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The Day the FBI Raided Trump
This week, the FBI raided the Florida home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. It based its raid on the purported rationale that it suspected Trump of having mishandled classified information, taking home materials meant for the National Archives. According to The New York Times, the search “appeared to be focused on material that… -
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America Has a Two-Tiered Justice System and the FBI Just Proved It
Unless scores of witnesses saw Donald Trump stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone, the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof rests in the peaceful, undisturbed abodes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe, and every other… -
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GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., had his cellphone seized by FBI agents Tuesday, the day after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, he told Fox News. Agents confronted Perry while he was traveling with his family and seized his phone without making an attempt to contact his attorney, who would have turned… -
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GOP Lawmakers Vow Probe of FBI Raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Following an FBI raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Republican members of Congress are vowing to launch an investigation into what they view as a blatantly partisan political Justice Department if they retake control of the House of Representatives in November. “Since they took office, the Biden administration has… -
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4 Key Questions After FBI Raids Trump’s Home
The FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, has raised questions about Trump’s future as well as the propriety of the Biden administration’s unprecedented actions in conducting the predawn search Monday. Federal agents’ descent on Trump’s estate in Palm Beach is an unprecedented legal and historical matter. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre… -
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How Democrats’ IRS Expansion Would Empower Ruling Elites to Target Americans
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” Those were the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, referring to the depredation of King George III. The sentence was part of a long list of grievances that bolstered… -
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‘Political Tactic’: Cuomo Demands Answers From Justice Department Over Trump Raid
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the Department of Justice to quickly justify the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to avoid the perception that it was politically motivated and tainting investigations into Jan. 6. Trump’s son Eric indicated the Monday raid was done over documents the former president took to Mar-a-Lago… -
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US ‘Corrupt at a Level Not Seen Before’: Trump’s Home Raided by FBI
Former President Donald Trump said Monday evening his home had been raided by a “large group of FBI agents.” “Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before,” Trump said in a statement. “After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not… -
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Justice Department Attacks Pro-Life States With Bogus ‘Preemption’ Argument
The Biden administration is using a spurious legal argument to crack down on states limiting abortion. On Aug. 2, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Idaho, hoping to undermine its new law prohibiting most abortions by claiming that it conflicts with a federal law regarding medical treatment in hospital emergency… -
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FBI ‘Aggressively’ Pursuing Hunter Biden Investigation, Director Wray Says
FBI Director Christopher Wray referred to “malign foreign influence with, potentially, public corruption” during a Senate committee hearing Thursday where participants described Hunter Biden’s alleged misconduct in overseas business dealings in a hypothetical manner. When asked specifically about the case of President Joe Biden’s son, Wray described it as an “ongoing investigation that I expect… -
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Law-Abiding Gun Owners Will Not Harm You. But Criminals Will.
There have been innumerable debates on gun ownership. These discussions generally address two critical factors: gun violence in inner cities and mass shootings. As a result, some Americans have called for the removal of certain weapons, such as the AR-15, from civilian ownership, and the limitation of magazines to 10 rounds as a means to… -
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Today’s FBI Partisans Tarnish Agency’s Already Damaged Image
The FBI is damaging its credibility with the American people. The latest revelations from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, about the political partisans who occupy the ranks of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country are, if true, deeply disturbing. The trust the FBI once enjoyed, and which it needs if it is to… -
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Increasing Assaults on Thomas Jefferson Ignore His Complexity and Contributions to Freedom
Thomas Jefferson is coming under increasing attack, even at Monticello, his former estate, now a museum near Charlottesville, Virginia. The main focus seems to be on slavery, not on Jefferson’s many unique accomplishments. According to the New York Post, “Books by critical race theory proponents Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates enjoy pride of place… -
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Biden and the Left Exploit Child’s Tragedy, Ignore Illegal Alien Who Raped Her
While the story of the 10-year-old Ohio girl who made national headlines for traveling to Indiana for an abortion after being raped remains in the headlines, the media would rather largely ignore the rest of the story—that the illegal alien suspect in her rape, Gerson Fuentes, has been arrested and charged. Immigration and Customs Enforcement… -
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Starbucks Closures Over Crime Show How Companies Dodge Woke Consequences
Troubled times may be ahead for the marriage between corporate America and the left. Starbucks recently announced that it’s closing over a dozen stores because of crime and safety concerns. “We’ve had to make the difficult decision to close some locations that have a particularly high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe for… -
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As Hate Crimes Pile Up Against Churches and Pregnancy Centers, Hawley Cracks Down
It began in Boulder, Colorado. On the night of May 3, one day after Politico leaked a draft of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade seven weeks later, criminals attacked Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church, smashing windows and spray-painting multiple anti-Catholic and pro-abortion slogans on the doors and walls of… -
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GOP Report Faults Biden’s Policies for Illegal Immigration Surge, Spike in Crime
Eight Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have released a report casting a harsh spotlight on Biden administration policies that they say encourage illegal immigration. The report, “Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining Policies that Encourage Illegal Migration,” concludes that “the illegal migration crisis at the U.S. southern border has worsened under President [Joe] Biden and is the… -
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Border Deaths Surge Under Biden Compared With Trump, Obama
Under the Biden administration, deaths of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 increased by almost 300 from the prior year, and by 200 from the last non-pandemic year, according to a United Nations agency that now classifies the southern border as the “deadliest land crossing in the world.” Moreover, more border deaths have occurred… -
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Supreme Court Unwisely Lets Biden End Program Making Illegal Aliens Remain in Mexico
As the U.S. southern border is being overrun with record numbers of illegal aliens month after month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday approved the Biden administration’s termination of the successful Remain in Mexico program in a 5-4 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and… -
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How Mississippi Led Way to Overturn Roe, Attorney General Lynn Fitch Explains
At the center of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In 2018, Mississippi passed a 15-week abortion ban. The abortion clinic Jackson Women’s Health challenged the law. “When I took office, that case had been sitting at the Fifth Circuit and it…