Media ‘Pounce’ To Cover Up Kamala Harris’ Plagiarism Scandal
A 2009 book co-authored by Kamala Harris contains passages seemingly lifted from other published works, according to a new report.A 2009 book co-authored by Kamala Harris contains passages seemingly lifted from other published works, according to a new report.Here are the facts about the latest known attempt on Trump's life
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.
Incident and arrest
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.
Who is Ryan Routh?
Felon known to FBI
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.
Trump critic, Democratic booster
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."
Wannabe Ukraine mercenary
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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Kamala Harris has 'no regrets' over gaslighting the American people about Biden's decrepitude
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down this week to field softball questions from a friendly liberal network after spending several weeks avoiding the fourth estate.
In her interview Thursday with CNN's Dana Bash, Harris was afforded an opportunity to account for her mischaracterization of President Joe Biden's competency when it still benefited her to do so.
Rather than admit fault, Harris doubled down and emphasized that she has no regrets.
"You were a very staunch defender of President Biden's capacity to serve another four years right after the debate," said Bash. "You insisted that President Biden is 'extraordinarily strong.'"
After Biden's disastrous debate with President Donald Trump on June 27, Harris told CNN host Anderson Cooper, "Yes, there was a slow start, but it was a strong finish. And what became very clear through the course of the night is that Joe Biden is fighting on behalf of the American people. On substance, on policy, on performance, Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong."
When Cooper gently pushed back, highlighting anxiety among congressional Democrats over Biden's performance, Harris responded, "People can debate on style points, but ultimately this election and who is the president of the United States has to be about substance. And the contrast is clear."
Bash asked Harris on Thursday, "Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people?"
"No. Not at all," said Harris. "I have served with President Biden for almost four years now, and I'll tell you: It's one of the greatest honors of my career. Truly."
'Joe Biden is very much alive.'
"He is so smart and loyal to the American people," continued Harris. "I have spent hours upon hours with him, be it in the Oval Office or the Situation Room. He has the intelligence, the commitment, and the judgment, and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president."
CNN panelists later spun Harris' long-standing mischaracterization of Biden's abilities as the result of "loyalty" and "grace."
The Trump campaign, on the other hand, said of Harris' admitted lack of remorse: "She lied to the American people as she perpetuated a massive, wide-reaching fraud — until it was no longer tenable."
Harris' post-debate spin earlier this summer was hardly the first time she tried to firm up public confidence in Biden's abilities.
He gave critics and allies alike cause to worry in recent years with his evident difficulty completing sentences; heavy reliance on cue cards; struggles to stay upright; repetition of the same debunked anecdote nearly word for word, in short succession; confusion of the living for the dead, his sister for his wife, and the names of disparate nations; apparent need to spend roughly 40% of his presidency out of office; identification as a proud black woman; and his apparent need for former President Barack Obama as an escort.
When asked in September 2023 whether Biden was too old to run again, Harris told reporters, "Joe Biden is going to be just fine," reported Reuters.
"Joe Biden is going to be fine. Let me tell you something: I work with Joe Biden every day," added Harris.
Harris was asked in an October 2023 "60 Minutes" interview what would happen in the event that something should "befall President Biden, and he is not able to run." Harris answered, "Joe Biden is very much alive and running for election."
In February, Harris condemned special counsel Robert Hur's report about Biden's handling of sensitive classified information, which suggested that the Democratic president had a "poor memory" and was possibly too senile to charge. She called the report "gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate."
Harris told reporters that contrary to Hur's characterization, Biden was capable — "in front of and on top of it all."
"The way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated," added Harris.
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‘Conspiracy central’: Is the government COVERING UP the truth about the Trump assassination attempt?
Over a month has passed since the Trump assassination attempt and still, nothing seems to add up.
Not only did Trump’s Secret Service bodyguards fail to protect him, but he was denied more security despite a known Iranian threat. Even if it’s all just sheer incompetence, it’s still incredibly troubling.
“One of the things I worry about is the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which exposed how the paper tiger of the Secret Service, how they were not the James Bonds of the world,” investigative journalist and author Gerald Posner tells Glenn Beck.
Posner believes this “might encourage a copycat” who realizes that “the system is vulnerable.”
However, Glenn isn’t so sure that it can just be chalked up to incompetence — and that the system might be working just as it’s supposed to.
“This is conspiracy central,” Glenn comments. “Everything the government is doing, everything the Secret Service is doing, the FBI, is not normal. And if you don’t want conspiracy theories, they’re acting exactly the wrong way.”
“You hit the nail on the head,” Posner agrees. “The government in this case is not only hiding information from the American public, from investigators, from researchers, we’re getting some members in Congress who are getting whistleblowers who are coming forward.”
“That’s not the way to get information when the former president of the United States came within an inch of being killed,” he continues. “They should have learned from the Kennedy assassination; they didn’t. They should have learned from the King assassination, cover-ups do not work well.”
“And it doesn’t have to be the cover-up of a murder. It’s just the cover-up of the truth,” he adds.
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Was the January 6 DNC ‘pipe bomb’ PLANTED by the Secret Service or FBI?
As the 2024 presidential election looms closer, more information regarding January 6, 2021 — dubbed an “insurrection” by the left — continues to be exposed almost four years later.
In newly released security footage from outside the DNC headquarters that fateful day, more questions about the day’s timeline have been raised. The footage shows a man with a bag getting out of a police vehicle and walking off camera in the direction where a “pipe bomb” was found just minutes later.
Glenn Beck is concerned as to what this might mean.
“That’s kind of a big deal. I mean, that’s earth-shattering,” he says before asking Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker what he thinks.
While Baker doesn’t believe it’s proof that the man set a bomb down, he says that “it does make us ask questions, and it makes us question the FBI directly.”
“The FBI can solve this for us today if they will release the DNC’s own security cameras. Their own security cameras are aimed and focused on exactly that spot where the bomb was placed, but they have never released that to the public,” Baker explains.
“If you’re forced to take a leap of faith,” Glenn responds, “and you look at all of the evidence, it is circumstantial, but it is pretty good. Especially when the DNC has that video and won’t release it. Why wouldn’t you release the video?”
Because there was also protocol in place to make sure the grounds were swept for suspicious activity, this makes the video footage of the man carrying a bag to that exact spot potentially more damning.
“Somehow, someway, 15 minutes before it was discovered, we see a guy getting out of a car, bag in his hand, he walks over that direction into that, it’s a blind spot in the camera coverage from the CCTV, because they moved it,” Baker says.
“This takes us into a whole new territory if it is true,” Glenn adds.
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CIA had active contractors amongst cabal of intel officials who suggested Biden laptop was Russian fake
Scores of former intelligence officials ran block for Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election after the New York Post threatened his campaign with damning facts about his son's laptop and its contents. It turns out that active elements of the security state similarly conspired to cure the narrative and thumb the scales in Biden's favor.
Background
Less than a month ahead of the 2020 election, the New York Post reported about the incriminating contents of Hunter Biden's laptop and raised various questions about then-candidate Joe Biden, especially about his shady ties to Ukraine.
The report noted, for instance, that a Burisma board adviser thanked Hunter Biden for introducing him to Joe Biden about a year before Biden allegedly extorted the Eastern European country as vice president to get the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired.
The report also painted Joe Biden as untruthful and referenced other damning evidence on his son's laptop, such as videos of Hunter Biden having sex and smoking crack and suggestions of questionable business with China.
Elements of the intelligence community antipathetic to President Donald Trump swooped in to shield Biden in the final weeks before the election, releasing a public letter on Oct. 19, 2020, asserting that the Hunter Biden laptop story had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" intended to hurt the Democrat's candidacy.
Not one of the intelligence officials had apparently seen the evidence of which they spoke before signing the letter, and no signatory has since expressed regret.
Biden used the misleading letter, which was further spun by the liberal media, to great effect.
In his Oct. 22 debate with Trump, Biden said, "Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he's accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four — five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani."
Michael Morell, one of the former CIA directors Biden referenced, later testified to Congress that he organized the letter to "help Vice President Biden," but more specifically, to help "him to win the election."
Morell also made clear that the Biden campaign was involved and "helped to strategize about the public release of the statement."
According to Morell, the call he received from then-Biden campaign official Antony Blinken got the ball rolling on the deception.
74% of Americans surveyed told the Technometrical Institute of Policy and Politics in a 2022 survey that the FBI and the intelligence community deliberately misled the public and voters. 79% of respondents said that a truthful interpretation of the laptop would have likely changed the election's outcome more in favor of Trump.
The CIA versus Trump
The House Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report Tuesday revealing that former CIA acting director Michael Morell and ex-CIA inspector general David Buckley were both active contractors with top secret clearances for the agency when they signed the letter.
The congressional investigators reached this conclusion on the basis of information provided them earlier this year by Robert Dugas, CIA deputy general counsel for litigation and investigations.
Morell has denied being a contractor at the time, telling the New York Post, "If you write that, you would [be] wrong."
Beside the possibility that unnamed signatories were similarly active spooks, the report noted that others "had special 'Green Card' access to the CIA at the time of the statement's publication, allowing them to gain entry to secure CIA facilities."
According to the report, former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash, the ex-husband of Thursday's moderator in the Trump-Biden debate, and former National Security Agency deputy director Richard Ledgett, were both serving the agency at the time they signed the letter as independent contractors with top secret clearances.
Other active elements of the CIA were also peripherally involved.
"High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication," said the report.
The agency conveniently refrained from seizing upon the "opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA's process for reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted."
The report suggested that the revelation about the active status of Morell and Buckley "raises concern that these officials abused the access of their positions to curate, promote, and received expedited approval of the statement."
Indeed, the PCRB continuously requested quick decisions from officials within the CIA and partners at ODNI about the status of publication of the statement. This occurred after Morell specifically requested an expedited review process and during a time when he had contracting status and was under consideration to be named President Biden's CIA Director.
The report also indicated that the signatories' decision to leverage their titles in favor of a narrative favorable to Biden "inappropriately embroiled the Agency in the domestic political process."
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BlazeTV debuts damning docuseries exposing COVID origins 'coverup' ahead of Fauci hearing
There was a concerted public-private campaign during the pandemic to downplay the strong likelihood that COVID-19 — a virus that would go on to kill millions worldwide — did not originate in the controversial Chinese communist lab that long engaged in dangerous experiments on coronaviruses with the help of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
While the Chinese communist regime did its part to bury evidence of a potential lab leak as the virus was first spreading, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci ultimately did the heavy lifting in terms of narrative curation.
Anthony Fauci and the virologists in his orbit worked feverishly to suggest that the virus had a zoonotic origin, concealing their own doubts about that possibility while denigrating those who would suggest otherwise.
There was cause, after all, for them to engage in revisionism and propaganda. Elements of the Western medical establishment admittedly didn't want to alienate China by assigning it any blame over the deaths of multitudes of Americans, and Fauci had his fingerprints on the American grant money poured into dangerous work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology via disgraced zoologist Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance — whose gain-of-function subcontractor was ostensibly among the patients zero who took ill in late 2019.
The lab-leak theory was censored on social media, especially on Facebook, which directly coordinated with Fauci. Talk show hosts, talking heads, and once respected newspapers dutifully parroted the approved talking points.
Yet, not all were convinced in Washington, D.C., the media, and the medical establishment — certainly not Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, epidemiologist and co-author of the "Great Barrington Declaration," and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Both Bhattacharya and Paul are among those featured in "The Coverup," a new documentary series presented by Blaze Media and Free the People, which debuts today on BlazeTV.
"The Coverup" explores the evolution of the Fauci-anointed COVID-19 origins narrative, the corresponding censorship campaign, various underlying motives and vested interests, and the ultimate breakdown of truth, breaking new ground and making Fauci's job of spinning yarns before Congress next week all the more difficult.
'You would go down in history as one of the world's greatest monsters.'
In BlazeTV host Matthew B. Kibbe's deep-dive in the first episode of the series, entitled "Dissident," he speaks to Bhattacharya about the research agenda that set the stage for the deadly outbreak and assesses what was at stake for the powers that be — and for Fauci in particular — where narrative control was concerned.
"He's in a tough position," said Bhattacharya. "If people understand that what has happened the last three-and-a-half years in the COVID pandemic is potentially, maybe even actually, a result of this kind of research agenda and Fauci was one of its champions, he is in a very tough spot."
"Millions and millions of people have died. Economies have been devastated," continued Bhattacharya. "The poor of the world, children, vulnerable people have been hurt by this mad science experiment. ... You would go down in history as one of the world's greatest monsters."
Later in the episode, Bhattacharya discusses the nature of the infrastructure shoring up the deadly research agenda as well as the possible link between officials' cognizance of a possible lab leak and the draconian COVID protocols they ultimately promoted.
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Extra to speaking to Dr. Bhattacharya and Sen. Paul in the series, in subsequent episodes, Kibbe gleans troubling insights from White House Coronavirus Task Force insiders about the early commitment to the zoonotics origin narrative, from journalists censored for asking questions, and from those working to hold the apparent architects of the pandemic responsible in its aftermath.
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Chris Cuomo says he's now regularly taking ivermectin after unapologetically shaming those who said it worked
Disgraced former CNN talking head Chris Cuomo recently revealed that the very life-saving drug he helped smear during the pandemic now courses through his veins.
Background
Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic drug with anti-inflammatory properties, was approved for use in humans in 1987 and has since been one of the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States. For discovering some of the ways it could be used to save human lives and stave off blindness, William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
"[If] ivermectin is what those of us who have looked at the evidence think it is ... the debate about the vaccines would be over by definition," said Bret Weinstein.
This life-saving and prize-worthy generic medicine underwent a sudden rebrand during the pandemic after various scientists and doctors realized it could be used as a cheap and effective way to treat COVID-19 infections. Among the various indications that the drug worked was a June 2020 study in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Antiviral Research, which showed that ivermectin inhibited the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures.
Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein told Tucker Carlson in July 2021, "[If] ivermectin is what those of us who have looked at the evidence think it is ... the debate about the vaccines would be over by definition."
The mainstream media, the Food and Drug Administration, and various so-called experts — all apparently captive to the idea that the only way to treat COVID-19 was with expensive, novel vaccines produced by the pharmaceutical giants that routinely advertise on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — smeared the drug and those who dared prescribe it, suggesting that ivermectin was nothing more than a poisonous "horse de-worming drug."
Months into this campaign, the FDA warned in March 2021 that taking the drug could "cause serious harm," then in August leaned into the horse de-wormer smear, tweeting, "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Serious y'all. Stop It."
The FDA was later sued over its misleading claims and ultimately settled in March. Per the terms of the settlement, the agency agreed to remove its anti-ivermectin propaganda from social media. However, the damage was already done.
Daniel Horowitz, the host of "Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz" on the Blaze Podcast Network and author of "Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial So This Never Happens Again," told Blaze News, "Words cannot fully capture the degree of human suffering from the war on alternative treatments at a time when the medical establishment had zero answers for patients — including those already vaccinated — with blood oxygen levels dropping. The war on ivermectin and similar drugs was so demonic that they would find every way possible to deny prescriptions and then filling them even at the pharmacies."
"It was so bad that doctors would tell families their patients were as good as dead, and that it was now time to pull the plug, but [would] still go to court to block their ability to use ivermectin as a last try," continued Horowitz. "I'm still haunted by nightmares of hundreds of sick people reaching out to me, desperate for treatment and access to the heroic doctors I was privileged to know."
Cuomo climbs aboard the bandwagon
Around the time the anti-ivermectin campaign was ramping up, Chris Cuomo still had a job at CNN, having not yet been canned over his role in disgraced former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sex scandal. Cuomo willingly partook in the horse de-wormer smear.
In one instance, Cuomo joined Don Lemon — who CNN later also ended up firing — in blasting people who considered taking ivermectin.
"People are getting, injecting drugs for animals and horses — oh my God," said Don Lemon.
"And people telling them to," Cuomo chimed in. "What person — you know you talk about like cancel culture and who to shame. Ivermectin. A de-wormer. Really? ... They need to be called out and shamed, brother."
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'Nauseating' about-face
Cuomo, now with NewsNation, recently appeared on Patrick Bet-David's podcast where he was lightly grilled over his pandemic-era punditry. Bet-David showed Cuomo a viral video of a July 2021 CNN segment in which he berated Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) for refusing to take or push the COVID-19 experimental vaccine on the American public.
Bet-David asked Cuomo, "What's changed from that conversation with you and Byron to where you are today?"
"Well, a lot has changed and a lot needs to change that hasn't," replied Cuomo, adding he would not apologize.
"It was never personal. I believe as a leader, at that time, you had a duty to be thorough in what you were putting out there as opposed to just playing politics, ok. This was never as simple as vaccine good, vaccine bad. Politics made it that," said Cuomo, who is suffering from long-term health effects he resists attributing to the vaccines. "And it put us in a toxic environment."
"Do I now believe that we have data to support the fact that there are thousands of people who have adverse effects, that are not getting attention let alone treatment? Yes, and I fault government for that," continued Cuomo. "I do not fault myself for telling people at the time what the government was giving us as best practices."
Deeper into the podcast, Cuomo made a major admission.
"I'll tell you something else that's going to get you a lot of hits. I am taking a ... regular dose, you know whatever, of ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman early on in COVID," said Cuomo. "That was wrong. We were given bad information about ivermectin. The real question is, 'Why?'"
"Everyone is going to say, 'Joe Rogan was right.' No, Joe Rogan was saying — yeah, we was right, but that's not what matters. What matters is the entire clinical community knew that ivermectin couldn't hurt you. They knew it, Patrick. I know they knew it. How do I know it?" continued the former CNN host. "Because now I am doing nothing but talking to these clinicians who at the time were overwhelmed by COVID, and they weren't saying anything, not that they were hiding anything. But it's cheap, it's not owned by anybody, and it's used as anti-microbial, anti-viral in all these different ways and has been for a long time."
"My doctor ... was using it during COVID on her family and on her patients and it was working for them," added Cuomo. "So, they were wrong to play scared on that. Didn't know that at the time. Know it now. Admit it now. Reporting on it now."
Horowitz told Blaze News, "For Cuomo to suddenly acknowledge he knew all along ivermectin worked while joining the COVID genocide bandwagon when it was actually needed is nauseating."
\ud83d\udc40 Chris Cuomo Says He Does Not Apologize for Shaming People Who Didn't Take the Vaccine, Reveals He Is Taking Ivermectin Now \n\n"My doctors say I have 'Long COVID'. I have the symptoms, they showed me my blood work. It scared the bejesus out of me to see this glowing micro-clot\u2026— (@)
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Lawsuit accuses CIA of withholding possible evidence that its analysts took bribes to conceal lab origin of COVID-19
A new federal lawsuit accuses the CIA of withholding possible evidence that its analysts were paid to deep-six findings that the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic was a Chinese lab leak.
The lawsuit, filed Friday by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project and obtained by the Daily Caller, suggests that just as the CIA has neglected to publicly provide congressional investigators with the information they requested, it has similarly failed to provide Heritage with a timely response.
What's the background?
A CIA whistleblower described as a "multi-decade, senior-level" official claimed in September that the agency bribed six analysts on its COVID Discovery Team to reject the theory that the COVID-19 virus initially spread as the result of a research-related leak at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology — a communist-controlled lab controversial for its dangerous experiments on coronviruses.
Blaze News previously noted that federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed earlier this year that the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, under former director Anthony Fauci, funded experiments at the WIV.
Millions among the dollars funneled from Fauci's agency to the WIV were mediated by Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, whose subcontractor Ben Hu — the lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses — was among the patients zero at the lab and ostensibly among the very first infected in the world.
According to a Sept. 12 letter penned by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), the CIA whistleblower revealed that at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the COVID Discovery Team "believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis."
The whistleblower indicated that "to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position."
The whistleblower's allegations were significant because a declassified report released in June by the director of national intelligence stated, "The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting."
In response to the whistleblower testimony, congressional lawmakers demanded that the CIA turn over all documents and communications pertaining to the COVID Discovery Team, its establishment, and its investigation of the origins of the virus, as well as all documents pertaining to members' pay history, by no later than Sept. 26.
Republican senators similarly wrote to CIA Director William Burns in early September demanding transparency on this issue.
The Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell of the Oversight Project then hit the agency with a Freedom of Information Act request to the same effect on Sept. 20.
The FOIA suit
Heritage indicated in its Friday complaint that the CIA did not ultimately comply with its September FOIA request regarding who allegedly "received monetary incentives to change their position on the origins of the virus."
The complaint asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the CIA to both "conduct a search or searches reasonably calculated to uncover all records responsive to Plaintiffs' FOIA Request" and to produce all non-exempt records inside 20 days of the court's order or "by such other date as the Court deems appropriate."
"The Biden administration has refused to be transparent with Congress and the American people over the origins of COVID-19," Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project, told the New York Post.
"A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees of the agency to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus's origins," continued Brosnan. "This obstruction cannot stand, and we're fighting in federal court to get to the bottom of this."
Fauci on the hot seat in 2024
It's not just America's spies whose feet are now being held to the fire.
Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is set to testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9.
The subcommittee noted on X that "thankfully, Dr. Fauci's retirement from public service does not shield him from Congressional oversight nor accountability to the American people."
The subcommittee further reminded the public that Fauci commissioned, edited, and gave final approval to the impactful March 2020 study published in the journal Nature, "The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2" — an oft-cited study whose authors expressed concerns in private about the "sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release," making clear that their cause was "political."
Fauci repeatedly referenced this paper on the national stage, including once from the White House podium, to bolster the zoonotic origins theory ultimately entertained by the CIA team.
The subcommittee also highlighted how Fauci was cognizant of the dangerous gain-of-function research taking place in Wuhan but "did nothing to stop it or warn the American people."
The subcommittee failed to mention in its short list of Fauci's faux pas Wenstrup's late-September revelation that "according to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency's review of the origins of COVID-19."
"The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters — without a record of entry — and participated in the analysis to 'influence' the Agency’s review," continued the chairman.
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