Trump Reportedly Forced to Cancel Events Leading Up to Assassination Attempt Due to Secret Service Shortcomings

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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign was forced to cancel several events and rallies leading up to the failed assassination attempt because the Secret Service had failed to properly secure the area, aides told The Washington Post.

In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump, concerns about the Secret Service’s ability to protect the former president have come to light and eventually forced Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to resign. The Trump campaign previously requested additional precautions but were denied “additional protection” including “more snipers, bomb-sniffing dogs, magnetometers and specialty teams” ahead of the assassination attempt because Secret Service officials said the resources weren’t available, aides told The Washington Post.

The Secret Service has stepped up protection so much since the assassination attempt that Trump aides have said it feels like the former president is in office again, sources told the outlet.

“We live in a military encampment again,” one source told The Washington Post of the increased security at events and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

Secret Service agents told the outlet that its manual for protecting former presidents doesn’t take into account his bid for reelection, his “unusually high profile and pace of public events.” (Read more from “Trump Reportedly Forced to Cancel Events Leading Up to Assassination Attempt Due to Secret Service Shortcomings” HERE)

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Democrats Shove Biden Out of DNC Primetime for Last Gasp of Presidency

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President Joe Biden took the Democratic National Convention stage well past his scheduled primetime slot to cap off a night meant to honor his legacy.

The DNC ran considerably behind schedule, leading the president to be booted from his primetime speaking slot to appear close to midnight on the east coast. The first night of the convention was full of speakers who dedicated their speeches to Biden’s four years in office, his decision to pick Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate and his choice to end his 2024 reelection bid. An emotional Biden himself made a nod to the theme throughout his speech, praising Harris as he was repeatedly interrupted by “thank you, Joe” chants.

“It’s been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job, but I love my country more. All this talk about how I’m angry at all the people who said I should step down — it’s not true. I love my country more, and we need to preserve our democracy in 2024. We need you to vote. We need you to keep the Senate and the House of Representatives. And above all, we need you to beat Donald Trump,” Biden said before wrapping his speech up after midnight. It lasted nearly an hour.

As the speakers leading up to Biden on the schedule began dragging on and on, speculation swirled about how and why the president had been shoved aside to speak when many Americans would already be asleep.

“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them — do they have to cut him out of prime time?” one longtime Biden aide texted Axios reporter Alex Thompson. (Read more from “Democrats Shove Biden Out of DNC Primetime for Last Gasp of Presidency” HERE)

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WATCH: Live Footage of Masked Radical Leftists Storming Through Secret Service Wall

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In Chicago, a significant gathering of leftist protesters has convened for the “March on the DNC” demonstration, right before the Democratic National Convention kicks off.

For those interested in witnessing the voices of these dissenting Americans, several videos capturing the essence of the protest can be seen below.

Planned Parenthood to Offer Free Vasectomies, Abortions During DNC

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By Breitbart. A Planned Parenthood clinic will be offering people free vasectomies and abortions during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is set to be held next week in Chicago.

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (PPGR), the Chicago Abortion Fund, and The Wieners Circle will be “providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion” at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers’ mobile health clinic, PPGR announced in a post on X.

According to the New York Times, the mobile health clinic will be set up “blocks away” from the DNC.

PPGR, which is part of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, is described as being “the leading provider, educator, and protector of sexual and reproductive health care in the St. Louis region, Missouri Ozarks, and beyond,” according to the website for Planned Parenthood Great Rivers.

“Here we come, Chicago! Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion. EC will also be available for free without an appointment.”

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Pro-Choice Protesters Offered Me Free Plan B Within 5 Minutes Before the DNC

By Washington Examiner. Although the Democratic National Convention does not begin until Monday, a mishmash of various left-wing interest groups had already amassed in downtown Chicago by Sunday afternoon. Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws successfully sued the city after initially being denied a permit to, in the group’s own words, “crash the party” to coronate Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s 2024 nominee. Flanked by protection not just from the Chicago Police Department but also the Department of Justice, the first March on the DNC featured keffiyeh-clad activists calling for the taxpayer funding of abortion until the point of birth and support for Palestine, a territory where abortion is banned at any and all points of pregnancy.

Within five minutes of approaching protest volunteers from the Hydra Fund, this reporter was offered a complimentary dose of Plan B. While emergency contraception does not terminate a fertilized pregnancy, the Hydra Fund’s main goal is to fund actual abortions for expectant mothers in Michigan. Though the crucial swing state’s constitution codified abortion access up until the point of birth after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the protesters congregating across the DuSable Bridge argue the Democratic governments haven’t gone far enough.

“We have to treat abortion as a health issue, and therefore people who are medical people should be able to do that,” said Dianne Feeley, a Michigan activist lobbying to overturn a restriction that currently says only physicians can administer abortions. “You know, licensed physician assistants, a whole range of people, and then with medication abortion, with information over the internet, you can perform the abortion safely yourself.” (Read more from “Pro-Choice Protesters Offered Me Free Plan B Within 5 Minutes Before the DNC” HERE)

Vance Says Voters See Harris as ‘More of the Same’ Instead of ‘Fresh Start’

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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued voters view a presidency under Vice President Kamala Harris as “more of the same” they experienced under President Joe Biden, and that voters will instead want to go back to former President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, argued that Harris’s campaign has experienced a “sugar high” since she stepped in for Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee, citing the Trump campaign’s internal data that Harris’s support has “leveled off.” He contended that voters do not buy the idea of Harris addressing inflation as president, joking that Harris being in charge of inflation policy would be like Jeffrey Epstein being in charge of human trafficking policy.

“The American people are much smarter than that,” Vance said on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream. “They don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris represents a fresh start. She is more of the same. It is doubling down on the failed policies of the Biden administration to give Kamala Harris a promotion rather than to fire her, which is what I think most Americans are going to do on November.”

The vice presidential candidate also dismissed polling that has placed Harris ahead of Trump, arguing press outlets release “fake polls to drive down Republican turnout” ahead of elections. He also said his campaign is in “a very, very good spot,” and that all it needs to do is make it to the finish line.

Regarding the Harris campaign, Vance argued that the campaign’s case to voters is to “forget how good things were” under Trump’s leadership. (Read more from “Vance Says Voters See Harris as ‘More of the Same’ Instead of ‘Fresh Start’” HERE)

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Meta Ditches ‘Misinformation’ Tracking Tool, Angering Journalists and Nonprofits

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Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media giant Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, a researching tool used to monitor social media posts that include alleged misinformation.

The move has upset a series of nonprofits which sent letters in protest of Meta’s move to a new tool called Content Library. Their issue stems from Meta limiting usage of Content Library to “qualified academic or nonprofit institutions who are pursuing scientific or public interest research.”

This has prevented many journalists from having immediate access to the new tool, TechCrunch reported.

The letter to Meta in May 2024 asked for CrowdTangle to stay available until at least January 2025 so that it could be used through the 2024 presidential election.

“This decision jeopardizes essential pre- and post-election oversight mechanisms and undermines Meta’s transparency efforts during this critical period, and at a time when social trust and digital democracy are alarmingly fragile,” the letter, which was posted to the Human Rights Watch website, stated. (Read more from “Meta Ditches ‘Misinformation’ Tracking Tool, Angering Journalists and Nonprofits” HERE)

Haniyeh’s Son Claims Hamas Leader Was Killed by Guided Missile That Tracked His Cell Phone

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Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a guided missile that tracked his cell phone, his son Abdussalam Haniyeh told Saudi Arabia state media Al Arabiya Friday from Doha, Qatar, in an interview.

Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on July 31, and it was reported by the New York Times and independently confirmed by the Jerusalem Post that an explosive device was planted in his room months before he was killed.

The bomb was hidden in June and used cutting-edge remote technology that was also used in the killing of Iran nuclear chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, according to the report and the Post’s sources.

Haniyeh’s son told Al Arabiya that this was not the case. “I think the story of an explosive device is completely baseless,” he said. “There were bodyguards and other advisers sitting in a room a few meters away from his room, so it’s clear that if there were an explosive device, the whole place would be blown up,” he added.

“It was a guided missile that tracked his mobile phone that he had placed at night in his room near his head, which was directly hit,” Haniyeh said to Al Arabiya. (Read more from “Haniyeh’s Son Claims Hamas Leader Was Killed by Guided Missile That Tracked His Cell Phone” HERE)

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Anti-Israel Protests Outside Chicago DNC Threaten to Tarnish Kamala Harris Coronation

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Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to march outside the Democratic National Convention in the Windy City in opposition to the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel — threatening to tarnish Vice President Kamala Harris’ weeklong presidential nomination fest.

A coalition of mostly left-wing and Arab- and Muslim-American groups are planning two protest marches — the first and largest on Monday at noon ahead of retiring President Biden’s evening appearance and again on Thursday at 5 p.m. ahead of Harris’ acceptance speech.

“The Democratic Party is the target and not Joe Biden as an individual or Kamala Harris as an individual … She’s just as complicit as Biden is,” said Hatem Abudayyeh, the executive director of the Arab American Action Network who cited her opposition to an arms embargo on Israel as evidence that her attempt to seem more “empathetic” rings hollow.

“If Kamala Harris loses to [former President Donald] Trump, then they have nobody to blame but themselves. This is the Vietnam War of our generation,” he said. . .

Massive attendance had been expected at protests when Biden, 81, was the party’s presumptive nominee — but his decision to retire on July 21 and endorse Harris, 59, has cast some uncertainty over the scale of protests, though organizers say they still expect tens of thousands of participants. (Read more from “Anti-Israel Protests Outside Chicago DNC Threaten to Tarnish Kamala Harris Coronation” HERE)

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Kamala Harris Met Secretly With Radical, Antisemitic Dearborn, Michigan, Mayor

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Vice President Kamala Harris secretly met last week with the radical, antisemitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, in an effort to court Muslim- and Arab-American voters.

The meeting was reported by the Associated Press, buried within an article published on Saturday about the so-called “uncommitted” group of voters, particularly in Michigan, who are trying to push the Democratic Party into an openly anti-Israel position.

The AP reported:

Top Democrats have spent weeks meeting with “uncommitted” voters and their allies — including a previously unreported sit-down between Vice President Kamala Harris and the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan — in an effort to respond to criticism in key swing states like Michigan, which has a significant Arab American population.

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During a campaign trip to Michigan last week, Harris met with Abdullah Hammoud, the 34-year-old mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb that has the largest number of Arab Americans of any city in the United States. The meeting was disclosed by a person who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The person familiar with the meeting did not provide specific details but said the focus was on Harris’ potential policy, if elected, on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Hammoud declined to comment.

(Read more from “Kamala Harris Met Secretly With Radical, Antisemitic Dearborn, Michigan, Mayor” HERE)

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Doc, 84, Couldn’t Hear Colonoscopy Patient Screaming in Agony Because He Wasn’t Wearing His Hearing Aids: Complaint

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A Florida gastroenterologist has been disciplined after two recent colonoscopy procedures went awry on his watch, including at least one where he couldn’t hear an improperly-sedated patient’s screams because he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids.

Dr. Ishwari Prasad, 84, has been placed on probation by the Florida Board of Medicine after the botched procedures, according to a state Department of Health administrative complaint viewed by USA Today.

Both colonoscopies took place on June 5 last year at the Tampa Ambulatory Surgery Center.

During the first, Prasad is said to have “improperly delegated” medical tasks to a surgical tech who did not have a license to practice medicine, the complaint reads.

The tech was instructed by Prasad to perform “at least one” task from a list including scope insertion, scope manipulation, manipulating an instrument over polyps or tissue or removing polyps or tissue. (Read more from “Doc, 84, Couldn’t Hear Colonoscopy Patient Screaming in Agony Because He Wasn’t Wearing His Hearing Aids: Complaint” HERE)