[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Secretary of State Antony Blinken was held in contempt of Congress by the House Foreign Affairs Committee for skirting a public hearing on the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
He is the third Biden administration official to be formally reprimanded by Congress.
In June, Attorney General Merrick Garland was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over Joe Biden audio tapes where he appeared 'elderly.' The Justice Department refused to prosecute its leader, ending the proceedings.
And earlier this year, the House approved two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border crisis, which the Senate dismissed.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has sought to bring in the chief diplomat following his handling of the military and civilian disaster killing 13 U.S. troops and hundreds of Afghans that has been compared to the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam war.
Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, led the rebuke of Blinken after the agency has 'mischaracterized the accommodations' he gave the secretary, who 'ignored the committee for months.'
The chairman called Blinken's testimony a 'vital component' to his investigation into the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal and the department's 'shortcomings during that period.'
Blinken is currently in New York City attending meetings connected to the U.N. General Assembly.
A bit more to this alley parking story from NewsX:
What Really Happened?
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, spoke to the publication about the event. He explained that he went outside after being informed that federal agents were present but wasn’t sure why. Upon exiting, he saw two men he identified as Secret Service agents to his right and noticed a black SUV with Department of Homeland Security plates.
A Secret Service representative spilled the beans to the publication saying, “The Secret Service cannot provide the details on our means and methods of protection, but we can confirm that at no time were any Secret Service protectees in the vehicle while the individual was walking down the alleyway. These claims are inaccurate. The photo in question was upon departure and not during the alleged incident.”
The security guard said he didn’t realize Obama was inside the vehicle until he got closer and spotted the former president using a laptop in the passenger seat. Startled, he quickly walked away from the SUV and greeted the agents.
Later, the guard said he passed the SUV again before returning to the bar mitzvah. About 30 minutes later, his supervisor instructed him to surrender his credentials and his license to carry a concealed weapon for the Secret Service.
Obama later dined at the restaurant with his daughters, Malia and Sasha. The security guard noted what he considered a “clear security lapse” on the part of the Secret Service, remarking that no one was stationed at the rear of the vehicle or covering the stairwell.
This incident involving Obama occurred just days after another concerning event, where shots were fired into Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign office in Arizona. The incident happened after midnight, with damage reported at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) campaign center near Southern Avenue and Priest Drive in Tempe. The Tempe Police Department confirmed the details to the New York Post.
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Malia and Sasha were actually attending the bar mitzvah. Secret Service failed to coordinate with bar mitzvah security, then used dinner at the Wolf as a cover for action.
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This incident involving Obama occurred just days after another concerning event, where shots were fired into Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign office in Arizona. The incident happened after midnight, with damage reported at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) campaign center near Southern Avenue and Priest Drive in Tempe. The Tempe Police Department confirmed the details to the New York Post.
That didn't take long. Tomorrow will be named a group inspired by the 'Denver Plot' is claiming the shots.
[FOX] Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday did not deny that federal government confidential human sources were in the crowd during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Horowitz was testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The Department of Justice watchdog testified alongside an FBI whistleblower and the president of Empower Oversight, Tristan Leavitt.
The hearing was set to focus on how the FBI has used its security clearance adjudication process to allegedly purge its ranks of conservatives and whistleblowers, and allegedly punish those with views contrary to that of FBI leadership.
Horowitz, though, testified that he had "not made such a finding."
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Here’s the text of that unbelievable statement. This is disturbing, its shocking how SpaceX is being targeted by the FAA.
"The FAA requires a license modification if an operator proposes a change that is material to public safety. A change is material to public safety if it alters or affects the following: class of payload; type of launch or reentry vehicle; type or quantity of hazardous material; flight trajectory; launch site or reentry site or other landing site; or any system, policy, procedure, requirement, criteria, or standard that is safety critical.
A proposal to conduct a return to launch site for the booster, if the FAA has not previously evaluated and authorized it for prior flights, is a change that is material to public safety. A change of a vehicle's thermal protection system (TPS) may be a material change if the TPS is a safety critical system or component that could affect public safety
Breaking News: 9.25.2024 Palm Beach County, Florida at the Supervisor of Elections office the current SOE Wendy Link has an American Patriot removed from a Pre Canvassing meeting for asking questions. Look at the manner in which these Deputy Sheriffs manhandle this Mother…#newspic.twitter.com/hdvPPX08KP
A new whistleblower has revealed that the U.S. Secret Service is actively interfering in the election by informing Trump they couldn’t secure a rally for him in the critical state of Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris recently held a rally in the same state, raising questions… pic.twitter.com/qQ5ST1jB4g
… Kamala Harris recently held a rally in the same state, raising questions about why the Secret Service claims they cannot protect Trump or provide adequate staffing for his event.
Protecting Candidate Trump requires them to actually use their skills becaue there really are people trying to kill him. Thus far, thank goodness, it seems those who talk of killing the vice president are all talk, but nothing more.
One seriously hopes the Virgin Islands are not sending their best to Congress in this one.
… great replacement theorists, Christian nationalists, white fragility, fascists, and the twice impeached convicted felon, former president and would-be dictator Donald Trump."
[FoxNews] In February, FBI agents raided the home of Winnie Greco, one of Adams' top aides, in the Bronx.
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams on federal criminal charges, multiple sources familiar confirmed to Fox News. The details about the indictment remain under seal.
Multiple sources have confirmed to Fox News that the indictment could be unsealed as early as tomorrow.
The FBI and Department of Justice are declining to comment on the matter, and it is unclear who Adams has retained as his personal attorney.
"I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became," Adams said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press. "If I am charged, I am innocent, and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit."
Several people have already been raided in the orbit of the 63-year-old former NYPD captain.
In February, FBI agents raided the home of Winnie Greco, one of his top aides, in the Bronx. In November, feds swarmed the property of another aide, Cenk Ocal, a former Turkish airlines executive who joined the mayor's transition team. That same month, they visited Brianna Suggs, the mayor's chief fundraiser.
Rana Abbasova, another close aide, reportedly flipped on the mayor in May after scrutiny over his dealings with Turkish Airlines, according to the New York Times.
Statements from the New York State lawmakers agree that this move is the best course of action for the city moving forward.
"The mayor and his administration appear to be riddled with corruption, and the public has lost all confidence in their ability to move the five boroughs forward. Mr. Adams should do what's best for this city and step aside so that a new election can be held. His situation is untenable," said New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar.
"Another NY Democrat clouded in scandal. Time and again, they have proved they only care about their personal power and scoring political points, not what’s best for New York’s taxpayers. It’s time for people to send a message that they aren’t going to take it anymore," said New York Congressman Nick Langworthy.
"We can add another name to the list of high-ranking Democrats in Albany and New York City tarnished by scandal, including Governors Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer, who both resigned in disgrace," said New York GOP Chair Ed Cox. "One-party Democrat rule in New York City and New York State is not serving the best interests of our citizens, who continue to flee New York for states with lower taxes, more freedom and less corruption. It is highly likely that Mayor Adams will have to resign following the revelation of the specific charges against him."
The FBI has reportedly been looking into whether Adams' 2021 mayoral campaign conspired with the Turkish government and other entities to raise funds.
Flat out racism, man! Because of slavery, African-American politicians have not had the same opportunities for theft and grifting as white politicians.
My curiosity is why, in the Age of TrumpHitler, the Brandon DoJ and the FBI are going after the black mayor of a big Blue city. Did he go off the reservation somehow?
[REDSTATE] Surprise, surprise, Kamala Harris launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is using a network of fake news sites to help prop up her campaign and mislead voters about her level of support.
On Monday, the official "Kamala HQ" account posted a headline that read "Polish Pennsylvanians Endorse Kamala Harris Over Putin, Ukraine Concerns." The source was a supposed news outlet named "The Keystone Newsroom."
What the Harris campaign was trying to do was clear. Local news outlets are typically more trusted than national outlets by the residents of a given state. By pushing a headline bragging about a major endorsement from "The Keystone Newsroom," an air of credibility is given to the claim. The truth of the matter is far more insidious, though. Greg Price did some digging and figured out how the money is flowing and who is coordinating with who.
The game being played is simple. The Soros-funded "Courier Newsroom" starts a bunch of "local" news sites that are presented as completely unbiased and non-partisan. Those dark-money sites then publish positive headlines about Kamala Harris based on objectively false claims. In this case, the headline states that "Polish Pennsylvanians," a community of nearly 800,000 people, have endorsed her. The truth is that the "endorsement" was just a letter written by four Democrat politicians. At that point, the only thing left is for Harris' official campaign account to share the headline and pretend it's a huge win.
Is what they are doing illegal? No, but it's incredibly dishonest and unethical, and it shows just how astroturfed Harris' presidential run is. From the very beginning, everything undergirding her campaign has been fake, fake the glowing proclamations of "joy" from the mainstream press to the idea that she "won" an open primary, as proclaimed by Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... What does that say about Harris' confidence level as we enter the home stretch of this election? It certainly doesn't project confidence. A campaign that believes it's winning going away doesn't have to use fake news sites to promote false headlines about made-up endorsements. Yet, that's exactly what Harris is doing.
I'd also ask where the mainstream press is. CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , the Times, MSNBC, etc. are obsessed with "misinformation," but they've got nothing to say when the Harris campaign is the one pushing it. Why, it's almost as if their push to censor free speech under the guise of protecting democracy is all nonsense.
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An the Biden Puppet Gov FCC just approved SOROS's purchase of 200+ US Radio stations with over 165M listeners.
[PJMEDIA] Did you hear the story about a national law enforcement organization that came out and endorsed Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day ? The group, Police Leaders for Community Safety, made their endorsement Monday via blurb.
''This endorsement reflects Vice President Harris' track record and unwavering commitment to public safety and the rule of law,'' said Sue Riseling, Chair of Police Leaders for Community Safety. ''As police leaders who have led law enforcement agencies and the major national law enforcement leadership groups, we know first-hand what it will take to make our communities safer — and that includes having Kamala Harris as our next President."
The Harris-Walz campaign gloated over the endorsement.
The liberal media also fell over themselves reporting on it, pushing the narrative that it was a stunning snub of former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ”A group of national law enforcement leaders have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris weeks after the National Fraternal Order of Police backed former President Donald Trump," reported USA Today.
One outlet even claimed the group "normally backs Trump."
There's just one problem. This group didn't even exist until a few months ago. Even USA Today noted in its report that the Police Leaders for Community Safety organization "was created in [June] 2024 as a non-partisan 501(c)4, and describes itself as an organization that represents dozens of police officials."
Recommended: Did the Biden-Harris DOJ Put a Bounty on Trump's Head?
Founded in June of this year? Dozens of police officials?
USA Today pitched the endorsement as somehow on par with Trump's endorsement by the Fraternal Order of Police, which was founded in 1915 and has 373,000 members as of last year.
Even Fox News called the group a "leading law enforcement group," for some reason.
The organization - which says it is led by a diverse group of prominent police professionals who have been at the helm of numerous major national law enforcement leadership groups - highlights that its mission is to champion "policies to make communities and the people in them safer, improve and evolve policing, and safeguard the rule of law."
Clearly, the Police Leaders for Community Safety isn't in the same league as the Fraternal Order of Police, the International Union of Police Associations, or the National Association of Police Organizations. Yet the liberal media, and apparently, Fox News as well, bought into the ruse that this is an organization whose endorsement carries the same weight.
It doesn't. I wouldn't be shocked to find out this group was established specifically as a faux non-partisan organization that will routinely endorse Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , to serve as a counterbalance to the law enforcement groups that don't endorse the party that wants to defund them.
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"...Fox News as well, bought into the ruse."
And somehow Fox is different?
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How it works: When a Dem from the Donor Class maxes out his campaign contributions, one choice they have to continue their 'charity' is to dump a bunch of money into a 501C and start one of these political action groups.
That is how 'Law Enforcement Group Backing Kamala Harris' started. The group didnt exist a couple years ago. One might think that fact might be news, lies by omission, but legacy media is more interested in the narrative.
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I won't link it.
Geeks and Nerds for Harris
It is up to you to follow through.
*Swiggle Kansas take is not responsible for excessive Cringe, generic music causing bad dancing, nausea, general gastrointestinal discomfort, three left feet, loss of food taste, shortness of height and or temperament. Do not watch if you will be operating a vehicle or construction vehicle, or have Work Clothes."
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It’s not like he’s even pretending he has a real job to do anymore. No reason for him to go to staff meetings, since at best all they will do is pretend to listen to him.
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I quit drinking coca cola, pepsi and others 20 years ago. I worked in a chemical plant that made the syrup. I know what's in it.
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I like an occasional sugar-free Pepsi (doesn't have that metallic taste like diet Pepsi) and even use Sugar-Free Canada Dry Tonic with my Titos. My A1C dropped to 6
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You mean the company that brought us "Be Less White" and other bigoted blatherings..
If you like a cola, Jarritos is superior anyways and is made with sugar.
Quit box food and corn syrup, and a couple months later when you treat yourself to a box sandwich and drink; you'll taste how awful they are.
🚨KAMALA HARRIS @KamalaHarris VISITED THE HOME OF THE LAWYER @SubodhChandra WHO FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP AND JD VANCE FOR HAITIAN MIGRANTS🚨
… against President Trump and JD Vance today is Friends with Kamala Harris, Hosted her at his house, and refers to Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff
@SecondGentleman
as his “brother in law🚨
Today, a pro invasion nonprofit called the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against President Trump and JD Vance
@JDVance
for their claims that Haitian migrants are eating peoples pets in Springfield, Ohio.
In their press release,
@HaitianBridge
said they have hired Ohio-based civil rights attorney Subodh Chandra.
Who is Subodh Chandra?
He’s an open Kamala Harris supporter who fundraises for her publicly. In social media posts, he said Kamala Harris came to his home and met with his mother and called her “Auntie”, and he said he considers Doug Emhoff to be his brother in law, and Meena Harris
@meena
to be his neice.
Chandra has also received a commendation from former FBI director Robert Mueller, who carried out countless witch hunts against President Trump and his associates.
Chandra is a leftist political activist who has a long history of partisan activities with Kamala Harris, Robert Mueller and other Leftists engaged in the since discredited lawfare against President Trump.
That’s how you know these “criminal charges” are purely political.
Did Kamala Harris instruct her good friend
Subodh Chandra to file criminal charges against Trump in the key state of Ohio to help her Presidential campaign?
Kamala and Subodh are very close as you can see.
This is what you call a political witch hunt.
President Trump’s lawyers should file sanctions against Subodh Chandra for filing frivolous criminal charges for the sake of assisting his friend Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign.
This is unethical behavior by a lawyer who should be disbarred.
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Fake person visits fake organization, finds much in common.
But by all means - who did make those phone calls? See, I think it as made by the traffickers to shake down the local government to play along and deny Trump. Many threats were international - so who does international, I ask?
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So it only takes a bug to beat Biden in a debate and force him out of the White House?
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Is Tolerating Commies Working for America?
I dont think so, I think we need to get back to zero tolerance. Communism and the Constitution cannot co-exist, giving Commies Constitutional Protections when they seek to replace and destroy it, is akin to suicide. We need to treat the enemy within as the Enemy. No Quarter.
[IsraelTimes] Emgage Action cites GOP candidate’s vow to reinstate a Muslim travel ban for decision; group says it mobilized 1 million voters in 2020 election
US Moslem advocacy group Emgage Action on Wednesday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress , saying former president Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... posed a greater danger to the community with his promise to reinstate a travel ban affecting majority-Moslem countries.
The group, which endorsed US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... in 2020 after first backing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... , says it mobilized 1 million Moslem voters in that election.
Harris already won the endorsement of smaller Moslem groups, including the Black Moslem Leadership Council Fund and the American Moslem Democratic Caucus ahead of the November 5 election.
Trump’s campaign had no immediate comment.
He says he will reinstate the so-called travel ban that restricts entry into the United States of people from a list of largely Moslem-dominant countries. Biden rolled back the ban shortly after taking office in 2021.
The Biden administration, where Harris serves as vice president, has faced calls from both fellow Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... and international allies throughout Israel’s campaign in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease the humanitarian situation in the Paleostinian enclave.
[Epoch Times] Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have each agreed to a separate town hall in early October hosted by Univision, the Spanish-language network announced.
Trump’s town hall will take place on Oct. 8, at 10 p.m. ET in Miami, while Harris’s town hall will be held on Oct. 10, at 10 p.m. ET from Las Vegas, according to Univision.
The events will be moderated by journalist Enrique Ace
Both town halls will air on their respective days with Spanish translation at 10 p.m. ET on Univision and stream on ViX’s Noticias 24/7 channel.
They will also be available in English on Noticias 24/7 Univision’s YouTube channel.
Univision said the audiences in attendance at both town halls will be comprised mainly of undecided Hispanic voters who will ask Trump and Harris questions about important issues facing the community and the nation. Should be interesting.
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[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The federal judge who presided over — and threw out — the criminal classified documents case the Justice Department brought against Donald Trump is now set to oversee the case into the latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — was randomly assigned the attempted assassination case Tuesday after a grand jury in Miami returned a five-count indictment against Ryan Routh in connection with the Sept. 15 incident at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The indictment charges Routh with attempted assassination of a presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime and assault on a federal officer, as well as two charges he already faced: being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
[CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... , the Democratic vice presidential candidate, has made at least three false claims over the last two weeks about the Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... Two of Walz's false claims are related to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation think tank's detailed right-wing blueprint for the next Republican administration. Project 2025 has been the subject of multiple false or misleading claims from Vice President Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees ' campaign this summer.
The campaign declined to comment for this article.
TRUMP, PROJECT 2025 AND PREGNANCIES
Walz claimed in a speech in North Carolina last Tuesday: ''And now Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their child sacrifice abortion bans.'' He made an even more dramatic claim in a speech in Wisconsin on September 14: ''Think about what they're saying in Project 2025: you're going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant.''
Facts First: Walz's claims are false. Project 2025 does not propose to make people register with any federal agency when they get pregnant. And there is no indication that Trump is trying to create a new government entity to monitor pregnancies.
Project 2025 is firmly anti-child sacrifice abortion; it proposes, among other things, to criminalize the mailing of child sacrifice abortion medication and devices. But it does not propose to require people to register their pregnancies with the federal government.
The Project 2025 policy document, released in 2023, proposes that the federal government take steps to make sure it is receiving detailed after-the-fact, anonymous data from every state on child sacrifice abortions and miscarriages. The vast majority of states already submit anonymous child sacrifice abortion data to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a voluntary basis — the CDC has collected ''child sacrifice abortion surveillance'' data for decades — and all states already submit some anonymous miscarriage data under federal law.
Minnesota, the state run by Walz, is one of the states that voluntarily submits child sacrifice abortion data to the CDC. And Minnesota posts anonymous child sacrifice abortion and miscarriage data on the state health department's website every year.
The Project 2025 policy document says the existing federal Department of Health and Human Services should ''use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many child sacrifice abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother's state of residence, and by what method.''
The document also says the department “should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion.” And it says, “In addition, CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion.”
In the context of the CDC, the word “monitoring” is used to mean statistical tracking. For example, the existing CDC web page that displays anonymous state-by-state abortion data says, “Since 1987, CDC has monitored abortion-related deaths” through its Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System. Neither “monitored” nor “surveillance” means the CDC is spying on individuals during their pregnancies.
Trump dodged the question when asked in a Time magazine interview earlier this year whether states should monitor women’s pregnancies to ensure compliance with an abortion ban, saying “I think they might do that” but that “you’ll have to speak to the individual states.” Walz is free to criticize Trump for this answer, but nowhere in the interview did Trump make an actual proposal to create a new pregnancy-monitoring government body.
Heritage Foundation Vice President Roger Severino wrote on social media earlier this month that Project 2025 “merely recommends CDC restore the decades-long practice of compiling *anonymous* abortion statistics for all states” – and noted that Minnesota already compiles such data.
Walz didn’t explain the basis for his claim about Project 2025 seeking a “new” federal agency to monitor pregnancies, but it’s possible he was inaccurately referring to a separate anti-abortion proposal in Project 2025 to rename the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment – to the “Office of Women, Children, and Families” – and have the office led by an “unapologetically pro-life” official.
USAID is an agency that handles foreign aid, not domestic affairs.
VANCE’S COMMENTS ABOUT POWER
In a Saturday speech in Pennsylvania, Walz said, “My opponent, Senator Vance, had a quote that – you read it, you hear it, gloss over it. But think about how deeply disturbing this is. He said that when they get power and they will use the Project 2025, they need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.”
Facts First: Walz’s claim is false. Vance never said they “will use” Project 2025 in this comment about ruthlessly exercising power. In fact, Vance made the comment before Project 2025 was even created. He spoke in May 2021; Project 2025 was launched by the Heritage Foundation in April 2022, and the project’s extensive policy recommendations were released in April 2023.
Walz is entitled to mount an argument that Trump and Vance would use Project 2025 if elected; both have close ties to the people behind the initiative. But Walz asserted here that there is an actual “quote” in which Vance declared “they will use the Project 2025.” There is not.
Here’s what Vance actually said in the May 2021 interview with conservative publication The Federalist: “I think the thing that we have to take away from the last 10 years is that we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.” He added that, since conservatives have “lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches and religious institutions,” achieving real change “will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class.”
CNN noted in July that a social media post from Harris campaign had wrongly claimed these same Vance remarks showed him endorsing Project 2025. Vance said in July, days before he became Trump’s running mate, that Project 2025 includes “some good ideas” and “some things that I disagree with.”
In the Saturday speech in Pennsylvania, Walz said, “We saw Senator Vance lead an audience when he said, ‘Well, they reduced interest rates this week. How terrible is that?’ And he got the crowd booing. Who boos for lower interest rates?”
Facts First: Walz’s claim about Vance is false. Vance did not respond to the Federal Reserve’s September rate cut by saying “how terrible is that,” and he did not goad a crowd into booing the cut; rather, the crowd at a Vance event last Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina appeared to independently start booing after a reporter asked Vance for his reaction to the cut (and asserted in the question that the cut would “alleviate inflation for a lot of people”).
Vance had started responding to the question in a neutral tone, saying, “Well look, my reaction is …” But the crowd booed the question and he paused briefly. Vance then said that the Fed’s half-point reduction wasn’t enough to make up for the inflation families have faced in the Biden-Harris era. But he also said, “It’s better than nothing.”
So Vance certainly did not offer a particularly enthusiastic reaction to the rate cut, but he did not decry the cut as Walz claimed.
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[BREITBART] Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'' that former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... should be extinguished from politics, which she clarified meant ''vote him out.''
Raimondo said, ''Tax policy, you have to work with Congress but if he decides he wants to do something crazy, like a 200% tariff, which will hurt Americans, raise prices and lose jobs, he could do it as president. Which is why honestly why I'm here in my personal capacity. The stakes are so high in this one. We cannot afford to put him back in the White House.''
She added, ''He's the one that overturned Roe. For me, you know, when I was the governor of Rhode Island, one of the first governors in the country back in 2019 to codify Roe in state statute in Rhode Island. I worked with the legislature, it was because he was president, and I feared exactly what would happen. I said women of Rhode Island would be protected. That's real protection, stepping up and leading. And what he says is the opposite. It is just another lie. How did we get here? Let's extinguish him for good. We have an answer, we have a remarkably talented candidate who is sincere, who is pragmatic, who is open. Let's just get it done.''
Host Mika Brzezinski said, ''And extinguish, you mean vote him out?''
Raimondo said, ''Yes, absolutely vote him out. Banish him from American politics. Yes just vote him out so he goes away.''
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] In a heavily coordinated and strategic political visit to Pennsylvania, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was essentially campaigning for Kamala Harris and a continuation of the Biden foreign policy which provides billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine. [AP Article Here]
Any non-pretending political pundit can see the transparency of the Zelensky visit to an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania when timed in context against the 2024 presidential campaign, with an overlay of Zelensky's comments about how a Trump-Vance victory would be detrimental to the interests of the Ukranian government.
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I am tired of Donald Trump calling Zelensky a salesman. Zelensky is the leader of a nation that is under a brutal military invasion with whole towns being leveled to the ground, innocent families being bombed, hospitals being hit by missiles, a leader trying to save his country from slaughter. Biden and Harris and the DNC are corrupt. But at least they are hearing cries of innocent people under attack while Trump, Johnson and Greene come across as monsters for turning away from this brutal slaughter.
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Trump’s town hall will take place on Oct. 8, at 10 p.m. ET in Miami, while Harris’s town hall will be held on Oct. 10, at 10 p.m. ET from Las Vegas, according to Univision.
...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
