The Army Has Just 7 Weeks to Meet Its Recruitment Targets This Year. It’s Only 52% Of the Way There.

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The U.S. Army is projected to fall well short of its annual recruitment goal this year, having met only a little more than half of its target for fiscal year 2022.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told NBC News Friday that the Army has recruited only 52% of its goal for FY 2022 and is expected be short by as many as 15,000 recruits.

“We are right now at about 52% of the mission that we had originally set for ourselves. So we’ve got a ways to go, and obviously we’ve only got about a month or so until the fiscal year ends,” Wormuth said. “I would say we’re [going to be] about 12,000 to 15,000 recruits short this year.”

The current fiscal year will end on September 30. The Army had initially sought to add 60,000 active-duty enlistments this year, but has since downsized that target amid dismal recruitment shortfalls.

NBC News reports that while the Army is authorized to have as many as 485,000 total troops, it recently lowered that number to 476,000. Wormuth warned that long-term recruitment shortages could impact military readiness. (Read more from “The Army Has Just 7 Weeks to Meet Its Recruitment Targets This Year. It’s Only 52% Of the Way There.” HERE)

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Arizona Begins Building Border Wall: ‘If the Federal Government Won’t Act, We Will’

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Arizona is taking border security into its own hands since the Biden administration refuses to take responsibility for the crisis is created.

Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) announced that he issued an executive order directing the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill in the gaps of the Yuma border wall.

“If the federal government won’t act, we will,” Ducey said in a tweet.

During a call with reporters, Ducey said the construction of the wall began “six minutes ago” to finish the Trump-era wall that President Joe Biden ordered to halt when he came into office in 2021.

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FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term

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The FBI search warrant authorizing a government raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence sought an exhaustive list of any White House records the president ever came in contact with, according to the document obtained by The Federalist.

Outlining the “property to be seized” by the more than 30 agents who rummaged through the former president’s Mar-a-Lago mansion, the warrant demanded confiscation of any document Trump ever saw, read, or created for the entirety of his four years as commander-in-chief.

“All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation” of federal statutes governing records possession, the warrant reads, were to be seized. Records extended to “Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021.”

In other words, had Trump written something down on a napkin, federal officials were authorized to raid the former president’s home and capture it.

The affidavit allegedly asserting probable cause has not been made available to the public by the DOJ or the federal court that sealed it. The search warrant was signed on Aug. 5 and gave authorities two weeks to conduct the unprecedented raid. The federal magistrate who signed the warrant previously donated thousands to former President Barack Obama. Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose Supreme Court nomination was invalidated after Donald Trump became president in 2017, acknowledged that he personally signed off on the raid in a Thursday press conference. Garland also claimed the search was conducted with a narrow scope. (Read more from “FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term” HERE)

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FBI Attacker Was Prolific Contributor to Trump’s Truth Social Website

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By The Washington Post. In the minutes after an armed man in body armor tried to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati, an account with the suspect’s name, Ricky Shiffer, posted to former president Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social: “If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I.”

The Shiffer account appeared to be one of Truth Social’s most prolific posters, writing 374 messages there in the past eight days — mostly to echo Trump’s false claims about election fraud and, in the hours after FBI agents searched Trump’s Florida home, call for all-out war. “Be ready to kill the enemy,” Shiffer had posted on Tuesday. “Kill [the FBI] on sight.”

Shiffer was killed Thursday in a shootout, police said, and the Truth Social account has since been taken down. But the calls for pro-Trump violence are still a common presence online — including on Truth Social, where the top “trending topics” Friday morning were “#FBIcorruption” and “DefundTheFBI.”

Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, did not respond to requests for comment. (Read more from “FBI Attacker Was Prolific Contributor to Trump’s Truth Social Website” HERE)

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Loner Gunman Who Attacked FBI Office Was Navy Vet Who Drove Fast and Was Devoted to Donald Trump

By NBC News. The pro-Trump gunman who was shot dead by Ohio police Thursday after he attacked the FBI’s Cincinnati field office with a nail gun was a Navy veteran with top-secret clearance who served on submarines and apparently had a need for speed, records and sources revealed Friday.

“I have a lead foot,” Ricky Walter Shiffer told a Minnesota police officer after he was caught going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in his red Ford Mustang, according to a speeding ticket obtained by NBC News in collaboration with The Fargo Forum newspaper.

That was in February 2004 and Shiffer was living in St. Cloud, Minnesota, according to the ticket — one of several he accumulated before and after he was discharged from the Navy in 2003.

In recent months, Shiffer had been living in Omaha, Nebraska, and was on the FBI’s radar after they learned he had been at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. (Read more from “Loner Gunman Who Attacked FBI Office Was Navy Vet Who Drove Fast and Was Devoted to Donald Trump” HERE)

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‘Violent Extremist’ Ricky Shiffer Investigated for Months After Jan 6

By MSN News. Cincinnati shooting suspect Ricky Shiffer was shot dead by police on the side of an interstate highway hours after he attempted to breach a visitor’s entrance at an FBI field office in the city.

The 42-year-old, of Columbus, Ohio, fled the scene of the attempted attack on Thursday morning before a standoff and shootout took place hours later. The FBI confirmed his death at 3.45pm following an exchange of gunfire.

Officials are investigating Shiffer’s ties to the US Capitol riot and right wing extremism as he appears to have claimed that he was present in Washington on 6 January on Truth Social, a pro-Trump social media site.

Federal agents were already looking into Shiffer’s ties to the Capitol attack before the FBI standoff, the New York Times reports.

Shiffer also appeared to support former US president Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election in 2020 and responded to social media posts by pro-Trump figures such as congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr. (Read more from “‘Violent Extremist’ Ricky Shiffer Investigated for Months After Jan 6” HERE)

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Fmr. Dem Megadonor Claims COVID Vax Killed ‘Hundreds of Thousands of Americans,’ Leftist Heads Explode

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Leftist media outlets imploded over a former Democratic megadonor who appeared on Fox News Wednesday claiming that COVID vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and injured millions more.

As subjects such as the unprecedented raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, crushing inflation, and Democrats’ gluttonous spending have overshadowed the left’s thuggish handling of the pandemic, there are those who are not willing to let the subject fade away.

Enter defiant anti-vaxxer and tech multi-millionaire Steve Kirsch, a disaffected former Democrat who contends the vaccines are deadly and is refusing to shut up about it. He has been permanently banned on Twitter over the subject.

It should be noted that Kirsch reportedly donated $20 million to the Democratic Party before deciding to exit stage left.

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D.C. Mayor Begs for National Guard Help With Illegal Alien ‘Crisis’

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Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has formally renewed her bid to get National Guard help for the “critical” flood of border-crossers being shipped in by fed-up officials in Arizona and Texas.

Bowser wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday, almost a week after the Pentagon denied her initial plea for help with the mass arrivals, which are now also streaming into the Big Apple.

She again begged for support “to help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation’s capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants in need of assistance.”

“We need help from our federal partners as we seek to stabilize and manage our operating environment in this critical moment,” she wrote.

Bowser also revealed that she is asking President Biden to give the border crossers special treatment akin to war refugees. (Read more from “D.C. Mayor Begs for National Guard Help With Illegal Alien ‘Crisis'” HERE)

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Here We Go Again! Twitter Announces Plan to ‘Protect’ November Midterm Elections

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By Breitbart. Far-left Twitter has declared it will “protect” the midterm elections with a range of policies designed to suppress what the company considers “misinformation,” and deliver Twitter-curated news to users.

2020 was the first American election in which Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google had “election integrity” policies — and they resulted in one of the most consequential stories of that cycle, the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings, being suppressed just weeks before the election.

This tracks with what Breitbart News has predicted, which is that Big Tech companies will do everything they can to prevent the widely-predicted Republican sweep in November from taking place.

Twitter was one of the companies that suppressed that story in the name of fighting “misinformation” — now it plans to activate similar policies ahead of the midterms.

Twitter also says they will roll out “state-specific event hubs,” which will allow the platform to feed handpicked information to users based on their state and local races. It will also roll out a “dedicated explore tab” for the U.S. elections containing news stories curated by Twitter. (Read more from “Here We Go Again! Twitter Announces Plan to ‘Protect’ November Midterm Elections” HERE)

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Twitter Rolls Out Election Misinformation Rules Ahead of US Midterms

By New York Post. . .The San Francisco-based tech giant said it will apply its “civic integrity policy” to the Nov. 8 midterm elections, in which all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives as well as a third of the Senate will be up for grabs.

The stated goal of the policy, which was first introduced in 2018, is to “elevate credible information” and “help keep you safe on Twitter.”

“The mission of our civic integrity work is to protect the conversation on Twitter during elections or other civic processes,” according to Twitter.

Twitter will offer users “prebunks” — or prompts on the home screen that help guide people to accurate information. It will also apply labels to tweets that it deems to be misleading. . .

Twitter, Facebook and other tech sites banned then-President Donald Trump from their platforms after his supporters ransacked the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Read more from “Twitter Rolls Out Election Misinformation Rules Ahead of US Midterms” HERE)

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John Bolton Demands Action From Biden Admin Over Iran’s ‘Act of War’

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Former White House national security adviser Amb. John Bolton said the assassination plot against him by an Iranian operative, and continued threats from Iran to American citizens on American soil is “unprecedented” and “an act of war,” telling Fox News the Biden administration has been “signaling weakness” to Tehran and should “terminate” negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal.

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against Iranian operative Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for an alleged plot to assassinate Bolton, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser until 2019.

U.S. officials said the plot was likely planned in retaliation for the January 2020 strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a revered Iranian leader and the head of Iran’s Quds Force.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Bolton said he had been “aware” of plots against him for “some time.”

Bolton said in the spring of 2020, the FBI contacted him with a “duty to warn.” (Read more from “John Bolton Demands Action From Biden Admin Over Iran’s ‘Act of War’” HERE)

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Trump Lawyer: Garland’s Depiction of Mar-A-Lago Events Inaccurate

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Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims that former President Donald Trump’s attorneys were provided with copies of the search warrant and property receipt and that the attorneys were on-site during the FBI search are untrue, Trump lawyer Alina Habba told Newsmax.

When Trump’s legal team in Florida first came on the premises of Mar-a-Lago on Monday during the surprise raid, they were not given the warrants, Habba told “Rob Schmitt Tonight” guest host Carl Higbie.

“They asked for a copy. They wouldn’t hand it to them,” she said. “And if anything was given to them, it was not until after the search.”

Habba said she’s never heard of such a scenario during a search, and certainly not of attorneys being told to leave the premises and not being permitted to watch the search to ensure everything was handled appropriately.

Habba noted that Trump and his legal team had been cooperating with the Department of Justice and had met with DOJ officials previously at Mar-a-Lago, when some documents that the government said were improperly taken from the White House when Trump left office were returned to Washington. (Read more from “Trump Lawyer: Garland’s Depiction of Mar-A-Lago Events Inaccurate” HERE)

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Departing Whole Foods CEO Frets That “Socialists Are Taking Over”

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Outgoing Whole Foods CEO John Mackey raised concerns that ” socialists are taking over” key institutions across the country.

Describing himself as a “capitalist at heart,” Mackey lamented that rights such as the right to bear arms and freedom of speech are coming “under threat” as socialist influences begin to dominate education, corporations, and other institutions.

“My concern is that I feel like socialists are taking over,” Mackey explained during an interview with Reason. “They’re marching through the institutions. They’re …taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military. And it’s just continuing.”

Mackey previously co-authored a book titled Conscious Capitalism, in which he discussed four key tenets to help bolster capitalism: stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, conscious culture, and conscious management.

“You know, I’m a capitalist at heart, and I believe in liberty and capitalism. Those are my twin values. And I feel like, you know, with the way freedom of speech is today, the movement on gun control, a lot of the liberties that I’ve taken for granted most of my life, I think, are under threat,” he told the outlet. (Read more from “Departing Whole Foods CEO Frets That “Socialists Are Taking Over” HERE)

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