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Florida Trolls Mamdani Hard with Massive Times Square Billboard [WATCH]
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Florida Trolls Mamdani Hard with Massive Times Square Billboard [WATCH]

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Florida is thanking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for sending jobs, companies, wealth, and residents south.

The Florida Chamber of Commerce delivered that message in unmistakable fashion with a massive Times Square billboard declaring, “Thanks for the jobs!”

Located at Broadway and West 43rd Street, the digital advertisement names Mamdani Florida’s “Economic Developer of the Year.”

It is a sharp jab at progressive leadership and a public celebration of the economic migration enriching the Sunshine State.

The campaign reflects a broader national battle between free enterprise and growing government control.

Florida leaders argue that lower taxes, lighter regulation, and personal liberty encourage investment, while socialist experiments drive productive citizens toward the exits.

Florida Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson said the organization wants Americans to recognize what is happening in plain sight.

New York keeps squeezing businesses and taxpayers, while Florida welcomes them and enjoys the economic rewards.

Wilson described Mamdani’s agenda as dangerous for New York and harmful to the country.

His concern is that Democratic socialist policies attack the economic freedoms that allowed generations of Americans to build businesses, create jobs, and pursue prosperity.

The Chamber says Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, based on Internal Revenue Service migration data.

New York, by comparison, loses about $1.1 million in taxable income during that same period.

Population figures tell a similar story, according to the organization.

Florida gains a net 551 residents each day, while New York loses approximately 115, giving the Sunshine State a steady stream of workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and tax revenue.

“What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York,” Wilson explained.

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That cycle is hardly complicated, despite the left’s best efforts to dress it up in academic jargon.

Higher taxes push people away, the tax base shrinks, government demands more money, and the remaining residents receive another bill for progressive mismanagement.

Florida has taken the opposite approach, reducing taxes more than 50 times during the past 15 years while collecting record revenue.

Economic growth has expanded the state’s tax base without relying on the familiar blue state ritual of punishing success.

The Chamber also highlighted the enormous difference in government spending between the two states.

New York’s state budget is more than twice the size of Florida’s, while New York City’s municipal budget alone exceeds Florida’s entire state budget by more than $8 billion.

Those numbers raise an obvious question about what New Yorkers are receiving for all that spending.

Florida is building a $1.8 trillion economy while attracting wealth and residents, yet New York continues demanding more from a population already looking for escape routes.

City Hall rejected the Chamber’s argument and claimed New York City’s economy under Mamdani remains historically strong.

The administration also said it intends to continue growing the economy while ensuring that workers benefit, the usual promise accompanying another progressive expansion of government.

Wilson insisted the billboard is not about cheering for New York’s decline.

He said Florida wants other states to succeed, but that success requires rejecting socialism and returning to the principles of freedom, competition, and private enterprise.

The Chamber views the states as competitors in a national contest of ideas.

Florida’s results offer a powerful scorecard, while New York provides a warning about what happens when politicians treat businesses and affluent residents like permanent sources of government cash.

Wilson said the campaign could eventually expand beyond Manhattan, with Chicago, California, and Minneapolis among the possible future targets.

Each has become associated with progressive governance, rising burdens, and policies that give residents and employers fresh reasons to consider Florida.

The campaign arrives as the United States celebrates 250 years of independence and debates which economic direction it will follow.

Florida’s message is refreshingly direct: freedom and enterprise create opportunity, while socialism creates moving trucks headed south.

They Knew: CDC, Fauci, and the Great Cover-Up as 82% Miscarriage Rate Buried in ‘Safe and Effective’ Study [WATCH]
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They Knew: CDC, Fauci, and the Great Cover-Up as 82% Miscarriage Rate Buried in ‘Safe and Effective’ Study [WATCH]

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Newly released text messages show leading Biden administration health officials privately discussing whether COVID 19 vaccination early in pregnancy could raise the risk of miscarriage.

The concerns surfaced during the first week of the Biden presidency, even as officials publicly worked to reassure Americans about vaccine safety.

The messages came from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone and were released by Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

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They involved Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and then Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky.

Murthy asked Fauci and Walensky whether there was “any data or theoretical reason why vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred.”

The question went directly to a major uncertainty surrounding pregnant women, a group that had not been meaningfully represented in the original vaccine trials.

Murthy said he had been telling pregnant women there was no “evidence of concerning adverse outcomes in the trials.”

At the same time, he acknowledged that the number of pregnant participants was “likely […] limited,” while Fauci reminded him that “pregnant women were not allowed” in those trials.

Fauci initially described as a “misperception” the concern among some people, including “female health care professionals,” that vaccination “very early in pregnancy” might be harmful.

Within two hours, however, his private assessment became considerably less dismissive.

Fauci told the group he had “asked around a bit more.”

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He said he was warned that the “significant cytokines storm and fever” commonly associated with the second dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

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Walensky and Murthy each called the concern a “good point.”

Walensky also said she had heard worries about “mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well,” showing that the questions circulating privately went beyond the narrow issue officials were discussing publicly.

The following day, Murthy reacted with alarm after the World Health Organization recommended that pregnant women avoid the Moderna vaccine “unless they are at risk of high exposure.”

He warned that the recommendation was “potentially quite damaging to public confidence among pregnant women,” and Walensky agreed.

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Fauci sought to calm the group by pointing to vaccinations administered after emergency authorization.

“No issues have arisen,” he wrote, after saying that “more than 10,000” pregnant women had already received a vaccine.

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The messages add fuel to criticism that federal health leaders entertained concerns behind closed doors while people raising similar questions publicly were smeared as dangerous cranks.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said those skeptics were branded anti vaccine and accused of lying or trying to cause COVID deaths.

Murrill told Just the News, No Noise that people “on the ground” could see “rampant and pervasive” problems.

She said her own son spent a week in an intensive care unit with myocarditis after receiving a COVID vaccine.

According to Murrill, “Parents were being told ‘vaccinate your kids’” as young as five. She said officials claimed “that there’s no side effects [..] that myocarditis is not severe and that they bounce back within a few days,” an assertion she called “just frankly not true.”

Murrill argued that pediatric heart specialists understood the seriousness of such cases but feared consequences for speaking candidly.

“I think pediatric cardiologists know this,” she said, while alleging that medical professionals faced threats involving their licenses if they warned parents.

The Louisiana attorney general also pointed to Fauci’s repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment during recent congressional testimony.

She suspects he did so because “he knows he has exposure in the states,” including Louisiana.

Murrill has pursued a criminal case connected to Fauci’s contemporaneous notes, which she says may conflict with his deposition testimony in Louisiana litigation over federal pressure on social media companies.

That lawsuit challenged government efforts to suppress disfavored claims involving COVID treatments and other pandemic disputes.

“We’re looking at, I’m looking at what Fauci did in the context of our litigation to see whether he lied and whether there are potentially perjury charges that could arise from that,” Murrill said.

Her review places the former federal health official’s sworn statements under renewed scrutiny.

The larger issue is public trust after years of officials presenting certainty to Americans while privately discussing unresolved risks and potentially damaging information.

The public reassurance machine apparently had room for private doubts, just not for ordinary citizens voicing them.

“I think the public needs to hear the truth,” Murrill said.

She added that “we need people to be able to question the science without threat of retaliation from the government,” a basic principle that pandemic era authorities too often treated as an inconvenience.

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Conspiracy Theory No More: Intel Files Reveal 5 Foreign Regimes Can Flip Voting Machine Votes [WATCH]
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Conspiracy Theory No More: Intel Files Reveal 5 Foreign Regimes Can Flip Voting Machine Votes [WATCH]

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Investigative journalist John Solomon said newly discussed intelligence findings show the U.S. intelligence community identified vulnerabilities in American voting machines before the 2020 election but failed to ensure those weaknesses were addressed, despite concluding that multiple foreign adversaries had the capability to exploit them.

Speaking with Benny Johnson, Solomon said the intelligence assessments dated back to January 2020, when officials were already examining election-related security concerns.

Johnson introduced the topic by asking about the security of electronic voting systems.

“And then, so let’s shatter the the next myth of the 2020 election, which is that the electronic voting machines were secure. You just said in your last answer that Venezuela can just straight up switch out electronically the votes. Please.”

Solomon responded by describing what he said were classified intelligence assessments produced at the beginning of 2020.

“So, beginning in January of 2020, the same time they warned about the vulnerabilities of the voter registration data, the intelligence community unanimously, albeit secretly, assessed that American voting machines could be compromised by five foreign powers.”

According to Solomon, intelligence officials concluded that five countries possessed the capability to exploit known vulnerabilities in voting systems.

“There were five foreign powers who could take the known vulnerabilities of the machines and potentially flip votes: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela.”

He said intelligence officials understood where the weaknesses existed but that no action was taken to eliminate them during either the final year of President Donald Trump’s first administration or during President Joe Biden’s administration.

“They knew what the vulnerabilities were at that point. Nobody acted to in the Trump presidency at the end of Trump One, or at any time in the Biden presidency to close those vulnerabilities down.”

Solomon said later intelligence reporting intensified those concerns.

According to Solomon, the CIA observed an exercise in September 2020 involving a voting machine that operated similarly to those used in the United States.

“And that becomes even more alarming when you realize nine months after the first warning in January 2020, in September 2020, the CIA detected Venezuela taking a voter machine that worked a lot like American machines.”

He said the equipment involved in the exercise was not an American voting machine but shared many of the same operating protocols.

“It wasn’t an American machine, but it had a lot of the protocols that we use here, so it was relevant to the United States.”

Solomon said intelligence officials determined that, during a controlled test, participants successfully manipulated vote totals.

“And they were able, in a controlled environment, to swap out votes. Now, it wasn’t in a real election; it was a test. It was in a test environment, but they were able to get through the encryption, take out the votes that were filed, put in fake ballots and fake numbers, and then send them up to the central repository as part of a test.”

He described that development as a significant warning inside the intelligence community.

“That was a red alarm inside the intelligence community.”

According to Solomon, however, the information remained classified and did not result in broader action.

“But you know what? Other than reporting it internally secretly, nothing changed.”

He argued that the vulnerabilities remained in place through multiple election cycles.

“And so we went through the 2020 election, the 2022 election and the 2024 election, with those same vulnerabilities sitting there.”

Solomon criticized what he described as a failure to notify state officials, Congress and the president about the identified risks.

“We basically stuck a glass chin out and told a foreign power, ‘Come on and punch us, because we haven’t told the states, we haven’t told the president, we haven’t told the Congress.'”

At the same time, Solomon said he has not found evidence showing that any foreign government actually exploited those vulnerabilities to alter election results.

“Now, to date, I’ve not seen anything, Benny, that said that a foreign power exploited in flip votes. I haven’t found a document that says any votes have flipped in any election.”

Even so, he argued that failing to correct known weaknesses represented a serious lapse by intelligence officials.

“But it is gross negligence for our intelligence community to have left that glass chin unfixed for six months. Just because Avar Power didn’t do it didn’t mean it was the right thing to do.”

Solomon said the intelligence community’s responsibility extends beyond identifying threats to ensuring the country is better protected against them.

“We should have hardened our defenses. That’s why we have an intelligence community.”

He concluded by arguing that the vulnerabilities remained unresolved for years.

“They left us with a glass chin for six years, and that is no longer in doubt. That is no longer a conspiracy theory. It’s another one that came true.”

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Dems Boycott Hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Organization [WATCH]
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Sen. Ted Cruz criticized Democratic members of a Senate subcommittee for not attending a hearing focused on the Muslim Brotherhood, arguing that their absence reflected a broader unwillingness to confront what he described as the organization’s influence and activities.

Speaking at the opening of the hearing, Cruz drew attention to the empty seats on the Democratic side of the dais and questioned why no members of the minority party chose to participate.

“You may notice that there are empty chairs on the Democrat side of the dais,” Cruz said.

“The American people should ask themselves why not a single member of the minority decided that a hearing on terrorism was worth their time.”

Cruz said he viewed the absence as a failure to address issues involving terrorism and national security.

“It is an embarrassment and a disservice to the 1000s of American victims of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

He argued that history demonstrates the dangers of underestimating extremist organizations and warned against dismissing threats because they appear unlikely or distant.

“History has taught Americans the danger of dismissing determined jihadist movements because their ambitions seem too extreme to be real.”

According to Cruz, the hearing was organized to examine two primary topics related to the Muslim Brotherhood’s presence and influence.

“The present members of this subcommittee will look at two questions: first, how the Muslim Brotherhood built its network in America, and second, what that network looks like today.”

During his remarks, Cruz described the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization that has influenced or given rise to multiple terrorist groups.

“The Muslim Brotherhood spawned Hamas, influenced the ideology of Al Qaeda, and gave rise to multiple terrorist organizations.”

He also noted that several governments have designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

“Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and now the United States have all designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.”

Cruz then turned to Michigan’s Democratic Senate race, referencing Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed while discussing what he characterized as connections between political campaigns and organizations examined during the hearing.

“Abdul Al-Saad, the son-in-law of a leading member of several brotherhood groups, won Michigan’s Democrat primary for U.S. Senate.”

He argued that the timing of the hearing and the Democratic primary may explain why no Democratic senators attended the proceedings.

“Perfect timing for this hearing, probably explains why no Democrats are here and none intend to attend, because their campaign is now openly embracing terrorist organizations waging war on America.”

Cruz further contended that organizations discussed during the hearing have spent decades building influence in the United States and that political leaders have failed to recognize that effort.

“Behind El Sayed’s political rise sits a much older and more entrenched institutional network.”

He continued, “Two major parties refuses even to see is exactly the outcome these organizations that we’re discussing have spent 40 years working to produce.”

Throughout his remarks, Cruz argued that congressional oversight of organizations accused of supporting terrorism should continue regardless of political considerations.

He said his focus remains on investigating individuals and entities that provide material support or financing to terrorist organizations operating within the United States.

“My promise to the American people is to hold accountable those who finance and support terrorism on American soil.”

Cruz concluded by saying that organizations should not be shielded from scrutiny because of their legal status or organizational structure.

“No matter how many tax exemptions, charitable registrations, or civil rights letterheads, they hide behind.”

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From Moscow With Love: Dems Cozy Up to Candidates Who Think America ‘Deserved 9/11′ [WATCH]
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From Moscow With Love: Dems Cozy Up to Candidates Who Think America ‘Deserved 9/11′ [WATCH]

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller argued that the Democratic Party’s support for progressive candidates will face a significant challenge in the November elections, contending that voters in the political center will reject what he described as an embrace of communist ideology.

Speaking during an interview, Miller pointed to Michigan’s U.S. Senate race as an example of what he believes is a broader shift within the Democratic Party.

“Well, I think they’re going to be severely challenged come November as they continue to nominate these true communist candidates,” Miller said.

He cited Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as an example of that trend.

“Look at Michigan, right? El Sayed. They’re nominating communist candidates for office.”

According to Miller, the party’s direction is out of step with most American voters and will become a liability in the general election.

“The center of this country, the middle of this country, the mainstream of this country, is going to thunderously reject the Democrats’ embrace of communism.”

Miller also criticized El-Sayed’s association with political commentator Hasan Piker, arguing that Democratic leaders have failed to distance themselves from the endorsement.

“And then, Sayed, you also have somebody, as you’ve talked about this evening, Sean, who campaigned, who embraced, who courted the endorsement of this execrable, heinous, deplorable, monstrous Hasan Piker, somebody who has celebrated assassination culture, and somebody who has said that America deserved 9/11.”

Addressing host Sean Hannity directly, Miller referenced the lasting impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and questioned why Democratic leaders had not publicly responded.

“Sean, you’re from New York. How much time have you spent, Sean, with the victims and the families, the police officers, the firefighters after 9/11.”

He argued that any candidate associated with those views should face greater scrutiny.

“To have someone running for Senate who’s going to associate with that kind of evil, and where is Schumer? Where is Jeffries? Where are any of the leaders of the Democratic Party?”

Miller contended that Democratic leadership has accepted those associations rather than rejecting them.

“They are supporting it. They are embracing it. They are allowing it, Sean.”

The discussion then turned to what Miller described as a broader ideological struggle taking place in American politics.

He compared the current political climate to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, arguing that the conflict has shifted from foreign policy to domestic politics.

“We spent decades fighting a cold war with the Soviet Union.”

Miller said he viewed today’s political environment as a continuation of that conflict in a different form.

“I choose my words carefully, but I’m going to say this tonight, Sean. That cold war has come home. It’s here in America.”

According to Miller, he believes the stakes extend beyond individual elections and represent what he described as a defining moment for the country.

“This is the biggest, greatest, most existential struggle this country will ever face Sean, because if communists get control of House seats, then Senate seats and governors’ mansions, the American dream that for 250 years our heroes bled and died for is gone, and it won’t come back because they will never let you get it back.”

Miller concluded by arguing that President Donald Trump represents the principal obstacle to the political outcome he described.

“President Trump is the only thing right now standing between the American people and that abyss.”

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Miller’s remarks came as candidates in several high-profile races continue campaigning ahead of the November elections, with Michigan among the states expected to receive significant national attention.

During the interview, he argued that the Democratic Party’s recent nominations and alliances will become a central issue as voters evaluate candidates in congressional, Senate, and statewide races across the country.

JD Vance: We Found $230 Billion in Fraud. Guess Who Doesn’t Want It Stopped? [WATCH]
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JD Vance: We Found $230 Billion in Fraud. Guess Who Doesn’t Want It Stopped? [WATCH]

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Vice President J.D. Vance said the Trump administration’s fraud task force has identified approximately $230 billion in fraud since its creation, while preventing tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent government payments that otherwise would have gone to bad actors.

Speaking alongside administration officials, Vance highlighted the task force’s work combating fraud across federal programs and argued that its efforts have already produced significant savings for taxpayers.

At the same time, he warned that many of those reforms could be reversed by a future administration unless Congress passes legislation making them permanent.

Vance credited members of the administration for helping build what he described as an effective anti-fraud operation.

“All stars of the Trump administration, we have been able to identify 230 billion dollars of fraud just since the fraud task force was set up, and that’s frankly by conservatively estimating it,” Vance said.

He explained that administration officials deliberately chose to use a cautious estimate when presenting the findings to the public.

“Andrew and I had a meeting in my office last week, and he said, ‘Do you want to estimate it conservatively or do you want to estimate it aggressively?’ And I said, ‘Well, I kind of want to estimate it aggressively, but then all you people will criticize us. So let’s estimate it conservatively, so that we can give the American people the most rock-solid explanation of how this task force is working to protect their money.'”

According to Vance, the task force has not only identified fraudulent activity but has also stopped billions of dollars in improper payments before they were distributed.

“We’ve been able to stop $56 billion in fraudulent payments that would have otherwise gone to fraudsters rather than to the people who need them, and in the process, we’ve saved obviously the American people a lot of money.”

Vance said preventing those payments ensures taxpayer dollars are directed toward eligible recipients instead of individuals or organizations attempting to exploit government programs.

He characterized the effort as one of the administration’s major accomplishments but cautioned that executive action alone cannot guarantee the reforms will survive future administrations.

“But as much as we’ve done, and as much as we’ve had great successes, and this brings me to my final point before I kick it over to Andrew, this effort will fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the Senate are working with us.”

Vance argued that Congress must act to place the administration’s anti-fraud measures into federal law rather than relying solely on executive authority.

According to the vice president, doing so would make it more difficult for future administrations to reverse the policies that have been implemented.

“We don’t want the next administration, whoever you know, God forbid, you’re going to have President El Sayed in three years. We don’t want him to undo all the incredible work that we’ve been doing when we’ve been taking out the fraudsters and saving the American people money.”

He said the administration’s long-term objective is to ensure the fraud prevention measures remain in place regardless of who occupies the White House in the future.

“And in order to make this really work, we need our colleagues in Congress to really codify some of this stuff to make sure that it becomes law,” Vance said.

He concluded by noting the political makeup of those attending the event while expressing hope that lawmakers would support the administration’s legislative priorities.

“And again, this is the sort of thing where while I you know I see only Republicans surrounding us today.”

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The administration has repeatedly highlighted efforts to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs as part of its broader fiscal agenda.

Vance’s remarks emphasized both the reported results achieved by the fraud task force since its creation and the administration’s push for Congress to enact permanent statutory changes aimed at preserving those anti-fraud initiatives beyond the current administration.

Fauci Looks Miserable as Wife Flips the Bird After Contempt Vote [WATCH]
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Fauci Looks Miserable as Wife Flips the Bird After Contempt Vote [WATCH]

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Dr. Anthony Fauci looked thoroughly defeated Thursday, just hours after a Senate committee voted to hold him in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions about his management of the COVID 19 pandemic.

The former government health official was photographed wearing a deep frown while rolling a recycling bin toward the curb outside his Washington, DC, residence.

It was hardly the triumphant image once cultivated by liberal media outlets.

Fauci shares the $2.4 million home with his wife, Christine Grady, a Georgetown University colleague.

His routine household chore came shortly after senators referred the contempt matter to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.

The sour mood apparently extended beyond Fauci. When the couple later departed the upscale neighborhood by vehicle, Grady made her displeasure with the nearby photographer unmistakably clear.

Grady flipped off the camera before driving away, while Fauci sat in the passenger seat and stared blankly through the window.

For a couple accustomed to establishment praise, the sudden public scrutiny did not appear especially welcome.

Earlier Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted eight to five along party lines to hold Fauci in contempt.

The vote followed his testimony last week, when he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times.

Republicans have spent years demanding answers about Fauci’s pandemic decisions, government research funding, and public statements concerning the origins of COVID 19.

Those questions became more urgent as evidence and official assessments challenged the narratives aggressively promoted during the pandemic.

If convicted of misdemeanor contempt of Congress, Fauci could face as much as one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

The Justice Department will now become central to determining whether the referral develops into an actual criminal prosecution.

Republican senators argue Fauci cannot use the Fifth Amendment as a universal shield after delivering an opening statement and receiving a sweeping pardon from former President Joe Biden.

That pardon covered potential crimes committed from January 2014 through January 2025.

Sen. Josh Hawley challenged the legal basis for Fauci’s repeated refusal to respond.

“The assertion of a Fifth Amendment privilege only adheres to those instances where the witness has a reasonable fear of future prosecution, and it must be tailored to any such fear,” Hawley said.

The Missouri Republican’s point goes directly to the growing dispute.

Senators are questioning whether Fauci identified legitimate risks attached to individual questions or simply invoked constitutional protection as a blanket strategy to avoid scrutiny.

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Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul subpoenaed Fauci to testify.

The Kentucky Republican has long accused the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of concealing information about the origins of COVID 19 and misleading Americans about the disease.

Paul has repeatedly pressed Fauci about research funding and whether taxpayer money supported dangerous coronavirus work overseas.

Fauci has denied wrongdoing, but his refusal to answer scores of questions has done little to satisfy lawmakers seeking a complete public record.

The Biden pardon has also intensified suspicion rather than quieting it.

Biden granted Fauci broad protection before leaving office, covering more than a decade in which Fauci held enormous influence over federal health policy and pandemic decisions.

Three state attorneys general have separately subpoenaed Fauci through a joint investigation involving the former COVID czar.

That expanding legal attention suggests the Senate fight may be only one part of a much larger examination of his conduct.

For years, Fauci enjoyed glowing coverage, celebrity treatment, and near total deference from Washington’s political class.

Now the cameras are capturing a different scene, complete with a contempt vote, unanswered questions, a trash bin, and one very angry hand gesture.

Americans who endured sweeping mandates, closed businesses, disrupted schools, and shifting government claims still want accountability.

Fauci may prefer silence, but Congress and state investigators appear increasingly determined to keep asking questions.

FBI Knew 633,000 Arizona Voter Files Were Hacked Days Before 2020 Election, Prosecuted Nobody [WATCH]
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The White House has released a series of newly declassified documents related to the 2020 election, including records detailing a cyber intrusion involving the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Arizona that exposed hundreds of thousands of voter records and prompted an FBI investigation.

According to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency, a hacker obtained approximately 633,000 Maricopa County voter records.

The documents state that the data included information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including records involving domestic abuse victims.

The newly released material also includes information from a November 2020 FBI interview with an individual whose name has been redacted.

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During that interview, the individual reportedly told investigators he believed he had extracted between 1 million and 2 million files, representing approximately four gigabytes of data.

According to the interview summary, the individual said the information was obtained by using a PowerShell script to exploit the Maricopa County Recorder’s website.

The documents state that Maricopa County reported the intrusion through the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center on Nov. 2, 2020.

By Election Day on Nov. 3, information about the incident had been circulated among federal election security officials.

The records also describe efforts by the suspect to destroy evidence before federal agents executed a search warrant.

According to the documents, the subject attempted to remove both locally stored and remotely stored copies of the data before the FBI carried out its search.

In a separate interview with investigators, the suspect reportedly acknowledged anticipating contact from law enforcement and described deleting evidence beforehand.

According to the released records, the individual told the FBI that he knew law enforcement would likely visit him, prompting him to delete and reformat his hard drives and erase data stored in Google Cloud.

The interview summary indicates the suspect acknowledged destroying evidence while also appearing to recognize that a crime had been committed.

Despite the investigation, the documents state that prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges.

According to the records, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and the Pinal County Attorney’s Office all declined to prosecute the suspect despite the existence of evidence and what the documents describe as a confession.

The case appears to correspond with a December 2020 incident previously reported by The Gateway Pundit involving an FBI search of the home of Elliot Kerwin, then a 56-year-old information technology specialist.

At the time, Forbes reported that federal investigators were seeking evidence related to “a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data.”

Although the newly declassified documents do not identify Kerwin by name, one report appears to describe an incident involving a residence in Fountain Hills, Arizona, a town located within Maricopa County.

Following the FBI search in 2020, questions remained about the extent of the intrusion into Maricopa County’s voter registration infrastructure.

Public reporting at the time stated there had been no access to election management systems or vote tabulation systems and that the voter information obtained consisted of publicly available records.

The newly declassified documents indicate that investigators concluded approximately 633,000 voter records were obtained, including 930 records containing information that was not publicly available.

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The release of the documents has also prompted renewed attention to how government agencies communicated about election security during and after the 2020 election.

According to the records, federal election security officials were aware before Election Day that an intruder had exploited a Maricopa County website and obtained hundreds of thousands of voter records.

The source material states that no contemporaneous public acknowledgement of this specific incident by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been identified.

Following the 2020 election, then-CISA Director Chris Krebs stated that the election was “the most secure in American history.”

The newly released records do not state that election systems or vote tabulation equipment were compromised, nor do they conclude that election results were altered.

Instead, the documents focus on the cyber intrusion into voter registration records, the subsequent FBI investigation, the suspect’s reported destruction of evidence, and the decisions by multiple prosecutorial offices not to pursue criminal charges.

The release has renewed questions surrounding the public disclosure of the breach, including why an incident involving approximately 633,000 voter records, including hundreds of non-public records, did not receive broader public attention at the time and why the suspect identified in the investigation ultimately was not prosecuted, according to the source material.

Stephen A. Smith Turns on Fauci: I Did Exactly What He Told Me, It Almost Killed Me [WATCH]
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Stephen A. Smith Turns on Fauci: I Did Exactly What He Told Me, It Almost Killed Me [WATCH]

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Stephen A. Smith has built his career on thunderous opinions, colorful arguments, and unapologetic confidence.

But while discussing Anthony Fauci and the COVID pandemic, the ESPN personality showed a deeply personal side shaped by fear, anger, and a brush with death.

Smith said he followed the guidance promoted by Fauci and other government health authorities, only to contract COVID anyway.

“We were told, ‘Hey, you ain’t gonna get Covid if you do that.’ And I GOT COVID!” he exclaimed.

The illness was not a mild inconvenience for Smith. “And damn it, it almost killed me!” he continued, revealing that he entered a hospital shortly before New Year celebrations began as 2021 gave way to 2022.

Smith recalled his doctor delivering a warning nobody wants to hear.

“We’ve been at this for three plus weeks. You got double pneumonia. You look really bad. If this antibiotic and this steroid do not work, Mr. Smith, I’m sorry, we’re gonna have to call your family. Looks that bad…’”

The treatment eventually worked, but Smith said the wait left him believing his life could be ending.

“But those were the longest three hours of my life because I thought it was over.”

That terrifying experience now colors Smith’s judgment of Fauci, whose pandemic pronouncements were repeatedly treated by corporate media outlets as sacred scripture.

Smith remembered that he had done what Fauci urged Americans to do, yet still found himself fighting for his life.

Smith also unloaded on the policies and claims that defined the government response.

“We learned that mask [mandates] , six feet distancing… These were not scientific decisions being made.”

His frustration extended beyond flawed guidance and into the celebrity culture that surrounded Fauci.

Smith argued that Fauci became consumed by praise, media attention, and his status as the supposed public face of science while ordinary Americans endured mandates, business closures, and social pressure.

Smith admitted that he had accepted Fauci’s assurances and helped direct criticism toward athletes who resisted the official narrative.

“We sat back and we bought his stuff, hook, line, and sinker. He was the face of science.”

Among those athletes were NBA star Kyrie Irving and NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Smith said he later felt compelled to apologize because his commentary had contributed to the public scrutiny they faced for questioning or rejecting pandemic demands.

The sports commentator stopped short of demanding that Fauci be imprisoned.

“I’m not saying you need to go that far. I’m not saying they’re completely right about that. I don’t believe this man at 85 years of age who’s done tremendous work spanning decades should be thrown in jail.”

Still, Smith made clear that Fauci should face public embarrassment and accountability for presenting disputed policies as settled science.

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The aura of infallibility has faded, and the Americans once mocked for asking basic questions no longer look quite so foolish.

Senator Rand Paul has meanwhile continued pursuing Fauci over his testimony before Congress.

Paul said Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times despite receiving a sweeping federal pardon and offering an opening statement during the hearing.

“During the hearing,” Paul said, “I ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not apply because of the pardon, and that Fauci had waived any remaining privilege by giving opening testimony. I ordered him to answer and warned him about contempt, yet he still refused. That is obstruction of a congressional investigation. The Committee will act accordingly.”

A contempt vote reportedly followed party lines, while investigators also obtained Fauci’s phone.

Those developments could bring additional scrutiny to the former government health official’s communications, public representations, and role in policies that disrupted millions of American lives.

Questions also remain about Fauci’s sweeping claims regarding vaccination and transmission.

Federal authorization materials acknowledged that evidence was not then available to determine whether the vaccine prevented transmission, yet Fauci publicly suggested vaccinated people would become a dead end for the virus.

Fauci also declared, “The risk is extremely low of getting infected, of getting sick, or of transmitting it to anybody else. Full stop.”

The lived experience of countless vaccinated Americans, including Smith, eventually collided with that confident promise.

At least four Republican led states, West Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, have announced or opened investigations into Fauci’s pandemic conduct.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said investigators were examining possible deceptive trade, fraud, and public nuisance violations, adding, “Nothing is off the table.”

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Smith’s reckoning captures a broader collapse of institutional trust. Americans were ordered to comply, told not to question the experts, and often smeared for skepticism, only to discover that certainty had been oversold and accountability remained in painfully short supply.

Elizabeth Warren Gets a Brutal Lesson in Rent Economics She Still Can’t Grasp [WATCH]
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Elizabeth Warren Gets a Brutal Lesson in Rent Economics She Still Can’t Grasp [WATCH]

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren has once again treated rising rents as proof of landlord greed while brushing past the far less convenient forces that determine housing costs.

Her argument may stir progressive applause, but it does not survive contact with basic economics.

Rent is not pulled from a hat by cartoon villains counting gold coins in a back room.

It reflects available housing, renter demand, taxes, insurance, mortgages, repairs, utilities, labor, local rules, and the substantial risk carried by a property owner.

The central problem is supply and demand, a concept Washington Democrats repeatedly resist whenever it interferes with their preferred villain.

When too few apartments exist for too many renters, prices rise, no matter how many speeches Warren delivers about corporate avarice.

Government policy often makes that shortage worse.

Restrictive zoning blocks apartments, permit delays drag projects through years of bureaucracy, rent controls discourage new construction, and expensive mandates make builders think twice before adding units where families actually need them.

Mass illegal immigration also increases demand for limited housing, especially in communities already struggling with shortages.

Democrats cannot wave millions of additional people into the country, obstruct construction, and then act stunned when competition for apartments drives rents higher.

Housing subsidies can distort the market as well, particularly when government vouchers pay rates above what some tenants previously faced.

The original account described a seven hundred dollar apartment that rose to eleven hundred dollars after a management company purchased the property and began accepting Section 8 vouchers.

None of this means every landlord is wise, fair, or competent.

It does mean Warren’s preferred caricature ignores the many middle class owners who buy rental property as an investment, shoulder debt, handle emergencies, and try to create security for their children.

A broken refrigerator does not replace itself, and a leaking roof does not care about progressive slogans.

Paint, carpeting, plumbing, appliances, insurance, property taxes, and emergency repairs all cost real money, with those expenses eventually affecting the rent charged for a unit.

The fantasy that government can simply push private owners aside and manage housing more efficiently has a grim record.

Public housing is too often marked by deferred maintenance, dirty common areas, broken systems, and regular rent increases, proving that bureaucracy is perfectly capable of becoming the biggest slumlord around.

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One critic delivered the economic reality Warren skipped: “She admits it herself. There are not enough homes. Then she skips the only question that matters. Why? Zoning that bans apartments, permits that take years, rent controls that punish building. Every one a government policy she supports. The shortage is her movement’s own construction project. And the greed theory fails arithmetic. If landlords raise rents just because they can, why couldn’t they a decade ago? Greed is a constant. Supply is the variable. The landlord provides the home, carries the mortgage, fixes the refrigerator. Remove him and her constituent is not liberated. She is homeless,” the user wrote.

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That response gets to the heart of the matter.

Greed cannot explain why rents vary across decades, cities, and neighborhoods, because human self interest is constant while housing availability, local regulation, financing costs, and population pressure all change.

If lawmakers want lower rents, they should make it easier to build more homes, approve projects faster, reduce needless barriers, and enforce immigration law.

Expanding supply while easing demand pressure would do more for renters than another round of finger pointing from Capitol Hill.

Instead, Warren and her allies keep promoting policies that punish the people providing housing, then blame those same people for the predictable fallout.

Drive enough small landlords from the market, and large corporations or government agencies will acquire what remains, hardly the liberation progressives advertise.

Renters deserve safe homes, transparent leases, and genuine competition among property owners.

They do not need economic theater from politicians who create scarcity, deny the consequences, and then demand more government control as the cure for damage government helped cause.


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