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Throughout former President Joe Biden’s term, Americans watched as their commander in chief tumbled down stairs and fumbled through lines often fed to him from a teleprompter.

Everyone could see the truth: Biden was not mentally fit for office. Although his decline was blatantly obvious to onlookers, Biden’s political allies in Congress, in media, and even in the White House bent over backwards to conceal it, essentially gaslighting Americans for four years.

Even after Biden’s infamous debate performance in 2024 against now-President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers turned a blind eye.

Now that the dam has broken, Democrats are flooding social media and news articles recanting their views on the former president’s condition.

RELATED: The Great Biden Book War has finally begun

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Just months after the consequential election, Democrats are finally admitting that Biden may not have been as young and spry as they all claimed he was. This shift has largely been greenlit by the upcoming book “Original Sin,” penned by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, detailing Biden’s decline during his presidency and on the campaign trail. Notably, Tapper was complicit in the cover-up that he is now credited with unveiling.

Now that the dam has broken, Democrats are flooding social media and news articles recanting their views on the former president’s condition.

On the topic of Biden’s cognitive decline, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut recently said there was “no doubt about it.” Ironically, Murphy was one of the most outspoken allies defending Biden’s fitness throughout his presidency and his re-election campaign, calling reports of his decline a “Fox News trope.”

RELATED: Trump earns unlikely praise from House Democrat: ‘I got to give him some kudos there’

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Similarly, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California recently conceded that Democrats should not have allowed Biden to run in 2024 in light of “facts that have come out.” If there was any confusion about Biden’s health leading up to the election, his disastrous debate made it clear as day, Khanna indicated.

Khanna sang a different tune less than a year ago, defending Biden immediately after the debate and even likening him to fictional boxing champion Rocky Balboa.

“Rocky wasn’t the most eloquent in speech,” Khanna said. “But he was a fighter. His character conveyed his eloquence. Our message: Biden’s character is his eloquence.”

Other lawmakers complicit in the cover-up are looking for another off-ramp.

RELATED: Joe Biden was a puppet, not a president. So who signed the pardons?

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted that Democrats “maybe” would have done better if Biden had never made a re-election bid but stopped just short of confessing culpability. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of the swing state of Michigan deflected altogether, saying she was “halfway across the country” in 2024 and was “busy working.”

Whether or not they’re willing to admit it, it’s clear Democrats are still trying to recover from a serious misstep.

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A person of sufficient years learns that the world is full of people trying to sell you something you don’t need, charge you twice for it, and have you thank them for the privilege. The only thing that’s changed since the days of snake-oil salesmen is the venue — now they pitch from glowing screens instead of horse-drawn carts. The modern con man doesn’t wear a bowler hat and side whiskers; he sends emails, texts, and pop-up warnings, all designed to pick your pocket while you’re busy trying to read the news or order a book. While this advice applies to all ages, unfortunately seniors are often targeted by these hackers.

Since I’ve always found it easier to avoid a trap when I know how it works, here’s a bit of practical wisdom for keeping your hard-earned money and peace of mind out of the hands of hackers. Think of it as street smarts for the information superhighway.

1. The phishing expedition: Don’t take the bait

Phishing — it sounds almost friendly, like something you’d do on a lazy Saturday with a can of worms and a thermos of coffee. But in this context, you’re the fish, and the bait is an email or text designed to look legitimate. It might claim to be from your bank, the Social Security Administration, or even a grandchild in distress.

The tip-off is urgency: “Act now or lose access to your account!” or “Grandma, I’m stuck in Mexico and need bail money!” Hackers count on panic overriding common sense.

What to do? Trust, but verify — or better yet, just verify. If your bank supposedly emails you about a problem, don’t click the link. Call the bank using the number on your bank statement, not the one in the email. If little Johnny is allegedly locked up abroad, call his mother. Chances are, he’s safe at home, ignoring her texts like teenagers do.

2. Passwords: The digital equivalent of door locks

Your password should be like the secret word to get into an old speakeasy — strong, complex, and known only to those who belong. Yet too many people use passwords like “123456” or “password,” which are about as secure as a cardboard safe.

The best passwords are long, random, and unique for every account. I hear you groaning — “How can I remember dozens of different passwords?” Easy. You don’t. Use a password manager, which keeps them locked up tighter than Fort Knox. If that feels too technical, at least write them down — on paper, not in a file called “Passwords.doc” on your desktop.

And for heaven’s sake, don’t use your pet’s name, your birthday, or anything else someone could glean from your Facebook profile. Hackers love it when you advertise your password with a “Happy birthday to Fluffy, 10 years young today!” post.

3. Pop-ups and fake alerts: The digital shell game

You’re reading the news here on Blaze News, which means you don’t get harassed by pop-ups. But when you visit other websites, you might see a window pop up: “Your computer is infected! Call this number immediately!” It’s the digital equivalent of the three-card monte on a street corner. If you engage, the hacker either sells you useless software or, worse, takes remote control of your computer.

Rule number one: Close the pop-up. If it won’t close, restart your computer. Legitimate companies don’t alert you to viruses through pop-ups; your antivirus software handles that quietly in the background.

And if anyone claiming to be “tech support” calls you out of the blue, hang up. Microsoft, Apple, and other reputable companies don’t operate like cold-calling telemarketers.

4. Social media is the playground for con men

Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites are wonderful for keeping up with the grandkids, but they’re also fertile ground for scammers. That “friend request” from someone you’re already friends with? Likely a hacker trying to impersonate them. The quiz asking for your first pet’s name and childhood street? It’s fishing for answers to common security questions.

Be stingy with personal information. Review your privacy settings and lock down your profile so that only friends can see your posts. If you get a second friend request from an existing friend, call your friend — his account might be compromised.

5. The too-good-to-be-true deal

You’ve won an iPad! You’re entitled to a refund from the IRS! A Nigerian prince wants to share his fortune! The classics never die — they just get digital makeovers every few years.

If an offer seems too good to be true, it is. No legitimate organization will ask for payment in gift cards or cryptocurrency. When in doubt, search for the exact wording of the message online — chances are, someone’s already flagged it as a scam.

6. Update or obsolete: Keep your software current

Think of software updates like annual checkups at the doctor’s — they patch up vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them. Ignore those update notifications at your peril. Yes, they’re annoying, but so is having your bank account drained.

Turn on automatic updates for your operating system, antivirus software, and web browser. This simple step closes many of the doors hackers love to sneak through.

7. Two-factor authentication: A second lock on the door

Two-factor authentication is like a bolt on the door. Even if someone steals your password, he can’t get in without the second factor — usually a code sent to your phone or generated by an app.

Enable 2FA wherever possible — especially for email, banking, and social media accounts. It’s a minor inconvenience for you but a major headache for hackers.

8. The phone scam: Old tricks, new medium

The telephone — that venerable instrument of human connection — has become a favorite tool for fraud. “This is the IRS. Pay immediately or face arrest!” or “Your grandson is in jail and needs bail money!”

The IRS doesn’t call people demanding money — it sends letters. And if your family members are really in trouble, they’ll call directly, not through a third party. When in doubt, hang up and call back using a number you trust.

9. Email attachments are the Trojan horse of the digital age

Opening an unknown email attachment is like inviting a stranger into your house and handing him your wallet. Even if an email appears to come from someone you know, exercise caution — hackers often spoof addresses.

If you’re not expecting an attachment, don’t open it. Call the sender to confirm he really sent it. Better safe than hacked.

10. Trust your gut

Finally, keep in mind the golden rule of self-preservation: if something feels off, it likely is. Hackers exploit confusion, fear, and urgency to cloud your judgment. Take a breath, step back, and verify.

In the end, avoiding hackers is like navigating any other part of life: Pay attention, keep your wits about you, and don’t trust a stranger who promises you the moon. The world’s always had its fair share of sharp operators — the only difference now is they come through the internet instead of down the street.

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Reconciliation talks are beginning to boil over as Republican factions begin attacking the “big, beautiful bill” from all angles.

Up until this week, critics have been relatively quiet about reconciliation while the majority of Republicans embraced the bill, meant to codify President Donald Trump’s agenda.

To be clear, the bill does so to an extent. The tax policy is studded with pro-family provisions and includes the incredibly popular “no tax on tips” policy Trump floated during his campaign. There are Medicaid reforms intended to trim the fat and reduce fraud by enforcing work requirements. It even increases the endowment tax on elite universities like Harvard, subjecting the largest endowments to the 21% corporate rate.

But what was supposed to be the centerpiece in the Republican-led Congress has become a focal point for conflict, and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is doing what he can to plug as many leaks as possible.

‘I understand that we have a thin majority, but we should deliver.’

RELATED: Vance tells Glenn Beck Congress needs to ‘get serious’ about codifying DOGE cuts

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Some defectors who have been the most difficult to please are the SALT Caucus, a bipartisan bunch pushing to eliminate the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions. The blue-state Republicans in the caucus, like Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, have been particularly stubborn during these closed-door negotiations.

During one of their many meetings this week, the members even threw out their colleague Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York because she supported the proposed $30,000 cap increase that came out of the Ways and Means Committee. Notably, Malliotakis is the only SALT Caucus member on the committee and therefore the only member with direct influence over tax policy, the very thing the SALT Caucus is trying to change.

Even after holding several meetings throughout the week, Johnson said that he will likely have to work through the weekend to strike a deal with SALT Caucus Republicans.

RELATED: Big, beautiful bill advances after 18-hour markup marathon while SALT talks go south

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Predictably, Johnson is also facing an uphill battle against conservatives on Capitol Hill, most notably those on the Budget Committee. The committee is the last to hold a markup on Friday morning, which consists of piecing together all the reconciliation portions that have come out of the 11 House committees’ markups.

There are no amendments allowed in the Budget Committee. They will simply vote to advance the bill in its entirety.

The problem is that several Republicans on the committee have already committed to voting against the bill’s advancement. There are 21 Republicans and 15 Democrats on the House Budget Committee, meaning Republicans can afford to lose only two votes if they want to get the bill across with a simple majority. Yet among those 21 Republicans, four of them said they are willing to tank the bill.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas told Blaze News earlier in the week that he couldn’t get behind the bill because it doesn’t do enough to rein in spending and address fraud in the Medicaid system.

“It has to be amended,” Roy told Blaze News. “I’m not going to be able to support it as it’s currently drafted, and those amendments are going to need to be, you know, relatively significant.”

“I didn’t come here to perpetuate a broken system,” Roy added. “I understand that we have a thin majority, but we should deliver.”

RELATED: Exclusive: Why Chip Roy can’t support the ‘big, beautiful bill’: ‘The swamp does what the swamp does’

Republican Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma echoed Roy’s concerns, saying they too intended to vote against the bill in committee.

Despite these naysayers, leadership is pushing on, with Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) saying he is confident the bill will pass committee on Friday.

“We did the hard work of setting real targets to restore fiscal sanity, and I’m confident we will have the votes in the Budget Committee tomorrow,” Arrington said in a statement. “The Republican conference is working in good faith through a few scoring and policy clarifications. With something this big and beautiful, you’ve got to get it right.”

If the bill manages to scrape by in the Budget Committee, it will be headed to the Rules Committee on Monday before eventually being put up for a vote on the floor before the Memorial Day target. Unlike the Budget Committee, the Rules Committee allows amendments, which Johnson, who has a historically narrow House majority, will likely need to make if he wants to get enough votes to pass the bill.

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If you’re a normal person, you might find the phrase “Republican SALT Caucus” unintentionally hilarious. One of our editors literally laughed out loud when she first saw it in last week’s copy. But yes — this circus is real. The so-called SALT Caucus is pushing to bust the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, a move that overwhelmingly benefits wealthy constituents and donors in high-tax blue states.

For the past two weeks, these Republicans have whined that the Ways and Means Committee won’t give them a deal in exchange for their votes. Now they’ve decided to bypass the committee and take their case straight to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). But they’ve failed to articulate a clear demand — and if they keep posturing, they’re heading for a painful lesson in how negotiations work under this speaker.

That’s the nature of legislating: Virtually everyone besides the fiscal hawks wants more for themselves and their districts.

The self-styled SALT Caucus lacks formal structure, but its members share a common trait: They all represent deep-blue, high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California.

No official list exists, but based on public comments and internal chatter, the ringleaders include New Jersey Reps. Jeff Van Drew, Christopher Smith, and Thomas Kean Jr.; California Reps. Kevin Kiley, David Valadao, Vince Fong, and Young Kim; and New York Reps. Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Nick Langworthy, Andrew Garbarino, Anthony D’Esposito, Claudia Tenney, and Donald Trump’s favorite, Elise Stefanik.

Of these, Kim, Lawler, LaLota, and Garbarino consider themselves “the saltiest” and even ejected New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis from one of their meetings for saying the 300% increase in the currently proposed annual deductions cap, from $10,000 to $30,000, was acceptable to her. Incredibly, Malliotakis was the only member of the SALT Caucus who has a seat on the Ways and Means Committee, which is charged with setting these numbers.

The funny thing about the SALT faction’s rejection of a $20,000 hike is they’ve not provided an actual number that would please them. They’ve only said that $30,000 “is insulting” and that without their votes for the president’s budget, the caps expire along with Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. They’ll tell you this fact makes their hand stronger, but the reality is that the tax cuts expiring would mean a massive tax hike, and the small number of wealthy but influential citizens who would benefit from no cap would end up paying more in the wash.

The few demands the SALT Caucus has floated shift wildly depending on which member is speaking.

Mike Lawler, for example, wants to raise the cap to $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 for married couples. That’s not just bad optics — it’s political malpractice. You don’t need a Ph.D. in political science to know that tax breaks for people paying $200,000 in state and local taxes don’t exactly scream “working-class Republican.” To most of the GOP conference — and certainly to red-state voters — that proposal sounds like a bad joke.

What’s more, Lawler’s demands are different from Kim’s, which are different from LaLota’s, and on and on.

The SALT Republicans claim it’s up to Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) to make them an offer, but he’s not the one with the ask here — they are. Further, they don’t even agree on what that ask is, except for “more.” And as mentioned, they kicked out the only member they had who is actually on Smith’s committee.

If you don’t have a proposal — just a demand for more — it’s hard to see how you’re actually in a caucus at all, unless the SALT Caucus is just united by opposition to Trump’s budget. How, for example, are they different from the California Republicans who don’t want the Congress to talk away former President Joe Biden’s energy handouts? Or those who want
this tax credit or that one? Do they get to have their demands met, or else?

Now that the committee has finished its overnight, 18-hour markup, dozens of members will be chased down the halls (and even convinced) by lobbyists who tell them this carve-out is necessary or that subsidy is essential. That’s the nature of legislating: Virtually everyone besides the fiscal hawks wants more for themselves and their districts.

And if you break for this group’s ill-defined demands (whatever they are), how do you say no to the others? What if they threaten to withhold their votes? You’ve opened the door for chaos.

Don’t forget this whole thing is going to the Senate when the House is finished. Several Republican senators have signaled they’re a “no” on the House bill right now, and that’s fine because guess what: It’s going to be changing!

So the SALT guys are still at it. They wouldn’t even talk to the committee before everyone was all together in Thursday’s meeting, which included the fiscal hawks over at the Freedom Caucus as well. Those guys, by the way, don’t want to raise the SALT cap a single dollar, and they’re eager to bust their blue-state friends back down to size (but are loath to incur the party conference’s wrath by sinking a final deal). It’s almost a good-cop/bad-cop dynamic.

Enter Mike Johnson. To read the coverage in D.C. newsletters, the SALT Caucus going around the committee chairman to deal directly with the speaker is some kind of win for them. A cursory knowledge of Johnson’s actual dealmaking abilities, however, pops that balloon right quick.

Johnson’s big problem is not that he’s intentionally duplicitous; it’s that he says “yes” to
everyone — even when he should not or simply cannot. This habit is terrible in negotiation and has nearly sabotaged his very few wins this year. The reality is that much of what little has been accomplished in this Congress has been because Johnson stepped back from the negotiations.

Now he’s supposed to save the day for the main part of the president’s entire legislative agenda. Seems like quite the request! Nobody was talking when members left Thursday’s great big meeting. Just another day in the salt mines!

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Have we been missing a Soros-McCain family connection in front of our very eyes all this time?

Unlike his father, George, who operated behind the scenes and dismissed scrutiny as conspiracy theory, Alexander Soros flaunts his influence openly on social media. He’s proudly posted photos with Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Democratic leaders like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) — to name just a few. He’s also showcased meetings with newer faces, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), whom he called a “rising star.” Let’s hope he’s right.

What started as a quiet alliance between George Soros and John McCain has now become a visible partnership between their heirs, Alex and Cindy.

To paraphrase “The Big Short”: Alex isn’t confessing — he’s bragging.

His photos with high-profile Democrats have grabbed headlines, but it’s his posts featuring Cindy McCain that reveal something even more telling: a decades-long relationship between the Soros and McCain families.

On May 6, 2024, Alex shared a photo with Cindy at the McCain Institute Sedona Forum. The topic of the forum was “Securing Our Insecure World,” which used the “climate crisis” as a backdrop, and had a roster of speakers that included Democrats and RINOs such as Mitt Romney, Janet Yellen, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D), David Axelrod, and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

In another tweet with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Alex indicated that stopping Trump was a topic of discussion, referring to Kelly as “inspiring as ever and attentive to the threat posed in November if Trump wins.”

Alex has also shared a photo of himself with Cindy McCain and his father at the Munich Security Conference. The two also appear in a photo discussing the World Food Programme. The earliest image of them together dates back to 2020, when Cindy served as chairwoman of the board of the Munich conference and Alex sat on the advisory council, according to the conference’s annual report.

The McCains have never hidden their disdain for Donald Trump or the modern Republican Party — views that earned them the “RINO” tag and de facto exile from today’s GOP.

RELATED: Alex Soros admits he’s more powerful than elected officials

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Their ties to the Soros network don’t mark a new alliance, but they do prompt questions about how the relationship began. The answer may lead directly back to John McCain himself.

To understand the dynamic between Cindy McCain and Alex Soros, you first need to understand the relationship between John McCain and George Soros.

In 2001, McCain launched the Reform Institute — a nonprofit think tank that operated as a convenient loophole for accepting unlimited, unregulated donations. Many of the Reform Institute’s funders also contributed to McCain’s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008 as well as to his Straight Talk America PAC.

Hypocritically, the Reform Institute has claimed it wants to “clean up” campaign finance. In 2008, the Reform Institute even sent out a fundraising appeal blasting George Soros as a Democratic mega-donor. Yet, it was taking Soros’ money as it criticized others for doing the same.

The Reform Institute accepted multiple contributions from George Soros — some as high as $100,000 — as well as from the Soros-backed Tides Foundation. The maverick also took money from Teneo, a firm co-founded by Bill Clinton’s longtime “bag man” Doug Band.

What started as a quiet alliance between George Soros and John McCain has now become a visible partnership between their heirs, Alex and Cindy. Their shared disdain for Trump and mutual investment in globalist initiatives reveal what many prefer to ignore: Real political power often hides in plain sight — until it doesn’t.

With his ascension to the helm of his father’s Open Society Foundations, Alex Soros inherits a political infrastructure from the Democratic Party — and from RINOs like John and Cindy McCain.

Editor’s note: This article, part of a series, has been adapted from Matt Palumbo’s new book, “The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of George Soros.”

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Who could’ve seen it coming?

Just 101 days into his tenure as the Democratic Party’s youngest vice chairman — and the first “Zoomer” to hold that office — party elites have already declared David Hogg’s election null and void, a complaint that sounds suspiciously like “election fraud.” It’s the latest embarrassment from a spent political party that pales in comparison to President Trump’s incredibly successful first 100 days. If Republicans are wise, they’ll take advantage of the chaos ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Democrats are champions of the system until the system doesn’t work for them, even a single time.

The complaint centers on broken parliamentary procedures — the preferred excuse of weasels and dictators alike to undermine democratic elections — specifically, DNC rules mandating “gender parity” to tip the scales in favor of female candidates running against men.

In other words, DEI did Hogg in.

Hogg, who was elected to help Democrats win back young male voters, complained that “the DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort.” Party elites, he believes, want to “defend an indefensible status quo.”

The DNC’s procedural revelation came just two days after Hogg blasted his party for driving away young men who “feel like they have to walk on eggshells … constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.”

Oh, the irony. More importantly, will conservatives capitalize on the blunder?

For years, Democratic politicians have told Americans that elections couldn’t be more trustworthy, that only they could safeguard democracy from MAGA Republicans and that their party represents everyday people over ultra-wealthy special interests.

RELATED: America is no longer a democracy — we’re governed by the internet Borg

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None of that is true, as this latest CCP-style election nullification reminds us.

Democrats routinely meddle with their internal elections to manufacture “victories” for party insiders, voters be damned. Remember the superdelegates in 2016 and 2020? Bernie Sanders sure does — the “oligarchs and billionaires” he complains about cost him the Democratic nomination twice by rigging obscure parliamentary rules against him.

Congressional Democrats haven’t accepted a Republican presidential victory as legitimate since 1988. House Democrats tried to nullify Republican election victories in 2016 and 2024 as illegitimate, yet called allegations of a stolen election in the extremely questionable COVID election results in 2020 “misinformation.”

As for protecting democracy, leftists tried to turn 2024 into a one-party election in many states by removing Donald Trump from the ballot. That was an inside job by D.C. operatives to thwart the will of voters, who delivered Trump a landslide victory anyway.

Don’t forget Democrats’ effort to nullify the Constitution with a “national popular vote” scheme to award all Electoral College votes to whichever candidate wins the most popular votes nationwide. In 2016, that would’ve meant awarding all 538 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton — even in states she lost or didn’t bother to visit, like Wisconsin.

Amazingly, Democrats suddenly went mute about the national popular vote after November 2024, with Michigan Democrats quietly abandoning their national popular vote bill mere weeks after Trump won a popular vote majority.

This from a party controlled by a small constellation of ultra-partisan activists, agitators, lobbyists, and political operatives in the Beltway. Recall that Kamala Harris never won a primary vote anywhere — not in two presidential elections.

Massive dark money donors with strong ties to Big Business and Wall Street magnates bankrolled Harris’ campaign from the start. Even in California, she was the ultimate product of one-party machine politics: a mediocre prosecutor who failed upward at every turn by collecting enough party IOUs to earn a political promotion. Her promise was to govern as a figurehead for the faceless deep state cabal that the left no longer tries to hide.

It was only after Harris came into contact with real, flesh-and-blood Americans in places like — shudder — Nevada and Pennsylvania that she fell to pieces. Normal people, it turns out, don’t consider mindless babbling and cackling substitutes for ideas and leadership.

Now, those same special interests are behind the second Trump “resistance” to undermine the agenda most voters voted for.

There’s a common thread here: Democratic politicians and their allies attack the system as “rigged” and “unfair” when they lose. They’re champions of the system until the system doesn’t work for them, even a single time; then they reveal themselves for the lying opportunists they’ve been all along.

Hogg, for all his inanity and gun control bona fides, was honest enough to criticize his party’s toxic obeisance to the radical feminists and trans nazis who’ve made the world’s oldest political party repulsive to young men (and most everyone else).

Hogg just proved that democracy cannot be tolerated in the Democratic Party. Dissent will be crushed with extreme prejudice. He’ll shortly be replaced by a gay black woman who pledges to enforce the party line, no questions asked.

Republicans should thank God for this gift. We have an opportunity to further expose and permanently defeat the woke mob while it’s distracted by infighting, but that window is quickly closing. If this is how the Democratic Party treats its own “democracy,” America, how will it treat yours?

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green accused the media of perpetuating a slanted narrative that paints him in a bad light because he’s black.

The Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated Green’s team from the NBA Playoffs on Wednesday night, but it was just a few days earlier when the star player was in the spotlight for comments he made to reporters.

‘To keep the agenda, to try to keep making me look like an angry black man, is crazy.’

After a 117-93 loss on May 8, Green was in the locker room when he accused media members of constantly painting him as an “angry black man.”

“I’m not an angry black man. I’m a very successful, educated black man with a great family, and I’m great at basketball,” Green said in a video posted by the Athletic’s Anthony Slater.

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After rattling off the self-boasting remarks, Green said reporters continually have been perpetuating the idea to the point where it seemed like they had an agenda.

“I’m great at what I do. To keep the agenda, to try to keep making me look like an angry black man, is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous,” Green added as he walked off.

Fans immediately responded to Green’s comments with videos of his on-court antics, which included stomping on another player’s chest, and some of his more aggressive fouls.

Others pointed to some of Green’s most serious altercations, such as a fight with a teammate at a Warriors practice in 2022.

“Any time someone tells you what they aren’t, they’re exactly that,” sports analyst Gary Sheffield Jr. told Blaze News, in reference to Green’s comments.

After the Warriors lost 102-97 two days later on May 10, Green was once again in the spotlight for remarks he made late in the fourth quarter after fouling out.

RELATED: Draymond Green weighs in on LeBron James vs. Stephen A. Smith feud: ‘That’s a**-backwards’

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As podcaster Pat McAfee pointed out, Green was seen saying the “[the spread is] five and a half, I know what they’re doing,” referring to gambling odds before the game with the Timberwolves.

According to McAfee, some fans even accused Green of trying to the fix the game, but the NBA felt differently and handed down a suspension for the 35-year-old for questioning officials.

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“Draymond Green has been fined $50,000 for making an inappropriate comment that questions the integrity of game officials,” the NBA wrote.

According to Sheffield, Green’s behavior has become part and parcel of his playing style. The broadcaster said Green possesses “the maturity of a pickup basketball dad in the driveway.”

The forward’s complaints aren’t a cause for alarm, Sheffield said, claiming that “any time the Warriors are down two scores, they start fouling and whining.”

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In a Rose Garden ceremony on May 1, the National Day of Prayer, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. Even though I couldn’t be there, I knew about the commission because I have the honor of being one of its members.

I can hardly say how much religious liberty means to me, and I was thrilled to know we have a president who understands its vital importance — and sees how scandalously it has been under attack in recent years.

This is the very soul of our republic: a nation grounded in God-given rights, moral clarity, and the enduring belief that freedom begins with the liberty of conscience.

But one is hardly surprised the secular left did not respond well to the announcement, carping that the commission was formed for ulterior motives, hidden agendas, and division.

The folks at Politico, for example,
accused the president of “brushing aside separation of church and state,” thereby trumpeting their willful misunderstanding of the famous phrase.

Of course, “separation of church and state” is not in the Constitution, but it does appear in a letter President Thomas Jefferson wrote to a Baptist congregation in my hometown of Danbury, Connecticut, in 1802. It represents an utterly central idea about religious liberty, one that is precisely the
opposite of what secularists have been twisting it to mean for decades.

Religious liberty means that churches must be protected from the state, not that the state needs to be protected from churches. Jefferson was reassuring the Danbury Baptists that the government would never interfere with their right to worship — nor banish religion from public life.

But secularists persist in pretending that it means the opposite.

The Constitution itself says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This idea underscores
the centrality of the “exercise” of religion in public life and clarifies that government cannot mandate what kind of religion people practice.

It is that simple.

Far from erasing religion from public life, or preventing believers from shaping public policy or living out their faith in society, the Constitution protects these things.

The origins of our country tell a beautiful story: It was founded as a safe haven from government-mandated worship.

Those who seek to denude our country of religious influence are at odds with our history, our Constitution, and our founders’ vision. Fundamentalist secularists put forth a destructive distortion of our founders’ vision and undermine precisely what has made our country a beacon of hope and justice for people of every faith.

This commission’s goal is to strengthen the liberty of every single American — regardless of that person’s faith and even of whether that person has any faith. It also aims to restore those liberties attacked by hostile and misguided secularists.

Our Declaration of Independence states that our liberties come from God — not from government. It says that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” and “among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

What could be clearer?

In my book “If You Can Keep It,” I discuss how the founders understood that self-government and liberty presupposed a virtuous citizenry, a virtue that comes from religious faith. Power corrupts, so without faith and virtue, freedom would eventually turn on itself.

The idea is this: While the government must never mandate faith, it must vigorously preserve religious liberty so that faith is not crushed by government power.

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission gets this right. Government must be kept out of religion. His EO
declares: “It shall be the policy of the executive branch to vigorously enforce the historic and robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in Federal law.”

This is not about establishing any religion but about protecting the freedom to believe, to speak, and to live according to one’s conscience. Nowhere does the EO limit what religion this is to be.

America has been and must continue to be a haven for freedom of speech and thought, which is exactly what the founders envisioned: a country where “religious voices and views are integral to a vibrant public square,” where “religious people and institutions are free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or hostility from the government.”

This vision stretches back to the early settlers: Pilgrims, Quakers, Baptists, and others who fled Europe to escape religious persecution. They sought a land where they could freely choose, follow, and express their faith.

The Religious Liberty Commission honors their legacy by safeguarding that right.

The goal of the Commission is to protect:

The First Amendment rights of pastors, religious leaders, houses of worship, faith-based institutions, and religious speakers.
Attacks across America on houses of worship of many religions.
De-banking of religious entities.
The rights of teachers, students, military chaplains, service members, employers, and employees.
Conscience protections in health care and vaccine mandates.
Parental rights in education and religious instruction.
Government displays with religious imagery.
The right of all Americans to freely exercise their faith without fear or government censorship.

These are not just Christian issues. These are human liberty issues. They apply to Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and those of any or no faith.

Unsurprisingly the biggest concern of the legacy media is the LGBTQ agenda, which, of course, is markedly at odds with many religions. Sharia law reserves some of its harshest punishments for same-sex relationships. So why do these critics describe the commission as a “Christian nationalist” exercise other than as a cynical and calculated smear?

As I’ve written about in several of my books, it was the silence of the churches in Germany in the 1930s that led to the rise of Nazis and opened the door to unspeakable evils. The Religious Liberty Commission simply allows a platform for religious voices to be heard, and it reaffirms that America is a nation where faith can thrive without government interference.

The founders made that promise back in 1791, and while it’s tragic that we’ve come to the point where we need our president to reaffirm this, we must support his action.

The Religious Liberty Commission fulfills what the founders envisioned — a nation where faith is not censored but celebrated. A place where believers are not exiled from the public square but welcomed as full participants in our democracy.

This is the very soul of our republic: a nation grounded in God-given rights, moral clarity, and the enduring belief that freedom begins with the liberty of conscience.

This commission is not merely constitutional. It’s courageous. And it’s exactly what America needs.

I, for one, am immensely humbled that I can work alongside President Trump and the magnificent members of this commission to ensure the religious liberty of every American can be protected so that it can thrive. I pray that our society would lean into our heritage, that we would follow God first, and that liberty would continue to thrive.

May God continue to bless our nation for His purposes in history.

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In a development that would have shocked most Americans just a decade ago, a new poll shows more Democrats now hope China wins the trade war with the United States than want their own country to come out ahead. That’s not exaggeration. It’s not spin. It’s a brutal fact.

A national survey I co-authored for the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports found that 32% of likely Democratic voters want China to prevail, while just 30% say they support the Trump administration in the conflict. Another 38% say they’re unsure.

The poll should serve as a wake-up call. We are not just facing a battle over policy. We’re engaged in a war over the very soul of our country.

By comparison, 88% of likely Republican voters support the Trump administration in the trade war. Among voters who identify as politically unaffiliated, just 16% favor China over the United States.

Think about that. A growing number of Democrats would rather see a repressive communist regime — one that jails political dissidents, censors speech, and persecutes religious minorities — defeat America in an economic showdown, simply to spite Donald Trump.

This isn’t just disturbing. It’s un-American.

The poll results reveal a troubling reality about today’s left. Partisan hatred has overtaken even the most basic sense of national loyalty. It’s no longer about what helps America — it’s about what hurts Donald Trump, even if that means handing a strategic victory to our greatest geopolitical adversary.

This debate isn’t about tariff policy. Reasonable people can disagree on trade. This is about cheering on a totalitarian regime simply because it opposes a U.S. president. That’s not ideology — it’s pure partisan spite. And it should alarm every American who values country over party.

Some might dismiss this as ignorance. But the survey suggests something deeper. Everyone understands what the Chinese communist regime represents. This is the government that covered up the COVID-19 outbreak, steals hundreds of billions worth of U.S. intellectual property annually, and props up its economy with forced labor.

Yet, a large share of Democratic voters would still rather see China win a trade war than watch Trump succeed.

This is the rot at the core of the modern progressive movement: a deep, pathological loathing for everything that even resembles traditional American values — capitalism, strength, independence, and yes, national pride. That’s why so many on the left can’t bring themselves to cheer for a U.S. victory in a confrontation with a foreign adversary.

The poll should serve as a wake-up call. We are not just facing a battle over policy. We’re engaged in a war over the very soul of our country.

It’s no longer enough to assume that all Americans, no matter how fiercely they disagree, are on the same team when it comes to defending our national interest. That assumption is now demonstrably false.

The fight for the future of the United States is not just happening in Washington — it’s happening in the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens. And based on this data, that fight is far from over.

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A missing woman and a male were found dead inside a zipped tent at a homeless encampment, according to California police, and neighbors said that they were partially eaten by dogs.

The bodies of 46-year-old Lucrecia Macias Barajas and a male were found at the encampment in the Westlake district of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released the identity of the deceased male.

‘I want people to know she wasn’t a homeless drug addict, because that’s not true.’

Barajas’ family members had been searching for her for several days and tracked the signal from her cell phone to the encampment. The woman was a mother to six children and an Army veteran.

The tent was reportedly locked up from inside.

One of her daughters, Amely Becerra, rejected rumors about her mother in a statement to the the Westside Current.

“I want people to know she wasn’t a homeless drug addict, because that’s not true,” she said. “She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Neighbors said that the homeless encampment was known for violence, drug use, and other unsafe conditions. They also said that their calls about the encampment were ignored.

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“This place has been a danger zone,” said one resident of the neighborhood. “People don’t feel safe, and nothing is ever done to clear it for good.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on cities in the state to crack down on homeless encampments, after a Supreme Court ruling eased the regulations limiting law enforcement against homeless people.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a statement about the incident.

“This case reinforces our urgent need to address this grave humanitarian crisis,” she said. “We will continue collaborating with the council office to bring more Angelenos inside and do all that we can to improve public safety.”

Video from the scene can be viewed on the news report from KTLA-TV on its YouTube channel.

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On May 6, ESPN announced that veteran sports commentator Rich Eisen would reunite with the network as part of its “direct-to-consumer” platform. A few days later, ESPN host and analyst Pat McAfee posted the following cryptic message on X:

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Is Pat McAfee hinting that he’s being replaced at ESPN? Jason Whitlock and “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim explore the possibilities.

Steve thinks McAfee was never a great fit at ESPN anyway.

“I don’t think he’s ever fully assimilated to that whole culture. He’s not politically correct. He seems to lean culturally, if not politically, a different direction than a lot of the colleagues over there,” he says. “He may be looking to basically be back to being independent or a little bit less confined or not have as many constraints on what he says.”

Jason agrees: “Maybe he gets to go independent with Spotify … Netflix or Amazon … some sort of mega deal where he can remove himself from all the Stephen A. Smith and racial blowback that I think goes on more behind the scenes than what we see in public.”

“I’ve noticed about Pat in the last year or so — he’s not afraid to stick his nose into these conflicts and be a little bit of an instigator. He seems to have fun at it. If he’s completely independent, oh, he could stoke a lot of fires,” adds Steve.

If McAfee is indeed interested in taking his brand in an independent direction, now is the time to do it, says Jason. “There’s a level of raw, bold, politically incorrect conversation where audiences are going. … I don’t think you can participate in that conversation comfortably while at ESPN.”

But if he does jump ship and go in an independent direction, will he lose his audience?

Steve says it’s unlikely.

“I don’t know if his audience would diminish that much in terms of his YouTube audience and his base subscribers. I think there’s actually people that are upset that he went to ESPN that might come back now,” he says. We’re in the age of “the independent content creator,” and “Pat McAfee is going to be Pat McAfee with or without that four-letter network.”

However, Jason thinks of another scenario: What if Pat McAfee goes to Fox Sports?

To hear Jason’s and Steve’s thoughts on this possibility, watch the episode above.

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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book confirms what we suspected all along: Joe Biden’s health was rapidly declining, and the Democratic Party establishment knew it. Rather than be honest with the American people, they chose to cover it up, to prop up Biden just long enough to survive the election cycle. And the media helped them do it.

For years, any mention of Biden’s cognitive decline was framed as a “right-wing smear,” a baseless conspiracy theory. But now, Tapper and Thompson reveal that Biden’s top aides privately discussed the need for a wheelchair after the election — because the man can hardly walk.

We had no functioning president for much of the past administration.

And while Biden’s closest aides were planning that, they and their allies in the press were publicly spinning the fantasy that Joe Biden’s halting gait was due to a heroic foot fracture from a dog-related incident four years ago. They said his frailty was due to his “vigor.” That’s not a joke. That’s a quote.

And while they said this, they were having special shoes made for him with custom-made soles to help him stand. They weren’t planning for a second term. They were planning how to prop him up — literally — just long enough to survive the election. That is a cover-up.

It doesn’t bother me that Biden might need a wheelchair. What bothers me — what should bother every American — is that his aides talked about hiding it until after the election.

Biden wasn’t leading

Needing a wheelchair in your 80s is not a moral failing. It’s human. I own President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wheelchair — it sits in my museum. That chair represents the strength and resilience of a man who, despite paralysis, led this nation through World War II against a dictator who was gassing the disabled and infirm. He hid his disability out of fear the public wouldn’t accept a leader who couldn’t walk. But he led.

RELATED: The Great Biden Book War has finally begun

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But Joe Biden wasn’t leading. He was a puppet played by faceless swamp creatures whose only concern was maintaining their iron grip on power.

Whatever you think of Tapper, the book reveals the chilling reality that we had no functioning president for much of Biden’s administration. Our commander-in-chief wasn’t just aging — he was declining. And the people around him — government employees, funded by your tax dollars — weren’t honest with you. They lied to you repeatedly and willfully because the truth would have guaranteed a second Trump term. That’s what this was all about.

Who signed the pardons?

Consider the implications of this revelation. We had a president signing documents he didn’t read — or even know about. We had an autopen affixing his name to executive actions. Who operated that autopen? Who decided what got signed or who got pardoned? Who was in charge while the president didn’t even know what he was doing?

Those are not minor questions. That is the stuff of a constitutional crisis.

The problem isn’t Biden’s age. The problem is that the people you elected didn’t run the country. You were governed by unelected aides covering up your elected president’s rapid cognitive decline. You were fed a lie — over and over again. And if anyone tried to blow the whistle, they got buried.

Don’t get distracted by the wheelchair. The chair itself is not the scandal. The scandal is that people inside your government didn’t want you to know about it.

They made a bet: Lie until November, and deal with the fallout later. That is an insult to the American people — and a threat to the republic itself. Because if your government can lie about who’s running the country, what else are they lying about?

We need further investigation and to hold these crooks accountable. If we don’t, it will happen over and over again.

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The current head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they were opening an investigation into the apparent threat made against President Donald Trump by James Comey, a former director of the FBI.

Social media erupted with condemnation on Thursday when Comey posted the image of a shell formation he claimed to have found on the beach. People quickly associated the message “8647” as advocating for the removal or death of the president.

‘It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.’

Comey deleted the post and issued an explanation.

“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” he wrote. “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said she would look into the message along with the U.S. Secret Service.

“Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey just called for the assassination of @POTUS Trump. DHS and Secret Service is investigating this threat and will respond appropriately,” she wrote.

RELATED: FBI Director Comey asked Justice Department to publicly deny Trump’s wiretapping claim

Trump and Comey in friendlier times. Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images

FBI Director Kash Patel said he was cooperating with the Secret Service on the matter.

“We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump,” wrote Patel. “We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support.”

The president’s son responded to the post from his own account.

“Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered. This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!” wrote Donald Trump Jr.

Comey was replaced by Christopher Wray in the first Trump administration, and Wray resigned from the post just ahead of the beginning of Trump’s second term. The president nominated Patel at the beginning of his second term.

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A statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that an accused hit man wanted for four murders in Venezuela was allowed entry into the U.S. under the Biden administration.

42-year-old Anthony Fabian Marin La Torre was apprehended by ICE in Grapevine, Texas, on May 2 after he was identified as a suspect in the contract killings of four people. He is also accused of being a lieutenant of the “El Chamu” gang.

The Biden administration released La Torre and even provided him with a work permit.

ICE said that they were notified by Venezuelan authorities that La Torre was wanted for the killings in February. He illegally entered the country in Sept. 2022 and was charged as an inadmissible alien.

A report from the New York Post said that the Biden administration released La Torre and even provided him with a work permit because at the time, the U.S. government was not engaging with the Venezuelan government.

Since then, Venezuela has entered into an agreement with the Trump admin. to accept deportation flights from the U.S. and opened communication channels between the two nations’ law enforcement authorities.

La Torre is in custody at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, awaiting deportation proceedings, according to the statement.

RELATED: Trump gets Venezuela to repatriate violent illegal aliens

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President Donald Trump has made mass deportation a focus of his second term in office, but Democrats and illegal alien advocacy groups have stymied much of his progress through court challenges. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal aliens identified as members of a terrorist gang.

“My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job,” responded the president at the time, “however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter — People that came here illegally!”

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Harvard employees jumped at the chance to offer free legal advice to a comedian who claimed he was going to be deported and even sent him away with tips on how to avoid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Education Dept. Secretary Linda McMahon had recently said Harvard has “made a mockery” of the higher education system and has “invited foreign students” to engage in violent behavior.

‘The second they thought a Palestinian was being deported, all their critical thinking went out of the window.’

Much of this contempt on campus has been between supporters of Israel and Palestine, with the school allegedly allowing rampant pro-Palestine protests to take place.

When stand-up comedians Danny Mullen and Leo Dottavio visited Harvard’s campus, they exposed what appeared to be obvious bias in plain sight.

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Dottavio allegedly called Harvard’s legal offices to ask for help because he was “going to get deported.”

After simply providing a name and claiming he worked as a cook at Harvard, the men were invited to a nearby building. Blaze News has identified the location as the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs at Harvard Law’s Wasserstein Hall.

Once inside, Dottavio told staff members he was “living off the grid” and had no documentation or identification on him. As Dottavio was alone with apparent staff members having a discussion, Mullen confirmed that his cohort had been asked to provide documents like an Alien Registration Number, identification from Harvard, and more, which he did not have.

Still, at least three people, who appeared to all be Harvard employees, seemingly assisted Dottavio with legal advice based only on his loose assertions.

At one point, as Mullen interrupted the meeting with a camera, Dottavio was shown sitting in front of a laptop with a document displayed. Dottavio said the alleged Harvard employees were “showing me the warrant so that I know if ICE shows up, they have to show that warrant.”

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An immigration poster seen inside a Harvard Law building at Harvard University. Image via Danny Mullen/YouTube (screenshot)

Mullen told Blaze News that he was shocked that the staff he interacted with believed Dottavio even though he “had no documents to produce.”

Mullen added, “The second they thought a Palestinian was being deported, all their critical thinking went out of the window. It took over their minds.”

The comedian was also surprised to see how much liberal artwork was on the walls of the Harvard facility. This included, per the video, artwork showing a black power fist and a poster showing the text “Keep our families together!” with an image of a baby wrapped in a gay Pride flag.

“It’s crazy that they have a department at a university that isn’t even trying to hide its ideology,” Mullen remarked.

Mullen pointed out that before they left the building, he and Dottavio were handed a “know your rights” card written in Spanish.

According to a Google translation, the card read as follows:

You have constitutional rights:
DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR if an immigration agent is knocking.
DO NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS from an immigration agent if he or she tries to speak to you.
You have the right to remain silent.
DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING without first speaking to a lawyer.
You have the right to speak to a lawyer.
If you are outside your home, ask the agent if you are free to leave, and if he or she says yes, leave quietly.
GIVE THIS CARD TO THE AGENT.
If you are inside your home, show the card out the window or slide it under the door.

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

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The celebrity trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs continued Thursday and featured singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura facing cross-examination from Diddy’s lawyers.

Combs, 55, faces one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.

‘You treat me like Ike Turner.’

Combs has denied the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

On Thursday, jurors were shown text messages between Cassie and Diddy sent in 2009, which showed Ventura telling Combs that the “freak-off” sex parties made her feel “dirty and grimy.” She spoke with Combs about their “swingers’ lifestyle” but noted that the drug-fueled sex marathons with “dozens and dozens” of prostitutes were “very different.”

Cassie reportedly sent a text message to Combs that “nothing good comes out of [freak-offs] anymore.”

She added, “You treat me like Ike Turner” — a reference to the abusive and controlling behavior of the 1960s musician against his then-wife Tina Turner.

Cassie said she used opiates to deal with the “freak-offs.”

Ventura asserted that she suffered from medical issues after a “freak-off” orgy, including sores on her mouth, stomach problems, and “very painful” urinary tract infections.

During the cross-examination of Cassie, defense attorney Anna Estevao discussed messages between Ventura and Combs regarding the “freak-offs.”

“I love our f.o.’s when we both want it,” Cassie told Diddy on March 18, 2017, referring to the “freak-offs.”

Estevao asked, “Those were words you said to Mr. Combs, correct?” Ventura confirmed that she did send the text.

Ventura — considered the prosecution’s star witness in the sex trafficking case against the Bad Boy Records founder — alleged that she and Combs had been “so in love” at the beginning of their relationship.

RELATED: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of raping 13-year-old girl with another celebrity as female star watched, new lawsuit claims

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On Wednesday, the jury was shown an email that Ventura sent to her mother and one of Diddy’s employees in December 2011.

The email allegedly said Combs had threatened to release “explicit sex tapes” of her — including one threatened for release on Christmas Day.

Ventura claimed Combs lunged at her with a wine opener in 2011 after learning she was dating Scott Mescudi — a rapper known as Kid Cudi — “during a rough patch” in her relationship with Diddy.

Combs allegedly told Ventura that Kid Cudi’s car would be blown up.

‘And then he raped me in my living room.’

Ventura stated that “around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway,” according to a 2023 civil lawsuit she filed in federal district court in Manhattan.

A spokesperson for Kid Cudi confirmed to the New York Times that his car exploded.

Ventura revealed in court on Wednesday that she received $20 million in the lawsuit that accused Combs of sex trafficking and sexual assault.

Ventura admitted that she was “heavily dependent on opiates” throughout her relationship with Diddy and testified that she was using drugs such as Norco, GHB, and ecstasy.

The singer claimed that she sought professional help for opiate addiction five or six times during the span of their relationship. Ventura alleged that she last used drugs in 2022.

RELATED: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sexually assaulted 10-year-old boy after drugging him during ‘audition,’ shocking new lawsuit claims

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Ventura also alleged that Combs raped her in 2018 — after their 11-year relationship ended.

Ventura allegedly went on a dinner date with Diddy, and he was friendly and kind at first. But after he reportedly drove Ventura back to her home and walked her inside, “he raped me in my living room,” Cassie claimed.

Ventura told the court that she cried and told him “no” during the alleged sexual assault.

Ventura claimed that Diddy regularly physically assaulted her and bruised her body.

“It’s not normal, constantly being bruised up by the person you love,” Cassie claimed.

Ventura detailed being physically attacked by Diddy in August 2017, and the jury was shown a photo of her injury.

Combs allegedly physically assaulted her while she was sleeping. Combs reportedly threw Cassie into a bed frame, which caused a gash on her eyebrow.

Combs purportedly had a plastic surgeon attempt to remedy her wound, but Cassie said she has a permanent scar on her eyebrow.

Ventura said she texted a photo of her injury to Diddy with the caption: “So you can remember.”

Combs reportedly replied that Cassie didn’t know when to stop during arguments.

As Blaze News reported on Wednesday, Cassie told the courtroom of Diddy’s alleged assaults, saying “he would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me on the head if I was down. … [I would] make the wrong face, and the next thing I knew, I was getting hit in the face.”

Prosecutor Maurene Comey urged the judge to wrap up Ventura’s testimony soon because she is “very, very pregnant.”

“We are afraid she could have the baby over the weekend,” Comey stated. “We want her off the stand before the weekend, and we believe 45 minutes could make a difference.”

Judge Arun Subramanian agreed and informed all parties that she expects the defense to finish its cross-examination of Ventura by the middle of the day Friday.

If convicted, Diddy could spend the rest of his life in prison.

‘These are criminals, unrepentant criminals, and they’re degenerates.’

“Fearless” host Jason Whitlock opined on the debauchery of entertainers, especially in the music industry.

“They’ve normalized a behavior that’s demonic, and just following the early parts of this trial and what comes out of it, it just reconfirms in my mind, these people need to be called demons. That’s what they are,” Whitlock proclaimed.

“Anybody that wants to deny the wickedness, the evilness, the debauchery, the depravity, the nihilism of this music and the people that they’re putting up as, ‘Hey, take these people seriously. These are your leaders,'” the “Fearless with Jason Whitlock” host continued. “These are criminals, unrepentant criminals, and they’re degenerates.”

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The Oversight Project is an initiative by the Heritage Foundation aimed at investigating and exposing abuses of power, corruption, and inefficiencies within the federal government. Back in March, the Oversight Project broke the Biden autopen scandal, alleging that most signed presidential documents during the Biden regime bore an identical signature, with the exception of his announcement of his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.

The story raised questions about who was really signing documents and running the country. Was Biden authorizing these signatures? If so, was he even aware of what he was signing? Or was someone else acting in his stead?

Yet the real bombshell looms: Are the autopen signatures pardoning Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Biden family members legitimate?

President Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes they are void. But thus far, no formal court case has been filed by the Department of Justice, despite calls for one.

However, the tides may be turning.

On May 13, the newly appointed U.S. pardon attorney, Ed Martin, announced that the DOJ is scrutinizing these pardons, particularly those issued immediately prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration. He claimed they were “unprecedented” and very well could wind up in court.

To get the scoop on what’s next, “Blaze News: The Mandate” host Jill Savage invited Oversight Project President Mike Howell on the show to shed light on how the Trump DOJ could overturn Biden’s autopen pardons.

Howell says the DOJ “[throwing] its weight” behind Martin is “exactly where this always needed to go.”

What’s more, Martin has also “expanded the scope” of his investigation into these pardons.

“It’s not just that they were signed by the autopen mechanism and perhaps without Joe Biden’s one, awareness, or two, his capacity to even give his consent”; it’s not just a question of “if it is even legal to use an autopen device,” says Howell.

Martin is also asking “whether there was a corrupt intent or a conspiracy in the awarding of the pardons” and “whether it exceeds the scope of the pardon power, which is plenary itself.”

“In other words, are these not pardons at all? Were they corruptly designed? And then were they also fraudulent in the implementation via the autopen? There’s a lot wrong with these pardons, and I’m glad the DOJ is on it,” says Howell.

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson says this is exactly the kind of thing the MAGA base has been begging for. Since Trump’s inauguration, people have not stopped asking, “When is anyone going to face the consequences of their crimes?”

“What are the next steps?” he asks Howell.

The only way to test the legitimacy of these pardons, Howell says, is to “charge one of these people,” which shouldn’t be that difficult given that “a lot of evidence that relates to their crimes is already out there, [so] there’s not much that is needed in terms of an investigation.”

“In the course of that prosecution, of course, these defendants will come up and say, ‘No, I have a perfectly good pardon,’ and that is the means by which the pardons will be tested, and in doing so, we might finally understand who was actually running the White House.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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A prosecutor’s office is facing outrage after agreeing to a plea deal with only probation and community service for an unlicensed teenage illegal alien who killed a woman in a car accident.

The 15-year-old was driving a car with other underage people in it when he barreled into a vehicle being driven by 24-year-old Kaitlyn Weaver in Aurora in July, according to Colorado police. The teenager was driving about 90 miles per hour when he hit Weaver, who was taken off of life support two day later.

‘Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day in Aurora, and now I sit here today without a daughter.’

John Weaver, the victim’s father, said the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office initially told him they would seek the maximum sentence for the underage suspect.

“The DA’s office said this would be a ‘no plea deal’ case, so they were not going to offer anything, any concession,” he said.

Unfortunately, the district attorney’s office has changed hands since that time, and the new regime accepted a plea deal with just two years of probation instead.

“Why the change? If he had taken a firearm and recklessly just shot it and killed someone, this would be a different case. They would be pushing it completely differently,” Weaver said. “There’s no deterrence.”

He is also angered that there is no financial restitution because his daughter’s medical bills added up to about $1 million. Weaver says the Jeep the teenager drove was uninsured, and the teen’s mother said he took it without permission, so she’s off the hook as well.

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“She didn’t even see him coming,” he said of the car crash. “That’s how fast he was going. She was effectively killed instantly.”

Weaver said the teenager is applying for asylum, after his mother decided against sending him back to Colombia. The teen is also bound by the deal to go to school and not break any more laws.

Arapahoe County Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley said that the new administration was not directly involved in the plea deal and that the judge upheld the deal after hearing from the family. He explained that “the impact on the victims and the community” is considered in every plea deal, as well as the “goals of sentencing, including deterrence, rehabilitating the offender, treating similarly situated offenders equitably, and holding each offender accountable.”

Weaver said the system is broken.

“Immigration and the criminal justice system and all these things landed together one day in Aurora, and now I sit here today without a daughter,” he added.

Scenes from the crime can be viewed on the news video from KCNC-TV on YouTube.

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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tried to claw her way into the debate over a gift of a luxury plane to President Donald Trump and was hilariously rebuked by online detractors.

The ruling family of Qatar reportedly considered gifting a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to the Defense Department, which would use it for the president’s travel until his term ended, and then it would be gifted to the future Trump presidential library. Critics pounced on the report to accuse Trump of improperly accepting a bribe from the oil gulf state.

‘This account says so many unintentionally hilarious things, I have to wonder if it’s run by people who actually hate her.’

On Wednesday, Clinton tried to join the chorus of critics but was instantly reminded that the Clinton family had accepted many similar “gifts” from foreign entities.

“No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” Clinton wrote on the X platform.

While even some Republicans have expressed their unease with the gift, many online accused Clinton of hypocrisy in her tweet, which had response comments turned off.

“The Clinton Foundation is the Gold Platinum & Diamond standard for buying and selling influence. Just Shoosh,” responded author Jim Hanson.

“Reminder, the Clinton Foundation received more than $40 million from four Arab states including Qatar,” replied writer Ryan James Girdusky.

“The Clinton Foundation would like a word, Ms. Clinton,” said Pradheep Shanker of National Review.

“This account says so many unintentionally hilarious things, I have to wonder if it’s run by people who actually hate her,” read another reply.

“Honestly it’s one of the funniest things in the world that this demon who wanted so badly to be president, who was gifted First Lady, Senate, and Secretary of State, is reduced to petty snipes on Twitter for the last few years of her life,” read another popular response.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) issued his objection to the jumbo jet gift.

“Nothing says ‘America First’ like Air Force One, brought to you by Qatar,” he wrote. “It’s not just bribery, it’s premium foreign influence with extra legroom.”

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President Donald Trump is no stranger to criticism from the left, but even Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut admits that his foreign policy is praiseworthy.

Trump has spent the last few days meeting with foreign dignitaries in the Middle East, including President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. Trump even announced he would be lifting sanctions on Syria, inching closer and closer to a peace deal.

‘Himes admits that he is optimistic about Trump’s handling of the Middle East this week.’

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Trump’s dovish approach to foreign policy has been praised by some political allies in the Republican Party, but Himes chimed in with a rare message of support from across the aisle.

“I’m not in the habit of praising Donald Trump,” Himes said in an interview Thursday. “But I got to tell you … I think the president has, in this last week or so, played the Middle East pretty darn well.”

Himes said he went into the week concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “hell-bent” on going to war with Iran. He also expressed skepticism about Trump’s negotiations with the new Syrian leadership. But so far, Himes admits that he is optimistic about Trump’s handling of the Middle East this week.

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“My guess is that the prime minister of Israel is cooling his heels a little bit on planning for Iran,” Himes said. “My guess is that he’s probably thinking through a better situation than he otherwise might want for Gaza, and look, it appears we’re going to give al-Sharaa a chance in Syria. That’s pretty good stuff.”

“Again, not in the habit of praising this president, but I got to give him some kudos there,” Himes added.

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