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    Energy Department Report on Lab Leak Is ‘I-Told-You-So to Nth Degree,’ Ex-Trump Communications Staffer Says

    OXON HILL, Md.—A former White House communications staffer said the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab represents an “I-told-you-so to the nth degree” after the legacy media and Big Tech cracked down on then-President Donald Trump and others for suggesting it. “Much…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’

    OXON HILL, Md.—Former President Donald Trump spoke about his accomplishments in the White House and his future plans in a speech Saturday to conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside the nation’s capital. “We are going to complete the mission,” Trump said in the closing speech at CPAC. “We are…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Child Abuse’: Trump Presents Plan to Stop ‘Mutilation of Our Youth’ in the Name of Transgender Identity 

    In the buildup to the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump has begun laying out his campaign platform.  On Wednesday, the former president released a video condemning the radical Left’s gender ideology and plans to protect children from experimental transgender surgeries and procedures.   “The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an…
    Michael Ippolito
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    Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoon Finally Goes After a Biden—but With Kid Gloves

    Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not even mentioned Biden, much less ridiculed or lampooned anything about his administration. That was despite the president’s numerous lies and innumerable speaking gaffes, and in spite of…
    Peter Parisi
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    The Real Differences Between Biden and Trump Document Troves

    Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden. First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Archives Silent on Biden Docs After Public Complaints of ‘Torn-Up’ Trump Docs and ‘False’ Reports on Obama-era Docs

    The federal agency responsible for making government records available to the public has gone dark with both Congress and the media when it comes to the classified documents stored at the Penn Biden Center, and at the homes of President Joe Biden.  The National Archives and Records Administration declined to answer whether anyone told the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Here’s Why Merrick Garland Tapped a Trump Appointee to Investigate the Joe Biden Documents

    Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate classified documents dating to Joe Biden’s vice presidency discovered two months ago at a pro-Biden think tank, according to news reports. A senior legal expert at The Heritage Foundation explained the move to The Daily Signal. Garland tapped John Lausch, U.S. attorney for…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘They Knew I Did Nothing Wrong’: Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena of Trump

    The Jan. 6 committee dropped its subpoena of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorney, CNN reported. “Therefore, through this letter,…
    Diana Glebova
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    Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?

    Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected president (1884) to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later in 1892. Yet Trump seems determined instead…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Returning to Pre-Trump ‘Dead Consensus’ GOP Would Be Big Mistake

    In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, Right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things manifesto called the American Right’s “dead consensus” think they see blood in the water. Indeed, the “dead consensus” Praetorian Guard has apparently decided that now is the time for a…
    Josh Hammer
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    Tech News You Need to Know: Trump Freed From Twitter Jail; FTX’s Bizarre Business Practices

    Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been restored to him. The former president’s Twitter account is one of several high-profile ones to be resurrected following entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. “I think [with] Musk getting in and seeing what was happening behind the scenes, he realized pretty quickly that the content moderation…
    Virginia Allen
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    Donald Trump Announces He Will Run for President Again

    Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will again attempt to become president of the United States. “Together we will be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable,” Trump said Tuesday evening. “Our country is in a horrible state. We’re in grave trouble.” The 76-year-old former president made the announcement from his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Ron DeSantis Responds to Trump Criticisms: ‘When You’re Getting Things Done, You Take Incoming Fire’

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Tuesday to criticisms from former President Donald Trump, telling a reporter, “When you’re getting things done, you take incoming fire.” Trump has raised eyebrows by criticizing DeSantis, also rumored to be considering a 2024 run for president, calling the Republican governor “Ron DeSanctimonious,” and describing him as “an average REPUBLICAN…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Biden’s Lies vs. Trump’s ‘Lies’: What a Difference an Administration Makes

    During Donald Trump’s presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of his alleged lies and/or misleading statements. But when Joe Biden became president, the Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announced an end to the database operation. “Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional eight-hour days over four years beyond our regular…
    Larry Elder
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    Cruz Talks Jan. 6, Antifa Riots, Trump, and More on ‘The View’ Appearance

    Protesters interrupted a Republican senator during a television appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Monday. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was discussing the economy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections next month when protesters in the audience began yelling about climate change. “Excuse me. Excuse me. Ladies. Ladies. Excuse us. Let us do our job. Let…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    4 Takeaways as House Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Trump

    The House committee investigating the Capitol riot of January 2021 voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump.  The panel’s nine members sought to make a case that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and planned before the election to claim that he really won.  Less than a month before the Nov. 8 midterm…
    Fred Lucas
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    Compare Liberal Media’s Disparate Reaction to Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ vs. Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’

    By now, everyone who follows politics should recognize that the liberal media will deliberately ignore embarrassing gaffes by President Joe Biden, especially if they suggest he’s not mentally sharp enough to be the president. Biden asking, “Where’s Jackie?” about a congresswoman killed in a car crash two months ago was a TV black hole: nothing…
    Tim Graham
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    National Archives Scraps ‘Transparency’ Mission When It Comes to Trump Documents 

    The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies—rivaling even the FBI.   Established in 1934, the National Archives has a mission to identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available all historically valuable records.   But the…
    Roman Jankowski
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    6 Takeaways to Know on Newly Released Trump, National Archives Documents

    A public records release sheds some new light on the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and the 15 boxes of documents that Trump previously provided.  Late Monday, the National Archives and Records Administration released 65 pages of documents in response to a public records request from the Heritage Oversight Project, The…
    Fred Lucas
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    House Democrats Block Probe of Biden Family Business Deals, Ask: What About Trump?

    House Democrats on Tuesday blocked an inquiry into 150 reports of suspicious financial activity surrounding the international business dealings of Hunter Biden and other Biden family members, which Republicans said could compromise President Joe Biden.  Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee generally had a disciplined message in opposing oversight of potential conflicts of…
    Fred Lucas
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