Biden Energy Official Resigns Amid Push for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives

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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a top official with the United States Department of Energy, who injected the department’s science office with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives during her tenure, will step down from her position at the end of the month, Fox News Digital reported.

Berhe, a professor of soil biogeochemistry, was nominated in April 2021 by President Biden to serve as the director of the Office of Science within the DOE. She was confirmed by the Senate in a 54-45 vote.

According to the DOE’s website, Berhe’s areas of expertise include “soil science, global change science, and political ecology with an emphasis on how the soil system regulates the earth’s climate and the dynamic two-way relationship between the natural environment and human communities.”

During her time as the head of science, Berhe has pushed her office to adopt “equity and inclusion” initiatives. In October 2022, Berhe implemented a policy requiring grant applicants “to submit a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) Plan as an appendix to their proposal narrative,” according to the Office of Science’s website. The plan mandated applicants to describe how they would “incorporate to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in their research projects.”

“The Office of Science (SC) is deeply committed to supporting diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible work, research, and funding environments that value mutual respect and personal integrity, and SC is committed to promoting people of all backgrounds, including individuals from groups and communities historically underrepresented in STEM fields and SC activities in recognition of our responsibility to serve the public,” the website read. (Read more from “Biden Energy Official Resigns Amid Push for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives” HERE)

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Not Parody: NYT Declares the ‘Deep State’ Is Not Only Real, but ‘Kind of Awesome’

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The New York Times has declared that not only is the “Deep State” real, it “is actually kind of awesome.”

When former President Trump was in the White House, Republican complaints about a “deep state” — entrenched unelected bureaucrats and federal government employees who were actively working to undermine Trump’s agenda — were dismissed as conspiracy theories. But as the 2024 presidential race shapes up to be a rematch of the 2020 election, the NYT has acknowledged — and praised — the “deep state’s” existence.

The video opinion piece, produced by Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse, began with a series of clips of former President Trump promising to dismantle the “deep state” if reelected. The pair followed with a series of comments from federal government employees whom they suggested were a part of the “deep state” and therefore at risk if Trump were reelected. (Read more from “Not Parody: NYT Declares the ‘Deep State’ Is Not Only Real, but ‘Kind of Awesome’” HERE)

Favoritism, Cover-Ups Reveal Culture of Corruption in US Capitol Police Leadership

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Corruption is endemic at the highest levels of the United States Capitol Police, especially among the special agents and officers who serve in the department’s dignitary protection detail, a Blaze Media investigation has found.

Internal discipline reports show a pattern of officers failing upward. Proven instances of fraud, forgery, theft, perjury, and drunk driving on duty going back to the late 1990s led to promotions rather than dismissals and prosecutions, discipline reports obtained by Blaze Media show.

High-ranking USCP officials, including a present-day deputy chief and an assistant chief, were implicated and faced discipline and possible termination in a fraudulent overtime pay scheme that defrauded the government of tens of thousands of dollars, according to documents obtained by Blaze Media and a former Capitol Police sergeant. A lieutenant involved in the scam left the Capitol Police and now works for the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms. . .

The National Journal story relied in part on the account of Rhoda Henderson, a retired USCP sergeant and whistleblower. In an exclusive interview with Blaze Media, Henderson confirmed that the officers involved were current USCP Assistant Chief Sean Gallagher, current Deputy Chief John Erickson, and Wendy Colmore, who is now director of central operations for the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms.

Gallagher was a captain with the dignitary protection detail and the alleged “ringleader” at the time of the payroll scheme, while Erickson and Colmore were both lieutenants under Gallagher’s command. (Read more from “Favoritism, Cover-Ups Reveal Culture of Corruption in US Capitol Police Leadership” HERE)

Biden Administration’s Paperwork Failure Results in Dismissal of 200,000 Deportation Cases

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The Biden administration failed to file court papers in hundreds of thousands of deportation cases, which were as a result tossed by judges.

The Department of Homeland Security enforces immigration laws by issuing a Notice to Appear (NTA) to each illegal immigrant and filing it in court. But in approximately 200,000 cases in which NTAs were issued to aliens at the border, triggering the creation of a court date, DHS never filed the actual paper with the court, according to new data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an academic group better known as TRAC.

In immigration courts in Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, both immigration hotbeds, more than half of their deportation cases have been dismissed for that reason since fiscal year 2021.

“These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the nonpartisan group, affiliated with Syracuse University, said in its report. The percentage of immigration cases that were dismissed skyrocketed immediately upon President Joe Biden taking office, rising from 0.1% in 2017 and 1.2% in 2019 to 10.6% in 2021. (Read more from “Biden Administration’s Paperwork Failure Results in Dismissal of 200,000 Deportation Cases” HERE)

Letitia James Asks Court to Deny Donald Trump’s $454M Bond Appeal

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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday requested an appeals court turn down former President Donald Trump’s request to reduce or hold off collecting the bond amount of $454 million to cover a civil fraud judgment.

Trump must post a liquid (cash, securities) bond covering the full amount of the judgment to pause enforcement of the judgment, but 30 surety companies told Trump they would not accept real estate assets as collateral, Trump’s lawyers said Monday.

James could seek to freeze some of his bank accounts and properties if Trump cannot post the $454 million bond. Enforcement against Trump could begin as soon as March 25.

New York State lawyers argued Wednesday that Trump did not explore every option to post bond. They asked the court to reject Trump’s request to postpone collection without bond while his lawyers work through the appeals process, the Associated Press reported:

The attorneys wrote that “it is not possible under the circumstances presented.” They said underwriters insisted on cash or other liquid assets instead of real estate as collateral, which would have to cover 120% of the judgment, or more than $557 million.

Insurance broker Gary Giulietti — a Trump golf buddy who handles some of his company’s insurance needs and testified for him in the fraud trial — wrote in a sworn statement that “a bond of this size is rarely, if ever, seen.” The few provided go to huge public companies, Giulietti said. Trump’s company is private.

But Fan, the lawyer in the attorney general’s office, wrote Wednesday that “there is nothing unusual about even billion-dollar judgments being fully bonded on appeal,” citing a handful of cases. They largely involved publicly traded companies.

(Read more from “Letitia James Asks Court to Deny Donald Trump’s $454M Bond Appeal” HERE)

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Donald Trump May Not Pay Bond — And Instead Let Letitia James Seize Trump Tower: Insiders

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As Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to post a $454 million bond in the civil fraud case against him in New York, insiders said he may be weighing a little-discussed option: Doing nothing.

The ex-president reportedly has been struggling to raise the cash for the bond — either from banks or wealthy friends — with his lawyers claiming on Monday that it was a “practical impossibility.”

While some reports have raised speculation that Trump may “go nuclear” with a Chapter 11 filing to protect his prize real estate assets across Manhattan, experts said bankruptcy would create unwelcome complications as the 2024 election season comes to a head.

“He’s been there and done that,” one insider close to Trump said, dismissing the prospect of a Chapter 11 filing.

A third possibility, however, is to let the deadline pass, leaving it to New York Attorney General Letitia James to seize Trump’s bank accounts or buildings — including Trump Tower, from which he declared his 2016 presidential run, and which famously includes his personal penthouse. (Read more from “Donald Trump May Not Pay Bond — And Instead Let Letitia James Seize Trump Tower: Insiders” HERE)

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Hunter Biden Hearing Grinds to a Halt After Ranking Democrat Threatens Bobulinski With Subpoena

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A House Oversight and Accountability committee hearing came to a standstill after Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin threatened to subpoena Tony Bobulinski during a hearing detailing Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.

Two of Hunter Biden’s ex-business associates, Bobulinski and Jason Galanis, appeared before the committee for a public hearing on Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals and his father, President Joe Biden’s, potential involvement. The hearing abruptly paused after Raskin tried to subpoena for Bobulinski’s Blackberry phone in which he said messages with Hunter Biden and Oneida Holdings partners took place.

“We’ve heard for months now and seen photos of that Blackberry with the cracked screen. Does the committee have in its possession the data from Mr. Bobulinski’s phone from which we allegedly have taken these pictures?” Raskin asked. “I think we need the data that they keep referring to. Maybe Mr. Bobulinski could just turn it over to us or we could subpoena it today?”

House Oversight and Accountability committee chairman James Comer informed Raskin that they had pictures of all the text messages while someone in the background added that Bobulinski had previously been willing to turn over his phone.

“Of course, he has just given us the one’s he has selected. I’m wondering whether we could get all of these texts. I’d move that we subpoena Mr. Bobulinski’s Blackberry phone on which the messages with Hunter Biden and Oneida Holdings partners are saved. He’s stated that he is willing to provide it to the committee so it should be rather simple,” Raskin continued. (Read more from “Hunter Biden Hearing Grinds to a Halt After Ranking Democrat Threatens Bobulinski With Subpoena” HERE)

WATCH: ‘Never Before Seen Footage’ Further Confirms VP Joe Biden Was ‘The Brand’

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As we’ve been previewing, the House Oversight Committee hearing will be holding its Wednesday morning hearing on “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office.” On the eve of the hearing, the House Judiciary Committee, which has also been investigating the Biden crime family, released a video of “Never Before Seen Footage,” from the witnesses who will appear.

Sure enough, the witnesses, who have had close involvement with the Biden family as Hunter Biden’s former business partners, have repeatedly confirmed in multiple interviews that they were selling “the brand,” which was then Vice President Joe Biden.

The ad includes clips from Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski, and Jason Galanis. No matter which way the mainstream media, Democrats and the White House try to spin it, the video footage from multiple former business associates has a clear theme.

One particular moment includes remarks from Bobulinski, who had mentioned in his remarks that Biden would call “to demonstrate the Biden brand to whoever was in that meeting, whether it was the Ukrainians, the Romanians, the Russians, Colombians, Chinese, whoever it was,” adding “that’s all he had to do.” Bobulinski was clear in emphasizing that “just him being on the phone is evidence of involvement and enabling the transaction, and any statement otherwise is an absurd statement!”

(Read more from “WATCH: ‘Never Before Seen Footage’ Further Confirms VP Joe Biden Was ‘The Brand'” HERE)

Insanity: Biden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Show

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Agents at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and throughout the intelligence community were distributed a newsletter that celebrated an intelligence official for crossdressing, saying that dressing up in women’s clothes makes him “a better intelligence officer,” according to an internal document obtained by The Daily Wire.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent its internal newsletter, called “The Dive” and obtained by The Daily Wire through a Freedom of Information Act request, to personnel across the entire Intelligence Community. Featured in the newsletter was an article by an anonymous official claiming that crossdressing makes him a better intelligence officer.

“I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,” the article, titled “My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer,” states in its opening line. The author goes on to argue that his decision to crossdress “merits attention given the climate of discussion around the topic and where it sits in the larger conversation about gender identity and expression and professional appearance.”

The unclassified newsletter, which specifies on each page that it is “for official use only” and “not cleared for public release,” was released to The Daily Wire last week, though information such as names of authors are redacted throughout. It was created by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s IC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent to the entire Intelligence Community. (Read more from “Insanity: Biden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Show” HERE)

Supreme Court Rejects Former New Mexico Official Banned After Jan. 6 Riot

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tossed an appeal by a former New Mexico state official barred from office after he was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.

Former Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin, a cowboy pastor whose claim to fame was endorsing former President Donald Trump with several horseback caravans, is a former Otero County commissioner and the only elected official barred from office under the “insurrection” provision of the 14th Amendment, the Associated Press reported.

During a 2022 trial in a state district court, Griffin became the first individual in over a century to be disqualified from office under a provision of the 14th Amendment aimed at preventing former Confederates from holding government positions after the Civil War.

Despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states cannot prevent Trump or other federal office candidates from appearing on the ballot, the justices clarified that distinct rules apply to state and local candidates, the AP report noted.

“We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the justices wrote in an opinion that was not signed. (Read more from “Supreme Court Rejects Former New Mexico Official Banned After Jan. 6 Riot” HERE)