdispatch.com/news/officer-arrested-at-dicks-for-shoplifting-kicks/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">busted</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Wednesday at a Dick’s Sporting Goods for allegedly trying to steal a $140 pair of tennis shoes, Chief Joseph Daughtry told the </span><i>Columbus Dispatch</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not only was Conner on duty when the incident occurred — she was in uniform. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When a Dick’s employee stopped Conner from leaving and called 911 to report a uniformed officer trying to shoplift, dispatchers called a supervisor at Conner’s own precinct.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Myself, the assistant chief, and the captain over patrol all responded,” Daughtry said. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conner was taken into custody in her own squad car, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wtva.com/news/local/city-of-columbus-fires-officer-arrested-for-shoplifting/article_7dbef6c6-d1ad-11ee-84fa-4759caeb9d74.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> WTVA.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We’re putting her in jail,” said the chief. “It’s embarrassing for the department, but we’re going to treat her like we would anybody else.”</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The disgraced cop was first placed on administrative leave but was soon fired when the Columbus city council unanimously voted to remove her on Thursday.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conner has been </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wcbi.com/columbus-police-officer-arrested-for-allegedly-shoplifting-on-duty/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">charged</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with misdemeanor shoplifting for stealing goods worth less than $1,000 and was given an $862 surety bond, WCBI reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We have a job to do, and we’re held to a higher standard. And the community is just starting to trust us, and to take this gut punch really hurts. That’s why we fulfilled our obligation, not only to the store but to the community,” said Daughtry.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conner happily commemorated “National Law Enforcement Day” in January with several smiling photos in uniform:</span></span></p><div class="fb-post" data-con-need="1" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wMScAf4ZZEXCqHT5epRRw5hFPLX1cPmPxiCHQsGJU3hRMrfT5dxvWPui5LE7T7avl&id=100084008086185" data-width="640" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote cite="https://graph.facebook.com/100084008086185/posts/343900875086846/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tuesday, January 9, 2024</a></p></blockquote></div></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">NYC Officials Indict Woman for ‘Intentionally’ Ramming Policeman with Car</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/24/nyc-officials-indict-woman-for-intentionally-ramming-policeman-with-car/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A woman has been indicted after being accused of intentionally hitting a policeman with her car in New York City on January 17, breaking his leg.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a press release Friday, Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. (D) <a class="x5l" href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-indictment-of-sahara-dula-for-intentionally-hitting-nypd-officer-with-car/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">announced</a> the indictment against 24-year-old Sahara Dula, who was reportedly high on marijuana when the incident happened.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The suspect was charged with one count of attempted assault in the first degree, one count of attempted aggravated assault upon a police officer, two counts of assault in the second degree, one count of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs, and a single count of reckless driving.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dula is accused of driving her black Lexus northbound in the southbound lanes on Park Avenue for several blocks, the DA’s office said:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She swerved in and out of traffic and changed speeds until she reached East 71st Street, where she paused in the middle of the intersection while she was blocked by traffic.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A police officer in the area approached DULA’s vehicle on foot to direct her into the proper lane of traffic. Instead of complying, DULA accelerated and hit him with her vehicle, causing him to roll up onto the hood of the car and fall to the ground. She was eventually arrested by another police officer in the area.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When investigators spoke with Dula after the incident, she reportedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/01/20/video-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told</a> them she hit the officer on purpose, according to Breitbart News, which also noted that she is a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“F–k these cops! He wouldn’t move!” she allegedly said at the time of the incident. The woman then reportedly stated, “F–k these cops; it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully, he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/OSiiNT/status/1748203298195202555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1748203298195202555%7Ctwgr%5Ecfee12af68bd4404ba46999d0696160ed0e7f9cb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> what happened:</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officials said the officer involved has not been able to return to his job due to the pain he continues to endure.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The number of police officers in Democrat-run New York City <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/18/nypd-officer-injuries-skyrocket-migrants-pour-city/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">injured</a> during incidents with alleged criminals has increased in recent years, Breitbart News reported Sunday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2023, 5,363 officers were hurt during their shifts.</span></p></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities Arrest 2 Attackers Who Broke into SUV of Biden’s Granddaughter</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/23/authorities-arrest-2-attackers-who-broke-into-suv-bidens-granddaughter/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0px; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="suspect Robert Kemp" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/suspect-Robert-Kemp-640x480.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Superior Court of the District of Columbia</cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities arrested two of the three alleged attackers who broke into a Secret Service SUV of President Joe Biden’s granddaughter, according to authorities and court documents.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The arrests represent seemingly rare cases in which authorities arrested suspects accused of crime. The timing of the arrests suggests the Biden administration recognizes soaring crime as a political vulnerability for the Democrat party.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crime in the Democrat-controlled city <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spiked</a> in 2023, according to police department data:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homicides: Up 35 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robberies: Up 67 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Crime: Up 39 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent</span></li></ul><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_15222107" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/12/GettyImages-1248266118.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="People walk down 16th street after “Defund The Police” was painted on the street near the White House on June 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. After days of protests in DC over the death of George Floyd, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed that section of 16th street "Black Lives Matter Plaza". (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-15222107" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/12/GettyImages-1248266118.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">People walk down 16th street after “Defund The Police” was painted on the street near the White House on June 8, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/21/biden-granddaughter-vehicle-break-in-arrests/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> the specifics of the first arrest, which occurred on February 14:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The arrests of 19-year-old Robert Kemp and the youth came after authorities said a D.C. police officer found the getaway car, a stolen red Toyota Corolla, abandoned in 16th Street Heights. Inside it were items taken from the Secret Service vehicle, including a protective vest, night-vision goggles, a first aid bag and a computer router. Authorities also found a McDonald’s bag and food receipt; the affidavit says fingerprints on the items led them to the arrests.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. Secret Service says in the affidavit that Kemp, who lives in Northwest Washington, was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle pertaining to the Corolla and theft in connection with the items taken from the Secret Service vehicle, a black Ford Expedition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A charging document filed in court shows only the unauthorized-use charge, typically filed when authorities cannot prove a person linked to the vehicle is the same person who stole it. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. said she could not comment on charging decisions. Prosecutors can file additional charges as the investigation continues.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities also arrested an unidentified 14-year-old on Friday. They charged him with three counts of armed carjacking and alleged he was involved in several additional crimes around the District. The <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> reported police said the 14-year-old was linked to the Secret Service SUV incident. Authorities charged him as a juvenile.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Residents in the District blame Biden-appointed U.S. attorney Matthew Graves for the crime surge. Graves <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/29/biden-appointed-u-s-district-attorney-refused-to-prosecute-67-of-those-arrested-in-nations-capital/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refused</a> to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested who would have been<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>put on trial in the D.C. Superior Court, according to 2022 District statistics. In 2023, he did not <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/10/28/meet-joe-bidens-d-c-prosecutor-who-let-56-of-arrestees-off-the-hook-in-2023/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">prosecute</a> 56 percent of those arrested.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25336808" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/Matthew-Graves.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: U.S. Attorney for DC Matthew Grav" class="size-full wp-image-25336808" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/Matthew-Graves.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Much of the D.C. crime is carried out by juveniles. For instance, 65 percent of those <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/07/police-perplexed-dc-carjackings-spike-111-lack-prosecutions/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">arrested</a> for carjacking are juveniles, according to police data. In the first ten months of 2023, 760 carjackings <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/carjacking" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">occurred</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Graves said in August that his office would crack down on some crimes committed by juveniles, but his office generally <a class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1 x5l" href="https://wtop.com/dc/2023/08/5-teens-arrested-and-charged-in-robberies-carjackings-one-tied-to-viral-video-incident/" id="OWAb4650ffb-1edc-8d6d-ebcb-22e7691a4b8d" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">does not prosecute</a> them. Because the D.C. juvenile court maintains <a class="x5l" href="https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/jcs96/glos.html#rfr" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">jurisdiction</a> over delinquent acts, prosecutors in juvenile court must file a petition to transfer juveniles to criminal court for prosecution as adults. 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text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Charles Hilu</a></div><div class="w-fit-content md:text-xs" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: fit-content;">February 21, 2024</div></div></span></div></div><div class="article-content" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Karla, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin: 1.75rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">A California Democrat last week introduced a bill that would divert reserve funds from an economic relief fund to pay for reparations amid a historic budget deficit in the state.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">California law requires unspent money from the state's General Fund to go to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties (SFEU), a reserve that lawmakers have broad discretion to use for public purposes. Democratic state senator Steven Bradford's <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1331" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">S.B. 1331</a> would require the state's controller, its chief fiscal officer, to put 6 percent of the money transferred to the SFEU into a reparations fund the bill would create.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"The bill would require the controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Restorative Justice an amount equal to 6 percent of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified," the text reads.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The reparations fund would give money to support "policies that indemnify African-American descendants of a chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford told the <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Free Beacon </em>in a statement that the reparations fund would implement potential reparations policies approved by the legislature and governor. He also defended his proposal to allocate money to it from the state's reserve funds.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"SB 1331 does not take funding from any existing program but would be funded from general fund budget reserves," Bradford said. "The bill moves the discussion from the rhetorical to reality. ... By making a deposit in a public fund for reparations, we will be acknowledging the importance of addressing systemic inequalities rooted in policies like redlining and the racially motivated use of eminent domain laws to displace Black families and Black businesses. These are harms that have actually happened in California and are documented in the California Reparations Task Force report."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford's bill came days before a government watchdog <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/california-budget-deficit-swells-to-73-billion-watchdog-reports/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">warned</a> that California's budget deficit swelled to $73 billion, due to a $24 billion decrease in revenues. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) had <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/analysts-question-newsoms-optimistic-take-on-californias-budget/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">predicted</a> last month that the deficit would be under $40 billion.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">In addition to Bradford's bill, the state's Legislative Black Caucus introduced a package of 14 proposed bills on Wednesday to address the issue of reparations. Although there was no legislation to provide for direct cash payments to descendants of slaves, it did <a href="https://blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2024-01-31-california-legislative-black-caucus-introduces-2024-reparations-legislative-0" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">include</a> an apology for human rights violations and the prioritization of African-American applicants—especially descendants of slaves—for occupational licensing.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Bradford's introduction of the bill comes after he served on the state's Reparations Task Force, which last summer released an 1,100-page <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/the-craziest-recommendations-from-californias-reparations-task-force/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">report</a> with recommendations that included decriminalizing public urination and defunding school police.</p><div class="tag-list" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man is accused of shoplifting numerous times in Chicago after he was released due to Illinois’ elimination of cash bail.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials charged the suspect, identified as James Tolbert, 43, in August with felony shoplifting as he was on bail for another felony shoplifting case, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/loop-serial-shoplifter-commit-new-crimes-after-safe-t-act-release-chicago.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 688px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the man could not put up the $1,600 deposit for bail in order to be freed with an ankle monitor. However, a few weeks later the state scrubbed its cash bail system, and the suspect was allowed to return home under conditions set by Judge Kenneth Wadas that he must stay at his residence during the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since that time, Tolbert has been accused of shoplifting or robbing two stores in the Loop and on the famous Magnificent Mile 12 times. He is currently behind bars.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminated</a> cash bail in September, which was a move that brought heavy criticism, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, social media users shared their thoughts on the CWB Chicago report, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Tom80107524/status/1760663061369692472" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “He didn’t learn his lesson? The voters haven’t either apparently.”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prosecutors charged Tolbert on July 15 with shoplifting at an Ulta Beauty store on Michigan Avenue. Judge William Fahy released the man on his own recognizance but he did not show up for his court date and a warrant was issued for his arrest.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago article continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The long arm of the law caught up with him on August 10. Prosecutors said he shoplifted from the same Ulta location. They said he walked in, grabbed a basket, went directly to the fragrances, filled the basket, and walked out.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charged with felony retail theft and operating a continuing financial crime enterprise, Judge Susana Ortiz ordered him to pay a $600 bail deposit to be released on electronic monitoring, and the judge handling the July shoplifting case ordered him to pay another $1,000 deposit. He couldn’t raise the money.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was not long before cash bail was eliminated across the state and Tolbert was released without the monetary conditions but was ordered to stay at home during those designated hours.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, Tolbert was arrested on February 8 at a Macy’s where he allegedly walked out of the store with several pairs of sunglasses worth more than $2,000.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moments later, on the street outside, he allegedly kicked a loss prevention agent, knocking her down. However, the woman’s partner was able to handcuff the suspect as they waited for law enforcement to arrive and take over.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities reportedly found metal knuckles connected to a switchblade and a credit card that did not belong to Tolbert on his person. Officials eventually levied several charges against him.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report also noted Tolbert was accused of shoplifting from several Sunglass Hut stores in January.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In court on February 9, Judge Ankur Srivastava decided that Tolbert would be released with a 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew on the new charges. But he detained Tolbert for violating pretrial release in the already-pending case until the judge handling that matter reviews the new allegations. Tolbert is due in court again today,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will County state’s attorney Jim Glasgow (D) previously <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/20/first-day-illinois-cashless-bail-system-delivers-absurd-incoherent-results/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">criticized</a> the Illinois law regarding cashless bail, stating, “It will destroy the state of Illinois,” Breitbart News reported in September.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">THIS IS A LAWYER WHO CLAIMS TO KEEP A VAST FORTUNE OF MYSTERY MONEY UNDER HER BED. HER DADDY TOLD HER TO. 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--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis (D.) on Wednesday secured over $600,000 in taxpayer funds to buy her staff a fleet of brand new cars—even though lawmakers don’t know what she plans to use them for.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Four of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners’ Democratic members voted to approve Willis’s request, with one Democrat joining the board’s two Republicans to block the request. The trio objected that the embattled district attorney, who has already spent over $1.2 million on vehicles for her office since 2021, gave no justification for the purchase of 16 additional vehicles.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The Republicans also objected to giving Willis the funds as she stonewalls the county audit committee, which is investigating her potential misuse of taxpayer funds to hire her lover to prosecute former president Donald Trump.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"So we’re just supposed to blindly approve vehicles without knowing exactly what they’re being used for?" commissioner Bridget Thorne asked during Wednesday’s recess meeting.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"I’ve got a list of all the vehicles in her pool. It looks like a lot of them have been unassigned. She has over 20 that are unassigned here. I don’t know why she would need more vehicles if she’s not using the vehicles she has."</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">As Willis secures the taxpayer-funded bag, Judge Scott McAfee is weighing whether to boot her off the Trump case over her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who used his earnings from the case to take Willis on lavish vacations. Willis testified in court last week that her relationship with Wade began after she hired him in 2022, and that she repaid Wade with cash for her share of the vacation expenses. But a former friend of Willis <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/witness-testifies-that-fani-williss-affair-with-prosecutor-started-before-trump-case/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">testified</a> that the district attorney began her relationship with Wade years before, in 2019. McAfee is expected to rule on Willis’s disqualification as early as next week.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis’s written justification for the request stated only that she would use the funds to purchase 16 various 2023 Ford model law enforcement administrative vehicles for her office. "The County is able to save money by participating in volume buying," Willis wrote in her <a href="https://fulton.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12596550&GUID=EB39E2B4-DF18-45D0-A4CF-FA5E188AFFEE" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">request</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Commissioner Bob Ellis, the chair of the county audit committee, added that the board should not consider Willis’s requisition request until she complies with his Jan. 19 <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/19/fulton-county-request-fani-willis-funds/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">letter</a> demanding information on her office’s transactions with Wade.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">"There is an outstanding request to the district attorney from the audit committee that’s been outstanding for over a month now and there has not been a cooperative response to that," Ellis said.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis also faces scrutiny at the federal level over her use of taxpayer funds.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">The House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jim-jordan-subpoenas-embattled-georgia-da-fani-willis-following-free-beacon-report/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">subpoenaed</a> Willis on Feb. 2 for documents related to allegations she fired a whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, who tried to stop the district attorney from misappropriating a $488,000 federal youth gang prevention grant to pay for "swag," travel, and computers.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; 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line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Timpson recorded herself warning Willis during a November 2021 meeting about the attempted misuse of funds. Willis did not dispute the whistleblower’s claims during the meeting, but she fired Timpson less than two months later and had her escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators, the <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Free Beacon</em> <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/fani-willis-axed-employee-who-blew-whistle-on-misuse-of-federal-funds/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px;">Willis refused to accept the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena by email, forcing the U.S. Marshals Service to hand-deliver it, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/09/fani-willis-congressional-subpoena-judiciary-committee-fulton-county-marshals-service/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e05f41; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">according</a> to the<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 0 0 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Daily Caller</em>. Willis has until Friday morning to respond to the subpoena.</p></div><header><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nolte: Three Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants Flee Democrat-Run Chicago</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; height: 38px; justify-content: space-between; position: relative; width: 640px;"><a class="button_facebook" href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/22/nolte-three-kentucky-fried-chickens-flee-democrat-run-chicago/#" rel="nofollow" role="button" style="background: rgb(58, 88, 156); border-right: 9px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 38px; margin: 0px; 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margin: 0px; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="FILE - A logo on a sign is displayed above a branch of KFC in the Surbiton suburb of south" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/KFC-Chicago-640x480.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" title="KFC Chicago" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File</cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT4M21S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">4:21</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three Kentucky Fried Chickens (KFC) “abruptly shut off” the lights and fled Chicago’s South Side this week, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/3-kfc-restaurants-close-south-side-chicago" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a> Fox 32.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One utterly useless alderman is all kinds of butthurt.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“A closed business is not only a sore eye, but it’s a gateway for violence because when you see abandonment, it looks as if there is no love, no hope in the community,” Ald. William Hall of the 6th Ward told local news.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alderman Useless added, “It’s something we’re seeing across the city, but nevertheless, [in] neighborhoods, it hits differently.” He continued, “Any job lost is a life lost, in my opinion, because everyone deserves the opportunity to make an honest and clean living.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">KFC was a 35-year staple of the neighborhood, and it’s now gone forever.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fox 32 adds, “This comes less than one month after Cinema Chatham, a local movie theater, shut down. It came as a surprise to community members.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">surprise</em>…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s fascinating here — outside of the obvious — is that these businesses have wised up. Rather than announce their intent to close — which means weeks of protests and being smeared as racist — they “abruptly shut off” the lights and hightail it out of town. I love it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — “FOR LEASE”: Closed, Vacant Businesses Line San Francisco Street as Retailers Flee</span></span></em></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tiny-Remove-3734 / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/VLkGyfPK-o73dHpYz.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen, I’ve lived in some bad neighborhoods, what we used to call the ghetto, but you could still do business because as bad as crime was in the mid-eighties, the police could still police. There were consequences. You could hold shoplifters, kick out rowdy patrons, and count on the police to show up. Democrats have created an entirely new culture where anything goes, and everyone’s released with no bail. And if you complain because some pig jumps over the counter and rubs her stink all over your food and slaps a cashier, you’re the bad guy.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">These idiots who live on the South Side of Chicago, these moron voters who vote for Alderman Useless and will keep voting for him no matter how many storefronts close — this is on them. That is the beauty of America: you get what you vote for.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The South Side doesn’t need to be this way. I’m very familiar with the area. It was never great, but for a time, businesses were moving in because there was a gentrification push. But now gentrification is racist, so…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is what you call urban blight, and when you vote for Democrats, that’s what you get: blight, decay, crime, and worsening standard of living.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25615068" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Chicago Immigration" class="size-full wp-image-25615068" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/12/Chicago-Immigration.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants are camped outside of the 1st District police station on October 7, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the worst things about losing chain stores, be it a KFC or a grocery store, is what happens to your buying power. Where are you going to shop now? The only place you can: the local gas station or convenience store. And suddenly, you’re paying $3 for a quart of milk, $5 for a small box of cereal, $7 for a 12-pack of Pepsi, and $4 for a can of chili.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Thursday, I did Breitbart Radio, and the guy asked me what keeps me up at night… <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it illegal aliens, crime, inflation, the culture?</em> he asked. I told the truth. <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing</em> keeps me up at night. Nothing. 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OnlyFans model and Fortnite gamer Corinna Kopf took a shot at President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) after her house was reportedly ransacked by burglars in the Democrat-controlled city of Los Angeles.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“thank you gavin newsom, honorable mention to joe biden,” Kopf wrote in a social media post, sharing footage of fellow model Abigail Ratchford’s LA home being robbed after her own house was <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/los-angeles-crime-wave-rolls-on-instagram-model-corinna-kopfs-home-burglarized/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">invaded</a> by burglars.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1759793109511409924" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1759793109511409924&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fentertainment%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fmodel-corinna-kopf-thanks-joe-biden-gavin-newsom-after-her-home-was-burglarized%2F&sessionId=65d62281ac54b7e847bb5f32db8a86892f491465&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1108px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police <a class="x5l" href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/19/corinna-kopf-burglary-los-angeles-home-burglarized/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> TMZ that Kopf’s Los Angeles home was burglarized last week by thieves who smashed through glass to get inside the house. the model was out of town when it happened, but received a notification on her phone that someone had broken in.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The burglars were gone by the time law enforcement arrived at the scene. It remains unclear what was stolen, as authorities told TMZ at the time of publishing that Kopf still needed to go through her belongings to see if anything is missing.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, police are reviewing video from Kopf’s home and trying to see if there was more footage taken around the neighborhood. The case is still under investigation and there have not yet been any arrests.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, fellow model Abigail Ratchford also had her Los Angeles home invaded, but unlike Kopf, the model was still inside her house when three men broke into it, according to a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/02/model-abigail-ratchford-home-broken-into-burglars-while-inside/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> by TMZ.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The men, who smashed through a large window in the backyard and got into the house, ended up running away without stealing anything, as they appeared to have become frightened over the sounds of the alarm that went off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident was also caught on Ratchford’s surveillance video.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch Below:</span></em></p></div></div><header style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police: Wisconsin Pizza Hut Worker Kills Manager over $7,000 Inheritance</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Wisconsin Pizza Hut employee has been accused of killing his manager over a $7,000 inheritance check and leaving his body in the restaurant’s dumpster, local authorities said.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just days after store manager Alex Stengel showed off his newly cashed check to his co-workers, employee Kavonn Ingram allegedly killed him and wheeled his body out to the trash, the South Milwaukee Police Department said.</span></span></p><div class="fb-post" data-con-need="1" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthMilwaukeePD/posts/pfbid05G1pth9wbzB1pVF8Jg4Lc8ufQUb3gzhzbxu7McGbgYmguJ81vQaMgTwGFJcBcskYl" data-width="640" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote cite="https://graph.facebook.com/100064636307639/posts/786100690221134/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore" style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">***PRESS RELEASE***</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Posted by <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthMilwaukeePD" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">South Milwaukee Police Department</a> on <a class="x5l" href="https://graph.facebook.com/100064636307639/posts/786100690221134/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Friday, February 16, 2024</a></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the Friday press release, the body of Stengel, 55, was found on February 7, and Ingram, 31, was arrested on February 11.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We believe money was the motive for this crime,” the department stated, adding that it is not looking for any other suspects. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stengel was found shot with his throat slashed, WISN </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-pizza-hut-employee-charged-with-killing-manager-and-leaving-body-in-trash/46821965" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police believe that the murder took place two days before Stengel’s body was found, and they reportedly have </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/south/2024/02/16/pizza-hut-employee-charged-in-south-milwaukee-homicide/72631922007/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proof</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that after Ingram allegedly stashed the body, he clocked the victim out of Pizza Hut’s system, according to the </span><i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The store’s general manager also said he received messages from Stengel’s phone stating he did not feel well and was heading out for the day. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stengel’s wallet, cellphone, and keys had all been removed from his possession before his body was found.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Authorities said the text message was sent by the suspect to explain Stengel’s absence and, combined with the logging out of the computer, shows the suspect is familiar with Pizza Hut procedures and the individual workers at the restaurant,” the outlet reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A California library is shutting down because rampant criminal activity has threatened patrons and employees.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Contra Costa County Library <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/antioch-library-closing-crime/3456892/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Friday that the decision to close the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antioch Community Library branch on Saturday was made after “repeated dangerous incidents,” NBC Bay Area reported.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a social media post, the county library <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explained</a> the branch will be closed until further notice:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the closure, the library will be working to implement further security measures so we can reopen as soon as possible. These will take some time to complete, and we do not have an estimated date for reopening. We will continue to keep you updated on our progress.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media users shared their thoughts on the news. One person <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=937327074556048" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">speculated</a> the reason was “low police staffing, slow response time, and a soft-on-crime city.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Hopefully, this gets resolved soon. The public library is a very important place to any community,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=387471120555678" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>, while someone else <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/ccclib/posts/pfbid02N7fKz3iwRDQzHh8mzAc7WkztBz7pWKf9KeSf6J17NuFqiACU6X6ewnWAXs9YXnY6l?comment_id=277813925183143" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, “OMG. Libraries are supposed to be our safe places. I am so sorry!”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to KTVU, Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe <a class="x5l" href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/antioch-public-library-shut-due-to-dangerous-incident" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">claimed</a> city officials did not see the decision coming.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“No one in the City of Antioch, including the police chief, was informed of safety concerns by Contra Costa County regarding the library,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The outlet noted authorities are planning to improve security measures so the library can get back up and running to serve the community.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Contra Costa County Library said, “We apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience, but the safety of our patrons and staff is a top priority.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly, a 54-year-old Denny’s restaurant in Democrat-run Oakland recently <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/01/video-its-sad-beloved-dennys-in-democrat-run-oakland-closes-permanently-due-to-rampant-crime/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">closed</a> permanently due to crime, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, the outlet <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/01/banks-closing-across-san-francisco-area-often-without-warning/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> in November that local bank branches in San Francisco were closing because the city suffers from economic decline, the result of which has been crime, homelessness, and a drug epidemic.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pennsylvania judge is accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head while he slept — just a few years after being cleared of criminal intent for shooting her ex-husband.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael McCoy, 54, is now blind in one eye after being shot in his Harrisburg-area home on February 9, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/17/us-news/pennsylvania-judge-sonya-mcknight-charged-with-shooting-ex-boyfriend-in-head-as-he-slept-leaving-him-blind-in-one-eye/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the </span><i>New York Post</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, was arrested Thursday and has been charged with first-degree attempted murder and aggravated assault, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">court records</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/MdjCourtSummary?docketNumber=MJ-12101-CR-0000102-2024&dnh=27RHGr75YPNk93%2Bwd7USqA%3D%3D" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> show</a>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Susquehanna Township Police arrest affidavit obtained by the outlet stated that McCoy had made “numerous” attempts to end the year-long relationship with his live-in girlfriend when she allegedly tried to kill him. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“McCoy had returned home from a tavern to find McKnight relaxing on his couch in her pajamas and again told her she needed to leave, saying he would enlist the help of her mother to get her out of his home if he had to,” the </span><i>Post</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reported of that Friday’s events. “She allegedly agreed to go.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Michael McCoy stated that it was like she finally understood that it was over,” police said in the affidavit.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McCoy then went to bed around 11:00 p.m. with the understanding that McKnight realized that the pair were broken up.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometime later that night, he woke up with a “massive head pain” and could not see.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While he screamed in pain, McKnight reportedly came into the bedroom and asked, “Mike, what did you do to yourself?” </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The judge called 911 shortly before 1:00 a.m. reporting McCoy’s injuries, but police said she “could not explain what happened and stated that she was sleeping and heard him screaming.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A gunshot wound to McCoy’s right temple that had exited his left temple was found after first responders rushed him to the hospital.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bullet left him blind in his right eye.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The affidavit also stated that a gun registered to McKnight was discovered at the scene, and her hands were positive for gunshot residue.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McCoy also asserted multiple times that he had not shot himself.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The ex-lovers both said that no one else was home at the time of the incident. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While McKnight claimed to police that she did not leave the house that night, this was disputed with footage from a neighbor’s security camera showing the judge leaving the home at some point.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to McCoy, his ex-girlfriend may have followed him to the tavern before he returned. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McKnight has since been suspended from her judiciary duties and is being held at the Dauphin County Prison with a $300,000 bail.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To avoid a prosecutorial conflict of interest, the case will be heard in the neighboring county of Cumberland. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In August 2019, McKnight was cleared of criminal intent in the shooting of her estranged husband, Enoch McKnight, </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/08/harrisburg-judge-back-on-bench-after-being-cleared-in-husbands-shooting.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> PennLive. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following a long series of domestic disputes, police calls, and protection orders, the judge shot her husband in the groin while he was helping her move furniture at her home. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Upon reviewing the case, the attorney general’s office declined to file criminal charges, citing self-defense.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We can confirm the investigation is closed, and no charges have been filed,” said Jacklin Rhoads, an office spokeswoman.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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POLLAK</a></address><time datetime="2024-02-17T09:32:11Z" style="border-right: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">17 Feb 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26203058" data-dsqu="/middle-east/2024/02/17/leading-black-church-pours-salt-on-jewish-wounds-with-mass-genocide-claim/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">234</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT3M22S" data-mp3l="3:22" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/02/leading-black-church-pours-salt-on-jewish-wounds-with-mass-genocide-claim-26203058.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT3M22S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:22</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Council of Bishops of the American Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a leading church among African Americans, issued an extraordinary statement Thursday accusing Israel of “mass genocide,” exacerbating a rift between black Americans and Jews.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://mailchi.mp/6640b1d7ce56/council-of-bishops-calls-for-immediate-withdrawal-of-financial-support-from-israel?fbclid=IwAR2OTKVnXc3JRbKTsEQZi9sKyqxYfEjO_WaFo4W_kz-L83pNSrau5lhM4xM" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement</a> reads, in part:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel has trapped 1.6 million desperate Palestinians in the southern Gaza city called Rafah. Most of them are women and children. They have denied them access to food, water, shelter, and health care. After this torture, they plan to murder them. The United States of America will have likely paid for the weapons they use. This must not be allowed to happen.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church calls on the United States Government to immediately withdraw all funding and other support from Israel. Since 1954, Israel has shown a willful disregard for the human dignity of Palestinians. Since October 7, 2023, in retaliation for the brutal murder of 1139 Israeli citizens by Hamas, Israel has murdered over 28,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. The United States is supporting this mass genocide. This<br />must not be allowed to continue.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">There must be an immediate and permanent ceasefire between these two communities.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The statement also refers to Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew” — reflecting the false claim of Palestinian nationalists that Jesus identified as “Palestinian.” The term “Palestine” <a class="x5l" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">was not used until a century later</a>, after a failed revolt by Jews against Romans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel is a multiracial society, one in which non-European Israelis are in the majority. Israel also rescued the Ethiopian Jewish community from famine and oppression, marking the first time in history in which black people were brought <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en masse</em> out of Africa, but to freedom and not to slavery. Today, black Israelis serve — and fall — alongside Israelis of every other color, and of every other faith, in a fight to save their country from the genocidal aims of the Palestinian Hamas terrorists that attacked them.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The statement by the AME Church will pour salt on the wounds of October 7 for many Jews — and re-open old wounds in the black-Jewish relationship. Many Jews participated in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, but were alienated by the racial nationalism adopted by some black leaders in the years that followed. In 2020, many Jews and Jewish organizations supported the Black Lives Matter movement, only to be betrayed when that movement supported Palestinians against Israel.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of </em>Breitbart News Sunday<em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent book, “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it)</a>,” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook/dp/B08PNN54BB" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election</a>. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign album <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> has abruptly been removed from iTunes and Apple Music just as the album was surging in the charts and hitting the No. 1 spot in various countries.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures</em> 1 was removed from the platforms Thursday after its distributor, Fuga, reportedly said its upload violated a service agreement.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fuga is a distribution platform owned by the Downtown Music Holdings. On Thursday. the company said it had declined an offer to work with West last year, but the album was nevertheless uploaded by a Fuga “client.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It remains unclear what the company meant by a “client.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> was released Wednesday after a number of delays. Though it has been pulled by Apple, the album still appears to be available on Spotify.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Upon its release, the estate of Donna Summers complained about the track “Good (Don’t Die),” which was later removed from Spotify, according to a <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Billboard</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/kanye-west-vultures-1-distributor-takedown-fuga-1235608363/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>, the independently produced <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vultures 1</em> has hit the No. 1 spot in multiple countries.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The album marks Kanye West’s first major work since his anti-semitic meltdown in 2022.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">West’s career imploded that year when he made a series of antisemitic remarks — including <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-praises-hitler-on-alex-jones-show-nazis/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">praising Adolf Hitler</a> — causing his corporate partners, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including Adidas</a>, to cut ties with him. Others who headed for the exits included <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/26/soled-out-foot-locker-pulls-kanye-wests-yeezys-from-stores-websites/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foot Locker</a>, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/22/vogue-and-balenciaga-will-no-longer-work-with-kanye-west-reports/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balenciaga, <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vogue</em> magazine</a>, and Hollywood mega-talent agency <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/24/hollywood-mega-talent-agency-caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-following-anti-semitic-comments/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CAA</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At one point, West claimed he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/10/27/kanye-west-says-he-lost-2-billion-following-antisemitic-comments-the-money-is-not-who-i-am/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lost $2 billion in just one day</a> following his series of antisemitic comments.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow David </em><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ng on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsDavidNg" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@HeyItsDavidNg</a>. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police arrested a suspect Wednesday after a brazen theft inside an Apple Store in Berkeley, California, where shocked customers watched the scene unfold.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Detectives with the Emeryville Police Department took Tyler Mims into custody, Fox Business <a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/masked-california-thief-nabbed-being-caught-video-snatching-dozens-iphones-apple-store" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Thursday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1755819923602067474" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect, wearing all black and a pair of red shoes, allegedly grabbing items inside the store and ripping their cords out of the display tables. The store’s alarm is heard, and people are seen watching from a distance.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, no one appears to say anything to the suspect as he allegedly continues grabbing items and shoving them down the front of his pants:</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He then exits the store and jogs past a police car before approaching another vehicle waiting outside:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1755819923602067474" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1755819923602067474&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fwatch-police-california-man-steals-49k-worth-of-iphones-from-apple-store%2F&sessionId=d64584930e564b564a27c27f8376b997e1feb743&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 848px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mims was charged with burglary, grand theft, and additional crimes regarding the incident that happened on Monday. The Fox report said the person who called for help said the suspect took 50 iPhones.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bundle was valued at $49,230, the outlet continued, adding, “Since Jan. 19, the department has responded to four grand thefts from the Apple Store in town,” and police say they are part of organized retail crime.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is important to note that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recently <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/01/watch-newsom-shocked-to-hear-californians-blame-him-for-shoplifting-problem/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a> he was shocked to hear a Target worker blame him for the shoplifting plaguing the state, which erupted after it adopted criminal justice reforms he supported, Breitbart News reported on February 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newsom relayed the incident during a Zoom call:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1752759720363065387" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1752759720363065387&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fwatch-police-california-man-steals-49k-worth-of-iphones-from-apple-store%2F&sessionId=d64584930e564b564a27c27f8376b997e1feb743&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 719px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The outlet continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newsom relayed a story of visiting Target and watching someone steal from the store. He expressed surprise that the clerk did not pursue the thief, only to be told that no one stopped shoplifters because the governor lowered the threshold for punishing thieves.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The governor, whom the clerk did not recognize, protested: “That’s just not true,” he said. However, Proposition 47 of 2014, which he backed, and whose repeal he continues to oppose, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Prop-47-Information.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reduced</a> the penalty for theft up to $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition, the California State Senate <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/06/07/california-senate-passes-bill-preventing-employers-from-requiring-staff-to-stop-shoplifters/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">passed</a> a bill in the summer of 2023 that would bar employers from requiring their workers to help stop shoplifters, per Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Chicago man with an ankle monitor who was already up on 160 charges, including murder, has been charged in a new shooting after allegedly being found with two guns in a stolen car.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Torrey Lewis, who has a long criminal record, was found wounded in a stolen car in the parking lot of an auto parts store in the south suburban Chicago town of Dolton, police said on Wednesday. Officers found a rifle and a handgun on the front passenger seat, and a second man was found shot in the back seat, WLS-TV <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/dolton-shooting-auto-zone-shoot-out-torrey-lewis-safe-t-act-electronic-monitoring/14396666/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Police say Lewis was involved in a gun fight that injured four people. The gunfight occurred when multiple people jumped out of two cars and began firing at each other.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Cook County Sheriff’s department has admitted to having the suspect in the electronic monitor system but also noted that the convict was on one of his “free movement days,” and they were not monitoring him at the time he was involved in the shooting.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This “free movement day” consists of two days a week automatically granted to suspects and convicts on ankle monitors, a mandate that is contained in the state’s recently enacted soft-on-crime <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/13/illinois-mayor-blasts-gov-jb-pritzker-horrible-bail-reform-law/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SAFE-T Act</a> that also eliminated cash bail in the Land of Lincoln.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25190297" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/J.B.-Pritzker.jpeg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Interview" class="size-full wp-image-25190297" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/10/J.B.-Pritzker.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">J.B. 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(Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officials did review the monitor’s GPS data and found that Lewis was either being chased or was allgedly chasing someone in the stolen car.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tracking data revealed that Lewis left his home at 8:48 a.m. and “proceeded to travel at high rates of speed throughout the South Suburbs, at times reaching speeds of over 100 miles an hour, until he arrived at the scene of the shooting,” the <i>Southland Journal</i> <a class="x5l" href="https://thesouthlandjournal.com/em-participant-awaiting-trial-for-murder-of-disabled-man-charged-in-new-shooting-while-on-free-movement/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lewis was on electronic monitoring (EM) while awaiting trial for murder in a shooting from July that left Timothy Horace dead. Horace, who was disabled and in a wheel chair, was shot outside a movie theater in front of his girlfriend in Country Club Hills in 2017.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The suspect was initially held in jail. But in May 2020, his bond was reduced and he was placed on EM after posting the required ten percent.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lewis has now been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for the incident in Dolton. But he is currently in the hospital for his injuries.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The incident is just another example of how badly the Democrat-driven SAFE-T Act has been for the state.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On its first day, Illinois county attorneys and sheriffs <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/20/first-day-illinois-cashless-bail-system-delivers-absurd-incoherent-results/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">denounced</a> the law as “absurd” for delivering “incoherent” results as judges are required to release a host of repeat offenders after their cases are heard.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former Illinois Democrat state senator is in hot water for allegedly submitting false insurance policies after leaving her position and starting a career selling insurance.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Federal prosecutors on Friday <a class="x5l" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/9/24067670/feds-say-ex-lawmaker-found-job-selling-insurance-where-she-was-caught-submitting-bogus-policies" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">accused</a> Annazette Collins of submitting the policies for individuals who did not request them or were not even real people, the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> reported, noting officials have so far not filed criminal charges against her regarding the allegations.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1756078326840443312" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the woman in question:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1756078326840443312" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1756078326840443312&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F02%2F10%2Ffeds-democrat-former-lawmaker-illinois-submitted-false-insurance-policies-nonexistent-people%2F&sessionId=db380c2563bce8d28b23a9c5ea5229bfb3be3409&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 712px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Those policies were tied to bank accounts controlled either by Collins or her daughter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Parthum told a judge,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Collins recently said she would testify for allegedly evading almost $100,000 in taxes.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Prosecutors had previously disclosed Collins was fired from her job at American Income Life Insurance, but they said they would not seek to disclose the reason unless she decided to take the stand,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> report said, noting she was later fired from her position as an insurance agent with the company for allegedly violating its policies.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jurors were permitted to hear about the allegations if she decided to take the stand, but she apparently decided against it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A verdict was not reached on Friday afternoon. Therefore, jurors plan to come back on Monday.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> report also said, “Federal investigations have swirled around Collins for years. Her name surfaced in two separate corruption trials last year, including the trial of four political insiders convicted of a nearly decade-long conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to her <a class="x5l" href="https://www.ilga.gov/senate/senator.asp?GA=97&MemberID=1801" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">profile</a> on the Illinois General Assembly website, Collins’ biography reads:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Served as an Administrator for the Chicago School Board. Previously served in the Department of Children and Family Services, the Cook County Probation Department, and as a Prison Correctional Officer. Received her bachelor degree in Sociology from Chicago State University and received an M.S. in Criminal Justice and has completed further graduate work in counseling from Chicago State University. Lives on Chicago’s West Side with her husband Keith Langston and daughters Angelique Nicole and Taylor Kourtnie.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a class="x5l" href="https://content.naic.org/cipr-topics/insurance-fraud" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">National Association of Insurance Commissioners</a>, “Insurance fraud occurs when an insurance company, agent, adjuster or consumer commits a deliberate deception in order to obtain an illegitimate gain.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is possible for such fraud to occur when someone is buying, using, selling, or underwriting insurance, the group said, noting fraud also hurts the financial situations of consumers and businesses.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) website <a class="x5l" href="https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/insurance-fraud" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">says</a>, “<span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The insurance industry consists of more than 7,000 companies that collect over $1 trillion in premiums each year.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The massive size of the industry contributes significantly to the cost of insurance fraud by providing more opportunities and bigger incentives for committing illegal activities,” the site stated.</span></span></p><div><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="blackgraphtx" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">HOW MANY AMERICAN CITIES ARE IN MELTDOWN DUE TO BLACK CRIME?</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND RACIST SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two 17-year-olds have been charged after a fight and stabbing erupted at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, on Thursday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Queens Chronicle</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.qchron.com/editions/eastern/two-teens-arrested-and-stabbed-in-queens-village/article_32a3e5c2-c445-11ee-baea-032c34aead32.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Monday that the two defendants were stabbed during the incident that occurred at approximately 1:30 p.m.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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At one point, the pair falls and slams against a wall. Moments later, another young person is seen stomping on one person’s head as the individual struggles on the floor:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1754564379138261076" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1754564379138261076&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fvideo-the-brutality-was-chilling-two-teens-charged-after-brawl-and-stabbing-at-nyc-high-school%2F&sessionId=51cebf758685d7aa2081c5f8086128405f5f98b8&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 897px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a Saturday press release, Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz’s office <a class="x5l" href="https://queensda.org/queens-teens-charged-with-attempted-gang-assault-in-brawl-at-high-school/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">detailed</a> the charges against the two 17-year-olds, noting they face up to 15 years behind bars if convicted:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Defendant 1, a 17-year-old from 106<span style="bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Avenue in Queens Village, is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds. Defendant 2, a 17-year-old from 131<span style="bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span> Road in Rosedale, is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree and assault in the second degree.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Katz stated, “As detailed in the complaint, this was a vicious attack. The brutality was chilling under any circumstance, but that it occurred in what parents should be able to assume is a safe place for their children is as unsettling as the violence captured on video.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We will not allow the critical role public schools play in the life of our city to be brazenly and violently jeopardized,” Katz added.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After one of the defendants was searched in the principal’s office following the incident, a pistol with a round in the chamber and seven in the magazine was found, the district attorney’s office said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police in Chicago have charged a 23-year-old suspect with shooting a woman in the face in November while inside a car.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the incident, which occurred in Jefferson Park, law enforcement said a person inside another vehicle shot the woman while she was in another car, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/chicago-jefferson-park-shooting-charges-filed.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Saturday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, investigators and prosecutors now say that is not what happened.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect charged in the case was identified as Nathan Frazer, a Skokie resident. 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About two hours later, the group all entered the Lexus to give Frazer a ride home, according to a written proffer filed by prosecutors.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frazer was apparently in the seat behind the driver next to two other people. The victim in the case had taken the passenger seat. When the suspect yelled and demanded to be returned home, the driver told him the car was warming up and they were waiting for it to finish doing so.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, once the vehicle began moving, the suspect tried to exit and the victim pleaded with him to behave, the CWB Chicago report continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After Frazer unsuccessfully lunged toward the victim, she yelled that he would not do anything to her “because this is a nice white neighborhood,” the proffer said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Who isn’t going to do anything, b***h?” allegedly Frazer replied, in sum and substance, as he pulled a gun from his waistband and immediately shot her in the face.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Following the incident, the woman was hospitalized for nearly a week due to her jaw being fractured. 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago prosecutors have finally charged 56-year-old Mark Barber with the April 2023 murder of his ex-girlfriend, 35-year-old teacher Sa’Mon Richardson, whom he allegedly killed while on parole for domestic violence against his previous partner.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Richardson, who taught at Chicago International Charter School Washington Park, was found dead in her apartment by a neighbor on the morning of April 4, 2023, with a gunshot wound to the head.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The case seemed to go nowhere, at least publicly, for months,” </span><a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/parolee-charged-with-murder-samon-richardson-chicago-teacher.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> CWBChicago. “Behind the scenes, though, Chicago detectives methodically built a case against Richardson’s ex, 56-year-old Mark Barber.”</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barber was sentenced to 15 years for residential arson and seven more for strangling his domestic partner in 2012 but was paroled in October 2019 before eventually beginning a relationship with Richardson.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Court records obtained by the local outlet show that prosecutors believe the couple broke up in the spring of 2022 but continued communicating and occasionally seeing each other.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barber allegedly sent texts to a third party that threatened Richardson in March 2023, about two weeks before the teacher was murdered.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the day before Richardson’s body was found, security camera footage captured Barber holding a hammer and handgun in the kitchen of her apartment without her being there. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Richardson arrived home about an hour later, prosecutors said, citing the video.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additional videos from the Chicago Police Department show officers later finding the hammer in Barber’s trunk. They were able to track his cell phone location data to the scene of the crime.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Due to the ongoing murder investigation, Barber’s parole was revoked in the summer of 2023, and he is expected to remain in prison until June 2025.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CWB Chicago reported that a grand jury charged Barber with eight counts of murder in January, citing court records.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">BLACK AMERICA IS THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA. 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(AP Photo/Erin Hooley)" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/Brandon-Johnson-You1TV-ap-640x480.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 990px; min-width: 100%; width: 640px;" title="Brandon-Johnson-You1TV-ap" width="640" /><figcaption style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); bottom: 0px; color: white; font-size: 11px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 99;"><cite style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Election2023ChicagoMayor/652bf510c8b840d5be179791d011e3d8/photo?Query=mayor%20brandon%20johnson&mediaType=photo&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=177&currentItemNo=140" rel="nofollow noopener external" style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">AP Photo/Erin Hooley</a></cite></figcaption></figure><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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padding-right: 7px;">25 Jan 2024</time><span class="byC" data-dsqi="26020188" data-dsqu="/politics/2024/01/25/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-ridiculed-demanding-ceasefire-gaza-city-continues-violence-spiral/" style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(0, 0, 0); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">120</span></div><div data-mp3d="PT3M19S" data-mp3l="3:19" data-mp3u="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/01/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-ridiculed-demanding-ceasefire-gaza-city-continues-violence-spiral-26020188.mp3" id="PollyC" style="align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 15px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span amplitude-main-play-pause="true" class="amplitude-play-pause amplitude-paused" style="cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="color: black; display: block; text-align: center;"></span><time class="amplitude-current-time" datetime="PT3M19S" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right;">3:19</time></div></header><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago’s self-professed “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson is demanding a “ceasefire” in the action between Israel and Hamas terrorists, even as his city remains awash in gang violence.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson spoke out on Wednesday as the city council debated a formal resolution condemning Israel for its efforts to root out and destroy the terror group responsible for the raid into Southern Israel that ended in more than a thousand dead Israeli civilians and more than 230 kidnapped citizens. More than 130 still remain in captivity at the hands of Hamas and several other terror groups.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During his comments on Jan. 24, Johnson claimed that “we” need a ceasefire. He prefaced his comments by speaking of “the violence that broke out several months ago,” but refused to properly define the Hamas foray into Southern Israel as a terror attack.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He went on, saying, “But at this point now, I believe we’re looking at 25,000 Palestinians that have been killed during this war. The killing has to stop. So, yes, we need a cease-fire,” Johnson <a class="x5l" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-ceasefire-gaza-brandon-johnson-20240124-mnxruubc3nb3na2i6t4amdqkua-story.html" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, according to the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The debate on the resolution in the council chambers was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Hamas supporters screaming from the visitor’s gallery. But ultimately, the aldermen decided to set the resolution aside and delay taking a final vote on the measure.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The delay was requested in a letter signed by 28 of the city’s 50 aldermen who protested having to vote on the resolution so close to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Saturday, according to <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-ceasefire-resolution-vote/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WBBM-TV</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sources in Israel report that the Israeli Defense Forces have taken out roughly 10,000 Hamas terrorists, but about 15,000 civilians have also lost their lives. For its part, the IDF has lost 556 soldiers, more than 200 of whom died in actions inside Gaza.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, as Mayor Johnson is proclaiming that “we need a cease-fire” in Gaza, his city continues to drown in the blood of the city’s black and Hispanic citizens as gang warfare and drug dealers continue their weekly shooting sprees.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many on social media have taken note of Johnson’s “concern” for Hamas while his city burns.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Windy City saw a slight drop in homicides in 2023, but still ended the year with 617 murders and 2,450 shootings, according to <a class="x5l" href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/01/02/shootings-homicides-chicago-drop-13-2023-and-returned-pre-pandemic-levels-violence" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WTTW-TV</a>. Chicago suffers the <a class="x5l" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-numbers-poised-hit-record-decline-nationwide-americans/story?id=105556400" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highest</a> murder rates in the country strictly by the numbers and is <a class="x5l" href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/cities-with-most-murders" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tenth</a> in per capita numbers.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 18 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the first two days of the Christmas weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The weekend’s first shooting fatality occurred at 12:44 p.m. Saturday when a 28-year-old man was shot “in the 2400 block of West 55th Street” while on the sidewalk, CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-christmas-weekend-shootings-dec-22-to-26/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; 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The shots were fired by someone inside a vehicle.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 28-year-old was struck in the head and transported to a hospital, where he died.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police-department/14221411/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that the weekend’s second shooting fatality occurred at 9:40 p.m. Saturday, when a 24-year-old man was shot in the backyard of a residence “in the 8700 block of South Cregier Avenue.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two men approached the 24-year-old and opened fire, striking him multiple times. 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The deceased is a 19-year-old man who was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest and pronounced dead upon arrival.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The concealed carry permit holder is a 68-year-old man.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 30-year-old woman was shot in the head and killed while driving the day after Christmas in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-crash-austin-news/14228718/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that police received reports of a vehicle crash “in the 4800-block of West Thomas Street” around 8:44 p.m. Tuesday. They responded to find a 30-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the head behind the wheel of a vehicle that had hit two others.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman was deceased.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Witnesses reported seeing a man and a woman fleeing the deceased woman’s vehicle after the crash.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/25/at-least-18-shot-chicago-first-two-days-christmas-weekend/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">noted</a> at least 18 people were shot in Chicago during the first two days of the Christmas weekend alone, and two of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A homicide database <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">maintained</a> by the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> indicates that 580 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through December 26, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other news, a concealed carry permit holder <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/24/chicago-concealed-carrier-foils-alleged-armed-robbery/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">foiled</a> an alleged armed robbery Saturday afternoon in Chicago, shooting and killing one of the suspected robbers, according to reports.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2023/12/concealed-carry-holder-shoots-robber-during-holdup-chicago.html" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that the incident occurred just prior to 5:00 p.m. “in an alley behind the 1700 block of West Cortez,” and that one of the alleged robbers was fatally wounded. The deceased is a 19-year-old man who was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest and pronounced dead upon arrival.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The concealed carry permit holder is a 68-year-old man.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for <a class="x5l" href="http://www.armedamericanradio.org/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Armed American Radio</a> and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: <a class="x5l" href="https://www.instagram.com/awr_hawkins/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@awr_hawkins</a>. 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that the first of the weekend’s shooting fatalities was discovered at 8:50 p.m. in “the 6000 block of South Laflin Street.” An 18-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the driver’s seat of a vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around 10:00 p.m. on Friday, 42-year-old Ismael Yanez was shot in the back of the head while driving his vehicle “in the 4500 block of South Pulaski Road.” Yanez was transported to a hospital, where they pronounced him dead.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 44-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded during an exchange of gunfire Saturday at 1:17 a.m. He was riding in a car with someone who allegedly opened fire on a 31-year-old concealed carry permit holder. The 31-year-old returned fire and one of his rounds struck the 44-year-old.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fourth fatal shooting of the weekend was discovered at 9:16 p.m. Saturday, when a 32-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest was found inside a vehicle “in the 0-100 block of West Cermak Road.” ABC 7 <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/south-loop-shooting-chicago-man-shot-killed/14161417/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that the 32-year-old was found in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> maintains a <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/#:~:text=554%20victims%20have%20been%20killed%20in%20Chicago%20in%202023." rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">database</a>, which shows 555 people were killed in Chicago from January 1, 2023, through December 10, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least 30 people were shot, one of them fatally, over Thanksgiving weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-thanksgiving-weekend-shootings-nov-23-to-27/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> 25 people were shot in the Windy City by Saturday night alone, with one of those shooting victims succumbing to their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the non-fatal shootings was as a drive-by incident just after midnight on Thursday that left five teens wounded near the United Center. The teens ranged from 15 to 18 years in age and, although wounded, were in good condition.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">CBS News <a class="x5l" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-thanksgiving-weekend-shootings-nov-23-to-27/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that by Monday morning the total number of shooting victims in Chicago for the Thanksgiving Weekend has reached at least 30. They reported five non-fatal shootings on Sunday, three of which were incidents in which people were walking their dog or simply walking down the sidewalk when someone opened fire on them.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1728779099282317500" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1728779099282317500&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F2nd-amendment%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fat-least-30-shot-in-brandon-johnsons-chicago-over-thanksgiving-weekend%2F&sessionId=c77ff18f7195ef91b5188b83f8af76aea7553d43&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 616px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 49-year-old woman “in the 100 block of South Sacramento Boulevard” was robbed at gunpoint just before 8 a.m. Sunday and one of the suspect’s shot her in the abdomen after stealing her belongings.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim was hospitalized in good condition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chicago, like all of Illinois, has a licensing requirement for legal gun ownership, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, and an “assault weapons” ban, which includes a ban on “high capacity” magazines. Moreover, Chicago sits in Cook County and that county has an additional “assault weapons” ban.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, nearly 540 people <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">have been killed</a> in Chicago during 2023, according to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> 24 people had been shot and wounded and one person had been shot and killed in Chicago during the holiday weekend.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fatal shooting occurred Wednesday night at 6:09 p.m. “in the 2500 block of West 63rd Street,” where a 27-year-old man was shot multiple times. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hours later, just after midnight on Thursday, five teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, were shot in a drive-by incident “neat the United Center.” Each of the five emerged from the attack in good condition, surviving their wounds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABC 7 / <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Sun-Times</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-uninvited-thanksgiving-guest-man-shot-park-manor/14100014/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">noted</a> that a man confronted then shot a 44-year-old man around 3:50 a.m. Friday “in the 6700 block of South Eberhart Avenue.” The armed man was upset the 44-year-old had not invited him to Thanksgiving Dinner.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 44-year-old was transported to a hospital, where he was listed in fair condition.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A database <a class="x5l" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">maintained</a> by the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Times</em> shows 537 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through November 25, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" rel="noopener" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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DUE TO BLACK LOOTING!</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">IN S.F. ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION ARE BLACK, BUT THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME (THESE ARE PRE-COVID NUMBERS AND BEFORE STORE LOOTING, CARJACKINGS AND ASSAULT WHERE EVERY DAY ACROSS THAT CITY).</span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Walgreens: getting out while they still can</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McDaniel</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/dennys_joins_innout_burger_abandoning_sole_its_sole_oakland_store_due_to_crime.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thomas Lifson recently wrote </a>about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, California. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to car in the drive-up lane, robbing customers as they waited for their orders.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This kind of wanton, and unrestrained criminality isn’t limited to California. It’s everywhere Democrats/socialist/communists rule, places across the country<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/squad-democrat-accuses-walgreens-racism-leaving-boston-neighborhood-shame" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> like Boston:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/video-san-francisco-walgreens-chain-freezers-shut-shoplifters-rob-store-20-times" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Walgreens was</a> accused of "racial discrimination" by a Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts after the pharmacy giant closed another location in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-calls-allowing-incarcerated-citizens-and-16-year-olds-to-vote" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.</a>, railed against the "multi-billion dollar corporation" for their decision to pull out of the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Roxbury during a speech on the House floor on Wednesday. It is the fourth Walgreens store to close in Boston in a little over a year.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251874_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: C-SPAN screenshot</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-closes-community-center-public-shelter-migrants-prompting-backlash" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">in the Massachusetts</a> 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th," Pressley began.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When a Walgreens <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/in-n-out-closing-oakland-due-crime-issues-part-degradation-bay-area-local-candidates-say" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">leaves a neighborhood</a> they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination," she stated.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walgreens is taking what little remains on the shelves after “the entire community” took everything else without the intermediate step of paying for it.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/sen-ed-markey" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Senator Ed Markey</a> and Senator Elizabeth Warren, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, the Democratic lawmakers protested the store's closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/dozens-protest-closure-popular-boston-walgreens/LX2GZ2ELU5EGJHRCOS46W7HFDA/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston25 News</a> reported.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a shame no one could have possibly foreseen that when crime runs rampant, and constant, organized shoplifting destroys any hope of making a profit, businesses tend to go where crime is not rampant and they can make a profit. In Boston, apparently profit is racist.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities," she said.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The community had plenty or input, or more accurately, output, which is why Walgreens is fleeing.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2022, Walgreens was accused of racism by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/boston" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston officials</a> after it closed three other stores in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the company said "several factors are taken into account" when choosing to close a location, such as "the dynamics of the local market and changes in the buying habits of our patients and customers."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such as not bothering to pay for things by the dynamic criminals operating in the “local market?” One would think adults, having lived in such places long enough to experience reality, like being robbed and constantly burglarized, would come to understand cause-effect relationships. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-ag-residents-city-cannot-prosecute-arrest-crime-crisis-madness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Places like Washington, DC, for example?</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251875_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">s</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, because “don’t” has worked so well to deter Iran, it will surely work on domestic criminals.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We as a city and a community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people and their families with resources if we want to be safer in the long run," Shwalb said in a viral clip from Fox 5. "We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schwalb is obviously a scientific socialist/communist who knows, like Kamala Harris, we must find and address the “root causes” of crime. Normal Americans are soooo simplistic. They actually believe arresting criminals and putting them in jail will keep those criminals from committing crimes and will deter others. The self-imagined elite like Schwalb know better. And so do the folks at In-N-Out and Denny’s, which is why they’re fleeing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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 <a href="http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com./" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stately McDaniel</a></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><br /></em></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Woke Congresswoman Demands Walgreens Let BLACK People STEAL</yt-formatted-string></h1><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqyGRBDgG4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqyGRBDgG4</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p><header style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ex-Trump Official Mike Gill Dies: Casualty of D.C. 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font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Former Trump administration official Mike Gill, who was shot during a carjacking spree on the 900 block of K Street Northwest in Washington, DC, has died. He was 56.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The father of three previously worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under former President Donald Trump and was gunned down after his assailant entered his Jeep in an attempt to steal it.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The incident also claimed the life of another innocent man, as Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/01/31/former-trump-official-mike-gill-shot-in-d-c-carjacking/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“His sudden departure has left a void in our lives that can never be filled,” Kristina Gill said in the statement as <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-trump-administration-official-shot-washington-dc-carjacking-spree-d-rcna137127" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> by NBC News, calling Mike Gill “not only a devoted husband and father but also a cherished son, brother, and friend.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — FIERY! Suspect Throws Molotov Cocktails at Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC</span></span></em></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cuban Embassy in US via Storyful</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/IBTN3Jf4-5YHnKzra.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gill was dedicated to improving others’ lives, being an active member of his church, befriending and mentoring coworkers, serving on the District of Columbia Board of Elections and coaching his daughter’s soccer team, Kristina Gill added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo called Gill “one of the most wonderful, honest, earnest, and open-hearted persons on this earth.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2024/013024a.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Latest collated data shows former and current <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/02/d-c-crime-crisis-touches-5-high-profile-people-in-2023/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">public figures</a> in the District have been targets before while crime in the Democrat-controlled city <a class="x5l" href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spiked</a> in 2023, according to police department numbers previously cited by Breitbart:</span></p><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homicides: Up 35 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robberies: Up 67 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Crime: Up 39 percent</span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent</span></li></ul></li></ul><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carjacking incidents in Washington, DC, have notoriously risen in recent years, prompting frustration and concern from law-abiding residents. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint last October.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In November 2023, D.C. police recorded 250 homicides from January through November — the highest numbers the city had seen since 2003. 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text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington DC</a></li><li style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></li><li><span style="color: #666666;"><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">WALGREENS HAS CLOSED ALL THEIR STORES IN MELTDOWN S.F. DUE TO BLACK LOOTING!</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">IN S.F. ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION ARE BLACK, BUT THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME (THESE ARE PRE-COVID NUMBERS AND BEFORE STORE LOOTING, CARJACKINGS AND ASSAULT WHERE EVERY DAY ACROSS THAT CITY).</span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">Walgreens: getting out while they still can</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McDaniel</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/dennys_joins_innout_burger_abandoning_sole_its_sole_oakland_store_due_to_crime.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thomas Lifson recently wrote </a>about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, California. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to car in the drive-up lane, robbing customers as they waited for their orders.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This kind of wanton, and unrestrained criminality isn’t limited to California. It’s everywhere Democrats/socialist/communists rule, places across the country<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/squad-democrat-accuses-walgreens-racism-leaving-boston-neighborhood-shame" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> like Boston:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/video-san-francisco-walgreens-chain-freezers-shut-shoplifters-rob-store-20-times" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Walgreens was</a> accused of "racial discrimination" by a Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts after the pharmacy giant closed another location in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-calls-allowing-incarcerated-citizens-and-16-year-olds-to-vote" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.</a>, railed against the "multi-billion dollar corporation" for their decision to pull out of the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Roxbury during a speech on the House floor on Wednesday. It is the fourth Walgreens store to close in Boston in a little over a year.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251874_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Graphic: C-SPAN screenshot</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-closes-community-center-public-shelter-migrants-prompting-backlash" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">in the Massachusetts</a> 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th," Pressley began.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When a Walgreens <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/in-n-out-closing-oakland-due-crime-issues-part-degradation-bay-area-local-candidates-say" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">leaves a neighborhood</a> they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination," she stated.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walgreens is taking what little remains on the shelves after “the entire community” took everything else without the intermediate step of paying for it.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/sen-ed-markey" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Senator Ed Markey</a> and Senator Elizabeth Warren, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month, the Democratic lawmakers protested the store's closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/dozens-protest-closure-popular-boston-walgreens/LX2GZ2ELU5EGJHRCOS46W7HFDA/" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston25 News</a> reported.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a shame no one could have possibly foreseen that when crime runs rampant, and constant, organized shoplifting destroys any hope of making a profit, businesses tend to go where crime is not rampant and they can make a profit. In Boston, apparently profit is racist.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities," she said.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The community had plenty or input, or more accurately, output, which is why Walgreens is fleeing.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2022, Walgreens was accused of racism by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/boston" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Boston officials</a> after it closed three other stores in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the company said "several factors are taken into account" when choosing to close a location, such as "the dynamics of the local market and changes in the buying habits of our patients and customers."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such as not bothering to pay for things by the dynamic criminals operating in the “local market?” One would think adults, having lived in such places long enough to experience reality, like being robbed and constantly burglarized, would come to understand cause-effect relationships. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-ag-residents-city-cannot-prosecute-arrest-crime-crisis-madness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Places like Washington, DC, for example?</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251875_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">s</span></em></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">rampant crime crisis</a> cannot be dealt with through law and order.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/washington-dc" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank">Angry residents</a> met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be "safer in the long run," they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, because “don’t” has worked so well to deter Iran, it will surely work on domestic criminals.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We as a city and a community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people and their families with resources if we want to be safer in the long run," Shwalb said in a viral clip from Fox 5. "We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schwalb is obviously a scientific socialist/communist who knows, like Kamala Harris, we must find and address the “root causes” of crime. Normal Americans are soooo simplistic. They actually believe arresting criminals and putting them in jail will keep those criminals from committing crimes and will deter others. The self-imagined elite like Schwalb know better. And so do the folks at In-N-Out and Denny’s, which is why they’re fleeing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">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 <a href="http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com./" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stately McDaniel</a></span></em></p></div></span></li></ul><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">OAKLAND IS A BLACK CRIME WAR ZONE! S.F. ACROSS THE BAY IS WORKING HARD TO BEAT THEM AT THEIR CRIMES!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Oakland Now Famous For NONSTOP Robberies (WTF)</yt-formatted-string></h1><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzT3HHUJPk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzT3HHUJPk</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning sole its sole Oakland store due to crime</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Thomas Lifson" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/thomas_lifson/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas Lifson</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations -- despite six-figure starting salaries. There's more going on than that, though. The departure of two prominent restaurant chains from the city reveals a horrifying pattern that the national media entirely miss.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">First, In-N-Out Burger announced that it was <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/in-n-out-to-close-first-location-in-its-75-year-history-due-to-a-wave-of-ca/#:~:text=The%20fast%2Dfood%20burger%20joint,officer%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">closing its only Oakland store</a>, despite it being profitable. The company’s CEO issued a <a href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/in-n-out-to-close-first-location-in-its-75-year-history-due-to-a-wave-of-ca/#:~:text=The%20fast%2Dfood%20burger%20joint,officer%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">statement</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies. Our last day of business in Oakland will be March 24, 2024.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are grateful for the local community, which has supported us for over 18 years, and we recognize that this closure negatively impacts our Associates and their families. Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and wellbeing of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment.</span></p></blockquote><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251851_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 643px; max-width: 100%; width: 500px;" /></span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2024-02/251852_5_.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 253px; max-width: 100%; width: 501px;" /></span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TyKax3B4U&t=42s" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">screengrabs</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, Denny’s <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/dennys-closing-only-restaurant-in-oakland-due-to-crime/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">closed its sole Oakland diner</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">…the safety and well-being of Denny’s team members and valued guests is our top priority,” <a href="https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1752841210568626238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1752841210568626238%7Ctwgr%5E41f37dd165a704c3d78bf43ff4a64e695b3db071%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fnews%2Fdennys-shuts-down-for-good-in-oakland-citing-crime-concerns" role="link" style="background: transparent;" target="_blank"><span>the restaurant stated</span></a>. “Weighing those factors, the decision has been made to close this location.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On their face, these announcements reveal deep problems in the Democrat-run city. But there is a special factor in the closure of both restaurants that the national media entirely miss. It is the same reason that I have eaten at both outlets in the past: both are located on the main approach road to Oakland International Airport. This means that lots of drivers of rental cars stop for a quick bite before or after domestic flights that, these days, very rarely provide any food to coach passengers. After the renters park and go inside, the gangs of thieves, who realize that expensive items like laptop computers can be found in the luggage locked in the trunk, strike within minutes. So, they target such rental car returns, which are pretty easy to spot since they are late-model cars and usually have stickers identifying the fleet that they belong to.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I actually heard about this a couple of years ago when I was warned to stay away from the In-N-Out Burger store very close to SFO Airport, in Millbrae, California. The same logic of robbing rental car drivers operates, and the person who warned me mentioned that, on average, it took at most a few minutes for targeted cars to be hit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, I am standing by and waiting to see if the Millbrae <span font-size:="" new="" times="">In-N-Out Burger store </span>joins Oakland in being closed. It may be that the Millbrae police are more effective than Oakland’s Finest, and perhaps they stake out the parking lot regularly, something the understaffed OPD is unlikely to match.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Either way, we see that criminals are being allowed to take control of city neighborhoods, much as the cartels of Mexico are the de facto government of parts of that nation. It can only be understood as the breakdown of civilization.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;"><em>The View</em> accuses black voters turning their backs on the Democrats of being ‘grifters’ in a ‘downward spiral’</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Jack Hellner" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/jack_hellner/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Hellner</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">As Joe Biden angrily screeched: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black!” Independent thinking is not allowed, just servitude.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">Black Americans are </span><em>not</em> permitted to leave the Democrat reservation, but when they disobey there’s hell to pay, and bigoted mudslinging attacks ensue—they’re denigrated with the “Uncle Tom” or “race traitor” moniker, and now, according to Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, black Americans leaving the left are in a “downward spiral” and guilty of grifting. See here, from a NewsBusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/01/31/view-previews-black-history-month-downward-spiral-black" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">report</a> yesterday:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">The View Previews Black History Month: ‘Downward Spiral of Black Republicans’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">In anticipation of the start of Black History Month on Wednesday, ABC’s </span>The View decried “the downward spiral of black Republicans” and smeared ALL of them as “grifters” that would betray America and their race for “power.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">They spoke with race baiter and author Clay Cane about his new anti-black Republican book: “</span>The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">Teeing up her guest, </span>Goldberg agreed that ‘grifters’ was ‘the right word for them.’ Cane, a liberal extremist, said he was ‘so saddened at the direction’ black Republicans were going.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Behar and Cane then attacked [Tim] Scott’s recent engagement to a white woman. They mocked how their names rhymed and suggested he only decided to marry her because it was good optics for a shot at being vice president[.]</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Would they have attacked Tim Scott if he were a white man? No, of course not; they’re attacking him specifically because of the color of his skin. Call me crazy, but that’s pretty bigoted.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">So by Behar and Goldberg’s standard…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who support school choice because they don’t want their children locked in failing schools so bad teachers can have job security, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who don’t want illegals flooding into the country because the former is disproportionately affected, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who support more police because they too value safe cities and neighborhoods, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who want lower taxes and less regulation because they’re entrepreneurs and want to achieve the American dream, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks who don’t support abortion because they detest the anti-black eugenics ideology underpinning the agenda, are in a downward spiral.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17aa6002-7fff-a28c-60c7-d8af19b761b9">The entire premise of Black History Month is offensive, because it presupposes that black Americans are an “other” and relegates them to a place outside the rest of the citizenry; American history </span><em>is</em> black history, and black history <em>is</em> American history. Dedicating a separate month to celebrate “black history” as if these stories somehow don’t have a place in the mainstream American historical record is manufacturing an unnecessary divide; yet they pretend President Trump is the racist causing disunion.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;">Here's how AWFUL Oakland, California is Today. Is it Unfixable?</yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHixc-QAhZQ&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHixc-QAhZQ&t=2s</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #990000;">Oakland In-N-Out to close due to concerns about crime</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hh-6V2B68">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hh-6V2B68</a></yt-formatted-string></div></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's What Downtown Oakland, California Looks Like Today</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="goog_1992064558"><br /></a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-v3aB8BwQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-v3aB8BwQ</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div></yt-formatted-string></div><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">BLACK GRINS WHEN SENTENCED FOR MURDERING INNOCENT TEEN. 50 YEARS!</span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sltr-sqRO_c">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sltr-sqRO_c</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">WE WILL SOON REACH A POINT WHEREBY ALL OF AMERICA IS CLOSED DOWN DUE TO BLACK CRIME.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">IN ACROSS THE BAY SAN FRANCISCO, ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION IS BLACK. THESE PEOPLE PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME. THESE STATS ARE PRE-COVID. CAR JACKINGS, STORE LOOTINGS AND ASSAULTS ARE TYPICALLY ALL BLACK CRIMES.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 23.3px;">IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL D.C., PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AT NIGHT DUE TO BLACK CRIME. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;">In a statement </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dionlimtv/status/1749182162845442070?s=46&t=XHTt7crz0jAu-2_PuczCSQ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">confirmed</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 23.3px;"> by an ABC7 reporter and obtained Sunday by The Standard, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick spoke plainly about the company's "repeated steps to create safer conditions," saying "our customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies."</span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Another historic first: In-N-Out closes a restaurant in Oakland on truly scary crime concerns</span></h1><div class="author" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Monica Showalter" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/monica_showalter/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="article_body"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In crime-plagued Oakland, the city achieved a "historic first" of they kind they'd probably rather not advertise:</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">According to the <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/21/in-n-out-to-close-crime-plagued-oakland-location/?taid=65ad9a12d6f23c000172229b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">San Francisco Standard</a>:</p><div style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In-N-Out Burger announced Sunday that it plans to close its Oakland location within the next two months due to what it described as "ongoing issues with crime."</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Fine and undandy.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In California, especially Southern California, but also in the north, In-N-Out Burgers is an institution. </p><div id="pub-7-9" style="font-size: inherit;"></div><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Older than McDonald's, it's popular because of its non-processed food with no chemicals to give you a headache, and for its simple menu with the best prices on the fast food scene of California. People love the place, it's iconic, they hop off from airplanes at LAX and other airports and make a beeline to the In-N-Out nearby. They buy branded merchandise with its cute little palm tree designs from the place. Movie stars go there and yes, it is to be seen.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I just went to In-N-Out this weekend in San Diego where I carefully timed my visit to make sure I got in ahead of the crowd at the drive-thru because the car lines can be very long, though the restaurant is pretty good at making it move quickly anyway. A young man in a traditional 1950s white military-style hat greeted me and took my order from the window, well before I got to the order intercom or the pay window. My order was all done and ready to go by the time I got to the pickup window.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Still, it's competitive from even the road to get into the line and frequently, the car line snakes out into the road, so I know the visit needs to be timed and planned. Once through, though it's delicious!</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The details of that closure, from the company are <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/21/in-n-out-to-close-crime-plagued-oakland-location/?taid=65ad9a12d6f23c000172229b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">ugly enough</a>:</p></div><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In a statement <a href="https://twitter.com/dionlimtv/status/1749182162845442070?s=46&t=XHTt7crz0jAu-2_PuczCSQ" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;">confirmed</a> by an ABC7 reporter and obtained Sunday by The Standard, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick spoke plainly about the company's "repeated steps to create safer conditions," saying "our customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies."</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The company said the store's last day of business would be Sunday, March 24.<br style="font-size: inherit;" /><br style="font-size: inherit;" />In-N-Out thanked the community for its 18 years of support before acknowledging the impact the sudden closure would have on workers and their families, stating that "this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and well- being of our Customers and Associates—we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment."</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It's pretty bad if you have to close a profitable restaurant because the crime hitting your customers and staff outweighs even the profit. As with LAX, this In-N-Out is located on the highway to Oakland's airport which makes it a convenient place to eat in the era of no-meal airline flights. </p><div style="font-size: inherit;"> It's an area that has grown bleak. A correspondent who has been there noted to me by message this morning:</div><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div style="font-size: inherit;">Almost no residents nearby. Car dealers, gas stations, and office buildings. Across the freeway is the Oakland. Coliseum, abandoned by its basketball, football, and (rumored soon) baseball tenants. </div></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It gets even worse when you read the San Francisco Chronicle's account of what was <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-in-n-out-18610993.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">going on there</a>:</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The In-N-Out, a convenient pit stop for travelers headed to Oakland International Airport and a buzzy hangout after A’s games at the Coliseum, has become <a data-link="native" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/oakland-rockridge-crime-college-avenue-18117744.php" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">the epicenter</a> for crime in a <a data-link="native" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-robbery-assault-victims-18177355.php" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; font-size: inherit;" target="_blank">city grappling with a surge in violence and theft</a>. Since 2019, police have logged 1,335 incidents in the vicinity of the diner on 8300 Oakport St. — more than any other location in Oakland.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">...and...</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><div data-block-type="text" data-dropcap="false" style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">That number includes nine robberies, two commercial burglaries, four domestic violence incidents and 1,174 car break-ins, according to Oakland police data. Chaotic scenes unfold daily. Sean Crawford, who works in a building around the corner from the diner, said he’s watched robbery crews bust doors of work vans and heard In-N-Out customers loudly confronting burglars.</p></div><div data-block-type="text" data-dropcap="false" style="font-size: inherit;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In one instance last year, Crawford and some co-workers were driving by the diner when they saw a car pull up to the drive-thru line. Two people jumped out and methodically went from vehicle to vehicle, robbing people at gunpoint, Crawford said.</p></div></blockquote><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">This is the kind of horror that happens in Latin America, in the bad parts of Venezuela, or Colombia, or maybe Brazil during its worst years. You can't build a society with trust with that kind of unpunished crime going on, and obviously, it's been going on a long time for it to get to that level.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In-N-Out is apparently no stranger to these security concerns, either, what with its long car lines. Here is the one I went to -- and I had no idea there had been problems until I saw this CBS8 report from a few years ago:</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="337" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qADApyR_9zc?si=BBFXeQIN3Po4FPpm" style="font-size: inherit !important;" title="YouTube video player" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">What a nightmare.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">San Diego's is still there but Oakland has another 'historic first' -- the first blue city to send In-N-Out fleeing for refuge based on the conditions of the city -- even though they were making money.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">I hope the leftists running that city are proud of themselves.</p><p style="font-size: inherit; 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font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A driver accused of hitting a police officer in New York City apparently did it on purpose, sources <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/metro/shocking-video-shows-moment-nyc-driver-intentionally-plows-into-policeman-f-k-these-cops/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Authorities and sources said the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Sahara Dula, was behind the wheel of her Lexus going the wrong way on the Upper East Side on Wednesday when she allegedly hit the New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1748454196834107809" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 605px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> article noted Dula was allegedly high on marijuana at the time. The article continued:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn’t move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose,’’ Dula later told investigators, according to court papers.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“F–k these cops! He wouldn’t move!’’ she screamed a few minutes after the incident, the documents claim — with a source saying Dula added, “F–k these cops, it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dash camera footage <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdGaebcvqlo" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">caught</a> the moment the incident unfolded, showing the officer approaching the black vehicle, which was pointed the wrong way on the street, according to PIX 11 News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Someone yells, “Hey! Be careful!” seconds before the car lurches forward and smashes into the officer. After his body slams into the hood, it flips and lands on the street. The driver exits the vehicle with her hands in the air shortly after the collision.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1748203298195202555" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1748203298195202555&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F&sessionId=d93fb9b896ccf1d6afc72f5bb5b87b35b69d8c5a&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 993px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the incident happened as officers were investigating an unrelated robbery at a store and had closed off the area. The officer involved suffered a broken leg and bruising.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The outlet also said Dula has a degree in criminal justice and reportedly runs a business mentoring children through music to keep them off the streets and away from drugs.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, the suspect also reportedly has bipolar disorder, takes several medications, and is a mental health patient.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a social media post on Thursday, Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngô <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1748205795190178233" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">described</a> Dula as a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1748205795190178233" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1748205795190178233&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fvideo-fk-these-cops-nyc-driver-accused-of-hitting-policeman-says-its-a-lesson-to-him%2F&sessionId=d93fb9b896ccf1d6afc72f5bb5b87b35b69d8c5a&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The report also noted that the suspect has a history of run-ins with the law.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Pix 11, the suspect is held on a $25,000 cash bail and is in custody on Rikers Island</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></p></div></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><br /></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="font-size: 1.165em;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><header style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 19-year-old man in Chicago is accused of stealing a car after getting into trouble for a pair of similar cases in 2023.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Officials charged the man with stealing the vehicle while he was wearing an ankle monitor for two other stolen car incidents in March, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/01/chicago-auto-theft-charges-three-cases-electronic-monitoring.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> on Tuesday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect, identified as Jonathan Curtis, is behind bars and labeled a public safety threat and flight risk in two of the cases.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1748152292191219846?s=20" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the man in question:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 640px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Clearly wasn’t monitored well enough! Smh,” one social media user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/dangen24/status/1748157078357622955" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a> on the story, while another <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/hrbekroenick/status/1748153517095698646" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a>, “Well who could have seen that coming?”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report continued:</span></div><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">North Riverside cops arrested Curtis on March 2, saying he struck one of their patrol cars with a stolen Jeep Cherokee and also possessed a loaded firearm, according to court records. After appearing before Judge Sheree Henry, he posted a $500 bail deposit and went home on an ankle monitor the next day.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two months later, Judge Geary Kull ordered the sheriff’s office to remove Curtis’ ankle monitor.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, two months after that, on July 13, cops arrested Curtis for allegedly possessing a stolen Toyota Camry in the 600 block of North Lorel. Prosecutors charged him with possessing a stolen motor vehicle and fleeing and attempting to elude.</span></p></blockquote></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois became the first state in the nation to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminate</a> cash bail in September, Breitbart News reported at the time. The decision brought heavy criticism to the Democrat-controlled state.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Per the CWB Chicago article, the suspect was told to go home in October and was fitted with an ankle monitor. However, a few months later, police allegedly watched Curtis steal a car its owner left running as it was parked on North Campbell.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The officers tailed him until he exited the vehicle on North Juneway Terrace. When he got back into the car, the officers tried to make a traffic stop but were forced to stop pursuing when he busted through a pair of red lights.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect’s ankle monitor GPS reportedly showed he was there when those incidents occurred.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is important to note that in 2020, Chicago police <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/07/18/chicago-cops-forced-stop-pursuing-vehicle-carrying-murder-suspects-this-departments-joke/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">introduced</a> a vehicle pursuit policy that gave officers a list to consider when deciding if they should chase a vehicle, according to Breitbart News.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The recent CWB Chicago article said the suspect was arrested for this third case and charged with aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle as well as aggravated fleeing. 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s scary,” one neighbor told the outlet. “I’m so happy that they caught him”:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_6pAdl2-vHk?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="NYPD shares new details about Queens stabbing spree" width="640"></iframe><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first incident happened on January 8 when a grandfather was stabbed in the back while walking to a laundromat. The victim claimed the suspect smiled at him as he walked away from the scene, the elderly man told the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A woman was stabbed as she walked home from work Tuesday evening and three other victims were stabbed early Wednesday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) alerted the public to the situation and manhunt on Wednesday morning before they found him hours later.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“On top of the five slashings, police are probing whether Rigueur is the same suspect who attacked a man on a Brooklyn subway platform Wednesday,” the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em> report said.</p><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surveillance video <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqURW0la_kU" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect, wearing a grey hoodie and dark colored pants, walking down a sidewalk and passing in front of a shop. Moments later, he turns around and produces what appears to be a large knife from his pocket:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bqURW0la_kU?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="VIDEO: Unhinged hospital greeter, 27, suspect in Queens stabbing spree - holding knife before arrest" width="640"></iframe><p style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CBS report said the man has no criminal history and the hospital has placed him on administrative leave.</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="color: #111111; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shacoria Elly was a barista at the Harvest & Grounds inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when she got into an argument with a co-worker about espresso shots on January 13, according to a </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-airport-employee-fight-viral-video-fired-harvest-ground" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">police report</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 800px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The manager in a red polo shirt attempts to subdue her as she fights, saying, “No, you can walk away. I’ll get your fucking stuff.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He repeatedly points to the exit and tells Elly to “get out” as she continues to push him while yelling and then turning her attention to the second manager in a green shirt.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elly can then be seen swinging her arms at the other manager as he tries to defend himself before she screams, “Bitch!” and grabs a nearby metal chair.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before she can do damage with the improvised weapon, the taller manager snatches it from her grasp while the shorter one blocks her punches. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The video escalates even more when Elly, again, rushes at the red-shirted man, this time only to find herself tossed onto the floor to the horror of shocked onlookers. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gasps erupt from the crowd as Elly connects with the floor before quickly bouncing back up to her feet and continuing to fight.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The young woman again swings at both of the managers before storming out of the store as the managers say to “call the police.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elly’s departure lasts all of two seconds before she makes a sharp 180-degree turn, sprints back into the store, and leaps over the coffee bar to the back of the shop.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both managers grab Elly as she flings store products and equipment around before she eventually manages to grab a black jacket and bag. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The woman slips and falls to the floor again before making her final exit as the video ends. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police said Elly was “terminated from her position” in their report, and airport security confiscated her badge.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Elly was no longer in the area when the officer arrived. 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A 61-year-old Chicago woman is reportedly brain dead and may not live after she was beaten during a robbery on a train, prosecutors say.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect in the case is an eight-time felon who is on parole for a separate robbery involving a police officer, CWB Chicago <a class="x5l" href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/01/chicago-cta-red-line-attempted-murder-loop.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> Wednesday.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Judge William Fahy granted the state’s petition to detain Mijawon Johnson, 36, as a public safety threat during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. State officials have also moved to revoke his parole,” the outlet said.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">An image <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1745112641591202186" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> the suspect in the case:</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1745112641591202186" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1745112641591202186&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fcrime%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fprosecutors-chicago-woman-left-brain-dead-after-eight-time-felon-attacked-her-on-train%2F&sessionId=ce0622bf001f99cfa7c841582de1f77ec51d5632&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 736px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson was apparently caught on surveillance footage allegedly trying to swipe the woman’s bag as she rode the Red Line train on January 4.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is accused of repeatedly hitting her in the head and stomach and stomping on her body before leaving the train.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">After she was found unresponsive, the victim was put on a ventilator. Prosecutors say she is brain-dead and not expected to live very long.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Video footage <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5hvzoxcTvo" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">shows</a> crews near an ambulance outside the Red Line station where the incident occurred:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/y5hvzoxcTvo?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Man arrested in brutal attack on CTA Red Line" width="640"></iframe></span><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect was identified, and police officers found him and took him into custody once they spotted him riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">He now faces charges of attempted murder along with two counts of aggravated battery in the case.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CWB Chicago report noted that “Prosecutors also charged him with violating an order of protection for allegedly entering a 27-year-old Old Town woman’s residence on New Year’s Eve after being ordered to stay away.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The suspect’s parole came in August after he served a portion of time for robbing a covert narcotics officer in 2021. At the time, he was on parole for aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Illinois Department of Corrections records report that the suspect was given prison sentences numerous times for narcotics over the course of several years, per the CWB Chicago article.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Social media users commented on the report, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Turningoftheti1/status/1745449784771776831" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “You get what you vote for Chicago!!!”</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; 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She says he warned her that she belonged to him and no one else.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officials also say that Ferguson stole the woman’s credit cards and ID before he left the premises.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and later entered an order of protection against the TV personality.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Details about the pair’s relationship or any motivations for the attack have not been made public.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ferguson pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance on Jan. 10 and bond was set at $10,000.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The suspect has appeared in several episodes of Food Network star Guy Fieri’s <i>Tournament of Champions</i>, and season two of his Food Network series <i>SuperChef: Grudge Match</i> began last month.</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nH1lZeh4CCQ?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Darnell Ferguson's Tips for Making Surf & Turf | Superchef Grudge Match | Food Network" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His two Louisville restaurants, “Tha Drippin’ Crab,” and “SuperChefs” have both gone out of business.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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max-width: 640px; position: relative;"><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span>FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.</span> - A retail theft ring was caught after attempting to steal more than $4,500 worth of designer handbags from a high-end store at Tysons Center, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:Fairfax County;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/us/va/fairfax-county" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fairfax County</a> police say.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Just after 5 p.m. Friday, the detectives with the Tysons Urban Team received an alert about the theft. The suspects reportedly grabbed multiple bags, ran out and hopped into a Chevrolet Suburban, attempting to flee the area.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Detectives began to search along I-495 South in Annandale in the direction the suspects were believed to have fled.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Police say despite the heavy traffic, detectives were able to navigate through the Express Lane to catch up to the crew. With the help of <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:Virginia;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/us/va" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Virginia</a> State Police, the detectives were able to make a traffic stop and successfully apprehended all four suspects on the interstate.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">All four were taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center where they were charged.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Paris Teresa Hooks, 20, of Washington D.C was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Miyara Ghiselle Fletcher, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, and larceny with intent to sell and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Shaniya Briyanna Clark, 19, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny. She was held on a $1000 secured bond from another jurisdiction.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Kevin Wormley, 32, of Maryland was charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny and released on $6000 unsecured bond.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The detectives successfully <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:retrieved the stolen goods;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/tag/crime-publicsafety" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">retrieved the stolen goods</a> and it was all returned to Bloomingdale’s.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Detectives ask anyone with additional information to contact Tysons Urban Team at 703-556-7750 or submit an anonymous tip to 866-411-8477.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><header style="font-size: 16px;"><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="color: #232a31; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man is accused of dragging a woman into an alleyway and sexually assaulting her at knifepoint on Saturday at 12:30 a.m. in the Queens area of New York City.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are searching for the man who targeted the 45-year-old victim as she was walking near Northern Boulevard and 110th Street, the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/07/metro/nyc-woman-sexually-assaulted-at-knifepoint-by-mugger-cops/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; 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According to the <em style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>, the victim was transported to a local hospital and listed in stable condition.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, police are asking those with more information regarding the case to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Spanish speakers may call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social media users were quick to share their thoughts about the incident, one person <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/325AIR1/status/1744047007885406389" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">writing</a>, “And when he’s caught, he’ll be immediately released without bail – just like that last rapist home invader.”</p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The suspect was probably released 32 times the last 2 months for other violent crimes,” another user <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/LapioBomb/status/1744046804293898471" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">commented</a>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is important to note that felony suspects <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/05/of-nyc-violent-crime-suspects-freed-without-bail-go-on-to-commit-more-crimes/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">released</a> without bail due to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested than those given bail before the law was implemented, Breitbart News reported in April 2023.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The outlet continued:</p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A <a class="x5l" href="https://datacollaborativeforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RecidivismReport-1.pdf" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">study</a> by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reviewed cases prior to the New York law taking effect and cases after the law was implemented where most suspects arrested for crimes are not required to pay any bail to be released from jail.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, the study found that 47 percent of New York City suspects previously charged with felonies were rearrested for crimes — including more than 31 percent of whom were rearrested for felonies, more than 17 percent rearrested for violent crimes, and almost four percent rearrested for firearm charges.</p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In December, Fox 5 New York <a class="x5l" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERawctgNMA" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highlighted</a> several violent crimes that occurred in New York City.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In one instance, a Queens man killed four of his family members by stabbing them to death:</p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-rx="1" frameborder="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rERawctgNMA?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Crime in the City full episode: December 8, 2023" width="640"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To make matters worse, more of New York City’s police officers are reportedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/07/08/squeezed-from-every-direction-nypd-cops-continue-leaving-force-in-droves/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rushing</a> to leave their jobs as crime bears down on citizens, according to a Breitbart News article published in July 2023.</p></div></div><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue;">https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #990000; font-family: sourcesansprobold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;">So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. 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The man who was caught on camera attacking a Las Vegas judge was sentenced to up to four years in prison in an unrelated case. Redden leapt over the bench and attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus in her courtroom last week after trying to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past. 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Redden stood in court in shackles with a mask on his face and orange mitts on his hands, flanked by a group of jail officers. His lawyer, Caesar Almase, declined to comment outside the courtroom. In the attack last week, Redden had to be wrestled off the judge by several court and jail officers and courtroom staff members — including some who were seen throwing punches. One courtroom marshal was hospitalized for treatment of a bleeding gash on his forehead and a dislocated shoulder. Redden launched himself at the judge just after asking for leniency and describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">When it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, the court marshal moved to handcuff Redden and take him into custody. That's when the defendant started yelling expletives and charged forward as people in the courtroom audience began to scream.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Redden vaulted a defense table, dove over the judge’s bench and landed atop Holthus. The video showed the judge falling back against a wall and an American flag toppling on them.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Redden “supermanned over the judicial bench,” Jerry Wiese, the court’s chief judge, said in describing the event.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Holthus suffered some injuries but was <a class="link" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:back to work the next day;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/judge-attacked-las-vegas-deobra-redden-be4d961d1255b8841aa8ace661ac4681" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">back to work the next day</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Wiese credited court clerk Michael Lasso for acting quickly to protect the judge, saying he was the “primary person” who pulled Redden off “and probably kept her from having more severe injuries.”</p><div class="view-cmts-cta-wrapper" id="view-cmts-cta-5806e905-a3a0-389d-930a-91fb779aa51e"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h1 align="center" style="border-bottom: 1.0000pt solid rgb(229,231,235); 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box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">As many Democrat-run cities are being ravaged due to soft-on-crime policies, new Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker is poised to bring a harsh crackdown on crime after taking office on the first day of the new year.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/news/philadelphia-police-departments-first-dei-officer-is-fired/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">New York Post</a> reports that one of Parker’s first steps after becoming mayor was to sign an executive order on January 2, which declared public safety in Philadelphia to be an emergency. “I want the world to know that I am fully committed to ending this sense of lawlessness and bringing order back to our city and a sense of lawfulness,” the mayor declared.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Despite being a Democrat, Parker has been a proponent of “stop and frisk” police tactics and has promised sweeping measures in order to address the causes of major crime in Philadelphia. These involve getting “every available resource into the neighborhoods struggling from the scourges of crime, gun violence, drugs and addiction,” and “permanently shut down all pervasive open-air drug markets.” Parker also dismissed those who characterized her approach as “too aggressive,” noting that it was of greater concern that Philadelphia residents might have a “loved one on the streets openly using intravenous drugs.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">At the same time as Parker is pursuing a tough stance on crime, at least one local official promoting radical-left ideology <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/leslie-marant-fired-dei-philadelphia-police-department-20240103.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">has been removed</a> from the government payroll. Leslie Marant, a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) official with the Philadelphia Police Department, lost her job just before Parker was sworn in as mayor. Marant, who was paid a salary of $170,569, had no law enforcement experience when she was hired. The Philadelphia Police Department did not comment on why she was removed from the position, but it appears as though they may eventually hire a replacement.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Remarkably, it seems that at least one Democratic politician is looking to take meaningful action to stem the burgeoning crime in one of America’s major cities.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 6.0000pt; margin: 6pt 0pt 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 27pt;">Crime Killed a Quarter of a Million Black People.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 27pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 9.0000pt; margin: 9pt 0pt 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;">And the racist pro-crime Left wants more.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 22.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 22.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">April 14, 2023 by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Daniel Greenfield</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.5pt;">20 Comments</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="420" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps1.png" width="750" /><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 0.15pt; mso-border-top-alt: 0.7500pt solid rgb(238,238,238); mso-padding-alt: 0.7500pt 0.7500pt 0.7500pt 0.7500pt; width: 590.65pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom: none; border-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-style: none; border-top: none; border-width: initial; mso-border-bottom-alt: none; mso-border-left-alt: none; mso-border-right-alt: none; mso-border-top-alt: none; padding: 5.25pt;" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: top; word-break: break-all;"><span style="background: rgb(178, 178, 178); font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-shading: rgb(178,178,178);"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps2.jpg" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Over the last decade, BLM, and assorted leftist and libertarian groups dismantled our criminal justice system. Police forces were defunded, pro-crime prosecutors refused to lock up criminals, federal and state prison systems released tens of thousands of them, and a wave of legislative decriminalization legalized everything from shoplifting, to drug dealing and mugging.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The pro-crime policymaking that eliminated public safety and cost </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">over 3,000 lives</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in 2020 alone was done under the guise of fighting racism. Statistics which showed that black people were more likely to be arrested, imprisoned or shot during criminal encounters with police were used to spread conspiracy theories falsely accusing the criminal justice system of systemic racism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What all of these racist conspiracy theories popularized by politicians, the media, and the entertainment industry ignored was that black people were also far more likely to be crime victims. Even as the BLM riots got underway, black people in surveys were strongly opposed to police defunding. The opposition was so vehement that Democrats not only abandoned the issue, but claimed that they had always been opposed to it and ran against their own position.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Despite years of false claims portraying black people as victims of a biased criminal justice system whose police forces are descended from “slave catchers” who repress minorities at the behest of white suburbanites, surveys of black people continue to tell a very different story.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A Pew survey found that while only 33% of white Democrats wanted to reduce crime, 63% of Hispanics and 66% of black people thought that fighting crime should be a priority.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And that’s nothing new.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Leftists and libertarians lied that the War on Drugs was racist when it was actually pushed by black groups, including the NAACP, which demanded the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">death penalty</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> for drug dealers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That same Pew survey showed that while only 38% of white Dems answered that reducing the availability of illegal drugs should be a priority, 57% of Hispanics and 60% of black people believed that it should be.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now a Kaiser Family Foundation survey </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">shows that</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> black people are far more likely to suffer from crime than white people. The survey, meant to generate support for unconstitutional gun ban measures, instead unintentionally demonstrated that crime hurts black people more.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The KFF survey noted that “three in ten black adults (31%) have personally witnessed someone being shot”, “one-third of black adults (34%) have a family member who was killed by a gun” and (32%) say that they worry all the time about themselves or a family member being shot.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One in six of black adults say they don’t feel “safe at all” from gun violence in their neighborhood, compared to 2% of white adults. 1 in 4 also bought a gun to protect themselves.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Gun violence is just another way of saying crime.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Black people are disproportionately affected by crime. Pro-crime policies led </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to the deaths</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of an additional 2,244 black people in 2020. According to a </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Johns Hopkins report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, “in 2020, one out of every 1,000 young black males (15–34) was shot and killed” and, “more than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">CDC numbers showed that homicide is a</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"> leading cause of death </span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">among black men under the age of 20, and from the ages of 20 to 44. White men are killed by guns at the rate of 3.15 per 100,000 while black men die at the rate of 48.16 per 100,000. Pro-crime policies increase crime and kill thousands of black people. That’s what a real disproportionate impact looks like.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Every time pro-crime politicians free criminals, pro-crime prosecutors refuse to prosecute violent offenders, and legislatures eliminate bail, the impact is felt most strongly in the black community.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Law enforcement isn’t racist, but getting rid of it is. When a community depends more on a particular service, losing it has a clear disproportionate impact. Keeping the peace, arresting offenders and dispensing justice is one of the few primal duties of government. The breach in the social contract when the government fails to provide peacekeeping services is devastating.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Most crimes are committed by repeat offenders. The only way to interrupt the cycle of violence is to lock them up. Successful tough on crime policies in the 90s made cities safe once again and led to an economic boom in inner cities. Manhattan’s Harlem went from a danger zone to hosting Bill Clinton’s office, but in 2022, crime </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">increased 44%</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The Clinton offices have mostly moved down to the Wall Street area, but where they remain in Central Harlem, crime is up 32%. Next door in West Harlem, it’s up 133%. That means Bill is less likely to tour the Apollo Theater, but it also means that the mostly black residents are the ones feeling the worst of it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pro-crime activists have spent years regaling us with the suffering of convicts while caring very little about the shattered lives they have left in their wake. Foundations, protest groups, activist organizations and even PACs have spent hundreds of millions lobbying for criminals, fighting for their release and remaking our system to favor perpetrators, not victims. Their political success has come with a very high cost. And much of that burden has fallen on black people.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is hard to think of any single policy in the last generation that has done more harm to black people or claimed more lives than the pro-crime agenda. Pro-crime activists have falsely claimed that police shootings of black men are a form of genocide. They’re not. Crime is.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"> study</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="color: #008285; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">counted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 286,075 firearm deaths among black people from 1990 to 2021. That’s over a quarter of a million deaths. Some of them are due to suicide, but suicides are much lower among black people than white people, and the majority of black gun deaths were homicides.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And seeing a quarter of a million deaths, the pro-crime Left wants even more bodies.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Those quarter of a million deaths have been largely self-inflicted, but, much as with the welfare state, they were aided and abetted by white liberal policymakers who had come to believe that what the black community really needed was for the government to enable its criminals.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Racist liberal condescension continues to destroy black communities, families and lives.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2020 demonstrated that tough on crime policies can save thousands of black lives and, over time, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of black lives. Pro-crime policies are a racist disaster which reduced black people to criminals and then set out to free criminals to help black people.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s why 1 out of every 1,000 young black men are dead.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pro-crime policies are racist. They enable a crime epidemic that has killed more black people than the total number of battlefield casualties for all races in the Civil War. More black people died in the year of Black Lives Matter than our entire death toll in the Iraq War.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 19.5000pt; margin-left: 0.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 19.5pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Can it get worse than this? In 1991, 12,226 black people were murdered. For the first time, more black people were killed than white people. The numbers are trending that way once again. While the Left claims that highways and dress codes are systemically racist, their pro-crime policies are a racist program that promises liberation but offers only mass death.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-bottom: 37.5pt; margin-left: 11.25pt; margin-right: 11.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><img height="200" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml19496/wps3.jpg" width="200" /><span face="sans-serif" style="mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><h1 align="right" style="margin-bottom: 37.5000pt; margin-left: 11.3000pt; margin-right: 11.3000pt; margin-top: 6.0000pt; margin: 6pt 11.3pt 37.5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4437627955702405845"><u><span class="15" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); color: #008285; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Daniel Greenfield</span></u></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><p align="right" class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 11.3000pt; margin-right: 11.3000pt; margin-top: 37.5000pt; margin: 37.5pt 11.3pt 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; padding: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-shading: rgb(245,245,245); mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-left: -0.75pt; margin-right: -0.75pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h2><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF BLACK CRIME ONLY! STORE LOOTING, CAR JACKING, RAPPER ASSAULT, MURDER, HOME INVASION </span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: lato, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1; margin: 8px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Glazov Gang: ‘I Want All the White People Dead’</span></h1><h3 class="fpm-subtitle-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steven Hutcherson stabbed two teenage girls in NYC. Why was he on the streets? </span></h3><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 1em 0px;"><time class="entry-time" datetime="2024-01-05T05:10:54+05:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: inherit;">January 5, 2024</time> by <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="entry-author-link" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/glazov-gang/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008285; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Glazov Gang</a></span> <span class="entry-comments-link" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/glazov-gang-i-want-all-the-white-people-dead/#comments" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #008285; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">1 Comment</a></span></p></header><p><span style="color: #b45f06; 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Louisiana police chief and his wife, who is a police captain, were both allegedly shot by the chief’s mistress, who is also a police officer, after the chief’s wife confronted the affair partners.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Opelousas Police Chief Graig LeBlanc and his wife, St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Captain Crystal LeBlanc, were wounded outside Opelousas Officer Savannah Butler’s house on December 22, according to the sheriff’s office.</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz reported that Butler surrendered to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on New Year’s Day and was booked on two counts of negligent injury, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of illegal discharge of a firearm. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The investigation revealed that LeBlanc and his wife were shot at Butler’s home on Garnet Drive just outside the city limits of Opelousas,” Guidroz said in a statement posted to Facebook, detailing how “Crystal LeBlanc went to Garnet Drive to speak to her husband who was inside Butler’s home,” prompting an argument between the married couple.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Butler then entered the doorway armed with a gun. When Chief LeBlanc put his hand out in front of the weapon to retrieve the gun, he was shot in the hand,” the sheriff said. “The bullet then traveled through the chief’s hand and hit his wife Crystal in the arm.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Police said that both shooting victims admitted themselves to local hospitals to be treated for their injuries. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Guidroz, the subsequent investigation “revealed that Savannah Butler cleaned up the scene to cover up evidence prior to notifying the Sheriff’s Office, which constituted the charge of Obstruction of Justice.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Detectives also found probable cause to issue a trespassing summons for Crystal LeBlanc for entering Butler’s property. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Both Captain LeBlanc and Officer Butler were placed on administrative leave by their respective agencies pending the completion of the investigation,” Guidroz noted. “Opelousas Police Chief Graig LeBlanc faces no pending charges at this time. The investigation is still ongoing.”</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Butler was released from jail after posting a bond of $22,000. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="x5l" href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/06/news/louisiana-police-chief-graig-leblanc-admits-infidelity-led-to-him-and-his-wife-being-shot-by-his-subordinate/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Graig LeBlanc</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, who has been with the Opelousas Police Department since 1998, according to the </span><i>New York Pos</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">t, expressed his “sincere apologies” to everyone involved on Wednesday.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“My actions have caused pain and distress, not only to my family but also to our community,” the Opelousas Police Chief wrote in a statement posted by the department:</span></span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I must acknowledge the role I played in this unfortunate situation. I have failed in my commitment to uphold the standards expected of the Chief of Police and, more importantly, failed the trust you have placed in me. Infidelity is a breach of not only the personal commitments I made but also the professional standards we all expect from those in public service.</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is unclear when the affair between the chief and his subordinate began, but it is known that Chief LeBlanc had </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932253/Louisiana-police-chief-wife-shot-MISTRESS-fed-spouse-drove-womans-house-confront-shoot-bullet.html" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">hired Butler</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to work under him before the affair began, according to the </span><i>Daily Mail</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The police chief said he will be cooperating with any investigations stemming from the situation and is additionally initiating an “internal review” himself.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; 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font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A homeless man has been charged with knocking a man onto the Philadelphia SEPTA train tracks, leading to the victim getting struck and killed.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chaz Wearing, 40, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Thursday evening incident, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NBC10 </span><a class="x5l" href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/suspect-charged-in-fight-that-led-to-man-being-struck-killed-by-septa-train/3737468/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reports</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that Wearing had begun arguing with another man, and the fight turned physical at the University City station at the intersection of 34 and Market Streets moments before a train arrived at 4:30 p.m.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A disturbing </span><a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/PhillyCrimeUpd/status/1743063111244881967" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cell phone video</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> obtained by Philly Crime Update shows the moment that Wearing, who appears to be held against a pillar by the larger man, strikes his opponent in the face twice, sending him falling onto the tracks.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The unidentified man could be heard telling Wearing in the argument, “Give me my lighter…give me my f*cking lighter, bro!”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Screams and cries can be heard erupting from the horrified crowd gathered on the platform as the train crushes the man just seconds later.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim was pronounced dead shortly after.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wearing fled but was apprehended by police at the next station stop.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wearing, whom investigators believe is homeless, was wanted on a bench warrant for an unrelated strangulation case in Delaware County at the time of the incident, reported the local NBC station. His criminal history also includes cases in Clinton and Lycoming counties, the District Attorney’s Office said.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Appeared to be some type of physical altercation. We don’t know exactly what took place prior to that to initiate this, but it’s being investigated at this point,” Philadelphia Police Inspector Kpana Massaquoi told the outlet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The station where the altercation occurred was shut down for hours on Thursday, as was the area near Drexel University’s campus.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s kind of scary that that kind of thing is happening around here. I thought it was pretty safe, but I guess it’s pretty out of the ordinary for that to happen,” said a local SEPTA passenger.</span></span></p></div><footer style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"></footer><header style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Police: Chicago Father Killed Two Women, Wounded an Infant, then Turned Gun on Himself</span></h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="12" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Chicago-area man fatally shot his girlfriend and her cousin and wounded his infant son before fleeing the scene and turning the gun on himself, police and members of the victims’ family said.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The tragedy occurred Tuesday night in Cicero, Illinois, about 15 minutes from downtown Chicago.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Local police responded to reports of gunshots at around 7:45 p.m., finding two women badly </span><a class="x5l" href="https://abc7chicago.com/cicero-il-shooting-news-police-department/14264709/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">injured</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in a home on the 1800 block of South 48 Court, ABC7 reported.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those two victims, later identified as Jessica Hughes, 29, and Myeshia Newby, 19, died after being rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The family of the two women, who were cousins, said that Newby’s boyfriend shot her before shooting Hughes as she was attempting to escape with Newby’s infant son, Arturo, whom Newby shared with the alleged shooter.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The gunfire grazed the baby, but he is stable and recovering at Comer Children’s Hospital after undergoing surgery.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to relatives of the victims, the couple was apparently arguing over a “Link” card — otherwise known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It went from one thing to the next. There was never any loud hollering or anything,” Hughes’ father, Mitchell Benton, told ABC7.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The heartbroken dad recounted the moment he heard Newby arguing with her boyfriend of two years in the basement of the home.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He come back down and said, ‘Here, look at my wallet.’ She said, ‘You done went up there and took it out.’ So, she said, ‘Well, ain’t no point in me looking in it then.’ And the next thing I know, I’m hearing shot,” he explained.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Benton said that Hughes was trying to protect Arturo when she was shot.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My daughter dropped at my feet. 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She had been shot in the face and in the chest,” he said, adding that he fought the alleged shooter, but he managed to get away. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">With help from the grieving family, Cicero police were able to locate 21-year-old Rafael Vega, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a park near 16th Street and Central Avenue early Wednesday morning. </span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Officials named Vega as the suspected shooter at a press conference later that evening.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Preliminarily, the subject in the park does appear to be the subject we were seeking,” said Cicero Police Superintendent Thomas Boyle.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s devastating for the whole family,” Hughes’ mother, Michelle Musgray, said. “They were loving, both of them, loving moms, good souls, good people, loved their kids. Their kids were their world.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newby would have turned 20 on Thursday.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“There’s no celebration. You can’t celebrate life. 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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">182-183rd St. station</a> in Fordham when he said “Happy new year” to the four fellow straphangers about 8:45 p.m. Monday, cops said.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The men began arguing with the victim, then punched him in the face and body, according to cops.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">As the New Year’s day beatdown escalated, one of the men pulled a knife and stabbed the well-wisher multiple times, leaving him bleeding on the platform.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Medics rushed the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital in serious but stable condition.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">His four attackers ran out of the station and have not been caught.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Cops on Thursday released surveillance images of the four suspects in the hopes someone recognizes them.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">All of the brawlers are believed to be about 5-foot-8 with slim builds. One sported braids while another had braids and glasses, cops said.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">A third attacker had long hair and was wearing red-and-black checkerboard-style pants while a fourth wore a black jacket and a black ski mask.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Anyone with information is asked to call <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Crime Stoppers;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Crime Stoppers</a> at (800) 577-TIPS. 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max-width: 640px; position: relative;"><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">A teen was robbed at knifepoint inside her Bronx home by a man she met on the dating hook up app Grindr, police said Wednesday.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The 19-year-old victim met her possible match on the popular app aimed at gay men and made a plan to meet up at her apartment near <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:E. 187th St. and Beaumont Ave.;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/E+187th+St+%26+Beaumont+Ave,+Bronx,+NY+10458/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2f486b6391ca1:0x3f227828a75e9ab6?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif7szgpMGDAxVPSTABHYS6BkoQ8gF6BAgPEAA" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">E. 187th St. and Beaumont Ave.</a> in Belmont on Dec. 29, cops said.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">But after the man showed up about 4 a.m. he put a knife to her throat, snatched her cellphone and fled.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The woman was left rattled but unharmed. No arrests have been made.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Cops on Wednesday released images of the suspect in the hopes that someone recognizes him.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">This is not the first time a meet up arranged on Grindr ended in violence.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In 2020, cops charged Bronx man Juan Alonso, 50, with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:for hacking up a man he met on Grindr with a machete;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/09/29/bronx-man-fatally-hacks-grindr-date-with-machete-cops/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">for hacking up a man he met on Grindr with a machete</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Anyone with information on the robbery suspect is asked to call <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Crime Stoppers;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/services/see-say-something/crimestoppers.page" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Crime Stoppers</a> at (800) 577-TIPS. 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Just before Christmas Day, Mississippi police responded to a call from a man who found the body of an infant, unresponsive, on his doorstep. Now the cops have named the boy’s mother, Hunter, and boyfriend, Coleman, as suspects in his death.<br /></p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Prodigy Hunter, 1 years old, was found with a massive amount of trauma and bruises to the body on Dec. 21, said Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:in a press conference;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.facebook.com/jacksonmspd/videos/police-chief-joseph-wade-addresses-the-media-on-the-death-of-a-1-year-old-child/345106408235287/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">in a press conference</a>. 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They are facing capital murder and could be sentenced to death upon a conviction. Authorities said Coleman has been on the run since the day Prodigy died and Hunter has been MIA since bailing out.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Prodigy is one of Hunter’s five children, all of whom are in custody of the Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services. The chief said the department is investigating whether the others showed signs of being abused.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">This is only the latest cruel and unusual death of a Black child. Another <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="17" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:1-year-old boy died in a Bronx daycare;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.theroot.com/what-the-streets-say-corrupt-bronx-daycare-used-to-be-1850856708" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">1-year-old boy died in a Bronx daycare</a> after being exposed to fentanyl. A <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:1-year-old girl died after being left in a scorching hot car;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.theroot.com/family-wants-answers-and-accountability-in-tragic-death-1850765750" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">1-year-old girl died after being left in a scorching hot car </a>while being transported to a daycare in Nebraska. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. 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padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Printer Friendly, PDF & Email"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. But an demented, enormously corrupt man who reeks of treason cannot be a president of the United States. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Please follow Veronika Kyrylenko, Ph.D on </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Twitter</span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illegal immigrants are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars just to cover their medical care, with politicians and healthcare workers from around the U.S. sounding the alarm on the overwhelming debt.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As mil<span style="font-size: large;">lions of migrants pour through the U.S.-Mexico border, they’re taking up space in emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), and racking up exorbitant amounts of debt while being uninsured and taking advantage of Medicaid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Chicago Health Commissioner: Measles Outbreak Isn’t Under Control Yet, We’re “Trying” and It’ll Take Time:</span></span></p><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/RgCbMA03-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A November 2023 <a class="x5l" href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Phase4Report.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from the House Committee on Homeland Security revealed that out of an estimated $451 billion in yearly costs connected to the Biden administration’s immigration crisis, a significant chunk is going to healthcare for illegal aliens.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the vast majority of illegals don’t have insurance, they’re free to rack up debt with long hospital stays. Many are also able to get government welfare, including Medicaid. All an illegal migrant would have to do is cross the southern border into California to receive taxpayer-funded insurance.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ushered in the first state program to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/29/gov-gavin-newsom-offer-health-insurance-worlds-migrants-if-can-get-to-california/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">offer</a> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">free subsidized healthcare</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to illegal migrants under the Medi-Cal system in the beginning of 2024, Breitbart News reported.</span></span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25074642" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/GettyImages-1705323450.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25074642" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/09/GettyImages-1705323450.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters on September 27, 2023 in Simi Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employee</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of a Southern California hospital who recently spoke with the </span><i>Epoch Times</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on conditions of public anonymity <a class="x5l" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/illegal-immigrants-leave-us-hospitals-with-billions-in-unpaid-bills-5604492" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said,</a> “The entire health care system is just being bombarded” by the stream of migrants.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Our healthcare system is so overwhelmed, and then add on top of that tuberculosis, COVID-19, and other diseases from all over the world,” she added.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just in the first five months of the current fiscal year, Border Patrol agents <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/03/09/902k-migrants-apprehended-at-border-this-year-texas-down-ca-arizona-up/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">apprehended</a> more than </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">902,000 migrants</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> who illegally crossed into the U.S. between ports of entry, Breitbart News reported.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Last year broke a new record high for illegal border crossings, surpassing more than 3.2 million apprehensions,” the </span><i>Epoch Times</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> noted.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">California’s new program will cost taxpayers more than $4.8 billion, according to a fiscal burden <a class="x5l" href="https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/Fiscal%20Burden%20of%20Illegal%20Immigration%20on%20American%20Taxpayers%202023%20WEB_0.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">analysis</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), citing California Health and Human Services data.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Dem Chicago Alderman: Sanctuary Cities See Migrant Surge as “Cash Cow” to Get Money from Feds:</span></span></p><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/uA4AeNPL-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, in the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, recent migrants left the local healthcare system to deal with more than $10 million in uncompensated costs in 2023, according to Denver Health representative Dane Roper.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This enormous figure came from 8,000 illegal immigrants who made about 20,000 health visits in 2023, CEO Donna Lynne told reporters in January.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The perspective we’ve been trying to emphasize all along is that providing healthcare services for an influx of new immigrants who are unable to pay for their care is adding additional strain to an already significant uncompensated care burden,” Roper told the </span><i>Epoch Times</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_25992913" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/01/GettyImages-1910715228.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-25992913" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/01/GettyImages-1910715228.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Arriaga community, Chiapas State, Mexico, on January 8, 2024. (STRINGER/AFP)</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More medical professionals from around the country also voiced their complaints to the publication about the increased uncompensated workload.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Robert Trenschel, CEO of the Yuma Regional Medical Center in an Arizona border town, said these migrants are costing up to triple the amount of human resources on average.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Some [illegal] migrants come with minor ailments, but many of them come in with significant disease,” Trenschel <a class="x5l" href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/trenschel-testimony.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> during a 2023 </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">congressional hearing</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. “We’ve had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization, and in need of heart surgery. Many are very sick.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the doctor, many migrants are staying in the ICU wards for more than 60 days, and a large portion of patients are pregnant women who have had subpar or no prenatal care. This results in an increase of newborns needing intensive care as well.</span></span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23444568" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/03/GettyImages-1398547075-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-23444568" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/03/GettyImages-1398547075-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A pregnant immigrant from Haiti is assisted while having contractions by her partner (L) and another migrant, after she crossed from Mexico, with the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in the background, on May 21, 2022, in San Luis, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)</em><br /></span></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Our reality is this — we have delivered over $26 million in uncompensated care to these individuals in the 12-month period of time from December 2021 – November 2022,” Trenschel said to congressional representatives. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That is an auditable figure. Let me assure you — it is not an approximation. That number comes from a detailed review of unpaid patient bills directly attributed to migrant patients,” he asserted. “$26 million in uncompensated care is not a sustainable business model.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While progressive leaders of sanctuary jurisdictions continue to ignore the burden on citizens, some House Republicans are attempting to halt migrants from utilizing Medicaid.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On January 17, Rep. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida law enforcement recently intercepted a vessel carrying Haitians armed with guns, drugs, and night vision gear, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking about the continued effort to keep the Sunshine State safe — particularly in the midst of the violent unrest in Haiti — DeSantis said Florida officers prevented 25 potential illegal immigrants hailing from Haiti from entering Florida.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Just recently within the last couple of weeks — and this will be made public later today — our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potentially illegal immigrants, from Haiti,” the governor announced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms. They had drugs. They had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly which would potentially endanger other folks,” he said, adding that the boat was “interdicted near the Sebastian inlet,” which is roughly 40 miles south of Port Canaveral.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation. So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this, and they’re gonna continue to do it,” DeSantis said, boasting of the “incredible amount of resources that are now on display.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is always a priority of officials, DeSantis said, but he explained that it is different now because there are more resources from the state, so it is an overall larger effort.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis went on to say that this issue — a matter of border security and illegal immigrants — should be the federal government’s responsibility, but the Biden administration has continued to shirk its duties and ultimately, the Coast Guard is “undermanned.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The Coast Guard does by and large a good job, but they’re undermanned. They’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps,” he said. “I think one difference now is, and we see this with our folks that we have at the border, you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world,” DeSantis continued, explaining that at this point it would actually be easier for potential illegal immigrants from Haiti to fly to Mexico once flights resume and enter the United States on the southern border.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I would anticipate if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks [go] who are trying to flee. If they want to come to the United States, they’re probably gonna go to Mexico and then come in through the border, knowing that Biden will just let everybody in,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">WATCH:</span></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1768653710047977715" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1768653710047977715&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fdesantis-announces-florida-law-enforcement-interdicted-vessel-haitians-arms-drugs%2F&sessionId=6949de1e0fd00b5c986afec10ff270cf32ce46b7&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 671px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis’s announcement comes just days after he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/gov-ron-desantis-deploys-assets-to-southern-florida-due-to-increased-risk-of-illegal-immigrants-from-haiti/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a> the deployment of additional assets to the southern portion of the state due to the increased risk of illegal immigrants coming from Haiti. That move is part of Operation Vigilant Sentry, and the additional assets included 39 officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 23 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 48 additional Guardsmen from the Florida National Guard, and 30 officers from the Florida Highway Patrol.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The decision comes as bloody gang violence rocks Haiti, which has continued to descend into chaos.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/12/haiti-exiled-pm-announces-plan-to-resign-as-gang-boss-barbecue-declares-bloody-revolution/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, announced on Monday night he would resign “immediately” after the creation of a “Presidential Transitional Council” meant to take steps towards organizing a presidential election.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry’s announcement followed the near-total collapse of the country’s political infrastructure this week after he traveled to Kenya seeking law enforcement aid to subdue the increasingly powerful gangs overrunning the country. While Henry was out of the country, organized armed militias led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the head of the G9 Family of gangs, orchestrated a massive prison break and surrounded Port-au-Prince’s airport, making it impossible for the prime minister to return. Cherizier has, for years, demanded the ouster of the entire Haitian political class and last week threatened to plunge the country into “genocide” if Henry did not resign.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — Rep. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. 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margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States is experiencing <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an enormous surge of migrants</span>. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.6 million foreign born workers</span> during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnR" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole</span>. 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A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, <a class="x5l" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Gallup News</a>. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">top three issues</span> will not surprise you. They are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immigration </span>(19 percent),<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the economy </span>(9 percent), and<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> inflation </span>(5 percent).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_F5x8o9g.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Economist/YouGov survey</a> asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_26409013" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26409013" height="1280" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/GettyImages-1231479164.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61 percent say they disapprove</span>. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arguably</em> because <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove</span>, at 47 percent.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-growth-good" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proclaiming</a> that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases the supply of labor</span>. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages</span>, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy</span>. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20351765" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-20351765" height="1281" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/03/GettyImages-1236206410.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming more than they produce</span> because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s more, the current immigration surge is <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed</span>. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy</span>—and therefore <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans</span>—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation</span>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A recent analysis</a> from the <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookings Institution</span> looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation.</span> Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnY" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">says that rising wages do not push up inflation</span> but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> flipping those disapproval ratings</span>. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s not going to happen. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration chaos</span> is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Olivia Murray" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/oliviamurray/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Olivia Murray</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Just yesterday, Breitbart News </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/11/nobel-economist-reverses-support-migration/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported</a> on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state <em>isn’t</em> such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">editorial</a> titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I had … seriously underthought my </span>ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that </span>immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. <em>I no longer think so</em> [emphasis added].</b></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Maybe the </span>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? <b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does </span><em>not</em> benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s it, class dismissed.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Holger Motzkau, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bidenomics</span> is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consumer sentiment index</span> slipped lower after climbing for two months.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse</span>, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">partisan politics</span>. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">party allegiance does not explain everything</span>.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">registered voters under 30</span> taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than noise</span>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better off financially than a year ago</span>. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42.9 percent say they are worse off financially</span> than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poll also shows <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters</span>. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s going on with younger Americans? The <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employment situation</span> appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The jump was driven by a big increase in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unemployment among young women</span>. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">political trouble for Biden</span>. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden’s age problem is about youth</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.75rem; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0.5rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gas prices:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">average price</a> of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Gas Prices" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9f1254d2-fefd-465e-98dd-4ea72b09ad53" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Gas%20Price%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Real Wages:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">After accounting for inflation, real wages earned by Americans have declined under Biden. In the first quarter of 2021, median weekly real earnings averaged $373. But, by the fourth quarter of 2023, average real earnings had fallen to $371.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Under Trump, however, real wages rose from $352 on January 1, 2017, to $373 on January 1. 2021.</p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://mrccruise.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Real wages</a> are calculated using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median usual weekly earnings for full-time employees at least 16 years old and are represented in terms of quarterly 1982-84 Consumer Price Index (CPI) seasonally-adjusted dollars.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Real Wages" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a8d8556-5fb4-4df7-83d3-770bd66eff36" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Real%20Wages%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mortgage Rates:</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It’s also costing far more to finance a home purchase under the Biden Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Mortgage rates today are more than twice the average rate home buyers paid when Trump left office, <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie Mac data</a> reveal. Under Biden’s predecessor, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell by a third, from 4.09% to 2.77%. But, by March 7, 2024, mortgage rates had more than doubled, to 6.9%.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Mortgage Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0482c2f7-5d9f-47ed-b506-b64fa479baa3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Mortgage%20Rates%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savings Rates:</b></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/brent-bozell-show-ep01-sean-spicer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">With Americans having to spend more than their earnings increased, their average savings rate has declined under Biden.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">From February 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021, the average personal savings rate increased 129%, from 5.6% to 12.8%. But, by January 1 of 2024, it had plunged to 3.8% - less than a third of its pre-Biden level – according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">(FRED) calculations,</a> incorporating BLS data.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Savings Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="77995833-2954-4953-a2fb-927667eea577" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Savings%20Rate%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consumer Price Index:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Consumer prices rose 7.6% in the 48 months of the Trump Administration, from a CPI of 243.618 in January 2021 to one of 262.035 in December 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In contrast, prices have already risen more than twice as much, 18.5%, in just 37 months under Biden. Three-fourths of the way through his term, the <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CPI has risen</a> from 262.518 in January of 2021 to 311.054 last month (February 2024), putting it on pace to increase nearly three times as much as it did during Trump's full, four-year term. On a monthly basis, inflation averaged 1.9% under Trump, compared to 5.6% under Biden, thus far.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Prices Going Up" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4b3acf8b-27b2-4fc8-8714-94ae5e9e69b3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Prices%20Going%20Up.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yHLCFX6irFO7WVO5Xkf-8j5ar-6WvhV-o6492ZCL6qY" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Persistent Inflation" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="704c3d32-6412-46ee-b159-3706364d7e34" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Persistant%20Inflation.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The business and economic reporting of CNSNews.com is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. 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BIDEN - MAYORKAS - SCHUMER HAVE ORCHESTRATED 15 MILLION 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS OVER THE BORDER AND SCATTERED THEM ALL OVER THE NATION TO MAKE SURE WAGES ARE DEPRESSED AND CORPRATE PROFITS AND RENTS SOAR<p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">OPEN BORDERS - IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND RENTS SOARING!</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">IS IT WORKING???</span></p><header style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acting Labor Sec’y: Wages Haven’t Kept up with Inflation Under Biden, Ignoring Warnings About Overstimulus ‘Paid Off’</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">During an interview with CBS’s “The Takeout” podcast that took place before the release of the February inflation numbers that showed a <a class="x5l" href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.t01.htm" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">drop in real wages from January to February</a>, acting Labor Secretary Julie Su acknowledged that wages have not kept up with inflation since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office back in February 2021. And that President Joe Biden’s response to those who said, “you can’t put too much money out into people’s pockets, that’s going to be a bad thing,” “was, no, I’d rather go too big than too small here. And that has paid off beautifully, in terms of the recovery.” And that Biden responded to those who thought the spending in the American Rescue Plan was too much by taking the approach that “there’s no such thing as too much” “good for the American worker.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Host Major Garrett asked, [relevant exchange begins around 23:10] “At the State of the Union…the President of the United States, talking about the U.S. economy, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/08/remarks-by-president-biden-in-state-of-the-union-address-3/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said the following</a>: ‘The landing is and will be soft.’ True?”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Su answered, “So, 14.9 million jobs created since this President came into office. We have had an unemployment rate of under 4% for two years and running. It’s the longest stretch in 50 years. Labor force participation remains strong. For women, it’s been especially strong, prime-age working women. And real wages are up. That means for — especially for low-and-middle-income Americans, wages have outpaced inflation. I think that all of those numbers, even if you took one or two of them, but all together, that is pretty much the softest landing that you could imagine.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Later, Garrett asked, “You mentioned, and I think this was accurate in terms of the last year, the last 12 months, wages have outpaced inflation. But they didn’t the two previous years, correct?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Su answered, “Yeah.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Garrett then asked, “So, inflation writ large is still a factor, not only in terms of politics, but I’m not talking politics, I’m just talking about real wages on an hourly basis are not where they were February of 2021, the first full month of this administration, correct?”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Su responded, “That’s right. Inflation has come down by like two-thirds. At its peak, it was something like 9%. Now, it’s somewhere near 3%. We’ll see new inflation numbers for February. But I do think the point here has to be, the story of our economy is, we came back from the wreckage of COVID, and the President bet big, bet big on the American people, bet big on the American worker. Many people said, if you do the kind of investments we’re talking about in the American Rescue Plan, it’s going to…be too hot. It’s too much. I think the President believes — he made it clear in the State of the Union — there’s no such thing as too much that’s — too much good for the American worker.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Later, Su said, [relevant remarks begin around 40:45] “I will say, in the immediate aftermath, when President Biden first came into office, his response, including to people who said, oh, you can’t put too much money out into people’s pockets, that’s going to be a bad thing, was, no, I’d rather go too big than too small here. And that has paid off beautifully, in terms of the recovery.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Monica Showalter</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's Joe Biden's so-called "vetting" of illegal migrants worth?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, according to a report by Fox News's Bill Melugin, pretty much nothing.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; 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That was a questionable program introduced by Biden in January 2023 to reduce the size of border surges in order to keep the Fox News cameras off of them. In so doing, the accused rapist then got flown into the U.S., and began his heinous crime spree in Massachusetts which claimed a vulnerable 15-year-old girl as his victim. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the left-leaning <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/biden-administration%E2%80%99s-humanitarian-parole-program-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and#:~:text=The%20new%20program%2C%20formally%20known%20as%20the%20Processes,using%20a%20legal%20mechanism%20known%20as%20%E2%80%9Chumanitarian%20parole.%E2%80%9D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">American Immigration Council:</a></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">On January 5, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intent to provide “safe and orderly pathways to the United States” for up to 30,000 nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The new program, formally known as the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), allows certain people from these four countries who have a sponsor in the U.S. and who pass a background check to come to the U.S. for a period of two years to live and work lawfully, using a legal mechanism known as “humanitarian parole.”</span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Voice of America</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Applicants legally enter the country once they prove they have financial sponsors in the U.S. and pass background checks. The humanitarian parole authority allows the approved applicants to live and work legally in the U.S. temporarily.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Haitian passed a "background check," flew to the states on a flight that's still unclear whether it was free (the administration and its allies <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">say</a> such trips aren't free but already we see they've lied about "rigorous" vetting), got work authorization, and a host of other services from Uncle Sugar, yet it didn't take him long to start preying on Americans as standard violent criminal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What kind of people is Biden importing into the country? It's as if he's importing Haiti's criminal class, a truly violent bunch, under the dynamic modern Latin American dictators use, which is to use uncontrolled crime to control the law-abiding population.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't sound like anyone did a background check that was worth anything. Who did his background check? Why did he pass?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15"></ins></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a leftist AIC source quoted by <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Every person approved for parole is vetted by the U.S. government prior to being granted the status. The idea that people arriving through this government program are 'unvetted' or 'illegal immigrants' is flagrantly wrong," Reichlin-Melnick said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson also told VOA those with approved applications and travel permission must buy a plane ticket to fly into the United States on a commercial airline — and they are screened and inspected when they arrive at a port of entry.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Neither of those sources explained how the accused Haitian rapist somehow got in with all that vetting and screening and inspecting.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And since he came in on "humanitarian parole," neither would say exactly what the “urgent humanitarian or significant public benefit reasons” for letting him in were, which is how parole is granted</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's more, many have asked where the hell was his sponsor? He reportedly wasn't living with his sponsor, suggesting that someone just signed him in and let him out, which ought to be investigated as some kind of fraud since that's not how sponsorship works. Meanwhile, officials just waved him through customs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back then, when Biden was touting his program, he insisted that his vetting would be "rigorous":</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-rejects-claim-it-is-secretly-bringing-320-000-migrants-to-us-/7520157.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VOA</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">During a speech on January 5, 2023, Biden said an applicant must have a lawful sponsor in the United States.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then the applicant has to "undergo rigorous background checks and apply from outside the United States and not cross the border illegally in the meantime," Biden said. "If they apply and their application is approved, they can use the same app, the CBP One app, to present at a port of entry and be able to work in the United States legally for two years. That's the process."</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CBPOne app? The one that lets in 99% of its applicants? Again, there doesn't seem to be any vetting, any more than there was among the hordes of humanity transported out of Afghanistan in chaotic flights out.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's worth nothing that all four of those countries are known to have emptied their jails, freeing their convicted violent felons specifically to migrate into the U.S., which underlines why this program is such a recipe for disaster In Venezuela's case, the convicts were reported freed <em>under the</em> <em>condition</em> that they migrate to the U.S. How many of them have gotten in under this program?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So many of Venezuela's criminals have in fact gotten in under Joe Biden's many open borders policies and programs that Venezuela's famously high crime rate has reportedly gone down.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now we are facing a Haitian deluge as that entire country collapses into lawlessness, run by some thug named "Barbecue." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are no doubt good and industrious Haitians who are endangered and should be able to come here as real refugees, the kind of refugees who go back when they can.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But obviously, Haitian criminals looking to hit the bigtime come in along with them, with Joe Biden's version of "rigorous" vetting, and they are getting in.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congress needs to start looking into these claims of 'vetting' and demand real vetting, as well holding both officials who vet and sponsors of these criminals criminally responsible for the people they let in, too. There are already signs of fraud all over this program and Americans are paying the price.</span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"> Image: <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1768602198546808871" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: inherit;">Twitter screen shot</a></em></p></div></div><header style="font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="clear: both; font-family: "Bebas Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSantis Announces Florida Law Enforcement Interdicted Vessel of Haitians with Arms, Drugs</h1><aside class="bnn-social-share" data-fbc="1" id="social-share-article-top" style="border-bottom: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida law enforcement recently intercepted a vessel carrying Haitians armed with guns, drugs, and night vision gear, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking about the continued effort to keep the Sunshine State safe — particularly in the midst of the violent unrest in Haiti — DeSantis said Florida officers prevented 25 potential illegal immigrants hailing from Haiti from entering Florida.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Just recently within the last couple of weeks — and this will be made public later today — our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potentially illegal immigrants, from Haiti,” the governor announced.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms. They had drugs. They had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly which would potentially endanger other folks,” he said, adding that the boat was “interdicted near the Sebastian inlet,” which is roughly 40 miles south of Port Canaveral.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation. So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this, and they’re gonna continue to do it,” DeSantis said, boasting of the “incredible amount of resources that are now on display.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is always a priority of officials, DeSantis said, but he explained that it is different now because there are more resources from the state, so it is an overall larger effort.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis went on to say that this issue — a matter of border security and illegal immigrants — should be the federal government’s responsibility, but the Biden administration has continued to shirk its duties and ultimately, the Coast Guard is “undermanned.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The Coast Guard does by and large a good job, but they’re undermanned. They’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps,” he said. “I think one difference now is, and we see this with our folks that we have at the border, you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world,” DeSantis continued, explaining that at this point it would actually be easier for potential illegal immigrants from Haiti to fly to Mexico once flights resume and enter the United States on the southern border.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I would anticipate if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks [go] who are trying to flee. If they want to come to the United States, they’re probably gonna go to Mexico and then come in through the border, knowing that Biden will just let everybody in,” he said.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">WATCH:</span></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" data-dnt="false" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1768653710047977715" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1768653710047977715&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fdesantis-announces-florida-law-enforcement-interdicted-vessel-haitians-arms-drugs%2F&sessionId=6949de1e0fd00b5c986afec10ff270cf32ce46b7&siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 671px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">DeSantis’s announcement comes just days after he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/gov-ron-desantis-deploys-assets-to-southern-florida-due-to-increased-risk-of-illegal-immigrants-from-haiti/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a> the deployment of additional assets to the southern portion of the state due to the increased risk of illegal immigrants coming from Haiti. That move is part of Operation Vigilant Sentry, and the additional assets included 39 officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 23 from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 48 additional Guardsmen from the Florida National Guard, and 30 officers from the Florida Highway Patrol.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The decision comes as bloody gang violence rocks Haiti, which has continued to descend into chaos.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/12/haiti-exiled-pm-announces-plan-to-resign-as-gang-boss-barbecue-declares-bloody-revolution/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, announced on Monday night he would resign “immediately” after the creation of a “Presidential Transitional Council” meant to take steps towards organizing a presidential election.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry’s announcement followed the near-total collapse of the country’s political infrastructure this week after he traveled to Kenya seeking law enforcement aid to subdue the increasingly powerful gangs overrunning the country. While Henry was out of the country, organized armed militias led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the head of the G9 Family of gangs, orchestrated a massive prison break and surrounded Port-au-Prince’s airport, making it impossible for the prime minister to return. Cherizier has, for years, demanded the ouster of the entire Haitian political class and last week threatened to plunge the country into “genocide” if Henry did not resign.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED — Rep. Cory Mills Helps Rescue Americans from Haiti amid Gang Violence, Anarchy</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Office of Rep. Cory Mills/LOCAL NEWS X /TMX</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/qWsF33Uj-o73dHpYz.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the weekend, the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) said it was airlifting non-essential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti amid the rising unrest.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breitbart News’s John Hayward <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/14/u-s-sends-marine-anti-terrorism-team-into-haiti-to-protect-embassy/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> on March 14, “The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) <a class="x5l" href="https://www.southcom.mil/News/PressReleases/Article/3705148/statement-us-marine-fleet-anti-terrorism-security-team-fast-deployed-to-maintai/" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">announced</a> on Wednesday that the Marine Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team (FAST) has been deployed to Haiti to ‘maintain strong security capabilities at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.’”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Bebas Neue", sans-serif" style="font-size: 48px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Sen. 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Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News Daily</em>, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Democrats in the Senate this week <a class="x5l" href="https://www.budd.senate.gov/2024/03/14/senate-democrats-block-budd-britt-laken-riley-act/" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rejected</a> the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/white-house-refuses-to-support-laken-riley-act-says-get-on-board-with-senate-bill/" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">highly flawed</a> Senate immigration bill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED VIDEO — Sen. Roger Marshall Plans Resolution for “No Confidence” Vote Against Biden’s DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas:</span></span></p><span class="video-src-attr" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">C-SPAN</span></span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/A9mduj4y-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LISTEN:</span></span></em></p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1775554416&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-break: anywhere; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a> · <a class="x5l" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/sen-roger-marshall-r-ks-march-15-2024" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) - March 15, 2024">Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) – March 15, 2024</a></span></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.</span></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States is experiencing <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an enormous surge of migrants</span>. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.6 million foreign born workers</span> during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnR" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole</span>. Another 3.7 million have arrived with the proper paperwork allowing them to work.</p><figure class="F-ci-w" id="bbd_incontent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; background: url("/t/assets/i/forms/in-content/bbd/in-content-bg@2x.jpg") center top / contain no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; height: 200px; margin: 2em auto 4em; max-width: 990px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 640px;"><form action="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/14/breitbart-business-digest-immigration-will-not-lower-inflation/#" autocomplete="on" class="F-ci" data-ci="{"b":"SUBSCRIBE","e":"Enter your email address","emailConfirmation":false,"g":"Business Digest","l":"BNN Daily Roundup AM:BNN Daily Roundup PM:BNN Economy Master:BNN Sponsored Emails","p":"bbd-incontent","s":"Economy in-content"}" id="F-bbd_incontent" style="align-items: flex-end; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: calc(100% - 20px); justify-content: center; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 574.84px;"><label aria-label="Email" class="F-ci-label-email" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 38px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 282.41px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Democrat Border Crisis</span></label></form></figure><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a political crisis for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing</span> as president. A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, <a class="x5l" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/610322/immigration-leads-reasons-biden-detractors-disapprove.aspx" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Gallup News</a>. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">top three issues</span> will not surprise you. They are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immigration </span>(19 percent),<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the economy </span>(9 percent), and<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> inflation </span>(5 percent).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a class="x5l" href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_F5x8o9g.pdf" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Economist/YouGov survey</a> asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_26409013" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-26409013" height="1280" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/03/GettyImages-1231479164.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61 percent say they disapprove</span>. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">arguably</em> because <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove</span>, at 47 percent.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started <a class="x5l" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-growth-good" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proclaiming</a> that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases the supply of labor</span>. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages</span>, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy</span>. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20351765" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1930px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-20351765" height="1281" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/03/GettyImages-1236206410.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1920" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)</p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming more than they produce</span> because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s more, the current immigration surge is <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed</span>. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy</span>—and therefore <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans</span>—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation</span>.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x5l" href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf" rel="noopener noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A recent analysis</a> from the <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookings Institution</span> looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.</p><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex</h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation.</span> Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="size-full aligncenter" src="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1ihnY" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">says that rising wages do not push up inflation</span> but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> flipping those disapproval ratings</span>. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s not going to happen. <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration chaos</span> is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62" style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><h1 style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration</span></h1><div class="author" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px;">By <a data-author="Olivia Murray" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/oliviamurray/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Olivia Murray</a></div><div class="publirAds" id="div-hre-Americanthinker---New-3029" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="article_body" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Just yesterday, Breitbart News </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/11/nobel-economist-reverses-support-migration/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reported</a> on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state <em>isn’t</em> such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">editorial</a> titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc20554-7fff-5897-15e2-fb15deb7888a"><span style="font-size: large;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I had … seriously underthought my </span>ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that </span>immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. <em>I no longer think so</em> [emphasis added].</b></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Maybe the </span>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? <b><span style="color: #990000;">Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><em>my</em> stolen wealth and <em>your</em> stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62">Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does </span><em>not</em> benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-714beebe-7fff-b454-3845-a660adefdb62"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s it, class dismissed.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="font-size: inherit;">Image: Holger Motzkau, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.en" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bidenomics</span> is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">consumer sentiment index</span> slipped lower after climbing for two months.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse</span>, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">partisan politics</span>. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">party allegiance does not explain everything</span>.</span></p><h2 style="clear: both; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans</span></h2><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">registered voters under 30</span> taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more than noise</span>.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better off financially than a year ago</span>. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42.9 percent say they are worse off financially</span> than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poll also shows <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters</span>. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s going on with younger Americans? The <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">employment situation</span> appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The jump was driven by a big increase in <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unemployment among young women</span>. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">political trouble for Biden</span>. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden’s age problem is about youth</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="node-label" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.75rem; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0.5rem;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gas prices:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">average price</a> of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Gas Prices" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9f1254d2-fefd-465e-98dd-4ea72b09ad53" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Gas%20Price%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Real Wages:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">After accounting for inflation, real wages earned by Americans have declined under Biden. In the first quarter of 2021, median weekly real earnings averaged $373. But, by the fourth quarter of 2023, average real earnings had fallen to $371.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Under Trump, however, real wages rose from $352 on January 1, 2017, to $373 on January 1. 2021.</p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://mrccruise.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Real wages</a> are calculated using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median usual weekly earnings for full-time employees at least 16 years old and are represented in terms of quarterly 1982-84 Consumer Price Index (CPI) seasonally-adjusted dollars.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Real Wages" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a8d8556-5fb4-4df7-83d3-770bd66eff36" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Real%20Wages%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mortgage Rates:</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It’s also costing far more to finance a home purchase under the Biden Administration.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Mortgage rates today are more than twice the average rate home buyers paid when Trump left office, <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie Mac data</a> reveal. Under Biden’s predecessor, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell by a third, from 4.09% to 2.77%. But, by March 7, 2024, mortgage rates had more than doubled, to 6.9%.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Mortgage Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0482c2f7-5d9f-47ed-b506-b64fa479baa3" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Mortgage%20Rates%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savings Rates:</b></p><div class="intranet-image-container intranet-mid-size" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 250px; justify-content: center; margin: 1rem auto; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/brent-bozell-show-ep01-sean-spicer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">With Americans having to spend more than their earnings increased, their average savings rate has declined under Biden.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">From February 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021, the average personal savings rate increased 129%, from 5.6% to 12.8%. But, by January 1 of 2024, it had plunged to 3.8% - less than a third of its pre-Biden level – according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">(FRED) calculations,</a> incorporating BLS data.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><img alt="Savings Rates" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="77995833-2954-4953-a2fb-927667eea577" height="1351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mrctv.org/files/inline-images/Savings%20Rate%20Chart.jpeg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1081" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consumer Price Index:</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Consumer prices rose 7.6% in the 48 months of the Trump Administration, from a CPI of 243.618 in January 2021 to one of 262.035 in December 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In contrast, prices have already risen more than twice as much, 18.5%, in just 37 months under Biden. Three-fourths of the way through his term, the <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CPI has risen</a> from 262.518 in January of 2021 to 311.054 last month (February 2024), putting it on pace to increase nearly three times as much as it did during Trump's full, four-year term. 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But that is not — it’s not like a direct correlation or causation. Oftentimes, prices go up, even when wages don’t. So, this is a — this is sort of the president’s approach to the idea of — it’s a shrinkflation idea, but it’s also a, like, price gouging. One reason for inflation is that companies are taking advantage of market forces or just charging more in a way that increases their profit, but has nothing to do with worker’s wages. So, I want to de-link those things as necessarily connected. But, in some situations, it does — it is connected. And I think the answer there is looking at the economic recovery we’ve had, the fact that workers make more is better for our economy period. They have more to spend. Workers, especially workers who work for hourly wages, are the ones who are spending money in the small businesses in their community, in restaurants. They’re the ones who keep the economy going and that’s why, in addition to the well-being of workers, just from an economic perspective, money in worker’s pockets is a good thing.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow </em><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ian Hanchett on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/IanHanchett" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@IanHanchett</a></em></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The left-wing streamer Netflix pays its executives more money than it pays in federal taxes, according to a new study of the country’s most flagrant corporate “tax dodgers.”</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Netflix isn’t alone.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies <a class="x5l" href="https://americansfortaxfairness.org/new-report-americans-tax-fairness-institute-policy-studies-reveals-35-big-corporations-paid-top-executives-paid-federal-taxes/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">found</a> that 35 companies paid more to their top five executives than they did in U.S. taxes in at least two of the five years under review, 2018 to 2022.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The study comes amid tax season for American households, which are required each year to fork over an ever-larger chunk of their income to Uncle Sam.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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But despite $4.4 billion in net profits, the company paid nothing in cumulative federal income taxes and instead got back a net $1 million in tax refunds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">T-Mobile also received a refund to the tune of $80 million after paying its executives $675 million.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Netflix continues to work with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama through a production deal under which the Obamas produce movies and TV series.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the former first couple’s recent efforts is the Julia Roberts movie <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/13/review-obama-produced-netflix-movie-leave-the-world-behind-cant-decide-how-much-it-hates-white-people/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leave the World Behind</em></a> and the documentary <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/01/23/obama-big-oscars-fail-netflixs-american-symphony-shut-out-of-documentary-nominations-despite-frontrunner-status/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Symphony</em></a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow David Ng on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsDavidNg" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@HeyItsDavidNg</a>. 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Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pelosi said, “But we have, we just have to win this election because he’s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler praising the Russians — honestly, I didn’t condemn our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. He said he was wrong with Russia. They defeated Hitler. What about the millions of Americans who risked or gave their lives? What about him saying that soldiers buried in Europe? He didn’t want to visit them because they were losers.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/pamkeyNEN" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@pamkeyNEN</a></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. 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padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Printer Friendly, PDF & Email"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. But an demented, enormously corrupt man who reeks of treason cannot be a president of the United States. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Please follow Veronika Kyrylenko, Ph.D on </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Twitter</span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The left-wing streamer Netflix pays its executives more money than it pays in federal taxes, according to a new study of the country’s most flagrant corporate “tax dodgers.”</p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Netflix isn’t alone.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies <a class="x5l" href="https://americansfortaxfairness.org/new-report-americans-tax-fairness-institute-policy-studies-reveals-35-big-corporations-paid-top-executives-paid-federal-taxes/" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">found</a> that 35 companies paid more to their top five executives than they did in U.S. taxes in at least two of the five years under review, 2018 to 2022.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The study comes amid tax season for American households, which are required each year to fork over an ever-larger chunk of their income to Uncle Sam.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; 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But despite $4.4 billion in net profits, the company paid nothing in cumulative federal income taxes and instead got back a net $1 million in tax refunds.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">T-Mobile also received a refund to the tune of $80 million after paying its executives $675 million.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Netflix continues to work with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama through a production deal under which the Obamas produce movies and TV series.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among the former first couple’s recent efforts is the Julia Roberts movie <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/13/review-obama-produced-netflix-movie-leave-the-world-behind-cant-decide-how-much-it-hates-white-people/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leave the World Behind</em></a> and the documentary <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/01/23/obama-big-oscars-fail-netflixs-american-symphony-shut-out-of-documentary-nominations-despite-frontrunner-status/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Symphony</em></a>.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow David Ng on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsDavidNg" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@HeyItsDavidNg</a>. 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Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pelosi said, “But we have, we just have to win this election because he’s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler praising the Russians — honestly, I didn’t condemn our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. He said he was wrong with Russia. They defeated Hitler. What about the millions of Americans who risked or gave their lives? What about him saying that soldiers buried in Europe? He didn’t want to visit them because they were losers.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/pamkeyNEN" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@pamkeyNEN</a></em></p></div><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><footer style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. 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padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Printer Friendly, PDF & Email"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. But an demented, enormously corrupt man who reeks of treason cannot be a president of the United States. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Please follow Veronika Kyrylenko, Ph.D on </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Twitter</span></u></b></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. 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border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Democrats had to win the election because former President Donald Trump was “predicting a bloodbath.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday, at a rally in Dayton, OH, Trump said, “If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pelosi said, “But we have, we just have to win this election because he’s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler praising the Russians — honestly, I didn’t condemn our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. He said he was wrong with Russia. They defeated Hitler. What about the millions of Americans who risked or gave their lives? What about him saying that soldiers buried in Europe? He didn’t want to visit them because they were losers.”</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/pamkeyNEN" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@pamkeyNEN</a></em></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSRnIkxOlo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSRnIkxOlo</a></yt-formatted-string></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">“Protect and enrich.”</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> STILL EVADING PRISON, AND NOT BE VERY LEAST, (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ERIC SWALWELL</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="subheading" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEFC is </span>closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal <a class="editor-rtfLink OWAAutoLink ContentPasted1" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/16/hunter-bidens-connecticut-law-license-administratively-suspended-d-c-bar-status-confusion/" id="OWAc14c2bcf-85df-c579-b2ee-380bebfcf926" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">services</a> in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.</span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information <a class="x5l" href="https://justthenews.com/government/security/documents-show-biden-team-efforts-help-chinese-company-corner-nuclear-energy" rel="noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">obtained</a> by lawmakers:</span></p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-biden-confirmed-fbi-family-tried-help-cefc-china-energy-energy-assets/" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confirmed</a> to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> materialized.</span></span></p><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members <a class="x_editor-rtfLink x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/" id="OWA1bd0da13-9ab6-bfe8-c0a6-2878547d43a5" rel="noopener" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/james-comer-names-9-biden-family-members-business-payments/">received</a> payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.</span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_23268003" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)" class="size-full wp-image-23268003" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/02/GettyImages-596955892.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)</span></p></div><p class="a8d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">More evidence against Joe Biden can be found <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/" id="OWA34e80762-b325-7ad0-985a-3bbf6dec5b4f" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/12/speaker-mike-johnson-6-points-of-evidence-support-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote/">here</a> and <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/" id="OWA1c81514d-cae0-64fb-5087-127141cbe069" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/30/politico-unnamed-republicans-fret-theres-no-evidence-of-joe-biden-wrongdoing/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of </i><a class="x5l" href="https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook/dp/B08PPYQSDZ" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="s2" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Politics of Slave Morality</i></span></a><i>. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Truth Social</i></span></a><i> @WendellHusebo</i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></p><h1 style="line-height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 24px; margin-right: 5.25pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-binder/" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-says-joe-biden-allowed-family-to-enrich-themselves-abroad-while-he-was-vp/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/1e5982f1-3c44-4457-8b59-22ad30cba152/PETRICK-HO-APPEAL-v-USpdf.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">represented</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span class="16" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/hunter-bidens-firm-received-3-5-million-from-one-of-russias-most-powerful-oligarchs/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">received</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-report-bidens-bought-items-china-linked-credit-cards/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/senate-committee-hunter-biden-paid-women-linked-to-prostitution-or-human-trafficking/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/JxhnBinder?lang=en"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></i></b></a><b><i><span class="17" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 36pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps1.png" width="600" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/1011744316549776092"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. 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padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;">Report: Hunter Biden Said Offer from Powerful Chinese Investor Had ‘Everything to Do with My Last Name’</span></b><b><span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="480" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps2.png" width="640" /><span class="16" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">ABC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="address" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0pt 5.3pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Wendell Husebø"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">WENDELL HUSEBØ</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Posts by Ezra Dulis"><u><span class="15" style="color: #00749e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EZRA DULIS</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 8pt;">15 Oct 2021</span><b><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 7.5pt;">0</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(85, 85, 85); border-top: 1.5pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0pt 0pt 11.25pt; padding: 3pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:41</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 10.5pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Newly-unveiled emails reveal Hunter Biden admitted a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” — or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Washington Free Beacon</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer regarding Che Fung — head of the Chinese investment company Ever Union Capital — several years before Che was arrested on money laundering charges in Beijing. These emails were discovered on the infamous laptop Biden abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Reporter Chuck Ross says Hunter wrote in September 2011 that his business deal with Che — nicknamed “Super Chairman” and “Mr. Che” in other emails — had “everything to do with my last name.” The emails reveal Hunter met with Che in April of 2010 to negotiate a deal with Ever Union Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Communist regime’s sovereign wealth fund. It is unclear whether this potential deal was ever completed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The revealed emails also reportedly indicate Hunter and business partner Archer saw the business connection to Che as an opportunity to make connections with large financial institutions, such as Blackstone and Carlyle Group, which reportedly sought business deals in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“I dont [sic] believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter wrote on September 23, 2011, according to the report. “Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“This can be a serious opportunity,” Archer allegedly replied. “Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ross identifies Che as the son-in-law of a former chief of China’s central bank, who was reportedly arrested in February 2015 and accused of laundering $15 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In 2016, Archer and a business associate was indicted on charges for defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. As for Hunter, federal prosecutors in Delaware are reportedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="This external link will open in a new window"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">working</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> with the FBI and the IRS to investigate his finances.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Peter Schweizer’s </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Secret Empires</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> revealed that in 2013, Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two. Ross connects this scandal to the meeting with Che:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">[T]he businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden’s most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a “close business partner” of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, and other “high power” Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 36pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">White House</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has refused to answer questions about the investment. [hyperlink added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">China is not the only foreign nation where Joe Biden’s family members set up business interests. Schweizer has called out the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Biden 5”</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> — Hunter (son), James (brother), Frank (brother), Valerie (sister), and Ashley (daughter) — for </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">shady deals</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in Costa Rica, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Despite the reported business dealings with foreign companies, Joe Biden said in October of 2019 that none of his family members </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">would</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> have a “business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Period. Period. End of story,” Biden stated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Abundant</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">evidence</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> has </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">emerged</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to undermine this confident declaration from now-President Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 7.9pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@WendellHusebø</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;">Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Biden Has Never Managed Anything - ‘He Can’t Even Manage His Family’</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 25.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.9pt; margin-top: 16.9pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054"><u><span class="15" style="color: #002f87; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">Melanie Arter</span></u></a><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> | October 15, 2021 | 10:13am EDT</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/2840016065265484054" title="Printer Friendly, PDF & Email"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: -11.25pt; margin-right: -11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="160" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps3.png" width="240" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3.75pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Joe Biden gives an update on the Covid-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)</span></i><i><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #36454f; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">(CNSNews.com) - Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the American people were sold a “bill of goods” when President Joe Biden was elected, because he’s never managed anything, and it shows.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry said that to understand what’s going on now with the Biden administration, you have to look back at the Obama administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0pt;"><img height="266" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps4.jpg" width="320" /><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“But here is the way I see the real problem in this country today, is that you have an administration that doesn't know how to govern, and I go back to the Obama administration, a person who had been in the Senate for a short period of time, never run anything, never managed anything, and I think we are seeing a replay of that with the Biden administration,” he told “Fox News Primetime.”</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“There's four simple tenets when you talk about governing. One is you can't overtax, you can't over regulate, you've got to have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing, and you've got to have a skilled workforce, which translates into a accountable public schools. That's it. Then get out of the way. These guys don't understand that,” Perry said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“They have the Washington mindset that Washington knows best. They’ve never run anything, and the American people are paying the price. He might as well -- I am talking about Ron Klain here -- he might as well have gotten up and done his best Marie Antoinette and said ‘Let them eat cake,’” he said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">“Yeah, now the cake costs $50,” host Jesse Watters said.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;"><br /></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 15.5pt;">Perry compared the Biden administration to the Trump administration, saying that former President Donald Trump knew how to run things.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: I think we got a bill of goods laid on us is what we got, but the fact is we had four years of a president who understood how to manage things. He understood how to run a big business, to bring people in that had had the experience of running, by and large, big corporate entities, et cetera, knew how to manage -- and I think that’s the real difference here. I mean, Joe Biden has been in the Senate. He's never managed anything. He can't even manage his family.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Yeah, Hunter Biden manages Joe's bank account. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: You've got to admit though, Jesse, Hunter Biden is an artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: I'm sorry. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: A con artist. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Right. The only thing, I guess -- his paintings are inflated, too. What are they selling for, 75 Gs? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Inflation, this isn't transitory, get ready, folks. </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">WATERS: Hunter knows all about high-class problems, doesn't he, governor? </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt;">PERRY: Yes, sir. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden acknowledged the businessman's interest 'has everything to do with my last name'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><img height="514" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps5.png" width="736" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, an unidentified man, then-vice president Joe Biden, and Finnegan Biden in China in 2013 / Getty Images</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by Chuck Ross"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Chuck Ross</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> • October 13, 2021 1:40 pm</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.3pt 3.8pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">SHARE</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 17.25pt 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The emails provide another example of the younger Biden using his family name to further his foreign business interests, undercutting Joe Biden's claims to the contrary. Hunter Biden landed a high-paying position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014, just as his father was taking over the Obama administration's Ukraine portfolio. Some of Biden's associates recognized the importance of his family ties to their business deals. One Biden partner touted the "political and strategic value of the Biden family" during 2017 negotiations with a Chinese energy conglomerate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che's fate raises the likelihood that Chinese authorities knew of Biden's business dealings. Che, who is reported to be the son-in-law of a former chief of China's central bank, was arrested on Feb. 2, 2015, on charges that he laundered $15 billion. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to one report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, Che provided investigators with details of his business activity. It is unclear if he discussed his links to Biden, though the Chinese government would likely have been interested in details of his interactions with the son of an American vice president.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Republicans have asserted that Biden's foreign business dealings created blackmail opportunities against the Biden family. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said in </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> last year that Biden's partnerships presented "serious counterintelligence and extortion concerns."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Biden emails portray an air of mystery surrounding Che, who has been described in press reports as "shadowy and discreet." Biden and his business partners referred to Che cryptically as "Super Chairman" and "Mr. Che." His full name is mentioned in just one email from April 2010 that sets up an introductory lunch meeting in Washington, D.C., between the mogul and the Biden consortium.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">While the emails show Biden and his partners discussing details of the investment fund, they do not indicate what came of the negotiations with Che. But the businessmen involved in the discussions would later partner on one of Biden's most controversial business deals. One email from the laptop describes Che as a "close business partner" of Chinese investment banker Jonathan Li.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden has come under scrutiny for introducing his father to Li during an official U.S. government trip to Beijing in 2013. Emails show that Li, Biden, and two other businessmen, James Bulger and Michael Lin, discussed the investment fund with Che. According to one email, Che planned to commit $100 million to the partnership while granting an investment stake to China Investment Corporation, the Chinese government's sovereign wealth fund, and other "high power" Chinese firms.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden, Archer, Li, Lin, and Bulger in 2013 formed the private equity firm Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, known as BHR Partners. Biden has come under fire for failing to divest a 10-percent ownership stake in the partnership, even though he pledged to do so in 2019. The White House has refused to answer questions about the investment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Emails show Biden and Archer saw the deal with Che as a huge financial opportunity and a way to gain influence with investment companies, such as Blackstone and the Carlyle Group, that sought business in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Biden wrote to Archer in a September 23, 2011, email. "Things are moving rapidly and the percentage he is offering me is much larger than I at first thought," he added.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">"This can be a serious opportunity," Archer wrote. "Not only … from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Archer was indicted in 2016 on charges that he and a group of business associates defrauded a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme. Biden himself is under federal investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Che is not the only Biden-linked Chinese tycoon to run afoul of Chinese authorities. Biden formed a close relationship with Ye Jianming, the president of the CEFC China Energy. CEFC paid Biden at least $6 million in 2016 and 2017, according to the report released by Grassley and Johnson. Of that sum, CEFC paid Biden $1 million to represent CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering bribes to two African officials during the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Chinese authorities in 2018 arrested Ye on fraud charges.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">None of Biden's partners responded to requests for comment about Che. Biden's lawyer also did not respond to a request for comment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="border-color: windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 20.25pt; padding: 0pt;"><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden’s Law Firm </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">@JxhnBinder</span></u></b></a><b><span face=""\"Times New Roman\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A huge miasma of corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><b><span face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><b><u><span class="15" face=""\"Trebuchet MS\""" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0033cc; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Veronika Kyrylenko</span></u></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Do you remember how Joe Biden gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blasting an Iowan</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> voter who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian company?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">According to Joe, a man was a "damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Sept. 23, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">" that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The investigation was launched in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction," when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">raised concerns</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> over the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As the investigation dug dipper, new and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals, which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Here are some key findings:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">First and foremost: The Obama administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/ksohtml8084/wps6.jpg" width="601" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Trebuchet MS'"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Furthermore, in addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Jill Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> claims that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated with prostitution rings is something that resonates with </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter's character</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> just perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold evidence of money wires.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You certainly may try to imagine one of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding "justice," because "no one is above the law." The media reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes? Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump and Russia are to blame. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The New York Times and The Washington Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden," was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Times'</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> headline. "GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it," said </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the Washington Post</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. "GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another typical headline dismissing the report, this from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Politico</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A story of a then-Vice President's son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mainstream media may deliberately shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and, as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they wish. 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font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "'Times New Roman'"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 30pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mairead McArdle</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27pt; margin: 5pt 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #26282a; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0pt;">National Review</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #9ea2af; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">•</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">October 15, 2020</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">New York Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">reported</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Post</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">appears to try to leverage</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In one 2015 email, obtained by </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003abc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Media Action Network</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that their “ultimate purpose” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 24pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Senate Report: Hunter Biden</span><span style="font-family: SimSun;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">s Law Firm Took Nearly $6M from Chinese Oligarch</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="p" style="border-right: 1pt dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18pt; margin: 5pt 5.25pt 5pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 5pt 0pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544" title="Posts by John Binder"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOHN BINDER</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 7.5pt 0pt 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s law firm received nearly six million from a Chinese oligarch who sought power and influence in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">bombshell report</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee details </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">numerous cases</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and family members have deep ties to the Chinese communist government, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">One such case notes Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, seemingly accepting nearly six million in consulting fees and legal representation from Chinese oligarch Ye Jianming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III. These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye. It is unclear whether Hunter Biden was half-owner of Hudson West III at that time. However, starting on Aug. 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through Sept. 25, 2018, </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A million of the nearly six million transferred to Hunter Biden’s law firm was then refunded, claiming that the payment was related to his firm’s representation of Jianming associate Patrick Ho — </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">convicted</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of international bribery and money laundering in 2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Ho’s legal representation in the case, though, did not include Hunter Biden’s law firm. Attorneys with the firms Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP and Dechert LLP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">represented</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Ho in the case, court records show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On March 22, 2018, a $1 million payment was sent from Hudson West III to Owasco with a memo line for “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In his alternative explanation, Hunter Biden indicated that the misdirected $1 million was related to his representation of Ye’s associate, Patrick Ho</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. These transactions illustrate the financial connections between Gongwen Dong’s Hudson West III, Ye Jianming’s CEFC, and Hunter Biden’s Owasco. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Biden stated that:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Boies Schiller Flexner is co-counsel for Dr. Patrick Ho’s case. Hudson West III LLC has no involvement with Patrick Ho Chi Ping[’]s case and won[’]t expect further transaction related to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping trail [sic] for Hudson West III LLC. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Owasco LLC and co- Counsel Boies Schiller Flexner will represent Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping [at] trial</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report also reveals that at the same time Hunter Biden’s law firm was taking payments from Jianming, he was transferring money to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm run by Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 9pt 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Between Aug. 14, 2017 and Aug. 3, 2018, Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity,” the report states:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III. When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated. </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure. The Committees created the following chart with respect to this transaction. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hudson West III also sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. According to records on file with the Committees, James B. Biden is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group, and between January 2018 and October 2018, Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.” </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and James Biden</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Similarly, as Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s private equity firm </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">received</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> about $3.5 million from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina in 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The report states that members of the Biden family </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">used credit cards</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> linked to associates with ties to the Chinese communist government and bought luxury items with the funds.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Hunter Biden, in the report, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5440581937224467578/4570740790269286544"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is accused</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of making payments to Russian and Eastern European women linked to prostitution and human trafficking.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. 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He began to shout and swear, a lawmaker familiar with the meeting said. </div><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">He believed he had been doing what was right, despite the political fallout, he told the group, according to the lawmaker.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">...</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">For months, Democrats have watched the 2024 campaign unfold with rising alarm as the sitting president struggles to gain ground against his defeated predecessor. Frustrations rippling through the party have reached the top, with Biden at times second-guessing travel decisions and communications strategies that have left much of the electorate clueless about his record, interviews with nearly 20 lawmakers, present and past administration officials and Biden allies show.</p></blockquote></div><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="14" style="font-size: inherit !important;"></ins><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">That's got to be miserable stuff for staffers on the receiving end, particularly since, as NBC reports, they're taking the brunt of his out-of-control anger.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">He's blaming his staff for many things, not just his bad poll numbers, which hover around 38% public approval at last reading, according to the NBC report, a number so low no president running for re-election in modern times has overcome them. Past presidents, such as Jimmy Carter and George Bush, Sr. were defeated on higher public approval ratings than Joe has. Nobody's as low as Joe.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Biden claims that his staff is "cocooning" him away from the public as if his many gaffes and physical stumbles weren't reason enough to do so.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Here's an icky quote from a staffer, which has public relations written all over it.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-size: inherit !important; margin: 10px 40px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;"><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">“The president and his advisers have all been eager for him to be out there more and planned for that to take place at the start of the election year, as has been the norm for past incumbents seeking re-election,” the second person familiar with the matter said.</p></blockquote><ins data-revive-id="6bc7ae966d8a87b9a61ed66465dbd88e" data-revive-zoneid="15" style="font-size: inherit !important;"></ins><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Some of staff have complained that Biden is playing defense, trying to shore up his base, not trying to persuade new voters, which sounds about par, particularly since recent reports say he's hemorrhaging working class black and Latino voters who are moving to President Trump.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Others say he should be let out more often and walk faster, even though others still say he's falling flat on his face when he does.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Still others say he needs an army of surrogates to carry his message since he can't do it alone.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You can tell from the report that the staff don't know what to do, but there Biden is, raging at them for his miserable polling numbers.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">NBC unquestioningly insists that Biden has a good economy to brag about and voters just don't get it.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">That's where the real problem is. No, the economy is not good, and voters know it. Grocery and gas and heating prices are sharply higher while salaries are lower and housing is out of the question for many.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Illegals have taken many of the "jobs created" and if not illegals, legal immigrants, which sounds like replacement theory.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It's wretched stuff based on the world's most wretched presidential record. It frankly stinks.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">But that's not where Biden is. He's bellowing at staff about why voters don't love him.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">They will never be able to tell him the truth and he won't look for it. But look forward to staff resigning as he rages at them -- and lots of tell-all books.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Image: Screen shot from live television broadcast, filtered.</p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> </p><p style="font-size: inherit !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;">THE FACT THAT THE LAWYER CLASS, THE JUDICIAL AND THE POLITICIANS ARE HELD IN UNVERSAL CONTEMPT WILL NOT ALTER THEIR SELF-SERVING CORRUPTION AND PATH OF DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'S DEMOCRACY. THESE PIG PARASITES ARE GAMERS OF THE LAW KNOWING THAT THEY ARE A PROTECTED CRIMINAL CLASS.</span></p></div></span></h1><div><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><h1 style="margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mendacity and Corruption in the Judiciary</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1077325683503282176/3787344954011439527"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Clarice Feldman</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ca-judicial-performance-hoax.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-there-any-greater-threat-to-america.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://ca-judicial-performance-hoax.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-there-any-greater-threat-to-america.html</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Something is seriously wrong with American law schools and the disciplinary outfits that are supposed to monitor corrupt conduct of practitioners.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You can see the effects of this degradation in the outrageous behavior of government prosecutors and in the judiciary, which ignores its responsibility to decide fairly and without bias.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We are churning out dishonest, corrupt lawyers and judges who are more than willing to look the other way at such behavior, condoning the most obvious selective partisan prosecutions. As the awareness of the failure of the judicial system grows, the consequences will be enormous -- CLARICE FELDMAN</span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 40px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Protect and enrich.”</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">BOB MENENDEZ</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> STILL EVADING PRISON, AND NOT BE VERY LEAST, (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ERIC SWALWELL</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> THE CHINESE SPY AND HO CHASING BRIBES SUCKER. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 192pt;"> <i> BRIAN C JOONDEPH</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please Email This Post To Your Family & Friends</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440581937224467578.post-85291623816561216352024-03-17T09:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T09:35:07.851-07:00THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA - A LOOK AT THE LAWYER INFESTED DEMOCRAT PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKING LAWYERS<p> </p><h1 style="margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt;">THE FACT THAT THE LAWYER CLASS, THE JUDICIAL AND THE POLITICIANS ARE HELD IN UNVERSAL CONTEMPT WILL NOT ALTER THEIR SELF-SERVING CORRUPTION AND PATH OF DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'S DEMOCRACY. THESE PIG PARASITES ARE GAMERS OF THE LAW KNOWING THAT THEY ARE A PROTECTED CRIMINAL CLASS.</span></h1><div><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><h1 style="margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Mendacity and Corruption in the Judiciary</span></b><b><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1077325683503282176/3787344954011439527"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Clarice Feldman</span></u></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ca-judicial-performance-hoax.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-there-any-greater-threat-to-america.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://ca-judicial-performance-hoax.blogspot.com/2024/03/is-there-any-greater-threat-to-america.html</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Something is seriously wrong with American law schools and the disciplinary outfits that are supposed to monitor corrupt conduct of practitioners.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; letter-spacing: 0pt;">You can see the effects of this degradation in the outrageous behavior of government prosecutors and in the judiciary, which ignores its responsibility to decide fairly and without bias.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We are churning out dishonest, corrupt lawyers and judges who are more than willing to look the other way at such behavior, condoning the most obvious selective partisan prosecutions. As the awareness of the failure of the judicial system grows, the consequences will be enormous -- CLARICE FELDMAN</span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 40px; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Protect and enrich.”</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> This is a perfect encapsulation of the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Clinton Foundation </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Obama</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">s</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (TWO GAMER LAWYERS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">) book and television deals. Then there is the </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Biden family </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER LYING LAWYER )</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Warren </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> 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 </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">KAMALA HARRIS</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(GAMER </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">LAWYER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">CHUCK SCHUMER</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">GAMER LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">Y</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">TONY BLINKEN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AS WELL AS CON MAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> (GAMER LAWYER)</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ADAM SHIFF</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">BOB MENENDEZ</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> STILL EVADING PRISON, AND NOT BE VERY LEAST, (GAMER LAWYER) </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">ERIC SWALWELL</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 53.3333px;"> THE CHINESE SPY AND HO CHASING BRIBES SUCKER. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; text-indent: 192pt;"> <i> BRIAN C JOONDEPH</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 24pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please Email This Post To Your Family & Friends</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0