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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the American people did not care about Republican lawmakers’ investigations into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Schumer said, “Let’s compare it to the Republicans. We’re investing, there are investigating. All they seem to do is want to investigate this, that and the other thing. That doesn’t help the American people. The contrast of yesterday, a former president being indicted for trying to deny an election, and this president today talking about investing in America, that’s going to sink in. It’s our job to make sure it sinks in.” ----------------- President Joe Biden opened his remarks at the White House on Wednesday by telling the children in attendance he knows “great ice cream places” nearby and to come to see him after his speech. Biden took the podium in the East Room of the White House to tout the Inflation Reduction Act, which does not reduce inflation despite its moniker and passed Congress along partisan lines last year. But before he began, he told those attendance, “I want to say one thing to your children.” ----------------

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated that the question in the wake of the indictments of his 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump is how we’ll respond and end weaponized government. DeSantis said that while he has removed Soros-backed prosecutors in Florida, Trump “had three years to fire Christopher Wray” and didn’t, let former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “off the hook.” And “The swamp got worse in his four years.” ------------ Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows filed a motion on Tuesday to remove the Fulton County, Georgia, indictment against him to federal court. Meadows was charged with two counts in a 41-count indictment that named himself, former President Donald Trump, and 17 others. Meadows is being charged under Georgia’s RICO statute and faces charges for soliciting an official to violate their oath of office. ------------- The organization Equality Florida launched its new program called “Parenting With Pride,” which advocates for the parents of LGBTQ youth to stand up against “right-wing extremism” from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Moms for Liberty and other conservative groups. The organization hosted a press conference Tuesday in Orlando with community activists to launch the effort.

A grand jury in Georgia returned ten indictments on Monday in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation into former President Donald Trump. Lawyers for former President Donald Trump responded after midnight Tuesday morning to the late-night indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, by District Attorney Fani Willis, calling it “as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process.” Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been charged alongside former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation into the former president’s actions during the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. --------------------------- Amidst his presidential campaign and ongoing state litigation with the Walt Disney Company, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he has “moved on” from the battle, and wants Disney to do the same. “Apart from Florida, Disney has had a lot of problems and I think that the skirmish they got in with these young kids [K-3 Parental Rights bill] – I think that’s a symptom of why they’re not doing as well,” the governor said to CNBC. “Parents have lost some confidence.” -------------------- The New College of Florida Board of Trustees recently voted 7-3 to direct the president and staff to take the necessary and proper steps to terminate the gender studies program, beginning with the 2024 enrollees. Trustee Christopher Rufo motioned for the removal and said the program is “not compatible” with the mission, which is to “revive a classical liberal arts education.”

During this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Breitbart News politics editor Emma-Jo Morris was asked to lay out what she viewed to be the “most damning” aspect of the Hunter Biden-Joe Biden saga. Morris said while Hunter Biden was “important,” he acted on President Joe Biden’s behalf as a “bag man.” ---------------- Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) filed articles of impeachment Friday against President Joe Biden (D), saying the action had been a long time coming. In his press release, Steube said the articles of impeachment were filed for the president’s alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors.” ------------- On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell stated that David Weiss has no more power as a special counsel than he did before and noted that both Attorney General Merrick Garland and Weiss himself “have said for weeks, months, that he had all the authority he needed to bring any charge that was merited, at any time that was appropriate, in any place that made sense. … So, from a practical point of view, nothing really changed.”

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The Biden brand is an “abuse of soft power,” Devon Archer told Tucker Carlson during an interview released Wednesday on Twitter. Archer was Hunter Biden’s best friend in business. Together they sat on Burisma Holding’s board and co-founded BHR Partners, a Chinese state-backed investment fund. --------------- Former President Donald Trump is set to make his first appearance in federal court in Washington, DC, on Thursday in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of January 6. Trump was indicted by a Washington, DC, grand jury on Tuesday on four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights, in relation to the January 6 capitol riots. ----------------- On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accepted California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) offer to have a debate between the two moderated by Hannity.

Special Counsel Jack Smith announced Tuesday evening that a grand jury in Washington, D.C., had indicted former President Donald Trump on charges relating to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The indictment was announced the day after President Joe Biden had been implicated in a long-running influence peddling-scheme by his son Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee. ---------------- Former Vice President Mike Pence claimed in a statement that former President Donald Trump put “himself over the Constitution” and should “never be President of the United States” after Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on charges stemming from January 6. -------------- The federal judge assigned the January 6 case against former President Donald Trump was appointed by former President Barack Obama, who also happens to be an Obama donor. Appointed in 2014 to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Obama, Judge Tanya Chutkan has been known to give some of the harshest sentences for January 6 defendants, with some even going beyond government recommendations.

Hunter Biden’s best friend in business, Devon Archer, told House investigators that Hunter Biden included then-Vice President Joe Biden on speakerphone over 20 times with business associates to sell “the brand.” Archer testified that one of those calls included a dinner in China with Jonathan Li of Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). Hunter Biden and Archer held their interests in the company through a shell company called Rosemont Seneca Thornton. Archer confirmed Joe Biden attended a business dinner with Hunter Biden and business associates at Café Milano in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Yelena Baturina, the billionaire ex-wife of Moscow’s longtime mayor, also attended the dinner. --------------------------- High school senior boys are nearly twice as likely to say they are conservative than liberal, while high school girls continue to drift leftward, the Hill reported, citing a federal survey of American youth. “In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one-quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or ‘very conservative’ on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s. Only 13 percent of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years,” according to the report. “The figures represent a striking shift in the political views of boys. As recently as the late 2000s, liberal boys occasionally outnumbered conservatives. Back in the Carter era, both boys and girls leaned liberal.” ------------------ Climate alarmists’ overwrought accounts of hot summer weather are “fueling mental derangements,” writes the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley in a searing op-ed Monday. It is not the weather itself, but the hyperbolic way it is reported that spreads panic, Finley insists, since in the past “heat waves were treated as a normal part of summer,” whereas now they are treated as harbingers of an impending climate apocalypse. Knowingly or not, mainstream media have been complicit in spreading “climate hypochondria,” she writes, which simply does not match the reality of what is happening to the weather and the threats this may or may not pose.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said over the weekend that he believes that the Department of Justice is trying to obstruct the Committee’s investigation into the Biden family after federal prosecutors urged a judge to order one of Hunter Biden’s business partners to report to prison as he gets set to testify this week. ----------------- A federal judge has blocked an Arkansas law that would have hit librarians with criminal charges if they provided “harmful” books to children. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks issued a preliminary injunction Saturday against the law. ------------------ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said war is “returning” to Russian soil after a drone attack in Moscow. In his daily address on Sunday, as reported by The Kyiv Independent, Zelensky said “Ukraine is becoming stronger” — more than 500 days after Russia began its invasion of his country.

Never before seen emails from within Facebook obtained by the House Judiciary Committee led by chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have shed further light on how the White House and Biden appointed government officials pressured the tech giant to infringe on the First Amendment rights of Americans. Facebook initially resisted the Judiciary Committee’s subpoena of internal communications about White House pressure, leading the Committee to schedule a vote to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress if his company did not turn over the documents. ---------------- Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged former President Donald Trump with additional criminal counts in his investigation into Trump’s handling of classified U.S. material after leaving office. ---------------- Is American patriotism going through a major identity crisis? It seems like the young folks just aren’t feeling the love anymore, and it’s hitting new lows. In the most recent Gallup poll reveals that pride in national identity is kind of embarrassing, especially among those aged 18-34. Talk about a generational rift right in the midst of all the political chaos.

Hunter Biden pled not guilty on Wednesday to gun and tax charges, refusing to accept a new plea deal laid out by prosecutors. The original plea deal fell apart after the judge questioned if it covered future potential charges of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation. The prosecution reportedly said the deal did not include any alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, could be jailed if he consumes any drugs or alcohol, according to the conditions of his release signed by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika. Biden appeared in federal court in Delaware on Wednesday, where he was expected to enter a guilty plea as part of a deal negotiated between his lawyers and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) arising out of charges of illegally possessing a handgun and failing to pay two years’ worth of federal taxes. -------------------- Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. sent a letter to Florida superintendents to “reaffirm” the implementation of African American history standards following recent criticism. Vice President Kamala Harris, among other Democrats, have been criticizing a part in the standards that stated instruction would include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” ----------------- Former President Donald Trump announced his support of the Republican National Committee’s recent effort to push for early voting. In a video, Trump endorsed the “Bank Your Vote” initiative announced by the RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in June.

mployees of a Florida-based retail health company said JP Morgan Chase Bank suddenly terminated their personal and company bank accounts without an explanation. One of the employees believes the account shutdowns were politically motivated and due to their employer’s controversial stance on COVID-19. ------------------ Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed the End Birthright Citizenship Fraud Act of 2023, which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to state that birthright citizenship only applies to U.S.-born children of legal American citizens. --------------- Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis released a statement after the Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS, announced it will end most unannounced visits to taxpayers. “The thought of IRS agents showing up at your home or business unannounced is terrifying and sounds an awful lot like harassment,” he said. “Thankfully, we’ve helped turn up the volume on the deployment of thousands of new IRS agents to shakedown middle class families and small business owners and the agency is taking notice.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. changed his tune Sunday and called for an investigation into the alleged Biden bribery scheme. Speaking with Fox News, the Democrat presidential candidate said allegations surrounding President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden about allegedly accepting $5 million in bribes are worth “a real investigation.” ------------------ Seven Republican presidential candidates have met the polling debate requirements for the first Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, next month, according to CNN. To participate in its first debate, the Republican National Committee (RNC) requires any candidate to poll at one percent or better in three national polls or one percent or better in a pair of early state polls recognized by the RNC and conducted after July 1. -------------------- Devon Archer, a Biden family business associate and Hunter’s “best friend in business,” reportedly backed out of his scheduled appearance on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, canceling for a third time. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) reportedly told Fox News that Archer canceled his Monday deposition with the committee. Archer is under subpoena from the committee but has reportedly canceled scheduled appearances three times.

The Biden administration is cracking down on water heaters by imposing greater efficiency standards. Consumers will have to shovel out thousands of dollars more to install a heat pump water heater rather than a conventional storage water heater in order to fall in line with new standards released on Friday by the Department of Energy. -------------------- Florida leaders reacted to the news of Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Florida Friday prior to her speech about Florida’s new African American school standards. Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler said Harris’s visit to Florida is another “political stunt” and wants other states to join Florida by telling the Biden Administration to “go pound sand.” Harris spoke in Jacksonville on Friday afternoon. ----------------- Bonita Springs City Council discussed Wednesday implementing a policy that would allow removal of traffic fatality memorials in public rights of way after six months. City Councilor Fred Forbes brought the first discussion of these memorials to a meeting in May. The city began receiving emails from residents with safety concerns that memorials are too close to public roadways and sidewalks while not being well-maintained.

On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali said that Republicans in Congress will use the FBI 1023 form on the Biden family and Ukraine that was released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) earlier in the day “to bolster these investigations that we saw them do earlier this week with IRS so-called whistleblowers about Hunter Biden” and how the tax investigation into President Joe Biden’s son was handled. -------------------- The FBI knew about President Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows. -------------- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to smears lodged by Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, on Thursday at the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government’s hearing on censorship.

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hear testimony from IRS whistleblowers on “the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes” on Wednesday, July 19. “At this full committee hearing, the American people will hear from IRS whistleblowers who possess critical information related to the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes,” the committee announced. “In addition, the whistleblowers will testify about the politicization and misconduct at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with respect to the Hunter Biden investigation.” -------------------------- During a portion of an interview with CBS News released on Wednesday, IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, one of the whistleblowers on the Hunter Biden investigation, stated that he can’t comfortably say if President Joe Biden received any financial benefit from his son’s dealings because “Any time we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the President,” investigators were told, “We can’t ask those questions” because it would require too many “approvals” to do so. CBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent Catherine Herridge asked, “Did you uncover evidence that President Biden financially benefited from his son’s deals?” ---------------- The Florida Board of Education passed new rules and standards for African American History in schools Wednesday. Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. noted the standards include “tougher subjects,” along with beginnings of the slave trade, Jim Crow laws and more.

Many Republican lawmakers defended former President Donald Trump after his announcement of being a target in the Justice Department’s January 6 probe. Trump said he must appear before the grand jury in four days, noting his appearance likely means “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith will indict him. ------------------- The Louisiana legislature voted in favor of overriding Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a law that would ban medically transitioning minors. Sponsored by Republican State Rep. Gabe Firment, the law would ban doctors from “prescribing hormone therapy and puberty blockers to minors, and from administering gender-transition surgical procedures,” according to NOLA. The state legislature passed the bill in June, only to be vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards. ---------------------- President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) with inactive tuberculosis into American communities in the last year, the Washington Times reveals. A court-ordered report, reviewed by Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times, details how HHS has been releasing thousands of UACs with latent infections as part of the federal government’s pipeline of migrant children into the United States.

House Oversight Committee lawmakers are set to hold a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) next week. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the panel who has helped drive the conversation about UFOs on Capitol Hill, said a hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 26. --------------------- Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis fired back after being disrupted on Monday by an apparent left-wing activist at a packed event in South Carolina. The Florida governor is set to become the first Republican candidate to file paperwork in the state for the first-in-the-South 2024 presidential primary, according to Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard. ---------------------- A former FBI supervisory agent confirmed “key” aspects of whistleblower testimony about the federal investigation of President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, according to a top Republican lawmaker. House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the FBI veteran participated in a transcribed interview with his panel on Monday, just two days before a pair of Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers are set to testify about the inquiry.

Tucker Carlson does not have the power to expose politicians’ hidden beliefs, but he can pressure politicians to briefly expose their hidden priorities. “That’s not my concern,” former Vice President Mike Pence snapped when Carlson pressured him on growing aid for Ukraine as U.S. cities decline. ------------------- Attendees at a major conservative conference over the weekend overwhelmingly voted for former President Donald Trump in a Republican presidential primary straw poll. ------------------ Tech billionaire Elon Musk has cautioned China’s top communists about the potential threat of a superintelligent AI seizing control of the country, even as he continues with his own AI ventures. ------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis touted his administration’s efforts to crackdown on election crime after the Office of Election Crimes and Security had been in effect for about a year. The office reviews reports of alleged election law violations and investigate any violations and oversees the Department of State’s voter fraud hotline.

The Secret Service announced Thursday it is unable to identify who smuggled cocaine into the White House on July 2, triggering a number of reactions from lawmakers and pundits after President Joe Biden pledged to “restore” decency and honor to the White House. President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to call reservists to active duty “for the effective conduct” of U.S. military support to Ukraine. Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have joined a number of House Republicans, urging President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to drop a plan that opens taxpayer-subsidized healthcare benefits to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

FBI Director Christopher Wray did not confirm or deny if President Joe Biden is under investigation for alleged bribes from an executive at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter Biden $83,000 per month for a board position. ------------------ A former Donald Trump supporter who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, saying the network made him a scapegoat for the U.S. Capitol insurrection. -------------------- Democrat legislators in Massachusetts are looking to give foreign nationals on green cards the right to vote in municipal elections. A series of bills filed by Democrat legislators in the Massachusetts House and Senate would open municipal voting rights to foreign nationals living in the state on green cards.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the country was “still in the thick of this fight to defend American democracy” from so-called kleptocrats like former President Donald Trump. On House Republicans investigating President Joe Biden, Raskin said, “Really what we see is a grasping at straws in attempts to find something, anything to get at Joe Biden. Why? Because it is a massive distraction from the fact that Donald Trump had one overriding purpose for being in office and one overriding purpose for coming back into office. He had a moneymaking operation. He converted the presidency into an instrument of profit maximization for himself and his family any wants to keep this grift going. So there’s gotta be an effort to bring down Joe Biden by putting him in the same category which is ridiculous and it is not convincing to the American people.” ----------------------- President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, is ignoring a request from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to disclose the number of illegal aliens the agency has released directly into American communities through its massive parole pipeline. --------------------- The Justice Department (DOJ) avoided naming CEFC China Energy Co. — a CCP-linked company associated with the Biden family — until page 21 of Dr. Gal Luft’s indictment. Suspicious activity reports obtained by House Republicans show Hunter Biden’s business partner, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC in 2017. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign saw another setback over the weekend as the Republican candidate saw support withdrawn from top America First movement figures such as Mike Cernovich after DeSantis’s staff attacked him and others for asking questions about DeSantis’s position on the Russia hoax. ---------------- U.S. Women’s National Team star Megan Rapinoe says it would be a welcome development for men claiming to be women to join the USWNT roster because “trans women are real women.” ---------------- Attorney General Ashley Moody released a new “Scams at a Glance” resource to help Floridians avoid online shopping scams Monday. Scams at a Glance is a resource to help consumers avoid falling for fraudulent schemes when making purchases online.

President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday after he revealed sensitive U.S. military information during an interview that critics said could make America’s adversaries more aggressive. Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the reason that he is giving cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the U.S. is running out of 155mm artillery shells. ----------------- The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain have called upon U.S. President Joe Biden to not send cluster bombs to Ukraine amid concerns over the danger they pose to civilian populations. ------------- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addressed a recent narrative in the media that his campaign is struggling to find its footing by highlighting his recent fundraising numbers and other factors in primary, which still in its early stages.

rida employers are raising wages and urging greater investment in wage-boosting technological innovation after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a state-wide set of immigration reforms. “Some of them have raised wages” amid a worker shortage, said Jeannie Economos, a manager at the Farmworker Association of Florida, which opposes the law. --------------- White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates could not say whether or not the cocaine found at the White House on Sunday belong to Hunter or President Joe Biden, citing the Hatch Act. ----------------- The Republican Party of Florida will require all 2024 presidential primary candidates to sign a loyalty pledge, vowing to support the eventual nominee in the general election. “The days of outlier party grifters – such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – using Republican Party resources to secure a title and then weaponize that title against our own team must end,” said Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Florida GOP.