Joe Biden’s presidency began and ended with the shielding of individuals linked to decades’ worth of dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

Biden concluded his presidency by issuing former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci a blanket pardon, going back all the way to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for gain-of-function research that makes pathogens more deadly and/or more transmissible.

‘It is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.’

Years earlier — days after the geriatric Democrat was sworn in as president and at the height of the COVID pandemic — the Biden FBI requested special treatment for Peter Daszak, the disgraced British zoologist who funneled American funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

According to documents released on Monday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the National Targeting Center — a division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection responsible for catching travelers and detecting cargo that threaten American security — alerted other groups within the Department of Homeland Security to Daszak’s planned trip from Qatar to New York on Feb. 5, 2021.

The NTC was aware not only of the British native’s recent travels around China and his role on the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 but his work with coronavirus researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; his predominant use of American grant money for gain-of-function research, including research conducted by one of SARS-CoV-2’s likely patients zero; his contracts “with the DHS Chemical and Biological Threat Division”; his co-authorship of a 2013 study detailing the successful infection of human cells with a SARS-like coronavirus; and the National Institutes of Health’s request that he retrieve “the original type-specimen used by WIV for genetic analysis.”

The NTC recommended that Daszak undergo a Tactical Terrorism Response Team exam.

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In the NTC’s Feb. 2, 2021, email setting the stage for a thorough inspection and interview upon Daszak’s arrival was a list of questions the division evidently figured worth raising with the foreign zoologist, including:

Why was he chosen to be on the WHO investigative team?Where in China did he go?Where did he stay while in China?Did his WHO team visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and if so, what areas did the team inspect?Did the WHO team meet with any Chinese officials?Did Daszak collect, travel with, or mail any biological samples during the trip?

One of the documents published by Paul stated, “During the inspection, it is hard to say if Daszak will be forthcoming with information.”

Daszak — who was formally debarred along with his scandal-plagued and now-defunct organization, EcoHealth Alliance, last year by the Department of Health and Human Services — was apparently spared from having to undergo the exam and answer such questions in detail upon his arrival due to an intervention by the Biden FBI.

A senior CBP officer serving as the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject below.”

Customs and Border Protection played ball, sending out a message stating, “Please disregard request for inspection.”

Sen. Paul said that “the inspection never took place.”

Daszak and the FBI did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

When asked by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) during a 2024 congressional hearing whether he had a “standing relationship, either officially or unofficially, with any agency in the intelligence community,” Daszak answered no, then claimed he also wasn’t a witting informant for any U.S. intelligence agency.

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The Christian conservative keyboardist of the band Journey has lashed out at Bruce Springsteen for constantly using his platform to push his liberal politics.

Springsteen has been annoying his fans by criticizing President Donald Trump and his supporters during his concerts, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain says he’s fed up with it.

‘I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.’

“I’m a diehard conservative. … And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up. You know, really, honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know?” said Cain in an interview on the “Complete Disaster Network” podcast from May that has gone viral on X this week, thanks to Variety.

He said he used to be a Democrat in his youth but has since turned to the right. He also tries to avoid injecting his politics into his music.

“Now, people say, ‘Well, you’re a Christian, and you’re conservative,’ and I’m like, ‘So what?’ I don’t preach it on stage. I don’t spend 10 minutes talking about it,” he continued.

“And Bruce, I mean, what the heck? I used to like him, and now he’s just annoying,” Cain said. “He’s an annoying, bitter old man. I mean, stop it. Really. You were born in the U.S.A., weren’t you, dude? So act like it. But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss to our country.”

He also turned his ire against a liberal actor known for criticizing Trump.

“Him and … who’s the other one? Robert De Niro,” Cain added. “I mean, who cares, guys? Do your art. I try to keep politics out of my music.”

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Cain is married to Paula White, the controversial prosperity gospel evangelist who was appointed by Trump to his White House Faith Office.

Cain went on to recount how Journey is ridiculed by many in the mainstream but remains a fan favorite. Cain also recounted how Journey was one of the first bands to start touring after the coronavirus pandemic.

“Everybody told us we were going to fail, and we were crazy — we’re all going to die, you know?” Cain recalled. “And we said, ‘Nonsense, it’s time to go back out and celebrate rock ‘n’ roll again,’ and we were right, and we filled every arena we played.”

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now walking back its claim that Taco Bell lettuce supplier Taylor Farms was a source of the epidemic of explosive diarrhea that plagued customers, even apologizing to the company for making a “false positive.”

A statement from Taylor Farms reads, “Yesterday, FDA informed Taylor Fresh Foods that one of its iceberg lettuce products from central Mexico had a ‘confirmed positive’ test for cyclospora. Today, we were informed that [the] FDA made a mistake, and this was a false positive. To be clear, at this moment, FDA has not identified a single positive product test result for cyclospora.”

“Acting on initial information provided by health officials, in an abundance of caution, we completed a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce from central Mexico. Recalled product was limited to iceberg lettuce grown and processed in central Mexico,” the statement continued.

The company reminded consumers that none of its other products had been involved in the recall, before issuing a message to those who are sick.

“Our thoughts remain with everyone who has fallen ill in this outbreak. We are committed to working with public health authorities as the ongoing outbreak investigation continues,” the statement concluded.

“It’s just such a warm statement from a corporation,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“Basically, they [the FDA] didn’t even have this information, they sunk, probably, the stock of Taylor Farms if they even have one,” he continues. “And Taco Bell and probably 10 other places, right?“

“Right,” co-host Dave Landau jokes, “which is why I bought it.”

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Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate has been arrested in the U.S. after British authorities issued new charges — which include seven counts of rape and charges related to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.

His brother Tristan was arrested as well, with a whopping 59 charges against the pair in total.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is not surprised, pointing out that the entire belief system the Tates capitalized on was a lie.

“The manosphere sold you a lie. A big one,” he begins. “They told you that the alternative to weak, feminized, go-along-to-get-along men was Andrew Tate. That he was the antidote, the cure, real masculinity.”

“No, Andrew Tate was never the opposite of the culture’s sickness. He was the culture’s sickness wearing a nicer watch,” he adds.

And while Tate railed against feminism, he wasn’t that different from the feminists.

“Think about it. The feminists tell women, ‘Your body is your product. Sell it. Own it. Sex work is work.’ And what did Andrew Tate tell men? ‘Turn women into product. Run the webcam. Take the money.’ It’s the same immorality, same worship of flesh, same contempt for God’s design, just pointed in a different direction,” Whitlock explains.

Tate also claimed that he had broken free of “the matrix,” which drew a loyal following from many young men who feel the system has been working against them.

Instead, Whitlock says that Tate is “one of the biggest benefactors of the matrix.”

“He’s their shining example of what the matrix can do with anybody willing to be dishonest. Andrew Tate wasn’t neo. He wasn’t fighting the system. He was the system’s greatest advertisement. And the fruit of it is what you saw this weekend in Miami,” he explains.

“Real masculinity is not how many women you can control. It’s not a rented Bugatti. It’s not a compound full of security cameras and neon lights. Real masculinity is responsibility. It’s a covenant. It’s a man who provides, who protects, who leads his home under God, not a man who preys on the vulnerable and calls it strength,” he says.

“I said it back in January, and I’ll say it again right now. Andrew Tate is trying to lead you away from your actual ally,” he continues. “Any Christian man that’s trying to pursue holiness, trying to pursue righteousness, that is your ally.”

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A “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to 6,600 people who indicated they were not citizens to be wrongly registered to vote, according to the state’s governor.

Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday that the error was discovered last week and that she has replaced the vendor responsible and taken those voters off the rolls.

‘They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.’

“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for driver’s licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” Sherrill said.

Sherrill said the registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, years before she got into office.

“This happened under the previous administration and, upon learning this information, I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of what occurred,” she said. “I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024.”

She went on to say she was “appalled” by the “reckless failures” that led to the false registrations.

“Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted,” she added. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.”

Sherrill blamed the previous administration under Gov. Phil Murphy, another Democrat.

RELATED: ‘Dead on arrival’: Chuck Schumer says Dems will ‘go all out’ to defeat voter ID bill

Merrill went on to try to preempt criticism from Republicans about voter integrity.

“As the Trump administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections,” she added. “Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than 10 years, he has worked to undermine Americans’ faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn’t accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level.”

Trump has been pressing for the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to show photo ID before registering to vote.

“Yet another reason to PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!” responded a White House social media account. “It would require states to submit voter rolls to the USCIS/DHS SAVE system for citizenship verification (which New Jersey currently does not do) — preventing this exact scenario from happening in the first place.”

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Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said officers responded to a shooting in the 3000 block of Travis Road around 1:50 a.m. Thursday.

Officers at the scene saw a male suffering from a gunshot wound, and police said the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

‘Get out of my house, b***h.’

Kendra Scott, 36, was arrested at the scene and later charged with first-degree murder and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, police said.

But the New York Post said Scott found the 20-year-old male in question hiding under her 13-year-old daughter’s bed.

The Post added that an arrest affidavit it obtained indicates Scott told police she came home and “saw a dude under” the bed — “and I did what I had to do.”

The affidavit also said the gunshot wound was in the back of the male’s head, the Post added, and that he was found outside the home.

More from the paper:

The deadly incident unfolded after Scott’s teen daughter told cops she invited the man, Rodderius Morton, to the family’s home at around 1 a.m., according to the court document and Scott’s lawyer.

An enraged Scott started pounding on the front door and bellowing, “Who’s at my house?!” when she arrived home around 30 minutes later, the affidavit states.

Her unidentified daughter grew terrified when she noticed her mom was allegedly holding a gun.

Scott had said that if she “sees a boy in my house I will put a hole in his ass,” the daughter later told cops, according to the affidavit.

The Post, citing the court document, reported that the teen soon let her mother inside, where Scott allegedly found Morton hiding under the bed. It isn’t clear why Scott had to be let inside her own house.

“Get out of my house, bitch,” Scott allegedly screamed, the paper said, adding that Scott followed Morton out the front door.

Then Scott’s daughter and a neighbor allegedly heard a gunshot, the Post said.

The paper, citing the affidavit, reported that the neighbor later told police he came outside and saw Scott still holding the gun and standing by the man’s body while admitting, “I shot him, I shot him.”

Officers recovered one spent shell casing on the front porch as well as a Smith & Wesson black handgun, the Post reported, citing the document.

“This incident started with the worst nightmare of any parent of a 13-year-old girl,” Scott’s lawyer, Blake Ballin, told the paper, adding that “predictably, it ended in tragedy. One of the key questions in this case will be whether anyone could act rationally in this circumstance.”

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Retired law enforcement officer and firearm self-defense trainer Buddy Smith told WMC-TV that what’s known so far about the shooting would not qualify under Tennessee’s Castle Doctrine.

“Which means you’re allowed to protect the people in your residence when someone breaks in to commit a violent felony against you or someone in your house,” Smith told the station, adding that “the affidavit does not allege that he threatened the mother or anyone else at that time, and those alleged facts will likely be important issues for the court, and ultimately a jury.”

Gloria Milon, an area resident, told WMC she sympathizes with Scott: “She seemed like a real nice lady. All I can say is, that hurts that someone was in there with one of her little girls.”

Another neighbor who asked not to be identified told the station that Scott should have called police instead: “If it would’ve been me in that situation, and I had seen her on that doorbell camera, I would’ve called the police and had them sitting at my house when I got there. Therefore, you take him out, take him on to jail.”

A judge on Monday set Scott’s bond at $100,000; her next court date is scheduled for Aug. 3, WMC reported in a separate story. Jail records indicate Scott remained behind bars Tuesday.

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A Pennsylvania man repeatedly found his possessions being strangely moved around his home for weeks, according to multiple reports. Then, he allegedly caught a woman, whom he had previously met on a dating site, stalking him at his house.

A Bucks County man met 30-year-old Lindsay Carole Harris through the Match dating website in January, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Levittown Patch.

‘We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.’

Police stated that the pair dated briefly before the man ended the relationship, but authorities allege that Harris refused to let go of the alleged romance, according to WCAU-TV.

According to Patch, Falls Township police said Harris continued to contact the man despite being asked to stop communicating with him.

Police said they responded to the man’s home on June 28.

“It’s nighttime. We get a call for a woman breaking into one of our residents’ homes in Fairless Hills,” Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney said, according to WCAU. “We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.”

Police identified the suspect as Harris.

“They had initially contacted each other about six months prior on a dating website,” Whitney explained.

Harris arrived at the house with a bottle of wine and Italian ice despite the victim not wanting a relationship with her, police said.

Whitney added, “The male decided not to continue the relationship, but I guess the female wanted to continue it and came to his home and not only broke into the home but had a bottle of wine and some water ice ready to enjoy an evening with this guy who was completely shocked to come home and find her standing outside of his house looking at him through the sliding glass door and immediately called 911.”

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Patch reported that police arrested Harris and charged her with burglary, criminal trespass, and stalking.

Harris was released from jail after posting 10% of a $50,000 bail, according to Patch. Harris is set to appear for a preliminary hearing on July 21.

The alleged victim told WCAU he was confused when he noticed that his belongings inside his home had been moved around.

PennLive reported, “The bizarre stalking incident led to a discovery that Harris had allegedly broken into his house multiple times, moving things around for weeks.”

The alleged victim also said he never gave Harris his home address.

Whitney warned, “People are pretty good at finding other people on the internet.”

The Falls Township Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.

To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.

‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’

A new study in the Oxford University Press journal Research Connections provides some idea of the scale of this campaign and just how many victims it has already created in Oregon — a state whose health plan will cover virtually any sex-rejection drug or procedure, no matter how cosmetic, if deemed “medically necessary” by a doctor.

Researchers from Comagine Health, a nonprofit health care consulting firm, used the multi-payer claims database operated by their organization to identify so-called “transgender and gender-diverse” adolescents in the Beaver State, ages 8-17. The data researchers relied on was from 2016 to 2023.

After identifying 8,480 gender-confused adolescents among the 868,740 insured adolescents in the system, the researchers “assessed receipt of puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapies using procedural codes.”

RELATED: ‘Kill your local Republican’: Trans former volunteer for trans Democrat appears to call for ‘trans jihad’

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They found in Oregon that:

the median age of first gender-dysphoria diagnosis was 14;1.51% of all covered female patients and 0.46% of all covered male patients ages 8-17 in the seven-year period received gender dysphoria diagnoses;75.8% of the patients with gender dysphoria diagnoses were female;the median time span from diagnosis to medical interference was 294 days;the median age for initial sex-rejection medical interventions was 15;23.35% of victims received medical “gender-affirming care”;19.72% of victims received cross-sex hormones;8.21% used puberty blockers, drugs that have long been used to chemically castrate sex offenders; andthe use of puberty blockers and hormone replacement procedures skyrocketed during the timeframe, especially between 2020 and 2023.

The researchers claimed that “despite growing attention, medical [gender-affirming care] is accessed by only a small proportion of adolescents in the United States.”

Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted in a recent article for the Wall Street Journal that this supposedly “small proportion” is actually tragically high.

Citing the study, Sapir highlighted that “at age 17, roughly 1 in every 240 girls and 1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones for ‘gender dysphoria’ between 2016 and 2023. These figures are triple and double the national average for girls and boys, respectively.”

Sapir noted further that cross-sex hormone use among 14- and 15-year-olds in Oregon — the only American state to formally adopt the so-called standards of care issued by the scandal-plagued World Professional Association for Transgender Health — was four to five times the national rate.

In November, the Department of Health and Human Services published an exhaustive peer-reviewed report that stressed that “the harms from sex-rejecting procedures — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations — are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked.”

The previous year, just months prior to National Health Service England banning puberty blockers at so-called gender-identity clinics, the United Kingdom’s landmark Cass Review revealed that:

the “systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence”;puberty blockers “exert their intended effect in suppressing puberty,” but compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction”;there is a dearth of consistent evidence about the “effect of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial well-being, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk or fertility”;there is a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormone interventions in adolescents confused about their sex; andthe so-called science regarding “gender-affirming care” is “an area of remarkably weak evidence” built on “shaky foundations.”

Despite the mountain of evidence showing that so-called “gender-affirming care” is not only destructive but ineffective in terms of achieving the promoters’ own aims, the Democrats running Oregon show no signs of abandoning their war on young bodies.

For instance, Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek, a self-identified lesbian, ratified new legislation in May aimed at shielding providers of sex-rejection drugs and mutilations from civil lawsuits, professional discipline, and loss of malpractice insurance, as well as at ensuring uninterrupted coverage for Oregon Health Plan patients utilizing Planned Parenthood for “essential health services.”

Kotek did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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President Trump nominated acting Attorney General Todd Blanche last month to lead the Justice Department permanently. After more than a year as deputy attorney general, Blanche has shown that he is not merely capable of doing the job. He is the man the department needs now.

I had the privilege of serving alongside Blanche. He is smart, principled, and fearless. His record proves it.

Blanche left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

The Trump administration’s approach to law enforcement and immigration has already delivered historic results. Violent crime has reached record lows, cartel activity has declined, and property crime has fallen dramatically.

Blanche has also led the effort to reverse the Justice Department’s politicization under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Their tenure included imprisoning grandmothers who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, arresting pro-life protesters, spying on eight Republican senators, surveilling Catholics who attended the traditional Latin Mass, and deploying the National Security Division against concerned parents at school board meetings.

That two-tiered justice system helped drive Americans to the polls for Trump. Ending the abuses is not enough. The department must also repair the damage by dismissing corrupt prosecutors, enforcing the law equally against powerful left-wing actors, and restoring people wronged by the government. Blanche has shown the courage to do exactly that.

Some Senate Republicans objected to the Justice Department’s now-abandoned plan to compensate victims of Biden-era abuses. Yet as the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted, the United States has a long tradition of compensating victims of government injustice.

Justice requires more than ending misconduct. Government must also make victims whole when it can. That is what giving them their due means.

National Review summarized its objection this way: “No matter whose name is on the DOJ letterhead, the president is running the Justice Department.”

That criticism ignores Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Morrison v. Olson, which he described as one of his favorites. Scalia argued that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president — “this does not mean some of the executive power, but all of the executive power” — and trusts voters to choose a president who will exercise it for the common good. A Justice Department fully independent of the president would answer neither to the nation’s elected chief executive nor to the voters who chose him.

RELATED: Trump fires US attorney minutes after activist judges installed him, leaving Patty Murray in tatters

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National Review also argues that Blanche cannot stand up to Trump because he once served as Trump’s personal lawyer. The opposite is more plausible. Who is better positioned to deliver hard news: someone who put his career on the line to defend the president, or someone the president barely knows?

Presidents have often chosen attorneys general with whom they shared close professional ties. Ronald Reagan selected his personal attorney, William French Smith, and later Ed Meese, his former California chief of staff and legal affairs secretary. George W. Bush chose Alberto Gonzales, who had served as his general counsel in Texas.

National Review’s deeper objection seems to have less to do with Blanche and everything to do with Trump. But refusing to confront weaponized government allows wrongdoers to escape accountability and invites the next administration to repeat the abuse.

The left has no hesitation about using power to advance its goals. Some conservatives still treat passivity as principle even after voters put them in office to govern. Trump’s rise was a rejection of that bloodless approach to politics.

Blanche built an impressive prosecutorial record in one of the nation’s most prestigious U.S. attorney’s offices. He left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

Todd Blanche has met the moment and exceeded conservative expectations. The case against him reflects the old conservative preference for “yelling stop” rather than exercising legitimate power. Senate Republicans should reject that reflex and confirm him as attorney general.

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British politician and pro-life advocate Ann Widdecombe was assassinated in her home in Devon, England, earlier this month.

Joshua Kerry, the apparent leftist accused of slaying the 78-year-old Reform U.K. immigration spokeswoman, was formally charged with murder on Monday.

‘I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist.’

“We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor, Dartmoor,” Frank Ferguson, chief prosecutor of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said in a statement. “Police enquiries into the defendant’s motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection.”

Ferguson noted further that prosecutors had “worked closely with the police to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court.”

The evidence presented in court on Tuesday — where Kerry was in attendance and told not to enter a plea — provided some horrific insights into the assassination.

Prosecutor Kashif Malik told the court that the savage attack was captured by a camera inside the kitchen where Widdecombe’s lifeless body was discovered by her gardener the next day, reported Reuters.

RELATED: What is anarcho-tyranny? Modern Britain gives a disturbing glimpse of our future

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Kerry is allegedly seen in the video entering Widdecombe’s home wearing black gloves and armed with a hammer while the Reform U.K. politician was eating lunch. He then allegedly asked her, “Don’t suppose you have bank cards and ID?”

According to Malik, the suspect proceeded to strike Widdecombe atop the head 21 times. After caving in the Christian politician’s skull, the assassin pushed his victim out of her chair and onto the floor, stole her wallet, then fled the scene, Malik alleged.

Kerry was arrested on July 10 on suspicion of murder in what was initially figured for a burglary gone wrong. He was cut loose the next day only to be rearrested hours later at his home in Rotherham, this time by Counter Terrorism Policing North East and South Yorkshire Police on suspicion of murder and the “commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism.”

Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, subsequently acknowledged that the investigation had turned up “new information and evidence” pointing to the murder having been a “targeted attack.”

A source told the Sun (U.K.) that in their search of Kerry’s house, they found clippings of news articles about Reform U.K., its leader Nigel Farage, and the party’s immigration policies.

“It would appear he had a profound dislike of the party, its leader, and its policies,” said the source.

In addition to seizing Kerry’s electronic devices, police also seized a red Vauxhall Corsa linked to him. The court heard on Tuesday that the man who arrived at Widdecombe’s property on July 8 drove up in a red Vauxhall Corsa.

Kerry was reportedly caught on CCTV leaving his Rotherham residence, approximately 270 miles away from Widdecombe’s house, early on the day of the murder in the red car.

Nigel Farage noted in an article for the Sun on Saturday, “Surprise, surprise, he wasn’t some local opportunistic thief.”

“I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist,” wrote Farage. “He attended various marches and hated anyone with an opposing view. He had expressed his hatred of me on more than one occasion. He was an intolerant individual obsessed with Soviet communism. He may also have been known to the authorities.”

Reform U.K. spokesman Zia Yusuf joined Farage on Tuesday in blasting the British media for its apparent disinterest in Kerry’s background and politics.

“Our beloved Ann was hit on the head 21 times with a hammer by her alleged killer. Why do we still know so little about him? Why do we still know so little about his politics?” wrote Yusuf. “We all know why.”

“The details of Ann Widdecombe’s murder revealed in court are horrific. Why will no one report on Joshua Kerry’s political views?” tweeted Farage.

Kerry’s alleged crimes were deemed “too serious” for the Westminster Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared Tuesday morning, so the matter has been sent to the Old Bailey, where he is due to appear later in the day.

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The House Freedom Caucus has successfully forced a border security bill forward after accusing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of breaking his promise to bring border legislation to the floor by July 4.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has advanced his Permanent Trump Secure Border Act to the House Judiciary Committee for markup. It is the first time this Congress that House Republicans are considering legislation codifying President Donald Trump’s executive border actions.

‘It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised.’

“Securing a markup for my Permanent Trump Secure Border Act is a critical first step toward permanently enshrining President Trump’s successful border policies into law,” Roy told Blaze News. “If Congress fails to act, nothing will prevent a future radical administration from undoing these policies and returning our nation to the border chaos of the past.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has scheduled the bill’s markup for 10:00 a.m. ET Tuesday. Markup is the congressional committee process where lawmakers debate and offer amendments to legislation.

“I commend Chairman Jordan for advancing this important legislation and helping move it one step closer to becoming law, and I hope we will soon also move two more priorities, including ending both sanctuary cities and falsely defined birthright citizenship,” Roy said.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara on June 30.

The PTSBA limits release for illegal aliens into the U.S. interior pending final removal orders. It also allows the secretary of Homeland Security to “return to a foreign territory contiguous to the United States any alien arriving on land from that territory,” pending further proceedings.

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President Donald Trump inspects the border wall prototypes during his first term. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

“Congress must do everything in its power to protect our nation for future generations, including codifying President Trump’s border security policies. Failure to do so simply greenlights a future Democrat administration to reopen the floodgates for another invasion of illegal aliens — putting American lives and livelihoods at risk,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said about the bill. “It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised, starting with permanently securing our borders in law and ending the revolving door of illegal immigration.”

The bill text restricts the large-scale release authority used by previous administrations by sharply limiting the Homeland Security secretary’s discretion regarding parole. The legislation states that parole may be granted only “on a case-by-case basis, and not according to eligibility criteria describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

It also generally bars paroled aliens from accepting employment while in the United States.

“Thanks to President Trump, our nation’s borders are secure, but our work is far from finished. Congressional Republicans must continue to pass commonsense legislation that reverses the damage created by Democrats and makes the administration’s actions permanent,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) told Blaze News. “This comprehensive immigration bill is the next step to keeping dangerous criminals out of our country and Americans safe for generations to come.”

Criminals are prohibited from claiming asylum according to the bill. This includes any alien convicted of a felony, driving under the influence, stalking, child abuse, domestic assault, or gang activity.

If the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act passes markup, its next stop is Speaker Johnson and the House Rules Committee.

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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico has been the target of ongoing conservative vitriol. His progressive stance on all major issues despite being a professing Christian inspired some, including GOP opponent Ken Paxton, to not so lovingly dub him “Talafreako.”

The abortion- and transgender-supporting progressive then tried to monetize the insult by selling T-shirts featuring the saying “I’m a *Talafreako*” for $36 a pop.

“I’m like, ‘Who would want something like that?’ And then my answer got handed directly to me,” says BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales.

She plays a recent clip of Talarico on “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

“By the way, Talafreako as a nickname, I’m all in,” Scarborough laughed.

Talarico followed the compliment by letting the two hosts know that T-shirts were available for purchase on his website.

“We’ll get you one,” Brzezinski prattled, gesturing to her husband.

Sara can’t help but laugh at Scarborough’s hypocrisy — claiming to be “unbiased” when he clearly loves chumming it up with some of the nation’s most hardcore progressives.

As for Talarico, the desperate T-shirts are evidence he’s in “damage-control” mode, she argues.

“All the crazy s**t that he has said, those words, you’re going to be shocked to hear, are coming back to bite him, and you can’t just excuse yourself by saying, ‘Oh, I, everyone knows some of the comments I’ve made in the past are a little bit cringey,’” says Sara.

But unfortunately for Talarico, the cringe continues to follow him.

Sara plays another recent clip of the Texas Democrat arguing against a border wall in Texas.

“We can make sure that our government is not spending billions of our tax dollars on a useless border wall through Big Bend, one of the most sacred parts of the state of Texas,” he declared.

“Just let them in. Come on. They’re just newcomers. They’re just here in search of a better life. Let’s just let them in,” Sara mocks. “Oh, wait, we tried that, and it was a disaster.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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