Biden Warns of Upcoming ‘Setbacks’ in the Economy

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President Joe Biden warned Americans on Friday to expect setbacks in his ongoing attempts to fix the economy.

“It’s going to take time to get inflation back to normal levels as we keep our job market strong, so we could see setbacks along the way,” he said at the White House, promising to stay “laser-focused” on the economy.

He also claimed that inflation at the grocery store was “down slightly,” even though the cost of food at home is up 12.4 percent from the previous year.

The president met with a group of business and labor leaders on his imitation White House video set to talk about the economy and delivered about seven minutes of remarks before sending the press out of the room. (Read more from “Biden Warns of Upcoming ‘Setbacks’ in the Economy” HERE)

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Trump Argues He Can’t Be Indicted for Jan. 6 Because of ‘Double Jeopardy’

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Former President Donald Trump on Friday floated the unfounded legal theory that he can’t be indicted by federal prosecutors over the Jan. 6 capitol riot because he was already impeached by Congress over the matter.

The 76-year-old former president made the argument at an America First Policy Institute gala held at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Friday. During his speech, Trump also railed against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to handle federal investigations into him.

“I thought this was all done … or very close to being done,” Trump said of the federal probe into him related to Jan. 6.

“I was tried on the fake impeachment hoax on Jan 6, and they tried it in the Senate, they went through the whole process, and we won,” Trump said.

“We went through the whole process, so wouldn’t this sort of be a — and then you take a look at the other, we went through two of them – and isn’t this sort of like double jeopardy?” the former president floated. (Read more from “Trump Argues He Can’t Be Indicted for Jan. 6 Because of ‘Double Jeopardy’” HERE)

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DeSantis 2024? Governor Has Strong Lead Over Trump in New Primary Poll, Beats Biden in Popular Vote; Trump v Desantis: Republicans Split Over 2024 Run and Predict ‘Blood on the Floor’

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By Daily Wire. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a seven point lead over former President Donald Trump in who Republican voters want to see as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee, according to a new poll released this week.

The Economist/YouGov poll found that Republican voters want DeSantis over Trump, 46% to 39%, and Independent voters also want DeSantis over Trump, 34% to 21%. For all voters, DeSantis had a whopping 15-point lead over the former president, 43% to 28%.

DeSantis beat Trump in every demographic that the poll measured except among Hispanic voters, as the two candidates were tied 37% to 37%.

DeSantis beat Trump in the following demographics: Men (+6%), women (+20%), whites (+15%), blacks (+17%), 18-29 year olds (+12%), 30-44 year olds (+1%), 45-64 year olds (+18%), 65+ year olds (+19%), income <$50k (+6%), income $50-$100k (+22%), $100k+ (+15%), 2020 Biden Voters (+21%), 2020 Trump Voters (+11%), Democrats (+19%), Independents (+13%), Republicans (+7%), Liberals (+5%), Moderates (+19%), Conservatives (+18%), Urban (+8%), Suburban (+19%), and Rural (+11%). The poll comes after a poll from YouGov last week found that DeSantis had gained an advantage over Trump in who Republicans wanted to see as the party’s 2024 nominee. (Read more from "DeSantis Has Strong Lead Over Trump in New 2024 Primary Poll, Beats Biden in Popular Vote" HERE)

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Trump v Desantis: Republicans Split Over 2024 Run and Predict ‘Blood on the Floor’

By The Guardian. Terri Burl was an early member of Women for Trump. As chair of her local Republican party branch in northern Wisconsin, she twice campaigned vigorously for his election in the key swing state. By the time Trump left office, Burl rated him the greatest president since Ronald Reagan. Maybe even better.

But now Burl has had enough.

She viewed the prospect of Trump announcing another run for the presidency – as he did in Florida on Tuesday evening – with trepidation. Burl predicts “a lot of blood on the floor” if it comes to a fight with rightwing Florida governor Ron DeSantis for the Republican nomination, and defeat in the 2024 election if the former US president is the candidate.

“I will back whoever the Republicans choose to run in 2024. That’s a given. But I want them to go through the primaries and I hope it’s not Trump. He has too much baggage now. We need new blood because it’s obvious that he can’t get to business now without doing things to make people angry. His behaviour hasn’t changed,” she said. . .

The Republicans’ failure to deliver the much promised “red wave” in the midterms was a significant blow to Trump’s claim to be the voice of his party’s voters, not least because of the defeat of key candidates endorsed by him. But backing from the grass roots, which gave him a tight grip on the Republicans for years and kept its hostile leadership at bay, has been eroding for months. (Read more from “Trump v Desantis: Republicans Split Over 2024 Run and Predict ‘Blood on the Floor’” HERE)

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Former School Counselor Suing School District After She Was Fired for ‘Anti-Trans’ Remarks (VIDEO)

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A former public school counselor in Wisconsin is suing Milwaukee Public Schools for terminating her employment after she spoke out against transgender ideology curriculum at a rally earlier this year.

Marissa Darlingh was fired in September after a speech she made over gender identity ideology curriculum at a feminist rally in Madison. Her lawsuit alleges that her former school district violated her free speech rights over her remarks.

“I oppose gender ideology ever entering the walls of my school building,” Darlingh said at the rally, according to a video of her remarks.

“On my dead f***ing body will my students be exposed to the harms of gender identity ideology. Not a single one of my students under my f***ing watch will ever, ever transition socially and sure as hell not medically,” she added.

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Pelosi Stepping Down From Leadership Role Following Midterm Losses That Cost Dems House Majority

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It’s the end of an era for Democrats — and the nation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told fellow lawmakers Thursday that she will step aside from the top Democratic leadership role she has held for nearly two decades.

She delivered the announcement to a packed chamber a day after Republicans officially clinched the House majority, albeit a small one, that will give them control of the gavel that they lost four years ago.

Her exit also follows the attack on her husband, Paul, by a hammer-wielding intruder in their San Francisco home last month. The assault left Mr. Pelosi with a fractured skull and other injuries from which he is still recovering.

“For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic Caucus that I so deeply respect, and I’m grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility,” Mrs. Pelosi told lawmakers. (Read more from “Pelosi Stepping Down From Leadership Role Following Midterm Losses That Cost Dems House Majority” HERE)

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Researchers Claim to Have Found Potential ‘Vaccine Against Fentanyl’

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Researchers at the University of Houston, Tulane University and Baylor College of Medicine believe they’ve made a breakthrough in the fight against the opioid epidemic: developing a “vaccine against fentanyl.”

In a new study on mice, the scientists administered the vaccine, followed by two booster doses, to rats and later administered fentanyl to the same rats. The fentanyl doses did not penetrate the brains of the vaccinated rats, preventing not only the “high” associated with the substance but also the lethal consequences.

“If the drug does not get into the brain, there are no effects. There are no euphoric effects, and there are no lethal affects as well,” University of Houston Associate Professor Colin Haile, who led the study, said.

Haile said the vaccine is designed for addicts who are consistent users of fentanyl, but could also protect individuals who are inadvertently exposed if it proves effective in further trials, according to ABC 13. Fentanyl has become a lead driver of record-high opioid overdose deaths in the United States, particularly as it is mixed with common recreational drugs like cocaine or heroin. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the last year, a historic number. (Read more from “Researchers Claim to Have Found Potential ‘Vaccine Against Fentanyl’” HERE)

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Zelensky Rejects NATO View That Russia Did Not Fire Missile That Fell in Poland

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An emerging NATO consensus about the origin of the missile that struck a village in Poland is wrong, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. . .

That emphatic statement sets up an unusual dispute between Ukraine and two of its most important Western partners. Both President Joe Biden and his Polish counterpart have signaled their growing confidence a Ukrainian anti-air defense missile landed in Poland during an intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine.

“From the information that we and our allies have, it was an S-300 rocket made in the Soviet Union, an old rocket, and there is no evidence that it was launched by the Russian side,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday. “It is highly probable that it was fired by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense.”

The course of the dispute has left Western observers “puzzled,” as one senior European official confessed, given the general confidence in both Ukrainian and NATO intelligence capabilities regarding such issues.

“The Ukrainians have very good data collection — they have good radars, they track every single missile,” former U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for the Ukraine crisis prior to then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment scandal, told the Washington Examiner. “I’ve been to their headquarters where they do this — [it’s] very sophisticated. They know what’s going on. I’m sure the Poles do as well. I’m sure we do as well. So the Poles and Ukrainians need to sit down with their experts and look at their data … and come up with what they think actually happened.” (Read more from “Zelensky Rejects NATO View That Russia Did Not Fire Missile That Fell in Poland” HERE)

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FTX Founder Funneled Millions to Democrat Candidates

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the now-bankrupt founder of crypto exchange FTX, is a prolific donor of Democratic candidates and liberal causes, and infused at least $38 million into left-wing groups during the 2022 election cycle.

Bankman-Fried was the second-largest contributor to Democratic-affiliated political action committees (PACs) and organizations, behind only liberal financial magnate George Soros, who donated nearly $127 million during the midterm cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data. However, the collapse of FTX this week has called into question Bankman-Fried’s finances.

A full-fledged liquidity crisis forced FTX to file for bankruptcy on Friday, and Bankman-Fried’s wealth, which was estimated to be $15.6 billion earlier this week, has sharply plummeted, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The index currently estimates Bankman-Fried has no material wealth.

“I’m sorry. That’s the biggest thing,” Bankman-Fried tweeted Thursday morning. “I f—ed up, and should have done better.”

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Biden Can’t Even Escape Mockery on TikTok in Hilarious New Trend

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Arecent TikTok trend is using a hilarious audio recording of President Biden epically failing to convince Americans he is “mentally focused.” The gaffe comes from a September interview on “60 Minutes” when CBS correspondent Scott Pelley asked Biden about his mental capacity to run the United States. “How would you say your mental focus is?” asked Pelley, to which Biden responded by rambling off a slew of bizarre and incoherent fragments. “Oh it’s focused,” answered Biden with a laugh. “I’d say it’s — I think it’s — I haven’t. Look, I have trouble even mentioning, even saying to myself, my own head, the number of years. I no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly.”

Social media users seized the audio and have used it for a host of comedic content. One user lip-synced to Biden’s response but changed the words to “mental focus after three kids,” writing in her caption “You could say I have Biden brain.”

These two police officers played the Biden gaffe to explain their deteriorating attention spans due to watching too much TikTok.

@unhinged_stability #copsoftiktok #iykyk #jokes #bethechange #bekind ♬ original sound – The Charlie Kirk Show

A mom likened Biden’s response to what her daughter says when asked about how her day was at school.

@tiff.n.joy My brain hurts #motherdaughter #tiffnjoy #fyp #comedy #funny #humor ♬ original sound – The Charlie Kirk Show

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FBI Deployed Unconstitutional ‘Zero-Click’ Pegasus Surveillance Software

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During the Trump administration, the FBI paid $5 million to an Israeli software company for a license to use its “zero-click” surveillance software called Pegasus. Zero-click refers to software that can download the contents of a target’s computer or mobile device without the need for tricking the target into clicking on it. The FBI operated the software from a warehouse in New Jersey.

Before revealing any of this to the two congressional intelligence committees to which the FBI reports, it experimented with the software. The experiments apparently consisted of testing Pegasus by spying — illegally and unconstitutionally, since no judicially issued search warrant had authorized the use of Pegasus — on unwitting Americans by downloading data from their devices.

When congressional investigators got wind of these experiments, the Senate Intelligence Committee summoned FBI Director Christopher Wray to testify in secret about the acquisition and use of Pegasus, and he did so in December 2021. He told the mostly pliant senators that the FBI purchased Pegasus only “to be able to figure out how bad guys could use it.” Is that even believable?

In follow-up testimony in March 2022, Mr. Wray elaborated that Pegasus was used “as part of our routine responsibilities to evaluate technologies that are out there, not just from a perspective of could they be used someday legally, but also, more important, what are the security concerns raised by those products.” More FBI gibberish.

Last week, dozens of internal FBI memos and court records told a different story — a story that has caused Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to question the veracity of Mr. Wray’s testimony. Mr. Wyden’s healthy skepticism caused the FBI to reluctantly reveal that it had ordered its own version of Pegasus, called Phantom, which the Israelis tailor-made for hacking American mobile devices. (Read more from “FBI Deployed Unconstitutional ‘Zero-Click’ Pegasus Surveillance Software” HERE)

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