A look at the next Biden insiders to testify to Congress about 'historic scandal'



Congressional investigators looking into Biden's cognitive decline while in office, its cover-up, and its alleged exploitation behind the scenes are set to continue peeling the onion later this month.

The House Oversight Committee grilled former Biden White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden last week, gleaning some insights into what was going on behind closed doors toward the end of the Biden presidency. Tanden also confirmed that she was "responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president," and she was "authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."

The committee will next hear from Ron Klain on July 24; Steve Ricchetti on July 30; Mike Donilon on July 31; Bruce Reed on Aug. 5; and Anita Dunn on Aug. 7, an Oversight aide told Politico.

Ron Klain is among the "gatekeepers" identified by Ed Martin, Department of Justice pardon attorney and director of the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, who were apparently "dominant characters in the White House."

'He had been isolated from domestic politics by a WH team unplugged from hill Dems.'

Klain was a senior adviser to Biden's 2020 presidential campaign who subsequently served as the former president's White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023.

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Klain, who lobbied to place Tanden in the White House as a senior adviser and whose own adviser repeatedly hosted Alexander Soros at the White House, was identified early on by the Daily Beast as Biden's bridge to the hardcore leftist wing of the Democratic Party.

"Progressives are a big part of our party and making sure their voices are heard here at the White House is a big part of my job," he told the Daily Beast.

Klain returned to the fold last year to help Biden prepare for his disastrous June 27, 2024, debate with President Donald Trump. He told Politico earlier this year that when he returned, he found Biden had been "out of it because he had been [sidelined]."

"He had been isolated from domestic politics by a WH team unplugged from hill Dems," said Klain.

Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) appears particularly interested in Klain's recognition of Biden's decrepitude, noting in a June 4 letter to the former White House chief of staff, "According to an interview, you cut short the debate prep 'due to the president’s fatigue and lack of familiarity with the subject matter' and said that the former president 'didn’t really understand what his argument was on inflation.' The scope of your responsibilities — both official and otherwise — and personal interactions within the Oval Office cannot go without investigation."

Steve Ricchetti was another name Ed Martin volunteered when discussing his investigation into the questionable autopen pardons issued in the final days of the Biden White House.

'She has this perch where she spans the overall strategic plan for (Biden) and for the White House.'

Ricchetti was a counselor to Biden who previously served as chairman of his 2020 presidential campaign. Citing a 2024 Wall Street Journal report, Comer noted that extra to serving as one of Biden's closest advisers, Ricchetti was "part of a group of insiders who implemented a strategy to minimize 'the president's age-related struggles.'"

Mike Donilon, an adviser to Biden since the 1980s who served as chief strategist of the former president's 2020 and 2024 campaigns, was also among the grand Biden-decrepitude strategists named in the Wall Street Journal's report.

Donilon appears to be on Comer's radar partly because of his newfound "willingness to speak about the former president's cognition" but also because of the scope of his "responsibilities — both official and otherwise — and personal interactions within the Oval Office."

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Lindy Li, a former DNC fundraiser and National Finance Committee member, recently told Fox News Digital that Donilon, whom Vanity Fair claimed was with Biden "more than almost anyone," was one of the former president's "puppet masters."

Li suggested that in addition to Donilon, the shadow presidency consisted of Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, Anthony Bernal, and Anita Dunn.

Anita Dunn, both on Martin's list of "gatekeepers" and in the Journal report, long served as an adviser to Biden, first from January until August 2021, then again from May 2022 until August 2024.

Numerous White House alumni and then-current staff, along with lawmakers and administration officials, told CNN in June 2023 that Dunn, the apparent genius inside Biden's circle who embraced the "Dark Brandon" meme — a mutated spin-off of the "Let's Go Brandon" meme, itself a euphemism for the phrase often chanted at sporting events during the Biden presidency, "F**k Joe Biden" — had "a hand in nearly all aspects of [Biden's] political life."

"She has this perch where she spans the overall strategic plan for (Biden) and for the White House, and also communicates outward with the political apparatus of the (Democratic National Committee) and the campaign and tries to keep the entire Joe Biden enterprise swimming in the same direction," a then-White House aide told CNN.

Bruce Reed, though omitted from both Martin's list of "gatekeepers" and the Journal's list of insiders, as well as Donilon and Ricchetti were sometimes referred to in the White House as "the poobahs," "the grey hairs," and "the triumvirate," reported Axios.

Whereas Donilon and Ricchetti were particularly engaged in politics, Axios indicated that Reed was "nearly always by Biden's side of the road" and focused on policy.

Comer suggested that it was worth hearing from Reed, granted he was one of "five White House staffers who were 'effectively family' to the former president."

'I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House.'

Anthony Bernal — the senior adviser to former first lady Jill Biden and characterized as one of the most influential people in the White House and a key member of Biden's so-called politburo in Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson's new book, "Original Sin" — was scheduled to appear for a voluntary transcribed interview on June 26. However, he refused to appear after learning that President Donald Trump was taking a page out of his predecessor's book and waiving executive privilege for the Oversight Committee's investigation.

Former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg ruffled some feathers when it was revealed he told an undercover Project Veritas reporter that Bernal "had an enormous amount of power" behind the scenes in the White House.

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Deterrian Jones, a former staffer in the Biden administration's Office of Digital Strategy, echoed this understanding, claiming Bernal was a "shadowy, 'Wizard of Oz'-type figure" who "wielded an enormous amount of power."

"I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House," added Jones.

Comer subpoenaed Bernal last week, compelling his testimony for a deposition on July 16.

As was the case with Tanden, President Donald Trump has deprived members of this cadre of Biden insiders of the shield of executive privilege, thus requiring them to provide lawmakers with "unrestricted testimony."

'The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal.'

Comer also sent letters to former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, former Biden White House spokesman Ian Sams, and the Biden White House's last chief of staff, Jeff Zients, on Friday, requesting they turn up for interviews.

Comer hinted at some of his suspicions in the letters. For instance, he told Jean-Pierre:

You served as the White House press secretary for President Biden during the last two years of his administration and were a trusted inner-circle confidante as you were promoted to senior adviser to the president in October 2024. You were not only near the president daily, but you were "alongside the ranks of the president’s top confidantes like senior advisers Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Bruce Reed."

"The cover-up of President Biden’s obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf," Comer said at the outset of the investigation. "Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden’s diminished capacity. "

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Supreme Court: Kids deserve protection from porn, period



The Supreme Court last week delivered not just a legal decision but a resounding moral affirmation: Children deserve protection from online pornography.

For decades, I’ve been told that “free speech” includes the right to exploit. I’ve watched Big Porn hide behind the First Amendment like a shield, as if this billion-dollar industry, built on addiction, abuse, and shattered innocence, was a sacred American institution. But on Friday, in upholding Texas’ pornography age-verification law, the court drew a line in the sand.

For children, exposure to pornographic material isn’t a neutral event. It reshapes the brain. It numbs empathy. It seeds confusion, fear, and addiction.

And I say: Thank God.

As the brother of a child survivor of sexual exploitation, I know firsthand the consequences of a culture that normalizes sexual harm. I know what it’s like when an industry like porn sees children as commodities. I’ve seen too many young people stumble into the world of violent, degrading content with nothing more than a click. No gatekeepers. No warnings. No protection.

That ended last week.

Texas’ age-verification law was never about silencing speech. It was about defending the voiceless and restoring the most basic responsibility we have as a society: to guard our children from harm.

That’s why my team at Jaco Booyens Ministries joined this case as a friend of the court. Our team submitted a brief to the Supreme Court that shared the lived experiences of survivors, the neurological science on childhood trauma, and the irrefutable consequences of exposure to online pornography.

As our brief stated in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: “There is no liberty in trauma. There is no freedom in addiction. When minors are exposed to pornography, they are not exercising constitutional rights, they are being wounded by the unchecked rights of others.”

Still, the porn industry screamed “censorship.” Companies sued, claiming this was a violation of their “rights.” But what about our children’s right not to be harmed? What about the parents fighting to keep predators out of their homes?

The court acknowledged what every honest parent already knows: Access to this kind of content isn’t harmless. It isn’t “education.” It is psychological, emotional, and spiritual violence. During oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barrett captured the heart of the issue when she asked, “Why should it be so easy for a 12-year-old to access this kind of material online, when we all know it can be incredibly damaging?”

That wasn’t a rhetorical flourish; it was a recognition of truth.

For children, exposure to pornographic material isn’t a neutral event. It reshapes the brain. It numbs empathy. It seeds confusion, fear, and addiction. I can no longer pretend this is just about speech. This is about harm. Real harm. And the court, at long last, chose to see it.

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I can’t change what happened to my sister. But I can fight to make sure it doesn’t happen to someone else. I can help protect the next generation. I can work to make it harder for exploitation to find its way into our living rooms, our schools, our smartphones. I can help make justice more than just a word. I can help make it action.

To the justices who stood with us: Thank you. You did not bow to corporate pressure. You honored the Constitution as a document of liberty, not license. You remembered that freedom must be rooted in truth, and the truth is that unrestricted pornography destroys lives.

This victory isn’t just for Texas; it’s a win for every child in America. It sends a clear message to every state in this nation: You have the power to protect your children. You can draw the line. You don’t have to wait for permission. And beyond our borders, this ruling sends a powerful global signal: I still believe — and I know many others do too — that children are worth protecting, that their innocence is not up for sale, and their safety is not negotiable.

Let this ruling be a turning point — for our families, for our faith, for our future.

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Springfield temp agency accused of exploitation of migrant workers



First Diversity is a staffing agency in Springfield, Ohio, and it has drawn criticism from U.S. citizens and Haitians who are now living in the city of taking advantage of the new arrivals to the area at the expense of its clients.

Asra Nomani explained in Jewish Journal that whistleblowers who used to work at First Diversity say they were forced to accept false documents to keep illegal immigrants in the company’s database, that workers' wages were not reflective of the hours they worked, and that identity theft was rife in their environment.

'They treat people as paid slavery. ... They are in hell while living on earth.'

The complaints and accusations have reached the Ohio Attorney General's office. Not only is First Diversity under investigation for the previously mentioned problems, but investigators are also looking into allegations of human trafficking facilitated by the company. Even First Diversity employees were not spared, Nomani reported.

"Some of the whistleblowers cried, recounting their experiences working at First Diversity. Workers spoke of paychecks that never arrived, long hours with no overtime and promises of stability that quickly turned to dust. Some, like the 24-year-old woman and her mother, had their Social Security numbers allegedly stolen, while others found their I-9 forms and drug test results faked to keep them in the system," Nomani wrote.

In 2021, a small group of Haitians stormed into First Diversity's office to demand an explanation to what they say were manipulated wages that didn't match the hours they worked, calling the company "thieves."

The head of First Diversity, George Ten, denied the allegations to Nomani.

“We are a successful business that connects people with jobs. We improve the lives of Haitian migrant workers, which is why they keep working with us," Ten said in an email.

First Diversity's shift toward Haitian workers started in 2019, but business apparently boomed when the Biden-Harris administration expanded the number of Haitians who could qualify for Temporary Protected Status. The company said using local U.S. citizens for jobs in the area was a "nightmare" as the turnover rate was high and their performance was lower compared with Haitians.

The complaints of Haitians being exploited for their labor go as far back as 2019. Jean André, a Haitian-American pastor, described to Nomani horrendous conditions in which he saw Haitians living when he picked them up for church.

"It is really a shame to see how they treat people as paid slavery. This is what I call it. They are in hell while living on earth,” Jean said. “You get my word? So that means they are suffering terribly. And the bad thing about it, when you are suffering terribly, you cannot do anything about it. ... When you are suffering, you don’t see how you can take yourself out of the situation, and you have to live it."

While on the ground in Springfield, Blaze News met with many individuals, most of whom mentioned without prompting the problems associated with First Diversity.

"They're indentured servants," local Mark Sanders said about the Haitian migrants. "They are actually oversold to the temp agency. So indentured servitude was something that was made illegal decades and decades and decades ago, here it's back again."

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'On the inside, I am a lesbian': Male Spanish soldiers are legally changing genders to get women's benefits



Women in the Spanish military reportedly enjoy various benefits on account of their sex — such as boosted pay, improved pensions, and better sleeping arrangements. A handful of male soldiers have figured out a novel way to address this systematic inequality: claim to be women.

According to the Spanish newspaper El Español, male soldiers have begun to exploit the "Trans Law," which socialist parliamentarians managed to pass in early 2023 despite strong opposition from conservatives and feminists.

Under the new law, men no longer need to take cross-sex hormones for two years or undergo medical evaluations in order to call themselves "women." Now, they just have to fill out some paperwork and formally request that their ID card and passport reflect their preferred gender identity.

The Telegraph highlighted how the passage of this law coincided with the rollout of added benefits for women in the military and in the security forces as a means to drive up female recruitment.

Ostensibly seeking to exploit the one law in order to enjoy the fruits of the other, 41 men in the Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa have legally changed their gender identifiers in the last year. The majority of these newly minted "women" are serving in the military or the police. Only four of the men bothered to legally change their names, and there is no indication that anyone has changed their marital status, according to El Español.

Roberto Perdigones, one of the men now listed on official documents as a woman, is a 35-year-old corporal in the army stationed in Ceuta. Perdigones has a beard, male genitalia, a biological son, and a strong physical attraction to women.

Perdigones told El Español, "On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but on the inside, I am a lesbian. And it is the latter that counts. This is why I made the legal change to become a woman."

Perdigones indicated that "affirmative action measures" incentivized men to switch genders on their documentation.

Since first identifying as a woman last year, he claims he has acquired improved sleeping quarters, his own bathroom, and a fatter paycheck.

"For changing my gender, I have been told that my pension has gone up because women get more to compensate for inequality," Perdigones told El Español. "I also get 15 per cent more salary for being a mother."

"I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom," continued the corporal. "This is because I cannot be with men as I am a woman, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them."

In addition to better accommodations and pay, Perdigones does not have to abide by the hair and jewelry restrictions imposed on male soldiers.

Outside the military, Perdigones told the paper that there are additional benefits. For starters, when applying for various police and security roles, he only has to satisfy the requirements set in women-specific physical tests, which reportedly tend to be less demanding. His status as a woman also gives him a fighting chance in custody battles over his son.

An unidentified officer with Spain's civil guard, one of the country's two national police forces, told the Spanish newspaper that some of his colleagues have been exploiting the "Trans Law" as a "kind of rebellion" against such leftist policies.

"I have already seen several cases among my colleagues, and it is going to increase, because there are quite a few people who have requested it and are in the process," said the officer. "So, from time to time, the number is going to be much higher."

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Senate Republicans acknowledge Biden has 'created the largest child trafficking ring in US history'



Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden Wednesday of creating "the largest child trafficking ring in U.S. history."

The video accompanying the statement, which contains remarks from various senators, including Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Mo.), echoes recent remarks made by Tim Ballard, the former Department of Homeland Security agent whose relentless pursuit of child traffickers across the globe is the subject of the massively successful new film "Sound of Freedom."

Cruz says in the footage that "the Biden administration has utterly failed to secure the border and has encouraged parents to send their minor alien children on dangerous trips to the United States unaccompanied. It’s failed to protect these children after they’ve been let into the United States."

Footage of Hawley slamming the United States Department of Health and Human Services back in June is also featured, with the senator from Missouri saying, "It's a conveyor belt of children being forced through the system, and what's the priority of HHS? Just get 'em out as fast as we can."

During the same hearing, Hawley said, "This administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery. ... They are doing nothing about it."

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) says in the video posted to the Senate Republicans' Twitter page, "Biden does not care about the 300,000 plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors since he became president."

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 390,300 minors crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into the nation unaccompanied over the past three fiscal years.

The New York Times, whose reportage was invoked in the video, stressed earlier this year, "These are no children who have stolen into the country undetected. The federal government knows they are in the United States, and the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring sponsors will support them and protect them from trafficking exploitation."

The Biden White House has reportedly accelerated the process by which the minors are dispatched from shelters to eager adults, in part as a result of the deluge of illegal aliens entering the facilities. Caseworkers have complained that the process of vetting sponsors has similarly been rushed, meaning there's no telling what kinds of people many of these kids are ending up with.

The Center Square reported that as of early 2022, it was determined that over 45,000 migrant children had gone missing. That total has more than doubled in the months since, accounting for the 85,000 missing children figure used in the Senate Republicans' post.

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Child liberator Tim Ballard recently raised similar concerns during an interview with the Daily Signal. He too assigned blame to Biden and his administration, claiming their support for open borders has helped to feed the "economy of pedophilia."

"Thousands of them ... are under 5 years old," said Ballard. "Why is a 3-year-old showing up at the border? ... Well, I can tell you why, because they show up with a name — the name of the sponsor that they're given by the trafficker."

"[The Department of Health and Human Services] gets the kids and they by law have to call the number. 'Hi, we have Jose Gonzalez, Mr. George Smith.' 'Yeah, yeah, that's my kid, whatever.' 'Okay,'" said Ballard, dramatizing a hypothetical conversation between a prospective predator and an unwitting facilitator at the HHS.

"They used to actually fly down and have to pick the kid up. Not any more. Our taxpayer dollars will then send the kid by plane or bus to this George, the sponsor; no background check, no DNA, nothing. And they deliver the kids. Our taxpayer dollars are literally — for the first time in American history — our taxpayer dollars are going to facilitate the last leg of a child-trafficking event," said Ballard.

"$14 million a day are landing in the pocket of smugglers and traffickers, thanks to the Biden-Harris border policy," continued Ballard. "The only compassionate policy is border enforcement — barriers, walls. Why? And the 'Sound of Freedom' talks about this. Because the walls and the barriers lead the children who are being hurt into that funnel of rescue. Trained women and men in uniform are there. Those kids want to go through the port of entry. ... Those kids pray for a wall. The wall will save their lives."

Children smuggled into the United States by cartel members and other criminal elements have not all ended up in the hands of pedophiles.

The Times indicated that migrant children in the country illegally are frequently "ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom."

Beside sex slavery and laboring for woke ESG-conscious companies like PepsiCo. and Ben & Jerry's, some migrant minors are also stuck doing the bidding of the criminals who sent them.

Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd of Texas told the Center Square that cartels employ teenage boys and men claiming to be minors to execute crimes on American soil on behalf of the cartels.

"Cartels don’t allow indebted illegal aliens to reside freely in the United States and attend high school unless that person is there for the purpose of providing a revenue stream for the cartel," said Boyd. "This usually includes distributing drugs, recruiting locals into employment with the cartel, or as was the case in the Midwest last year, the movement of local teenage girls into cartel custody for forced prostitution."

Further to the Senate Republicans' video statements, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) claimed, "President Joe Biden has turned our southern border into an endless turnstile of illegal immigration, and human and drug smugglers are taking advantage of it. This is a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis beyond proportion."

Beyond the horrors faced by the minors and women trafficked into the nation, the illegal immigration under Biden's watch is costly for Americans, both in terms of blood and treasure.

As of June 2023, over 8 million illegal aliens have entered into the country, reportedly exceeding the populations of 38 states.

TheBlaze reported in May that the annual cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers is $151 billion and rising.

While shelling out cash to pay down the cost of Democratic ambitions, some American families are forced to dig graves. U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicated that there were 60 criminal noncitizens convicted of murder in 2021 and another 62 the following year. 15 murder convictions have already been given to illegal aliens this year. In the four years preceding Biden's tenure, there were no more than three murder convictions a year.

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