Just days before the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 23, 1963, Americans are no closer to knowing the whole truth about what happened at Dealey Plaza in Dallas that day. In fact, the Biden administration is taking steps to ensure that the truth may never be known.
On Friday, Oct. 18, Joe Biden’s Justice Department took further action to block the release of secret records related to the assassination. The government filed a summary judgment motion to assert control over congressional records related to JFK’s murder. This marks the latest effort by the Biden administration, which has moved since 2021 to prevent the release of remaining assassination documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Each time the government attempts to conceal or restrict critical information about the assassination, it sparks a massive and visceral public reaction.
The Justice Department’s moves contradict the 1992 John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which explicitly prohibits the president from exercising authority over congressional and non-executive branch records. The JFK Records Act also mandated the full public disclosure of all assassination records by Oct. 26, 2017.
On Oct. 19, 2022, the nonprofit Mary Ferrell Foundation, a privately operated archive specializing in records related to the Kennedy assassination and other major events of the 1960s and 1970s, filed a lawsuit against Biden and the National Archives. The lawsuit demands the release of all assassination records in compliance with the 2017 statutory deadline. The suit also seeks court orders requiring the National Archives to maintain a complete public directory of assassination record identification forms and fulfill other responsibilities mandated by law.
The idea for the lawsuit emerged after two successive presidential administrations missed the deadline to release all assassination records. However, it was President Biden’s actions after 2021 that triggered the lawsuit. Biden’s decisions effectively dismantled the standards set by the JFK Records Act, allowing executive agencies like the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service to withhold records. These agencies, which have long resisted releasing assassination documents, have even admitted to destroying some of the records.
The Justice Department’s motion for summary judgment would undermine the intent of the JFK Records Act. The law aimed to strip executive agencies of their authority over assassination records and establish an accountable, enforceable process for reviewing and releasing these documents. From 1994 to 1998, the Assassination Records Review Board, an independent agency established under the law, issued legally binding orders to review, postpone, or release millions of documents. These decisions ensured that postponements adhered strictly to the limited criteria outlined in section 6 of the law.
The Justice Department’s attempt to assert presidential control over congressional records is especially baffling. Multiple sections of the JFK Records Act explicitly state that the president’s authority applies only to executive branch records. Section 9(d)(1) clearly limits presidential power, underscoring that it does not extend to congressional assassination records.
Section 7(l) of the JFK Records Act explicitly states that the House and Senate Oversight Committees retain ongoing control and oversight over the management of assassination records, even after the ARRB concluded its work.
When Congress passed the JFK Records Act 32 years ago, lawmakers expressed deep concerns that executive branch agencies, with their history of obstructing investigations into the assassination, would continue to block the release of records. The Senate unanimously ratified the Act and filed a report emphasizing its intent, providing an interpretive guide for courts to refer to in cases involving the Act. The Senate’s apprehension about presidential control over congressional records leaves no room for misinterpretation.
Since Kennedy’s assassination 61 years ago, federal agencies have aggressively collected and locked away documents and evidence related to his murder. Each time the government attempts to conceal or restrict critical information about the assassination, it sparks a massive and visceral public reaction. This occurred when the infamous Zapruder film was first broadcast in 1975, 12 years after the assassination, and again after Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning 1991 film brought public attention to the government’s secret troves of JFK assassination records.
“The JFK Assassination Chokeholds” chronicles over 60 years of government obstruction surrounding the Kennedy assassination. It details how recent presidential orders have effectively sealed thousands of records from public disclosure, directly violating the unanimous will of Congress and the expressed desires of the American people.
Every man has a hobby or two. Some, like stamp collecting or bowling, reveal very little about his character. Others ... well, let me point you in the direction of Donald Barr, father of former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.
When Donald wasn’t doing his 9-to-5 work as headmaster at the exclusive New York City private school Dalton, he was busy writing some rather peculiar science fiction. His 1973 novel, "Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale," envisions a universe where the elite indulge in the most depraved of activities.
To this day, with the exception of Ghislaine Maxwell, not a single person linked to Jeffrey Epstein has faced arrest or prosecution.
On the planet Kossar, trafficking, sexual debauchery, and the enslavement of human beings are the norm. The ruling oligarchs treat people as commodities, breeding sex slaves and subjecting them to hormone manipulation to satisfy their perverse desires.
This reads very much like a sci-fi version of Jeffrey Epstein’s real-life empire of exploitation, with all manner of perversions facilitated by his connections to powerful elites.
I mention Epstein for a very specific reason. You see, shortly after writing his rather eccentric novel, Barr inexplicably hired the sexual predator to teach at his school. Epstein, a college dropout with no teaching experience, was criminally unqualified for the role.
Remember, this is the Dalton School we are talking about, one of the most prestigious private institutions in the United States. It has long been a breeding ground for the children of the wealthy and powerful, boasting alumni who go on to attend Ivy League universities and hold influential positions across various fields.
Such an august reputation makes the hiring of an unqualified individual like Epstein all the more baffling — until you realize that dad Donald had worked for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. Now, things look a little clearer. But also considerably darker.
Was Jeffrey Epstein an intelligence asset? A better question might be, how could someone without intelligence connections operate with such impunity for so many years?
As for Donald’s son, it’s difficult to know where to begin.
The former U.S. attorney general has longstanding ties to the CIA. Early in his career, Bill Barr worked for the CIA while attending law school, specifically in the intelligence analysis and law divisions. Throughout his legal career, Barr maintained connections with the intelligence community, evident during his tenure as attorney general under George H.W. Bush, a former CIA director.
Most readers know that Bill Barr's connection to Epstein traces back to 2019, when, as U.S. attorney general, he oversaw the Justice Department during the pedophile's arrest in Florida. But again, as most readers know, appearances can be very deceptive.
Barr and Epstein go way back. As the excellent investigative reporter Nick Bryant has shown with photographic evidence, Barr and Epstein clearly attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts, a renowned arts education institution in northern Michigan, when they were kids. At the very same time.
However, when Bryant looked through the school's yearbook, he found that none of the photos had names listed. A yearbook without names is not just uncommon. It’s unheard of. Something is off.
In August 2019, shortly after Epstein was found dead in his prison cell, Bill Barr issued the following statement:
“I was appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody. Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered.”
Indeed, they must. Such as, just how close were Bill Barr and Epstein, really? How deep did their connection go?
And for anyone thinking, "How can you criticize Bill Barr? He's on 'our team,'" let’s be absolutely clear: When it comes to the mass trafficking and exploitation of children — including victims as young as 11 — there are no teams. There's only a choice between good and evil. Either you oppose Satan or support him. I know where I stand. But do we know where Bill Barr stands?
To this day, with the exception of Ghislaine Maxwell, not a single person linked to Jeffrey Epstein has faced arrest or prosecution.
Let that sink in. Epstein masterminded one of the largest and most sophisticated trafficking rings in American history, allegedly catering to some of the world's most powerful figures, from Bill Clinton to Prince Andrew. Yet here we are in 2024, and we are no closer to justice than we were back in 2019.
After Epstein's arrest, Barr initially claimed a conflict of interest, citing his previous work at Kirkland and Ellis — the law firm that helped broker Epstein's notorious 2007 "sweetheart" deal with Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Marie Villafaña.
But after a quick consultation with "ethics officials," Barr abruptly reversed his decision and inserted himself into Epstein's prosecution in Manhattan. Of course, his connections ran even deeper than a 12-year-old legal assignment. Let's not forget, Barr's father had longstanding ties to Epstein.
Why didn’t Barr fully recuse himself and allow an impartial prosecutor to take charge? Because, it seems, he was under orders not to. And who would issue such orders? Likely, his old friends at the CIA. Epstein had too much dirt on too many high-profile people. For that reason, he was almost certainly murdered. His victims will never see justice, and we will never uncover the actual truth.
Jeffrey Epstein is dead and so too are the chances of getting to the bottom of the darkest story since 9/11.
Bill Barr has some serious questions to answer. He knows this. It's high time the rest of America knew it, too.
On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the space of about 10 minutes, one man killed 58 people and injured hundreds. It was a massacre that scarred the nation and became the deadliest mass shooting by a lone individual in U.S. history.
Even more suspiciously, the shooter supposedly used a bump stock — an accessory that makes a rifle function like an automatic weapon but severely reduces its accuracy.
Yet the most haunting aspect of it all might not be the event itself but the total lack of answers that followed.
Paddock, a 64-year-old wealthy, retired accountant, had no criminal history, no clear affiliations, no public signs of radicalization. The FBI, in record time, announced that Paddock had no terrorist ties and was a lone-wolf gunman. This was declared even before a complete timeline of the massacre had been established, before the number of victims had been confirmed, before a single motive had been pinned down.
It’s reasonable to wonder, loudly and unapologetically, how the FBI could have known.
A crime of this magnitude, involving hundreds of rounds fired into a densely packed crowd, demands careful investigation, not conclusions that seem prepackaged to quell public fears. The FBI moved with an unsettling swiftness to dismiss any links to terror or conspiracies, yet failed to provide any plausible explanation for why a retired accountant would carry out such a calculated and brutal attack.
Stephen Paddock was not the profile of a typical mass shooter. He wasn't an embittered loner nursing a grudge or a young oddball seeking attention. He had no manifesto. He was, at least according to those who knew him, financially comfortable and mostly uninvolved with anything that might explain such a rampage.
And yet, within days of the attack, the media and law enforcement assured the American public there was nothing more to see, no bigger plot, just an inexplicable act by an inexplicable man. He had a gambling problem, they suggested, and that’s why he decided to let loose before turning the gun on himself.
One needn't be a tinfoil-hat-wearing lifetime subscriber to QAnon to have some very serious questions here. If the timeline of events wasn’t sorted out, if even the total number of victims was still unclear, how could anyone declare with any confidence that Paddock acted alone and without outside influence? Why has the motive remained "undetermined" after years of investigation, with no real attempt to connect the dots?
Police recordings confirmed that there were multiple shooters on different floors of the hotel that day. Witnesses reported seeing muzzle flashes from overhead, possibly from helicopters or drones, but none from Paddock's room. The hotel room showed barely any shell casings; it should have been completely littered. Some witnesses even saw shooters inside the venue itself.
Paddock was and still is an implausible perpetrator for this massacre. The .223 caliber rounds fired from his vantage point were at the extreme range of their accuracy, yet somehow hundreds of rounds found their mark in a compact space. Even more suspiciously, the shooter supposedly used a bump stock — an accessory that makes a rifle function like an automatic weapon but severely reduces its accuracy.
Growing up on a farm and hunting with my father on a regular basis, I got to know a fair bit about guns. I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I know enough to say this: In the kind of windy conditions you'd get at that height, with buildings all around in an urban setting, the bullets should have been all over the place.
Wind drift alone could have thrown them 50 feet off target, yet somehow there were no victims beyond the concert grounds — none in the surrounding hotels or streets. It’s hard to believe that Paddock, with no training or even documented trips to a shooting range, could pull off that level of precision.
Also, consider the psychological profile. Mass shooters typically target people they harbor hatred toward. Paddock’s victims, however, were ordinary Americans — demographically and ethnically similar to himself. It just doesn’t add up.
Then there's the rather disturbing detail recently brought to light by investigative journalist Ian Carroll. On a recent episode of "The Danny Jones Podcast," the renegade researcher discussed not only the number of ridiculously clean head shots found at the scene but also a surprising Vegas visitor.
On the very day of the massacre, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was staying at the Mandalay Bay. Just months earlier, in May 2017, MBS had launched a sweeping purge against his political and business rivals, declaring that "no one will survive in a corruption case — whoever he is, even if he's a prince or a minister." In light of this, it isn’t unreasonable to question whether there might be a Saudi connection to the massacre. After all, let’s not forget 9/11.
But there’s more.
Consider the fact that at least eight key witnesses have died under suspicious circumstances since 2017. Each of these individuals held information that contradicted the official account. Four of them spoke to the media, insisting that there was more than one shooter, while others died mysteriously before they could go public.
With these disturbing loose ends and unanswered questions, why has one of the nation’s deadliest massacres been so easily swept under the rug? Why was this catastrophe treated like an inconvenient news cycle instead of an atrocity demanding a thorough and transparent investigation? The truth still escapes us, and the silence from officials only makes the mystery — and the doubt — deepen.
We must never forget what happened on October 1, 2017, even if those in power would rather we did.
Exactly 50 days before the November election and 64 days after the previous assassination attempt, President Donald Trump was allegedly targeted for murder by a Democratic donor with an impotent interest in Ukraine's war effort.
Unlike Thomas Matthew Crooks' July 13 assassination attempt, which left Trump bleeding, two individuals critically wounded, and heroic former firefighter Corey Comperatore dead in the stands, it appears there may be far more clarity around suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh and his Sept. 15 plot.
For starters, Routh is still alive to speak to his alleged crimes. There's also the matter of Routh's significant online footprint and his apparent affinity in recent years for doing interviews with virtually anyone who would stick a microphone in his face.
What follows is a summary of the facts as they are presently understood.
According to the FBI's affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed Monday, President Donald Trump was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. Unbeknownst to him or his Secret Service detail, a deranged gunman lay ahead in ambush.
Just after 1:30 p.m., a U.S. Secret Service agent on Trump's detail, who had been walking the perimeter of the course — one hole ahead of the president — spotted what appeared to be a rifle "poking out of the tree line" and through a chain-link fence, roughly 400 yards away from Trump.
The USSS agent reportedly opened fire but failed to land a shot. The suspect apparently never got a shot off.
'Nothing will slow me down.'
Suspected gunman Ryan Routh apparently fled the tree line, jumped into a Nissan SUV with license plates belonging to a stolen white 2012 Ford truck, then sped out of the area.
The gunman left behind a GoPro digital camera, two bags including a backpack, a black plastic bag containing food, and an SKS-style 7.62x39 caliber rifle with a long-range scope and an "obliterated" serial number.
Blaze News previously noted that geolocation data from Routh's T-Mobile cell phone apparently placed him along the fence line at 1:59 a.m. Sunday morning. He remained there until the Secret Service agent opened fire.
The FBI affidavit indicated that after fleeing the scene, Routh traveled northbound on I-95 — where officers from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and Martin County Sheriff's Office made their move, afforded insights about the driver and vehicle by a witness who spotted Routh getting away.
Roughly 45 minutes after the USSS agent opened fire and 40 miles away from the course, MCSO managed to stop Routh's vehicle and place him under arrest without incident.
Routh is now facing charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. If slapped with the maximum penalty for both charges, then Routh is looking at 20 years' imprisonment. He may face additional charges.
'The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin.'
Shortly after the incident, President Trump stated, "There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL! Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER! I will always love you for supporting me. Unity. Peace. Make America Great Again."
While the FBI announced it was leading the ongoing investigation, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Sunday that the Sunshine State will be conducting its own investigation.
"The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee," wrote DeSantis.
Ryan Wesley Routh is a 58-year-old North Carolina native who has lived in Hawaii for at least six years, where he owns a small construction company. While still a Hawaii resident, Routh reportedly voted in North Carolina's Democratic primary this past March.
According to his LinkedIn, he received a degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Routh was known to law enforcement prior to Sunday and has a significant criminal record, charged with at least 100 criminal counts in North Carolina alone.
The suspected would-be assassin reportedly wielded a fully automatic machine gun in a three-hour standoff with police in North Carolina in 2002.
According a decades-old Greensboro News & Record report, Routh was charged at the time with carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon of mass destruction. He was also charged with resisting, delaying, and obstructing a law enforcement officer as well as driving with a revoked license and hit-and-run.
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction offender database indicates Routh was convicted in 2010 for possession of stolen goods. The corresponding police affidavit used to get a search warrant claimed Routh was selling stolen building supplies to buy crack cocaine, reported the Associated Press.
Routh has also reportedly been in and out of court on numerous occasions for various civil suits, for several of which he was ultimately ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to plaintiffs.
Blaze News previously reported that Jeffrey Veltri, the FBI's special agent in charge of the Miami field office, revealed that the FBI received a complaint in 2019 that Routh had a firearm, despite being a convicted felon.
According to Veltri, the FBI passed the information on to local law enforcement in Honolulu. It's unclear whether anything came of the referral.
Sleuths online had ample time before Facebook and X scrubbed his profiles to screenshot and archive damning comments indicating his political views and possible motivations. It quickly became clear that he had thrown in his lot with the Democrats and bought into their rhetoric about Trump.
Blaze News previously highlighted how Routh recycled a go-to Democratic slogan in this election cycle in an April 22 post on X, writing:
@POTUS Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free. Trumps should be MASA ... make Americans slave again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting in us to show the way.
His final two posts on X prior to the incident were messages to President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, recommending in mid-July that they should "visit the injured people in the hospital from the Trump rally and attend the funeral of the murdered fireman. Trump will never do anything for them....show the world what compassion and humanity is all about. 8084648342."
Apart from his consistent fixation on committing civilians to the Ukrainian war effort, Routh's politics have been all over the place. He has indicated, for instance, that he voted for Trump in 2016 but that he deeply regrets it. Prior to throwing his support behind Biden, Routh also admitted to having a soft spot for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
It's clear from his social media posts that he also supported the Black Lives Matter movement and has adopted anti-Israel talking points, such as the suggestion that Israel has no claim to the land within its borders.
In his self-published 2023 book, "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," Routh echoes various establishment Democrat talking points, including the suggestion that the Jan. 6 riot was a "catastrophe ... perpetrated by Donald Trump and his undemocratic posse."
As was the case with Crooks, Routh has made political contributions to Democrats. In Routh's case, he made around 20 small donations to Democrats through ActBlue between 2019 and 2020.
In his book, the suspected would-be assassin apologizes to Iranians for Trump dismantling the nuclear deal and noted, "You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment," reported the New York Post.
The Democratic donor added, "No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection."
Routh appears to be a zealous advocate for Ukraine and its defensive war against Russia. He appears to have run the website "Fight for Ukraine," where he figures prominently in the About section and provides links to his now-deleted webpages.
The page states:
We need thousands of fighters and humanitarian aid workers and supplies to win this war and no one should ever let paperwork or red tape hinder their desire to fight for freedom, humanity and basic human rights. It is the most honorable and dignified sacrifice anyone can make to support their fellowman. Please encourage every age and gender from around the world to come and join the fight.
On the site, Routh details various ways — including unlawful ways — people could supposedly go to fight as mercenaries in Ukraine. For those who simply cross the border into Ukraine, he recommended they give him a call once in Kiev.
The New York Times' Thomas Gibbons-Neff recalled an interview he had in 2023 with individuals who were "not qualified to be allowed anywhere near the battlefield in a U.S.-led war and yet were fighting on the front against Russia, with access to weapons and military equipment."
Gibbons-Neff indicated he heard of Routh through a former Afghan special operations soldier in Iran.
"Like many foreign volunteers who showed up at Ukraine's border in the war's early months, he was eager to cast aside his former life for something far more exciting and make a name for himself," wrote the Times reporter.
Routh, who told the Financial Times in 2022 that the Ukrainian Foreign Legion rejected him on account of his age, apparently spent some time in Ukraine attempting to recruit Afghans who had fled the Taliban. His X timeline was crowded with failed pleas to various defense officials and organizations to allow Afghan fighters into Ukraine.
Ukraine's foreign legion has characterized Routh as a charlatan.
The legion said in an official statement, "American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has no relation to the unit. Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true."
"There's a streak of zealotry in him," Evelyn Aschenbrenner, an American who was in the legion's administration until June, told the Washington Post. "In November of last year, I began sending out a [message] to all foreign soldiers saying, 'This guy is not a real recruiter. He's not legit. I don't know what he's up to. Just stay away from him — block and ignore and move on.'"
"The cats and dogs on the military bases did more than he did," added Aschenbrenner.
Despite begging others to do so and claiming he had in a December 2023 Facebook post, the New York Times indicated Routh never fought in Ukraine.
Routh was, however, a cheerleader for the Ukrainian brigade associated with neo-Nazis since its inception. He appears at the 1:50-minute mark in a 2022 video of a Ukrainian demonstration in support of the Azov Brigade.
He also tweeted to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy on March 13, 2022, informing him "I am an American coming to fight with you in Ukraine; I am flying into Krokow and will take any transport to Kyiv to meet you and fight to the death. We must get every civilian in the world to come and join the fight; I will be the example. Attack moscow now."
USA Today indicated it tried calling a number associated with Ryan and was greeted by a voicemail message identifying the number's owner as "Ryan in Hawaii," working with the "National Volunteer Center, sending soldiers to Ukraine, as well as Taiwan."
The International Volunteer Center in Ukraine made clear it hasn't worked with Ryan.
Routh told the Times that he had also been scheduled to meet with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission) "for two hours" to increase support for Ukraine. It's unclear if they ever went through with the meeting.
The Helsinki Commission is an independent commission of the federal government that has among its current commissioners Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y) and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
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Alex Jones may be associated with tin foil hats, but he’s often also associated with being right while wearing them — which has earned him some serious respect in the eyes of those on a quest for the truth.
It all really took off when Jones received tips that there was a gathering of elites rife with ritual sacrifices in a section of California woods called Bohemian Grove.
“What did you see? And how did you get in?” Glenn Beck asks the famous “conspiracy theorist.”
“It’s a 2,700-acre redwood grove in the most beautiful place in America, Sonoma County,” Jones explains. “They’ve got over 100 camps in it. Some are big and nice, depending on how elite you are.”
“Really, it’s a big art thing. At the time, I went with the sensational stuff of the occultic stuff, and the ritual that they do in the middle of July every year,” Jones explains. “That’s what blew up with the Evangelical Christians.”
“Definitely, it’s occultic, and there’s vibes of that everywhere,” he adds, explaining that the gathering is a Germanic Druidic spin-off of Skull and Bones. “So, it kind of has that seal on it of the Skull and Bones, Germanic mystery school, hyper Masonic, super secret, inner, inner Masonic stuff.”
While there were over a thousand in attendance, Jones recalls seeing Danny Glover and Clint Eastwood.
“I didn’t run up because there’s security everywhere, and I only snuck in. I snuck in during the day, went around the security in the woods. They beef it up a lot now,” he explains. While most reporters who’ve attempted to gain access ask questions right away, Jones refrained, which he believes helped his case.
Filming wasn’t allowed, so in order to capture the footage, Jones had to climb up a redwood tree and stay out of sight. He was questioned twice by sheriff’s deputies and secret service, but he said he made it look like he “was just hanging out.”
After he'd found the perfect spot to film, that's when he caught the ritual.
“Oh my gosh, there’s the pond, and there’s the owl, the little lake, and there’s bats flying around us and it’s twilight,” Jones recalls. “There was a whole kind of gay vibe going on too. I had some of the greens keepers go, ‘Hey, baby,’ and whistle at me.”
Jones then got the shot of the ritual, noting that the owl was “theater.”
“But the occult is what theater comes from,” he says, adding, "I'm not saying they're all devil worshippers or even bad, but there is a cultic thing to it."
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The powers that be have long claimed that the fluoridation of drinking water — which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deemed one of the greatest health achievements of the last century — is safe and effective, even though exposure at elevated levels has been linked to various adverse health effects in humans, such as osteoclerosis, calcification of tendons, endocrine dysfunction, and bone deformities.
Those who dared suggest that the governmental effort to prevent tooth decay might have side effects such as mental retardation and cancer were in many cases vilified. It appears that, once again, those written off as quacks and conspiracy theorists were onto something.
The National Toxicology Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released a report Wednesday revealing that fluoridated water can lower IQ in kids.
The National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements indicated that fluoridated municipal drinking water accounts for approximately 60% of fluoride intakes in the U.S., and that as of 2020, 62.9% of the population had access to a fluoridated water system.
"Higher estimated fluoride exposures (e.g., as in approximations of exposure such as drinking water fluoride concentrations that exceed the World Health Organization Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality of 1.5 mg/L of fluoride) are consistently associated with lower IQ in children," said the NTP report.
When assessing scientific evidence association of a specific health outcome with an exposure, the NTP uses four confidence levels: high, moderate, or very low.
After evaluating numerous epidemiological studies from countries including Canada, China, India, and Mexico, where some pregnant women, babies, and children were exposed to fluoride at levels exceeding 1.5 milligrams per liter of drinking water, the NTP "concluded there is moderate confidence in the scientific evidence that showed an association between higher levels of fluoride and lower IQ in children."
Although scores of studies caught the investigators' attention, they appear to have focused primarily on 19 high-quality studies that had low risks of bias. Eighteen of these studies that evaluated IQ in children provided "consistent evidence of an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ scores."
Whereas World Health Organization guidelines recommend 1.5 mg/L as a safe limit for fluoride, the HHS alternatively recommends 0.7 milligrams per liter of fluoride, noting, "This is the level that prevents tooth decay and promotes good oral health." However, some American municipalities across the country may have slightly more or less in their respective water supplies.
New York City, for instance, adds a fluoride compound that provides the water supply with a concentration of roughly 0.8 mg/L.
Prior to 2015, the recommended upper range in the U.S. was 1.2. The recommended concentration was changed in 2015 to minimize the risk of dental fluorosis.
According to the NTP report, as of 2020, roughly 3.5 million Americans were served by water systems containing over 1.1 mg/L of naturally occurring fluoride; around 1.9 million Americans were supplied by systems with over 1.5 mg/L; and 1 million were being supplied with over 2 mg/L of naturally occurring fluoride.
'The inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children was consistent across different study populations.'
Citing the findings of a recent study, the report further indicated that "regions of the United States where [community water systems] and private wells contain natural fluoride concentrations of more than 1.5 mg/L serve over 2.9 million U.S. residents."
Although the NTP report would not confirm whether the currently recommended level of 0.7. mg/L is dumbing down the population, it called for "targeted research that prospectively examines the association between fluoride exposure and children's IQ in optimally fluoridated areas of the United States ... to add clarity to the existing data."
According to the NTP, there is "also some evidence that fluoride exposure is associated with other neurodevelopmental effects in children." However, its confidence in that evidence is presently not as strong.
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The House Oversight, Ways and Means, and Judiciary Committees brought their nearly yearlong impeachment probe of President Joe Biden to an end Monday, concluding that the Democrat who unwittingly made Kamala Harris' second presidential bid possible has engaged in "egregious" and impeachable offenses.
According to the investigators' nearly 300-page report, "overwhelming evidence demonstrates that Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family."
"Among other aspects of this conspiracy, the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden," said the report.
Bank records reportedly show that when accounting also for the Biden family's business associates and their companies, the international "influence peddling schemes totaled over $27 million from foreign sources" just from 2014 to 2023.
Contrary to the repeated suggestion by Biden and boosters that he had no hand in his son's shady dealings with foreign nationals from Ukraine, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere, the report maintains that Biden "knowingly participated in this conspiracy" — that it is "inconceivable that President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by abusing his office of public trust."
In August 2019, Biden said, "I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses."
The following month, Biden said, "I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings."
Days after indicating that he stood by his previous protestations, Biden noted on Oct. 15, "I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We've always kept everything separate."
Biden made similar denials on at least a dozen more occasions, well into his presidency.
Despite his protests, the report indicates that no such distance existed and that some of the proceeds from the influence-peddling scheme indeed went to Joe Biden. Among the funds from the scheme that ended up in Joe Biden's bank account, hundreds of thousands of dollars were allegedly "directly traceable to China."
'Joe Biden has exhibited conduct and taken actions that the Founders sought to guard against in drafting the impeachment provisions in the Constitution.'
The report indicated that Biden's active participation was sometimes expressed in American policy changes, as evidenced by the leveraging of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine to secure a result favorable to a company affiliated with his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden.
Not only does the report accuse Biden and his ilk of engaging in this conspiracy, it claims they also did their best to cover it up:
Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions. Substantial efforts were also made to hide President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business activities.
House Democrats may be prickled to learn that precedents they set in 2019 in their impeachment of President Donald Trump have been turned on Biden.
The House Democrats of yesteryear argued that "'abuse of office,' defined as the exercise of 'official power to obtain an improper personal benefit, while ignoring or injuring the national interest,' is an impeachable offense."
House Republicans were evidently willing to accept this legal interpretation as instructive in their investigation of Biden.
The House Democrats of yesteryear also apparently argued that "'the House may properly conclude that a President's obstruction of Congress is relevant to assessing the evidentiary record in an impeachment inquiry' and 'where the President illegally seeks to obstruct such an inquiry, the House is free to infer that evidence blocked from its view is harmful to the President's position.'"
House Republicans, met with obstruction and refusals to cooperate from the White House, the Biden-Harris administration, and the DOJ, were again willing to embrace the supposed wisdom of their peers and similarly infer guilt.
Extra to hammering Biden over his alleged sale of American political destiny for self-enrichment, the report separately accuses Biden of using "his official position to conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen."
Robert Hur, who led the investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents, apparently figured the president too decrepit to face legal culpability, though he ultimately chose ultimately not to exonerate him outright.
The report underscored that "Joe Biden has exhibited conduct and taken actions that the Founders sought to guard against in drafting the impeachment provisions in the Constitution: abuse of power, foreign entanglements, corruption, and obstruction of investigations into these matters."
It recommended that under the Constitution, the remedy is clear: The House must impeach Biden and the Senate should remove him from office.
Although the report could prove a black eye for the Democratic president whose political career is now all but over, it may similarly dog the Department of Justice, since it reiterates and buttresses past claims about the DOJ's apparent efforts to give Hunter Biden "special treatment" and spare him from the kind of accountability those outside the top echelons of the Democratic Party might otherwise face.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, stated on X, "The evidence produced by our impeachment inquiry is the strongest case for impeachment of a sitting president the House of Representatives has ever investigated. We have exposed the truth."
"The facts speak for themselves, and Democrats can no longer stretch the truth to cover for President Biden," wrote House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). "As Democrats celebrate Joe Biden and crown Kamala Harris as his heir apparent this week, Americans should remember the reality of the Biden-Harris Administration: crime, chaos, and corruption."
Politico noted that it would be historically anomalous now for an impeachment vote not to follow the inquiry, not to mention politically risky for House Republicans facing re-election.
While an impeachment vote might succeed in the House, where Republicans enjoy a sliver majority, it is all but guaranteed to fail in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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President Joe Biden’s parting gift to his replacement is a March 2021 executive order that effectively compels federal agencies to mobilize and register elements of historically Democratic voting blocs along with potentially ineligible voters.
With President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris now in a surprisingly tight race, this scheme — which critics have suggested will play out as "election interference" — could potentially hand the election over to the Democrats. After all, the leftist think tank whose recommendations ostensibly inspired Executive Order 14019 indicated that the scheme could net as many as 3 million new voter registrations a year.
That Democrats swapped out Biden for Harris makes little difference.
While Democrat-controlled states like Michigan appear keen to take EO 14019 as far as it can, Republican-run states and states with Republican election officials have an opportunity to limit its impact.
Most Republican secretaries of state and attorneys general have spoken out about EO 14019.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for instance, blasted the EO in October 2022, stating, "It’s difficult to see how this is anything but a grotesque insult to election integrity, on top of being unconstitutional."
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft stated, "This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections."
In terms of concrete action taken by Republican AGs, however, the record is thus far somewhat mixed. While some have taken concrete steps, as we will outline below, others thus far seem to be content to rest on having issued a strongly worded letter.
There are a number of outstanding questions, even though the country goes to the polls in about three months: What have states with Republican trifectas done about the EO? In cases of states that have yet to take meaningful action, what are they planning on doing, if anything? Is it too late now to act?
Blaze News recently reached out to the relevant officials in Republican trifecta states as well as in select swing states for answers. While some responses may be heartening for those keen on a fair election, it appears that the fight over EO 14019 is just getting started.
According to Biden’s Executive Order 14019, minorities, blacks in particular, are disproportionately met today with “significant obstacles” to voting — "burdened by voter identification laws and limited opportunities to vote by mail."
To accommodate the constituents of those historically Democratic voting blocs supposedly incapable of using IDs and mailboxes, and to "protect the right to vote," Biden called upon federal agencies to "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process."
'Not only is it unconstitutional, it is outrageously wrong.'
The Heritage Foundation's government watchdog Oversight Project, which has waged a campaign to expose and kneecap the initiative, revealed earlier this year that under the EO, federal agencies that regularly engage with the American public must:
The Foundation for Government Accountability, another watchdog group that has been tracking the implementation of EO 14019, summarized the problem thusly:
At the minimum, what’s become known as ‘Bidenbucks’ is a clear abuse of power. Political appointees ... are being deputized to register and mobilize voters and submit their plans directly to the White House.It is an unconstitutional and undemocratic way for the incumbent to intentionally put his or her finger on the scale to affect the outcome of an election — and use your tax dollars to do so.
Some scholars have alternatively suggested that watchdogs and critics have made a mountain out of a mole hill.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a professor of law at Harvard Law School whose research largely concerns empirical political science and the American electoral system, told Blaze News, "I don't think there's a serious constitutional issue here."
"The federal government has authority to regulate the 'manner' of congressional elections, and the Supreme Court has held that the 'manner' of elections includes voter registration,” said Stephanopoulos. "So an executive order addressing voter registration raises no genuine constitutional problem."
While Stephanopoulos indicated the executive order "addressing voter registration raises no genuine constitutional problem," he acknowledged that it would be problematic for federal agencies that have not been appropriately designated by states as "voter registration agencies" under the National Voter Registration Act to engage in voter registration efforts.
The trouble is that federal agencies have reportedly been working toward the satisfaction of Biden’s order without authorization in various states of strategic importance.
Here is a brief overview of where Republican states stand on EO 14019 and what they have done thus far to date to combat the problem.
Louisiana
In September 2022, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led a coalition of Republican attorney generals — from Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, Mississippi, Utah, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, and Alabama — in demanding that Biden rescind his EO.
Their joint letter noted that the EO "appears to be a get-out-the-vote effort designed by the Left, to benefit the Left, all paid for by federal taxpayers. It is illegal, unethical, and unconstitutional."
After the Biden administration failed to respond, Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry penned a follow-up letter to the Democratic president on March 4, highlighting how he had ignored the multi-state imploration as well as her colleagues' concerns "about the overreach, intrusion in state election administration, interference in the election process, and possible intimidation of individuals applying for federal benefits at federal agencies that this executive order represents."
Secretary Landry emphasized that Biden’s initiatives "would do nothing but undermine the states and the voters."
When pressed on actions taken and planned by Louisiana regarding EO 14019, Joel Watson, deputy secretary of state for communications, told Blaze News that Landry "believes that said EO is a violation of the Constitution’s Election Clause."
Watson indicated that "[f]uture actions are pending" but that he was not presently at liberty to go into detail on them.
Tennessee
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was one of 15 Republican secretaries of state who signed an Aug. 3, 2022, letter to Biden requesting that he rescind EO 14019.
"Executive Order 14019 was issued without Constitutional authority nor Congressional approval," said the letter. "Involving Federal agencies in the registration process will produce duplicate registrations, confuse citizens, and complicate the jobs of our county clerks and election officials. If implemented, the Executive Order would also erode the responsibility and duties of the state legislatures to their situational duty within the Election Clause."
Hargett said in a statement to Blaze News, "The Biden Administration's implementation of Presidential Executive Order 14019, which allows ineligible voters to be provided with voter registration services, has made it more difficult to keep voter rolls clean of ineligible voters."
"We will continue to ensure the votes of eligible voters are not diluted by ineligible voters," added Hargett.
Wyoming
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray told Blaze News that "Executive Order No. 14019 is blatantly unconstitutional, and violates the authority of the states to administer elections under the United States Constitution. Not only is it unconstitutional, it is outrageously wrong."
Gray noted that Wyoming joined a coalition of eight other states — West Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Wyoming — in filing an Amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on May 28 "asking the Court to rule that Executive Order No. 14019 is unconstitutional, and violates the authority granted to the states to administer elections by the United States Constitution."
The corresponding case, Keefer v. Biden, was first brought by 26 Pennsylvania state representatives and one state senator challenging Biden's EO as well as Gov. Josh Shapiro’s enactment of automatic voter registration.
The plaintiffs claimed that the EO and Shapiro's registration schemes violated the Constitution's Electors and Elections Clauses and that the president "does not have the power to regulate the time, place, and manner of Presidential or Congressional elections in Pennsylvania."
They also argued that the "President of the United States does not have the power to usurp the authority of Pennsylvania legislators with regard to the registration of Pennsylvania voters, as Article VII, Section 1 of the Pennsylvania Constitution clearly places the duty of 'regulating the registration of electors' on the General Assembly."
After proving unsuccessful in lesser courts, the plaintiffs asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case in April with an appeal still pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Indiana
Blaze News previously reported that in late June, Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales (R) put federal agencies operating inside his state on notice that they are not permitted to engage in voter registration or other election activity without state authorization.
Extra to the National Voter Registration Act, Indiana Code 3-7-17 requires that such agencies are specifically designated by the state as "voter registration agencies" to lawfully provide or offer voter registration services and the like.
Morales noted in his June 28 letters, "To my knowledge, your agency is not a designated voter registration agency."
"If your agency has been distributing voter registration forms or assisting the public with voter registration or absentee voting forms, you are requested to discontinue such action immediately, as the unauthorized conduct of such activity is likely violative of Indiana and federal law," added Morales.
Unfortunately, it appears as though elements of the Biden administration have disregarded Morales' notices.
Lindsey Eaton, communications director for Morales, told Blaze News this week that the "Indiana Secretary of State's Office has received a very low number of responses to the letters. It’s concerning as these letters were sent more than a month ago."
"This is beginning to become a pattern of the Biden Administration continuing to hide information related to the implementation of his executive order," continued Eaton. "Secretary of State Diego Morales is currently looking at other avenues that could force federal agencies to discontinue covering up actions under the Biden administration. Secretary Morales is committed to protecting Indiana's elections."
Missouri
JoDonn Chaney, director of communications for Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, told Blaze News that his state has been ranked very high in election integrity assessments, adding "we run elections just fine."
"Any interference from the federal government would just make our elections worse," said Chaney.
'This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections.'
Chaney alluded to EO 14019 as a prime example of a federal initiative that would do just that.
In the interest of protecting the integrity of elections in Missouri as well as to preclude the Biden-Harris administration from infringing on the state’s rights to manage its own election procedures, Ashcroft filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on July 31 challenging EO 14019.
"Missouri has a robust and effective election system in place, and it is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government, to manage voter registration and election procedures," Ashcroft said in a statement.
Ashcroft added, "This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections. This legal action is not about partisan politics; it is about maintaining the balance of power between the states and the federal government as intended by our Founding Fathers."
Extra to Biden, the lawsuit names the heads of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Transportation, and several others as defendants.
The complaint raises various concerns but emphasizes Missouri’s interest "is in the need to maintain a current accurate vote roll that includes only the names of citizens eligible to cast a ballot and to assure that the ballots actually cast and counted are those cast by citizens eligible to cast a ballot."
According to the suit, the implementation of EO 14019 will "undermine this interest and the Plaintiffs' ability to fulfill their responsibility to oversee fair, just, and honest elections."
Chaney stressed to Blaze News, "We will strongly oppose any federal interference in Missouri elections."
Georgia
In Georgia, President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are presently polling within a point of one another. Biden narrowly won the state in 2020 — by a margin of 0.23% and 11,779 votes.
Kara Murray, spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, told Blaze News in a statement that Carr "has continued to defend Georgia's commonsense election law, which strengthens security, expands access and ensures transparency for all Georgians."
Regarding EO 14019, Murray said, "We agree that President Biden's Executive Order is unconstitutional, and we will continue to fulfill our duty and ensure that Georgia is protected from any illegal actions by the federal government."
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was among the 15 top election officials who previously denounced Biden’s EO and raised alarm about the scheme.
Alabama
Republican leaders and election officials in Alabama have been particularly vocal about EO 14019 and the threat they believe it poses to the integrity of elections in the state.
Earlier this summer, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen raised the alarm about federal policies that provide voter registration forms to foreign nationals as well as to the dead.
The secretary claimed that the Biden-Harris administration is "knowingly and purposefully enacting policies that result in supplying non-citizens with a mechanism to register to vote in our state and all 49 other states."
Allen further noted that his office has attempted on several occasions to gain "clarification from the White House regarding the Biden Administration’s efforts to expand the NVRA through the implementation of Presidential Executive Order 14019" — attempts that have apparently been in vain.
"It is obvious to me that this EO is an attempt to federalize an expansion of voter registration policies originally established by the NVRA. I have requested access to public records and information related to those plans and their implementation within our state," Allen said in a statement. "Those requests have been ignored."
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office indicated in a statement to Blaze News that the Biden-Harris administration has also "rebuffed requests from Secretary Allen to cooperate with him to remove noncitizens who may be registered to vote in Alabama."
'A ton of damage has been done already.'
"The States have primary responsibility for registering voters, determining their eligibility, and conducting elections. But through EO 14019, the Biden-Harris Administration has forced federal agencies to flood every State with voter registration forms. Many of the recipients are not eligible to vote," said Marshall’s office.
Whilst pushing this scheme, the White House has "opposed efforts like the SAVE Act that would ensure those voting in our elections have the documents to prove their citizenship."
The Alabama AG's office noted that it is "working with Secretary Allen on additional ways to safeguard our elections this November."
Virginia
In response to questions about what the Old Dominion is doing about EO 14019, a spokesman for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Blaze News that the governor "believes we need to continually invest in our election system to improve the process, restore faith in elections and address any concerns."
"Election security isn't a Democrat or Republican issue, it's an American and Virginian issue — we must ensure we are adequately maintaining voter lists, abiding by election security procedures and taking election crimes seriously," continued the spokesman. "In Virginia, Governor Youngkin is taking critical steps to improve the election process and ensure it's resilient."
The spokesman referenced various actions Youngkin has taken to bolster election security, including ratifying legislation to ax outside interference in elections; to provide absentee results by precinct so voters can see who is voting absentee in person and by mail and where they’re coming from; and to remove dead voters from voter rolls every week.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor was among those who called for the repeal of EO 14019 in 2022. However, the public information officer for the Oklahoma State Election Board — the elections administrator for the state — told Blaze News, "We are not very familiar with that EO."
While apparently not overly familiar with the EO, the election board’s information officer noted that "it is a crime for someone to knowingly cause an unqualified person to become a registered voter or to knowingly submit a voter registration application containing false or fraudulent information. Any evidence of such would be referred to the appropriate district attorney for investigation."
West Virginia
West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment. It is, however, clear that Warner takes the "federal overreach" seriously.
Months before signing the Aug. 3, 2022, letter with his Republican peers demanding that Biden rescind EO 14019, Secretary Warner called out the order solo, telling Biden "it is not necessary or appropriate for voter registration services to be mandated or offered at every federal government agency without a state requesting such assistance under its own authority," stressing that the order constituted an "improper federal overreach."
Warner also led the nine-state delegation asking the Supreme Court in June to strike down the order.
While other states with Republican trifectas as well as swing states with Republican election officials have ostensibly moved the needle on countering EO 14019, Blaze News did not hear back from relevant officials in Nebraska, Montana, Arkansas, Texas, New Hampshire, South Dakota, North Dakota, Ohio, Nevada, and Idaho by the deadline.
Blaze News circled back to Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project, for additional insights into what actions have been taken by states to-date and the value in stepping up this late in the game.
When asked which have been the most effective actions taken by states to-date in the way of kneecapping EO 14019 and its execution, Howell said, "The Indiana Secretary of State took overt action to kick the Feds out for the purposes of using tax-payer dollars and government authority to act as Kamala Harris' get-out-the-vote operation."
"We're at the stage now where more states should be stepping up and taking overt action instead of just asking questions and complaining," added Howell.
Howell indicated it is not too late for state officials with gumption to make a meaningful difference.
"A ton of damage has been done already, but it's not too late to at least mitigate this constitutional disaster where the incumbent administration is using their power and our money to ensure their own re-election," said Howell. "This is an assault on 'democracy' that the United States hasn’t seen before."
This sense of urgency has evidently caught on in recent weeks and months.
In July, the America First Policy Institute, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), Republican Texas Reps. Ronny Jackson and Beth Van Duyne, and others filed a lawsuit against Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and several other big names in the Democratic administration over the EO, claiming Biden and his cabinet officials "have usurped States' role in registering voters and redirected federal resources to partisan voter mobilization efforts, in violation of federal law."
The Trump campaign, the Michigan Republican Party, and the Republican National Convention also sued the Biden administration, Whitmer, and Benson last month over the "BidenBucks" scheme.
That Democrats swapped out Biden for Harris makes little difference, suggested Howell.
"The left has reconstructed the election system in the United States as a competition between machines to collect ballots as opposed to votes. It doesn't really matter who the candidate is for that machine to work," said Howell.
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A Pakistani national was arrested on July 12 for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump and other public officials on American soil.
FBI Director Christopher Wray — whose agency otherwise proved unable to prevent a one-time Democratic donor from shooting Trump, murdering a father of two, and injuring others at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — joined Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland this week in suggesting that the alleged plot was "straight out of the Iranian playbook."
Garland intimated that the alleged plotter, 46-year-old Asif Raza Merchant, was seeking to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian terrorist and commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was snuffed out by an American airstrike at Iraq's Baghdad airport on Jan. 2, 2020.
Trump, who authorized the airstrike, insisted at the time that he had taken action "to stop a war," not to start one. Nevertheless, senior Iranian officials and commanders subsequently indicated that "revenge for martyr Soleimani's blood is certain, and the murderers and perpetrators will have no easy sleep."
According to the criminal complaint, Merchant — a bigamist who apparently has a wife and children in Iran and a wife and children in Pakistan — traveled from Pakistan to the U.S. in April. Upon arrival, Merchant allegedly attempted to recruit individuals to help him execute his assassination plot.
One individual Merchant apparently figured would make for a reliable accomplice promptly reported the scheme to law enforcement officials and became a confidential source.
Merchant allegedly met with the confidential source in June and explained that what he had in mind was "not a one-time opportunity and would be ongoing" and further that he had multiple targets in mind.
Although the criminal complaint does not name the intended targets, sources familiar with the case told ABC News that Trump was among them.
The scheme apparently involved having a woman perform "reconnaissance," having hit men to do the killing, and having roughly 25 people to stage a protest after the murder occurred.
The confidential source ultimately introduced Merchant to two undercover law enforcement officers posing as hit men whom the Pakistani national allegedly paid $5,000 for the assassination as well as for orchestrating the protest and theft of certain documents.
"Fortunately, the assassins Merchant allegedly tried to hire were undercover FBI Agents," Acting Assistant Director Christie Curtis of the FBI New York field office said in a statement.
After paying the undercover officers their due and confirming the plan would proceed, Merchant set about leaving the country on July 12, said the complaint. Law enforcement swooped in and arrested Merchant after observing him toss his luggage into the trunk of a vehicle outside his residence.
Merchant has been charged with one count of murder for hire.
'The failure of the Secret Service in Butler, Pennsylvania, is even more outrageous in light of suspected Iranian-backed assassins targeting former Trump administration officials, including President Trump himself.'
"For years, the Justice Department has been working aggressively to counter Iran’s brazen and unrelenting efforts to retaliate against American public officials for the killing of Iranian General Soleimani," said Garland.
"The Justice Department will spare no resource to disrupt and hold accountable those who would seek to carry out Iran’s lethal plotting against American citizens and will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to target American public officials and endanger America’s national security," added the attorney general.
Despite reports that this foiled plot prompted the U.S. Secret Service to increase security around Trump — having previously denied him adequate security for the two years leading up to the Butler shooting — it's clear from the agency's performance at the president's fateful July 13 rally, just one day after Merchant's July 12 arrest, they weren't in a rush to make meaningful adjustments.
Blaze News previously reported, for instance, that the radios provided by local law enforcement to the Secret Service for cross-agency communication were apparently never used; that the Secret Service allegedly "repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally"; and that Trump's security detail that day was not only relatively thin but allegedly composed in part of inexperienced Department of Homeland Security agents.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement Tuesday, "The failure of the Secret Service in Butler, Pennsylvania, is even more outrageous in light of suspected Iranian-backed assassins targeting former Trump administration officials, including President Trump himself. That day, the threat of sniper attacks was even higher than normal."
"I was previously briefed concerning the Iranian threat and the circumstances of Mr. Merchant's arrest and questioned then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on whether she had reviewed the intelligence concerning the Iranian threat," continued Turner. "She confirmed to me that she read the intelligence and was aware of this Iranian murder-for-hire plot."
"Director Cheatle acknowledged she knew the threat and still did not provide President Trump the protection he needed, almost costing him his life," added the Ohio congressman.
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