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With just 15 days before Election Day, the media and Democrats are trying to paint Donald Trump as a candidate mentally unfit for the White House.

Despite covering up President Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline for years, Democrats and the media are now trying to make a story out of Trump’s mental fitness, claiming he, too, is experiencing a level of cognitive decline that disqualifies him from the presidency.

‘The 2024 Trump seems more confident and is certainly more knowledgeable about policy than he was in 2015.’

The evidence of mental decline, Trump’s critics claim, revolves around his speeches. At his campaign rallies, Trump often speaks off the cuff for long periods of time, which his critics see as incoherent rambling and proof of mental decline.

Here are some recent headlines:

MSNBC: “‘Unintelligible’: Trump’s mental decline on display in final stretch to election”
The New Republic: “Trump’s Mental Decline Finally Becomes Big Media Story”

NBC News: “Trump’s bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity”
The Week: “Is Trump okay?”
Los Angeles Times: “In final stretch, Harris revives attacks on Trump as ‘unstable’ and mentally unfit for office”
New York Times: “Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age”
Cornell University: “Trump’s abrupt decision to play DJ, a sign of ‘accelerating cognitive decline’ says Cornell expert”
Forbes: “Trump’s Unwieldy Speeches Raise Questions About His Mental Acuity”
Boston Globe: “Trump’s decline is too dangerous to ignore”

But the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal says, in their firsthand experience, that is not true.

In fact, not only does the Journal’s editorial board not believe that Trump is experiencing the cognitive decline that Democrats and the media claim is happening, but they observed that Trump is sharper today than he was nearly a decade ago.

The editors of the Journal reported their observation with confidence last Friday, one day after Trump met with them.

From the WSJ editorial board:

Lately Mr. Trump’s detractors have been speculating about his ‘mental decline.’ There’s no sign of such slippage in our Thursday meeting. The 2024 Trump seems more confident and is certainly more knowledgeable about policy than he was in 2015. His discursive style of talking can confuse listeners, but that was equally true nine years ago, and he never appears lost in his thoughts the way President Biden repeatedly did in their June debate.

Not only do the editors at WSJ see no evidence of Trump’s purported mental decline, but people who spend time with him deny it, too.

It’s rich, after all, for the institutions and people who for years ignored Biden’s mental decline now to suddenly demonstrate concern about a candidate’s mental fitness. The American people see through the charade.

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Lizzo elicited criticism over the weekend for embracing President Donald Trump’s warning that Kamala Harris would leave the whole country looking like Detroit — and suggesting that such an outcome would be optimal.

The rapper, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, informed her supporters prior to taking a private jet to stump for the Green New Deal advocate, “This is how a bad b**** saves democracy.”

Jefferson, who now lives nearly 2,000 miles away in a $15 million California mansion, later told a crowd of Democrats in Detroit, where the median listing price for a home is $95,000, “I’m so proud to be from this city. You know, they say if Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit. OK.”

The Democratic crowd cheered at the prospect that Harris might transform the rest of the country to resemble a crime-ridden city that filed for bankruptcy in 2013.

Detroit, a city that has seen its population shrink from over 1.8 million in the 1950s to just over 633,000 last year, scores a 1 on Neighborhood Scout’s crime index, where 100 is safest. The chances of falling prey to a violent crime in the city are 1 in 49. The chances of becoming a victim of a property crime are 1 in 22.

According to official city figures, there were 252 homicides, 804 nonfatal shootings, 10,427 aggravated assaults, 669 rapes, 167 carjackings, 9,421 reported motor vehicle thefts, 4,821 burglaries, 15,681 larceny offenses, and 1,392 robberies in the city last year.

WalletHub once again ranked Detroit — where the unemployment rate is over twice the national average at 8.8% — as the neediest of 182 cities in the country. The median household income in the city last year was less than half of the national figure of $80,610.

Jefferson continued, saying, “Proud like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit. We’re talking about the same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. So put some respect on Detroit’s name, okay?”

‘They actually want Trump to win.’

Jefferson was referring to President Donald Trump’s Oct. 10 speech at the Detroit Economic Club, where he
said, “Our whole country will end up like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands. She destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed, along with Newscum, California, and we’re not going to let her do that to this country. We’re not going to let it happen.”

The Harris campaign and
liberal media were keen at the time to ignore the context of Trump’s remarks, namely that he was criticizing the hollowing out of America’s manufacturing base.

Trump went onto
say, “I am telling you right now, standing here in the center of this once-great city, that by the end of my term, the entire world will be talking about the Michigan miracle and the stunning rebirth of Detroit.”

Victoria LaCivita, Trump’s Michigan communications director,
clarified in a statement obtained by CNN that Trump was highlighting how the city has “suffered from globalist policies championed by Kamala Harris that have shipped manufacturing overseas.”

“As President Trump emphasized in his speech, his policies will usher in a new era of economic success and stability for Detroit, helping the city reach its fullest potential,” added LaCivita.

Critics seized upon Jefferson’s remarks, sharing images of abandoned houses in Detroit, staggering statistics about the city’s crime, and damning figures regarding the education system.

BlazeTV’s Pat Gray said, “Are you serious? What a stupid thing to say. I mean, even if you’re proud of your town, you know the rest of the country thinks it’s a hellhole, right?”

Conservative commentor Trish Regan noted, “#Lizzo says US ‘becoming Detroit’ is a good thing. *30% of Detroit lives BELOW poverty line. *Detroit=DOUBLE DIGIT unemployment. *Detroit=one of the highest crime rates in the country. America cannot be #Detroit. USA wants more than ⁦@lizzo ⁩ & Kamala can ever imagine.”

David Scott, the musician known as the Kiffness, responded, “I’m from South Africa, (one of the highest crime rates in the world) & I’ve never been robbed on tour. I was in Detroit last year & our tour van was robbed TWICE in one night.”

Comedian David Angelo shared the video with the caption, “My theory has been that Democrats know everything is about to collapse and they actually want Trump to win.”

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In a shocking survey by the Barna Group, it’s been revealed that 32 million church-attending Christians are planning to sit this election out and not show up at the ballot box.

“There’s a really important data point in that Barna research, and it’s that it’s not just Christians that are sitting out, it is regular churchgoers, so it’s not just the people who culturally identify as Christians,” bestselling author and Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham tells Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

But why is it happening?

“One, obviously, we have to acknowledge the abortion issue. I think the Republican Party’s conflicting messaging on this cycle has depressed enthusiasm a little bit,” Basham explains.

“But, there’s also something else that I think is more significant going on and that is the fact that a lot of this voter suppression, lack of enthusiasm, has been deliberately orchestrated by left secular foundations and billionaires,” she continues.

Basham believes “they have been working for the last few years to try to convince Christians, ‘Hey, you don’t need to vote. It’s not important that you play a part in the political process. In fact, it could be political idolatry.’”

One example is a Bible study curriculum called “The Afterparty,” which was created by David French, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, and a Democrat Party Duke Divinity professor.

“All three never-Trumpers, two of whom are supporting Kamala Harris openly,” Basham says. “They created this supposed political Bible study curriculum to go into conservative churches, conservative college campuses. There was an effort to get it on 185 conservative college campuses, and it teaches Christians that politics are really complex.”

“‘It’s not always clear who you should vote for, and what we really need to do is turn down the rhetoric, and, in fact, we don’t know how we should vote except on the issue of alleged racial injustice,’” she says, giving an example.

“It makes it pretty clear when you read the curriculum who they want you to vote for, and that curriculum is exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations, Rockefeller philanthropy advisers, and the Hewlett Foundation, which also backed Planned Parenthood and transgender initiatives for youth and things of that nature,” Basham explains, adding, “These are not Christians, and they are funding these kind of operations in order to, I would say, really suppress that Christian vote.”

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A 15-year-old student allegedly hit a high school staff member in the head with a laptop — and the victim, 54, was hospitalized and reportedly had trouble breathing.

The incident took place last Monday at Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland, which is part of Montgomery County Schools, WTTG-TV reported.

‘He’ll probably get in-school detention followed by a transfer to another school.’

Principal Scott E. Smith confirmed the incident in a letter to families and staff, the station said, adding that emergency services were called to the scene, and the Montgomery County Police Department was investigating.

The staff member was taken to a hospital for treatment, district’s spokesperson Liliana López told WTTG.

“We can confirm that a student struck and injured a staff member,” López said in a statement, according to the station. “The staff member was transported to the hospital by emergency services.”

Citing police radio transmissions, MoCo360 reported that the student allegedly hit the staff member in the head with a laptop.

The dispatcher said the staff member — a 54-year-old man — was conscious but having trouble breathing after the alleged assault, the outlet added.

MoCo360, citing radio transmissions, said the 15-year-old student in question was taken to the school’s office and was with the school’s security staff following the alleged incident.

“It is important to note that any student who chooses to commit an act of violence will be subject to progressive discipline in alignment with the MCPS Code of Conduct up to possible expulsion,” Smith wrote in his letter, according to the outlet. “Police will determine whether criminal charges may apply.”

How are observers reacting?

As you might expect, some observers on various Facebook posts from news sites weren’t thrilled with the incident:

“He’ll probably get in-school detention followed by a transfer to another school,” one commenter wrote.”Sue the parents,” another commenter said.”Oh, how awful,” another commenter reacted. “I hope the teacher/staff member is okay, and that the student is removed from the school.”

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) called for law enforcement officials to look into Elon Musk’s America PAC, which has vowed to give $1 million per day away at random to swing state voters who sign its petition.

During a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Shapiro questioned the legality of Musk’s giveaway.

‘It does raise some serious questions.’

Host Kristen Welker asked Shapiro, “Elon Musk says he will be giving away a million dollars every day to random voters who sign his super PAC’s petition. You are a former attorney general — is this legal?”

Shapiro responded, “I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians. That is deeply concerning.”

According to Federal Elections Commission filings, Musk is the sole donor of the America PAC, despite Shapiro’s claims it is comprised of “dark money.” Between July and September, Musk provided roughly $75 million in contributions, Fox News Digital reported.

Shapiro continued, “Look, Musk obviously has a right to be able to express his views. He’s made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump. Obviously, we have a difference of opinion. I don’t deny him that right, but when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions that folks may want to take a look at.”

Welker pressed Shapiro once more about whether he believed the giveaway was legal.

“I think it’s something that law enforcement can take a look at,” Shapiro declared. “I’m not the attorney general anymore of Pennsylvania; I’m the governor. But it does raise some serious questions.”

In a post on X, Musk responded to Shapiro’s comments, writing, “Concerning that he would say such a thing.”

Musk’s America PAC vowed to give away $1 million each day leading up to Election Day. Winners, two of whom have already been announced, will be chosen at random. To be eligible, individuals must be registered to vote in a swing state — including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, or North Carolina — and sign a petition pledging support for the First and Second Amendments.

Signers can also receive $47 for each registered voter they refer to sign the petition.

“Sign our petition to support the Constitution of the United States!” Musk wrote on X.

Musk stated during a town hall event that getting the word out about the petition was challenging because the “legacy media won’t report it.”

“How do we get people to know about it? Well, this news, I think, is gonna really fly,” he said, referring to the cash giveaway announcement.

In July, Musk declared his endorsement of former President Donald Trump. The Republican presidential nominee stated that if he secures the upcoming election, Musk will be appointed as the “Secretary of Cost-Cutting” to slash government waste, Blaze News previously reported.

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Immigrant students are given a much easier grading scale at a school in Springfield, Ohio, effectively preventing them from failing because they are still considered English “language learners,” an email from the superintendent confirms.

A high school principal in the Northwestern Local Schools district previously sent an email to staff members at Northwestern Jr./Sr. High School, instructing them not to give so-called “English language learners” — often referred to as ELL students — a grade lower than a “C,” Superintendent Jeff Patrick confirmed in an email obtained by Blaze News.

‘It seems like a better solution might be possible.’

“The email [from the principal] did indeed state not to give our ELL students any grade under a ‘C’ based on the fact that for the first three years in an Ohio School system, ELL students are considered to be Language Learners,” Patrick wrote in the email dated October 9.

Blaze News reached out to Patrick and asked a series of questions, including whether ELL students received passing grades even if they failed to turn in assignments and/or attend class as required. Patrick did not respond.

However, Patrick did indicate in the email viewed by Blaze News that the grading policy at the school may soon be changed.

“It seems like a better solution might be possible, so I have given our Director of Instruction and his team of Administrators the task of coming up with a better solution to this grading issue,” he wrote.

The grading scale in the online version of the school handbook is not currently accessible, but prospective graduates of Northwestern Jr./Sr. High School must earn at least 21.5 credits and “demonstrate competency in math and English by passing the state’s algebra I and English II tests” or through other approved means.

As Patrick did not respond to any of Blaze News’ questions, it is unclear whether students who are U.S. citizens and native speakers of English received failing grades while their ELL counterparts could not.

U.S. News and World Report claims that Northwestern Jr./Sr. High School has a graduation rate of greater than 95%, which suggests that at least a few students have failed to graduate. The outlet cited government data for its report but did not clarify when that data was collected.

The student handbook also warns that chronically truant students and their parents or guardians may face prosecution at a local municipal court. Truancy may even affect a student’s ability to acquire a state driver’s license, even though some of the city’s 20,000 Haitian immigrants have been caught driving without a license.

Springfield, Ohio, has been in the national spotlight for more than a year after an unlicensed Haitian immigrant there crashed into a school bus, killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark.

At the presidential debate last month, former President Donald Trump also suggested that some of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating pets. Democrats balked at the suggestion, but statements from Springfield residents indicate that maltreatment of wildlife is a problem in the area.

“I [saw] a group of Haitian people — there was about four of them — and all had geese in their hand,” one resident stated during a 911 call on August 26.

Anthony Harris, a 28-year-old Springfield resident, said at an August city council meeting: “They’re in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them.”

“I don’t know how y’all can be comfortable with this.”

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A Catholic high school girls’ soccer team in New Hampshire refused to play against another school with a male on its team.

Bishop Brady High School in Concord took a stand against Kearsage Regional High School, which has a boy on its girls’ team despite state law prohibiting such participation.

The Kearsage Regional school board reportedly has voted 6-1 in favor of allowing Jacques and other boys to play on the same teams as girls.

Bishop Brady girls refused to show up for the game Friday, Fox News said, citing multiple reports.

The team from Kearsarge Regional High School features a male star athlete named Maelle Jacques, who plays goalkeeper. The boy is already well known for making headlines after winning a state championship in the girls’ high jump in February.

Jacques is reportedly 6’1″ tall and has sparked outrage with at least one other team in the region. The Hillsboro-Deering High School soccer team refused to play against Kearsage just three weeks prior — perhaps signaling a trend that young women in the state will not stand for unfairness.

Despite the New Hampshire state law, a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama granted an injunction Sept. 10 allowing two male athletes to continue playing with female athletes — and even to change in the same locker room as female athletes — until a final ruling has been made. Judge Landya McCafferty was appointed in 2013.

The other athlete in question, Parker Tirrell, plays for Plymouth Regional High School.

Plymouth was the center of controversy when parents of students at Bow High School decided to show their support for female athletes by wearing wristbands with “XX” on them when their school played against a team with the boy.

School officials reportedly stopped the game, demanded parents take off the wristbands, and had police issue “no trespass” orders against parents.

“My daughter’s playing in the homecoming game this weekend, and I’m banned,” a parent said at the time. “I can’t watch her play in homecoming — which is ridiculous,” the father added.

The Kearsage Regional school board reportedly has voted 6-1 in favor of allowing Jacques and other boys to play on the same teams as girls.

Fed up

Women across the country have become fed up with playing against males in their sports, with five different women’s volleyball teams in the NCAA forfeiting matches against San Jose State University, which has a male athlete on the women’s team.

“The vast majority of us decided that this isn’t right, [that] we need to protect women’s sports, and we’re going to forfeit,” Nevada’s team captain Sia LiiLii told Blaze News.

At the same time, a group of former athletes and legal activists attended a United Nations General Assembly event and urged the international body to take a stand on behalf of women.

Attorney Kristen Waggoner and Reem Alsalem, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, called for the international sports community to keep men out of women’s sports.

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance unequivocally declared Sunday that “Jesus is King.”

Speaking at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Vance denounced Vice President Kamala Harris for spewing “anti-Christian rhetoric” and promoting “anti-Christian” public policy. That’s when a rally-goer interrupted Vance’s speech, shouting, “Jesus is King.”

‘We’re going to respect Christians.’

But instead of admonishing that attendee — like Harris did last week when some of her rally-goers declared the kingship of Jesus Christ — Vance stopped his speech and affirmed the declaration.

“That’s right! Jesus is King!” Vance said.

Vance is an outspoken Christian, having been baptized in 2019 as a member of the Catholic Church.

— (@)

After affirming Jesus’ kingship, Vance excoriated Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) for a “sacrilegious” viral stunt in which she appeared to mock communion.

“I don’t think that we’ve seen anything like this in modern American politics,” Vance said. “Gretchen Whitmer does this really bizarre thing where she acts like she’s giving somebody communion, but it’s a Dorito. And of course, Gretchen Whitmer isn’t like a minister of anything — except for a church I don’t necessarily want to talk about — but think about how sacrilegious that is, and think about how offensive that is to every person.”

“Frankly, whether you’re a person of Christian faith or not, Donald Trump and I are going to fight for your right to live your values because that’s what the First Amendment protects,” Vance continued. “And I think whether you’re a Christian, a Catholic, or any other faith or no faith at all, when you see an American leader, when you see a surrogate of Kamala Harris insulting people of the Christian faith, I think that we should say to every single one of those people, ‘You’re fired! We’re not giving you any more power.'”

In a second Donald Trump presidency, Vance promised, “We’re going to respect Christians.”

Vance’s reaction to hearing “Jesus is King” was completely different to that of Harris when she heard the same declaration at a campaign rally last week.

While speaking at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, a pair of students shouted, “Jesus is Lord” and “Christ is King,” resulting in what they said was heckling from Harris’ supporters.

But the moment went viral on social media when Harris paused her speech and appeared to address the students.

“You guys are at the wrong rally,” she jeered. “I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”

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The House bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump released a report Monday revealing “stunning” and “preventable” security failures that took place ahead of the July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

The report details the lack of coordination, communication, and planning at “several pivotal moments” between the U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement prior to the rally, as well as the security risks that were overlooked. As a result, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire shots at the former president from an exposed rooftop positioned just 150 yards from the rally stage, killing an attendee and injuring two others.

‘There were security failures on multiple fronts.’

“Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,” the report reads.

The report reiterated the Secret Service’s negligence leading up to the rally, confirming that there was no joint meeting between the federal, state, and local agencies to coordinate security the day of the event. The task force also found that the agency identified several security risks outside the perimeter but failed to actually secure them.

As a result of these failures, Crooks was spotted by multiple attendees, flagged as suspicious by Secret Service agents, and identified by a local counter-sniper over an hour before he fired shots at Trump.

“In the days leading up to the rally, it was not a single mistake that allowed Crooks to outmaneuver one of our country’s most elite group of security professionals,” Chairman Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said in the report. “There were security failures on multiple fronts.”

Then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before Congress on July 22, less than two weeks after the assassination attempt in Butler, receiving bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers. The day after her evasive testimony, Cheatle resigned from her post.

Just two months after the Butler rally shooting, Trump survived a second assassination attempt.

58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was apprehended on Sept. 24 after a Secret Service agent allegedly spotted his rifle and scope poking out of the bushes at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was later charged with attempting to assassinate Trump.

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Kamala Harris’ latest attempt to pander to a group she has alienated with her politics and prejudices appears to be going very badly.

After attempting to
win back those black male voters now abandoning her and the Democratic Party en masse with the promise of federally legalized marijuana, Harris set her sights more broadly on Christian voters, insinuating that “putting faith into action” means casting a vote for her — despite her zealous support of abortion and gender ideology, her past anti-Christian remarks, and her efforts to run roughshod over religious liberties.

The online component of Harris’ “souls to the polls” campaign, which corresponded with her visits Sunday to churches in Georgia, was overwhelmingly met with ridicule.

Harris
tweeted an image of herself standing on a church platform with crosses in the background, stating, “We each have the power to make a difference — in our communities and in this election. Now is the time to come together to show faith in action and service.”

Despite netting nearly 2 million views on X, the post received fewer than 8,000 likes.

‘This is such disgusting, superficial, disingenuous pandering, it’s beyond words.’

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey quipped, “Christian Nationalism is so scary.”

Auron MacIntyre, the host of BlazeTV’s “The Auron MacIntyre Show” who helped “ratio” the vice president’s post, responded, “I think you’re at the wrong rally.”

MacIntyre’s comment, which received roughly 9,000 more likes than Harris’ post by the time of publication, referred to the vice president’s remarks at her campaign event last week in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

On Thursday — the day Harris
blew off the Archdiocese of New York’s 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner — the vice president reportedly told a pair of Christian college students who yelled “Jesus is Lord” that they were “at the wrong rally.”

Grant Beth, one of the pro-life students mocked by Harris and elements of her crowd,
told “Fox & Friends,” “This is what you are going to get with a Kamala Harris presidency.”

“You are going to get the Kamala Harris that alienates over 50% of the U.S. population that is Christian,” continued Beth. “You’re going to get the Kamala Harris that skips the Al Smith Memorial Dinner.”

When an audience member yelled, “Jesus is King,” at a campaign event for Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate
said, “That’s right. Jesus is King!”

“Christians won’t be fooled,”
tweeted Trump campaign adviser Alex Bruesewitz wrote in response to Harris’ “souls to the polls” post.

Popular YouTuber David Freiheit
wrote, “4 days after telling a rally-goer who said ‘Jesus is Lord’ that they were ‘at the wrong rally’, Cackling Kamala puts out this message. This is such disgusting, superficial, disingenuous pandering, it’s beyond words. And if it works on you, you are an idiot.”

One user wrote, “Christians are voting for Trump.”

Harris told members of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, on Sunday, “Our country is at a crossroads, and where we go from here is up to us as Americans and as people of faith,”
reported CNN.

‘She has done nothing to support people of faith and what we believe and what we stand for.’

“We face this question: What kind of country do we want to live in?” said Harris. “A country of chaos, fear, and hate, or a country of freedom, compassion, and justice?”

Like the booster group
Evangelicals for Harris, the vice president attempted to use scripture to paint her political cause as morally righteous, casting herself, for example, as the protagonist in the parable of the Good Samaritan.

This might be a big reach for a great many American Christians, including Billy Graham’s son, Franklin Graham.

Blaze News
recently reported that Franklin Graham said his dad would never have supported a candidate like Harris, highlighting how her positions are antithetical to Jesus Christ.

“My father was a strong conservative all of his life, theologically as well as politically,” Graham
told Premier Christian News. “He would have never voted for or supported someone like Kamala Harris — someone who is almost anti-Christ in her positions. She has done nothing to support people of faith and what we believe and what we stand for.”

Harris has found numerous ways to alienate Christians, including

suggesting that Catholic judicial nominees who embrace the Vatican’s moral teaching should be disqualified from serving on federal courts;
co-sponsoring the “Equality Act,” which Kenneth Craycraft, the James J. Gardner Chair of Moral Theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology, indicated would compel Christian hospitals “to perform gender transition surgeries, open women’s
restrooms to men, and force girls and women to compete against boys and
men in athletic competitions”;

introducing and sponsoring the Do No Harm Act, which would force religious individuals and organizations to engage in
activities that directly violate their firmly held religious beliefs;

attacking abstinence education;
supporting overturning the Hyde Amendment, thereby freeing up federal funds for abortions; and
authorizing a raid on the home of a pro-life activist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged trafficking of baby parts.

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Payton McNabb is a former volleyball player who suffered devastating injuries at the young age of 17, when her team was faced with a transgender player on the opposite end of the court.

“I’m not tall enough to block, so I never block. I always just do tips, and it works for every other team except for this one,” McNabb tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” “I was back there and I got hit right in the face, they guess it was about 70 miles per hour.”

“It knocked me unconscious, he spiked the ball,” she says, adding, “I love sports, it’s brought so much into my life. But unfortunately, everything was taken away that day, because of a boy. And it was just completely avoidable, which is the thing, so that’s why it’s so frustrating to me.”

While women who play sports are told that injuries are unavoidable no matter who’s on the other team, McNabb completely disagrees.

“You’re going to get hurt, which like obviously, but not to that extreme of an injury, unless you’re playing against a boy,” she says.

McNabb recalls being unconscious for 30 seconds, and when she came to, she heard a scream in the background, while the rest of the gym went silent.

“Once I woke up, the trainer for the other team, he asked me if I knew what just happened to me. And I was like, ‘Yeah, that boy just hit me in the face,’” McNabb explains. “We were not allowed to talk about it, so he didn’t know what to say, so he just kind of rushed me off the court.”

The doctors immediately referred McNabb to a neurologist when it became obvious that she was suffering from a brain bleed.

“I was just completely off, I was repeating things over and over again, I was sleeping all the time, didn’t have any balance really, was falling everywhere, my memory was just not good. It was a really hard time,” she explains, noting that her official diagnosis was a brain bleed, a concussion, and permanent whiplash.

“You’re lucky that your neck didn’t or your spinal cord didn’t actually snap,” Stuckey says, disturbed.

“That’s what the doctor said, and they were so confused on how I got this bad of an injury in a high school volleyball game,” she says, adding, “so then my mom finally had to be like, ‘Well, it was a guy.’”

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In a tense and confrontational interview at the Economic Club of Chicago, former President Trump outlined his plan to use tariffs as a tool to bring jobs back to the U.S.

“The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build a factory in the United States so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff,” Trump said, despite laughter from the interviewer, who retorted that it “would take many years.”

“I’ll tell you, you know, there’s another theory, that the tariff you make it so high, so horrible, so obnoxious, that they’ll come right away,” Trump explains.

The interviewer continued to say it would have a “massive effect” on the economy, and while he was alluding to a negative effect, Trump believes it will be positive.

“I agree it’s going to have a massive positive effect,” Trump said. “I know how committed you are to this, and it must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong.”

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“Take that, put that in your pipe and smoke it,” he comments.

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Super Bowl champion Antonio Brown endorsed Donald Trump while referring to the media as “crazy” during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.

Brown, along with his former teammate ex-Pittsburgh Steeler Le’Veon Bell, gave remarks to a raucous crowd at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which is about an hour east of Pittsburgh.

Brown was all smiles at the event, interacting with the crowd and reporters while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

In a video posted on X, Brown made several remarks about the Democratic ticket with particular focus on Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz.

‘He knows success, and he knows what it takes to make America great again.’

“I know the media is going to call me crazy for Trump having me speak here. But I want to make this clear: We are not. They are,” Brown told rally-goers. “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, they want to put tampons in the boys’ bathroom. That’s really insane, right? By the way, Tampon Tim Walz, he isn’t a real football coach.”

“He could never guard me,” Brown joked.

In another video from the rally posted by RSBN, Brown described himself as an “underdog,” telling fans that his time playing for the Steelers taught him the “spirit of Pittsburgh: blue-collar, hardworking people that are resilient and face challenges head-on.”

Brown continued, “I’m here representing a man who carries those same values: Donald Trump. He knows success, and he knows what it takes to make America great again. No matter what the media threw at him, no matter what people said to try to bring him down, he continued to push forward and kept getting back up. And he’s always ready for the fight.”

Bell, a three-time Pro Bowl player, was much more succinct when approaching the mic. The former Michigan State running back simply said that Trump is the only candidate who can “make America great again.”

Since retiring, Bell has ventured into professional celebrity boxing and has a 2-1 record in three fights.

Brown, on the other hand, has become active in the media and political landscape. He recently accused mainstream outlets of censorship over not showing Elon Musk on television when he attended a Steelers game. His vocal support for Trump has come with much fanfare, which he has parlayed into publicity for his own online sports network called CTESPN.

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The Pennsylvania crowd was packed with steelworkers as Trump attempts to win the swing state after losing by just 1.2% to Joe Biden in 2020; Trump won the state by 0.7% in 2016.

Pennsylvania has continuously seen its industry waver or send jobs overseas. In December 2023, the United States Steel Corporation, better known as U.S. Steel, was sold to Nippon Steel, a Japanese company worth over $21 billion.

U.S. Steel had been an American company since 1901, but the $14.9 billion offer was too much pass up as the company was struggling with nearly $1 billion of debt.

Trump’s action-packed day on Sunday included not only the rally but a shift at McDonald’s and an appearance at the Steelers game later that night.

During the game, a female fan caused a stir when she rushed the field in knee-high boots. As she stumbled running across the field, she raised a sign that read, “Trump secure border. Kamala open border,” before being apprehended.

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Kamala Harris is trying to convince Democrats and independents to support her. That seems standard enough, except we’re just two weeks away from Election Day — and Democrats’ much-loved early voting has been under way since September.

Persuasion is an essential part of any campaign, of course. The problem for Harris is that she’s still in persuasion mode in late October, when that bit is really supposed to be over. Sure, Democratic Party hijinks made it so that her runway was historically short, but even then, she didn’t really start campaigning until two weeks ago. Now she’s in a panic.

Trump is in base-turnout mode. His focus isn’t convincing new people — it’s getting those people he’s convinced to turn up and vote.

It’s not just her desperate pandering to black men, detailed expertly in the next part of this letter by Blaze politics reporter Rebeka Zeljko. It’s also her outreach to independents and disenfranchised Republicans on Fox News and her attempts to reach Joe Rogan’s mostly male audience.

In a normal campaign with a normal nominee, these moves might signal confidence and a candidate willing to brave the limits to bring in more voters. That’s what you saw when former President Donald Trump took the stage with New York City’s elite at the Catholic Al Smith charity dinner, as he did Thursday night, looking relaxed and beaming confidence. That’s what you saw when he spent Sunday serving up fries at a McDonald’s northeast of Philadelphia, in a move that threatens to change presidential campaigning forever. That’s what you saw when he entered a chanting stadium later that day for the Steelers-Jets game. As we’ve covered pretty extensively in the newsletter, this is not the impetus behind Kamala’s new strategy.

Strategists have even convinced former first lady Michelle Obama, who is notoriously not a fan of Harris, Biden, or really anyone other than herself (and sometimes her husband), to come off the sidelines and campaign with Barack and the vice president. That’s star power, but maybe not persuasion. For all his prestige, former President Obama is a uniquely ineffective surrogate: His charisma doesn’t seem to extend anywhere beyond himself.

Trump is in a very different frame of mind: He’s in base-turnout mode. His focus isn’t convincing new people — it’s getting those people he’s convinced to turn up and vote. He’s campaigning in Latrobe and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, or Concord and Greenville, North Carolina, where he did well in 2020 but needs people to turn out in even higher numbers.

It’s where you want to be in the final stretches. It’s especially important when your voters might be feeling optimistic enough to skip the polls on Election Day if something inconvenient comes up.

Down-ballot Democrats are worried, too. Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey
released an ad touting his support for Trump’s past trade legislation and his willingness to stand against a President Harris when necessary. Pennsylvania is a must-win state for either party and has been neck and neck for weeks.

Over in Wisconsin, Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin has
an ad touting her work with Presidents Trump and Joe Biden — never even mentioning the current Democrat nominee. Public polling shows Trump with a thin lead in the Badger State, but as with Pennsylvania, those expensive and often more reliable private polls must be showing something uglier. Baldwin has certainly changed her tune from bashing Trump and his supporters as “offensive, hateful, [and] unacceptable” to openly courting them.

Trump is looking relaxed. Harris: desperate. Vulnerable Democrats: panicked. A billion dollars in spending can make a big difference, but right now all the money in the world hasn’t put Harris’ campaign where it needs to be on this final stretch.

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Harris-Walz campaign pulls out all the stops to woo black men

By Blaze News’ new politics reporter, Rebeka Zeljko

Black men are turning their backs on Vice President Kamala Harris and turning out record levels of support for former President Donald Trump.

Among black male voters, 20% said they would vote for Trump even though just 4% considered themselves Republican,
according to a New York Times/Siena poll from Oct. 12. Trump is on track to perform better among young black men than any other Republican candidate since 1960, according to CNN pollster Harry Enten.

Harris has managed to hold on to only 41% of support from black men ages 18-44, which is a 12-point deficit from President Joe Biden’s numbers and roughly half of former President Barack Obama’s support among the demographic, Enten’s analysis found.

These figures have sounded the alarm for the Harris campaign. In an attempt to regain their support, the Democratic presidential hopeful curated a policy pitch to the “brothas,” as Obama said.

Obama
lectured other black men during a campaign appearance last week meant to boost turnout for Harris.

“We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said to a roomful of black men. “Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothas. So if you don’t mind, I’m just going to speak to y’all directly.”

“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses; I’ve got a problem with that,” Obama continued. “Because part of it makes me think, and I’m speaking to men directly, part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”

Harris has made other attempts to bridge the widening gap between herself and black men.

Harris
unveiled her “opportunity agenda” for black men on Monday, featuring policy proposals like forgivable loans for “black entrepreneurs,” bolstering cryptocurrency so black men “know their money is safe,” and legalizing recreational marijuana, despite overseeing over 1,900 marijuana convictions during her tenure as San Francisco district attorney.

However, the campaign’s last-ditch effort to regain the votes fails to address the actual policy priorities of black men.

As in other demographics, the economy remains the top issue for roughly a quarter of black men, according to the recent NYT/Siena poll. While Harris’ pitch to black men is tailored to address issues with a racial backdrop, only 4% said equality is their top priority and just 2% said the same for racial issues.

Democratic political pundits like former CNN host Don Lemon are even
admitting that “Kamala Harris has a problem with black men.”

“There’s a problem,” Lemon said. “I went from battleground state to battleground state. … It was not curated. I went up to people just doing man on the street and said, ‘Who are you gonna vote for?’ Black men, time after time after time, they said, ‘I’m voting for Donald Trump.’”

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CBS News broke its silence Sunday, addressing President Donald Trump and other critics’ concern that its “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris was deceptively edited in hopes of portraying the vice president as more coherent than the original footage would otherwise suggest.

Rather than admit the difference between previews of the interview and the final that ultimately aired on Oct. 7 amounted to strategic changes in Harris’ favor, CBS News instead suggested it was par for the course and that Trump was in the wrong.

“Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false,” the network
said in a statement, released just one week after Gallup revealed Americans continue to register record-low trust in the media.

Trump
previously suggested:

I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced (‘cut and pasted’) Lyin’ Kamala’s answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought, all in an effort, possibly illegal as part of the ‘News Division,’ which must be licensed, to make her look ‘more Presidential,’ or a least, better. It may also be a major Campaign Finance Violation. This is a stain on the reputation of 60 Minutes that is not recoverable — It will always remain with this once storied brand.

CBS News, which has yet to release the undoctored transcript, said further in its Sunday statement, “60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”

“When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point,” continued the statement. “The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”

‘The extent of their deceptive edits must be SIGNIFICANT for them to refuse to release the actual transcript.’

Contrary to its suggestion, CBS News appears to have ventured
beyond Harris’ actual response for a usable answer in an effort to make the vice president come across as “clear, accurate and on point.”

Blaze News
previously reported that in one preview for the interview, CBS News’ Bill Whitaker asked the vice president whether America lacks influence over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his strategic decisions in the Middle East.

After a labyrinthine response from Harris, Whitaker stated, “It seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.”

Harris then responded, “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”

The vice president’s response was widely mocked as another word salad when previewed by CBS’ “Face the Nation” — such that its absence was hard to miss when the final version was released the following day.

The final makes it look as if Harris responded by saying, “We’re not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign,
said in response to CBS News’ Sunday statement, “60 Minutes just admitted to doing exactly what President Trump accused them of doing. They edited in a different response — from another part of her answer — to make Kamala Harris sound less incoherent than she really was.”

Leavitt noted that “their statement is not a denial, it is an admission that they did exactly what they were accused of.”

“Release the transcript!” added Leavitt.

Numerous other critics have demanded the release of the transcript and speculated about the true nature of Harris’ responses.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has himself been subjected to deceptive edits on CBS News,
wrote, “@60Minutes has now confirmed what we all know: they edited the video. Now release the FULL transcript and video.”

“60 Minutes continues to conceal the unedited transcript of its interview with Kamala Harris. Here, they also lie about the controversy surrounding that transcript. The extent of their deceptive edits must be SIGNIFICANT for them to refuse to release the actual transcript,”
tweeted Federalist editor in chief Mollie Hemingway.

Curtis Houck, managing editor of News Busters,
asked, “What are you all hiding?”

‘When broadcasters manipulate interviews and distort reality, it undermines democracy itself.’

The Center for American Rights has
filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over its edits to the Harris interview, noting that “CBS crosses a line when its production reaches the point of so transforming an interviewee’s answer that it is a fundamentally different answer. This CBS may not do.”

Daniel Suhr, President of the Center for American Rights, said in a statement, “This is about the public’s trust in the media on critical issues of national security and international relations during one of the most consequential elections of our time. When broadcasters manipulate interviews and distort reality, it undermines democracy itself. The FCC must act swiftly to restore public confidence in our news media.”

CBS News’ treatment of Harris prompted a former guest to conclude the network is politically motivated.

“I can testify from our personal experience that @60Minutes is not honest in their journalism,” wrote Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich. “They came to our interview with a predetermined narrative & when we pointed to truth they used tactics & editing to tell the story they were determined to tell.”

Descovich and fellow Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice spoke to “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley in October 2023 about their organization and its work reinforcing parental rights and combating grooming efforts in the classroom.

Noticeably absent from the final, released in March, was footage of Descovich and Justice describing the graphic sexual content contained in the books that Democrats wanted to keep in public school libraries — footage that would have damaged CBS News’ preferred narrative.

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Two Democrat officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut, have been accused of helping a permanent resident cast a vote even after the woman reportedly mentioned she was not a U.S. citizen.

Alfredo Castillo, a Democrat city councilman, and Wanda Geter-Pataky — the vice chairwoman of the Bridgeport Democratic Party and a close associate of Mayor Joe Ganim (D), who spent seven years behind bars for political corruption — allegedly engaged in election fraud in both 2019 and 2023.

Both Castillo and Geter-Pataky — as well as two other defendants — have already been charged in connection with allegedly mishandling absentee ballots in 2019, as Blaze News previously reported.

‘American elections are for American citizens — who cast their votes free of corruption or coercion.’

Now, according to the CT Mirror, both have been accused of helping Arianna Hernandez, a Bridgeport permanent resident who communicates mainly in Spanish even though she has lived in the U.S. legally for 20 years, cast an absentee ballot in the Bridgeport mayoral primary in September 2023.

Earlier this month, Hernandez averred in an affidavit that Castillo and an unidentified woman stopped by her home in 2023 and persuaded her to sign a voter registration application.

“I did not fill out the form,” Hernandez wrote in the complaint, according to an official English translation. “I do not know when it was filled.”

Hernandez further insisted that she “did not indicate on the form” that she was a U.S. citizen. In fact, she told the CT Mirror that she specifically mentioned to Castillo that she is not a citizen.

“He told me that I would not have a problem if I voted as a permanent resident,” she said in Spanish on the affidavit.

According to Hernandez, Castillo later arrived at her home again, this time with an absentee ballot application and ballot that she signed but did not fill out.

“Alfredo returned … with another form which indicated that I could not vote in person because I was sick. That is not true,” Hernandez wrote. “I never filled out the absentee ballot, but I signed it because Alfredo told me he would fill it out.”

“After I signed the absentee ballot application, Mr. Alfredo Castillo gave me the absentee ballot to sign,” she continued. “After I signed it, Alfredo took all of the forms in an envelope.”

“He told me that I would not have any problems being a permanent resident and convinced me to sign everything.”

The serial number on Hernandez’s absentee ballot application indicates that it was among the forms Castillo collected in January 2023, the CT Mirror reported.

The affidavit said that Geter-Pataky signed at least one of Hernandez’s ballot forms, claiming to have assisted her in filling it out.

Records show that Hernandez registered to vote in February 2023 and withdrew the registration nine months later but still managed to cast a ballot in September 2023, when the Bridgeport mayoral primary election was held. She claimed she learned of her error when attempting to apply for citizenship.

Hernandez’s complaint has since been submitted to the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission.

“The consequences for noncitizens attempting to vote are serious, including deportation, fines and imprisonment,” said Jeannette Dardenne, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Secretary of State’s Office.

Frank Riccio, an attorney representing Castillo, declined the CT Mirror’s request for comment while John Gulash, Geter-Pataky’s attorney, and Mayor Ganim did not respond to a request for comment.

In a statement to Blaze News, Carol Platt Liebau — president of the Yankee Institute, a political watchdog group in Connecticut — lamented that citizens voting in good faith are the ultimate victims of any voter fraud scheme, which she called the greatest “threat to democracy.”

“Every vote that is cast illegally cancels out the ballot of a legal voter — and often, these days, that means the ballot of a new citizen who waited in line and went to great trouble and expense to become an American citizen in accordance with the law,” she said.

“Democracy doesn’t fall in one blow — it’s chipped away with each act of dishonesty that undermines the integrity of our elections. American elections are for American citizens — who cast their votes free of corruption or coercion,” Yankee Institute fellow Frank Ricci, a Connecticut fire chief, added in a statement to Blaze News.

Geter-Pataky has also been accused of stuffing the ballot box just before the contentious 2023 Democratic mayoral primary after surveillance cameras at city hall appeared to show her deposit stacks of ballots in the early-morning hours of September 5, 2023.

That primary election was so rife with irregularities that a judge later tossed the results and demanded a new primary be held. Ganim prevailed in both the general election and the primary re-do over challenger John Gomes.

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Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump tapped into the heart of classic Americana while working the McDonald’s drive-thru, where he served up french fries to his enthusiastic supporters.

As Trump made his way to the McDonald’s location in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, he was greeted by massive crowds of supporters lining the streets surrounding the establishment. The majority sported red and waved Trump flags.

‘I think I might come back and do it again.’

As the Republican presidential nominee drove by, the crowd chanted, “USA!”

Once he arrived at the location, Trump, wearing a red tie to match the company’s colors, was provided with an apron before heading over to the deep fryers, where an employee instructed him on how to make McDonald’s iconic french fries.

After manning the fryers, Trump greeted customers at the drive-thru line and passed out their orders.

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One customer told Trump, “Mr. President, thank you for taking a bullet for us.”

“Wow, thank you, Mr. President,” the customer’s husband stated. “You made it possible for ordinary people like us to meet you.”

“This is fun. I could do this all day,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t mind this job. I like this job. I think I might come back and do it again.”

Trump spoke to reporters outside as he worked the drive-thru.

“Look at the crowd over there,” he said, pointing to his supporters lining the streets. “Look how happy everybody is. They’re happy because they want hope. They need hope. And that’s what we’re doing. That’s what we’re going to give — much more than hope.”

“Look at the enthusiasm,” Trump continued. “I mean, that’s thousands of people over there. They go miles back. That’s incredible.”

He raised his hand outside the drive-thru window to wave at his supporters, and the crowd responded with booming cheers.

One reporter started to ask Trump a question about opponent Vice President Kamala Harris’ previous claims that she had once worked at McDonald’s in the 1980s.

“Now I have worked at McDonald’s,” Trump stated. “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala. She never worked here.”

When asked why Harris would lie about working at the fast-food joint, Trump responded, “Because she’s ‘Lyin’ Kamala.'”

He told reporters that working at McDonald’s is “a great job to take in the beginning,” noting that it requires “great expertise.”

While wholesome images of Trump’s shift at the fast-food diner flooded social media on Sunday, the left and its corporate media allies had a complete meltdown over the campaign stop for the most puzzling reason.

Some news outlets referred to Trump’s work shift as “staged,” prompting mockery from many on social media.

YouTube personality and attorney Viva Frei wrote on X, “You mean they didn’t bring Trump into the kitchen of a random unsecured McDonald’s to serve unvetted strangers at a drive-through after two failed assassination attempts in three months?”

“OMG I HAD NO IDEA!” he added.

“Wait are you suggesting that Trump is not actually a McDonald’s employee?” Commentator Collin Rugg stated on X. “There’s no way! We totally thought he was dropping out of the race to become a McDonald’s employee in PA.”

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Under the leadership of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the U.S. State Department has become fixated on controlling speech under the pretense of guarding against so-called “disinformation.”

Fortunately, some of the apparent targets of the agency — reporters Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner and Matt Taibbi of the “Twitter Files,” as well as some Republican lawmakers — have chosen to fight back, calling out the State Department for trying to censor Americans and right-leaning media outlets exercising their First Amendment rights in ways the government doesn’t like.

Blaze News caught up with Kaminsky and others wrangled into this ongoing fight for free speech to learn what they have endured in the past and what they hope to accomplish going forward.

Background: The ‘disinformation’ boogeyman

These days, it seems that all high-profile Democrats and their allies in the media are obsessed with this trend.

In connection with FEMA funding and the hurricanes that recently battered the Southeastern United States, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in early October that “there’s a lot of mis- and disinformation being pushed out there” by former President Donald Trump.

‘Our First Amendment stands as a major block.’

CNN anchor Dana Bash dutifully followed Harris’ lead and bragged in an X post that she had asked Harris “about dangerous misinformation coming in part from Donald Trump.”

Back in 2022, Harris’ running mate, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz (D), bizarrely asserted that “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy.”

Speaking at a World Economic Forum event in September, former Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that “if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and has an agenda and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence.”

Even with deadly forces of nature flooding a major swath of the U.S., tens of thousands of rapists and murderers from foreign countries stealing into the country, painfully high prices at the pump and in grocery stores, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, the Democrats have apparently settled on “disinformation” as the most pressing problem facing America today.

The State Department never responded to the series of questions Blaze News submitted about the topic, so it remains unclear how the department defines “disinformation” or how it determines which information is branded “disinformation” and which is considered plain old information.

Despite this lack of clarity, back in 2016, under the Obama administration, the State Department created a subdivision entitled the General Engagement Center, which has as its mission “to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.”

In short, the GEC was mainly established to root out “disinformation” propagandized by other countries in order to guard Americans against pernicious foreign influence.

Within just a few years, however, the GEC appears to have devolved into little more than a federal panopticon seeking out Americans and American media outlets that hold disfavored views and then censoring them by allegedly funding disinformation-related organizations, both foreign and domestic.

The Twitter and Kaminsky files

In January 2023, independent journalist Matt Taibbi famously initiated what became known as the “Twitter Files,” a series of exposés revealing alleged ties between the social media platform now called X and various federal agencies.

The first installment of the Twitter Files focused mainly on 2020 — while Trump was still in office — and the increasing number of requests from federal agents and lawmakers to silence accounts over alleged disinformation about COVID-19. According to Taibbi’s report, the State Department’s General Engagement Center was among the first to flag supposedly “Russia-linked accounts” that promulgated COVID-related messages in various languages to spread disinformation to “a global audience.”

By 2021, Joe Biden had been sworn into office, and the GEC then allegedly expanded its efforts to root out disinformation.

To that end, the GEC apparently partnered with the Global Disinformation Index, a London-based organization that ranks various media outlets based on the risk they pose of purveying disinformation. Because GDI is located overseas, the GEC could theoretically send money its way without running afoul of the GEC mission to address only “foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts.”

And since the GDI included many American outlets on its Dynamic Exclusion List, the GEC appears to have indirectly funded attacks on American media. Blaze Media was among the top 10 media outlets the GDI described as the “riskiest” for disseminating disinformation, as were the Daily Wire, the Federalist, RealClearPolitics, One America News, and the New York Post.

According to reports from Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner, between October 2021 and March 2022, the GEC gave the GDI a grant of $100,000.

The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit heavily funded by the State Department, apparently gave the GDI an additional grant of more than $750,000, bringing the total given to the GDI by organizations within the State Department’s purview to over $850,000.

Neither of those grants has been renewed, the New York Post reported.

‘The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions.’

Rather than engage in introspection after that information became public and assess whether the State Department had gone too far in seeking to silence free speech and the free press, in March 2023, the department apparently compiled a press guide so that agents could defend it against the reports from Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others.

The New York Post eventually got hold of the press guide and published screenshots of it in a damning report last month. All of the screenshots of the State Department’s press guide shared by the Post except one is marked “U.S. Department of State” and “not for public release.”

According to one screenshot, which appears to be a script for agents to follow in the event they are asked about the relationship between the GEC and the GDI, agents are encouraged to say that the GEC did not invest in the GDI “to blacklist conservative media outlets” but rather to analyze “disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe.”

“The GEC presented GDI with a scope of work to apply its disinformation risk measurement across a set of foreign countries and languages in East Asia and Europe,” the script suggests that agents say, according to the screenshot. “GDI was able to expand its disinformation risk measurement across six new languages — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian and Ukrainian — enabling a more precise focus on [People’s Republic of China] and Russian disinformation activities.”

“The GEC’s work with GDI was limited to counter-disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe,” another screenshot reiterates.

Should a State Department agent be asked whether the GDI ever created “a blacklist of American sites,” the script suggests referring the inquirer “to GDI for questions on their activities.”

Other screenshots of the press guide indicate that the State Department wanted to go on the offense, seemingly attacking the reporters who covered the relationship between the GEC and the GDI rather than defend the actions of the agency.

In a section entitled “Background for Briefer’s Eyes Only,” the press guide accuses Taibbi of misrepresenting the facts regarding federal influence over Twitter and Elon Musk of amplifying Taibbi’s misrepresentations by retweeting his first Twitter Files thread.

“Elon Musk’s retweet of Taibbi’s thread insinuates that the [United States government], and the GEC in particular, pressured Twitter to close U.S. accounts of which the USG disapproved,” one screenshot says. “The evidence offered for this claim is often missing, inferred, or presented out of context.”

The text in the screenshot never explains in what way Taibbi failed to support his claims or offered evidence “out of context.”

The State Department press guide also takes aim at Kaminsky, implying that he failed in his journalistic responsibilities by not asking for an interview with State Department officials, even as it admits that Kaminsky “sent questions repeatedly” to the State Department press office, the screenshot shows. The guide even acknowledges that the press office “responded to his requests.”

Kaminsky, who reportedly sent the State Department press office nearly a dozen requests for comment between January and February 2023, gave the Post a different version of events. “The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions,” he said.

In a summary page of the press guide, the State Department reiterates the mission of the GEC, that it is geared toward combatting “foreign attempts to spread disinformation and propaganda globally” and that it “does not fund programs in the United States.”

Another page of the guide insists that “the GEC does not and has never attempted to moderate content on social media,” a screenshot reveals.

In a statement to Blaze News, Kaminsky called that assertion “false.”

“That claim is untrue alone based on the GEC’s involvement in the lead-up to the 2020 election with the Election Integrity Partnership, a collaboration between colleges, think tanks, social media platforms, and the U.S. government to thwart alleged falsehoods online,” he said.

“It makes sense that the State Department — or any other agency — would craft public or non-public press guidance to determine how to respond to reporting that scrutinizes its activities and unearths wrongdoing,” he continued.

“Investigative reporting by Taibbi, myself, and other journalists demonstrated that the GEC has been closely linked to efforts by activists to suppress domestic content on social media and also funded entities such as the Global Disinformation Index that aim to thwart U.S.-based voices that the British group disagrees with.”

Matthew Peterson, editor in chief of Blaze News, one of the outlets disparaged by the GDI, is likewise incensed that the federal government has seemingly taken aim at its own law-abiding citizens:

The federal government now routinely uses our tax dollars to shape and censor political speech in America. In this case, we see the State Department engaged in an active war against journalists like Matt Taibbi and Gabe Kaminsky and elected officials like Jim Banks who dared to expose their unconstitutional activity. If America is to retain a republican form of government, federal officials cannot be allowed to attack and smear anyone who attempts to discover the truth about what they are up to.

The State Department, the Global Disinformation Index, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Taibbi did not respond to a request for comment.

‘A sloppy and hypocritical lie’: Lawmakers become involved

In addition to Taibbi and Kaminsky, the State Department press guidance obtained by the Post also refers to members of Congress, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).

Murphy, who has described himself as “one of the bipartisan creators” of the Global Engagement Center, appears to have been included in the press guidance because he issued his own tweet thread in February 2023, claiming that the accusations against the GEC in Taibbi’s Twitter Files thread were “MADE UP OUT OF THIN AIR.”

According to Murphy, the GEC never “improperly labeled” Twitter accounts as agents of “Russian propaganda.”

“All the GEC did was was to note that bots and social media accounts that had previously been proven to be linked to foreign governments were now in the business of spreading anti-U.S. COVID misinformation. That’s it,” he wrote.

‘The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me.’

The reasons for including Rep. Banks in the State Department press guidance are less clear, especially since the key reference to him in the document appears to be a misquotation of a statement Banks gave to Kaminsky.

For an article published February 9, 2023, Banks told the Washington Examiner: “House Republicans will be hauling these bad actors before Congress, and I absolutely support legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free-speech groups.”

However, the quotation attributed to Banks that appears in the State Department press guidance, according to a screenshot shared by the Post, looks markedly different: “The Republicans of the House of Representatives will bring these bad actors to justice to Congress, and I absolutely support the legislation banning federal funding for the fight against freedom of speech.”

In a letter dated September 16, 2024, and addressed to Secretary of State Blinken, Banks indicated that the cause for the discrepancy is that the State Department cited “RIA FAN (Russia)” as the source for Banks’ statement, not Kaminsky or the Washington Examiner.

The ultimate effect of the GEC’s “intentional misquotation,” Banks argued in the letter, was to give “the impression that [he] had been speaking with a Russian propaganda outlet.”

“The State Department, in defense of its domestic so-called ‘disinformation’ operation, purposefully spread disinformation about a U.S. lawmaker,” the letter continued. “This is a sloppy and hypocritical lie and it is typical of the Biden-Harris State Department’s repeated attacks on the First Amendment and Americans’ free speech rights.”

Kaminsky is likewise troubled by the apparent misquotation of Banks, telling Blaze News that it raises “concerns about speech suppression.”

“The State Department’s decision to cite the Russian misquotation, which did not circulate among U.S.-based readers, was an apparent effort to unfairly link Banks to a foreign adversary. Some would call that disinformation. Ironic, no?”

In a statement to Blaze News, Rep. Banks called out Russia and the Biden-Harris administration as enemies of free speech.

“Russia sanctioned me for being an enemy of Vladimir Putin, and now the Biden State Department is falsely smearing me as a Russian propaganda booster,” he said. “The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me.”

About a week after Banks issued the letter to Blinken, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter of his own, claiming the GEC was beyond hope and demanding its outright dissolution.

“By smearing anyone who disagrees with it as a Russian stooge, this network conflates U.S. citizens with a U.S. adversary, as State Department talking points did to my colleague Representative Jim Banks and the award-winning journalists Gabe Kaminsky and Matt Taibbi in a scheming sleight of hand that ruled out of bounds political opinions and fact-based reporting it opposed but cannot refute,” Issa said.

“Mr. Secretary: It is time for this failed entity to be held accountable. It is time to bring an end to the Global Engagement Center,” his letter closed.

In a statement to Blaze News, Issa said:

The First Amendment rights of the American people are threatened not only by malign actors in the EU, U.K., or Brazil — but by our own State Department and specifically the Global Engagement Center. There truly is a Censorship Industrial Complex at home and abroad, and our opposition to it must be no less comprehensive. Congress can’t look away from this continuing scandal that grows worse with every revelation. We need to be committed and creative if we’re going to win the fight for free speech and a future without the GEC is a step in that right direction.

Issa may soon get his wish. A State Department appropriations bill that has already passed the House and that will soon be under consideration in the Senate seeks to strike funding for the GEC based on its alleged ties to American censorship.

Refusing to be silenced

Ever since Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others exposed the apparent attempts at the Global Engagement Center to censor Americans in defiance of the First Amendment, elected Republicans and some watchdog groups have taken action against it.

‘One of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.’

Back in December, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined the Daily Wire and the Federalist in filing a lawsuit against the State Department for allegedly “actively intervening in the news-media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable” by sending taxpayer dollars to help fund the Global Disinformation Index and a similar group called NewsGuard.

The lawsuit further alleged that the GEC implemented “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.”

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson from NewsGuard told the Post that the lawsuit “inaccurately portrays” NewsGuard’s relationship with the State Department.

“NewsGuard does not offer any technology that censors or blocks any content, or that blocks ads on content,” the spokesperson continued. “Instead, we provide information — our assessments of sites — so that our clients can decide for themselves where to place their ads or which content to amplify, and each client decides for themselves how to use that data.”

Following the bombshell report from the New York Post that made public the State Department’s press guidance, a group identified as the Functional Government Initiative filed Freedom of Information Act requests in the hopes of uncovering further details about the agency’s alleged attempts to malign Kaminsky, Taibbi, Banks, and others in defense of the GEC.

In its requests, the Functional Government Initiative also asked for certain communications involving Blinken and other top State Department officials dating all the way back to January 2023. The aim, FGI spokesperson Pete McGinnis told the Examiner, was to see “who was involved in the blacklisting efforts” and “just how high up the chain this memo was guiding their media strategy.”

“The reporting on the Biden-Harris administration’s censorship clearly struck a nerve at the State Department.”

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​Gabe kaminsky, Washington examiner, Matt taibbi, Twitter files, Global engagement center, Global disinformation index, Jim banks, Darrell issa, Blinken, Censorship, First amendment, Free speech, Politics, T3 

Ten years ago, I was with the U.S. Army in an interrogation room at the detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan. Through a translator, I asked the captured Taliban commander sitting before me how long he intended to keep fighting us. “You have me in a cage; my fight is over for now,” he said. “But my children will fight you, and if they don’t win, their children will fight you. If it takes a thousand years, we will win.”

Our enemies are focused on fighting the long-term war against the West, continuously educating the next generation to pick up the torch. In fact, Taliban is the Pashto word for “students,” named after the graduates of the schools the Taliban and their allied groups run where children are indoctrinated to become fighters in the jihadist cause.

We must educate our youth about our history and who our enemies are, or others will do it with a distorted version of the facts.

In 2021, when the Taliban rolled into Kabul, the newsreels were filled with images of young fighters, many of whom were not even born when the war started, just going to show how effective this strategy of generational warfare has been.

A little over a decade prior to that interaction in Afghanistan, I vividly recall — as does every American who lived through it — watching the Twin Towers fall, an event that profoundly shaped not only my life but my entire generation. But what do those here in the United States that were born in the aftermath of 9/11, or shortly before it, know about our enemies?

It was 23 years ago, which is a significant block of our nation’s population, including much of our military. Have we taught our children about not just what happened on September 11, 2001, but about who our enemies are who carried out such atrocities? Al-Qaeda was just one group in a long list of enemies who share the same goals and who unquestionably have this generation in their crosshairs, whether or not our children know it.

When Hamas terrorists attacked, murdered, raped, and captured civilian concertgoers and other Israeli civilians in their homes on October 7, 2023, we saw American students come out in droves on campuses to support the terrorists, something that would have been unthinkable in the early 2000s. A survey conducted of U.S. college students by Generation Lab found that 12% saw the terrorist attack as a justified act of resistance by Hamas and 48% did not even blame the terrorist organization for it.

One in eight college students openly supporting a terrorist group’s slaughter of innocent civilians is not a majority, obviously, but it is a number that should appall any sane person. We are not doing our job to properly educate the next generation.

In response to the campus protests, a congressional committee subpoenaed the presidents of several of America’s most prestigious universities, and we witnessed gross incompetence and an unwillingness to answer simple questions on the subject, ultimately leading to the resignation of two of the three subpoenaed presidents.

I reached out to two members of that committee for their thoughts. “Our colleges and universities are failing the moral test of ensuring our students can distinguish good from evil,” Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) told me. “Now more than ever, moral clarity is needed in higher education to ensure future generations know who the real enemies of America are.”

But what are we doing as parents to ensure our children know who our enemies are before they reach adulthood?

“After witnessing the woefully inadequate response by the leaders of some of America’s most prestigious universities in dealing with pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic sentiment on college campuses, it has become all the more apparent how critical it is for the next generation to understand the threats we face to freedom and American values,” Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said.

We must educate our youth about our history and who our enemies are, or others will do it with a distorted version of the facts. Today, jihadist enemies are waging ideological battles in America rather than on foreign battlefields. They understand that the next generation of presidents, governors, representatives, and voters are in our schools and colleges right now, and they are effectively reaching them. It is our responsibility to prepare these young people by teaching them the truth about our enemies. The strength and future of our nation depend on it.

​9/11, Jihad, Universities, Congress, War on terror, Taliban, Al-qaeda, Opinion & analysis 

Italy is pondering a new tactic in its war on out-of-control crime: chemical castration for violent sex offenders.

Such bold measures may already be too late, however — as long as the country’s civilizational castration continues apace.

Eyewitnesses described a scene of sheer barbarism, recounting how the savage threw the woman to the ground, pummeling her face and head with his fists.

Since taking power two years ago, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has focused on law-and-order policies, creating new offenses and increasing penalties.

She’s also made plans to draft legislation that would use androgen-blocking medications to chemically neuter those convicted of sexual violence. The decision signals a response to the rising tide of sexual crimes, many of which have shaken the country to the core in recent years.

These crimes, however, may be symptoms of a deeper problem: Italy’s slow dissolution under the pressure of continuous mass immigration.

Children raped

The latest horror (in a long line of horrors) involves the rape of a 10-year-old African girl by a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man at a migrant center in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.

This gruesome crime unfolded at the Hotel Il Cacciatore, a contested site that houses around 20 asylum seekers. According to a report in the Daily Mail, the young girl’s mother first became suspicious after she noticed alarming behavioral changes in her daughter. Soon after, medical tests confirmed that the little girl hadn’t just been violated; she was also pregnant with her rapist’s child.

The child underwent an abortion. Her life, one imagines, will never be the same. Her innocence, brutally stolen, is something she can never reclaim. The scars — emotional, psychological, and physical — will likely remain with her long after the headlines fade. It’s difficult to read a story like that and not feel a sense of absolute anger and dismay.

Sheer barbarism

This assault is not an isolated incident but part of Italy’s wider unraveling. The country, already struggling under demographic pressure and a surge in migrant arrivals, is now grappling with an increase in violent crimes, from stabbings to sexual assaults.

For many, Italy no longer feels safe, and the nation’s attempts to mend the social fabric with punishments such as chemical castration feel more like a desperate last stand than a viable solution. What was once a proud country is now facing an identity crisis, one defined by fear and instability.

Take the case of a homeless Nigerian migrant, for example, who viciously assaulted an Italian woman in broad daylight during an attempted rape. The attack was so violent that she later died from her injuries in a hospital bed.

Eyewitnesses described a scene of sheer barbarism, recounting how the savage threw the woman to the ground, pummeling her face and head with his fists, possibly wielding a stone or some other blunt object.

Stabbed in the back

More recently, two violent incidents involving migrants rocked Milan, Italy’s financial heart.

In one appalling episode, Christian Di Martino, a 35-year-old police officer, was attacked after confronting a man throwing stones at trains and assaulting a female passenger.

The attacker, a Moroccan national living illegally in Italy with prior convictions, stabbed the officer multiple times in the back. Di Martino was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The North African was charged with attempted murder.

Just days later, another violent confrontation unfolded on the streets. An Egyptian man, recently released from police custody after questioning in connection with a robbery, went on a crazed rampage, vandalizing property and hurling rocks at police when they moved to arrest him.

After failing to subdue the man with a taser, the police were forced to shoot him. Wounded, the criminal was finally able to be taken into custody.

The pattern is undeniable. But even more alarming is the systematic erasure of Italian heritage — and with it, the disappearance of its people.

Arrivederci!

In a few generations, Italy will be barely recognizable. Last year saw a staggering 50% rise in migrant arrivals, primarily from Africa and the Middle East. The shift is more than just numbers — this wave is fundamentally altering the demographic makeup of Italy.

What adds to the disaster is the fact that Italy’s population is aging faster than any other in Europe, with fewer young Italians being born to sustain the nation.

By 2040, the situation could reach a breaking point, as dwindling tax revenue from a shrinking workforce makes it impossible to support an increasingly elderly population. Public finances are set to buckle under the weight of this imbalance; the economy, once one of Europe’s most robust, could enter a death spiral.

In truth, Italy has already entered a death spiral, literally and figuratively. The Italy of Roman ruins, Renaissance art, and sun-soaked landscapes finds itself overshadowed by a nation at odds with itself.

The streets of Florence, Milan, Rome, and Venice are filling with new faces, new languages, new “norms,” new threats, and new nightmares.

In just a few decades, the Italy we know and love will have vanished, replaced by a nation full of uncivilized individuals with a penchant for uncivilized behavior.

​Culture, Europe, Immigration, Italy, Giorgia meloni, John mac ghlionn, Crime, The rape of europa