Biden Grants Record 39 Presidential Pardons and Commutes 1,500 Sentences

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The days are counting down until U.S. President Joe Biden exits the White House but before he goes the octogenarian is doing some judicial housekeeping.

On Thursday he issues presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes while commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

The White House has not given the names of the people involved in the mass commutations, AP reports.

The U.S. Constitution decrees a president has the broad “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”

Earlier this month, Biden issued a controversial pardon to his son Hunter, as Breitbart News reported. (Read more from “Biden Grants Record 39 Presidential Pardons and Commutes 1,500 Sentences” HERE)

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NATO Chief Warns Alliance Not Ready for Future Threats From Russia, China

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NATO countries need to ramp up their defense spending and “shift to a wartime mindset” because the alliance is not ready to meet future military threats from adversaries like Russia and China, newly installed NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday.

In his first public appearance in Brussels since becoming chief of the U.S.-led security alliance, Mr. Rutte noted that NATO members earmarked upwards of 3% of their GDP to defense during the Cold War.

“We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years. Danger is moving toward us at full speed,” Mr. Rutte said during a speech hosted by the Carnegie Europe think tank. “We must not look the other way. We must face it.”

He said Russian arms factories are churning out war equipment around the clock while China’s military-industrial base also is growing. Beijing is heavily investing in munitions, accelerating its space capabilities and expanding its nuclear arsenal.

“Our defense industry here in Europe has been hollowed out by decades of underinvestment and narrow national industrial interests. Our industry is too small, too fragmented, and too slow,” Mr. Rutte said. “According to some sources, China is acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the U.S.” (Read more from “NATO Chief Warns Alliance Not Ready for Future Threats From Russia, China” HERE)

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Oversight Panel Probes Federal Agency Over Unhinged Post Claiming U.S. Is Devolving Into Nazi Germany

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded answers from the Selective Service agency for reposting a vulgar social media screed last month suggesting the US may be on a similar trajectory to Nazi Germany.

Although the report was subsequently scrubbed from the Selective Service’s official X account, Comer (R-Ky.) is keen on obtaining additional information on the matter and wants to ensure the perpetrator is fired.

“The Committee is deeply disturbed that an independent federal agency, tasked with registering and maintaining a system of individuals potentially subject to military conscription if authorized by the President and Congress, would re-post a wholly unsubstantiated, false, and contemptible claim,” Comer wrote in a letter to Selective Service System acting director Joel Spangenberg on Thursday.

“The individual at fault for reposting such an inappropriate and disturbing message on an Agency X account should be terminated.”

One day after the Nov. 5 election, the Selective Service X account reposted a remark by user “SloJoe” likening the incoming Trump administration to Nazi Germany. (Read more from “Oversight Panel Probes Federal Agency Over Unhinged Post Claiming U.S. Is Devolving Into Nazi Germany” HERE)

3 Men Accuse Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of Drugging and Raping Them at NYC Hotels

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Sean “Diddy” Combs drugged and then raped three men at two Manhattan hotels and at his Hamptons estate as recently as 2022, according to a trio of new lawsuits filed in New York on Thursday.

One of the men recalled that during his drugged haze, once Combs was finished raping him, he handed him off to others from Bad Boy Records so they could take turns sexually assaulting him, according to his lawsuit.

The three lawsuits cite assaults in 2019 and 2020 — though the suit alleges they covered allegations through 2022.

Each lawsuit alleges that Combs served the anonymous victims alcoholic drinks spiked with drugs that made the men feel “ill” and lose consciousness, only to awake as Combs was raping them, court documents state.

Lawyer for the three victims, Thomas P. Giuffra, of Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo Plotkin & Hellman, LLP, said in an afternoon press conference outside of Manhattan Supreme Court that the trio of lawsuits have much in common.”All of these cases involve the rape of men,” Guiffra said. “They all involve drugging of these victims, raping by Sean Combs and others, following the rapes threats to the safety of each one of these victims. We’re here to obtain some justice for these people for events that have been traumatizing them ever since.” (Read more from “3 Men Accuse Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of Drugging and Raping Them at NYC Hotels” HERE)

Mayor’s Bank Account Reportedly Seized After Refusing to Celebrate Pride Month

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A mayor of a township in Ontario, Canada, reportedly had his personal bank account garnished after he refused to pay a $5,000 fine after a tribunal ruled he had discriminated against an LGBTQ group.

On November 20, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that the township of Emo and its mayor, Harold McQuaker, 77, had discriminated against an LGBTQ group, under the Ontario Human Rights Code, by denying its request to proclaim June as Pride Month. Borderland Pride had requested Emo make the Pride Month declaration and requested the township fly a “LGBTQ2” flag, despite Emo not having an official flag pole.

McQuaker was further found to have violated the human rights code by making a “discriminatory remark” during the town’s council meeting about the flag request, saying that there was no flag for the “other side of the coin… for straight people.”

Tribunal vice-chair Karen Dawson ordered the township to pay a fine of $10,000, while McQuaker was ordered to take a “Human Rights 101” course and pay a $5,000 fine to Borderland Pride.

However, McQuaker publicly said that he wouldn’t pay the fine, calling it “extortion.” (Read more from “Mayor’s Bank Account Reportedly Seized After Refusing to Celebrate Pride Month” HERE)

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House Democrats Move Further Left After the 2024 Elections

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House Democrats did not learn a lesson from the 2024 elections in which the GOP swept into a federal trifecta and made gains across the country. They are instead deciding to become even more radical and even more hysterical than ever before.

The two most high-profile, high-exposure House committees are the Judiciary Committee and Oversight Committee. The Judiciary Committee is where House Republicans have spent the past few years interrogating the heads of the FBI, the Secret Service, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, and the officials involved in Biden’s border crisis. The House Judiciary Committee under the GOP has also examined Wall Street firms colluding with climate activists to strongarm companies into left-wing climate goals.

House Democrats have tossed aside Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to make Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) the new top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Raskin is among the most radical and most hysterical Democrats in Congress, an election denier who tried to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election and who intentionally undermined trust in the 2024 elections by suggesting there is no way they could be “free, fair, and honest” if President-elect Donald Trump won. He is also a wannabe tyrant who wants to force Supreme Court justices he disagrees with off of cases and change the entire electoral system to fit what he thinks will help Democrats cling to power.

Raskin has also said the antisemitic junior varsity communists of “The Squad” are “the Truth Squad” in his eyes, and one of those members will soon be replacing him as the leading Democrat on the Oversight Committee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly has won over the majority of Oversight Democrats and already clearly has Raskin’s seal of approval, lining her up to lead the Democrats on the committee that Republicans have used to investigate Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) ties to China and the political corruption in Biden’s FEMA response to hurricanes. (Read more from “House Democrats Move Further Left After the 2024 Elections” HERE)

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Report: DOJ Corruptly Spied On Congress Members, Staffers, And Media In 4-Year Inquiry That Resulted In No Charges

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A new report shows the creepy tactics the Department of Justice (DOJ) employed to secretly spy on certain members of Congress, media personnel, and congressional staffers who were investigating the DOJ.

The DOJ conducted four criminal investigations between 2017 and 2020 into unauthorized disclosure of classified information. The DOJ launched these investigations “while House and Senate oversight committees were investigating the Department of Justice and the FBI for their role in the Russia-collusion hoax,” as Margot Cleveland reported for The Federalist.

Despite unprecedented and indefensibly invasive investigations, the DOJ “did not charge anyone in these investigations with unauthorized disclosure of classified information,” according to a DOJ Office of Inspector General report. All four investigations are now closed.

The report, titled “A Review of the Department of Justice’s Issuance of Compulsory Process to Obtain Records of Members of Congress, Congressional Staffers, and Members of the News Media,” was released on Tuesday.

The DOJ investigated 43 congressional staffers — including 21 who worked for Democrat committees or members of Congress and 20 who worked for Republican committees or Congress members — their family members, and two Democrat members of Congress who are not named in the report, but who have been identified in other media as Rep. Eric Swalwell and then-Rep. Adam Schiff (who has now moved to the U.S. Senate). (Read more from “Report: DOJ Corruptly Spied On Congress Members, Staffers, And Media In 4-Year Inquiry That Resulted In No Charges” HERE)

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Later, Deep Stater! FBI Wray Resigns; Trump Celebrates Resignation of FBI Chief With Epic Message

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By Breitbart. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the rumors on Wednesday, previewing his plans to resign ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

According to the Washington Post, Wray — who replaced anti-Trumper James Comey in 2017 — made the announcement during a townhall with what the outlet described as the “FBI workforce.” Wray maintained that his stepping down is the best option for the FBI as a whole.

Wray reportedly said in part, “My goal is to keep the focus on our mission — the indispensable work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day.”

“In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work,” he continued, revealing that the decision was “not easy for me.”

“I love this place, I love our mission, and I love our people — but my focus is, and always has been, on us and doing what’s right for the FBI,” he claimed.

(Read more from “Later, Deep Stater! FBI Wray Resigns” HERE)

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Trump Celebrates Resignation of FBI Chief With Epic Message

By WND. Christopher Wray, the FBI chief who oversaw the weaponization of the federal agency against now President-elect Donald Trump, with the bureau’s SWAT raid on Trump’s home, its participation in the “Russia, Russia, Russia” collusion conspiracy and more, is leaving.

The move is voluntary, but inevitable, given that Trump already had expressed his desire for a different FBI chief, and in fact already had nominated Kash Patel.

Trump responded to the word delivered by Wray to FBI employees:

“The resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice. I just don’t know what happened to him. We will now restore the Rule of Law for all Americans,” he said.

“Under the leadership of Christopher Wray, the FBI illegally raided my home, without cause, worked diligently on illegally impeaching and indicting me, and has done everything else to interfere with the success and future of America. They have used their vast powers to threaten and destroy many innocent Americans, some of which will never be able to recover from what has been done to them.” (Read more from “Trump Celebrates Resignation of FBI Chief With Epic Message” HERE)

Country Bans Puberty Blockers for Transgender Minors

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The United Kingdom on Wednesday indefinitely banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat minors for gender dysphoria. The announcement comes a week after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving state bans on puberty-suppressing medication and other forms of transition-related care for minors. . .

The indefinite ban on the medication in Britain comes several months after an independent study commissioned by England’s National Health Service concluded that the medical evidence around transition-related care for minors is “remarkably weak” and that more research is needed.

“Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led,” British Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said in a press release. “The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.”

Dr. Hilary Cass, the author of the independent study, known as the “Cass report,” said she supported the ban, according to the same release.

“Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks, and that is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol,” she said. (Read more from “Country Bans Puberty Blockers for Transgender Minors” HERE)

Antony Blinken Defends Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says Things Didn’t Turn Out Too Bad

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken apologized Wednesday to the families of 13 U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber during America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying he wished the government had done more to protect them.

Mr. Blinken told Congress that the Biden administration has managed to blunt some of the withdrawal’s worst problems.

He said al Qaeda has not been able to revive itself inside Afghanistan and worries about stranded Americans haven’t come to fruition. The U.S. has rescued hundreds of people left in Afghanistan at the end of the August 2021 pullout.

Far from frayed alliances and falling U.S. standing, he said, America emerged with firmer friends and better security on the international stage. In particular, he said, the withdrawal allowed the U.S. to be in a position to build the coalition that helped Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

“It’s clear that our alliances, our partnerships, are stronger today than they have been in a generation,” he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. (Read more from “Antony Blinken Defends Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says Things Didn’t Turn Out Too Bad” HERE)