Trump claims election fraud was covered up...Is he right?

Joe Fried CPA Jul 22, 2026, This appeared at Joe Fried CPA Election Central

We have all heard it many times. According to “journalists,” claims made by President Trump regarding election cheating are “unfounded,” “disproven,” and/or “debunked.” However, irrefutable evidence of large-scale 2020 election fraud exists.

On Thursday night, the President outlined four specific areas of election concern. I’d like to address one of them: Corrupt Michigan voter registrations in the 2020 election. Trump said: “Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up.”

The President is correct: Wide-spread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election. After it was discovered and reviewed by the FBI, it was concealed by the Biden DOJ. I know this because I had access to the numerous DOJ email communications pertaining to this subterfuge.

The scandal is discovered

Shortly before the 2020 election, a woman walked into a Muskegon County (MI) election office and submitted 8 to 10 thousand voter registration applications. An alert election clerk named Ann Meisch noticed that many of the applications were extremely suspicious, with birth-dates, addresses, and signatures that did not match the information on related drivers licenses.

Meisch and co-workers made a largely unsuccessful effort to verify the information by calling phone numbers on questionable applications. The matter was then turned over to Muskegon local police and state authorities.

The police noted that “numerous forms appeared to have been completed by the same writer…” and “phone numbers on multiple forms were erroneous and signatures on multiple forms didn’t appear to match signatures on file….” They briefly investigated the matter before the probe was turned over to the FBI. It was then squelched, almost immediately, by the Biden Department of Justice.

The story went dark for almost 3 years until the Gateway Pundit (GP) published a series of articles based upon state and city police reports. Here is a short recap of the GP reporting, followed by some confidential information that has not been widely reported.

• The woman who submitted the registration applications has the name Brianna Hawkins, and was paid $1150 per week, given a rental car, and a “reloadable pay card.” Her job was to register voters and help them use the registrations to get ballots.

• The company she worked for was a Tennessee organization with the name, GBI Strategies. It had numerous branches and activities in many areas of Michigan, and in other locations in the United States.

• GBI had very close ties to high-ranking Democrats and left-leaning groups. A police investigation stated or implied that, in 2018, GBI was paid $188,000 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,571,000 by the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, and $657,000 by the left-wing New American Jobs Fund.

• During their investigation, the police found several “semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.” Why they were there is a mystery.

• The police also found “dozens of new phones” and hundreds of “prepaid payment cards.” [Why hundreds? Were people being paid with the cards if they registered and voted?]

• GBI employees told police investigators that they never advocated that people vote for Joe Biden or any particular candidate. However, police saw a script in the GBI office that encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden. For example, it asked, “can I count on you to vote for Joe Biden?”

• City police went door-to-door to confirm that the registration forms possessed by GBI were fraudulent.

• Ruth Johnson, a former state senator and former secretary of state stated: “My estimate is over 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters in Michigan.”

Phony registrations, no ID, and no signature checking

To fully understand the scale of this corruption, and the significance of the phony registrations, you need to know how easily they can be converted into votes.

• Although Michigan law required a voter to request a ballot application, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ignored the law, and she automatically mailed out 7.7 million ballot applications to everyone who was registered, including 4 million who were not planning to vote absentee, and those with the phony registrations obtained by GBI. No ID was required.

• The only voting safeguard in Michigan (a weak one at that) was signature matching. However, Secretary Benson unlawfully told election clerks throughout Michigan to “presume” signatures matched, and most did. Fortunately, Ann Meisch, the woman who discovered the scandal, ignored Benson’s unlawful instructions.

• Four months after the election, Benson’s instructions were ruled to be invalid by a state judge. The mainstream media ignored that ruling. No appeal was filed by Secretary Benson.

The Biden Department of Justice kills the investigation

Before the 2020 election, FBI agents knew that the real number of phony registrations could be several times larger than the 8,000 to 10,000 registrations originally reported. I read the emails and have the specific names of those agents. I will not name them here because they may still be government-restricted.

At least one official reported that the number of phony registrations could change the election results. Another agent proposed interviewing 100 individuals who served as canvassers of 2020 registration information.

Nevertheless, Richard Pilger, the man in charge of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, blocked any investigation of the matter prior to election certification. He claimed that he was blocking the action based on a long-standing government policy (Justice Manual 95-85.300). However, a careful reading of the manual shows that investigations should be delayed only when they are “overt” — meaning that they would become widely known by the public and could influence the election. Interviews of individual canvassers, examination of documents, and other investigatory actions would not be barred. Pilger must have known that.

Conclusion

• Registration applications were obtained by GBI in multiple cities in Michigan and elsewhere. It is clear that some of the registrations were fabricated or obtained by trickery.

• In some instances, legitimate registrations may have been obtained, but via illegal financial inducements.

• When the Secretary of State auto-mailed ballot applications to 7.7 million registrants, the people with phony registrations also received ballot applications.

• Because 4 million voters did not expect to receive a ballot application (because they never asked for one), those applications ended up in trash cans and landfills where they were easily available to political operatives.

• The registrants (the real ones and the phony ones) could fill out the application forms and obtained ballots – without showing identification.

• Because of the unlawful instructions of Jocelyn Benson, all signatures on ballot applications were “presumed” to be legitimate.

• A review of FBI/DOJ correspondence shows that some officials were very concerned about GBI, and wanted to investigate before the 2020 election. However, Richard Pilger, the Director of the Election Crimes Branch, blocked any such investigation until after the election. Perhaps he feared that such an investigation would give credibility to President Trump’s claims of election fraud.

How many Michigan votes were created by GBI? How many were produced by Jocelyn Benson’s unlawful mass mailing of ballot applications and by her unlawful signature instructions? It is impossible to know.

That is why it was wrong to certify the 2020 Michigan election.

White House Islamophobia Strategy Says Muslims Were the Real Victims of Oct 7th

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

On October 7, Islamic terrorists invaded Israel and murdered over 1,000 people. They raped, looted, and burned families alive in their home. Those whom they did not kill, they took hostage.

According to the Biden administration’s newly announced Islamophobia strategy, however, Muslims in America were the real victims of Oct 7 just like they were the real victims of 9/11.

“Threats and acts of violence against Muslim and Arab communities have increased since the October 7 terrorist attacks,” the official White House ‘Islamophobia’ strategy claims. Muslims are also concerned “about the recent spike in incidents of hate and discrimination in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, concerns they say mirror their community’s experiences following the 9/11 attacks.”

Forget the hostages, the real issue stemming from the brutal Hamas massacres, according to the administration’s ‘strategy’ is that “members of Muslim and Arab communities have often faced obstacles in renting and using public and private gathering spaces. This issue has become more prevalent following the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.”

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate operates out of this parallel universe in which Muslim mobs have not been attacking synagogues and assaulting Jews, or blockading Jewish students from college campuses, but have been the victims. The Biden administration has yet to condemn the sustained harassment, boycotts and assaults on Jewish students at UCLA, CUNY and Columbia, instead it claims that “since October 7, 2023”, “Muslim and Arab students, faculty, and staff, have been subject to violence, discrimination, hate, harassment, bullying, and online targeting.”

The Islamophobia strategy provides no citation for its claim of nationwide harassment of Muslims on college campuses. Under its Department of Education Office’s for Civil Rights section its few named incidents include a University of Michigan student who claimed that “someone yelled at her that she had terrorist friends because she participated in a pro-Palestinian protest” and that “CUNY Law School cancelled an event hosted by a Muslim student group without adequate justification for doing so”.

The event in question was by the Muslim Law Students Association falsely accusing Israel of genocide for fighting against Hamas that was reportedly to feature CUNY students who had expressed support for terrorism including Fatima Mohammed who had tweeted, “i pray upon the death of the USA on a public platform “ and had urged, “grant victory to the Mujahideen” or the Jihadis, and Nerdeen Kiswani who had quipped, “I hope that pop-pop is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime!”

According to the White House Islamophobia strategy, CUNY’s failure to platform murderous hatred for America and Israel was ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate’ against Muslim students.

Meanwhile at CUNY, anti-Israel students had demanded the expulsion of most Jewish students and called to “globalize the intifada”. A CUNY professor described how “a Kingsborough/CUNY student beat a Jewish man in a kippah with a bat while yelling, ‘Kill all Jews, free Palestine.’”

But according to the Biden administration, Muslim students at CUNY are the real victims because a Muslim group’s ugly hate event was canceled “without adequate justification”

Students for Justice in Palestine, the top campus anti-Israel group, had openly celebrated and praised the atrocities of Oct 7, and campus protests featured Hamas and Hezbollah flags, but the Islamophobia strategy falsely claims that “student protestors, despite having condemned Hamas and terrorism and engaging in only peaceful protests, have been accused of supporting terrorism merely due to their advocacy for the human rights of Palestinian civilians”.

The strategy’s citation for the claim that anti-Israel students faced “violent attacks, threats, discrimination” was the UCLA encampment where a federal judge ruled that “Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith.” Prior to what the CNN story linked in the strategy describes as Jewish violence against the terrorist encampment, multiple Jewish students and community members had been assaulted, including on camera, and a Jewish female student had been knocked unconscious.

The Biden administration’s idea of “peaceful protests” was kicking a Jewish girl in the head and it claims that students calling for Hamas to destroy Tel Aviv were “accused of supporting terrorism merely due to their advocacy for the human rights of Palestinian civilians”.

The UCLA encampment had been set up by Students for Justice in Palestine UCLA which had co-signed a statement declaring “our unwavering support of the resistance in Gaza” and taking pride in “Towfan Al-Aqsa” (the Hamas name for the October 7 massacres) “as a revolutionary moment in contemporary Palestinian resistance.”

The White House Islamophobia strategy has as little basis for the “peaceful” nature of the terrorist mobs as it does for the contention that Muslims faced a surge of violence after Oct 7.

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate quickly discredits itself by citing hoax after hoax. It repeatedly plays up the Burlington hoax referencing “the shooting of three young men in Vermont” and the contention that “a gunman shot three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont,”

While a mentally ill man did shoot three Muslim men, he was a Hamas supporter.

Rather than being anti-Muslim, the gunman had tweeted, “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd” and “what if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?” The Burlington Islamophobia hoax was so thoroughly discredited that even CAIR had given up on listing it in its litany of ‘Islamophobic’ events, but the Biden administration somehow manages to have even lower standards for the truth than CAIR.

The Islamophobia strategy also lists an incident where “an individual believed to have been involved in prior violent incidents at a Minneapolis mosque struck a man with a minivan in the mosque’s parking lot.” The individual, James Evan Suttles, was a black man who had a long list of prior violent incidents, suffered from paranoid delusions and had been committed four times to mental institutions. No hate crimes charges were brought against him over the attack.

The Biden Islamophobia strategy has to lean on such cases to manufacture the myth of Muslim victimhood because it lacks any actual substance. And it props that up with calls for censorship.

The strategy urges social media platforms to specifically cover Islamophobia and to rig their algorithms “de-rank and stop recommending” content that Muslim groups consider hateful.

Beyond censorship, what does the Biden administration propose we do to fight ‘Islamophobia’? The strategy calls on Congress to formally recognize the UN’s International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The Islamophobia resolution was introduced by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan had described Osama bin Laden, whom Pakistan had harbored, as a “martyr”, supported the Taliban and was later charged by his own country under its terrorism act.

Once again, Islamophobia turns out to be how Islamic terrorists silence criticism of their crimes.

The Biden administration’s National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia is an insult to American Jews and Christians. It uses lies and hoaxes to turn the Muslim terrorist supporters who have shut down Christmas tree lightings and attacked synagogues, and who rally for the murder of Americans and Jews as the victims, while portraying Christians and Jews as ‘Islamophobes’.

The Islamophobia strategy is the final insult of many from an administration that has stood with the Islamic terrorists and never with their Jewish and Christian victims.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading. 

 

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From the Back Forty: Biden Celebrates as the Crazy Bubbles Over

The Biden bunch gathered – sans Harris – to celebrate four years of what they believe was a great success.

by Sarah Cowgill | Dec 1, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

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The heartland celebrated Thanksgiving this past week with family and friends and found time to discuss the most current political ridiculousness among somber and sentimental moments and a few big surprises. Who knew Meta-man Mark Zuckerberg would sit and conspire for the future with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago? Or that everyone who’s anyone on the Biden team – notably without Kamala Harris – would happily celebrate a four-year reckoning. The not-so-surprising moment was when a Democratic state lawmaker sought a way out of the next four years without relocating to another country. That was the kicker.

Trump Caused This

When Trump clinched the temporary title of president-elect, New York State Assemblywoman Sen. Liz Krueger had a thought bubble over her head: A Northeastern secession from the union. New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut can just join Canada! “It’s not unreasonable to think outside of the box,” Krueger, chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Politico with a straight face.

Jesse McColl in Plano, TX, asked: “Hmm. Where have we seen this before?”

But Krueger had a plan to shift the boundaries, although neither Canada nor the other three states on the list had been asked if they wanted any part of the idea:

“I know that Canada has basically said, ‘Yeah, we’re not letting you all in.’ As individuals, they basically made it clear. But that’s why I thought, ‘Oh, why do I have to leave this country? I love this country, and if Trump wins a second term, it’s not actually my fault or people in New York.’ So I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada, and I offered, even though I hadn’t gotten agreement from other states yet, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada.”

Living large in the Mississippi Delta, David Ming couldn’t stand the irony of an issue that had Harris losing soundly: Illegal immigration. “Funny how she made the comment about crossing the border illegally into Canada. What’s the difference between that and what’s going on at the southern border of our county? Party of inclusion and unity, my foot.”

Jill Rose in Mechanicsburg, OH, referred to US history and assumed Krueger was absent that year in Seventh grade, saying, “Didn’t we solve this issue in the 1860s?

“Being from the south, I can attest that you are not allowed to leave,” offered Tamera Zornes Anderson from Booneville, Arkansas.

Did Not See This Coming

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is optimistic about Trump’s second term and is rumored to be ready to “support the national renewal of America.” Didn’t we just censor the living daylights out of political speech with angry fact-checkers running amok on his platform? Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday to talk. There were early signs that the media giant was shifting gears near the time he publicly praised Trump for rising defiantly after being winged in the ear by an assassin’s bullet.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller hinted at a partnership of sorts during an episode of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News. “Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading,” Miller told guest host Brian Kilmeade.

“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.” Yes, they’ve had a few talks, Trump and Zuck. “Mark, obviously, he has his own interests, and he has his own company, and he has his own agenda. But he’s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under President Trump’s leadership.”

Rick Metz in Warren, OH, is not too sure about this: “Either he had a Jesus moment and got some sense – which is a great thing – or sumthin’s shady, we will see. Don’t trust him yet. If he’s serious about change, prove it…all that fact-check garbage has to go immediately; let people think for themselves.”

Vicki K Brasseaux in Louisiana was crystal clear on her perception of Zuck: “Talk about a suppository type of man. Trust not a person who can’t stand for one thing but falls for everything. Zuckerberg is only watching out for his behind.”

Biden at a Garden Party

Near the South Lawn fountain, surrounded by his allies, Joe Biden and his family enjoyed a three-course supper, wearing black tie attire to celebrate their final Thanksgiving in the White House. They toasted the man, myth, and legend and congratulated each other on a job well done – even though three weeks prior, the nation delivered a devastating blow to Joe at the ballot box, re-electing his old nemesis rather than his chosen successor.

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The president said during his opening remarks: “One thing I’ve always believed about public service and especially the presidency is the importance of asking ourselves, ‘Have we left the country in better shape than we found it?'”

“And tonight, I can say with all my heart the answer to that question is a resounding ‘yes,’ because of you,” he continued. The royal ‘you’ included Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, sitting with former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Attorney General Merrick Garland. The selfy-flashes must have been blinding.

But guess who was not there to bask in the lovefest? That would be Harris, the aforementioned chosen successor who decided to consider her options in California. As Mark Yaske in Lakewood, OH, mused: “The last party on the Titanic.”

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Press Release From the Buckeye Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2024

Lisa Gates, Vice President of Communications, (614) 224-3255

  

The Buckeye Institute Helps Secure Victory for Small Business Owners

Columbus, OH – The Buckeye Institute helped to secure a significant nationwide victory for small business owners and the workers they employ. After more than a year, the Biden administration finally abandoned its appeal of an ill-advised rule that would have destroyed the franchise business model in America—one of the country’s most successful small business ownership models.

 

“This win is a tremendous victory for small business owners and their employees across Ohio and the country,” said Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute.

 

In 2022, the Biden administration revived a rule that, when it was in place under the Obama administration, cost small business owners $33.3 billion per year and resulted in 376,000 lost job opportunities. The Buckeye Institute knew that, if adopted again, this devastating rule would have a crushing economic impact on small-business employers nationwide—and particularly in Ohio. The Buckeye Institute outlined the consequences of this revived rule in a powerful letter to the National Labor Relations Board.

 

While bureaucratic rule-making may sometimes seem tedious and dull, its impacts on the lives of ordinary working Americans cannot be overstated, and the tireless efforts of The Buckeye Institute to monitor and engage in the rule-making process were critical to protecting small business owners’ rights, jobs, and the U.S. economy.

 

Buckeye’s analysis and submitted comments were instrumental in the ruling by the U.S. District Court of Texas, which said the Biden administration’s rule was “contrary to law.” The court’s ruling also told the Biden administration that its attempts to rescind that rule were “arbitrary and capricious.”

 

Hederman continued, “As a result of The Buckeye Institute’s relentless work in this esoteric area of policymaking, the Biden administration dropped its appeal of the Texas court ruling, and America’s franchise business model is no longer under threat.”

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Who’s Running the Country?

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The 2016 presidential election was going to come down to two candidates, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, whose ‘turns’ had come. And then Donald J Trump rode down an escalator, took their ‘turn’ and the establishment has never been the same since. Because it was their ‘turn’.

In 2020, it was the ‘turn’ of Joe Biden, a man whose only political credential was that he had stuck around long enough to stick to things, like the Senate and the Vice Presidency.

Now in 2024, it’s Joe Biden’s ‘turn’ again. No one in his party was under the impression that he was the best candidate, the best campaigner or the best president, but damn it, it was his ‘turn’.

And now the Democrats are panicking because the candidate taking his ‘turn’ is imploding.

Biden’s debate meltdown has frightened Democrats, but they still have no answer for how to stop the car accident that everyone else could see coming from miles away. And no good strategy beyond getting the party leaders to confront their candidate and ask him to step down. But how do you take away Biden’s ‘turn’ when turns are the most sacred thing in politics.

It’s not an exclusively Democrat problem. The GOP put up Bob Dole against Bill Clinton and John McCain against Barack Obama because it was their ‘turns’. They let Mitt Romney go up against Obama a second time because it was his ‘turn’. And after Republicans lost two straight presidential elections because they ran establishment candidates taking their ‘turn’, voters were so sick of it that they did what they would have never done before and picked Trump.

Because it wasn’t his ‘turn’.

‘Turn’ politics mostly still rules. Candidates past their prime go up to bat because they have the biggest networks of fellow politicians, donors and party activists. It’s as if Major League Baseball favored players on the basis of seniority and how well they networked, not based on how well they can pitch or hit.

But unlike sports, politics isn’t a meritocracy, it isn’t even a democracy, it’s an oligarchy.

Voters self-importantly think of elections as the big political competition, but that’s like judging companies based on the keynote addresses of their CEOs. Elections are the least important part of politics. All the really important parts of politics happen behind closed doors. What politicians do isn’t run for office, they network, they cut deals and they plan their careers.

That network, which we occasionally call by wholly inadequate names like the “establishment” or “D.C. insiders” is the reason Biden is up again in 2024. And why he can’t be gotten rid of.

People who naively think that Obama is secretly running the Biden administration don’t understand the network or how it works. Obama took on Hillary when it was her ‘turn’ in 2008. He won and brokered a deal that moved the Democrat network further leftward. And he did the same thing again in 2020, bringing in Bernie’s people and Elizabeth Warren’s people (and his own people) so that the Biden administration is even more radical and extreme than his was.

But where did Obama come from? He came out of that network of radical activists, donors and government personnel now running the country. Obama is not a brilliant genius or one man dynamo, he was a lazy and unoriginal activist lawyer, one of tens of thousands of Ivy Leaguers who join the political side of the network, who wanted to live out his egotistical ambitions.

And the leftist networks gave him the opportunity to do it in exchange for seeding it deeper across the Democrat Party, the government and the country. Then his time came.

Obama did not want Biden to succeed him. He pushed Biden out in favor of Hillary and then tried to bring in a surprise candidate to run against him in 2020. But some things are sacred and not even Obama, especially once out of the White House, could take away Biden’s ‘turn’ twice.

It’s not really Biden’s ‘turn’ though. It’s the turn of the strategists, lobbyists, staffers, donors, allies and more nebulous figures known as ‘friends’ whom he accrued over the years. They’re invested in his success and they’re profiting from it. And they won’t easily give it up.

Trying to replace Biden with Newsom (aside from the legal and logistical issues) would be a clash of two networks that would require either careful negotiations or outright civil war. It’s done all the time with primary rivals who become vice presidents or cabinet members, but displacing a sitting president who also won the nomination and has raised and spent a massive fortune would require a level of delicate negotiations akin to bringing peace to an African civil war.

Especially if that president is unstable, prone to fits of anger, and is insulated by the same political allies whose wealth and power depend on Biden winning a second term in office.

It’s not just about Jill and Hunter, Joe Biden has tens of thousands of political mouths to feed. Money has been collected, favors promised, people have bought homes in D.C. bedroom communities, lobbyists have secured fat contracts and donors have opened up their wallets.

Replacing Biden with another candidate would upend much of D.C., put tens of billions of dollars in flux and create massive instability in this corrupt local economy. Much of D.C. would rather ride it out (especially since the campaign people will make just as much money if Biden loses) and preserve the integrity of the networks and the illicit pinkie swears that allow special interests to buy influence without having to worry if their man will suddenly be swapped out.

That is what “it’s his turn” really means.

It’s not impossible for the Democrats to replace Biden but despite all the ‘Orange Man Bad’ alarmism that is their only campaign slogan, none of them view him as enough of an existential threat to disrupt a political way of life which allowed a mediocre grifter like Biden to get this far.

People who don’t understand that were baffled that Biden would run and that he would get the nomination. After his disastrous debate showing, much of the party panicked and outsiders assumed that they would dump Biden. The truth is that the Democrats wish they could.

‘Turn’ corruption once again threatens the survival of the party and yet they can’t break away from it because parties are vehicles for careerism and cash. The networks around powerful politicians build careers and move money. And those networks are running the country.

When people ask “who’s been running the country” after Biden’s debate performance, the answer is that it’s the same people who run most of the government. And have all along.

Politicians in a state of obvious mental decline like Biden or Sen. Dianne Feinstein who go on introducing bills, signing legislation, tweeting and expressing strong opinions on issues in their press releases are not aberrations, they’re symptoms of a much bigger problem.

Not just Biden, but many, if not most, elected officials are figureheads who exist to broker favorable arrangements between their personal networks of donors and staffers, and those of other elected officials, and the ones in the bureaucracy that actually make policy. The revolving door between staffers, personnel, appointees and lobbyists who move between administrations, offices, boards, corporations, think tanks and firms is the actual force that runs the country more than most elections. Politicians play their part, meeting, greeting and signing off on what they’re told will be good for their careers within the networks they’re part of.

And if they build up enough cachet, one day it will also be their ‘turn’ to be at the top..

That’s why Democrats can’t solve their Biden problem. The issue isn’t one man’s decline but a systemic crisis. Biden embodies what the Democrats (and the two-party system and politics really is) and while getting him out may fix the immediate problem, it won’t fix the system.

Biden is a test of how much the system is willing to risk and how high a public implosion it’s willing to tolerate to protect the sacred right of the ‘turn’. Will Democrats let their party go down to protect the system? Will they go on lying to their voters and their donors? Will the media, which briefly broke away from the lies after the debate, resume going along with the scam?

Other ‘Bidens’, some elderly, confused and inept like Joe, others middle aged, confused and inept, like Kamala, and some even young, confused and inept like AOC, fill the system because they are how the system works. It’s not a meritocracy that elevates the best, a democracy chosen by the people, but an oligarchy that runs the system and is also the system

 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

The Greenfield Gazette

By Daniel Greenfield @ The Point

Editor's Note:  Normally I wait a few days and organize his posts topically, but this is an issue that needs addressed daily.   At the end I've listed a number of articles dealing with this.  It seems clear Joe Biden isn't making the decisions, it's the far left antisemitic Obama myrmidons who are in charge.  RK 

Before and After, Iran Communicated Attack to Biden Admin - April 15, 2024 -  “Iran communicated through the Swiss channel that its strike on Israel was complete” How many ways could Iran have announced its attack? We were being told beforehand in the media that Iran would attack in the next 36 hours. That’s the opposite of a conventional surprise attack. And Iran passed on word to Turkey, whose terror regime is one of the backchannels being used by the Biden admin.......

 126 Killed in Chicago Since Mayor Called for Ceasefire in Gaza - April 15, 2024 - A child is dead and 10 other people are injured.  At the end of January, Mayor Brandon Johnson, the corrupt pro-crime leftist in charge of the city, whipped votes and broke a tie to demand that Israel stop attacking his Hamas pals under the guise of calling for a “ceasefire”. Gaza hasn’t been doing so well since, but neither has Chicago. Since Mayor Johnson and the cowards and leftists on the City Council called for a ceasefire, 126 people have been killed in Chicago........ HJ also shows 539 shot and wounded so far this year.)

U.S. Diplomat Warns Iran That Next Time It Will Be Held Responsible - April 15, 2024 - Or maybe next, next time.  It’s getting serious. U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood on Sunday strongly condemned the Iranian attack on Israel and warned that Iran will be held responsible for any further actions taken against the United States, Israel or their allies. “Let me be clear — if Iran or its proxies take actions against the United States or further action against Israel, Iran will be held responsible,” Wood said, in his remarks at a U.N. Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East.......

My Take - Next time?  Daniel lists all the attacks that have occurred and nothing was done....until next time.  Remarkable.  Who could possibly take these halfwit Bidenites seriously? I'm betting Iran doesn't.    RK

The Chinese Don’t Want Electric Cars Either - April 15, 2024 - But they have no choice in the matter.  The automobile market in this country was wrecked on the assumption that everyone would be switching to electric cars. As I wrote in, “No Cars for the Working Class”, that’s not happening. Ford and GM bled billions to fail at capturing a tiny niche market already owned by Tesla. Most people don’t want, can’t use and can’t afford electric cars......

This Was Not Iran’s Actual Attack -April 14, 2024 -So does that mean it’s over? No. This is not the actual Iranian attack. This is the ‘attack’ prearranged for show between Iran and the Biden administration through backchannels. It’s an attack that allows Iran to show off that it can reach Israel (look at those lights over the Temple Mount) without inflicting any real damage.  The Biden administration has already made it clear that it will oppose any Israeli response. There will be public condemnations and warnings about escalating the conflict further. So does that mean it’s over? No..............By starting a crisis and then allowing itself to be talked into standing down a little bit, before beginning the cycle again, Iran has been able to expand its sphere of influence without paying a price. It will strike more seriously, but it will do so in a way that will allow it to go on manipulating its diplomatic collaborators in D.C. and building power in the region.............

After Calling for Arms Embargo, Pelosi Claims She Stands With Israel - April 14, 2024 - Is there some version of ironclad and unwavering solidarity that covers an arms embargo?  How much contempt for their voters do politicians like this have? Almost limitless.  Rep. Nancy Pelosi, along with Rep. Jamie Raskin and others, just signed a letter calling for an arms embargo on Israel alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other ‘Squad’ members.  After the Iranian attacks, Pelosi and Raskin tweeted about their “unwavering” and “ironclad” solidarity with the Jewish State. “America’s support for Israel’s security is resolute as we condemn Iran’s horrible attacks,” Pelosi’s account tweeted. “Our commitment to the Israeli people and support of their defense remains unwavering – and we must pass the Senate’s national security supplemental.”............

Leftist Activist Cries in Court After Murderous Threats to Council Members for ‘Ceasefire’ -April 14, 2024 - “We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.”   California city councils have seen a wave of “ceasefire” solutions complete with public commentary and protests that fall somewhere between violently antisemitic to just plain violent. In Bakersfield, CA, Riddhi Patel showed up with a message of hope and peace for the ceasefire resolution. “People in the global south believe in violent revolution against their oppressors, and one day I hope someone brings the guillotine and kills all of you motherf*ckers… We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.”.............In short, if you’re wondering where this psycho came from, she emerged from a political machine built to train, promote and employ exactly this kind of ‘revolutionary’ behavior.......

More here: 

1. Chicago Leftists Filmed Cheering Iran’s Attack on Israel  
2. The Biden Drone Attack on Israel
3. Biden Let U.N. Sanctions on Iran Missiles Expire Before Unprecedented Israel Attack
4. America’s Moral Authority Is at Stake in Gaza
5. Actions Biden Should but Will Never Take to Neutralize Iran 
6. What Happened Over the Skies of Israel Was Extraordinary
7. If This Report Is True About Biden and Iran, There Should Be Impeachment Hearings
8. Israel's right to defense in the face of unprecedented challenges

 

Understanding Biden’s New Budget in Three Tweets

By Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I wrote yesterday to announce my new book on America’s fiscal crisis.

Today, let’s look at how Joe Biden’s new budget will make that bad problem even worse.

I’m going to start with two charts. The first one shows that government spending in recent years has climbed above the trendline (and the trendline showed excessive spending growth even before the fiscal orgy that took place under Trump and Biden).

The second chart shows that taxes also are above the trendline.

These two charts come from a tweet by Brian Wesbury.

And they basically tell you everything we need to know about our current fiscal mess.

But there’s more bad news to share.

Next, here’s a tweet from Preston Brashers about Biden’s plan to further bloat the IRS budget in order to have more audits of families and small businesses.

Biden’s proposal is based on the notion that a massive expansion of the IRS will magically generate additional tax revenue to finance ever-larger government.

History tells us that this perpetual-motion-machine approach won’t work.

Last but not least, we have this tweet from Steven Moore about Biden’s preposterous claim that he has reduced red ink.

All politicians lie. They are not good people. But Biden is an extreme example.

Here’s what really happened: Yes, the deficit fell in 2022, but only because there was a massive amount of one-time pandemic spending in 2021.

But if you look at the actual effect of Biden’s policies, he has increased red ink in every single year.

P.S. Remember that our real fiscal problem is too much spending. Red ink is merely one of the symptoms of that problem (as are punitive tax burdens and money printing).

Biden Team Failed to Track $1 Billion in Ukraine Aid

Assurances to Congress that funding was properly utilized turn out to be misleading.

by Dave Patterson | Jan 22, 2024  @ Liberty Nation News Tags: Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion

t was just a matter of time before doubts would be raised about how aid to Ukraine is being used. The White House fought Congress on establishing a special inspector general to ensure US tax dollars were spent appropriately and as designated. There was always a concern that, with the vast amounts of military, financial, and humanitarian aid going to Kyiv, some funds or military equipment could have been siphoned off through pilferage or fraud.

Poor Tracking of Ukraine Support

The Department of Defense inspector general and acting inspectors general for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had assured the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) last year that all the warfighting equipment and financial aid was going to where it was intended in Ukraine. “Each of those testifying confirmed that no diversion of resources or military equipment could be substantiated,” Liberty Nation reported. However, a report by the Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG), released to the public on Jan. 10, 2024, casts significant doubt on whether assurances given by the agency witnesses testifying before the HFAC last March were truthful.

The full title of the DODIG’s report is “Evaluation of the DoD’s Enhanced End-Use Monitoring Defense Articles Provided to Ukraine.” It found:

“Although ODC-Ukraine [Office of Defense Cooperation-Ukraine] and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel conducted some required inventories, as of June 2, 2023, serial number inventories for more than $1.005 billion of the total $1.699 billion (59 percent of the total value) of EEUM [enhanced end-use monitoring]-designated defense articles remained delinquent. Additionally, the DoD did not maintain an accurate inventory of Ukrainian EEUM-designated defense articles.”

In layman’s terms, this means that six out of every ten dollars of aid provided by the US taxpayer to support the Kyiv government’s fight against Russian invaders was not properly tracked. The term “delinquent” is bureaucratese for saying those entrusted with tracking each item of military equipment didn’t follow established procedures to ensure inventory accuracy.

So there is no assurance that the US military equipment went to the Ukraine warfighters on the frontlines. “Most of the improperly tracked equipment is night vision devices, but the list also includes drones as well as missiles,” Defense News explained. What if they were pilfered for other purposes or sold on the black market? Well, the bottom line of the report indicated no one knows.

No Special Inspector General?

President Joe Biden’s antagonism toward establishing a special inspector general to oversee the correct distribution of military equipment in Ukraine seems a serious error. Furthermore, it raises a logical question. Did the DODIG find where any stolen military weapons might have gone and who took them?  To answer this question, the DODIG issued a get-out-of-jail-free card: “It was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine whether there has been diversion of such assistance.”

Such oversight responsibilities will most likely be part of the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act passed recently with its mandated establishment of a Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve (the designation for support provided to Ukraine). The DODIG will be the lead, and someone will be assigned to ensure adequate oversight and to apply strong financial and inventory program controls.

According to firsthand reports from inside Ukraine, no US inspector is resident in the country, a glaring shortfall. The State Department, USAID, and Defense Department staff visit Kyiv periodically to execute oversight and management duties. Long-distance initial inspection of inventories cannot be considered appropriate execution of the Defense Department’s duties. Enhanced end-use monitoring requires inventories of “defense articles [be made] within 90 days of arrival.” Meeting that standard is a challenge for itinerant oversight officials, as the DODIG report attested.

American taxpayers should be confident that their money is being spent as intended. With a special inspector general in place, Congress and American citizens can be more confident that Ukraine assistance, now approaching more than $113 billion, is appropriately utilized. It’s the least taxpayers should expect.

The views expressed are those of the author and not of any other affiliation.

 

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Resistance is Rising

By Rich Kozlovich

In 1960 when the civil rights movement really broke out it resonated, with a lot of whites, many of whom considered themselves "liberal", and especially so if they were part of families who were Democrats.  As the nation tried to fix the squeaky wheels of our society, all we ended up with was more squeaks.   

This Democrat party isn't your grandfather's Democrat party.  Actually, it is, it's just the difference was in those days not all the Democrats were treasonous undercover socialists trying to destroy the Constitution.  

That brand of Democrat is no longer undercover.  They no longer have to hide who and what they are and they're totally in control of the Democrat party, the media, industry, bureaucracies, and a lot of those in the Republican party, and the path of sovereign national destruction they're paving is leading to national disaster.  As Jon Voight notes regarding all the Biden Administration is doing Slams Biden’s ‘Corrupt’ administration":   ‘This Is a Civil War’,..........a war against all of us”.

Here's reality.  Leftists believe in nothing as a result they know nothing, they have no solutions, and all they have to offer is hate, and that hate leaves devastation behind in it's wake, and America's major cities are an example.  

Transgenderism

Canada: Trans Teacher with Large Prosthetic Breasts Returning to Class -Kayla Lemieux, the famous transgender teacher in Canada with large prosthetic breasts, has reportedly returned to the classroom. As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Lemieux, a man living as a woman, had been placed on paid leave from his job working as a teacher at Oakville-Trafalgar High School in Oakville, Ontario, after the New York Post shared photos of him outside the classroom wherein his large Z-cup prosthetic breasts were nowhere to be seen, calling into question his transgender bona fides..........(Note:  He says they're not fake, imagine that.  RK)

Anthony Furey: The Emerging Parental Rights Movement in Canada - Last year, the Toronto District School Board asked elementary school students to fill out a highly intrusive survey focused on questions of race and sexuality. Among the more than 50 questions posed, the kids were asked to describe their “current gender identity” and whether they were familiar with practices trans-persons use to contort and hide their genitals, such as breast-binding and penis-tucking. There really was no defending the questions, and the board promptly removed the survey following outcry. (My own young boys were given the survey.) ..........

Canada’s Conservatives Begin to Oppose Trudeau’s Transgenderism - Canadian conservative politicians are beginning to roll back Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pro-transgender policies.On Monday, the right-of-center conservative government in Ontario announced that parents should be told when their children adopt an opposite-sex persona in schools. “We understand though that parents must be fully involved and fully aware of what’s happening in the life of their children,” said Stephen Lecce, the education minister of Ontario, which is Canada’s largest province.......

Women speak out against YMCA 'transgender' bathroom policies - FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Small-town YMCAs in suburban Ohio have launched themselves headfirst into the transgender debate by allowing men who “identify” as women to access women’s locker rooms. And women who have belonged to these supposedly family-friendly YMCAs for years are discovering, to their shock, that management considers their safety and privacy inferior to the feelings of men.................

Judge Refuses to Define ‘Woman,’ Dismisses Lawsuit by Sorority Seeking to Block Man from Joining- A judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by six University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters seeking to block a trans-identifying male from joining. The sorority sisters will now be forced to accommodate Artemis Langford (whose given name is Dallin), a 6’2″, 260-pound man who believes he is a woman. Wyoming U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, after hearing allegations of sexual deviancy on Langford’s part, ultimately dismissed the case on Friday and stated that redefining “woman” to include males was “Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right as a private, voluntary organization — and one this Court may not invade.” Johnson notably used Langford’s preferred she/her pronouns in his decision and repeatedly referred to Langford as a “transgender woman.” “The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote...............

Historic University With Christian Background Allows Students to Live in Dorms Based on 'Gender Identity' - On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) said that New York City’s issues with handling the surge of migrants into the city are demonstrating that New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) had “no plan in place for when this city needed to actually be a sanctuary,” despite touting the city’s sanctuary city policy.  Host Elizabeth MacDonald asked, “How are New York Democrats going to handle this, how is the Democrat Party going to handle this nationwide?”............

Transgender policy at Kaiser shines a light on medical care across America -  Andrea Widburg - I’ve been a Kaiser patient for over forty years and have invariably received superb care. Having said that, I wasn’t the least surprised to learn from a Libs of TikTok exposé that the nation’s oldest and largest HMO is entirely on board with so-called “transgenderism,” right down to bringing it to young children. That’s because it’s just one of many healthcare institutions being led by a young generation of doctors and administrators who fully embrace the madness............Where does all this leftism come from? I’m willing to bet that it comes from academia............ They’re true believers, having been subject to “transgender” propaganda throughout their academic careers, swimming in it at the workplace and viewing it as a sign that they belong to the economic and intellectual elite..............