In July of 2023, a uniformed Secret Service agent found a bag of cocaine in the White House. Now we don't, to this day, know who the cocaine belonged to - we may very well speculate, for instance, about a certain member of the Biden family known to have substance abuse problems, but there has been no release of evidence as to whom the drug belonged to or how it came to be in the White House.

Now we learn that the former Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned in disgrace following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, conspired to eliminate any evidence that the White House cocaine existed at all. //

It's unfortunate that Kimberly Cheatle only has one resignment in disgrace to give for her country. It's difficult, if not impossible, to see this as anything short of a partisan effort on the part of senior Secret Service officials to conceal evidence of a crime. If this is the case, it's an unforgivable act and one that should result in criminal penalties. //

anon-7iuo
10 hours ago
While Cheatle only had but one resignation to give, Rowe and the other three rotten USSS leaders, as per the USSSwhistleblower, are still eligible to give theirs.

ConservativeInMinnesota GBenton
6 hours ago
The Biden administration wasted trillions of dollars on puffery like DEI, pronouns and the green new deal. The result was the worst inflation in US history using historic metrics.

You're telling me that the one area the Biden administration didn't want to spend money was Trump's Secret Service protection? Yeah, I can believe that. //

Clare Boothe Lucid
7 hours ago
Consider this: If Trump had not run this time, the SS would have needed to protect some Republican nominee as well as protecting Trump as a former president, so the SS would have needed two security details. They should gave been able to afford to provide both those SS details to Trump. //

TexasVeteran
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"We're not going to burn through our budget — all the extra overtime, all the extra travel, all these extra agents and resources — so that Trump can have all of these rallies every week,'"

I don’t see a problem here. Think of all the money they must be saving with both Biden and Harris hiding in the White House basement!😂

According to a new report, Biden was "emotional" and began yelling as he insisted that Netanyahu somehow secure a ceasefire with a terrorist government that keeps rejecting every ceasefire proposal. //

If you're good at math, you've probably already realized that "a week to two weeks" just so happens to be days before the Democratic National Convention is set to take place. Why does that matter? Because for the better part of a year, the expectation has been that left-wing Hamas supporters will protest and commit acts of violence at the event. //

In other words, the President of the United States is demanding an American ally surrender to terrorists for political gain. That's a wild development that would be a bona fide scandal if it involved a Republican. //

As to the current threat from Iran, Biden went so far as to tell Netanyahu the United States will not help Israel defeat an attack if another "escalation" occurs. Keep in mind that the prior "escalation" was the killing of Hamas' top political leader and a wanted Hezbollah terrorist who had an American-placed bounty on his head. Apparently, that was unacceptable to the president. //

anon-bdx1
6 hours ago
So Brandon is using the threat of withholding support in exchange for something that benefits him politically? Gee where have I heard that before?

Gov. Gavin Newsom—endorsed for his 2018 election bid by then-Sen. Kamala Harris, who said at the time, “What we do here is role model of what can be done around the country”—is a centerpiece of the story. //

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👏👏👏 CONGRATULATIONS to @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom !!

With today’s announcement that @Chevron, 2nd biggest energy company, is relocating its headquarters from CA to Texas, you’ve reaffirmed how CA is “a model for the nation” — a model for economic devastation.

Thanks to you &… Show more
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This is the “model for the nation” that Newsom and Harris want to bring to every state. We can’t let that happen.

According to Harris' spokesperson, guess who's somehow responsible for their bad jobs report?

"Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession," Harris for President spokesperson James Singer said in a statement. //

Ultimately, it always comes down to the economy and Harris just gave a sure-fire reason why you should not vote for her, when she refuses to take responsibility for the administration's own actions. //

WackAMole
6 hours ago
She’s just using the Joe B playbook, lie and assume that the media will agree and the public is stupid.

Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb once wrote, “What was once stigmatized as deviant behavior is now tolerated and even sanctioned; what was once regarded as abnormal has been normalized .… As deviancy is normalized, so what was once normal becomes deviant. The kind of family that has been regarded for centuries as natural and moral — the ‘bourgeois’ family as it is invidiously called — is now seen as pathological.”

The Democrats are taking a bet that Americans are far more willing to embrace men who think they are women and men who dress as dogs to have sex than a veteran married to an Indian woman with mixed-race kids who thinks perpetuating humanity and the nation is a good thing.

It is the logical end of deviancy becoming normal. When Democrats think J.D. Vance is weird and Rachel Levine is not, we reach a tipping point in the direction of the nation.

For the next 100 days, every conservative should focus on the Word-Salad Queen and her defense of Biden. The focus must be on her and her full-throated covering for Biden. She claimed that Biden was brilliant. She claimed he ran circles around staff and policy wonks. That was a pernicious lie. She knew that Biden was a cognitive mess. She admits that she met with Biden on an almost daily basis. She hid the undeniable, inescapable fact that Joe Biden was a shell of himself even four years ago. She hid his decline for political profit at the expense of the country. She lied. Repeatedly.

Next, conservatives must repeat her policy positions. Her policy positions are not moderate, they are a leftist’s wet dream. Harris is not a moderate. She never has been. She is Bernie Sanders in a pantsuit and not nearly as adept at presentation as Bernie.

And, finally, Kamala Harris is a deer in the headlights without a teleprompter. She will implode when she tries to defend Biden’s record and her own positions. Harris is sentient, but she is stunningly bad at public speaking. Her word salads are albatrosses around her shoulders. //

It’s been often stated that whoever is the focus this November, that person will lose. Biden's administration was a trainwreck. Let that be the talking point. //

Lugger66
7 hours ago edited
Offense all day. Take any interview and as soon as they ask their ridiculous question. Pivot and attack Kamala. Accuse her of the worst economy ever. The worst treatment of women ever. The worst treatment of muslims blacks and gays . The worst treatment of kids. Blame her directly for the stabbingdeath of nutiple girls. Dont worry about details/facts. Let them play defense and when they do ask them why. Every repub needs the memo. You dont go on shows to answer ridiculous premises only to attack. //

surfcat50 Billy Wallace
3 hours ago edited
Inflation was 1.4% in January 2021 when Joe Biden took office.

What’s hilarious is you just admitted you’re making it all up. If you can make all the inflation claims you have, shouldn’t you know all those numbers?

You want to do spending, moron? OK, let me point you to more facts.

From 1 January 2021 through 31 December 2023 the Biden cabal spent $19.23T. From 1 January 2017 through 31 December 2020, the Trump administration spent $19.09T. That means Biden spent more money in three years than Trump spent in FOUR YEARS!

By the way, the Biden administration started their spending binge in March 2021 with the American Rescue Act, following that in August 2021 with the Infrastructure Bill, and continuing with the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.

Here’s where I do what you never do; I provide a source reference. I’ve told you before that every time you try to lie about an objective fact, you prove you’re a lying moron. 🤡

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_government_spending

Providing a reminder of that was an incredibly bizarre and concerning scene on Monday. Standing on an airport tarmac next to Air Force One, Biden was asked about his newly proposed Supreme Court "reforms" being "dead on arrival" in the House of Representatives. The president then quipped, "That's what he is," referring to Speaker Mike Johnson. When pressed for clarification, he doubled down, saying, "He is dead on arrival." //

chaz Truth Seeker First
4 hours ago
Given the mental fog of dementia and reversion to childlike outbursts, I sort of (mis)understood it as someone with no intelligent counter saying the equivalent of "well so are you".

But a) it is not impossible that another Crooks/someone takes it as marching orders and acts. And b) it clearly illustrates the unfitness for office of Mr. Brandon. //

Ribs_of_Rock
5 hours ago
They’re not bothering with the drug cocktails anymore. He’s going to be completely off the rails from now on. The doctors who were treating him in DE every weekend probably told the party he can’t survive anymore of their speedballs and the party said, “f— Joe, he’s served his purpose.”

The plan has three components:

1) The No One Is Above the Law constitutional amendment (lol) prohibiting criminal immunity for ex-presidents.

2) Supreme Court term limits that permit each president to appoint a justice every two years for an 18-year term.

3) Supreme Court Code of Conduct.

The first item is just a sop thrown to Biden's supporters to act as a soothing balm for their raging case of butthurt over being unable to put Trump in prison. //

As with the rest of this "reform," it is a monumentally unserious proposal. There is no national outcry to make this happen, and there aren't the votes in the House and Senate to pass it even if Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson decide to take it seriously. //

NightTwister
29 minutes ago
I always say the same thing when anyone proposes a constitutional amendment: "Name the 38 states." //

Watch-tower
an hour ago edited
Net worth of the top 10 richest people in Congress (meaning 525 people are not listed): 2,059,900,000.
That's right, just 10 people; over 2 BILLION Dollars.

Net worth of all 9 Supreme Court Justices: 64,000,000.
Yep 64 million dollars divided by 9 people. Chief Justice Roberts accounts for 40% of that total.

We are more in need of reform in Congress than the Supreme Court. //

mopani Corn Pop 2 minutes ago

This does not come from Joe Biden, this comes from the Democrat Deep-State, gaslighting popular opinion on the structure of the Federal Government by treating SCOTUS as an inferior court, as if SCOTUS is subject to Congress.

It may be an unserious proposal, but it is another chip at the foundations of our Constitutional Republic, and as such deserves to be dealt with seriously.

I want to see it debated and destroyed on the House floor. A serious debate on the Senate floor would help too. It needs sunlight and to be dealt a death-blow.

Congress must defend SCOTUS as a co-equal branch so that SCOTUS can continue to do likewise. Failure to do so will ultimately result in an Imperial Executive.

These type of attacks should not be dismissed as unserious. They need to be curb-stomped as the destructive attacks that they are. Failure to deal with them in a serious way will allow them to be used as attack fodder against Republican or conservative candidates who want to preserve our Constitutional Republic.

Venezuela’s national Electoral Council announced late Sunday night that Dictator President Nicolás Maduro received 51% of the vote to win reelection.

Edmundo González, Maduro’s opposition, supposedly only got 44% of the votes despite leading Maduro by 25% in the polls.

Once again, the Biden administration looks weak because it made numerous concessions to Venezuela if it promised to hold free and fair elections.

I mean, imagine even THINKING a dictator would ever consider holding an election that could get him kicked out. Precious.

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The Biden-Harris administration brilliantly bent the knee to Venezuela’s dictator in exchange for a “promise” of “free and fair elections.”

Today, Maduro stole the election.

The worst foreign policy minds in American history have struck again.
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During President Joe Biden’s address to the nation about his withdrawal from running for re-election this week, he claimed one of his foreign policy accomplishments was that China’s economy was no longer on pace to surpass the U.S. economy. The truth is the Biden administration’s China policy has been a failure and China’s economic decline has been self-inflicted.

Many people have been conditioned to think China would soon surpass the United States as the world’s dominant economic power. But that scenario seems less likely now due to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s economic policies.

Deeply suspicious of entrepreneurs and economic reform, Xi has deliberately forced China back toward the socialist economic model envisioned by Mao by placing the Chinese Communist Party and himself in the driver’s seat and managing China’s economy through central planning. Xi also prioritizes national security over economic growth and values loyalty to him over competency.

‘The public deserves answers for how this Executive Order is being implemented, particularly as VP Harris becomes the new nominee,’ Rep. Bryan Steil said. //

President Joe Biden may have left the presidential race, but “Bidenbucks” lives on.

And you can bet your federal tax bill that the Biden administration will be revving up the taxpayer-funded, get-out-the-vote machine for not-so-accidental candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I think they definitely will,” Hans von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission and manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told me in an interview this week. “I think what they’re doing is an unlawful use of federal taxpayer dollars, and I don’t think any president has the right to do it.”

Documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project expose federal agencies working with left-wing activist groups in targeting traditionally Democrat voters to cast mail-in ballots for Biden’s No. 2 in November’s election. And there appears no slowdown in the constitutionally suspect initiative now that Biden has withdrawn from his reelection run and endorsed his leftist lieutenant.

Dem Rep. said FEC chair’s presentation of federal law might “sow misguided doubt and confusion about the state of the presidential election.” //

The Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday challenging the transfer of funds and reportedly calling it “the largest campaign finance violation in American history.”

In the complaint, Trump campaign General Counsel David Warrington reportedly contended that the $91.5 million in campaign funds originally raised by Biden’s presidential campaign cannot be transferred to Harris, who has yet to be named the official Democrat nominee.

Biden and Harris are “flagrantly violating the [Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971, as amended] by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars, and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate,” Warrington reportedly wrote in the complaint.

Netanyahu was polite despite the earlier diss from the Biden team, although what he said about Biden knowing every Israeli prime minister for 50 years was a nice way of emphasizing how old Biden is. Biden tried to rebut that with a joke, claiming he was only "12" then. No one laughed. //

853 OKG
5 hours ago
PM Netanyahu is smiling because he's meeting the real president at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow.

The Original John Doe 853 OKG
2 hours ago
Exactly. And Biden initially refused to take this meeting. Biden only agreed after Trump agreed to meet Netanyahu. The Trump meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday night immediately after he addressed Congress (according to the Times of Israel). However, after Biden wanted to meet Thursday, Netanyahu asked Trump to move their meet to after the meeting with Biden so he can tell Trump what Biden said.

anon-fr0d The Original John Doe
41 minutes ago
Yes, FJB is always a day late and 10% short. //

flguy
4 hours ago
I love how Bibi called Biden a 'Zionist,' guaranteeing more Muslims vote for Trump, or at least do not vote for Harris in November. I think that was highly intentional.

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Now that Joe Biden is out of the race, the media are pretending Kamala Harris was never the border czar.

Even though they had no problem calling her that before Biden dropped out.

4:24 PM · Jul 24, 2024 //

Viscount Montgomery of Arkansi
3 hours ago
Why would Kamala not want to be recognized as the Border Czar? According to the MSM the border is secure.

Alexa Henning @alexahenning
Remember: the people telling you Kamala is a great candidate...
Were the ones telling you Biden was fit for the job last week
8:29 PM · Jul 24, 2024

That is an absolutely undeniable fact. //

The other thing to remember in all of this is that these same people who are proclaiming Kamala Harris has what it takes to be the leader of the free world are the same people who are now basically saying she had no real responsibilities as vice president:

T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams
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It will be interesting to watch her supporters thread the needle of: "Ignore her Senate record and look at the VP record, but also she wasn't responsible for anything as VP."

Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann
I like that the media's defense of Kamala has become "she actually wasn't in charge of anything"
5:51 PM · Jul 25, 2024

Bobby Burack @burackbobby_
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Wow.

A Democrat lawmaker confirmed to FOX that Dems have received a piece of paper with talking points/lies about how to discuss Kamala Harris' role at the Southern border.

They are already using the exact lines.

https://outkick.com/analysis/democrat-lawmakers-receive-talking-points-how-talk-about-kamala-harris-role-border
1:18 PM · Jul 25, 2024. //

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The propaganda press working so hard to erase the fact that Kamala Harris was put in charge of the border shows not only what a vulnerability her role in the border is but also what a huge vulnerability her general incompetence is.
10:05 AM · Jul 24, 2024

As RedState reported earlier on Wednesday, the left-wing outlet published an article attacking Republicans for referring to Harris as the nation's "border czar." There was just one problem. Axios published an article in 2021 stating that she was. //

What's the first rule of holes? Something about not digging any further? After getting caught with its pants down, Axios didn't step back and admit it got it wrong. Instead, it added an editor's note throwing itself under the bus for once referring to Harris as the "border czar." In other words, an entire article was written to claim Republicans were lying, and in the end, Axios had to admit it had reported the exact same thing. //

Now that it's become clear she failed miserably at the task, the press wants to take it all back and pretend she holds no real responsibility for the disaster that continues to unfold. Call it Soviet, Orwellian, or worse, it's incredibly creepy to witness the lengths to which supposed "news" outlets are willing to go to protect Harris. This is not how the press is supposed to operate. //

CrankyBoomer.substack.com
an hour ago
I beg to differ.
Since her job as border czar was to do absolutely nothing, from the dems' perspective she succeeded brilliantly.
Ditto Mayorkis brilliantly succeeding at securing the border. They got exactly what they wanted from him too.

In a classified letter, US Central Command commander General Michael Kurilla warned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that US military operations to keep the Red Sea open to commercial traffic are "failing." General Kurilla's warning to Austin and his cronies predicted that “U.S. service members will die if we continue going this way.” According to reports, there was a sudden demand for brown trousers in the upper reaches of the Pentagon. //

There is no doubt we are getting our asses kicked in the Red Sea. That is happening for one reason. Our foreign policy and defense strategy establishments are running on empty. The Israel Air Force has done more to establish dominance over the Houthis in one airstrike than we have in a year of half-hearted and hamstrung efforts to keep a vital international maritime route open. //

Houthi attacks are responsible for a significant drop in container shipping through the Red Sea, with a 90% decrease since December 2023, affecting 10-15% of global maritime trade. //

According to the report, alternate shipping routes around Africa, despite adding about 11,000 nautical miles, approximately $1 million in fuel costs per voyage, and 1-2 weeks of transit time, can be less expensive than the combined costs of crew bonuses, war risk insurance, and Suez transit fees.

Insurance premiums for Red Sea transits have increased to 0.7-1.0% of a ship’s total value as of mid-February, up from less than 0.1% before December 2023. //

Not only have our efforts to protect shipping not worked, but they have resulted in our allies forming a counter-coalition to avoid being under US command. US leadership in an area of immense national security interest, both the Red Sea route and the freedom of navigation, has been lost and will require much hard work to regain.

Once American hard power is used, it must emerge victorious. The failure to do so leads to instability and more warfare.

Much of Iran's resurgence and instability in the Middle East is directly attributable to Biden's horrendous leadership in closing out our Afghan misadventure. Now, he's about to end his misrule of America with another catastrophe that will echo for generations as a bookend to his Afghanistan failure. All in all, this is a fitting legacy for Joe Biden's life and political career.

So far, the evidence of Harris being a leader of any type, much less a "strong and tested" one, is scant. The sky-high attrition rate in her office indicates a toxic and dysfunctional work environment. Indeed, she reminds me of the story about the lieutenant of whom it was said, "Men follow this officer out of sheer curiosity." //

I find it ludicrous and insulting to the intelligence to say she can make the case "about why Donald Trump is a threat to America’s national security" when she just participated in a palace coup to strip Joe Biden of his candidacy, if not supplant him as president. //

This letter has the same credibility as that of the 51 "intelligence professionals" who proclaimed Hunter Biden's laptop to have the hallmarks of Russian disinformation ... //

houdini1984
9 hours ago
Harris, describing the Russia-Ukraine situation:

"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong."

Yep. A true foreign policy genius at work.

Those 350 "experts" are not even qualified to teach at Clown College. //

Scholar houdini1984
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An old Asian proverb: "One of the merits of our beloved leader is that he tasted the sugar and declared: It is sweet.". //

Jim frm Palo Alto
9 hours ago
The dishonesty is shocking. Traveling does not mean accomplishment. Meetings are a dime a dozen. Where are the Biden-Harris versions of the Abraham Accords, the five trade deals, the strong push back against China, Trump’s NK trip, etc? Under Biden-Harris all we have is chaos and embarrassment such as the Afghanistan debacle and our continued aid to the Taliban; sanctions relief to Iran and aid to Hamas; the closure of multiple embassies because of threats; getting kicked out of Niger; losing to China around the globe; three years of war in Ukraine.