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A woman who was forced to take several vaccine shots in order to obtain basic health care now is fighting for her life, according to a Substack report by Steve Kirsch, a researcher and reporter on COVID policies and vaccines.
"No vax, no care," he reports. "So she had to get 3 vaccines. Within 10 minutes, she was blind in both eyes. She's now fighting for her life. Doctors are baffled as to the cause since it can't be the vaccines."
The woman is Alexis Lorenze, 23.
"This is one of the most horrific vaccine injury stories I've ever heard of," Kirsch documents.
"Alexis Lorenze is a 23-year old young woman with a history of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) since January 2024. The hematologist (Zahra Pakbaz) at her hospital (UC Irvine Health) refused to give her further care for her PNH unless she took the Tetanus, Pneumococcal and Meningitis vaccines.
"Within 10 minutes of the 3 vaccines which were given all at the same time, Alexis went temporarily blind in both eyes, had a locked jaw, began vomiting and then things went horribly downhill from there."
The report noted as of Tuesday, she had been moved to ICU, and the hospital now knows "the world is watching."
"This has elevated her treatment to be what she should have gotten in the first place. The doctor who required the 3 vaccines is nowhere to be found. I want to see the scientific data justifying her refusal to treat Alexis without those 3 vaccines. There is no data whatsoever that I'm aware of. The legal team was hoping to press criminal charges against me for publishing Alexis's medical records, but they've learned that this was done with permission, so now they have no case."
A report at the Gateway Pundit explained the "life-threatening experience" reportedly was from Lorenze "being pressured into receiving multiple vaccinations by hospital staff."
She originally went to the hospital to get help with severe migraines she had been having, a complication of her PNH.
The report noted she had low hemoglobin levels, suggesting a need for a blood transfusion.
"Following a bone marrow biopsy and 2-3 transfusions, hospital personnel allegedly insisted that Alexis receive vaccinations for tetanus, meningitis, and pneumonia before she could continue her treatment for PNH," the report said.
In a video on social media, Lorenze explains "how the hospital staff has tried to deny that her reaction is vaccine-related, despite her symptoms starting setting in just 10 minutes after receiving the shots," the report said.
It points out Kirsch's research into Lorenze's medical document, done with her permission, "show that her platelet counts have been plummeting for days, yet the hospital has failed to properly treat Alexis's condition."
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JERUSALEM – For Jews, the slings and arrows never seem to cease, and the attempts to erase all or parts of Jewish history, particularly the decoupling of Jews and Judaism from Israel continue apace.
Wikipedia, one of the world's top-10 most visited sites, published an updated page on the topic of Zionism, the contents of which would not look out of place in an Ivy League school's freshman Middle Eastern Studies curriculum.
Several social media users noticed alterations made to the Zionism page on the Wikipedia website over the last day or two, with many posting side-by-side screenshot comparisons between the page as it looked in 2023, and the updated September 2024 version.
At the heart of the controversy is the use of much more aggressive and combative language in the 2024 version, which editorializes what the individual who runs the page thinks Zionism is, rather than the 2023 version, which actually delivers a perfectly passable description. It reads: "Zionism is a nationalist movement that emerged in the nineteenth century to espouse support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in the Jewish tradition. Following the establishment of the State of Israel, Zionism became an ideology that supports the "development and protection of the State of Israel." So far, so good.
However, the 2024 version of the page reads as follows: "Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late nineteenth century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe. It eventually focused on the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish history, and of central importance in Jewish history."
This description is already beginning to get a little dicey, but gets significantly worse. It follows with: "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible."
The last sentence is a flat-out lie and highlights a number of lacunae in the Wikipedia editor's understanding of Israel's history – especially during Ottoman rule – and falls prey to a number of misnomers. Whoever edited the page seems to be under the misperception that Jews are exclusively European or that Zionism was not intended for Mizrachi – or "Eastern" Jews, although this term is an imperfect description of Jews who have long and storied histories and origins in the Iberian peninsula, North Africa, Central Asia, as well as large swaths of the Middle East.
Furthermore, the Jews who did emigrate to Palestine under Ottoman rule, were in no position to colonize anything, as their Turkish masters had ruled over the region since the early 1500s. Also, Arabs living in the country at this time, did not conceive of themselves as "Palestinians." As opposed to Judaism, which is both a religion and a race, and in contradistinction to the other Abrahamic faiths, having a specific tie to a national homeland – Israel – there is no similar construct available for the Arabs. Ottoman Palestine was a regional backwater too; it was so discarded and its position in the Empire so lowly, its governor lived in Damascus.
Wikipedia, is a public, user-edited platform, which in the old days of the internet – and really before the 2016 U.S. election – was viewed by some as helpful. However, over time, and on hot-button topics, upon which there is vigorous and often acrimonious debate, the ability of editors to seemingly steer outside of certain boundaries – as in this case – has become increasingly problematic.
The Times of Israel's senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur, whose near-weekly conversations with Dan Senor on the "Call me Back" podcast have catapulted him to a broader audience said simply, "The whole campaign, top to bottom, is a war on our story."
Pro-israel Educator Hen Mazzig, whose family was expelled from North Africa and Iraq, eventually making their way to Israel, called the Wikipedia post "downright antisemitic."
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Only a day after thousands of booby-trapped pager devices used by Hezbollah operatives exploded, killing about a dozen and injuring hundreds more, a second wave of explosions was documented, this time apparently involving walkie-talkie devices.
The Washington Examiner said explosions were reported all over, including in Beirut and Dahiyeh, a "Hezbollah-dominated suburb of the capital."
The report said social media videos and images confirmed fires erupted.
A report from Axios cited sources to say thousands of Hezbollah walkie-talkies were blown up.
The report alleged they were "booby-trapped long in advance by Israeli intelligence and delivered to Hezbollah, which had ordered them as part of the group's emergency communications system to be used in the event of war with Israel."
Three were killed when the explosions hit Sohmar in the Bekaa Valley, the report said.
The Al Arabi Network claimed there were more explosions Wednesday than from the pagers on Tuesday, when 12 were killed and thousands injured.
WND reported that the pagers exploded simultaneously.
According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was one of those wounded in the synchronized explosions. As a result of the attack, which has immediately been blamed on Israel, but for which it has not taken responsibility, Hezbollah terrorists have been ordered to discard their pagers – which were brand new models and were only received in the last few months.
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China has released an American Christian pastor who was jailed for life in 2006, according to the U.S. State Department.
David Lin, now 68, was found guilty of contract fraud by the Chinese Communist Party after he was caught fundraising for a Christian church in Beijing. Lin's release comes after National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi in Beijing in late August.
Lin was designated as wrongfully detained by Washington for years, with U.S. officials urging the Chinese government to release him. Lin was jailed in 2009, and later had his life sentence reduce so he would be released in 2029. Several other U.S. citizens are currently still being detained by China.
"It remains a top priority to resolve the cases of American citizens who are wrongfully detained or subject to exit bans in China," Sullivan said during his meeting with Wang.
A congressional commission will be holding a hearing Wednesday to discuss U.S. citizens still imprisoned in China.
A 2022 report from the International Christian Concern titled "Chinese Conformity and Global Authoritarianism" points out the many instances where China has continually increased its efforts to silence religious groups.
"China has been increasing human rights abuses for years. Disappearances, persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, organs for sale, controlled press, and surveillance of its citizens have made international news. Authoritarianism on this scale takes years to cultivate," ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette wrote in the report.
While China is currently imprisoning over 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps, the largest minority ethnic group in the northwestern province of Xinjiang – Christians have faced growing persecution by the Chinese government after a 2018 law was passed that restricted religious freedom, according to the report.
The persecution is not just restricted to mainland China, however. Thousands of Christians and Muslims have been murdered in Myanmar, a majority Buddhist country, while another 700,000 were forced to flee Bangladesh. India is also building camps for religious minorities within its largely Hindu population.
"People of faith supply important checks on government because they hold an allegiance to a power higher than the government. The government is a God-ordained institution, accountable to God. The function of government is to restrain evil and support and protect the sanctity of life. When the government is no longer just, it is the task of the church to expose the government and demand its officials repent. The local church is the hope of the world, and that is the case in China," Navarrette said.
Currently, there are over 100 million Christians living in China, growing from 1 million over the past 40 years.
In a new report released Friday, the ICC states the Chinese government is accelerating efforts to eradicate Christianity and other minority religious groups. CCP members are also forced to be atheists, and must not follow any God.
Christians who refuse to support socialist ideals have been arrested and imprisoned, and the Chinese government is using a tactic called sinicization, which forces churches to make socialism their top priority in their preaching. Crosses were removed from Christian churches in 2020 because "their crosses were higher than their displays of the country's flag."
Since July 2021, 32 Christians have been arrested and detained, there have been at least five raids on Christian schools, and another 20 cases of sinicization of churches. Numbers are likely to be much higher after the ICC noted the difficulty of getting accurate information from Chinese officials.
"The government's scrutiny of Christians is part of a wider effort to Sinicize the country by coercing religious groups to submit to the communist CCP ideology," the report states.
In China's official 1982 view on religion, it states religion is a "historical phenomenon" that will "eventually disappear from human history" through the "development of socialism and communism."
"Religion will eventually disappear from human history. But it will disappear naturally only through the long-term development of Socialism and Communism, when all objective requirements are met. All Party members must have a sober-minded recognition of the protracted nature of the religious question under Socialist conditions," the decree states.
The Council on Foreign Relations states China has recently softened its attitude toward Buddhism, and China's only "indigenous" religion, Taoism. However, China views Christianity as "foreign," and worries about outside influence on believers, despite Jesuit missionaries first arriving in China in 1601.
"Christianity is practiced among the Han Chinese majority, especially urban, white-collar professionals. In some ways, the CCP faces a greater challenge from Christianity because the religion is practiced among the very people the party needs to modernize the country," the report states.
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It's common knowledge the FBI interfered in the 2020 presidential election by making claims, while knowing they were false, that the Biden family scandals exposed in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation.
A subsequent survey showed that had the FBI not told legacy media outlets to suppress the truth, and had more voters known the Biden details, enough would have withheld their support that he would have lost the election.
Now the 2024 vote is just weeks away, and the FBI stands accused, again, of interfering.
This time by leaking classified information to the Washington Post about an "investigation" into President Donald Trump.
Only the situation developed years ago and it already was decided back then that there wasn't enough evidence to go on.
So why are the details coming out now?
The Gateway Pundit has an explanation, that comes from Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
They explain in a letter to Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, and FBI chief Christopher Wray, that the "Biden Regime" appears to be "illegally leaking classified information to the Washington Post in order to interfere in the 2024 election."
"This appears to be yet another example of the Justice Department and FBI leaking material and information to the media while stiff-arming congressional requests for the same type of information. More than that, it also appears the Biden-Harris Justice Department and FBI intentionally leaked this information, to include potentially classified information, to the media roughly 90 days before the 2024 presidential election," they wrote.
The report explains the investigation dates to 2017 when "classified intelligence" suggested, without evidence, that Egypt's Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was donating $10 million to Trump's campaign.
"In early 2019, federal investigators learned about a significant cash withdrawal from the National Bank of Egypt on January 15, 2017, just five days before Trump became president. The withdrawal involved an organization called the Research and Studies Center requesting $9,998,000 in cash. Bank employees assembled the money in $100 bills, placed it in two large bags, and four men later collected it. The investigation began during Trump's presidency and involved Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller's team investigated Trump, including a secretive court battle to obtain records from the Egyptian bank, and concluded there wasn't enough evidence to pursue charges."
In short, there wasn't enough evidence … for anything, the report said.
So why, after it was closed for years, are allegations now being publicized?
The senators accuse the FBI of trying to interfere with this year's vote.
It appears, the senators said, "the Biden-Harris Justice Department and FBI intentionally leaked this information, to include potentially classified information, to the media roughly 90 days before the 2024 presidential election."
"This ongoing election interference by your agencies is another reason why the American people continue to lose faith in the agencies your responsible for leading," they wrote.
They want to know if the leakers now are being investigated.
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A recent study reveals that a stunning number of Americans actually support violence against President Donald Trump in order to keep him from returning to the White House.
More than 26 million.
And the results are being cited by a constitutional expert who is warning that those who now are "toying" with such extremism could end up the targets of extremists.
The numbers are from political science teacher Robert Pape's "Political Violence and the Election: Assessing the threat from the Left and the Right."
The June results show that, with a margin of error of about 3%, those 26 million say the "use of force is justified to prevent Trump from becoming president."
The violence and lawfare against Trump, in fact, has generated a faction of some 18 million who also say the use of force is justified to "restore Trump to the presidency."
The study noted those 26 million are "active, dangerous" and have "growth potential."
Nine million of them, for example, own guns, and five million have attended a protest over the last 12 months.
It is a threatening situation, according to Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, author of "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," and frequent witness before Congress on the Constitution.
He cited a number of politicians working with leftist, and sometimes extreme, groups.
"These politicians are playing a dangerous game in toying with groups like Antifa, which will not stop at threatening their opponents. Politicians like (Minneapolis council member Jeremiah) Ellison could easily find themselves the next target as groups seek to 'strike fear in in the heart' of the establishment."
He called the poll results "a chilling account of the growing radicalism in America, particularly after the second foiled assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump."
In fact, since then multiple organizations have published long lists of individuals, including politicians, celebrities and officials, who have threatened Trump, some calling for his death including one that told a suspected assassin to take shooting lessons to not miss again.
"For some, violent language can become violent action. There is a normalization that can occur as extreme actions become more acceptable to more and more citizens," Turley noted.
He quoted from his own book: "We are living in an age of rage. It permeates every aspect of our society and politics. Rage is liberating, even addictive. It allows us to say and do things that we would ordinarily avoid, even denounce in others. Rage is often found at the farthest extreme of reason. For those who agree with the underlying message, it is righteous and passionate. For those who disagree, it is dangerous and destabilizing."
He pointed to the "unrelenting claims of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others that democracy is about to die in America," explaining "some now feel a license to commit criminal acts in the name of 'saving democracy.'"
In fact, twice-failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, even after the second assassination attempt against Trump, was on the stump with her favorite message over the years: Trump is a threat.
But Turley said, "It is the ultimate form of self-delusion that one saves democracy by committing political violence against those with whom you disagree."
He cited the attitude as coming from "higher education" into "society at large."
"Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University. Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests," he said.
Now it's common for "professors" to support "strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters" and more.
He pointed out, "While Democratic leaders have condemned the second assassination attempt on Trump, they have continued the unhinged rhetoric of how this may be our last election and democracy is about to die in America."
And they've "allied themselves" to violent groups.
One of those is Antifa.
"Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would 'strike fear in the heart' of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence and its website was banned in Germany. Ellison's son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of violent protests," he noted.
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A political activist shamed the FBI away from his New Hampshire home after the agents came to his residence to probe a message he posted online indicating: "Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero."
Jeremy Kauffman, a Libertarian, recorded his interaction with two gentlemen claiming to be FBI agents, though they refused to show their identification.
"I'm Agent O'Donnell with the FBI," one of the men is heard saying after being asked to identify himself.
"Is that sufficient identification? Is there only one Agent O'Donnell in the FBI?" Kauffman replies.
"In New Hampshire, yes," the agent responds.
"Your full name, sir?" Kauffman asks again.
"Can you please stop recording?" the agent requests.
"No," replies Kauffman, noting it's his "First Amendment right."
Kauffman then asked the second agent: "What's your name, sir?"
"Can you stop recording?" the second agent asks, as he never provides his name.
"Absolutely not," Kauffman insists. "I'm going to go back inside my house."
Eventually, the agents departed, as Kauffman extended his middle finger to them on camera.
The activist posted the video online with the caption: "The FBI visited my house today for free speech acts they knew were not crimes. You can see the shame on their faces. This is the Democratic regime manifest."
The since deleted post by Kauffman came Sunday, the same day a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump was foiled in West Palm Beach, Florida.
U.S. Attorney Jane Young said: "We are aware of the tweet. Although the department generally will not confirm or deny any specific investigation, threatening violence is a crime and those who do this will be investigated, prosecuted, and held to account in a court of law."
A Secret Service spokesman told NBC10 Boston: "The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the social media post made by the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, and as a matter of practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence. We can say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees."
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JERUSALEM – The StopAntiSemitism campaign group labeled Swedish climate activist – and darling of progressives everywhere – Greta Thunberg as its "Antisemite of the Week" following her latest arrest at a "Students Against the Occupation" demonstration at Copenhagen University late last week.
The group, whose tagline is "Holding Antisemites Accountable," awarded Thunberg – whom Sky News Australia labeled "a serial pest" – this ignominious accolade following her latest display of Jew-hatred, at what is tantamount to a pro-Hamas rally in Denmark's capital. She repeated a call, which she has made on other campuses – including in her native Sweden – for universities to cut ties with Israel.
Thunberg originally rose to some form of notoriety on the back of her Joan of Arc act, in which the precocious teenager – who only graduated high school in 2023 – berated world leaders for not doing enough, in her and her handlers' estimation, to arrest the "climate emergency."
Thunberg "has joined the ranks of keffiyeh-clad protesters, brazenly voicing her disdain for the Jewish state," the watchdog group StopAntisemitism said Friday, days after Thunberg was among those hauled off by Danish police during a demonstration at Copenhagen University.
"She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred," the organization added.
Perhaps we should not be surprised about the turn Thunberg's activism has taken. Like many entitled leftists – both European and from elsewhere – her desire for "climate justice" has led her to seek what she and they conceive of "justice" in other arenas – especially with regard to the Israel-Hamas war.
She has posed in photographs – shared to social media – with other activists, including at least one Jew, each holding up either a flag or a sign showing their support for the Palestinian cause. In a now-deleted Instagram post from Oct. 2023 Thunberg sat on a couch, flanked by a stuffed, toy octopus. The photograph garnered significant pushback, as it was seen as a dog-whistle to antisemites, as it is a well-known symbol – in fact echoing Nazi propaganda – which alleges nefarious Jewish control over the world. At the time, Thunberg claimed it was a symbol people with autism used to communicate their feelings.
In a Dec. 2023 op-ed titled, "We won't stop speaking out about Gaza's suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights," Thunberg parroted the tissue of lies emanating from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. The various calumnies included the highly questionable casualty figures, as well as claims the IDF deliberately targeted schools, hospitals and mosques, conveniently leaving out the part where Hamas terrorists had embedded themselves in all of these locations. She also repeated the lie about famine in Gaza, which only this week was spectacularly debunked after Hamas' own operatives complained their storehouses were full of goods and products.
In May, at the Eurovision Song Contest held in her native Sweden, Thunberg was so incensed by the presence of Israel's entrant Eden Golan that she managed to get herself arrested by Swedish police following her antisemitic taunts and gestures.
Considering her apparent concern for the environment, Thunberg has remained stoically silent following Hezbollah's launching of thousands of missiles into Israel since Oct. 8, which has done incalculable damage to natural habitats, wildlife, forests, and vineyards. She claims to love the earth, but says nothing when Islamist terrorists are hell-bent on destroying the part Israel inhabits. I wonder why.
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JERUSALEM – Reports began to emerge Tuesday afternoon local time of an alleged event, which seems drawn directly from the pages of a spy novel, or the screen of an action movie, in which – according to earliest estimates – possibly up to 1,800 Hezbollah operatives throughout Lebanon – and potentially also in Damascus – were wounded when their pagers simultaneously exploded.
It is difficult to ascertain precise facts as rumors continue to swirl around the internet. What does seem clear is according to reports published on Reuters, more than 1,000 pagers exploded, with some Hezbollah operatives claiming they felt the devices warming up before they exploded. Footage of the explosions seems to show a mass communication sent to the pagers, as the recipients – except for those who noticed the warming and tossed the devices away – looked down to inspect them in the belief they'd received a message.
According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was one of those wounded in the synchronized explosions. As a result of the attack, which has immediately been blamed on Israel, but for which it has not taken responsibility, Hezbollah terrorists have been ordered to discard their pagers – which were brand new models and were only received in the last few months.
One of the ironies of this attack is that the Iranian proxy group began using pagers and couriers as they were viewed as more secure, less traceable than cell phones, and presumably less likely to be hacked by Israel. Or so the thinking went. Unconfirmed reports allege Hezbollah's wired and wireless communication network was also taken out, leaving it blind – much like Israel was on Oct. 7.
Reports on Twitter suggest sirens can still be heard all across Beirut, amid a constant stream of ambulances arriving at the city's American University Hospital.
This incident occurred on the day it was revealed the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) foiled an alleged Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former top Israeli security official, by killing him with a remotely detonated bomb. There is no suggestion yet that the exploding pagers are retaliation for this scheme, for one, it would appear an alleged Israeli operation of this magnitude would need to have been in the pipeline for some time.
The Times of Israel reports: "Lebanon's health ministry denies the widespread reports that the death toll in the country from the Hezbollah pager explosions has risen to 11 and some 4,000 have been injured, lowering the tallies to those that were previously given by the ministry.
"The confirmed death toll is thus 9, and the tally of injured is 2,750."
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ABC News is apparently pressing the panic button in the wake of fierce criticism of its Sept. 10 presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
A sworn statement by an ABC News whistleblower exposing network bias favoring Harris continues to be in focus regarding "assurances" to the Democrat's campaign days before the event.
Now David Muir, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" and co-moderator of the debate, is defending his performance during the matchup, as ratings for his evening news broadcast have plunged some 12% in the aftermath.
"ABC News has offered assurances to the Harris campaign that if there is significant cross talk between Harris and Trump, the network may choose to turn on the mics so that the public can understand what is happening, the moderator would discourage either candidate from interrupting constantly and the moderator would also work to explain to viewers what is being said, according to the source familiar," CNN reported before the event.
ABC News insists it did not break debate rules, initially stating: "ABC News followed the debate rules that both campaigns agreed on and which clearly state: No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates."
A network spokesperson later told the Daily Beast: "Absolutely not. Harris was not given any questions before the date."
The X account that posted the purported affidavit, @DocNetyoutube, reacted to ABC's denial, stating:
Yesterday, ABC made a statement regarding the whistleblower affidavit. The only thing ABC said was that they did not give the questions or the topics to the Harris campaign. Well, nobody accused ABC of doing that. ABC has been accused of the following:
1.) Giving the Harris campaign sample questions, similar to the actual questions that would be used for the debate.
2.) Agreeing to give Harris a smaller podium and other arrangements to minimize the size differential between Harris and Trump.
3.) Fact Checking would be done for Donald Trump and NOT Kamala Harris
4.) Harris campaign gave questions to ABC that were not to be included in the debate. Including questions regarding her time as DA in SF and her time as California Attorney General.Out of all these accusations, the fact checking of Trump has been admitted to. The podium and split screen appearance to keep the height differential have already been proven, ABC did NOT deny communications with the Harris campaign without the Trump campaign being present and they will never deny that because they cannot. According to the whistleblower, ABC executives made numerous phone calls with the Harris campaign without including the Trump campaign on the call. Everything the whistleblower has submitted has been proven except for sample questions. There will be another tweet later today announcing action to be taken against ABC and the affiliates of ABC.
As WND reported Sunday, Sept. 15, an ABC News whistleblower released an affidavit punishable by perjury specifying allegations that the network made numerous assurances to the Harris campaign to favor the Democratic nominee for president.
The sworn statement indicated: "It was agreed that Donald Trump would be subjected to fact-checking during the debate, while Kamala Harris would not comparable scrutiny. This was widely known throughout the company that Donald Trump would be fact-checked. In fact, various people were assigned to fact check observations it was perceived candidate Trump would make during the debate.
"In fact, [the] Harris campaign required assurances that Donald Trump would be fact checked. This was done via multiple communications with the Harris campaign whereas the Trump campaign was not included in the negotiations. To my understanding, any rules negotiations and conversations pertaining to the debate should have had both the Trump and Harris campaign involved, the Harris campaign had numerous more calls regarding the debate rules without the Trump campaign aware or on the call."
The statement also says: "The Harris campaign was provided with sample questions that, while not the exact questions, covered similar topics that would appear during the debate."
"Furthermore, the Harris campaign imposed serious restrictions on the scope of questioning, including:
The whistleblower claims to have "observed a pronounced bias against Donald Trump within ABC News. Employees expressing favorable views towards him experience significant concerns about potential retribution."
On Tuesday, Muir called the controversy over ABC's performance "just noise."
"All of the noise that you hear afterward about you know, 'Which candidate won the debate, did the moderators win or lose?'" Muir told the audience on ABC's "Live With Kelly and Mark."
"That's just noise. You all know that. The most important thing to remember is you all have the power."
He said it was the "duty" of him and co-moderator Linsey Davis to discuss issues of importance to Americans, mentioning their inquiries about the border crisis, economy, reproductive rights, Afghanistan and the peaceful transfer of power.
"These are all really important issues, the issues of our time, really, and I always say as a moderator, what the candidates decide to do with that time – you can ask the questions, but they'll answer with whatever they choose to answer with, and you have to be ready for whatever might come your way, even the most unexpected of moments," Muir said.
Muir's appearance on Tuesday's talk show was perhaps prompted by a 12% drop in ratings for his nightly news broadcast since the debate.
Fox News reports: "Muir's 'World News Tonight' averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.
"The 12% drop in viewers for 'World News Tonight' is more significant than slight declines 'CBS Evening News' and 'NBC Nightly News' saw when comparing the three episodes following ABC's debate to the year-to-date totals, although Muir's newscast remained the No. 1 broadcast evening newscast."
ABC News fact-checked Trump at least five times during the Sept 10 debate, but preferred not a single fact-check for Harris.
Davis told the Los Angeles Times last week that her intense fact-checking of Trump was influenced by the June 27 debate on CNN that prompted President Joe Biden to exit the 2024 race.
"People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators," Davis told the paper.
On Sunday, five days after the debate, Martha Raddatz of ABC News finally admitted Harris was wrong when she said during the debate there is "not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world."
"Our fact-checkers found that to be false," Raddatz said.
"There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea," Raddatz added. "Also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid."
Neither Muir nor Davis alerted their 70 million debate viewers to the egregious falsehood by Harris.