Silicon Investor - President Joe Biden

[Land Shark] Glad Biden lives rent free in your scrawny mind.

Land Shark — 4/29/2026 4:31:13 PM

[Thomas M.] SBA Identifies 562,000 Fraudulent Biden-EraLoans Totaling $22 Billion Today, i...

Thomas M. — 4/27/2026 10:33:46 AM

SBA Identifies 562,000 Fraudulent Biden-Era Loans Totaling $22 Billion

Today, in coordination with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that it has referred 562,000 suspected fraudulent loans to the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) for collection, marking the SBA’s largest referral package on record.

The borrowers are tied to $22.2 billion in delinquent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL) loans that were previously flagged for suspected fraud during the Biden Administration but never sent to Treasury for collection nor referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for investigation.

For years, the Biden Administration shielded these borrowers from debt collectors as part of a de facto amnesty scheme – but today, they will finally face accountability.

sba.gov

Tom

[Thomas M.] Shot: Joe Biden: "Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should re...

Thomas M. — 4/20/2026 9:46:42 AM

Shot:

Joe Biden: "Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now."

Chaser:

Accused Rapist and Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax Murders Wife, Shoots Self in Murder-Suicide

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden at Jesse Jackson's funeral: "I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of yo...

Thomas M. — 3/11/2026 8:52:11 AM

Biden at Jesse Jackson's funeral:

"I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you"

[X]

Biden at Jesse Jackson's funeral: "I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you" pic.twitter.com/toTCZUgHoQ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 6, 2026

[/X]

Tom

[Thomas M.] Why I Cold-Called President Trump at 4:30 in the Morning How did a New York Ti...

Thomas M. — 1/7/2026 7:41:57 PM

Why I Cold-Called President Trump at 4:30 in the Morning

How did a New York Times reporter reach the president right after he announced that the United States had captured Venezuela’s leader?

By Tyler Pager

nytimes.com

At 4:21 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump announced on social media that the United States had captured Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. Ten minutes later, I called him. After three rings, we were talking.

And by 9:45 a.m., I was at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, to go through security screening ahead of the president’s news conference.

As a point of comparison, during my four years covering Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency, I never had an interview with him. And I tried! In fact, while I was working on a book about the 2024 presidential election, I was stonewalled in my efforts to interview Mr. Biden after he left office. I eventually reached him directly on his cellphone, and after a short interview, his aides changed his phone number. I wrote about that experience in July of last year.

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library Mr. ...

Thomas M. — 12/15/2025 10:16:35 AM

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

Mr. Biden’s library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration.

nytimes.com

Democrats are entirely transactional, and Biden can no longer offer anything in return.

Tom

[Thomas M.] No, it isn't. Tom

Thomas M. — 12/15/2025 10:14:18 AM

[Ron] Precisely...

Ron — 12/7/2025 11:16:36 AM

[Jeff Hayden] Why are you complaining? That's the way Trump set it up.

Jeff Hayden — 12/4/2025 1:00:07 PM

[Thomas M.] Biden forfeited to the Taliban: 96,000 ground vehicles51,180 general purpose/lig...

Thomas M. — 12/4/2025 11:57:40 AM

Biden forfeited to the Taliban:

96,000 ground vehicles
51,180 general purpose/light tactical vehicles
23,825 Humvees
900 armored combat vehicles
427,300 weapons
17,400 helmet-worn night vision devices
162 aircraft

from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

townhall.com

sigar.mil

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden’s Reckless Afghan Resettlement Strategy By Nate Hochman October 8, 2021 ...

Thomas M. — 11/30/2025 10:55:15 AM

Biden’s Reckless Afghan Resettlement Strategy

By Nate Hochman

October 8, 2021

The White House has done little to vet the 40,000 Afghan refugees, most of whom did not work with the U.S. military, it has so far brought to American soil.

At first glance, last week’s bipartisan passage of H.R. 5305 was not particularly unusual. The bill’s stated purpose was bureaucratic in nature: to extend the funding of the federal government after the end of the fiscal year on September 30. It’s the kind of stopgap funding measure that Congress has long preferred over traditional appropriations bills. But H.R. 5305, with the support of 49 Republicans — 34 in the House, 15 in the Senate — enacted more than just the usual funding-extension resolutions for existing government programs. The legislation also included provisions pertaining to the resettlement of more than 95,000 Afghan refugees.

This is a recklessly dangerous initiative, made worse by a persistent lack of transparency — and at times, outright dishonesty — from the Biden administration. Despite the Department of Homeland Security’s assurances that Afghan refugees are “vetted to the same rigorous standards we use during normal refugee and [Special Immigrant Visa] processing,” few of the recently arrived evacuees have even been adequately vetted for security threats, and none have completed the normal refugee-processing requirements. Furthermore, conventional criminal background tests are practically useless given that the vast majority of Afghanistan’s criminal-record database is not digitized and is inaccessible to American security agencies. In essence, the president has extended an invitation to tens of thousands of unknown individuals from a notoriously terror-prone nation to come to the United States — albeit with many of them waiting in another country first — with almost no adequate screening.

“Afghanistan is a particularly bad country to just simply bring people from, because the documentation standards are not very robust,” Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge and resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, tells National Review. “It’s a big country, it’s a rural country, and they don’t have the same documentation standards that we do. Even when we ran the country, we didn’t really have a lot of intelligence on who the good guys or the bad guys were, which is why there were so many ‘green on blue’ attacks.” Green-on-blue violence, shorthand for “insider attacks” perpetrated against U.S.-allied forces by Afghan soldiers or Taliban infiltrators who had previously passed security screening, took 172 lives and wounded 85 more in 2019. The deadly pervasiveness of these attacks is not an argument against accepting refugees, of course, but it does point to profound and systemic issues with our access to background information on Afghan citizens.

“Today, we don’t have access to any in-country information that we didn’t take with us out of Afghanistan, so our ability to actually screen these people is very, very limited,” says Arthur.

This is not an abstract issue: The Biden administration’s porous vetting practices have already had real consequences for Americans. While just over 40,000 of the expected 95,000 Afghans have arrived in the U.S. in the past month and a half, there have already been multiple allegations of sexual assault and abuse perpetrated by refugees on the U.S. Army bases where they are being housed. In the first weeks of September, two recently arrived Afghan men were indicted for federal crimes at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, where 12,500 refugees now reside: Bahrullah Noori, 20, on multiple counts of allegedly sexually abusing victims under the age of 16, and Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, for allegedly trying to strangle and suffocate his wife. Later that month, the FBI opened an investigation into reports of an attack on a U.S. servicewoman perpetrated by a group of male refugees at Fort Bliss, N.M.

The White House, for its part, has continued to insist that everything is going according to plan. “We screen and vet individuals before they board planes to travel to the United States, and that screening and vetting process is an ongoing one and multi-layered,” DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a National Press Club event in September. If that is true, it does not inspire confidence in the screening and vetting process, given that an Afghan national who had previously been deported after pleading guilty to a rape charge in Idaho was allowed to board a U.S.-bound evacuation flight at the end of August, followed just three weeks later by another evacuee who had been deported after an aggravated-felony conviction. Both convicted felons made it onto flights out of Kabul while American citizens remained stuck in the city, and both were apprehended by Customs and Border Protection only after touching down at Washington Dulles International Airport. Now that they have arrived on American soil, they are afforded a number of rights and protections that make it far more difficult to deport them. And because of legal precedents surrounding the detention of illegal immigrants, they could potentially be released onto American streets if the government fails to prove that they are a security risk or that “there is a significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future” after a six-month grace period.

These issues are the direct result of the Biden administration’s decision to break with long-standing precedent by bringing the refugees to America before fully vetting them, accommodating them in eight U.S.-military-bases-turned-refugee-camps that they are free to move off and onto as they wish; as of a week ago, more than 700 refugees had simply up and left the bases altogether. “This is completely outside of our normal refugee system,” Arthur tells NR, referring to the Biden administration’s vetting process. “This is sui generis, as it relates only to Afghans. The way that it’s supposed to work is: You’re in a refugee camp abroad, and we pick you and bring you to the United States. This is: We bring you to the United States, and then give you government benefits.” The entire project has been facilitated by a generous $6.3 billion in resettlement aid included in H.R. 5305.

Despite the very evident flaws in its refugee-resettlement strategy, the Biden administration has taken measures to weaken our vetting processes with regard to the newly arrived Afghans: The resettlement plan outlined in H.R. 5305, which had the strong backing of the administration, waives an important set of national-security measures concerning the issuance of state driver’s licenses and identification that have been on the books for more than a decade and a half. Those measures were part of the Real ID Act of 2005, which required that applicants for driver’s licenses provide documentation proving their lawful status in the United States, acting on the 9/11 Commission’s finding that “all but one of the 9/11 hijackers acquired some form of U.S. identification document, some by fraud.” But now, even as driver’s licenses are being provided to the newly arrived refugees at taxpayer expense, those same refugees are exempt from certain identification requirements ostensibly mandatory in every state.

At the Biden administration’s request, H.R. 5305 also allows Afghan refugees after a year in the U.S. to apply for green cards, which would allow them permanent residency and put them on a pathway to citizenship. That mass citizenship for the evacuees is a reasonable policy seems to have become the conventional wisdom in many circles without any serious debate. But while the largest part of those arriving at our shores from Afghanistan are undoubtedly decent people who would make good U.S. citizens, a closer look at the integration of Afghan refugees in Europe should make us pause before rushing to welcome them into the American polity en masse.

We should not overly extrapolate from incidents of apparent criminal behavior by Afghan refugees already seen in the U.S. But neither should we ignore them entirely. Indeed, there is other evidence that some Afghan refugees may have trouble adjusting to American cultural norms. Opinion polling shows that large majorities of native Afghans look favorably on forcibly applying sharia law to Muslims and non-Muslims alike and punishing apostates with the death penalty, and hold other views that are incompatible with the American system. In this regard, we shouldn’t overlook the European experience following the influx of Afghan refugees as part of the 2015 migrant crisis. In Austria, where the Syrian and Afghan refugee populations are similar in size, Afghans committed around half of all reported sexual assaults according to statistics a few years ago; Syrians committed fewer than 10 percent.

It might be a plausible argument that the European experience has little bearing on America if these refugees largely had preexisting ties to the U.S. But by all accounts, most of the refugees now residing within our borders did not work directly on behalf of America, despite the White House’s attempts to frame resettlement efforts as an initiative “to support those who have supported this nation.” The State Department itself acknowledged that the majority of interpreters and other holders of Special Immigrant Visas — the visas given to those who aided U.S. military and diplomacy efforts in Afghanistan — were left behind. These are the Afghans who deserve our help and resettlement the most, and we have let them down. As the Washington Post reported, many of the Afghan evacuees have “minimal identification and did not appear to have worked closely with the United States.” Instead, the majority of Afghans are arriving in America on “humanitarian parole,” a classification reserved for those who do not qualify for SIVs or even refugee status. And by all accounts, they are not all the Westernized interpreters and journalists they have been made out to be: Beyond the high-profile reports of assault, there have been credible reports of child brides and other trafficking victims being brought onto U.S. military bases by evacuees.

None of this is to say that Afghan refugees should be rejected outright, but rather to stress the very real reasons to proceed with utmost caution. That the Biden administration has utterly fallen down on the job may not surprise us — we have come to expect this kind of incompetence from progressives — but the 49 Republicans who lent their support for this flawed project should know better. And in light of all the available evidence pertaining to resettlement, the Biden administration’s negligent screening is all the more outrageous.

nationalreview.com

Tom

[Ron] A few reminders about the US and Afghanistan [graphic]

Ron — 11/30/2025 9:07:16 AM

A few reminders about the US and Afghanistan

[Thomas M.] Under the Biden Administration in 12 months:FOREIGN-BORN Employment ROSE by 1,24...

Thomas M. — 11/27/2025 8:35:27 PM

Under the Biden Administration in 12 months:

FOREIGN-BORN Employment ROSE by 1,240,000

NATIVE-BORN Employment DECLINED by 1,319,000

Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans.

Tom

[Thomas M.] Trump Ends Biden Medicare Rule That Paid Doctors to Be Woke The Trump adminis...

Thomas M. — 11/24/2025 9:47:57 AM

Trump Ends Biden Medicare Rule That Paid Doctors to Be Woke

The Trump administration struck another blow against far-left “woke” ideology this month when it eliminated a Biden-era Medicare rule that gave doctors extra money for publishing an “anti-racism” plan. The decision comes as a major relief for patients who want high-quality medical care that hasn’t been corrupted by a liberal political agenda.

amac.us

Tom

[Wharf Rat] 'The Incompetence Of The Last Administration': Biden Turns The Tables On Trump, ...

Wharf Rat — 11/10/2025 5:21:08 PM

'The Incompetence Of The Last Administration': Biden Turns The Tables On Trump, Calls Him Out On His Failures During Remarks At Nebraska Gala | Watch

Biden tells Omaha Democrats: 'Tuesday night was a good ...

Nebraska Public Media
nebraskapublicmedia.org › news › news-articles

3 days ago — Former President Joe Biden spoke at the Nebraska Democrats' annual Ben Nelson Gala along with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and U.S. Capitol ...

[Thomas M.] The Biden Autopen Presidency Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White Hous...

Thomas M. — 11/10/2025 10:28:31 AM

The Biden Autopen Presidency

Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House

oversight.house.gov

Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides—at the direction of the inner circle—hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office. The inner circle propped up the former president throughout his entire term and kept him in the 2024 presidential race despite indisputable evidence (acknowledged even today by only a few Democrats) that the former president was no longer fully in command. Shockingly, the inner circle––to this day, over one year after Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential race––continues to deny and dismiss that the American public was concerned about President Biden’s cognitive decline, instead contending the American public’s issue was merely the former president’s numerical age.

The scripted rhetoric of the cover-up is so ingrained in White House staff that their talking points persisted when testifying to the Committee these past months. Ranking Member Robert Garcia continues to attempt to maintain the illusion as he repeats the same spin following President Biden’s disastrous debate against President Trump.

Likewise, Democratic staff on the Committee apparently did not think the question of who was running the country for four years was worth further investigation. Democrats—members and staff—only bothered to ask approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes worth of questions throughout nearly 47 hours of depositions and transcribed interviews throughout this investigation. When averaged across the 14 transcribed interviews and depositions conducted by the Committee, Democrats spent an average of just 15 minutes for questions per witness.

The cost of the scheme to hide the fallout of President Biden’s diminished physical and mental acuity was great but will likely never be fully calculated. The cover-up put American national security at risk and the nation’s trust in its leaders in jeopardy. Despite aides’ best efforts to conceal President Biden’s cognitive deterioration from the country, the former president’s legacy is clouded with this scandal, as evidenced by President Biden’s eventual withdrawal from the 2024 election.

White House Aides who were instrumental to the cover-up and did not fully testify before the Committee––including Bernal, Tomasini, and Dr. O’Connor––should face further scrutiny for hiding information from the American people. In conjunction with the release of this report, the Committee is transmitting letters to the Department of Justice and the District of Columbia Board of Medicine. The testimony––or lack thereof––indicates that Bernal and Tomasini, essential personnel to President Biden, should, as part of a continuing investigation, answer questions about President Biden’s cognitive decline to bring accountability to the American people.

Additionally, Dr. O’Connor’s role in the cover-up is deeply disturbing. Dr. O’Connor refused to answer the Committee’s questions about President Biden’s health, including the president’s cognitive health. As the White House physician, Dr. O’Connor owed a duty not only to his patient, the president, but also to the American people. If Dr. O’Connor improperly diagnosed or submitted false, misleading reports on President Biden’s health, he should face further investigation––if not sanction. Thus, the Committee urges the District of Columbia Board of Medicine to review the actions taken by Dr. O’Connor during his role as White House physician to President Biden.

Barring evidence of executive actions taken during the Biden presidency showing that President Biden indeed took a particular executive action, the Committee deems those actions taken through use of the autopen as void. The validity of the executive actions allegedly approved and signed (largely by autopen) by President Biden must be reviewed to determine whether legal action is necessary to ameliorate consequences of any illegitimate pardons granted, or executive actions implemented, throughout the Biden Autopen Presidency. The Committee finds numerous executive actions—particularly clemency actions—taken during the Biden Administration were illegitimate. Therefore, the Committee urges the Department of Justice to investigate all executive actions attributed to President Joe Biden.

oversight.house.gov

Tom

[Thomas M.] Food stamps exploded under Biden. It was the familiar Dem tactic: they used th...

Thomas M. — 11/7/2025 8:34:57 AM

Food stamps exploded under Biden.

It was the familiar Dem tactic: they used the Covid emergency as a pretext to raise SNAP spending, but never brought it back down after the pandemic ended.

Tom

[Ron] About those autopens: [bluesky] Trump claims he didn't know who he was pardon...

Ron — 11/4/2025 1:30:22 PM

About those autopens:

[bluesky]

Trump claims he didn't know who he was pardoning. How much more do we need to get rid of him? www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...
— LuciSkyDyme (@luciskydyme.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T14:32:36.941Z

[/bluesky]

[nicewatch] A Book So Bad It Shattered Liberals' Faith in DEI freebeacon.com [graphic]

nicewatch — 11/3/2025 12:32:40 PM

A Book So Bad It Shattered Liberals' Faith in DEI

freebeacon.com

[Thomas M.] Biden Official Worked With Chinese Espionage Front To Undermine U.S. Tariff Nego...

Thomas M. — 10/31/2025 3:51:17 PM

Biden Official Worked With Chinese Espionage Front To Undermine U.S. Tariff Negotiations

by Natalie Winters

nataliegwinters.substack.com

When President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t just retaliate with trade measures. It launched an information war, using American insiders to spread its narrative that tariffs were reckless and self-defeating.

One of the most prominent voices in that campaign is Rick Waters, a former senior U.S. diplomat who once directed the State Department’s China House.

Since leaving government, Waters has become a reliable messenger for Beijing’s preferred positions, appearing with CCP-linked influence groups and using Western media outlets to promote pro-China talking points that undermine Trump’s trade strategy.

From State Department Insider to Beijing’s Trusted Voice

In late 2024, Waters participated in an official interview for China–US Focus, a platform run by the China–United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). In the interview, he called for “restraint” and “dialogue,” insisting that “both sides must avoid confrontation.” The phrasing matched Beijing’s diplomatic line word for word.

Shortly afterward, he appeared as a featured participant at the 2024 U.S.–China Hong Kong Forum, another CUSEF-organized event that gathered Chinese Communist Party officials, Hong Kong elites, and select Western figures for “private dialogue.” The agenda promised to explore “mutual respect” and “pathways to cooperation,” but the guest list told a different story.

CUSEF was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the advisory body that sits under the CCP’s United Front Work Department. The United Front is the arm of the Party responsible for foreign influence operations and elite recruitment.

The United Front: Beijing’s Hidden Ministry of Influence

Behind the polished language of “dialogue” and “mutual understanding” lies one of the CCP’s most dangerous tools of foreign interference: the United Front Work Department.

According to U.S. and allied intelligence reports, the UFWD operates as the Party’s “hidden ministry of influence.” It is tasked with guiding foreign elites, shaping overseas media narratives, and blurring the line between diplomacy, propaganda, and espionage.

The U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission calls it “the primary entity coordinating influence operations targeting foreign elites, media, and business leaders.”

Beijing’s own statements describe the department’s mission even more plainly: to “unite all possible forces” in service of China’s goals. In practice, that means cultivating Western politicians, academics, and journalists who can quietly normalize the CCP’s worldview inside democratic systems.

CUSEF: The Tip of the Spear

CUSEF serves as the frontline export of the United Front’s operations in the United States.

Founded in Hong Kong but deeply embedded in American institutions, it sponsors delegations of journalists, funds think tank partnerships, and organizes private roundtables with U.S. officials—all designed to project the image of “constructive engagement” while advancing Beijing’s interests.

A Senate investigation previously flagged CUSEF’s activities as a national security concern, citing its repeated attempts to “influence media narratives” and secure “favorable coverage” of China. Intelligence analysts describe it as “the tip of the spear” of Beijing’s foreign influence strategy—its charm offensive with a strategic purpose.

CUSEF’s Shadow Diplomacy and the National Security Risk

Waters’ participation in the Hong Kong forum raises serious counterintelligence questions. The event included private, unrecorded sessions between American participants and Chinese officials, giving Beijing a rare opportunity to map out U.S. policy networks, gauge internal divisions, and test new narratives through friendly interlocutors.

Even if Waters’ expenses or speaking fees were covered under “academic” pretenses, the optics are troubling. For a former diplomat with direct insight into Taiwan, trade, and intelligence coordination to accept travel or benefits from a foreign principal linked to an adversary state is a glaring breach of judgment.

Rooting for China in the American Press

After his involvement with CUSEF, Waters began amplifying Beijing’s messaging through major Western media outlets.

In an April 2025 feature for the Carnegie Endowment, he dismissed Trump’s tariffs as “unsustainable” and claimed Washington was “overestimating its leverage” while Beijing would “hold firm.” He painted China as disciplined and strategic, while portraying the United States as impulsive and politically motivated.

Around the same time, in an interview with the South China Morning Post, Waters declared that “anti-China sentiment in Washington does not equal consensus,” suggesting that Trump’s policies were extreme and unrepresentative of mainstream opinion. He emphasized “civil diplomacy” and “restraint,” phrases that echoed Beijing’s preferred messaging verbatim.

In NBC News, Waters repeated the claim that Trump’s tariffs were “backfiring” and “hurting U.S. consumers.” His framing, once again, aligned perfectly with the CCP’s argument that Washington’s pressure campaign was damaging its own economy.

Each appearance cast China as the rational actor and Trump’s America as the aggressor. Waters was not analyzing U.S. policy; he was defending Beijing’s narrative.

Beijing’s Propaganda Echo Chamber

Chinese state media quickly took note.

The China News Service, an outlet overseen by the United Front Work Department, amplified Waters’ remarks and quoted him directly, highlighting his claim that “the tariff war is not about winning.” His words were used to validate Beijing’s portrayal of the United States as disorganized and self-defeating.

The Real Trade War Was Always About Influence

Rick Waters’ trajectory—from Biden’s China House to CUSEF panels to favorable coverage in Chinese state outlets—reveals how Beijing uses credibility, flattery, and access to infiltrate America’s information ecosystem.

Trump’s tariffs targeted China’s economy. Beijing’s response targeted America’s elite class.

And in that quiet war for narrative control, the CCP didn’t need spies in the traditional sense. It needed insiders willing to speak its language.

Tom

[Thomas M.] This DEI hire was appointed by the autopen [graphic] Tom

Thomas M. — 10/29/2025 9:41:53 AM

This DEI hire was appointed by the autopen

Tom

[Ron] At this point in their first year, both Obama and Biden did better with public o...

Ron — 10/15/2025 9:05:36 PM

At this point in their first year, both Obama and Biden did better with public opinion...
for Trump 55% disapprove
economist.com
Congress fares even worse. No surprise Republicans are trying to head off a Democratic takeover of
congress with extreme off year gerrymandering..

[Thomas M.] Walter Kirn: "Some liked it better when an unknown syndicate fronted by an elu...

Thomas M. — 10/13/2025 3:47:23 PM

Walter Kirn:

"Some liked it better when an unknown syndicate fronted by an elusive dementia patient from a family of fixers who required weird blanket pardons for unknown criminal activity going back a decade was shooting missiles into Russia for the first time in history.

But I'm fine without it"

x.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] [graphic] Tom

Thomas M. — 10/10/2025 10:00:26 AM

Tom

[Thomas M.] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administ...

Thomas M. — 10/8/2025 10:02:06 AM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:

In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.

Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.

I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.

Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.

dailywire.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Fresh humiliation for the Bidens as presidential library dreams go up in smoke ...

Thomas M. — 10/6/2025 12:55:26 PM

Fresh humiliation for the Bidens as presidential library dreams go up in smoke

Donors twist the knife: "Food truck if he's lucky"

dailymail.co.uk

Tom

[Thomas M.] Unearthed Biden note cards reveal he had photo reminders on Hillary Clinton, Sch...

Thomas M. — 10/3/2025 10:33:07 AM

Unearthed Biden note cards reveal he had photo reminders on Hillary Clinton, Schumer

Unearthed note cards from the Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos of high-profile Democrats, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as lesser-known individuals for then-President Joe Biden to ostensibly reference during live events.

Five different "palm cards," which are hand-sized note cards frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events, especially while on the campaign trail, were uncovered amid an investigation of National Archive documents related to the Biden administration's use of an autopen.

foxnews.com

Tom

[Land Shark] Probably currently worse under Child Rapist Trump.

Land Shark — 10/2/2025 4:53:54 PM

[Thomas M.] [X] The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade Wait...

Thomas M. — 9/24/2025 1:45:15 PM

[X]

The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade

Wait for it… 🖊️👀 pic.twitter.com/ApWfdxfFQa
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) September 24, 2025

[/X]

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden's economy was nothing but smoke & mirrors. Worst Revision In History: BLS...

Thomas M. — 9/18/2025 10:02:55 PM

Biden's economy was nothing but smoke & mirrors.

Worst Revision In History: BLS Admits A Record 911K Fewer Jobs Were Added Under Biden

Two weeks ago, before both Bloomberg and Reuters, we told our subscribers to "brace for another huge negative payrolls revision" and just like one year ago when we did exactly the same, we were spot on: moments ago the BLS reported that as part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions, a record 911K payrolls for the period April 2024-March 2025 would be revised away.

What is more remarkable about today's print is that after last year's stunning 818K negative revision, which was the second biggest since the global financial crisis (and which we also warned ahead of time was coming), virtually nobody expected this year's number to be higher. It was not only higher, but it was the biggest negative revision on record!

Treasury Secretary Bessent confirms what we said, namely that today's revision "brings the Biden jobs overstatement to a staggering 1.5M. The truth: President Trump inherited a far worse economy than reported, and he’s right to say the Fed is choking off growth with high rates."

zerohedge.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen axios....

Thomas M. — 9/16/2025 10:50:53 AM

Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen

axios.com

High-ranking Biden administration officials repeatedly questioned and criticized how the president's team decided on controversial pardons and allowed the frequent use of an autopen to sign measures late in his term, internal emails obtained by Axios show.

Why it matters: The messages are the latest signs of the chaos surrounding the 82-year-old former president during the final weeks of his administration, in two areas that are now being investigated by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.

President Trump has cited Biden's process in issuing pardons to try to justify many of his own controversial pardons or commutations on behalf of donor-connected supporters and others who were imprisoned for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

How it happened: After the political backlash to President Biden pardoning his son Hunter last Dec. 1, the White House began pushing to find more people to grant clemency to, according to people familiar with the internal dynamics.

"There was a mad dash to find groups of people that he could then pardon — and then they largely didn't run it by the Justice Department to vet them," a person familiar with the process told Axios. Biden granted clemency to more people than any president in U.S. history — 4,245 people. More than 95% of those actions occurred in the final 3½ months of his presidency, according to Pew Research. Many of those actions, including pardoning other members of his family on his last day in office, were signed using an autopen — a computerized version of the president's signature that didn't require him to physically sign the document.

The intrigue: Biden's pardon of his family members went through a unique process.

Near the beginning of his presidency in 2021, incoming staff secretary Jess Hertz wrote a memo to Biden, citing precedent from the Obama administration to argue his original signature should still be used for "pardon letters."

By 2025, Biden had opted for the autopen to pardon five members of his family — including his brother and sister, who had been accused of leveraging the Biden family name for financial benefit. The decision to do so was made in a meeting that included First Lady Jill Biden's top aide Anthony Bernal, according to internal emails.

An email from Biden's chief of staff, Jeff Zients, at 10:31pm the night of Jan. 19 — less than 14 hours before Biden was to leave office — confirmed the use of the presidential autopen for those pardons.

"I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all the following pardons. Thanks, JZ," the email from Zients' account said.

The order came from Zients' email address, but he didn't personally send it.

Zients' aide Rosa Po, who had access to Zients' email account, wrote and sent the authorization of the president's autopen to senior White House officials on Zients' behalf.

"He spoke to Rosa at the time, and he authorized her to send that email, which she sometimes did, but only with his permission," according to a person close to Zients.

Several senior Justice Department officials raised objections about the clemency process with the White House Counsel's office, which was led by Ed Siskel. He helped steer the clemency process in the administration's final months and did not respond to a request for comment.

On Jan. 17, just three days before leaving office, Biden granted 2,490 commutations — the most ever by a president on a single day. Biden said they were for people "convicted of nonviolent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences."

Biden boasted: "With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history."

The next day, senior Justice Department ethics attorney Bradley Weinsheimer penned a scathing memo stating that calling the clemency recipients nonviolent was "untrue, or at least misleading."

Weinsheimer continued: "Unfortunately and despite repeated requests and warnings, we were not afforded a reasonable opportunity to vet and provide input on those you were considering."

He proceeded to list some of those with violent crime records to whom Biden had given clemency — including a man who had pleaded guilty to charges related to murder after killing a woman and her 2-year-old daughter, after the mother threatened to reveal his drug-dealing business to law enforcement.

Weinsheimer said the DOJ had marked the man as "problematic," but Biden commuted his sentence anyway. "I have no idea if the president was aware of these backgrounds when making clemency decisions," Weinsheimer wrote.

Weinsheimer, who worked at DOJ for 34 years, resigned in protest in February after Trump's appointees reassigned him from his ethics-focused post.

Other DOJ officials also objected to processes the Biden White House used during his final months in office.

Liz Oyer, a Justice Department pardon attorney, expressed anger about the White House's interference with death row inmates.

She wrote that Biden's White House lawyers asked DOJ not to request the views of the murder victims' families if the department hadn't already done so. That included 10 death row inmates who hadn't filed for clemency before Biden considered it.

After the extent of Biden's clemency actions became clear, Oyer wrote an apologetic email to U.S. attorney offices, according to multiple people who have seen the email.

The Trump administration dismissed Oyer after she raised concerns about the Trump team's pardon process, according to her own account.

What they're saying: Asked about the process for clemency, Biden told The New York Times in July: "I made every decision."

Biden said he used the autopen only for the thousands of commutations and pardons because "we're talking about a whole lot of people."

That explanation is undermined by records that indicate Biden only had to sign a few documents for every large group of people he granted clemency.

Zoom out: Internally, some senior Biden White House officials pushed back on the frequent requests to use the autopen.

Biden White House staff secretary Stef Feldman, who was in charge of the West Wing paper flow, repeatedly asked for more details and confirmation of the president's intentions with the autopen — including when it came to clemency, according to several emails Axios obtained.

"When did we get [Biden's] approval of this?" she asked on Jan. 7, after being asked to use the autopen for an executive order.

On Jan. 16, when told to use the autopen to commute several cases related to crack-cocaine sentences, Feldman wrote back: "I'm going to need email from [Rosa Po] on original chain confirming [Biden] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready."

Tom

[Thomas M.] Was Joe Biden Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein? When Jeffrey Epstein's crimes fina...

Thomas M. — 9/10/2025 8:34:22 AM

Was Joe Biden Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein?

When Jeffrey Epstein's crimes finally came to light, America recoiled in horror at the scope of his sex trafficking operation. Yet as disturbing new details emerge about the Biden administration's handling of unaccompanied migrant children, we're forced to confront an uncomfortable question: Did Joe Biden's border policies enable exploitation on a scale that makes Epstein look like a small-time operator?

The numbers alone are staggering. Between Jan. 2021 and Dec. 2024, more than 470,000 unaccompanied children crossed into America under Biden's watch. Tens of thousands simply vanished into the shadows, handed over to unvetted sponsors through what can only be described as a bureaucratic assembly line designed to move bodies as quickly as possible, consequences be damned.

Now, thanks to President Trump's commitment to cleaning up this mess, we're getting our first real look at the carnage Biden left behind. According to an exclusive report from Fox News Digital, the Trump administration has assembled a dedicated team to track down these missing children, and what they've found should haunt every American parent. So far, they've located over 22,000 children and arrested more than 400 sponsors.

Authorities sadly found that 27 children died from murder, suicide, or drug overdoses.

But the living children may have suffered even worse fates. "We found children who have been raped," says John Fabbricatore, senior advisor at the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement. The team has uncovered cases of debt bondage, where children work as virtual slaves to pay off trafficking debts. They've found minors "treated like sexual slaves," and discovered children in homes where sponsors are heroin dealers, leading to overdose deaths.

The systematic nature of this catastrophe exposes the Biden administration's willful negligence. While Epstein operated in secret, Biden's team created an official government pipeline that delivered vulnerable children directly into the hands of predators. The administration's lax vetting policies were so inadequate they routinely failed to confirm basic family relationships through DNA testing.

Children were handed over to complete strangers based on nothing more than a sponsor's word.

"There wasn't very good record keeping," Fabbricatore explains, using a bureaucratic euphemism for what amounts to criminal negligence. The Biden team was so focused on processing children quickly that they entered wrong information into computer systems, making it nearly impossible to track where these vulnerable minors ended up. It's as if they designed a system specifically to lose children.

The Trump administration inherited a backlog of over 65,000 unaddressed reports of concern, including allegations of trafficking and criminal exploitation. Think about that number for a moment. Sixty-five thousand red flags that the Biden team simply ignored, while more children poured across the border daily.

The new administration has implemented common-sense safeguards that should have been standard practice all along: DNA testing to verify family relationships, criminal background checks, fingerprinting, and proof of income to ensure sponsors can actually care for these children. Yes, this means children stay in custody longer, but as Fabbricatore notes, "we want to ensure that these children remain safe."

What makes this situation even more infuriating is that many of these children had families back home. Rather than facilitating safe reunification with their actual parents, the Biden administration chose to hand them over to strangers who turned out to be traffickers, drug dealers, and worse.

The comparison to Epstein isn't hyperbole. While Epstein operated a private criminal enterprise, Biden's policies created a government-sanctioned system that delivered thousands of children into exploitation. The scale dwarfs anything Epstein accomplished, and unlike Epstein's secretive operation, this happened in plain sight with taxpayer funding.

Every parent in America should be asking how this was allowed to happen and demanding accountability for those who prioritized political optics over child safety. The Trump administration's rescue efforts are commendable, but they can't undo the trauma that thousands of vulnerable children who deserved protection, not abandonment, have already suffered.

Biden's border policies created a nightmare worse than Epstein’s dark empire—children lost, exploited, and abandoned.

pjmedia.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Migrant children lost under the Biden Administration found dead or working as se...

Thomas M. — 9/8/2025 10:11:52 AM

Migrant children lost under the Biden Administration found dead or working as sex slaves

dailymail.co.uk

The demonic imagery is making more sense ...

Tom

[Thomas M.] FBI official: paid by Russian oligarchsabotaged Trump to help Hillary in 2016sab...

Thomas M. — 9/6/2025 6:21:45 PM

FBI official:

paid by Russian oligarch
sabotaged Trump to help Hillary in 2016
sabotaged Trump to help Biden in 2020

The FBI Corruption Scandal Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

Just when you thought the web of corruption surrounding the Biden family’s foreign dealings couldn’t get any more tangled, along comes a bombshell revelation that exposes how deep the rot truly goes within our federal law enforcement agencies.

According to a new Justice Department Inspector General report, Charles McGonigal, the former head of the FBI's New York counterintelligence division, leaked sensitive details about a criminal investigation into CEFC China Energy—the same Chinese conglomerate that funneled millions to Hunter Biden.

Let's be crystal clear about what happened here. While the FBI was secretly investigating CEFC China for criminal activity, McGonigal was simultaneously tipping off the very people they were pursuing. He admitted during a November 2023 proffer session that he warned an associate of the Chinese energy giant about upcoming arrests and shared classified investigative details. His exact words to this individual were that he "made it perfectly clear" that CEFC-related figures would be arrested.

Hunter Biden and his associated businesses are also believed to have received $5 million or more in payments from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming’s deputy, Patrick Ho, also agreed to pay Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, a $1 million legal retainer after Ho was eventually arrested. Hunter referred to him as “the f***ing spy chief of China” in a May 11, 2018, voice recording.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz assessed that “although the full extent of the harm from McGonigal’s leaks of sensitive investigative information to foreign subjects and targets will likely never be fully known, we determined that the impact of McGonigal’s conduct on the CEFC investigation, a significant FBI criminal investigation, was substantial.”

McGonigal's corruption extends far beyond these China-related leaks. He faced multiple charges for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals with European business ties and foreign intelligence connections. In December 2023, he was sentenced to fifty months in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and money laundering, specifically related to his work for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2021.

The pattern here is undeniable. A senior FBI counterintelligence official was simultaneously working for foreign interests while protecting those same interests from American law enforcement. Meanwhile, the Biden family was getting rich off deals with the very Chinese energy company that McGonigal was protecting from federal investigation.

This isn't just another Washington corruption story—it's a national security nightmare that reaches the highest levels of government. While Hunter Biden was collecting millions from Chinese energy interests, a corrupt FBI official was sabotaging the investigation that might have exposed the entire scheme.

The American people deserve answers about how deep this corruption runs and who else might have been involved in protecting the Biden family's foreign business empire from scrutiny.

pjmedia.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Coming Down from the Open-Border Sugar High Illegal immigration looks good in t...

Thomas M. — 9/2/2025 9:12:45 AM

Coming Down from the Open-Border Sugar High

Illegal immigration looks good in the economic data, but not to American citizens.

by Oren Cass

When it comes to illegal immigration, what goes up had never come down. But the lawlessness during the Biden presidency has now given way to an unprecedented reversal, in which the federal government is acting aggressively to secure the border, enforce the law, deport the deportable, and encourage voluntary departures. A new Pew Research analysis of census data estimates that the U.S. immigrant population, after increasing by 11 million between 2020 and 2025, fell by 1.4 million in the first half of 2025.

The economic implications of this reversal are profound. With enforcement now underway, employment and GDP growth are predictably slowing in the aggregate, as continued healthy growth in the permanent and legal economy gets offset by declines in the now-receding illegal segment. Of course, the economic pundits present the slowdown as a negative consequence of unwise policy. The policy is not unwise, and the consequence is not negative. Enforcing the law is necessary, the consequence is natural, and a proper assessment depends now—as it should have all along—on separating the true performance of the permanent economy from the swings induced by triggering mass illegal immigration and then needing to undo it.

True, the surging immigrant population in recent years led to rapid expansion of the labor market. But in doing so it allowed employers to grow their businesses without investing to boost productivity, instead hiring many more workers—easily exploited ones, to be precise—at low wages. That’s not restrictionist rhetoric, it’s the view of liberal open-borders proponents who have celebrated the flood of low-wage labor as ideal for meeting corporate needs and delivering GDP growth while suppressing wages.

A 2024 report from FWD.us, titled To Lower Inflation, America Needs More Immigration, lamented that “when labor is in short supply relative to demand, employers offer higher wages.” Conversely, “immigration policy that responds quickly to market shifts,” it observed, can “offer relief to employers.” At The Argument last week, Jordan Weissmann celebrated how “the historic post-COVID immigration wave” allowed employers to hire quickly without having to increase wages, which might have happened if, perish the thought, “they were posting help-wanted ads in a job market with a serious labor shortage.”

At the time, the influx was presumed to be permanent—a fait accompli, new facts on the ground, that would simply become part of the national baseline going forward. But if one had understood then that the chaos was temporary, and could and would be corrected, the effects look less like beneficial growth and more like an absurd sugar high. Yes, you can generate higher employment and GDP figures by handing work permits to whomever crosses the border. You can achieve a similar effect by legalizing heroin and asking all dealers to fill out their W-2s. In neither case will you have improved the nation’s long-term economic prospects or the well-being of the typical American household.

The effect of correcting course is illustrated well in a report published last month by the American Enterprise Institute, Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration, which attempts to quantify the employment effects of the Biden and Trump policies. As a baseline, the authors use Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts developed prior to 2020 to estimate potential monthly employment growth of 80,000 to 100,000 in the years from 2022 to 2024. The “unexpected trends in immigration” of those years, they find, doubled potential employment growth to 160,000. (I take the midpoints of their ranges throughout; their full table is presented below.) In other words, roughly half of employment growth, and a substantial share of GDP growth, during the Biden administration resulted from the policy failure of border chaos rather than any policy success in promoting stronger economic fundamentals.

[continued ...]

commonplace.org

Tom

[Thomas M.] Cracker Barrel's brand redesign is edgier than I expected. [graphic] Tom

Thomas M. — 8/23/2025 10:20:04 AM

Cracker Barrel's brand redesign is edgier than I expected.

Tom

[Land Shark] fake shit

Land Shark — 8/21/2025 2:50:07 PM

[Thomas M.] Timeline of Biden’s intervention in 2014 Russia-Ukraine gas deal alongside Buri...

Thomas M. — 8/19/2025 9:58:55 AM

Timeline of Biden’s intervention in 2014 Russia-Ukraine gas deal alongside Burisma lobbying efforts

A timeline of events surrounding the gas deal shows that Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings worked to secure U.S. government support for the company and fret over a potential spike in gas prices if a Russia-Ukraine deal fell through.

While Joe Biden publicly led the charge to punish Russia for its first invasion of Ukraine, he used his role as vice president to quietly open a backdoor for Moscow's gas to flow to its neighbor in the fall of 2014 at a time when his son Hunter's Ukrainian energy company sought such help, according to government messages in a private email account from more than a decade ago.

The emails, sent to Joe Biden's private account under the fake name RobinWare456@gmail.com, were recently turned over by the National Archives, mostly redacted, to Just the News under an open records lawsuit.

You can read the main story, here.

04/13/2014: Hunter Biden writes to business partner Devon Archer warning that if Ukraine fell short in energy production without Russian gas, price increases would hurt Burisma and its founder, Mykola Zlochevsky.

04/22/2014: Vice President Biden travels to Kyiv and touts U.S. assistance to help Ukraine attain energy independence, especially from Russia.

05/05/2014: Devon Archer sends an article to Hunter Biden about pressure from Russia’s state-owned gas giant, Gazprom, and its pressure against Slovakia for a plan to send gas supply to Ukraine.

06/16/2014: Russia cuts off all gas supplies to Ukraine after the two countries failed to come to an agreement on gas prices.

06/23/2014: The law firm that employed Hunter Biden, Boies Schiller & Flexner, drafted a legal defense plan for Burisma to extricate the company from burdensome investigations by Ukrainian authorities that involved plans to meet with U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. to “seek their advice and assistance,” Just the News previously reported.

09/12/2014: The Obama Treasury Department imposes new sanctions on Russian energy and defense firms after confirmation that Russian forces fought alongside Ukrainian separatists in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

09/24/2014: Burisma lobbyist David Leiter tells company executive Vadim Pozharskyi that “We will do our best to alert U.S. officials who might be able to influence Ukraine” not to adopt new legislative initiatives on the gas industry in Ukraine, according to an email shared with Congress by the IRS whistleblowers.

09/29/2014: Hunter Biden’s calendar shows a scheduled meeting at his Rosemont Seneca Partners office with Frank Mermoud, the former Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

10/03/2014: Frank Mermoud emails Hunter Biden with information about the status of parliamentary elections in Ukraine, per an email found on Biden’s laptop.

10/24/2014: German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging the leader to come to an agreement with Ukraine over gas supplies during the winter.

10/27/2014: Hunter Biden’s assistant Katie Dodge says in an email, "Secretary of State may be calling you soon,” per an email shared with Congress by the IRS whistleblowers.

10/30/2014: Russia and Ukraine sign the first gas supply agreement after the seizure of Crimea earlier that year. Public reports say that the deal was mediated by the European Union, particularly with pressure from Germany.

10/30/2014: Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor, Jeffrey Prescott emails the vice president’s pseudonymous account, saying, “Ukraine gas deal was just signed. The Germans earlier indicated to Tony that your call had come at a critical moment.”

justthenews.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Ekim Alptekin was being prosecuted (falsely) by the Mueller Special Counsel. Jo...

Thomas M. — 8/11/2025 3:24:01 PM

Ekim Alptekin was being prosecuted (falsely) by the Mueller Special Counsel.

Joe Biden's brother Jim approached Alptekin with a proposal: if Alptekin paid $3 million to hire Eric Holder as his attorney, his Mueller troubles would disappear.

Eric Holder was a long time friend and colleague of Judge Emmett Sullivan, who was presiding over the Flynn & Alptekin cases.

x.com

twpundit.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Biden admitted massive numbers of children into the country, placed them with un...

Thomas M. — 8/7/2025 9:03:45 PM

Biden admitted massive numbers of children into the country, placed them with unvetted sponsors, and then ignored the hotline designed to help the kids if they were abused.

Tom

[Thomas M.] en.wiktionary.org Tom

Thomas M. — 8/3/2025 1:40:01 PM

[Thomas M.] While Hunter Biden suggested that Joe should be the first guest, Ablow was conce...

Thomas M. — 7/18/2025 3:09:28 PM

While Hunter Biden suggested that Joe should be the first guest, Ablow was concerned. “Does he recall details tho, with the dementia and all?” Ablow asked

“Not much these days but since it’s all fake news anyway I don’t see the problem,” Hunter replied.

Dr Keith Ablow : “Any man who can triumph over dementia is a giant."

nationalfile.com

Tom

[Ron] ‘They’re liars’: Biden calls B.S. on Trump and MAGA conspiracy nj.com

Ron — 7/14/2025 9:00:24 PM

[Thomas M.] "Why don't you have more empathy?!?!?" [graphic] Tom

Thomas M. — 7/6/2025 3:16:59 PM

"Why don't you have more empathy?!?!?"

Tom

[Thomas M.] Last year, 15% of all hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal al...

Thomas M. — 7/2/2025 9:25:45 PM

Last year, 15% of all hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal aliens.

[X]

“Last year, 15% of all hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal aliens” pic.twitter.com/ZVulP7coVv
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) July 1, 2025

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nypost.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] Documents show Hunter Biden's cozy DOJ connection Prosecutors coordinated with ...

Thomas M. — 6/30/2025 10:17:41 PM

Documents show Hunter Biden's cozy DOJ connection

Prosecutors coordinated with Hunter's lawyers on media inquiries about slow-walking of investigation. DOJ circulated a "proposed statement" drafted by Hunter's lawyers - the statement was designed to be hidden from FOIA.

Oversight Project’s lawyers have obtained communications from David Weiss’s lethargic Hunter Biden investigation. The documents corroborate IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely’s account of DOJ slow-walking.

They also show DOJ and Hunters’ team coordinated on media inquiries. In response to these inquires, DOJ and Hunter’s lawyers, whose positions should have been adversarial, set up a coordination call.

An internal DOJ summary of the call included a “Proposed Statement” for media inquiries made to Hunter’s lawyers. This statement was written by Hunter’s council. It included a special request from Hunter to give the communication “FOIA confidential treatment”.

Hunter’s lawyer sent the statement to AUSA Leslie Wolf and DOJ Tax Prosecutor Mark Daly. Wolf is infamous for having tipped off Hunter Biden about an upcoming search in the Weiss investigation and for prohibiting investigators from asking questions about Joe Biden.

In a transcribed interview IRS whistleblower Shapely described Daly’s role in slow-walking the Hunter case and engaging in a "fishing expedition”. According to Shapely, the expeditions' goal was to find Shapely's team commenting about DOJ's unethical handling of the case.

Intriguingly Daly’s summary of he and Wolf’s call indicates that Hunter’s defense team filed memos ”right after calls with[the reporter”. The next segment of text is redacted. Could it be that Hunter’s lawyers suggested to the DOJ the fishing expedition which ultimately targeted Shapely?

Overall, these docs show the relationship between Hunter and David Weises’ prosecution team was more cooperative than adversarial.

The teams collaborated to deflect media attention and searched for an off ramp from prosecution which would benefit Hunter and his family.

View the documents here:

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docdepot.itsyourgov.org

Tom

[Thomas M.] Top Biden aide admits to Congress she directed autopen signatures without knowin...

Thomas M. — 6/25/2025 9:01:06 PM

Top Biden aide admits to Congress she directed autopen signatures without knowing who gave final approval

A former top aide to President Joe Biden said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president's inner circle was giving her final clearance.

Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden's Domestic Policy Council, testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president's mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden's behalf.

Neera Tanden said she never discussed Biden's mental acuity with other White House officials during time as top aide

foxnews.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark: Conservative constitutionalist...

Thomas M. — 6/23/2025 8:50:34 AM

former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark:

Conservative constitutionalists believe the President is a *singular* official — the only branch of our three federal branches of government that consists of only one man.

In important ways, widespread use of the autopen— and certainly abuse without knowledge by the singular President — functionally creates a *multiplicity* of cloaked Presidents.

Thus, Biden Administration’s massive use of the autopen for the Presidential John Hancock, including multiple versions of the purported Biden signature is itself a microcosm of progressive theories of the Constitution: Reliance not on one man to be President — the system of government bequeathed to us by the Founders — but on a profuse coterie of advisors clustered around the actual sitting President who are all able to use the autopen to — let’s not sugarcoat it — impersonate the President as they might see fit.

Even in the small things, the inversion of the true Constitution in the minds of those that hate it in the progressive movement becomes ever more apparent.

Summarized: We do not have a *multiplicity* of Presidential impersonators, in the real Constitution, we have a *singular* President.

x.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] FBI emails expose Biden DOJ’s obsession with piling on Trump charges By Mirand...

Thomas M. — 6/21/2025 11:03:23 AM

FBI emails expose Biden DOJ’s obsession with piling on Trump charges

By Miranda Devine

Internal FBI emails reveal that rogue agents and prosecutors in the Biden DOJ were looking for ways to pile on new criminal charges against Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — this time over his involvement with the J6 prisoner choir, based on a single partisan news article.

The 2023 emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and revealed exclusively to The Post are an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, during Joe Biden’s presidency.

“Can we do some work to nail down Trump’s role in this,” writes prosecutor JP Cooney to DOJ colleagues on March 8, 2023, in an email with the subject line “J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT” and an attached Forbes.com article titled “Trump Collaborates On Song With Jan. 6 Defendants.”

A video clip posted to Rumble show men awaiting trial or sentencing for their actions at the Jan. 6 insurrection singing the national anthem at the D.C. jail in 2023.A video clip posted to Rumble shows men awaiting trial or sentencing for their actions at the Jan. 6 insurrection singing the national anthem at the DC jail in 2023.

Cooney was a deputy special counsel who worked on both the Robert Mueller and Smith get-Trump special counsel investigations.

“According to this Forbes article, Trump recorded the Pledge of Allegiance at MAL [Mar a Lago] and Kash Patel [now FBI director] and Ed Henry [a former Fox News host] were also involved,” Cooney wrote in the email chain.
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“The profits are routed to an LLC run by Henry, and proceeds are intended for families of incarcerated J6 defendants — but there is apparently a vetting process that excludes families of defendants who assaulted police officers.

“I asked Ahmed [likely prosecutor Ahmed Baset, who was fired earlier this month] to preserve this last night. I’ll talk to Maria/Erin and Julia about doing some follow up here to nail down Trump’s role.”

Cooney also instructed colleagues to look at starting “some process on Ed Henry’s LLC,” presumably a legal process such as a subpoena, search warrant or other court-authorized actions to gather evidence.

His email was forwarded to eight agents and DOJ staff, including notorious anti-Trump FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina, who responded two days later to say he was investigating the claims in the Forbes article about Trump and the J6 prisoner choir: “Esther and I are working on this today. We’re going to put together our findings at 2 and get something to you shortly after that.”

Giardina was “Agent Zero” in a lot of overzealous FBI actions involving Trump and his allies, including the investigation of Trump White House adviser Dr. Peter Navarro on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to appear before the House committee investigating the J6 riot.

It was Giardina’s FBI team that arrested Navarro as he was about to board a plane at Reagan National Airport in 2022, put him in leg irons and threw him in jail instead of simply issuing a summons for him to come to court, as the federal judge overseeing the case later said while criticizing the heavy-handedness.

Giardina was also significantly involved in Operation Crossfire Hurricane (the debunked Russia collusion investigation against Trump), Mueller’s investigation and cases involving Trump allies Dan Scavino and Roger Stone, as well as the Hillary Clinton emails case.

According to Grassley, Giardina was an “initial recipient of the Steele Dossier” and falsely claimed that the bogus Clinton campaign smear sheet against Trump was corroborated as “true.”
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Giardina also “electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller outside of established protocol for record preservation, raising the possibility that he destroyed government records.”

Whistleblowers have told Grassley that Giardina “openly stated his desire to investigate Trump, even if it meant false predication,” because of his hostility to the past and future president.

Grassley believes this email chain is another “clear example” of how the federal law enforcement apparatus was weaponized to try to “get Trump” at all costs.

“Instead of focusing on DOJ and FBI’s core law enforcement responsibilities,” Grassley told The Post, “partisan prosecutors and agents were surfing the web to find any shred of information they could use to spin another baseless case against Trump. Their actions are a disservice to Americans, who pay their salaries and depend on DOJ and FBI to keep them safe.”

Grassley, known as the “patron saint of whistleblowers,” is working with Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino to ferret out the lawfare correspondence hidden at FBI headquarters and finger the culprits behind the anti-Trump lawfare of the past eight years.

Patel also this week gave Grassley an FBI intelligence report alleging Chinese involvement in forging American driver’s licenses intended to be used for fake mail-in ballots supporting Biden in the 2020 election.

Whistleblowers had told Grassley that the FBI memo had been recalled after it was issued and no further action was taken, despite the fact that Customs and Border Protection seized almost 20,000 fake licenses three months before the election.

“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency,” Patel told Just the News, which first reported on the CCP election plot.

“To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested.”

“My investigative work won’t rest,” Grassley told the Senate on Wednesday. “There’ll be much more coming from this senator.”

Among the charges that Smith, Cooney, Giardina and pals were trying to drum up against Trump over his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, were conspiracy to defraud the US, obstruction of an official proceeding and potential violations of the Insurrection Act.

Ultimately, they failed.

Trump comprehensively won the 2024 election, Smith was forced to drop the Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago cases against him — and Trump fired his team, targeted their law firms and pardoned every Jan. 6 defendant.

nypost.com

Tom

[Thomas M.] There is a weird dissonance when journalists blame Biden’s White House for a cov...

Thomas M. — 6/19/2025 8:55:25 PM

There is a weird dissonance when journalists blame Biden’s White House for a coverup, but then criticize efforts to investigate that coverup.

What the Critics of Trump’s Investigation Into Biden Are Missing

We need accountability and greater transparency on matters of presidential health and competence.

By Jonathan Turley

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“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?”

When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence, he had lowered the flags at the White House in her honor.

As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. And it wasn’t just Democratic politicians who were willfully blind to Biden’s obvious deterioration; it was the media, too.

President Donald Trump’s June 4 order for his administration to investigate Biden’s competence may answer some of these questions, including the possible abuse of an autopen to sign legislation, pardons and other documents while he was president. Last month, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee took the first steps in its own investigation, demanding sworn testimony from Biden’s doctor and top advisers.

The New York Times called Trump’s orders for an investigation part of a “campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies” and “the latest effort by President Trump to stoke conspiracy theories about his predecessor.”

There is a weird dissonance when journalists blame Biden’s White House for a coverup, but then criticize efforts to investigate that coverup. While criminal charges are unlikely to stem from the investigation, if the White House autopen was indeed used without Biden's consent, that could amount to forgery, obstruction of justice, fraud or other serious crimes.

The complicity of politicians, staff and even the press in deception is nothing new in Washington. A century ago, after President Woodrow Wilson experienced a severe stroke in September 1919, his wife, Edith, and his staff covered up the severity of his condition, which made him incapable of fulfilling his duties till the end of his term and affected the race for a Democratic successor. To end such abuses, we must demand accountability and greater transparency on matters of presidential health and competence.

The 25th Amendment of the Constitution, ratified in 1967, was intended to address succession issues, including the incapacity of a president, but it is very difficult to remove a president without the support of the vice president and most of the Cabinet, meaning, little can be done without a virtual mutiny within the White House.

That is particularly true when staff have an interest in maintaining the illusion to keep the president and themselves in power. With Biden, according to the reporting in the book “Original Sin” by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the staff regularly cut off the access to Biden for his own Cabinet secretaries and other administration officials, limited public events and scripted short remarks for the president to read from teleprompters.

Allegations that Biden’s staff misused the autopen are exceptionally difficult to prove, and Biden has issued a statement that he had full knowledge of everything that was signed.

Absent a confession of incapacity, Congress would need someone like John Dean, the White House counsel during the Nixon administration who was willing to break from the ranks and implicate his former associates in Nixon’s coverups. So far, there do not appear to be any Deans on the Biden staff, who are likely eager to avoid being implicated in potential improper use of the autopen or other actions that may have circumvented the president or covered up his decline.

But that doesn’t mean that the Trump administration and Congress shouldn’t be trying to get to the bottom of what happened. The worst thing for the American people would be a collective shrug and a resumption of business as usual.

In Washington, it is the cover-up that is often the basis for prosecution rather than the original crime. The most likely path to success in such investigations is to get staffers to trip the wire in interviews by lying to or misleading investigators. Such false statements can be (and often are) criminally charged.

Such charges are then often used to wedge witnesses into cooperating with investigators in exchange for plea agreements. One cooperating witness can force a cascading failure for the defense as additional staff members are implicated and rush to make their own plea bargains. It is the Washington version of musical chairs: You do not want to be the last staffer without a plea to sit on.

Currently scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks are Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden's Domestic Policy Council; Anthony Bernal, Biden's former assistant and senior advisor to the first lady; Ashley Williams, a former special assistant to Biden and deputy director of Oval Office operations; and Annie Tomasini, Biden's former deputy chief of staff. Their statements might push divisions to the surface.

There is a difference between a major stroke and creeping cognitive decline. Biden was apparently kept on a reduced schedule, allowing him to rally his energy for select events. The 25th Amendment was designed to detect and correct for catastrophic medical events, not the slow slide to senility.

The result for the office can be largely the same, but the chances of detection are much lower. For now, the Biden scandal shows that very little has changed since the Wilson scandal. With a protective first lady, a lax White House physician and a cooperative staff, it is still possible to conceal the alleged incapacity of a commander in chief.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the best-selling author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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