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Bob Woodward writes in a new op-ed that former President Trump “continues to lead” a “seditious conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election” that the veteran Washington Post journalist believes will “destroy democracy” in the U.S. Woodward writes that “Trump has learned where the levers of power are” in the American government and is seeking to to pull them to gain full control. “And full control means installing absolute loyalists in key Cabinet and White House posts,” Woodward writes. “The record now shows that Trump has led — and continues to lead — a seditious conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election,...

He's not just meddling with the rules, he's playing foul behind the scenes -- and trying to hide it from voters. Just yesterday, Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist reported that Joe Biden's Department of Justice is delaying its handover of records relating to Biden's executive order from March 2021. The records were requested by a federal court. Biden's Executive Order 14019 asked all 600 federal agencies to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway has carried reports about this. Was Biden misusing...

Even U.S. district court judge Carl Nichols recognizes that Bannon’s contempt conviction is likely to get tossed out, which is why he took the extraordinary step of issuing a stay of sentence pending appeal. When Bannon was subpoenaed by the J-6 Committee, Trump’s lawyer sent him a letter stating that the president invoked executive privilege and therefore directed him not to testify. Trump holds the privilege, not Bannon. Under law, Bannon cannot waive it or violate it. So, on advice of his own counsel, Bannon declined to testify. It was the correct advice. But at trial, Judge Nichols applied the...

Kelly Moran was a teacher and leader of Qantas cabin crews until stupid vaccine mandates forced her to follow her conscience and leave. "I left Qantas International after more than 20 years, when the company started imposing restrictions and regulations on the personal rights of employees and customers during the pandemic." She is now one of the strong new voices against tyranny in the Socialist Left Australian state of Victoria.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she doesn't believe former President Donald Trump is "man enough" to appear in front of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. "I don't think he's man enough to show up," Pelosi said during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC. "I don't think his lawyers will want him to show up because he has to testify under oath. But I don't think he'll show up. I don't think he's man enough. We'll see." [cut] But according to a source close to Trump, the former president "loves the idea of testifying" before...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper took a beating on social media for suggesting that no “national conversation” happened over the potential damage that school closures could have on children. During a segment of CNN Tonight on Friday, Tapper confessed to feeling “surprised” by the fact nobody discussed the lockdown damage on children, even though conservatives were rightly doing that in the early days of the pandemic. Tapper also further called for a “bipartisan movement” to address the educational crisis.

Want to reform the FBI? Here's What You Do on the First Day. 1. Remove FBI from their role as briefer and coordinator/facilitator of classified meetings and activities in the US Congress, and reassign this to federal officers attached to ONDI. - FBI has been using this role to monitor congressional activities and maintain awareness of all procedural and political actions occurring in the Congress, and has exploited its knowledge to develop countermeasures to any effort to reduce or degrade the FBI's power base. They maintain extensive insider relationships with members of congress and related staff who have been coopted...

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, co-chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, said the committee expects former President Donald Trump would testify behind closed doors if he complies with the committee’s subpoena, and said the committee wants to avoid turning Trump’s testimony into political theater. Cheney said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday she expects Trump will comply with a subpoena from the committee that called on the former President to testify and share select documents with investigators. Cheney said the committee plans to treat Trump’s testimony “with great seriousness.” “We are going to...

A video that was previously deleted on Twitter is making its way around the web. The video shows a man with a black Antifa helmet with tape on it that reads Trump. the man with the Trump helmet would start busing the windows of the Capitol, and in the background of the video you can hear Trump supporters shouting Antifa. Did you hear them start chanting Antifa? They even started to boo the Antifa operative. 100 Percent Fed Up broke the story and had these details to add: The male with a blue camo hat and large black backpack appears...

We’ve been reporting on Joe Biden’s inability to take being challenged since he started running for office in 2019. When anyone presents questions or facts that he doesn’t want to deal with, he has frequently lost it on people including cursing at voters and insulting reporters. Just in the past day, Biden has snapped at a reporter who dared to ask him whether his releasing 15 million more barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was a political move to help the Democrats in the election. Then when Fox’s Peter Doocy asked him about what was his top domestic priority —...

Three judges appointed by former President Donald Trump handed down an astonishing decision on Wednesday, effectively holding that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency charged with protecting consumers from a wide range of predatory activity by lenders and other financial services, is unconstitutional and must be stripped of its authority. The decision by the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit relies on a novel reading of an obscure provision of the Constitution, and is entirely at odds with a Supreme Court decision that rejects the Fifth Circuit’s reading of that provision. This is not...

First lady Jill Biden claimed in an interview that her son, Hunter Biden, is innocent of any crime. “Everybody and their brother has investigated Hunter,” she said in an interview with NBC News. “They keep at it, and at it, and at it. I know that Hunter is innocent.” Hunter is under federal investigation for tax crimes and lying on a federal form to purchase a gun. He will also face investigations of his foreign business deals if Republicans win majorities in Congress. But Jill Biden dismissed all of it.

Everywhere I go, people are mystified about President Joe Biden's economic agenda. So few of the policies comport with basic common sense that I’m asked the same question over and over: Is Biden intentionally trying to take a wrecking ball to the economy? Is this all part of some diabolical plan, the “great reset,” to end our system of free market capitalism and replace it with some form of big-government socialism? Biden keeps saying that he wants to be a historic president who will “transition” the country into a new worker’s paradise where no one uses fossil fuels or electricity...

Scoop: Biden admin officials are discussing whether US should subject some of @elonmusk ’s ventures to national security reviews, including his deal for Twitter Inc., and the Starlink satellite network, sources tell @SalehaMohsin and me. @BloombergTV

“Leading up to January 6, we were listening to the social media discourse,” Sullivan recalled, “and we set up the program to capture every viral event that took place on January 6 that pertained to the name ‘Trump.’ Think about that. ‘Trump’ is the most tweeted word on the planet, and whether they liked Trump or hated Trump, if their post included the word ‘Trump,’ we flagged it. We were listening to people who were trending. We were listening to people who were leaking things. We were listening to people who were seeding disinformation. What we discovered is that there...

The FBI Agents Association bills itself as “dedicated to advancing and safeguarding the careers, economic interests, conditions of employment and welfare of FBI agents and retired FBI agents.” Founded in 1981, the nonprofit boasts 14,000 members — including 90% of the current agent workforce — and once enjoyed almost universal appeal and respect among them. Once. With outrageous, political decisions by its board, it has sullied itself just as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith annihilated the top law-enforcement agency’s reputation during the 2016 Russiagate hoax. FBI executive management lauded on-duty agents who knelt before...

AT A MINUTE before 5 a.m. on April 27, ABC News’ James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word: “FACTS.” The network’s national-security investigative producer was responding to former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos’ take that the Ukrainian military — with assistance from the U.S. — was thriving against Russian forces. Polymeropoulos’ tweet — filled with acronyms indecipherable to the layperson, like “TTPs,” “UW,” and “EW” — was itself a reply to a missive from Washington Post Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe, who noted the wealth of information the U.S. military had gathered about Russian ops by observing their...

A recent New York Times poll found that 59% of those aged 45 to 64 plan on voting for Republicans in this coming midterm election.Republicans also have an advantage among likely voters – they hold a 49%-45% lead in the poll.

A $5 million interest-free loan the Biden family received from a Chinese energy conglomerate in 2017 should have been probed by the FBI as part of a possible “pay-to-play” plan, Sen. Chuck Grassley told top law enforcement officials last week. In an Oct. 13 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned whether the bureau is fully investigating corruption allegations against first son Hunter Biden and demanded a “full and unredacted FBI summary” of Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski’s October 2020 FBI interview. According to Grassley, Bobulinski told investigators...

The driver of former First Lady Michelle Obama, who is also a U.S. Secret Service employee, has been charged with witness intimidation and criminal harassment. According to a report filed by the Oak Bluffs Police Department last month, Douglas Vines, 53, was involved in a relationship with a woman which allegedly ended up with the latter’s harassment. The woman told police that she had been dating Vines for about two months when an uncomfortable situation came up one evening when Vines asked her to have sex with him, which she declined. The Secret Service employee is said to have gone...