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April 14, 2021
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Democratic pollsters admit they got it wrong in 2020 presidential election . . . The 2020 election was far closer than we were led to believe it would be. Pollsters again got it very wrong. Part of the reason was almost certainly that it was politically incorrect to say you supported President Trump. What pollsters probably won’t admit is that few of them are Trump conservatives, and their own biases entered into the process. In the
intel business, we call it "mirror imaging." Democratic pollsters are trying to figure out what went wrong, and are at least admitting that something did. "There’s no simple answer for why the polls have missed the mark in recent elections. But one likely culprit for some of the errors is the deteriorating public trust in institutions, like government and the news media — and the correlation between that wariness and voting for Trump." White House Dossier
CNN staffer admits network's focus was to 'get Trump out of office,' calls its coverage 'propaganda' . . . A staffer for CNN spoke candidly to an undercover journalist about the political motivations the network had during the 2020 presidential election, boasting the left-leaning outlet helped defeat former President Donald Trump and even calling his own employer "propaganda."
In the first installment of what's billed as a three-part #ExposeCNN campaign from the right-wing guerilla news outlet Project Veritas, network technical director Charles Chester shed light on how the network wanted to remove its nemesis from the White House and help now-President Biden. "Look at what we did, we got Trump out," Chester said in a celebratory tone. "I am 100% going to say it. And I 100% believe it that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out."
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GOP sees record fundraising in months after Capitol breach . . . Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election are raking in record amounts of cash just months after major corporate donors vowed to pull their support. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was expected to announce that he raised $7.1 million during the first quarter of 2021. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who played a key role in working to block the
certification of the Electoral College results, raised $3 million in the same time period, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced he’s raised $5.3 million, despite neither being up for reelection until 2024. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the GOP’s most controversial lawmakers, announced last week that her campaign brought in a whopping $3.2 million during the first quarter of 2021 despite a slew of bipartisan criticism over bigoted remarks and past support for conspiracy theories.
Strategists and insiders say the latest hauls — extraordinary in any year but especially in a non-election year — are indicative of where grassroots Republicans stand. The Hill
Trump blasts feds for urging pause in use of J&J vaccines . . . Former President Donald Trump accused federal health regulators of slowing the vaccine rollout for "possibly political reasons" after two major agencies recommended a pause in using the coronavirus
inoculation developed by Johnson & Johnson.
Earlier, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported six cases of rare, dangerous blood clots among recipients of the vaccine. Trump said the Biden administration had done a disservice to the United States and that the vaccine would be forever tainted. "They should not be
able to do such damage for possibly political reasons." Washington Examiner
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President Joe Biden to finally address joint session of Congress April 28 . . . They’ve delayed this one as long as they can. Barack Obama delivered his first speech a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009, and Donald Trump gave his on Feb. 28, 2017. Every president back to Reagan has given their first address to Congress within 40 days. Biden’s will be delivered just before his 100th day. The first address a president
gives to Congress, technically, is not a State of the Union. White House Dossier
Because, technically, he cannot be held accountable for the state of the union.
ICE priority arrests down 75%; top-ranking cases involve national security, public safety . . . ICE made 75% fewer priority arrests over the first seven weeks of the Biden administration than during the same period last year, according to data obtained by The Washington Times that shows even the highest-ranking cases involving national security or public safety have seen significant drops. Fewer kidnappers, weapons offenders being
caught. The drops come as the new administration says it wants to marshal limited resources at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus on bad actors instead of rank-and-file illegal immigrants.
It’s fulfilled that latter promise, but appears to be struggling to find the bad actors. Non-priority arrests dropped more than 80%, from 17,810 to 3,306. Priority arrests fell less sharply, but still dropped by more than 30%, from 2,771 last year to 1,897 this year. Washington Times
Swing districts blame Biden for border crisis . . . Another bad sign for Democrats for the 2022 midterm elections, when the Left could lose control of both the House and the Senate. That’s why you’ll see the Democrats very busy turning the country to socialism over the next two years. “Residents in key swing districts are angry about the historic border crisis, blame President Joe Biden for it, and stand ready to make the Democrats
pay for it in the 2022 midterm elections, according to a broad new survey on the illegal immigration calamity. “In 16 battleground congressional districts in 15 states, 56% blame Biden’s dismantling of former President Donald Trump’s policies for the crisis, including a whopping 48% who strongly agree, according to the survey for Heritage Action for America. White House Dossier
Biden Admin Gives Valuable Defense Contract to China Collaborator . . . The Biden administration awarded a lucrative defense contract to a Singaporean company that works with Chinese military firms. On April 6, Singapore-based ST Engineering won a contract alongside defense contractor BAE Systems to build a prototype military ground vehicle for use in Arctic environments. One of ST Engineering's direct subsidiaries does business with the
Chinese military industry, ultimately providing maritime and satellite technology to Chinese authorities. The use of a defense company that collaborates with China raises concerns about industrial espionage and could expose vulnerabilities in the Pentagon, one expert on military acquisition said. Mark Vandroff, a former Navy officer and member of the Trump administration's National Security Council, told the Washington Free Beacon the contract could pose an "attractive" way for Beijing to
gain inside knowledge on valuable national security technology. Washington Free Beacon
BLM’s ‘Marxist’ Co-Founder Raked In $20 K a Month As Chairwoman Of Jail Reform Group . . . Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors, a self-identified “trained Marxist,” raked in upwards of $20,000 a month serving as the chairwoman of a Los Angeles jail reform group in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reform LA Jails
disbursed a total of $191,000 to Cullors in 2019 through her consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting, according to financial records submitted to the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The description for each of the seven reported payments to the Cullors’ firm that year read: “P. Cullors, Principal Officer, Business Owner.” Daily Caller
Going grifting via Black Lives Matter . . . Self-identifying as a “trained Marxist,” it has now been revealed that Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the founders of the Marxist Black Lives Matter group, has somehow managed to become a wealthy land baron since organizing against racism, capitalism and economic inequality. It’s a story that has played out over the generations and around the world. A few people decrying the unfairness of
capitalism and the gap between the rich and the poor turns out to be a racket making those same leaders filthy rich while abandoning the true believers on the side of the road, destroying lives and nations. This tragedy is unfolding again, this time here in the United States courtesy of the Marxist “Black Lives Matter” group. And now we’ve also learned Big Tech doesn’t want anyone to talk about it. Analysis/Opinion. Washington Times
Walking through my "woke" Washington DC suburb neighborhood, I am amazed how many BLM-support signs I see displayed in people's yards. Washington DC metropolitan area is the most highly educated area in the US. And yet, so many people seem to be oblivious to the fact that BLM is a communist organization - Communism, being the ideology, responsible for the murders of a hundred million people.
Corporate critics of Georgia election law incorporated in Delaware, which has strict voting rules . . . Numerous major corporate critics of Georgia's new election reform law are themselves incorporated in the business-friendly state of Delaware, which has several election provisions similar to, or even stricter than, those in dispute in the Peach State. Corporations such as Coca-Cola, Google, Cisco and Delta Airlines have criticized
Georgia's voting law as oppressive and discriminatory, arguing that the law's rules—which include photo identification requirements and new absentee voting restrictions—are an attempt to stifle the vote in the southern state. Both Coke and Delta are headquartered in Georgia, yet they and several of the state's other critics are legally incorporated in Delaware. And while those businesses have been sharply critical of the new Georgia law, Delaware itself has several rules on the books
that are similar to, or in some cases more restrictive than, some of the most-criticized elements of the Georgia law. Just the News
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US Troops to Leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 . . . President Biden will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, effectively winding down the war there two decades after it began. This is the second time in less than two years that an American president has set a date to end the nation’s involvement in the Afghan conflict—the longest war in U.S. history. Last year, then-President Donald
Trump reached a deal with the insurgent Taliban movement under which U.S. troops would depart by May 1. In resetting withdrawal plans, Mr. Biden selected a symbolic target date—the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attacks—to define the end of an era in which the U.S. spent trillions of dollars on efforts to counter foreign extremist threats. Wall Street Journal
FBI removes ‘malicious web shells’ tied to China-linked Microsoft hack . . . The Justice Department announced a “court-authorized operation” by the FBI to copy and remove “malicious web shells” from hundreds of U.S. computers in response to the massive cyberattacks against Microsoft’s Exchange Server, which the Big Tech company has assessed are being carried out by a sophisticated Chinese state-backed hacker group and others. Washington Examiner
China Sends 25 Warplanes Into Taiwanese Airspace . . . China sent 25 military planes into Taiwanese airspace on Monday, escalating tensions between the United States and Beijing.
The Chinese flight mission included 18 fighter jets, 4 bombers, 2 anti-submarine planes, and an airborne radar plane entering Taiwan’s defensive air zone, an act in violation of Taiwanese sovereignty. The aircrafts' incursion marked the largest operation in Taiwan since it began regular flights over the country in September, according to Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The air-based military exercises from China come as Beijing ratchets up its pressure by sea, with some U.S. territories open to
attack. Washington Free Beacon
Biden Sends Unofficial Delegation to Taiwan . . . Former Senator Chris Dodd and former Deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg headed to Taiwan on Tuesday at President Joe Biden’s request. The delegation will meet with senior Taiwanese officials and followed “a long-standing bipartisan tradition of U.S. administrations sending high-level, unofficial delegations to Taiwan,” a senior Biden administration the
official said. Epoch Times
Joe Biden Proposes a U.S.-Russian Summit in Call to Vladimir Putin . . . President Biden on Tuesday proposed that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a summit in a third country in the coming months, a personal invitation that came in the midst of a conversation addressing deep differences, including Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine. Mr. Biden during the call with Mr. Putin stressed his commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity, the White House said, while expressing concern over a Russian troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders. NATO warns of the dangers of Russia's mobilizing troops. Biden also made clear that the U.S. would defend its national interests in response to Russian actions including “cyber intrusions and election interference.” Wall Street Journal
All talk, no action.
Kremlin is not ready to accept Biden's proposal for Putin-Biden summit, warns against U.S. sanctions . . . Russia said on Wednesday it was too early to talk tangibly about U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposal to meet President Vladimir Putin, and the Kremlin told Washington not to impose any new sanctions on Moscow. Moscow’s U.S. ties slumped to a new post-Cold War low last month after Biden said he thought Putin was a “killer” and
Moscow recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations. The envoy has still not returned almost a month later. “It’s still too early to talk about this meeting in tangible terms. It’s a new proposal and it will be studied,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that "there isn’t yet any preparation for this meeting.” Reuters
President Biden’s decision: How hard to punch back at Putin's hackers . . . President Joe Biden promised in December that he would “not stand idly by” after Russia’s latest massive cyberattack on the U.S. Well over 100 days later, his administration has yet to make it clear how hard it plans to punch back. The U.S. has employed a range of punishments for Moscow’s digital intrusions in the past, including leveling sanctions on
Russia’s two leading intelligence services, shuttering consulates, indicting alleged hackers and ejecting suspected spies — only to learn in December that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime had unleashed one of its most audacious hacking assaults yet against at least nine federal agencies and roughly 100 private companies. The Biden administration is preparing a new round of penalties. The steps could include imposing sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies and a new round of
ejections of Russian diplomats. The U.S. could 'turn the power off in Moscow,' one former U.S. official said. 'But that has so many dynamics in the wrong direction.' Politico
Biden is not capable of punching anyone, let alone Putin. He wouldn't even spar with the "former" KGB man on live TV.
Russian intelligence services continuously develop a nuanced understanding of American psyche, including the psychological profiles of US leaders, in order to determine America's "pain threshold," i.e. degree of tolerance for damage we could sustain.
Moscow believes that - although it is already in a conflict with the US - it is capable of maintaining the confrontation just below the threshold that would provoke Washington to respond militarily. In Putin's Playbook, I described the Russian mindset and some of the scenarios that Russian military theorists have looked at as potential ways of creating "damage" on U.S. soil.
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Russia backs 'our Iranian friends' against Biden in nuclear talks . . . President Joe Biden’s administration is “utterly senseless” to seek any new restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program or military apparatus, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “The way we see it, it is utterly senseless to demand Iran should accept new conditions within the framework of the nuclear deal or assume new obligations apart from the JCPOA,”
Lavrov said, using the acronym for the 2015 nuclear deal. Those remarks were just one in a series of comments aligning Russia with Tehran’s negotiating position, with the opening round of talks over the U.S. and Iranian return to compliance underway in Vienna. Washington
Examiner
Non-concur with the "experts" assessment that Russia shares US interest in constraining Iran's progress on its nuclear program. Moscow has deeply-rooted fears about Washington's intentions towards Russia and is much more interested in "neutralizing" its perceived "number one security threat" - the United States and NATO - than helping Washington impede the Iranian nuclear program. Besides, Moscow doesn't believe that Iranians are as far along in the program as
Washington does.
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IRS chief warns of unpaid taxes hitting $1 trillion . . . IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told lawmakers on Tuesday that the annual “tax gap” between the amount of taxes owed and the amount paid on time could hit $1 trillion a year, prompting bipartisan calls for action. The figure is much higher than the agency’s previous estimates, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle at the Senate Finance Committee hearing signaled a willingness to
take steps toward narrowing the gap. The focus on unpaid taxes comes amid a debate over how to pay for President Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure package. The White House is pushing for an increased corporate tax rate, in addition to stepped-up enforcement of collecting taxes from companies. Biden’s recent budget proposal for fiscal 2022 seeks more than $1 billion in extra funding for the IRS. The Hill
Coinbase listing marks latest step in crypto's march to the mainstream . . . Coinbase Global, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, will list on the Nasdaq on Wednesday, marking a milestone in the journey of virtual currencies from niche technology to mainstream asset. The listing is by far the biggest yet of a cryptocurrency company, with the San Francisco-based firm saying last month that private market transactions had valued the
company at around $68 billion this year, versus $5.8 billion in September. It represents the latest breakthrough for acceptance of cryptocurrencies, an asset class that only a few years ago had been shunned by mainstream finance. Reuters
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Minnesota police arrest more than 60 for rioting, other offenses . . . Minnesota police made more than 60 arrests for rioting and other offenses during protests for Daunte Wright on Tuesday night in Brooklyn Center. Officers took people into custody for "riot and other criminal behaviors," Minnesota State Patrol Colonel Matt Langer said in a news conference early Wednesday morning. "...It is not acceptable and it will not be tolerated if
you choose to do criminal activity and destroy property and throw objects and make it unsafe for people to come and exercise their First Amendment rights." Some of the rioters had thrown projectiles, including bricks and bottles, at officers. Police used flash-bang grenades and riot gas as some protesters shook the fence that was erected around the police station Fox News
Wright’s Resistance Cost Him His Life . . . The issue wasn’t weapon confusion. The issue was his behavior. Daunte Wright was killed Sunday by Kimberly Potter of the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb. Potter, 48, is a 26-year veteran and is white, while Wright was a 20-year-old black man. The truth, however, is far more gray than merely black and white as the race-baiting
Left-media wants us to know. Wright was a non-compliant subject in the traffic stop. Not only did he resist three officers (including one black male officer) and try to flee in his car, but police were attempting to arrest him on two warrants including a weapons charge for which he’d already skipped his court date. He was a known gang-banger and drug user. Officers were on high alert. This does not excuse Potter, entirely. Especially with her long experience, she should have been
very clear on the difference between her firearm and Taser. Sadly, Wright’s death was immediately exploited like other deaths that fit a certain narrative, while other deaths that do not fit that narrative are ignored. Patriot Post
Officer Kimberly Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright, was training rookie at the time . . . The Minnesota police veteran who fatally shot Daunte Wright was training another officer at the time of her fatal mistake. Kimberly Potter, 48, was formally identified Monday night as the officer caught on bodycam footage Sunday thinking she was firing a Taser at the 20-year-old black man — instead gasping, “Holy s–t. I just shot him!” At
least one of the fellow officers with her was a rookie she was training in Brooklyn Center, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association told the Star Tribune. Potter was guiding a new officer in her role as a field training officer, association head Brian Peters told the paper.
“She’s just a very dedicated, passionate, good person,” Peters insisted. New York Post
Maryland state trooper fatally shoots 16-year-old . . . A Maryland state trooper is being investigated in an officer-involved shooting that killed a 16-year-old. Police received two calls Tuesday about a suspicious man holding what appeared to be a gun. A uniformed trooper then confronted the male teen who appeared to have a gun and a knife. Police said a witness informed them that the teen adopted what appeared to be a shooting
stance and pointed a gun at the trooper. A second witness told investigators that after the trooper fired a shot, wounding the teen, the person pulled out a knife and try to get up. The trooper ordered the teen to drop the knife before firing for a second time. The gun recovered at the scene was determined to be an airsoft gun that is “a close representation of an actual handgun,” police said. The Hill
For goodness sake, why would one point a knife or a gun, even an airsoft one, at a police officer? I realize 16 year-olds can be obstinate and even dumb. But, parents, let's please teach our kids some common sense. This demonstrates that abolishing guns will not solve the 'being dumb' problem. What a tragedy for the parents.
GOP Lawmakers Aim to Force Vote on Bill to ‘End Infanticide’ . . . Congressional Democrats have blocked a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act more than 75 times in the past few years. Now, three Republican House members are seeking to force a vote on the bill. The bill does not restrict abortion, but only requires medical professionals to provide a baby who survives an abortion with the same level of medical care as any
other newborn child. “The right to life is the most sacred, inalienable human right afforded to us in the United States,” Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said in a statement announcing a discharge petition for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Daily Signal
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Having Achieved Peace In The Middle East, US To Withdraw Troops . . . U.S. troops are celebrating Biden's announcement that forces will withdraw from Afghanistan this year, having achieved total peace all across the Middle East. "Yes, the Middle East is now a peaceful utopia thanks to us," said Army General Austin Miller. "We came here looking for oil but didn't find any, so we decided to bring democracy
instead.
I'm happy to say that after 20 years we have achieved total victory."
Other reasons given for the withdrawal include the fact that there's nothing left to blow up, and the fact that all the troops have grown pretty bored after being there for 2 decades. "Also, we just remembered that we killed Bin Laden like 10 years ago, so I guess we don't really need to be here anymore," said General Miller. Biden has clarified that he will only be bringing the troops home for vaccinations and anti-racism training before re-deploying them to guard the Capitol.
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This is satire.
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