The whore laughs after saying she'll join Biden 'if' he runs in 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris laughed off the question of whether
she will run with President Joe Biden if he seeks a second term.

CBS News journalist Robert Costa asked for Harris to share a
message for those on Capitol Hill who speculate Biden will not
run for reelection in 2024. Her response was curt and featured a
qualification that the vice president appeared to walk back
previously.

"Listen to President Biden. He intends to run," Harris said
during a Face the Nation interview that aired on Sunday. "And if
he does, I intend to run with him," she continued before
laughing.

KAMALA HARRIS REPEATS HER WORDS IN FUMBLED ANSWER TO INTERVIEW
QUESTION

"So there you go," Harris added.

Harris made headlines in late June, when she was asked on Air
Force Two whether Biden is definitely running, as he has stated
he plans to. “The president intends to run, and if he does, I
will be his ticket mate. We will run together," Harris told
reporters.

She quickly clarified to CNN that “Joe Biden is running for
reelection, and I will be his ticket mate. Full stop. That's it."

There are "whispers" among Democrats who are increasingly
anxious about Biden's leadership as his poll numbers plummet and
more concerns are raised about his age. Biden, 79, is already
the oldest man ever to be president.

Costa followed up by asking Harris if former President Donald
Trump running for the White House in 2024 makes it more likely
Biden also runs.

Her response: "He did it before. So I — you know, listen,
honestly, right now, let's focus on what we got to deal with
right now, because I know that's how the president is focused.
He's focused on doing everything that we've discussed, bringing
down the cost of gas, dealing with — seeing through what we need
to do around getting roads and bridges fixed in America,
focusing on what we have continued to do under his leadership,
which is to improve and strengthen the relationship the United
States has around the world. You know, I've traveled the world
as vice president, where, you know, I've been to Europe now, I
think at least three times in connection with a number of
issues, including Ukraine, and these leaders, foreign leaders,
will come up to me, and I think nearly three dozen meetings that
I've had. And first thing they say is 'Thank you, and thank
President Biden for what he has done to restore America's role
of leadership and partnership on the globe.'"

Costa tried one more time, asking, "So, all signs point to yes?"

Harris replied, "All signs point to good work having happened
but more work to get done."

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pushed back on criticism
of protesters gathering outside a Washington, D.C., restaurant
where Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was dining, arguing
that they were exercising their First Amendment rights.

Buttigieg said he had no problem with the protesters, as they
were "peaceful," noting that they were angry about the recent
Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

JUSTICE BRETT KAVANAUGH HARASSED BY PROTESTERS WHILING DINING IN
WASHINGTON

"When public officials go into public life, we should expect two
things. One, you should always be free from violence,
harassment, and intimidation. And two, you're never going to be
free from criticism or peaceful protests, people exercising
their rights," Buttigieg said during an appearance on Fox News
Sunday. "Protesters are upset because a right, an important
right that the majority of Americans support, was taken away."

Kavanaugh was dining at a restaurant in downtown D.C. last
Wednesday when he made a backdoor exit after a group of abortion
rights protesters was tipped off while the justice was eating
and showed up out front. The group reportedly never came into
contact with the justice, and he was able to finish his meal,
though he skipped out before dessert.

Kavanaugh was dining at the downtown D.C. location Morton's
Steakhouse. The chain later condemned the protest.

“Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other
patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly
protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant," a
Morton's representative said in a statement obtained by
Politico. "Politics, regardless of your side or views, should
not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and
eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing
the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and
void of decency.”

Buttigieg's husband, Chasten, responded to a post about the
incident on Friday, tweeting that it sounds like Kavanaugh "just
wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions."

During his interview on Sunday, Buttigieg insisted that he would
have no problem if the same situation had happened to him while
dining.

"I can't even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and
scenarios where I’ve been protested. And the bottom line is
this: Any public figure should always, always be free from
violence, intimidation, and harassment but should never be free
from criticism or people exercising their First Amendment
rights," Buttigieg said.

FAGS MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO! FAGS
MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO! FAGS MUST GO!

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Vice President Kamala Harris repeated her words and appeared to
struggle in providing a clear answer during a Friday interview
about Roe v. Wade.

Harris had been asked if former Democratic presidents and
members of Congress failed to codify Roe v. Wade "over the past
five decades" since the precedent was established, with Harris
giving a confusing answer in response, as seen in a CBS
interview.

"I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we
should have rightly believed what we certainly believe that
certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just
settled,” Harris said.

Robert Costa, the correspondent interviewing Harris, responded
to her answer and said the issues "clearly" weren't settled.
Harris agreed, adding that she believes the United States is
"living, sadly, in real unsettled times."

Harris had previously appeared to draw a connection between the
Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade to the legacy of
slavery on July 2. While speaking to a crowd in New Orleans, the
vice president argued that the high court's ruling in Dobbs v.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization served as an example of
America "trying to claim ownership over human bodies."

In the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the
Supreme Court voted in favor of Mississippi being able to
maintain its law banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.
Joining Justice Samuel Alito in favor of the ruling were
Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett
Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John Roberts.

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harris-repeats-words-interview-abortion

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The Army has announced that the over 60,000 National Guard and
Army Reserve soldiers that remain unvaccinated against COVID-19
can't participate in their military duties, effectively cutting
them off from some of their benefits.

"Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved
or pending exemption request are subject to adverse
administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and
official reprimands," an Army spokesperson said in a statement.
"In the future, Soldiers who continue to refuse the vaccination
order without an exemption may be subject to additional adverse
administrative action, including separation."

There are 40,000 National Guard and 22,000 Reserve soldiers who
haven't received the vaccine, making up 13% and 12% of their
ranks, respectively.

As of Jul 7, the Army had separated 1,299 active Army soldiers
based on vaccination status, but it had yet to separate anyone
in the Reserves or National Guard.

There were 7,767 temporary exemptions given in the National
Guard and 6,457 in the Reserves, according to Army data. Only
six permanent medical exemptions have been made nationally for
the National Guard, without any religious exemptions. Not a
single Reserve soldier has received a medical or religious
exemption. Over 3,200 have pending exemptions, and the new
protocol will not apply to them.

"We're going to give every soldier every opportunity to get
vaccinated and continue their military career," Director of the
Army Guard Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen said in a statement. "We're not
giving up on anybody until the separation paperwork is signed
and completed."

Meanwhile, the Reserves have only reached 73.6% of its
recruiting goal in the 2021 fiscal year. The National Guard
reached 80.6% of its 2021 goal and, so far, 48.1% of its 2022
goal.

However, unvaccinated soldiers are allowed to fulfill their
state active-duty orders, which are normally given by governors
during short-term emergencies.

The Army has 652,005 fully vaccinated soldiers and 261,578 who
are partially vaccinated.

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security/army-unvaccinated-guard-reserve-soldiers-pay-benefits-
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A member of the Jan. 6 committee indicated former White House
counsel Pat Cipollone was not directly asked to corroborate or
respond to Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony that he had advised
former President Donald Trump against going to the Capitol on
Jan. 6.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said on Sunday that Capitol riot
investigators do not call witnesses to "corroborate other
witnesses" but stressed that Cipollone provided testimony that
"does not dispute" what Hutchinson told the committee.

PAT CIPOLLONE TESTIFIES IN CLOSED-DOOR MEETING WITH JAN. 6
COMMITTEE

"We never call in witnesses to corroborate other witnesses or to
give their reaction to other witnesses," Lofgren said during an
interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. "I will say that he did
interview with us for eight hours and provide very insightful
information, and that augments and certainly does not dispute
Ms. Hutchinson's testimony."

Hutchinson, an aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark
Meadows, testified that Cipollone had told her on Jan. 6 that
they would be "charged with every crime imaginable" if Trump
went to the Capitol.

Lofgren, a member of the committee, added that excerpts of
Cipollone's testimony will be included in the panel's next
public hearing on Tuesday, though she declined to provide
additional information citing rules surrounding testimonies.

"He was able to provide information on basically all of the
critical issues that we are looking at, including the
president's, what I would call, dereliction of duty on the day
of Jan. 6," Lofgren said. "The committee rules don't allow us to
disclose the testimony without a vote of the committee. That
hasn't happened yet."

Cipollone met with the Jan. 6 committee on Friday after being
served with a subpoena. Cipollone did not remember making that
assertion to Hutchinson and was not asked about Hutchinson's
statement, sources told the New York Times.

However, Cipollone's testimony was "critical," as it reinforced
"key points regarding Donald Trump’s misconduct," which will
play a "central role in upcoming hearings," a spokesperson for
the Jan. 6 committee told CBS News.

"This includes information demonstrating Donald Trump’s supreme
dereliction of duty. The testimony also corroborated key
elements of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Allegations of some
pre-interview agreement to limit Cipollone’s testimony are
completely false," the spokesperson said.

The committee is slated to hold a hearing on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
ET.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/lofgren-jan-6-
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President Joe Biden spoke with the family of an American
wrongfully detained in Russia a day after there was an outcry
because he communicated with the family of another American
imprisoned there.

Biden spoke with Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA superstar
Brittney Griner, on Thursday following a significant public push
for such a call from the president, though the family of Paul
Whelan, an American who is serving a 16-year prison sentence for
allegedly being a U.S. spy, expressed frustration with what
Elizabeth Whelan, his sister, described as "uneven" treatment
for the families of Americans wrongfully detained abroad.

So, the president reached out to Whelan on Friday, she told the
Washington Examiner.

"As you can imagine, I was extremely surprised to suddenly get a
call from the president as I was walking down the street in [New
York City]! He showed a great deal of concern and empathy about
Paul's situation, and like Jake Sullivan had the day before,
reassured me that the [United States government] is doing all
they can to get Paul home," she said. "I have faith that this is
so, while also remembering that despite the best efforts at our
end, Russia still has a say in what happens going forward, as
they are the ones engaging in hostage-diplomacy."

"We hope that some reasonable agreement can be made to see both
Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner come home as soon as possible,"
Elizabeth Whelan said.

Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday in a Russian court where
she admitted to bringing two vaping cartridges filled with
hashish oil into the country. She was arrested on Feb. 17 and
has been detained since then. If convicted, she faces 10 years
in prison.

After the president spoke with Cherelle Griner, Whelan told the
Washington Examiner: "We can't expect that the president is
going to, you know, hand call and ... write letters to every
detainee, but if he decides to do it with one family, he needs
to do it with all, and this was my frustration."

A number of other family members of Americans wrongfully
detained abroad agreed with the sentiment on social media.

The U.S. and Russia agreed to a prisoner exchange in the spring,
though neither Whelan nor Griner was included. The Russians
agreed to give up Trevor Reed, a former Marine who had been held
for more than two years, for the return of Konstantin
Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison
sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle drugs.

A senior administration official said at the time that Reed’s
deteriorating “health was a source of an intense concern” for
Biden.

One possible scenario floated in Russian state media is that the
U.S. would swap Viktor Bout, a well-known arms dealer who was
given a 25-year prison sentence in 2011. Bout's lawyer told the
Washington Examiner earlier this week that he believes the
Kremlin would agree to swap Griner and Whelan for Bout.

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security/joe-biden-brittney-griner-paul-whelan-prison

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President Joe Biden is contending with a Democratic whispering
campaign, and some considerably louder protests, ahead of
November's midterm elections and expectations the party will
sustain severe losses at the polls.

But as Democrats express their frustrations over abortion access
and others position themselves for their future political
ambitions, the party is not working together to ease the pain it
is anticipated to experience in the fall.

Biden has not "risen to the occasion" after the Supreme Court
reversed abortion rights precedent Roe v. Wade, according to
Democratic strategist Stefan Hankin, whose comments echo the
concerns of Democrats quoted in numerous articles complaining
about the president.

"We definitively do not live in normal times," he told the
Washington Examiner. "The measured approach now comes across as
either uncaring and/or not meeting anyone where they are."

"If you're the head of the coalition, you want everyone in the
coalition to feel like they have a connection to what you're
saying," Hankin said. "His responses so far have been a
milquetoast."

At the same time, Hankin implored liberals lobbying Biden to
support far-left policies to, "like, stop" because a "big and
bold" agenda will not pass Congress, "certainly not this year."
Negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) over a compromise
social welfare and climate spending bill have notched progress
on drug costs and methane emission fees. Biden is additionally
considering forgiving $10,000 in federal student loan debt for
people earning less than $150,000 per annum.

"Please do not give me this s*** about whether we should move
left, or right, or center," Hankin said. "Anyone who's talking
about that needs to shut the f*** up, sit down, and start
talking about winning. We need to win."

One Democratic Senate aide defended Biden's record. He did
concede, though, that many Democrats are rankled "that they have
not been able to enact as much change as they had hoped."

"Democrats are displaying their usual level of internal
bickering and jockeying, but that pales in comparison to the
unifying anger that Democrats are feeling toward the Trump
Supreme Court," the staffer said.

Democratic political analyst Paul Henderson agreed. The lawyer
called for "at least" the exploration of federal abortion
legislation, a constitutional amendment, or court reform. He
urged Democrats, too, to "meet Republican maneuvering head-on
with some maneuvering of their own."

"I, myself, am incensed," Henderson said. "However, I believe
the key to effecting a positive outcome as a result of this is
to translate that passionate advocacy into action for the
upcoming midterms."

Why Democrats are discussing anything other than abortion is
"beyond" Hankin's "comprehension," according to the consultant,
because "women should not be second-class citizens."

"What are we going to say about the economy?" Hankin said.
"Inflation is happening around the world, whether the country
invested more money, or less money, or no money. There's a war
going on that is disrupting oil, grain, everything else. The
global supply chain needs to get back down to a level place for
prices to come down."

Yet Democratic campaigns preoccupied with abortion are
"shortsighted" based on the popularity of "some restrictions,"
according to Republican pollster Ed Goeas.

"They see it as a way to raise the intensity of their voters,
which is lower than Republicans at this point," he said. "But
all they've done is also stir the pot to keep the intensity even
higher amongst the Republicans. It is strategically a very
unsmart move on their part."

The White House has been repeatedly needled on Democratic
grumblings about Biden as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) launches TV
ads in Florida and his Illinois counterpart, Gov. J.B. Pritzker
(D), adopts a tougher anti-gun stance than the president after
the Highland Park shooting.

"The president understands what the American people are going
through," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters
Thursday. "We're doing everything that we can. We have a plan."

"The president is not done speaking on how he's going to
continue to fight for women's freedoms and women's rights," she
went on. "You will hear from him in a short order, in a short
order."

High-profile Democrats, such as actress Debra Messing, were
cited in a CNN article this week regarding a "fatalistic" phone
call the White House hosted after the Supreme Court's Roe
decision. The conversation captured the party's exasperation
with Biden concerning abortion.

"Messing said she'd gotten Joe Biden elected and wanted to know
why she was being asked to do anything at all, yelling that
there didn't even seem a point to voting," CNN reported.

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Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes has reportedly
offered to deliver public testimony to the House Jan. 6
committee.

A lawyer for Rhodes was adamant that his testimony be delivered
live, unedited, and carried by major TV networks, indicating
that Rhodes will respond to accusations the panel has been
making about the Oath Keepers's activities in the days
surrounding the Capitol riot, CBS reported.

“He wants to confront them,” Rhodes’s attorney James Bright told
Politico.

Rhodes is incarcerated and set to stand trial in a seditious
conspiracy case regarding his activity surrounding the events of
Jan. 6. The committee has long examined the Oath Keepers's
activities in the days that followed the 2020 election.

Rhodes has three stipulations to deliver testimony: that the
panel broadcast the full testimony live, let him appear in
person for the deposition in lieu of a remote appearance from
his jail cell, and allow his counsel to be present, per Politico.

If the panel accommodates those three requests, he is willing to
waive his Fifth Amendment privileges, his lawyer said.

The panel's public hearing on July 12 is expected to focus on
links between the Trump campaign and groups such as the Oath
Keepers. Bright said he does not expect an agreement to be
reached with the panel before the hearing on Tuesday.

The Oath Keepers is a loosely organized group largely composed
of former law enforcement and military personnel, according to
the Justice Department.

Earlier in the year, Rhodes reportedly gave private testimony to
the panel but largely invoked his Fifth Amendment rights to
shield himself from answering key questions.

The Washington Examiner reached out to a committee spokesperson
for comment. The committee has cited the Oath Keepers's
activities in the buildup to the riot as evidence that the
storming of the Capitol was not a "spontaneous" occurrence.

"Multiple members of two groups, the Oath Keepers and the Proud
Boys, have been charged with this crime for their involvement in
the events leading up to and on Jan. 6," Jan. 6 committee Vice
Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) said during its first public
hearing of the summer. "The attack on our Capitol was not a
spontaneous riot. Intelligence available before Jan. 6
identified plans to 'invade' the Capitol, 'occupy' the Capitol."

Associates of Rhodes had stockpiled weapons such as guns and
ammunition in a hotel in Arlington, Virginia, before the Capitol
riot, according to prosecutors. The group did not bring those
weapons into the Capitol building during the riot, but some
members had entered the building.

Although he is not accused of entering the Capitol building
during the riot, prosecutors allege Rhodes entered a restricted
area and helped coordinate a seditious conspiracy with his
fellow Oath Keepers prior to the riot.

Rhodes was arrested in January on seditious conspiracy charges
along with other members of the Oath Keepers.

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President Joe Biden is contending with a Democratic whispering
campaign, and some considerably louder protests, ahead of
November's midterm elections and expectations the party will
sustain severe losses at the polls.

But as Democrats express their frustrations over abortion access
and others position themselves for their future political
ambitions, the party is not working together to ease the pain it
is anticipated to experience in the fall.

Biden has not "risen to the occasion" after the Supreme Court
reversed abortion rights precedent Roe v. Wade, according to
Democratic strategist Stefan Hankin, whose comments echo the
concerns of Democrats quoted in numerous articles complaining
about the president.

"We definitively do not live in normal times," he told the
Washington Examiner. "The measured approach now comes across as
either uncaring and/or not meeting anyone where they are."

"If you're the head of the coalition, you want everyone in the
coalition to feel like they have a connection to what you're
saying," Hankin said. "His responses so far have been a
milquetoast."

At the same time, Hankin implored liberals lobbying Biden to
support far-left policies to, "like, stop" because a "big and
bold" agenda will not pass Congress, "certainly not this year."
Negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) over a compromise
social welfare and climate spending bill have notched progress
on drug costs and methane emission fees. Biden is additionally
considering forgiving $10,000 in federal student loan debt for
people earning less than $150,000 per annum.

"Please do not give me this s*** about whether we should move
left, or right, or center," Hankin said. "Anyone who's talking
about that needs to shut the f*** up, sit down, and start
talking about winning. We need to win."

One Democratic Senate aide defended Biden's record. He did
concede, though, that many Democrats are rankled "that they have
not been able to enact as much change as they had hoped."

"Democrats are displaying their usual level of internal
bickering and jockeying, but that pales in comparison to the
unifying anger that Democrats are feeling toward the Trump
Supreme Court," the staffer said.

Democratic political analyst Paul Henderson agreed. The lawyer
called for "at least" the exploration of federal abortion
legislation, a constitutional amendment, or court reform. He
urged Democrats, too, to "meet Republican maneuvering head-on
with some maneuvering of their own."

"I, myself, am incensed," Henderson said. "However, I believe
the key to effecting a positive outcome as a result of this is
to translate that passionate advocacy into action for the
upcoming midterms."

Why Democrats are discussing anything other than abortion is
"beyond" Hankin's "comprehension," according to the consultant,
because "women should not be second-class citizens."

"What are we going to say about the economy?" Hankin said.
"Inflation is happening around the world, whether the country
invested more money, or less money, or no money. There's a war
going on that is disrupting oil, grain, everything else. The
global supply chain needs to get back down to a level place for
prices to come down."

Yet Democratic campaigns preoccupied with abortion are
"shortsighted" based on the popularity of "some restrictions,"
according to Republican pollster Ed Goeas.

"They see it as a way to raise the intensity of their voters,
which is lower than Republicans at this point," he said. "But
all they've done is also stir the pot to keep the intensity even
higher amongst the Republicans. It is strategically a very
unsmart move on their part."

The White House has been repeatedly needled on Democratic
grumblings about Biden as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) launches TV
ads in Florida and his Illinois counterpart, Gov. J.B. Pritzker
(D), adopts a tougher anti-gun stance than the president after
the Highland Park shooting.

"The president understands what the American people are going
through," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters
Thursday. "We're doing everything that we can. We have a plan."

"The president is not done speaking on how he's going to
continue to fight for women's freedoms and women's rights," she
went on. "You will hear from him in a short order, in a short
order."

High-profile Democrats, such as actress Debra Messing, were
cited in a CNN article this week regarding a "fatalistic" phone
call the White House hosted after the Supreme Court's Roe
decision. The conversation captured the party's exasperation
with Biden concerning abortion.

"Messing said she'd gotten Joe Biden elected and wanted to know
why she was being asked to do anything at all, yelling that
there didn't even seem a point to voting," CNN reported.

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The Philadelphia Police Department released footage Friday that
showed a large group of teenagers using a traffic cone to beat a
72-year-old man to death.

James Lambert died after he was ambushed and savagely beaten
with a traffic cone at about 2:38 a.m. June 24, police said.

"The teens struck the victim several times with objects,
knocking the victim to the ground causing injuries to his head,"
according to police.

Steve Keeley
@KeeleyFox29
WATCH: 7 teens beat & killed a 72 year old man on Cecil B.
Moore Ave two weeks ago this morning. 3 girls & 4 boys, used a
traffic cone as a weapon. The man fell, hit his head &
@phillypolice say he died the day after the 2:38 am attack on
June 24th 1/2 ?@FOX29philly

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"The victim was transported to the hospital where he died of his
injuries the following day. The offenders are described as four
black males and three black females who appear to be in their
early to mid teens."

In the video published by the Philadelphia police, one of the
men can be seen running up behind Lambert and beating him over
the head with the cone while another man films.

A woman then picks up the cone and smashes it on the elderly
man's head.

Lambert manages to escape and run for a moment, but a woman
throws the cone at his back.

A $20,000 reward has been posted for help in catching those
responsible, police said.

Police identified Lambert as 72, but a local outlet identified
him as 73.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/teenagers-philadelphia-
traffic-cone-beat-man-to-death

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In recent weeks, the Supreme Court has issued a number of
landmark decisions considering critical issues such as the right
to life , religious liberty, immigration , and concealed carry
laws. These have all been contentious, hotly debated issues for
decades, but one ruling will have the ability to influence the
entire domestic energy industry, our economy, and our entire
system of governance. In West Virginia v. EPA, the justices
decided 6–3 to repeal an Obama-era rule allowing the EPA to
regulate carbon emissions for the entire energy industry.

Though it took a backseat in reporting in comparison to some of
the more nationally recognized cases, this case has far greater
implications than simply regulating our energy production. This
case sent a warning shot regarding the separation of powers
between a bureaucratic agency and elected officials who
represent the will of the people and are directly accountable to
them. In Congress, not acting should be as powerful of a signal
to the bureaucracy as taking an action. If a “Green New Deal”
member of Congress proposes but doesn’t pass a law, that doesn’t
give agencies the autonomy to create the same outcome by fiat.

For too long, the court deferred to the bureaucrats as “the
experts” under what is known as Chevron deference. That assumes
the administration's employees are neutral, when, in fact, they
are not. The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers have been
trying to rewrite the meaning of the Clean Water Act so that
water rolling down a 4-inch furrow is treated “like water coming
down a mini mountain range,” thus placing every puddle and farm
field under the government's thumb. While Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. was not overturned in
this case, the court has ruled that government agencies cannot
invent their own all-powerful authority out of 40-year-old laws.

The Biden administration has tried to argue that the Clean Air
Act gives the EPA “broad” powers that allow it to regulate the
energy industry sweepingly. Let’s be clear: In no way, shape, or
form does the Clean Air Act authorize the EPA to cap carbon
dioxide emissions in such a way that forces a nationwide
transition away from the largest energy-producing industry we
have. Those elected by the people to represent the will of the
people are the only ones who have the authority to determine
decisions of this economic and political magnitude — not
unelected bureaucrats.

In their decision, the court chose to protect the rights of the
people and the well-being of our Republic over the environmental
desires of a select few. Our federal government was established
with stringent rules of checks and balances. The court
recognized that too much lawmaking authority had been ceded to
the executive branch and aptly corrected course.

Last year, I signed on to an amicus brief in the Supreme Court
in support of the petitioners of this case, including the state
of West Virginia. In recent years, both Congress and state
legislatures have passed countless laws aimed at reducing
emissions from an array of industries. From 2019 to 2020 alone,
the United States decreased carbon emissions by 11%, and even
so, carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04% of the total atmosphere.
Technological advancements, free market economics, and a desire
to do better have made the U.S. a world leader in a variety of
safe, clean, and affordable energy — including coal and natural
gas.

Although many are trying to spin this decision as a deliberate
hindrance to the Biden administration’s climate policy, it’s
necessary to remember that the true question of this case
regarded unfettered expansion of the executive agencies'
authority. It’s the court’s duty to uphold the constitution’s
guarantee of separation of powers and three co-equal branches of
government. I thank the court for giving the executive branch a
civics lesson.

Doug LaMalfa represents California's 1st Congressional District
in the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-
justice/the-supreme-court-put-a-needed-check-on-executive-power

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Remember how the world, especially the American media, fawned
over former German Chancellor Angela Merkel?

The adoration was so over the top that in 2015 Time magazine
actually named Merkel its "Person of the Year." It described her
as the “Chancellor of the Free World.”

Time owes whatever readers it has left a solemn apology. Today,
Germans are suffering the bitter fruits of nearly every major
economic and geopolitical decision Merkel made as chancellor.

Start with the German economy that she attempted to reset for
the 21st century, which is reminiscent of how President Joe
Biden explains to inflation-weary voters that we are going
through “an incredible transition.”

But Merkel’s Germany was ahead of us in its “transition.” Today,
the German economy is in tatters. A recent headline from
Business Insider summarized the chaos: “German Industries Could
Collapse Due to Russia Natural Gas Supply Cutbacks.” The Daily
Telegraph recently described Germany as “the sick man of
Europe.” Things are getting so desperate that the Germans are
now considering rationing gas for their major industries to keep
the lights on.

How did one of the five wealthiest countries in the world so
quickly careen into this economic ditch?

It was Merkel's vision of a new Germany. Merkel was the one who
made the decision a decade ago to move Germany away from fossil
fuels and nuclear power and instead “go green.” Her green energy
crusade, which environmentalists heralded as a model for the
world, nearly bankrupted the German manufacturing economy until
the entire solar and wind energy debacle was scuttled. (Sadly,
Biden apparently never got that memo.)

It was Merkel’s decision, against the advice of then-President
Donald Trump, to build the Nord Stream pipeline. When Trump
sagely warned in 2018 that Germans would rue the day they became
overly reliant on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s energy,
Merkel’s administration openly scoffed.

Putin isn’t the only one getting rich from Merkel’s blunders.
She negotiated trade deals with China, blatantly undermining
Trump’s strategy of economically isolating the Beijing menace.
She chose to align Germany with rogue and militaristic regimes
in Russia, China, and Iran. This helped undermine NATO and
Germany’s post-World War II close ties with the United States.

She refused to pony up the 4% of GDP that Germany owed NATO for
Europe’s defenses, and she bristled when Trump demanded it.
Perhaps if the Germans and Europeans had heeded Trump’s advice,
the debacle of Ukraine wouldn’t have happened.

The American media, during all this time that Merkel was
steering Germany over a green energy cliff, took Merkel’s side
in her open dispute with Trump. Susan Glasser of the New Yorker
snorted in 2018 that Trump had “made war on Merkel and Europe”
and the NATO countries were “running out of patience with Trump.”

That statement is foolish today, given the collapse of the euro
and the economic downturn throughout the continent.

Even as an environmentalist, Europe’s savior was a flop. Merkel
hogtied German industries to expensive and unreliable
“renewable” energy by spurning natural gas and closing down
nuclear plants. The experiment failed miserably, and now Germany
is vastly increasing the share of its power that comes from
burning coal. That’s no strategy to stop climate change.

Under Merkel’s weak leadership, the euro was supposed to replace
the dollar as the world currency soon. Instead, the euro is a
currency in collapse. Even the Russian ruble is stronger.

Merkelism can be summarized as a strategy of patronizing enemies
and alienating allies. Now with 20/20 hindsight, it is clear
that the legacy of Merkelism is a chaotic world and a diminished
Germany.

It turns out that peace through weakness is a failed national
and economic security strategy. If Merkel was the “Chancellor of
the Free World,” why is it that today's world is not safer?

It is not cleaner.

It is not freer.

And it is not a more prosperous place.

In short, every major decision she made regarding global affairs
made the world more dangerous, less free, and less prosperous.
She was to Germany what Biden has been to the U.S. — a complete
and dismal failure.

Let’s hope we figure this out more quickly than the Germans did.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-angela-merkels-
green-agenda-caused-the-economic-collapse-of-germany

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First, it was his former boss, Barack Obama. Then, it was his
archenemy, former President Donald Trump.

Now, President Joe Biden’s steady, yearlong decline in voter
approval numbers has fallen so low that he has tied former
President Jimmy Carter’s all-time Gallup bottom and appears
headed to sink under former President Richard Nixon’s
resignation-day approval rating, the worst in decades.

While it’s just one poll, though from a liberal outfit, the
latest Civiqs approval rating for Biden is 29%, with 58%
disapproving, by far the worst poll yet for the president.

Biden’s sinking began in April 2021 and only saw a brief plateau
in March 2022 before continuing to fall.

Notably, the survey said just 62% of Democrats approve of Biden,
something to pay attention to as more liberals and liberal media
outlets start to question the president’s competency and ability
to win reelection.

The survey’s data tracks with a Rasmussen Reports survey
released last last week that showed just 65% of Democratic
voters approve of the liberal president. Rasmussen’s overall
approval rating was higher, at 37%.

The average Real Clear Politics approval rating for Biden is
38%, making Civiqs an outlier.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-
secrets/slidin-biden-approval-falls-below-
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An Oregon mom is challenging a state law requiring schools to
provide free tampons in all bathrooms, including men's.

The Oregon legislature passed the Menstrual Dignity Act in
August 2021, which required schools to ramp up the supply of
tampons for students in stages. Schools were first required to
provide free tampons in any two bathrooms of their choosing by
the end of the 2021-2022 school year, but they will be required
to provide the products in all bathrooms regardless of gender by
2023, according to Oregon Live.

Mother and Eagle Point School District board member Cherylene
Stritenberg petitioned the Oregon Department of Education to
roll back the law, arguing it wastes school funding.

The law passed through the state legislature with near-universal
support from both Republicans and Democrats.

OKLAHOMA FATHER FIGHTS BACK AGAINST TRANSGENDER BATHROOM RULE IN
DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL: PEOPLE ARE STANDING UP

"As we know, there’s a lot of our youth who don’t identify as
female or male or are transitioning genders," Oregon state Rep.
Ricki Ruiz, a Democrat, said of the bill. "We wanted to respect
that and make sure we provide these resources in all restrooms
for folks who may be struggling to transition to a different
restroom."

The legislation will cost the state roughly $5.6 million out of
its $9.3 billion education budget.

Stritenberg's petition argues that the state should strike the
requirement to provide tampons specifically in boy's bathrooms,
calling it a "misuse" of funds, according to OL.

The petition comes amid a wider push from parents against
Democratic attempts to impose transgender policies on the U.S.
education system.

The conservative parent advocacy group Fight for Schools has
also accused President Joe Biden's administration of holding
federal school lunch funds "hostage" in order to leverage gender
identity policies onto schools.

"What you're seeing here is really the Biden administration
saying ‘you're going to do what I want or I'm going to take your
lunch money,’" FFS Executive Director Ian Prior told Fox News in
June. "For the federal government to come in and really tie
school nutrition and school lunch programs to this radical
ideology is terrifying, and it's appalling."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-mom-challenges-state-law-
requiring-tampons-boys-bathrooms

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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon informed the
Jan. 6 committee that he is willing to testify after receiving a
letter from former President Donald Trump telling him he will
waive his executive privilege.

Bannon, who is set to go on trial for criminal contempt charges
later this month for defying a prior subpoena by the committee,
also indicated he would like to testify publicly, according to a
letter from his lawyer Bob Costello obtained by CNN.

"While Mr. Bannon has been steadfast in his convictions,
circumstances have now changed," Costello wrote. "Mr. Bannon is
willing to, and indeed prefers, to testify at your public
hearing."

In a letter to Bannon on Saturday, Trump said that he was
waiving executive privilege after seeing "how unfairly you and
others have been treated."

"When you first received the Subpoena to testify and provide
documents, I invoked Executive Privilege. However, I watched how
unfairly you and others have been treated, having to spend vast
amounts of money on legal fees, and all of the trauma you must
be going through for the love of your Country, and out of
respect for the Office of the President," Trump wrote, according
to the outlet.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), a member of the committee, acknowledged
that the panel had received the letter from Bannon's lawyer
around midnight but said the committee hasn't had "the chance to
discuss it."

Lofgren did, however, indicate that the committee would likely
seek a private deposition.

"Ordinarily, we do depositions. This goes on for hour after hour
after hour. We want to get all our questions answered. And you
can't do that in a live format,” Lofgren said.

Bannon is facing two contempt of Congress charges for failing to
comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee last year
after insisting that Trump's executive privilege claim barred
him from complying. Federal prosecutors have disputed the
argument, citing that Bannon was not a member of the Trump
administration at the time of the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.

Bannon's trial is slated to begin on July 18.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/steve-bannon-jan-6-
committee-testify-donald-trump

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This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden
tripping his way through a week of clashing headlines.

On the positive front, the White House received some good news
about jobs and pay. But Biden also hit a new low in polling. In
the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, he finally fell below
former President Donald Trump’s worst-ever approval rating.

Conservative grader Jed Babbin gave the week an “F,” listing the
president’s missteps of the week. Democratic pollster John Zogby
graded the week a “C” and highlighted the positive news on jobs.

Jed Babbin
Grade: F

It was another week of cheap melodrama from Biden and his team
with a variety of false or ridiculous statements, monumentally
foolish actions, and praise from people Biden wishes wouldn’t
praise him.

The most inexplicable news of the week was that Team Biden had
allowed at least 5 million barrels of oil from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve to be sold overseas. Biden broadcast his
draining of the SPR as a way to bring gasoline prices down. How
does sending the SPR oil to Italy, China, India, and the
Netherlands bring U.S. gas prices down? Well, duh, it doesn’t.

Then there is Vice President Kamala Harris's latest venture into
crafting risible word salads, one on the horrific shooting of
paradegoers in Highland Park, Illinois, and another on abortion
legislation. Fortunately for Harris, Biden and the rest of his
team made so many other laughable statements that hers was lost
in the shuffle.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continued to spin
but not as slickly as her predecessor. Talking about the
economy, she said, "I don't think it's that our plan is not
popular with the American people. We know that the American
people are feeling the high cost. We understand what they are
feeling, because, because when you look at inflation, when we
look at where we are economically, and we are in a strong, we
are stronger economically than we have been in history.” YGBSM.

Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, are planning on more
spending. They want to use the Senate’s budget reconciliation
process to spend another $500 billion on Obamacare subsidies,
the government “negotiation” of prices on prescription drugs,
and such. More government spending means higher inflation, as if
we aren’t suffering enough of it already.

Biden earned praise from China for his remark, "My message to
the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the
pump is simple: This is a time of war and global peril. Bring
down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost
you're paying for the product. And do it now.” That’s a nice
message for the mom-and-pop owners of many gas stations. China’s
government-controlled press were, within hours of Biden’s
remark, publishing comments praising Biden for finally
condemning the “exploitation” of capitalism.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the Biden
administration was doing a great job at the southern border,
while the United Nations said this week was the “deadliest
border crossing” in the world.

Meanwhile, the misnamed Justice Department is suing Arizona for
imposing a requirement of proof of citizenship to vote.

Biden promised governance by a return of “the adults,” but his
team is behaving like a bunch of drunken high-schoolers driving
stolen cars. Is it November yet?

John Zogby
Grade: C

Conflicting numbers tell the story of Biden this week.

There was very good economic news, with the unemployment rate
staying at 3.6% and wages rising at a 5.1% rate. The addition of
372,000 new jobs outperformed projections of around 200,000, and
the new jobs are being interpreted as an economy that may not be
headed into a severe recession.

While the president's job approval rating stayed under 40%, with
one poll showing 35%, his party's candidates going into November
may have received a boost from last week's Supreme Court
abortion and EPA rulings. New polling shows Democratic Senate
candidates increasing their leads in Georgia, Arizona, and
Nevada — and continuing to hold a big edge in Pennsylvania. In a
few instances, the congressional generic vote has actually
tightened up.

At the same time, negotiations between Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer and West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin continued in
earnest to salvage at least some of the president's "Build Back
Better" program (a.k.a. Build Back Something, Anything Before
November). Not sure where that will lead, but it is happening
and could be pivotal.

Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former
deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former
President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin

John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner
at John Zogby Strategies. His weekly podcast with son and
partner Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on Twitter
@ZogbyStrategies

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/white-
house-report-card-biden-stuck-in-neutral

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called for the
reinstatement of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, arguing that
certain semi-automatic firearms are "intentionally designed" to
kill people and only belong on the battlefield.

During an appearance on CBS News’ "Face the Nation," Harris
spoke about her visit last week to Highland Park, Illinois,
where a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire on a
Fourth of July parade, killing 7 and injuring 46.

"When you meet with first responders, when you meet with
families of these victims, you cannot avoid the reality of what
the impact of this gun violence is on a community," the vice
president said.

Harris said mass shootings keep happening across the country
"because those weapons are available, and we have to stop
allowing those weapons to be available to civilians living in
communities of people who have a right to believe that they are
not in a war zone."

We ARE in a war zone created by Democrats, you stupid cunt.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vp-harris-calls-assault-weapons-
ban-guns-designed-kill-people

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At least 19 people were killed, and eight others were injured in
a pair of shootings at two separate bars in South Africa late
Saturday night.

The first shooting took place at roughly midnight local time,
with gunmen targeting patrons at a bar in Johannesburg, killing
15 people and injuring an unknown number of others. The second
shooting saw two men enter a bar in Pietermaritzburg and
randomly open fire on patrons, killing at least four and
injuring eight.

"The primary investigation suggests that these people were
enjoying themselves here, in a licensed tavern operating within
the right hours," police commissioner Elias Mawela told the
Associated Press of the first shooting.

"All of a sudden they heard some gunshots, that is when people
tried to run out of the tavern. We don’t have the full details
at the moment of what is the motive, and why they were targeting
these people," he added. "You can see that a high caliber
firearm was used and it was shooting randomly. You can see that
every one of those people were struggling to get out of the
tavern."

Mawela went on to say the attackers used a 9mm pistol and rifles
in the first attack. It is unknown what weapons were used in the
Pietermaritzburg attack. The police commissioner for that region
said officials are working "around the clock" to find suspects.

The incidents come roughly two weeks after 22 teens were found
dead inside another bar in the coastal town of East London. The
teens showed no outward signs of injury, however, and
authorities turned to a toxicology lab to determine their cause
of death.

Initial reports suggested the teens may have died in a stampede,
but that was later ruled out. Authorities have yet to release
results from the toxicology lab.

Local media says the owner of the nightclub, who has yet to be
named, may soon face charges for serving alcohol to minors.

The deceased include at least nine girls and 12 boys. Police
discovered at least 17 of the teens dead when they arrived at
the nightclub at roughly 4 a.m. on June 26, while five others
later died at the hospital or on the way to the hospital.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/least-19-dead-pair-mass-shootings-
south-africa-police-confirm

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EXCLUSIVE — A copy of Hunter Biden's hard drive obtained by the
Washington Examiner is indisputably authentic, and there is no
evidence of any hacking or file manipulation, according to an
examination conducted by a former Secret Service agent who has
testified as a cyberforensics expert in over 100 classified,
criminal, and civil matters at the state, federal, and
international levels.

The Washington Examiner commissioned Konstantinos "Gus"
Dimitrelos to conduct a full forensic examination to determine
the drive's authenticity and whether there were any signs of
tampering. Using a technique he developed called "digital
sandwiching," Dimitrelos cross-referenced thousands of emails,
documents, business records, text messages, Apple Notes, photos,
geolocation data, travel records, and other information on the
drive to conclude that Biden is the only person capable of
producing the data.

"My analysis revealed there is a 100% certainty that Robert
Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on
this hard drive and all of its stored data," Dimitrelos said,
noting that his forensic techniques are reproducible and are the
same that he frequently uses as an expert when working on
criminal and civil cases.

"Hunter Biden's MacBook Pro was not hacked, and the data
contained on the hard drive is authentic," Dimitrelos added.
"Based on the data I examined, there was no manipulation of any
photographs, emails, documents, or other user activities."

ANDREW MCCARTHY: A MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE HUNTER BIDEN
LAPTOP SCANDAL

U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the federal prosecutor for Delaware
since being appointed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018, is
running a federal criminal investigation into the president's
son.

In February 2021, President Joe Biden asked all Senate-confirmed
U.S. attorneys appointed by Trump to resign, with Weiss in
Delaware as the only exception. John Durham was asked to step
down as the U.S. attorney for Connecticut but was kept on as
special counsel investigating the false Trump-Russia collusion
narrative.

Hunter Biden revealed he was under federal investigation for his
taxes shortly after the 2020 election and is reportedly being
scrutinized for possible money laundering and foreign lobbying
violations under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Dimitrelos's new forensic examination goes far beyond prior
efforts to authenticate the drive, such as the one commissioned
by the Washington Post, which relied mainly on email
verification using a technology called DomainKeys Identified
Mail, or DKIM.

"DKIM verification is only a portion of authenticating email
integrity," Dimitrelos said. "There were hundreds of unique
identifiers showing Robert Hunter Biden is the only user of the
laptop. There were also thousands of iPhone photographs and
videos taken by RHB including personal ones, RHB identification
cards, travel documents, credit cards, business and financial
transactions."

Hunter Biden took dozens of photos of his personal
identification cards, including driver's licenses, credit cards,
his birth certificate, social security card, and his Global
Entry card, and stored them on his computer. Metadata tied to
the photos show they were taken by the same model iPhones that
Hunter Biden had linked to his iCloud account, and emails on the
drive contain receipts from Apple showing Hunter Biden paid for
that same iCloud account on a monthly basis.

Credit Card 1.jpg
Pictures of Hunter Biden's personal identification cards located
on a copy of his laptop.
Records on the drive show Hunter Biden's iCloud account was
syncing his personal data with his MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad
when the computer was last used in March 2019. Other records
show Hunter Biden's Apple ID account, which is used to sign in
to all Apple services, has been associated with 46 different
devices since 2011, including over 20 iPhones, eight Mac
computers, nine iPads, and three Apple TVs, Dimitrelos said.

Credit Card 2.jpg
Pictures of Hunter Biden's credit cards located on a copy of his
laptop.

"Robert Hunter Biden received or sent hundreds of documents or
transactions which confirmed he was in control of the laptop
during the transactions," Dimitrelos said. "None of the emails
examined were fraudulent or altered and all are authentic and
drafted, sent, and received by RHB."

The MacBook Pro Hunter Biden used was released in 2017, meaning
all documents on the drive from before that date, including
those detailing his foreign business activities in Ukraine,
China, and elsewhere, were synced to the laptop via the cloud
either through his iCloud account or through one of the five
email accounts he connected to the computer, Dimitrelos said.

Dimitrelos also authenticated Hunter Biden's signatures on
numerous signed business documents located on the drive.

"While in the U.S. Secret Service, one of my core investigative
responsibilities was to examine signatures in fraud
investigations," he said. "I examined the signatures of Robert
Hunter Biden located on the MacBook Pro Hard Drive and
determined them to be authentic."

Hunter Signatures.jpg
Collage of Hunter Biden's signatures on documents located on a
copy of his hard drive.

One such event Dimitrelos pieced together using digital
sandwiching was Hunter Biden's stay at the Sixty Beverly Hills
Hotel on June 22, 2018, when he took 24 explicit photos with an
unknown woman.

Dimitrelos found the metadata attached to the photos, all of
which were on the drive, show they were taken with the same
iPhone X on the evening of June 22, 2018, at the same GPS
coordinates of the Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel.

Further linking Hunter Biden to the hotel on June 22, 2018, was
an email Wells Fargo sent to Hunter Biden's work account four
days earlier, on June 18, notifying him that the Sixty Beverly
Hills Hotel had just charged him $717.04. The email contained a
unique identifier from Wells Fargo confirming its authenticity,
Dimitrelos said.

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An Wells Fargo sent to Hunter Biden's work account on June 18
notifying him that the Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel had just
charged him $717.04.
Andrew Kerr

Text messages on the drive show Hunter Biden discussing his 25-
year history of banking with Wells Fargo.

Just a week later, on June 30, 2018, Hunter Biden took a selfie
in front of a mirror showing him holding the same iPhone X,
demonstrating his ownership of the device used to take the
photos at the Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel.

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Hunter Biden taking a selfie with his iPhone X on May 30, 2018.
Andrew Kerr

Data on the drive also show Hunter Biden's iPhone X used an IP
address consistent with AT&T, his cellular provider.

Putting all these data together proves Hunter Biden was at the
Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel on June 22, 2018, and is the person
responsible for taking the pictures found on the hard drive,
Dimitrelos said.

The hard drive also contains hundreds of personal notes written
by Hunter Biden, stored on Apple Notes and linked to his iCloud
backups. An extensive list of his contacts and logins and
passwords for his credit cards, bank accounts, and other
accounts are among the personally identifiable pieces of
information in the notes.

"The data contained within the notes are preserved and protected
within the iCloud backups and are not being shared with any
other persons," Dimitrelos said. "Data within the notes is also
unique to Robert Hunter Biden, which is another fact connecting
the Macbook Pro Laptop to Robert Hunter Biden and only him."

Also in the notes are email drafts discussing his business
dealings that were later emailed to his associates, records on
the drive show.

Dimitrelos found records on the drive indicating Hunter Biden
was having technical problems with his computer in the weeks
before leaving the computer at a Delaware computer repair shop.

On the computer's desktop folder were error, system, and driver
logs, the most recent generated on Feb. 2, 2019, pointing to a
Wi-Fi connectivity problem. Records on the drive show the last
time Hunter Biden used the laptop was on March 17, 2019, which
fits when he dropped the system off at the repair shop less than
a month later, on April 12, 2019.

One of the last records on the drive was a Venmo request Hunter
Biden received via email from "Tony Hawk," who was seeking
$12,000 from him for "furniture" on the evening of March 17,
2019.

Dimitrelos also found documents and emails accessed after Hunter
Biden abandoned the laptop in April 2019. On Sept. 1, 2020,
duplicates of 123 emails found elsewhere on the drive were
copied to a folder created on the desktop titled "Hunter Burisma
Emails." It's unclear who is responsible for creating the folder
and copying the emails.

"These emails are duplicates of emails located within the Robert
Hunter Biden Apple Mail application which have been
authenticated as being valid emails and forensically sound,"
Dimitrelos said.

Dimitrelos's analysis is a rebuke to claims the laptop and its
contents are inauthentic.

Despite offering no proof, the Biden campaign, along with many
in the media, dismissed the laptop story as Russian
disinformation. The president called the story a Russian
operation during one of the 2020 presidential debates.

He claimed: “There are 50 former national intelligence folks who
said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have
said this is, has all the — four, five former heads of the CIA.
Both parties say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”

The future president was referring to a report about the letter
in an article titled “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo,
dozens of former intel officials say.” The title was misleading
because the letter never directly called it Russian
“disinformation.”

The letter argued that “if we are right, this is Russia trying
to influence how Americans vote in this election” and expressed
“our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden
email issue.”

Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in
October 2020 that there was “no intelligence” to support the
laptop was Russian disinformation.

Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who is leading a team of 30
lawyers and investigators to probe how reporters and authorities
obtained copies of Hunter Biden's laptop, has produced no
evidence that any of the files on the drive have been altered,
CBS News reported on Friday.

Nicholas McQuaid, a former federal prosecutor, was appointed
acting chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division at
the start of the Biden administration. McQuaid had been a
partner at Latham & Watkins with Biden defense lawyer
Christopher Clark and worked on cases with him right until
McQuaid took the job at the Justice Department. McQuaid is now
listed as principal deputy assistant attorney general for the
division.

The Justice Department hinted in February 2021 that McQuaid may
have recused himself from the Hunter Biden case, but did not say
so directly, when it told the Washington Examiner that McQuaid
“is screened and recused from matters in which he has a
financial interest or a personal business relationship,
including matters involving his former law firm.”

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Attorney General Merrick Garland has said the president has not
interfered with the investigation and vows the Justice
Department won't improperly influence Weiss.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain said in April that "the
president is confident that his son didn’t break the law."

Clark deflected when asked substantive questions for this story.

"Why should I when you will provide me with nothing?" Clark
said. "You can quote me in saying your laptop is a fraud and the
fact your [sic] hiding it from verification simply proves that."

READ IN FULL: Redacted version of Dimitrelos's report on Hunter
Biden's hard drive

Download

https://www.scribd.com/document/575556723/Final-Hunter-Biden-
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-
bidens-laptop-is-100-authentic-forensic-examination-concludes

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The contents of Hunter Biden's iCloud account have allegedly
been hacked by users of the 4chan community, who posted
screenshots purported to be from his phone and computer on the
website's main political forum late Saturday night.

Administrators on the image board moved quickly in the hours
after the content was posted to pull down threads that included
materials from the alleged leak, leaving many on the site, which
is known for featuring some of the most salacious subject matter
on the internet, furious.

The content from the leak could not immediately be verified by
the Washington Examiner, and a White House representative did
not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was also not immediately clear if the contents of the 4chan
leak included any materials from the younger Biden's infamous
laptop, of which the Washington Examiner verified the
authenticity earlier this year. The infamous laptop, which
emerged into the public view in the final weeks of the 2020
election, contains details about the first son's financial
dealings and personal matters.

Hunter Biden's financial affairs, including millions of dollars
worth of dealings and money transfers tied to countries such as
Ukraine, China, and Russia, have been under federal scrutiny
since 2018. Hunter Biden, who revealed the existence of an
inquiry into his tax affairs just after the 2020 election,
previously claimed to be "100% certain" he will be cleared of
wrongdoing.

The Washington Examiner was able to confirm the legitimacy of
the laptop after obtaining a copy of the hard drive and having
it examined by a former Secret Service agent who has testified
as a cyber forensics expert in over 100 classified, criminal,
and civil matters at the state, federal, and international
levels.

Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos conducted a full forensic
examination to determine the drive's authenticity and whether
there were any signs of tampering. Using a technique he
developed called "digital sandwiching," Dimitrelos cross-
referenced thousands of emails, documents, business records,
text messages, Apple Notes, photos, geolocation data, travel
records, and other information on the drive to conclude that
Biden is the only person capable of producing the data.

"My analysis revealed there is a 100% certainty that Robert
Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on
this hard drive and all of its stored data," Dimitrelos told the
Washington Examiner in May. "Hunter Biden's MacBook Pro was not
hacked, and the data contained on the hard drive is authentic.
Based on the data I examined, there was no manipulation of any
photographs, emails, documents, or other user activities."

Records on the drive reviewed by Dimitrelos show Hunter Biden's
iCloud account was syncing his personal data with his MacBook
Pro, iPhone, and iPad when the computer was last used in March
2019. Other records show Hunter Biden's Apple ID account, which
is used to sign in to all Apple services, has been associated
with 46 different devices since 2011, including over 20 iPhones,
eight Mac computers, nine iPads, and three Apple TVs, Dimitrelos
said.

It is not clear if this latest leak, supposedly of the younger
Biden's iCloud, is from the same account connected to the hard
drive that was verified by the Washington Examiner.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4chan-hunter-
biden-icloud-hack

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Fuck you too, Rudy.

President Joe Biden's poll numbers augur poorly for November's
midterm elections, particularly when compared to former
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

But pollsters speculate Biden's political fortunes could improve
post-midterm cycle, at least according to trends set by his
predecessors.

Past presidents have seen some rise in their approval ratings
before their reelections, though not before their first midterm
cycle, according to Marquette Law School's poll director,
Charles Franklin. Obama, as well as former Presidents George W.
Bush and Richard Nixon, are recent examples.

By contrast, Clinton and former President Ronald Reagan
experienced an approval bounce almost immediately after their
first midterm cycle, Franklin said. Donald Trump, George H.W.
Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford did not.

"So if a recovery is possible, it is likely more than a year
away," Franklin told the Washington Examiner.

Suffolk University Political Research Center Director David
Paleologos predicted the historic pendulum swing against in-
power Democrats will be "more pronounced" before then "as the
economy continues to falter over the next three months."

Biden's current average approval is 39%, while his average
disapproval is 56%, according to FiveThirtyEight. At the
corresponding point in Obama's and Clinton's terms, Obama's
approval was 47% and Clinton's was 46%. Democrats went on to
lose 63 House seats in 2010 and 54 in 1994. Interestingly,
Trump's approval was 42% this time in 2018, and Democrats gained
41 seats for that next Congress.

A Cook Political Report House analysis considers there to be 25
Democratic and eight Republican toss-up campaigns, as well as 11
lean-Republican races, seven of which have Democratic
incumbents. It finds another 12 likely Republican contests,
three seats of which are occupied by Democrats. It also assesses
there to be three Senate toss-up bids, including those of Sens.
Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Catherine Cortez
Masto (D-NV).

Paleologos described Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District,
a previously "safe" Democratic seat that is now deemed a toss-
up, as "the canary in the coal mine."

"The likely Republican nominee beat every possible Democrat by
between 6 and 14 points," Paleologos said of a Suffolk
University poll he conducted in June. "If 'safe seats' like this
are in jeopardy for Democrats, 'toss-ups' will fare much worse."

"In that poll, 6 in 10 Rhode islanders revealed that they are
driving less, eating out less often, and cutting back spending
on clothes," he added. "Among those making [less than] $50,000
per year, these findings were around 10 points higher."

Suffolk University's Rhode Island poll is echoed nationally by a
Monmouth University survey fielded last week. More than 4 in 10
people told pollsters they are struggling to maintain their
financial standing, with a third citing inflation as their No. 1
concern, followed by 15% who listed gas prices. A majority
additionally complained the federal government had hurt their
families during the past six months regarding their policy
priority and that Biden's agenda has not buoyed the middle class.

For Paleologos, Obama and Clinton were boosted by "rebranding"
and having other names on their reelection campaign ballots.

"In the case of Clinton, he benefited from the presence of
independent Ross Perot, who garnered substantial support such
that Clinton could win states with 45%-47% of the vote," he
said. "In Obama's reelection try, Hurricane Sandy in October
helped Obama seal doubters with his genuine leadership. And
Republican Mitt Romney was an awful candidate who got crushed by
Hispanic voters, and some conservatives weren't motivated to
vote for him."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been needled
about Democrats attempting to assert their dominance on abortion
access and gun reform amid frustration with Biden's own
responses.

"The president has been also very loud and also very focused on
those two issues," she told reporters Wednesday en route to
Ohio. "Now, with all of that said, the president believes there
is more work to be done. ... He welcomes other voices in the
Democratic Party, and he welcomes other voices in the Republican
Party as well, to join him."

Jean-Pierre reiterated the day prior that Democrats, if
dissatisfied, should vote in November so the party can maintain
its majorities.

"This is a president that has been working tirelessly, day in
and day out, since he's walked into this administration,
fighting for the American public," she said, referring to
executive and legislative action. "That is what matters to him.
That is what is important — is delivering every way that he can
to make sure that we get things done."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/obama-
clinton-biden-polling-midterms

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Saule Omarova, whom President Joe Biden picked to regulate the
banking industry, opened a new front in the relentless campaign
of woke capital last May. Speaking about oil and gas companies,
she stated that “the way we basically get rid of those carbon
financiers is we starve them of their sources of capital."

Omarova’s threat to weaponize banking rules against traditional
energy companies wasn’t just talk. It was the most public
admission yet of a behind-the-scenes strategy growing in power
on the Left. An alliance of green activists, big business, and
woke culture warriors have begun pushing for environmental,
social, and governance regulations, with the ultimate goal of
using state power to crush and defund companies and individuals
that don’t bend the knee to the current regime’s political will.

These unholy allies know their policies are bad for voters and
customers alike and can never win in a free market or at the
ballot box. So they are turning to the long arm of the state to
implement far-left, corporatist policies under the guise of ESG.
If their campaign succeeds, it could wreak havoc on the rest of
the economy and American culture — that’s why it’s fast becoming
a top concern at the federal, regulatory, and state levels for
both grassroots activists and elected leaders.

For proof of the damage the ESG agenda is already doing, just
look at the current gas crisis. Perhaps this is the one promise
Biden kept from his campaign — to destroy the fossil fuel
industry no matter the consequence. People have watched as this
administration has shuttered pipelines, denied permits, and cut
off development bank financing for oil and gas — all in line
with the so-called ESG agenda.

Woke corporations are joining in as well. Traditional fuel
companies are finding it more and more difficult to secure
capital , loans, insurance, and other private backing as they
face prejudice and discrimination by progressive elites who
advocate investing based on ESG scores with no regard for their
workers and customers. Between the regulatory and access assault
from Biden and the funding assault from Wall Street, we have all
no doubt felt the financial impact at the pump.

Biden’s ESG-influenced actions don’t stop with energy. Biden’s
foot soldier in this effort is Gary Gensler, head of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, who is trying to force
companies to “disclose” ESG information to investors. Not only
is this an overstep of the SEC’s authority, but it also allows
partisans and unelected bureaucrats to penalize political
opponents and weaponize businesses against the people.

Take Tesla. Following Elon Musk’s public stance on free speech
and efforts to purchase Twitter, his “electric cars, solar, and
clean energy” company was excluded from the ESG index . With
some hedge funds now selectively investing billions into ESG-
friendly, i.e. woke, companies, the ramifications of these ESG
reports are massive.

With ESG, demonizing and penalizing the fossil fuel industry and
those who do business with it takes precedence over fiduciary
responsibility. But these activists aren’t just using private
citizens’ 401(k)s; they’re using taxpayer dollars and state
pensions to bankroll their radical agenda. That’s why more and
more states are starting to fight back against the destructive,
unprofitable ESG cartel.

State legislatures and treasurers are right to stand up to this
brazen and hostile movement that threatens their citizens, jobs,
and the economies of their states. Just last month, Tennessee
and Oklahoma joined states such as Texas, North Dakota, Idaho,
West Virginia, and Alaska that have passed legislation
prohibiting or restricting state contracts and investments with
anti-energy financial institutions and companies.

Traditional energy sources remain the most reliable, affordable,
and abundant energy sources and are vital to our nation’s and
many states’ economies. Millions of people work in the industry,
and everyone relies on the energy produced with fossil fuels.
Nonetheless, the aggressive anti-American energy agenda pushed
by the Biden administration and woke elites willfully ignores
both the benefits of these natural resources and the steps
energy companies take to be good stewards of the environment.

Billions of taxpayer dollars are entrusted to banks and
financial institutions. States are right to refuse to subsidize
an anti-American and anti-free market political movement.

As the Biden administration presses ahead with its woke war on
energy and investors, it’s up to the states to fight back
against woke capital and its allies in the administration.
Tennessee and Oklahoma join Texas, Kentucky, and West Virginia
as states leading the way to block the all-out assault on
energy. The fight continues to stop ESG in its tracks wherever
it seeks a foothold. It’s time for states across the nation to
join them.

Jessica Anderson is the executive director of Heritage Action
for America.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-
freedom-self-reliance/bidens-woke-attack-on-energy

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Juuls were the most popular brand of e-cigarettes for both
teenagers and adults until the Food and Drug Administration
stepped in.

The FDA’s ban is being blocked by the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit, but the administration is
ramping up its war on nicotine and tobacco. Cigarettes are also
targets of President Joe Biden’s FDA, with a proposed slash in
nicotine levels. If the Biden administration gets its way, Juuls
will be banned and you'll have to smoke more cigarettes to get
the same nicotine fix.

E-cigarettes may lead to the inhaling of trace metals that are
vaporized in the metal coils, and the FDA is concerned about
teenagers using Juul’s product.

However, Biden is supportive of non-nicotine alternatives. If
you're looking for a new way to get relief from high gas prices
and a rising cost of living, you can find solace in an
alternative to nicotine that utilizes a glass-based delivery
system — that is, crack! Yes, crack pipes are available in “safe-
smoking kits” subsidized by the Biden administration. They can
be found at your local harm-reduction organization. Given that
the federal government is subsidizing the distribution of crack
pipes, perhaps you should consider trading your e-cigarette
habit for hard drugs.

The latest push against Juuls and cigarettes is the latest
example of backward thinking by the public health bureaucracy.
To be sure, one small part of the decision is supported by
empirical data. An Oregon State University study, backed by a
National Institutes of Health grant, found that reduced-nicotine
cigarettes resulted in milder withdrawal symptoms and made it
easier for smokers to quit.

Perhaps the reduction of nicotine levels in cigarettes can be
seen as a good-faith attempt to improve public health, even if
it is likely to cause smokers to smoke more. But does that
excuse the Juul ban? The FDA claims its decision is rooted in
safety concerns, but it recently authorized 23 other e-cigarette
products to be sold on the market. Vuse, a major competitor to
Juul, received permission to sell three products. So if the goal
was to reduce teenage vaping, the FDA doesn't seem to be acting
in a very consistent manner.

E-cigarettes, which anti-tobacco advocacy groups recognize as an
important tool for quitting, should remain on the market if the
FDA is truly serious about public health. Yet from destructive
COVID-19 lockdowns to crack pipe distribution, government
bureaucrats keep miscalculating in their public health policies.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hard-drugs-stay-while-
juuls-move-on-out

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Two Asian-American voters ripped leftist policies on "Fox &
Friends Weekend" Sunday, telling host Rachel Campos-Duffy they
are "absolutely furious" with the direction of the economy and
country. One voter, a Chinese immigrant, also expressed concerns
over radical gender ideology and discriminatory admissions
practices exercised at schools across the nation.

XI VAN FLEET: First, the Asians realize that Democrats are not
their friends because they see their children being
discriminated against for elite high school and college
admission in the name of equity sponsored by the Democratic
Party. Secondly, most of the Asian parents are culturally
conservative. They are not on board with the radical gender
ideology being taught in school by the Democrats. Thirdly, that
Asians realize that the Democrat Party will remain silent about
skyrocketing violent crimes against Asians…

ELIZABETH HENG: I think Asian-Americans are absolutely furious
at what is happening with our economy, not just Asian Americans,
but I think Americans as a whole. When we look at, as you
mentioned, a lot of Asian-Americans are small business owners.
During the pandemic, many of them felt that they were attacked
and their businesses were being destroyed unnecessarily. Asian-
Americans are such a big proponent of freedoms and focusing on
the values that this country has given to many of the immigrants
that have come here as first, second, third generations. When
you see bad policies coming out of California and out of
Washington, D.C. with President Biden, that is destroying the
fundamentals that has allowed their families, their children to
succeed. They are coming out in mass, they're going to vote, and
they're going to help flip this election so that we can bring
sanity back to California, back to this country, and get our
economy and our livelihoods going again.

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW

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