‘I have not conceded’: Trump stands firm on stolen election charge . . . Former President Donald Trump on Monday said that he has “never admitted defeat” in the 2020 presidential race. “I never used the word concede, I have not conceded,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with David Brody on Real America’s Voice.

Mr. Trump reiterated his unproven allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and said he anticipates the controversial audit in Arizona to show just that. “There is a tremendous percentage [of people] that thinks the election was rigged and stolen,” Mr. Trump said. Washington Times

Trump 'very disappointed' with Justices Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett votes to save Obamacare . . . Former President Trump said Monday that he's "very disappointed" with recent votes by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to uphold ObamaCare. Trump nominated Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett to the high court during his presidency and maintained unwavering support for Kavanaugh during a bitterly contested partisan confirmation battle.  "I fought very hard for them," Trump told Just the News' "Water Cooler" in an exclusive interview on Real America's Voice. "But I was very disappointed with a number of their rulings."   The court's nine justices voted 7-2 on June 17 to uphold the health care law in a case brought by Republican governors challenging the constitutionality of the law's individual mandate in light of the 2017 elimination of the plan's individual penalties for not purchasing insurance. Just the News

Judge dismissed Black Lives Matter, ACLU suit against Trump over Lafayette Square . . . These protestors were violent. They injured dozens of police officers. But what got the left really mad was that Donald Trump appeared in front of a church with a Bible. And the press just assumed he must have ordered the police to clear the square to do it. And that was untrue. A federal judge rejected lawsuit claims against federal officials related to the clearing of protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House last summer. U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed protesters’ claims for damages against officials such as then-President Donald Trump, then-Attorney General William Barr, then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and others for their part in the day’s events, which included law enforcement pushing people out of the park using aggressive tactics. White House Dossier

DNC tops RNC as both see record May fundraising . . . The DNC outraised the RNC in May, according to new Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. The DNC hauled in just over $12.1 million last month, according to its FEC filing, which marks its highest off-year May fundraising ever. The DNC received $3 million from the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee that also boosted President Biden’s campaign and Democratic state parties.

The RNC, meanwhile took in roughly $11.1 million. That was also its best haul for the May after a presidential election year. The Hill

Biden plans to host Obama for portrait unveiling that Trump skipped: report . . . President Biden is reportedly planning on hosting a White House ceremony for the unveiling of former President Obama's presidential portrait, a tradition former President Trump had declined to take part in. Sources close to the matter told NBC News that Biden will likely hold the event for both Michelle and Barack Obama some time this fall when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The Hill

Obama ethics chief has problems with Hunter Biden’s overpriced art . . . Well, we already knew he was an expert in East European natural gas. But who knew he was also an artist. Such versatility. Former President Obama’s ethics chief ripped into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for selling his art at prices ranging up to half a million dollars to anonymous buyers. Walter Shaub, the former Office of Government Ethics director under Obama, said that the lucrative arrangement has a “shameful and grifty feeling to it.” “The notion of a president’s son capitalizing on that relationship by selling art at obviously inflated prices and keeping the public in the dark about who’s funneling money to him has a shameful and grifty feel to it,” Shaub told Fox News on Monday. White House Dossier

Obama: Voting rights bill must pass before next election . . . Former President Obama said Monday that Congress needs to pass voting rights legislation before the 2022 midterm elections, or American democracy could be at risk. "We can't wait until the next election because if we have the same kinds of shenanigans that brought about Jan. 6, if we have that for a couple more election cycles, we're going to have real problems in terms of our democracy long-term," said Obama. Speaking on a call with grassroots supporters alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama said debate over the voting rights bill, known as the For the People Act, was worth it for him to engage in political debate, even as a former president. The Hill

Every Black Life Matters president knocks Black Lives Matter movement as 'too narrow' in scope . . . Every Black Life Matters President Kevin McGary discusses the organization's agenda and critical race theory. Every Black Life Matters President Kevin McGary hit the Black Lives Matter movement for being "too narrow" in its scope in an appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend" Sunday. "If you think about it, before Black lives can matter, every single Black life would have to matter, specifically," McGary said.

McGary argued that Black Lives Matter is missing the bigger picture by being too consumed with exposing apparent cases of White-on-Black citizen police brutality,  Fox News

 

KOFFLER: Biden Got Bullied At The Putin Summit . . . It was a bad idea from the start for President Joe Biden to reward Putin for Russia’s hostile behavior towards America with a high-profile diplomatic rendezvous in Geneva. Sensing Biden’s weak knees, Putin went into the summit to steamroll him. Putin wanted to show Biden what Nikita Khruschev’s great-granddaughter colorfully described in a Russian TASS article as “the mother of the son of a bitch” (kuz’kinu mat’). It is Russia’s less genteel way of saying “show ’em who’s boss.” Every U.S. president since the end of the Cold War, both Democrat and Republican, has attempted to “reset” our relations with Russia. Every one of them has failed. How many “resets” does it take to prove the age-old axiom that to keep doing the same thing in the hopes of achieving a different result is the definition of insanity? Daily Caller

 

Georgia hospital system hit with ransomware attack following Biden-Putin summit . . . St. Joseph's/Candler, one of the largest hospital systems in Savannah, Georgia, confirmed it was hit with a ransomware attack on Thursday morning. According to a statement posted on St. Joseph's/Candler's Facebook page, hospital officials became aware of "suspicious network activity" and immediately shut down their computer systems to limit the incident's potential impact. A preliminary investigation determined that the incident involved ransomware. The hospital system added that law enforcement had been alerted and that it would notify patients if personal or health information was accessed during the incident. Fox Business

 

No, Supporting a Strong Foreign Policy Does Not Mean You’re Racist . . . A new study promises proof of what some on the left have long believed: Americans who support foreign wars do so because they are racists. "Racial bias makes white Americans more likely to support wars in nonwhite foreign countries," reads the headline of a recent article by University of Delaware professors David Ebner and Vladimir Medenica in the Conversation, an academic-popularization blog. Their study, they claim, shows that "White Americans who hold racist beliefs" are more likely to support military tactics over "diplomacy or economic strategies" against countries whose residents are not white, particularly China, because their "images" of other nations are determined by their racial biases. If that’s true, the study does not prove it. Instead, it relies on a flaky and questionable measure of "racism" for its central finding, one that could just as easily show that belief in personal responsibility predicts suspicion of hostile foreign powers. Washington Free Beacon

 

 

Major Police Departments Losing Officers, Struggling With Recruiting . . . The largest police departments in the United States have seen a steady decline in officers over the past year and a half amid the CCP virus pandemic and a rash of anti-police activism.
The top three police departments in the country have lost thousands of officers since 2019, driven by an increase in retirements and resignations on top of recruiting woes. Reports of officers leaving in droves have been coming from other major jurisdictions as well. Meanwhile, those cities have seen a significant uptick in murders and shootings. Epoch Times

Progressives count their foreign policy wins with Omar flap in rear view . . . Ilhan Omar started out in Congress as a somewhat lonely critic of decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Now, six months into her second term, the Minnesota Democrat has new and diverse allies. The latest flareup of intra-party frustration with Omar’s progressive brand of foreign policy appears to have calmed — a notable turnaround for a lawmaker the GOP continues to try to turn into a symbol of a Democratic Party hurtling too far leftward. While Omar’s recent comments weren’t as directly disparaging as she’s been in the past, Democrats are showing they’re increasingly comfortable backing her up, particularly as she hammers the Israeli government in ways that buck long-held bipartisan traditions in Washington. Politico

 

Hacker attempted to taint San Francisco drinking water: report . . . A hacker attempted to taint the drinking water in the San Francisco area at the beginning of the year, a disturbing report that recently came to light revealed. The hacker obtained a former employee’s TeamViewer credentials to log on and delete programs to treat drinking water, according to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center obtained by NBC News. The Jan. 15 hack was discovered the next day and there were no failures as a result of the breach, according to the outlet. Rod Colon, district manager of the North Springs Improvement District in Florida, told FOX Business that tampering with the treatment programs could potentially make residents sick due to the presence of things like E. coli in the water.  Fox Business

 

Republicans dismiss vague Biden threats to hold China accountable for Covid . . . Just imagine. The Chinese Communist government allowed a deadly virus to get into its population, quite likely as a result of a screw up at one of its labs, tried to cover it up, failed to contain it within their country, failed to keep it from becoming a worldwide epidemic. And no serious consequences? House Republicans are not satisfied with the Biden administration’s stance against the Chinese government when it comes to making sure there is a thorough investigation of the coronavirus pandemic. National Security adviser Jake Sullivan told “Fox News Sunday” that China would face “isolation from the international community” if a proper probe does not take place, but there are those in Congress who would prefer to see more direct – and immediate – action White House Dossier

 

 

Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for surgeries of transgender veterans . . . The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking the first steps toward paying for the surgeries of transgender veterans, the department's secretary announced on Saturday. The new policy, which will enter its initial phases this summer and could take up to two years for full approval, will create a "safe and caring" environment for all veterans while noting the "dark history" of discrimination against gay and transgender military personnel, Secretary Denis McDonough said. "This time will allow VA to develop capacity to meet the surgical needs that transgender veterans have called for and deserved for a long time, and I am proud to begin the process of delivering it," he said at an event celebrating Pride Month in Orlando, Florida. Washington Examiner

Medical device makers influence surgeons with billions in payments . . . The relationship between spine and joint surgeons and medical device manufacturers is coming under increased scrutiny as the former has received billions in payments from the latter in recent years. Medical device makers have paid $3.1 billion to orthopedic and neurosurgeons from 2013 to 2019, based on data from the federal government website OpenPayments, according to Kaiser Health News. Under federal law, it is illegal for physicians to take anything of value from a medical device manufacturer in exchange for using its products. Yet, it is legal for physicians to receive speaking and consulting fees from such companies. They may also receive royalties in exchange for assisting in the design of medical devices. Critics contend the in-practice kickbacks are often camouflaged as consulting and other fees. They claim this can lead to physicians using inferior products and conducting unnecessary surgeries that harm the patient. Washington Examiner

US Catholic bishops have ample reason to consider denying Biden Communion . . . The American Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly voted to draft a document that could lead to the denial of the sacrament of Holy Communion to President Joe Biden, a Catholic, and other Catholic politicians who publicly advocate for abortion. The question of denying Communion has been a fraught one in politics in the United States, and it's one in which Rome doesn't appear to be on the same page right now. It's also something that doesn't poll well. But if the Catholic Church operated based on popularity, it would have folded centuries ago. Washington Examiner

Defiant Maria Bartiromo vows to report shunned stories: ‘Keep trashing me, I’ll keep telling the truth’ . . . Defiant Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is leaving no doubt that she will continue to report on stories that the corporate media frowns upon despite unrelenting pushback from her detractors. Praising her production team along with her panelists, the “Sunday Morning Futures” host declared that “We have been telling every story; we’ve been on the right side of it for seven years going. I’ve been trashed every day along the way. Keep trashing me; I’ll keep telling the truth.” Business & Politics Review

 

 

Jen Psaki dodges question on whether Biden thinks 15-week-old unborn baby is a person . . . White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to say if President Biden believes a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being during Monday's press briefing. "Does the president believe that a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being?" a reporter asked Psaki. "Are you asking me if the president supports a woman's right to choose? He does," Psaki said. Psaki's response came after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly to draft a formal document on the meaning of the Eucharist after a contentious debate on whether Biden and other politicians who support abortion policies are worthy of receiving Communion at Mass. Fox News