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A video of Secret Service officers bullying Americans to get out of the way so Jill Biden can go shopping is prompting a new episode of speculation about her desire for power.
The situation developed as Joe and Jill Biden took yet another vacation, this a taxpayer-funded weeklong break in Santa Ynez, California.
Jill Biden and other family members apparently decided to visit nearby Los Olivos.
The Gateway Pundit documented, "Secret Service agents violently pushed peasants out of the way so Jill Biden could go on a shopping spree on Friday afternoon. Jill Biden made a 'surprise visit' in Los Olivos and bystanders with cameras were roughly cleared out."
One security detail member screamed, "Out of the roadway! Move now! Go!" at the public, while violently pushing a woman.
A local report explained Jill Biden was out for "a little shopping" accompanied by Hunter Biden and family.
The report explained, "Jill Biden and the rest of the Biden parasites spent just 30 minutes in Los Olivos. They disrupted the small town and spent taxpayer money on nearly a dozen Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers so Queen Jill could go on a shopping spree."
It continued, "This is why Jill Biden covered up her husband's dementia. She is a power-hungry elitist who loves watching peasants get manhandled so she can stroll and shop on taxpayer dime."
The RedState page explained, "Get out of the way, plebes! Watch as the Secret Service—whose reputation has deservedly taken a nosedive this summer—shoves regular Americans aside so Jill can go purchase another dress that looks like an ugly carpet."
The report pointed out, "Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, July 21. Since then, he has gone on two vacations and has spent every weekend either at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, or the presidential retreat at Camp David, according to White House pool reports dating back to July 21."
It was investigative columnist Miranda Devine who pointed out the multitude of vacations of the Bidens, asking, "Do none of them have a job?"
In fact, a congressional report explained that in recent years, the Biden family has collected some $27 million in Joe Biden's influence peddling operations, and the presidential vacations are funded by taxpayers anyway.
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A U.S. senator probing the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is blasting the top two federal agencies investigating the July 13 incident in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"We're not getting squat … from the Secret Service or the FBI," Sen. Ron Johnson, who sits on the bipartisan Senate committee investigating the incident, told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel.
"The Secret Service, you know, FBI are basically dragging their feet, they're stonewalling us. We've gotten some transcribed interviews, but the documents we request request are heavily redacted, they're delivered, you know, the day of the interview so we really can't use the documents to conduct the interviews effectively."
"We've requested all their 302s, their transcriptions of their interviews with hundreds of individuals. They're not turning those over as well. Maria, if you were, if you wanted to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you'd do that investigation. I mean, I was, it's just jaw-dropping that they released the body [of the shooter] for cremation before anybody had seen toxicology reports. It's driving suspicion and conspiracy theories."
Bartiromo said she also couldn't "understand why they would release the body before investigators had a chance to investigate that part of it as well," and asked Johnson: "What's the answer there there? Is there any accountability for that, to move so quickly? We've got more information on the shooting, on the attempted shooting of Taylor Swift's concert than we do here for a former president."
Johnson replied: "They are the law, they hold themselves above the law. They don't really think that they're responsible to be coming under scrutiny by Congress and the American public, and so this is how they behave. They're the only ones that are going to have access to this information until they decide what information to give us and when to give it to us. They're in total control."
Regarding this week's endorsement of Trump by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who suspended his Independent presidential campaign, Johnson noted it was "very important" for the Trump campaign.
"I've gotten to the to know Bobby Kennedy during the pandemic. Let me first say he's a very good person. He never sought to champion children's health. It was pretty well thrust on him by moms coming up to him with the science that he simply couldn't turn his back on, he couldn't ignore. So he became a champion for children's health," Johnson continued.
"And one of the things he's been pointing out, during his uncle's administration, chronic illness in children was at 6%. Now it's at 60%. It drives our massive health-care industry, the are also of dollars we spend on it, and it's been largely ignored, I would argue, because of the corruption, the capture by Big Pharma, Big Ag, of the federal health agencies and other agencies that are designed to regulate them. It's not working. It's a corrupt process.
"I think Bobby Kennedy would be the perfect person to get in there. He understands this, he's sued these companies. He understands how the corruption works, and I'd love to see him as the secretary of HHS, on a commission on chronic illness. There's so many ways President Trump can utilize him. And again, I know President Trump is concerned about chronic illness.
"There are plenty of differences between President Trump, myself and Bobby Kennedy, but this is the way you heal and unify a nation. You put those differences aside, and you do everything you can to focus on the areas of agreement, the big things, and chronic illness is a big thing that we need to act thing together."
Former President Donald Trump gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News on Sunday in which he shared his experience of the assassination attempt on his life at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13.
Trump was shot in the ear during the attempt, and three rallygoers were also shot, one fatally, by a 20-year-old gunman who lay in wait on a rooftop less than 200 yards away.
Trump said he knew immediately that he was shot and said the odds were "millions to nothing" that he didn't get shot in the head, which he believes would have been fatal.
“I’m turning, and I’m dead here, I’m dead here, I’m dead here, dead, dead, alive, dead,” Trump said. “So, think, you only have this exact spot right here. This is an amazing phenomena. It’s millions to nothing. There’s about an eighth of a second where I’m good. The rest of the time you’re dead.”
He said that if he hadn't gone down as soon as he was hit, some of the other eight bullets fired by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks likely would have hit him.
“How about if you had that on slow-motion instant replay?” he said. “Couple of things just to think of it because it’s got to be divine intervention.”
Trump said his views on the Secret Service were mixed. Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the attempt and others were put on administrative leave.
“So, Secret Service they obviously had a big lapse when they didn’t cover the roof of that building,” Trump said. “Yet, they were very brave when they jumped on me when I went down. I reacted very well because I went down fast.”
“The Secret Service sniper was incredible,” Trump went on later in the interview. “One shot from 400 yards right there—can you believe it? He didn’t know about it. He was a shooter—an unbelievable shooter. He heard the noise, he looks around—I guess his eyes are good. That’s four football fields—that’s a lot.”
Breitbart pointed out that 12% of presidents have been assassinated and many more have had plots against them before, during and after their tenure in office.
“Being president is a dangerous profession,” Trump told Breitbart News. “If you look, how many people have been assassinated? Then you see how many people have been attempted? You know, Reagan almost died—he came close to dying actually. People don’t know that, but they thought they were going to lose him.”
“It’s a pretty high number,” Trump said of the number of presidential assassinations. “And if you talk about attempted, attempted is pretty bad too.”
Trump said he insisted on getting up and putting his fist in the air after being shot and resisted being taken out on a stretcher. Some of the Secret Service members protecting him thought he had been hit more than once, and didn't know the gunman had been taken out.
“People think it’s the most iconic moment,” Trump said.
He praised the crowd for not stampeding out of the rally location, preventing even more injuries and possibly even deaths from trampling. "They didn’t flinch," he said.
In the wake of his decision to step down from the ballot in November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lost his Secret Service protection.
Kennedy, who had been running as an independent presidential candidate, had been denied Secret Service protection despite repeated requests until former President Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally in July.
But just over a month later, law enforcement sources told the New York Post that his protection was being pulled because he is no longer an active candidate.
Kennedy will still be on the ballot in blue states, he said, but will be removing his name from swing states.
The Post said it was customary for the Secret Service to scale back or terminate its protection when a candidate suspends their campaign.
Kennedy cited evidence of at least 34 distinct threats against him in his requests for protection.
In addition, his father Bobby Kennedy and uncle President John F. Kennedy were both assassinated.
The Secret Service has been under fire since Trump's shooting, which has been attributed to failures in communication between the agency and local law enforcement, among other failures.
It came out after the Trump shooting that the Secret Service repeatedly denied requests from the Trump campaign for additional protection.
On the day of the shooting, some Secret Service resources were apparently diverted to First Lady Jill Biden, who was also in the region.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned 10 days after the shooting.
At least five of Secret Service personnel that were on duty the day of the shooting have been placed on administrative duty while the incident is investigated.
They haven't lost their jobs, but are not allowed to do any kind of security planning.
Trump has said the personnel who have been protecting him are doing a good job, but the higher-ups seem to be making political decisions that benefit the Biden-Harris administration rather than doing a fair and impartial job of protecting everyone who needs it.
As frustration continues to mount about the pace of investigation regarding the assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump last month, there has finally been at least a small step toward possible accountability for those responsible for the security lapses that fateful day in Pennsylvania.
The New York Post reports that the head of the Pittsburgh field office of the U.S. Secret Service has been placed on leave along with a handful of other agents, a decision made as part of its inquiry into the failure to protect Trump at his July 13 rally in Butler.
The employment actions against the agents were first reported by CBS News on Friday, and they were taken amid a continuing probe of the incident which left Trump injured, two spectators seriously wounded, and another rally attendee dead.
Internal affairs staff within the agency are working to unravel the decision-making processes and failures that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to open fire on the outdoor rally crowd.
The outlet reported that one agent working directly on Trump's security detail is among those placed on leave, though it remained unclear whether all those impacted were facing disciplinary actions or were on leave for a number of other possible reasons.
Anthony Guglielmi, Secret Service spokesman, would not confirm details of the reported leave, declaring it an internal personnel matter.
He did, however, attempt to persuade Americans that the agency's “mission assurance review is progressing,” adding that the agency will continue “examining the processes, procedures and factors that led to this operational failure.”
Not everyone is pleased with the pace of the probe or with the seeming delay in employment-related actions against those who may have been derelict in their duty to safeguard Trump.
According to the president of Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research, Tristan Leavitt, the actions taken last week should have been done almost immediately after the shooting itself, or those involved should have at least been put on investigative leave at that time.
Leavitt continued, “If paid leave, the Secret Service has to abide by the 2016 law we passed that requires them to fish or cut bait: finish your investigation and propose a personnel action or put them back to work on admin duties.”
“Don't waste taxpayer dollars just giving them a paid vacation,” Leavitt added.
As CBS News further noted, numerous levels of discipline are possible in the Secret Service context, with anyone on administrative leave still likely collecting paychecks and performing paperwork or other duties inside an office.
As the Secret Service and congressional panels continue to pursue answers as to what went so terribly wrong in Butler, Pennsylvania last month, Trump is resuming the sort of large-scale event he loves most, seemingly as confident as he can be with the increased measures taken for his protection.
Just this week, the former president appeared at an outdoor rally in North Carolina, though the dais from which he spoke featured newly introduced bulletproof glass panels as an added element of security that could clearly be seen by all.
A bombshell Inspector's General report was published last week that revealed the disturbing fact that hundreds of thousands of migrant children have gone missing in the United States.
That report sparked anger from millions of Americans, and rightfully so. It also triggered serious responses from GOP congressmen, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
According to The Post Millennial, Hawley had strong feedback for Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the wake of the report being published.
The primary concern regarding the massive number of missing children is that many of them are thought to have been used by human traffickers for unthinkable reasons.
Another primary reason as to why so many children are unaccounted for is that when they show up to the border, many are handed off to unvetted "sponsors."
"The Harris-Biden open border has created the largest child trafficking ring in US history - and now Harris & Co have lost track of nearly 300,000 migrant children. I want to know how this happened - and what they’re doing to fix it," Hawley posted on his X account.
The Harris-Biden open border has created the largest child trafficking ring in US history - and now Harris & Co have lost track of nearly 300,000 migrant children. I want to know how this happened - and what they’re doing to fix it pic.twitter.com/pAll6BiXMt
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 21, 2024
While the numbers are not known, many of the so-called sponsors are thought to have been bad people that use the children for sex-trafficking rings and other horrible circumstances.
Hawley penned a letter to the DHS secretary, in which he held nothing back.
"Unaccompanied migrant children are some of the most vulnerable individuals in America. They are routinely trafficked for sex, forced into illegal labor, burned with chemicals, and subjected to countless other atrocities by cartels," Hawley wrote.
Hawley added:
A recent report published by DHS’s Inspector General—that is to say, an internal review of your own agency—has revealed catastrophic failures in your agency’s ability to protect unaccompanied migrant children, right up to the present day. This is despite your testimony in an October 2023 Senate committee hearing in response to my question on this exact topic. At the time you said, 'we actually have prioritized the rescue of children who have been human trafficked.'"
Users across social media agreed with Hawley's anger.
"The corrupt establishment and media protect these traffickers who have infested our government and corporate America," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "This is heartbreaking! Please don’t let this go. Stay on it for the sakes of these precious innocent children."
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday, they had secured the arrest of a prolific human smuggler in Guatemala, thanks to a successful investigative collaboration between the DOJ and Guatemalan authorities.
Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco was arrested by Guatemalan authorities at the request of the U.S., and has been indicted in the Western District of Texas in connection to the investigation.
Miranda-Orozco was part of an extensive human smuggling network based in Guatemala. Six other individuals were also arrested by Guatemalan law enforcement, and will be charged for their part in the operation.
According to the DOJ, in June of 2022 the network smuggled people over the southern border in a tractor–trailer near San Antonio, Texas, in sweltering heat which resulted in the deaths of 53 migrants, including 21 Guatemalan nationals. Children and pregnant women were among the dead.
The investigation was part of Joint Task Force Alpha, created in June 2021 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and executed through the Department of Homeland Security.
Miranda-Orozco allegedly conspired with other human smugglers to facilitate the journey of four migrants from Guatemala through Mexico, and into the U.S. He was paid up to $15,000 for each migrant. Three of the four migrants perished in the tractor-trailer, and the other had serious injuries.
Garland said in the news release, the DOJ and Guatemalan authorities have arrested 14 people connected with the human smuggling network.
"Over the past two years, the Justice Department has worked methodically to hold accountable those responsible for the horrific tragedy in San Antonio that killed 53 people who had been preyed on by human smugglers. With these arrests, the Justice Department and our partners in Guatemala have now arrested a total of 14 people for their alleged involvement in this tragedy. We are committed to continuing to work with our partners both in the United States and abroad to target the most prolific and dangerous human smuggling groups operating in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, and Panama," Garland said in a statement.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said in the news release the deaths of the migrants in the tractor-trailer should be a warning to those who want to smuggle people, and those considering entering the U.S. illegally.
"As alleged in the indictment, Miranda-Orozco recruited some of the migrants who died in the back of a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas, in June 2022, and worked with a network of smugglers to transport them from Guatemala through Mexico into the United States. This tragedy is a dire warning of the dangers that human smugglers cause by exposing migrants to life-threatening conditions for the smugglers' financial gain. Dismantling human smuggling networks is a critical priority for the Criminal Division, and we will continue to work with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute these cases, no matter where the offenders may be found," Argentieri said in the statement.
According to a May 2024 report from the House Committee on Homeland Security, it is projected there will be around 10 million illegal migrant encounters in total since January 2021 when President Biden took office, and the end of 2024's fiscal year.
In December 2023, the committee published another report detailing how Mexican cartels are making historic profits, collecting $13 billion in 2021 alone, further noting the migrant crisis has escalated in the subsequent years since then.
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Authorities in Cochise County, Arizona, have taken into custody a man suspected of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump, a circumstance that on Thursday triggered a widespread hunt for Ronald Lee Syrvud, 66.
A report from Daily Wire said the suspect was nabbed by authorities while Trump was visiting the state, which has been impacted by the colossal failure in the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration to secure the international border.
Actual details of what constituted the threat haven't been released.
Reports said charges against him for the threats could be added to his case.
The Daily Mail reported Syrvud has in the past registered as a Democrat and has a long rap sheet, including pleading no contest to second-degree sexual assault of a child in 2000.
The reports of the threats come just six weeks after Trump was targeted by a would-be assassin while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania. He turned his head to look at a prop just as the shot was being fired and it nicked his ear, instead of hitting his head.
Fox said it reviewed court records that revealed his most recent arrest came in June when he weas accused of assault, but that later was dropped.
The sheriff's office said officers hunted Syvrud "as an investigative lead for threats to kill a presidential candidate" but did not release more details.
Fox said it later confirmed the candidate is Trump.
Fox further reported that Trump apparently had not been informed of the threat and manhunt, as he explained while he was aware there was danger for him to appear, "I have a job to do."
Questioned about the circumstances, Trump said, "I haven't heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me."
The report noted he joked, "Thank you for telling me. Let's get out of here, right now!"
Trump said the threats come because "I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys."
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Only weeks ago, President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for the White House year, survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he turned his head to look at a graphic.
A bullet intended for his head grazed his ear. That attacker ended up dead at the hands of police
Now there's been another threat and this time authorities are out looking for the suspect who has been identified but not yet found.
Fox News reports that Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, is being sought after authorities said he threatened Trump ahead of a rally.
The Cochise County sheriff's office said the suspect has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI and failure to appear for DUI and from Graham County, Arizona, for hit-and-run and felony failure to register as a sex offender.
Fox News reports that Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, is being sought after authorities said he threatened Trump ahead of a rally.
The Cochise County sheriff's office said the suspect has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI and failure to appear for DUI and from Graham County, Arizona, for hit-and-run and felony failure to register as a sex offender.
The report said Syvrud is listed on a sex offender registry in Wisconsin for "second-degree sexual assault of a child."
Fox said it reviewed court records that revealed his most recent arrest came in June when he was accused of assault, but that later was dropped.
The sheriff's office said officers are hunting Syvrud "as an investigative lead for threats to kill a presidential candidate" but did not release more details.
Fox said it later confirmed the candidate was Trump.
Authorities said there is no link to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
Fox further reported that Trump had not been informed of the threat and manhunt, as he explained while he was aware there was danger for him to appear, "I have a job to do."
Questioned about the circumstances, Trump said, "I haven't heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me."
The report noted he joked, "Thank you for telling me. Let's get out of here, right now!"
Trump said the threats come because "I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys."
The Secret Service said it is tracking the Arizona search.
According to the Washington Examiner, "Trump's security has been treated as even more of a critical issue since the July 13 assassination attempt against his life, with a bullet grazing his ear. One man died, and two others were wounded at the rally."
Arizona is an important swing state in this November's presidential election.
The airplane carrying Donald Trump's running mate J.D. Vance made an emergency landing after a mechanical failure.
Vance was campaigning in Milwaukee last Friday when the Boeing 737 plane, known as "Trump Force Two," had an issue with its door, Vance's team said.
The plane landed safely at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, where Vance continued his return trip home to Cincinnati.
Four minutes after takeoff, the pilot informed passengers they would be turning around, the New York Times reported.
Secret Service agents aboard Vance's plane "reacted with confusion and laughter" and the pilot apologized for the scare after landing safely, the Times reported. The plane remained on the tarmac for an hour after landing to resolve the issue.
Vance was with his wife Usha, their dog Atlas, and campaign staff, as well as Secret Service and some reporters.
“The pilot advised there was a malfunction with the door seal,” spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk said.
Can't really tell in this video, but he was *not happy* about the wet metal stairs.
He's doing good on the plane though.
We've had two GSDs, and both of them do this thing where they find the one person who doesn't like dogs and they suck up to them. https://t.co/Lf0qhOmbWl
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 16, 2024
The incident came a week after President Trump's campaign plane, a Boeing 757 called Trump Force One, had a mechanical issue in Montana on August 9. Trump made an emergency landing in Billings, 150 miles from his destination in Bozeman.
The plane landed "without incident" and Trump took another private jet to Bozeman.
Concerns about Trump's safety have been elevated since the assassination attempt on his life in July.
Trump spoke behind bulletproof glass at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. Trump was joined by Vance, who continued his blasts at Democratic rival Tim Walz for lying about his military service.
Vance has become known for his aggressive, confrontational style on the campaign trail. He confronted Kamala Harris for avoiding the press when her plane happened to land at the same airport as his in Wisconsin earlier this month.
“I figured that I would come by and get a good look at the plane because hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months,” Vance said. "I also thought you guys may get lonely, because the VP doesn’t answer questions from reporters.”