This includes Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who serves as the committee’s chairwoman but who won’t serve in the next Congress as she lost her primary to another nearly 30-year incumbent, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY).

Maloney tried to frame Jordan’s remarks from the conference as tying the scandals involving Hunter Biden to be about former President Donald Trump potentially running again in 2024. “An investigation into Hunter Biden,” as Maloney phrased it coming from Rep. Jordan, “would quote ‘frame up the 2024 race,’ end quote for Donald Trump, explaining quote ‘we need to make sure that he wins,’ end quote.”

In reality, those remarks were made at a different part of Rep. Jordan’s conversation with Matt Schlapp at CPAC. Speaking about Hunter Biden, the congressman did lay out concerns of “suppressed evidence of the Hunter Biden story,” including when it comes to former FBI Agent Timothy Thibault.

Jordan went on to discuss how “at the same time we’ve got whistleblowers coming to our office, who tells us that they’re getting pressured to categorize and catalogue every case that they do as a ‘domestic extremism,’ ‘violent extremism,’ when in fact they’re not, and the same person doing the prime pressuring is this individual Timothy Thibault,” which the congressman said “needs to be investigated.”

Leah and Matt covered those reports over the weekend that FBI agents are in fact being pressured to do just that.

Where Trump’s potential 2024 run comes into play, moments later, is how Rep. Jordan painted a picture of several other concerns the American people have, which Trump has addressed.

“And when you couple it with what they’ve done to parents who show up at school board meetings, the political nature of our justice department, is frightening. And so that’s something, if we get the majority we need to look at, and a host of other issues, the border situation as I’ve mentioned, um, we need to look at how did thousands of Americans’ tax returns get public, that’s not supposed to happen in this great country.” It was then that Jordan went on to say “so, all these things need to be investigated just so you have the truth, plus that will help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again and we need to make sure that he wins,” to much applause from the crowd.

In speaking with Townhall, Rep. Jim Jordan offered that he and Republicans are being targeted on this “because they’ve got no, there’s no good answers as to why you wouldn’t want transparency associated with the Biden story, the Hunter Biden story,” as he pointed to how The Washington Post published stories within minutes of each back in March once it was confirmed his laptop was real. “So I think they go after Republicans because the facts aren’t good for them, so they’ve got to do something.”

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) also referenced Jordan speaking at CPAC, though like the chairwoman, she did not provide the full context.

As Norton noted about his remarks, Rep. Jordan “said probes into Hunter Biden would, and here I’m quoting, ‘frame up the 2024 race when I hope and I think, President Trump is going to run again and we need to make sure that he wins,’ end quote.”

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One can thus see from the full context of Jordan’s remarks that there is much that Maloney and Norton left out.

When it comes to the larger context of protecting Hunter Biden and the Biden family, Jordan predicted it’s because Democrats “want to keep this information from the American people, that was hidden in 2020, and it’s just how they operate.”

This is not the only time that Rep. Jordan’s words have been taken out of context. A particularly egregious example includes when Democratic members of the January 6 Select Committee doctored text messages from the congressman. They were even forced to admit, too.

Jordan does not believe his Democratic colleagues will own to and apologize for such a move this time, though. He chalked them taking him out of context to how “this is how they operate” and that “they can’t defend what they’re doing, so they gotta attack and misrepresent and mislead the country about Republicans,” with what they did during Tuesday’s hearing being “just another example.”

The House Oversight Committee ultimately rejected the ROI. Should Republicans indeed take back control of the House, though, as they are predicted to do so, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) who currently serves as the committee’s ranking member, will continue to make it not just a priority for next Congress, but “a duty to do oversight,” as Rep. Jordan assured Townhall.

(article is from townhall.com)

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“England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on. And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there,” Lemon explained. “Some people want to be paid back, and members of the public are wondering, ‘Why are we suffering when you are, you know, you have all of this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns.”

Her response was epic. After initially giving the impression that she agreed with Lemon, she schooled him royally.

“Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain,” Fordwich replied. “Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa, and when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? The first nation world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British. In Great Britain, they abolished slavery.”

She continued, “Two thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people, they had them on cages waiting in the beaches. No one was running into Africa to get them. And I think you’re totally right.”

The look on Lemon’s face was priceless. Fordwich succeeded in agreeing with him, although for different reasons than he was obviously suggesting. And she wasn’t done with the lesson.

“If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?’ Absolutely. That’s where they should start. And maybe, I don’t know, the descendants of those families where they died at the, in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, that those families should receive something too, I think, at the same time.”

After she was done, Lemon sat there, stunned for several seconds, before responding, “It’s an interesting discussion, Hillary, Thank you very much, I appreciate it.”

I could watch that over and over. No wonder he’s been demoted.

(article from PJMedia.com)

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Twelve were caught in August alone, the second highest monthly total since numbers began to be released earlier this year.

The new numbers represent a sharp increase as the Biden administration faces growing pressure to tighten security at the border: Just 15 suspected terrorists were caught in all of the fiscal year 2021, and just 11 were caught in total from 2017 to 2020.

Counterintuitively, catching more of those on the watch list is bad news, because it likely means more are getting through, border experts say.

“Those are the ones that Border Patrol put their hands on,” Rodney Scott, former chief of the Border Patrol, told The Washington Times in an interview earlier this summer.

He said those who are caught generally did not know that they are on the U.S. security radar. Those who are aware are being brought in by smuggling organizations who are taking advantage of the gaps caused by the current level of border chaos.

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“Anybody who actually knows or has a fear they’re on the watch list, they’re coming through those gaps and holes,” Mr. Scott said.

He said the numbers being caught are more than warning signs. “Those are rocket flashes going on to wake people up,” he said.

The 78 people detained were all listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, the government’s main terrorism watch list. It includes known or suspected terrorists and those known to associate with them.

The issue of terrorists on the southern border has been heatedly debated.

When Republican members of Congress raised the issue last year, news organizations did “fact check”

(published by the Washington Times)

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In response to Biden’s declaration, Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tweeted, “If ‘the pandemic is over’ as Biden says, then all of the president’s emergency powers predicated on a pandemic, all COVID vax mandates, the emergency powers of every governor, emergency use authorizations, and the PREP act should all be voided tomorrow.”

Similarly, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) tweeted, “Biden admitted last night that the COVID pandemic is over. In other words, there is no ‘ongoing emergency’ to justify his proposal for student loan handouts.”

Biden’s statement has also been questioned by his own side of the aisle, and many in his administration are attempting to temper his remarks.

The Washington Post reports that “Biden’s remarks caught some senior officials off guard.” Anonymous administration officials told the Post they were concerned the president’s statement would make it harder for the administration to persuade Americans to get shots or secure new money from Congress. The White House is seeking an additional $22 billion from Congress to fight the pandemic, according to the New York Times.

“When you have the president of the U.S. saying the pandemic is over, why would people line up for their boosters? Why would Congress allocate additional funding for these other strategies and tools?” said Dr. Celine Gounder, an epidemiologist and senior fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. “I am profoundly disappointed. I think this is a real lack of leadership.”

CNN reports it was told by an administration official that “the President’s comments do not mark a change in policy toward the administration’s handling of the virus, and there are no plans to lift the Public Health Emergency, which has been in place since January 2020 and is currently extended through October 13.”

The CDC no longer recommends unvaccinated people quarantine after exposure, reports Reuters. Around 95% of the U.S. population has either been vaccinated, had COVID-19 already, or both, according to the CDC.

Article is from The Blaze.

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Most Mondays and Tuesdays, Trump skips out on golf to discuss the week ahead with his aids. They decide the republican candidates who will be meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago’s 20,000 square-foot ballroom, and whether they will win his endorsement. 

Many speculated about Trump’s first 100 days out of the office, underestimating his commitment to Make America Great Again. A golfer at times, Trump is a man who much prefers plotting the next chapter of his political career to planning his presidential library, getting back on the campaign trail to writing a post-presidential memoir. 

After leaving office ex-Presidents often disengage from politics and take their seat by the fireside. Trump is not one of them and has turned his political drive into a full-time job as he contemplates his full return to the spotlight with a potential 2024 presidential bid. 

According to CNN, Trump and his advisors have been discussing preparing to restart the Make America Great Again (MAGA) rallies, in the coming months. The rallies will give him the opportunity to come face to face with the millions of avid supporters disheartened and upset over the 2020 election, which many, including Trump himself believe was a clear victory for his second term. 

“He didn’t play by the rules as President and he’s certainly not going to as an ex-President,” Newsmax CEO and longtime Trump pal Chris Ruddy said.

Plotting His Return 

It’s reported that Trump was convinced by his advisors to turn his full attention to 2022 midterms, where he has immediate interest in taking revenge against the RHINOS who voted to impeach him or dismiss his election fraud claims. 

This includes Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who repeatedly rejected Trump’s claims of rampant voter fraud in the state. 

Political enemies who include Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maryland’s Gov. Larry Hogan, his speculative GOP primary rival should he decide to run in 2024. 

During a recent interview with Dan Bongino, Trump called Hogan a “total loser,” and said he’s given the idea of running again “very serious consideration.” 

“This guy, I’ve been watching him, he’s a total loser. He hasn’t been a good governor,” said Trump, adding “I think he wants to run. I think I would give him less than a zero per cent chance, OK?”

Deciding What His Future Holds

Bongino asked about timing to which Trump elaborated, “I think probably the most appropriate time would be right after the ’22 election, that’s my opinion. Could do it sooner, but I think right after the election would be good, especially if you have a good election.”

On life after the White House, Trump added, “It’s a different kind of life, but still very political because of the endorsements. Everyone comes and they all want the endorsement, more than they’ve ever wanted an endorsement. It’s never been an endorsement that’s meant so much, which is an honor to me.”

“It means victory,” he added.

Winning a Third Presidential Election 

Trump was very clear during the interview that he won the 2020 election, a sentiment tens of millions of Americans share. 

Bongino asked if Trump believed the ‘good vaccine news’ being shared prior to the election, would have swayed the election in his favor to while Trump replied: 

 “No, I won the election anyway. I ran two elections I won them both, as far as I’m concerned, and we’ll see about a third.”

“One thing I will say” Trump added. “I believe that if the vaccine came out before the election the press would have made a very small deal about it … When it came out two days after the election the press made it like the biggest story ever.”

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Biden’s tax hike proposals have caused quite a stir and for good reason. 

Anyone who’s awake to the effects of raising taxes on businesses and citizens alike knows this is the antithesis of economic boom and recovery. Tax hikes spell out disaster, lackluster innovation, decreased production, lower family incomes and less investment. 

For a country who is already struggling to rebound from the effects of the pandemic, tax hikes are not only counter-productive, they’re anti-American. 

Newt Gingrich said on Sunday the Biden Administration  is “the most anti-American presidency in our country’s history.” This is a tough title to hold being we all lived through 8 years of the Obama administration however, Biden is beginning his presidency with flying colors in this regard. 

On the heels of Biden’s plans to double the capital gains tax rate to 39.6%, and an existing surtax on investment income, federal tax rates for investors could be as high as 43.4%. Upon this news, the stock market tanked, with the dow falling a staggering 250 points, and reality sinking in. 

Commenting on this proposal, former Trump Chief Economist Larry Kudlow says President Biden’s tax plan is an “assault on investment.” 

Melting the Middle Class 

When Americans can’t work (due to the pandemic and/or a deficiency of work) they turn to investments for income. The Biden Administration sees this clearly and is doing what they can to harm us in every way possible. 

“There’s some pretty tough headwinds ahead if these taxes, which are an assault on investment … and the people they are going to hurt the most are the middle class, the blue collar middle class, [who will bear] 70% of the burden of the corporate tax, which includes the capital gains tax, 70% of that burden falls on the blue-collar middle class. Make no mistake about that Biden rhetoric notwithstanding,” Kudlow on Sunday told John Catsimatidis on his radio show, “The Cats Roundtable ” on WABC 770 AM.

The left has convinced America they are in it for the underdog, the middle class, the working people… and some believe them. If you stop listening to what the democrats and Biden are saying and solely look at their actions, proposed changes and executive orders, you will see the exact opposite. 

It is the ever-decreasing middle class that will be most affected by this tax proposal. The blue collar worker inherits the burden, not the rich, not the Wall Street players, not the big banks. 

Killing Small Businesses 

“The rest of the Biden plan – they’re going to remove the 20 percent deduction for small LLC, S-Corp, you know, wholly owned enterprises, unincorporated, 20 percent deduction is gonna be disallowed along with the hike on the C-Corps to 28 percent, and the 21 percent tax on U.S. funds held overseas. These are gigantic tax hikes and I just summarized it. It means less investment, less capital formation, it means less innovation and invention and research and development. It means fewer wages and lower family income,” he said.

The media doesn’t tell us about this trickle down affect that will lead to businesses hiring less and paying workers lower wages, less investments into innovation and production and less money being taken home by the blue collar worker. 

“You’re going to take about 20 to 25 percent of corporate profits down. Now, that means less investment, that means less money to payout wages, that means less money to purchase new machinery and equipment to enhance productivity, and that means family incomes are gonna go down. That’s the cap gains tax, which runs through corporate profits taxes,” said Kudlow.

The Destruction of Trump’s Booming Economy 

Under President Trump the economy was in a boom. We saw record low unemployment numbers, less Americans dependent on the Welfare system and more jobs being brought back to the US. 

So why does Biden want to destroy this progress? Why does he want to stifle the growth and boom experienced by Americans? 

He wants to make more people dependent on the government. The more dependent we are the easier we are to control. This is what they are really after. Not freedom and liberty for all. They are after socialism and a controlled state. 

“Why would you start taxing the daylights out of an economy that is roaring ahead? I don’t get it,” concluded Kudrow.

There is nothing to get. The taxes are meant to hurt Americans and kill the economy. 

Are you playing roulette with your retirement? 

The dollar is collapsing before our eyes. The purchasing power of the US dollar has tanked to record low levels and higher taxes will come for retirement accounts. 

Thousands of Americans are getting their money out of the hands of this tyrannical government and taking back control of their wealth from the hands of banks and government control, including us. 

Savings have turned into wealth preservation investments where the socialist democrats can’t harm them. 

Financial advisors lost their clients $2.4 TRILLION during the 2008 crash and not a single one saw the writing on the wall. 

$2.4 TRILLION DOLLARS disappeared from retirement accounts, with many retirees never fully recovering. 

Please do not be one of these people. You have been warned, time and time again. We are screaming this from the rooftops and those that have heard us are safe from the disaster ahead, but are you? 

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Biden is urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation, which began as a case involving a spat between a couple, and is now a major Fourth Amendment case. 

The story dates back to August 2015 when Edward Caniglia and his wife Kim got into a quarrel over a joke Edward made regarding his brother-in-law. The spat turns into an hours long tiff that ended with police unlawfully seizing Edwards guns while officers took him for a mental health check.  

When the officers seized his guns they didn’t claim it was an energy or to prevent imminent danger, instead, they argued their actions were a form of “community caretaking.” This claim is a very narrow exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. 

Now, Biden is calling on the Senate to approve two bills passed by the House of Representatives on March 11 that would broaden background checks on gun buyers and ban assault-style weapons. 

“I don’t need to wait another minute – let alone an hour – to take common-sense steps that will save the lives in the future, and I urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act,” Biden said at the White House on Tuesday.

Will these actions save lives? This is debatable as gun-owning citizens are among the most law abiding citizens in the country. Unregistered, stolen and black market guns are the vast-majority used in crimes. 

Biden’s statements and actions come after both a district and appellate court upheld the seizures as “reasonable” under the community caretaking exception. 

The First Circuit sided with law enforcement on the above case citing a police officer “must act as a master of all emergencies, who is ‘expected to… provide an infinite variety of services to preserve and protect community safety.’” 

While the Fourth Amendment exception is “ill-defined,” the court has extended the doctrine outside of the vehicles context to cover private homes as well. 

In their opening brief for the Supreme Court, attorneys for Caniglia warned that “extending the community caretaking exception to homes would be anathema to the Fourth Amendment” because it “would grant police a blank check to intrude upon the home.”

Sadly, this fear is not unwarranted. The jurisdictions that have extended this community caretaking exception to homes, “everything from loud music to leaky pipes have been used to justify warrantless invasion of the home.” This comes from a joint amicus brief by the ACLU, the Cato Institute, and the American Conservative Union. 

It’s also obvious if this expansion holds, it could have staggering affects on people calling for help when it’s needed. As the brief stated, “When every interaction with police or request for help can become an invitation for police to invade the home, the willingness of individuals to seek assistance when it is most needed will suffer.”

The Biden Administration is calling on the justices to uphold the First Circuit’s ruling stating “reasonableness” of the Fourth Amendment is the ultimate touchstone. However, who is the one to decide the reasonableness? 

“The ultimate question in this case is therefore not whether the respondent officers’ actions fit within some narrow warrant exception,” their brief stated, “but instead whether those actions were reasonable,” actions the Justice Department felt were “justified” in Caniglia’s case.

If upheld this exception would greatly undermine the ability for people to secure their homes and live without an arbitrary, looming threat of unwarranted home invasion and seizure of their fire arms. 

“The Fourth Amendment protects our right to be secure in our property, which means the right to be free from fear that the police will enter your house without warning or authorization,” said Institute for Justice Attorney Joshua Windham. “A rule that allows police to burst into your home without a warrant whenever they feel they are acting as ‘community caretakers’ is a threat to everyone’s security.”

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Trump’s adviser and spokesman, Jason Miller has confirmed this in a new interview with Fox News. Miller says President Trump will start his own social media platform and be back to posting in as little as 2-3 months. This is great news for conservatives worldwide who have all felt the absence of Trump’s social media presence, including the leftist media whose numbers have plummeted since the election. 

Although Miller did not give specifics on what the platform would entail, he did state it would “redefine the game” and attract tens of millions of people. The platform would appeal to conservatives who have experienced the bias and bans on social media against conservative ideologies.

Trump is currently banned from multiple social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, who are likely losing millions of daily interactions because of this. Primetime news is also suffering without the former president.  

Prior to Trump’s Twitter suspension, he had amassed a whopping 90 Million followers. Possibly Twitter, and the whole of Big Tech, felt the resonance of his words with American nation wide. Youtube, Twitch and Snapchat are a few more sites that have banned Trump.

Miller told Fox News on Sunday he expects Trump to “[return] to social media in two or three months” with “his own platform” that will “completely redefine the game” and attract “tens of millions” of users.” 

Though he didn’t elaborate on details, the excitement ensues while conservatives wait for the free speech platform. 

Following the Twitter suspension, the former president has chosen to release statements via advisers and email. These emails include midterm 2022 candidate elections. 

Miller also said the Trump still holds a considerable amount of sway in the Republican Party. 

“He’s already had over 20 senators, over 50 members of Congress call … or make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago,” he said. “Pay attention to Georgia on Monday,” as there is a “big endorsement coming.”

In an interview last month, Trump said he is “negotiating with a number of people, and there’s also the other option of building your own [social media] site.” He added, “Because we have more people than anybody. I mean you can literally build your own site.”

“I really wanted to be somewhat quiet. They wanted me very much on Parler, you know they had a phony report that the man who was in there didn’t—I mean just the opposite, they really wanted me on Parler,” Trump continued.

When asked about Parler during this same interview Trump said they “mechanically, they can’t handle” the number of users Trump would bring. 

During last week’s interview Trump also said he wasn’t sure if he would be running for president in 2024.

“First thing is for us, we have to see what we could do with the House,” Trump said. “I think we have a very good chance at taking back the House. We were going to lose 15-25 seats the last time, [until] I got involved. I worked very hard.”

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