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As America nears the 2024 presidential election, grave danger looms – and soon – warns a retired U.S. Navy commander and Republican candidate for Congress.

Jay Furman, running to represent Texas’ 28th Congressional District, a border district, served 28 years in the military before retiring to south Texas. He spoke to WND exclusively about the Biden administration’s unprecedented open-border policies, which he witnessed personally along the Texas-Mexico border. He characterizes the danger posed by unknown and too-often malevolent actors allowed to enter the country illegally as “an absolute country-killer.”

Having attended college in the Lone Star State decades ago, and now living in southern Texas, Furman told WND, "The border I left is not the border we have now."

Drug trafficking was once the most concerning problem associated with the U.S.-Mexico border, he explained.

“The symbiotic relationship with Mexico and its seasonal workers that would go back home to be with their families awhile, then come back to work [in the U.S.] was considered an amicable endeavor for all,” Furman said. “But here we are, years later, and the border is one of the worst borders I’ve ever seen.”

“The drug trade across the border is now completely out of control with no restraint in sight, and child sex trafficking has exploded to a level that’s unimaginable,” he pointed out. At the same time, record levels of people are crossing the Texas-Mexico border. In 2021, there were 1,115,906 illegal migrants who came across, while in 2022, there were 1,399,790.

Since 2021, there have been over seven million southwest land border encounters, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

What’s more, thousands of suspected terrorists and other nefarious actors are hiding in almost every urban area of the country.

Regarding that, Furman said, "Our country is being forced to see the consequences of weaponized mass migration – and it's reckless." For the retired Navy commander, "Weaponized mass migration is the most dangerous thing to modern civilizations, and most Americans don't understand that."

"It's an absolute country-killer, and the size of the human time bomb we've ingested, that we're all sitting on top of right now throughout the entire country, is gargantuan, and there's nothing to be done with it [from the Biden administration]," Furman pointed out. "These people aren't assimilating, and no one really knows where any of them are."

Furman is greatly concerned "things could go kinetic" before November, and some of the people who slipped across the southern border will engage various targets around the United States. "Or it could definitely happen after the election, depending on who wins," he added.

"Even if things don't go kinetic, potentially millions of people are just sitting here, and they need to be recognized as a threat," Furman said. "They don't need guns or uniforms, but what they need is an inflection point."

"Imagine the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020 multiplied by 100,000 and note that something could kick off before or after the election," Furman warned. In August 2001, he recalled, "Everyone was listening to the chatter, knowing something was going to come. Everyone was talking about it. Intelligence agencies were screaming about." And then a few weeks later, on September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 were killed and 6,000 others wounded in a series of terror attacks against the United States.

Considering the number of terrorists and other bad actors who have crossed America's southern border, Furman said: "Do we want to be standing in the rubble, or do we want to talk about solutions?" For Furman, "9/11 is a pinprick compared to what could come."

"We need to gather a bilateral consensus and do the best we can to stop this," he said. Dubbing the undocumented border crossings as "Biden's illegals" Furman said, "[the U.S. has to] make the attempt to deport as many of them as we can, messaging that if we catch you and you're illegal, you're going to be escorted out."

Apart from the physical dangers illegal immigrants, terrorists, and others pose to the country, Furman also noted an economic impact on the country as well as a moral shift. Regarding immigration, he said, the influx of people is "a tremendous burden on the system," explaining "We just can't afford to host this many people inside the country who aren't contributing to society." He warned, "We're walking into a scenario that is going to significantly depress everyone's standard of living."

And morally, he said, "There's an assault [by the LGBTQ+ community] on our culture, our schools, and our children." This, too, is part of a scheme by the left to destroy America, he argued.

"Each may seem like something that stuns us with a bloody nose, but each of these things is actually country killers," Furman asserted. "The American people have to get even more serious about these issues because we're under attack."

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Millions of Americans are praising God that President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, during his 2024 campaign for the White House.

But the exact time the former commander-in-chief was struck by a bullet in his ear has some Christians and conservatives taking note, as they see a connection to one of the most famous verses in the Bible.

The first shot rang out at 6:11 p.m. Eastern time.

And the verse that’s highlighted is Ephesians 6:11, which states: “Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil.” (CSB)

Conservative talk show host Jack Posobiec is among those who took to X to point out the connection, stating: "The bullets were fired at 6:11 pm. Ephesians 6:11."

He also included a photo of a Fox News video screenshot, pointing to the time of 6:11.

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA responded to Posobiec, stating:

"Armor of God. The next verse is this: 'For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.'"

The Scripture-fest continued with Posobiec continuing the thread with: “Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on an evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground” (Ephesians 6:13).

The sixth chapter of Ephesians is famous for its armor of God metaphor as believers are told to arm themselves with a belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, feet strapped with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

The verse specifying the “shield of faith” actually says by employing this weapon, “you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one” (Ephesians 6:13 NKJV), with a bullet fired from a wicked person’s gun certainly fitting that description.

Interestingly, the even more precise time the first shot was fired was 6:11:33 p.m.

Many Christians believe Jesus Christ Himself died at age 33 when He saved all humanity from the death penalty.

Not all brethren, though, are thrilled with the 6:11 p.m. connection to Scripture.

One professor of apologetics and church history responded to Posobiec, saying: "As I have explained to others, this is absurd abuse of Scripture. Please, stop it. It is highly disrespectful to God's Word.

"The chapter and verse divisions are later, uninspired additions. The current verses were added in 1551. They are not inspired, and it is simply absurd to connect the time this took place (in a particular time zone, during DST even) with a particular text of Scripture based upon the uninspired division of Ephesians into particular chapters and verses. It would be easy to look up all sorts of other '6:11s' in the Bible that would demonstrate the foolishness of this activity. Please, just stop it."

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The Democratic National Committee is attempting to "run out the clock," and make President Joe Biden the party's nominee for the coming 2024 presidential election ahead of its scheduled convention in Chicago in August.

According to a report from Axios, the DNC is secretly going ahead with plans to shore up Biden, and at the same time stamp out any dissenting voices within the party who have questioned his mental fitness.

Some Democrats have been calling for Biden to step down after a disastrous debate performance against Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump, including some of Biden's high-powered celebrity supporters.

After the debate, Biden went on to have a rash of badly delivered interviews and press conferences which further compounded concerns.

Ultimately, at a NATO press conference where Democrats hoped Biden would prove himself, he introduced UIkraine's president as president "Putin" and his own vice president as "Trump."

The Axios report notes if the DNC manages to convince the majority of almost 4,000 delegates to give Biden their vote, it would be very difficult from that point to remove Biden from this year's Democratic ticket.

The window for voting is expected to open July 29, and will conclude Aug. 5, according to the report, and will take place electronically.

Jaime Harrison, chairman of the DNC, told Axios he and his colleagues look forward to making Biden the official candidate.

"We look forward to nominating Joe Biden through a virtual roll call and celebrating with fanfare together in Chicago in August alongside the 99 percent of delegates who are supporting the Biden-Harris ticket," Harrison told Axios, adding the DNC has not yet finalized any schedules.

Harrison has also been hard at work on network news and social media promoting Biden's candidacy.

Axios obtained an email from Jennifer Laszio Mizrahi, a Biden delegate in Maryland. Mizrahi sent the email to her fellow state delegates and explains the early vote cannot be allowed.

"Behind the scenes, people at the Biden campaign and DNC are working to put in the fix … Put simply, they are trying to shut down the process earlier. We can't allow it. I am asking you to ask the DNC to stop pushing for an early vote," Mizrahi reportedly said in her email.

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‘Investigators won’t have to explain why evidence is not in the same condition as it was after the Mar-a-Lago raid or why some of the alleged verboten documents are missing’

Misconduct and malfeasance were on the stage during Jack Smith's partisan prosecution of President Donald Trump over his possession of various documents from his presidency.

Smith accused Trump of a long list of charges for having the papers in his Mar-a-Lago home, which was targeted by a SWAT-style FBI raid to "recover" them, even though Trump's lawyers were working with federal officials to determine what documents Trump was entitled to keep from his time in office.

But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon this week dismissed the case entirely, pointing out that Smith never was appointed legally, so had no more authority to file charges against Trump than a man in the street.

Legal commentary Julie Kelly, an expert investigator who has documented the Department of Justice’s weaponization against Trump, said Cannon did Smith “and the entire Biden regime,” a favor with the ruling.

"Cannon's death-by-a-thousand-cuts dismantling of the case will finally stop Smith's bleeding," Kelly wrote. "Shocking revelations about the dirty, sloppy, corrupt, and dishonest nature of the investigation and prosecution will end, at least for now. Smith won't have to defend his baseless and petulant gag order seeking to prohibit Trump from publicly criticizing law enforcement agents involved in the case.

"FBI agents won't have to take the stand to defend the unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 or admit they used classified cover sheets as props or how they violated the search warrant to unnecessarily ransack the bedroom of Melania Trump and Barron Trump.

"Investigators won't have to explain why evidence is not in the same condition as it was after the Mar-a-Lago raid or why some of the alleged verboten documents are missing," she explained.

"DOJ officials including deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco won't have to disclose her collaboration with the National Archives to concoct a documents crime against Donald Trump as early as mid-2021, long before anyone allegedly found 'classified' papers in the boxes the former president turned over to the archives.

"On that score, NARA officials including former archivist David Ferriero—an Obama appointee who called January 6 the worst day of his life—won't have to testify about why he started harassing and threatening Trump's transition team with legal action just a few months after Trump left office, something he had no authority to do and admitted he had never done before.

"Or why he and NARA general counsel Gary Stern visited the White House on at least a few occasions in 2021, months before the purported opening of the official criminal investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, For now, a jury and the public won't see meeting notes and correspondence between NARA and top White House officials including Biden's general counsel and chief of staff."

Or maybe all of this will be appearing soon – in a courtroom and on the websites of responsible news publications.

That's because Smith claims he will be filing an appeal.

He insisted that he wanted a different outcome. "The dismissal of the case deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the attorney general is statutorily authorized to appoint a special counsel. The Justice Department has authorized the special counsel to appeal the court's order," a spokesman for Smith said.

Of course, the statement didn't point out that Cannon had, under the American judicial system, a right to conclude differently from other "courts."

Cannon's opinion, 93 pages in detail, has been described by commentators as "strongly reasoned."

Kelly explained Smith should thank Cannon for eliminating the case.

"Cannon just spared the special counsel and his team months of continued humiliation in her Florida courtroom and, eventually, in front of the nation," Kelly said.

Trump's lawyers had explained Smith's appointment violated both the Appointments Clause and the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution.

Smith claimed he was legitimate, although his backing came, Kelly said, only from "random" federal statutes, "none that specifically designates the appointment of a special counsel since the Independent Counsel Act expired in 1999."

Trump's opinion was endorsed by former Attorneys General Edwin Meese and Michael Mukaseyj, and the dispute also was raised by Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court. He said for the prosecution of Trump to continue, the issue of the legitimacy of Smith's claims would have to be resolved.

He said the problem facing Smith is not a "trifling technicality."

Immediately after Cannon's ruling, leftists raged, claiming that Cannon should be removed from the case, and worse.

But Kelly explained Smith should have been thanking "his lucky stars, to the extent he has any, that the American people won't see his ineptitude up close in any trial in southern Florida."

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Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle has been busy defending her agency, and rejecting calls for her to resign, in the wake of Saturday's attempted assassination that left President Donald Trump injured.

The gunman, 20, now dead, fired at Trump from the roof of a building about 120 yards away.

Cheatle said, during an interview, the building was secured from the "inside" because of its roof, which provided the gunman with a clear line of sight to Trump.

"That building, in particular, has a sloped roof at its highest point," she said in the interview with ABC. "And so there will be a safety factor that will be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so you know the decision was made to secure the building from the inside."

"That's crap," said former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.

There are a number of circumstances that undoubtedly will need to be reviewed, including her decision not to send an agent to the roof of a building overlooking a Trump rally because of the slope of that roof, a slope that the gunman apparently had no difficulty traversing.

Other questions arise from a ladder and ammunition the gunman bought just before the shooting, and how he got the ladder up against a building to reach the roof.

There are other concerns, too.

A commentary at the Western Journal, for example, cited her repeated remarks that it was only a “short” time between notification of a potential gunman and the shots, which killed one Trump supporter who was protecting his family and injured two more.

"Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is a woman who has a lot to explain, and it turns out she's not very good at explaining it," the commentary said.

"Cheatle's record came under scrutiny almost immediately after the attack, with conservative activist Mike Cernovich noting Saturday that her profile on the government's website emphasized diversity and noted that her prior experience, before becoming the 27th director of Secret Service, was senior director of global security at PepsiCo."

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Global stocks, cryptocurrency, and gun manufacturing stocks have begun to climb, following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

Bloomberg reported Monday the “Trump trade” momentum is picking up speed, as investors are betting on Trump to pull out a win this coming November.

"Trump's fiscal and trade policies will spur growth and add to inflationary pressures. The yield on 30-year bonds rose to 4.45%, surpassing two-year equivalents for the first time since January, steepening the curve," Bloomberg reported.

Bloomberg noted that growing political violence could cause concerns around the stability of the U.S., pushing investors to move their stocks into "haven assets" such as gold or real estate.

"While there's a risk that Trump's policies could keep upward pressure on interest rates, traders generally don't expect the prospect of his re-election to derail the stock-market trajectory in the long run, though a pick-up in near-term price swings is likely," Bloomberg reported.

In addition, the Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., parent company of Trump's Truth Social media platform, has gained over 30%.

Meanwhile, Newsweek and MarketWatch have reported cryptocurrencies and gun manufacturing stocks have soared since Saturday. Gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson Brands, and Sturm Ruger & Company, increased between 7.5% and 18%.

Economist and Trader Alex Kruger stated on X the Trump Trade is "on its way," and investors can expect Trump to be "bullish" on oil & gas, steel and coal, as well as onshoring if Trump wins the election.

Trump's policies on trade tariffs, tax cuts and energy independence for the U.S. are also expected to boost confidence for investors.

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While the Republican National Convention was getting into high gear Monday, NBC News was broadcasting an uncut 18-minute interview with President Joe Biden, conducted by longtime network anchor Lester Holt.

In addition to frequently sniping at Holt for the questions he asked and didn't ask, Biden – for no apparent reason – chose to repeat the Trump-is-like-Hitler claim that he has repeated more often than any other throughout his presidency: namely, "the Charlottesville lie," the false claim that Trump expressed admiration for Nazis after a rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

The claim has been continually debunked by both left and right for the past seven years – most recently by left-wing fact-check site Snopes, which declared definitively, "No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People.'"

Nevertheless, Biden not only featured "the Charlottesville lie" during his ill-fated CNN debate with Donald Trump, but he dredged it up again in the middle of his interview with NBC's Holt.

Lurching from one thought to another without finishing any of them, here’s how Biden responded to Holt asking him about his “first reaction” to Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump. (Transcript courtesy of NBC News)

LESTER HOLT: “You were in – in Delaware when this happened. What was your first reaction?”

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “My first reaction was, ‘My God. This is – look, there’s so much violence now and the way we talk about it. I mean, the whole notion that there is this – there’s – there’s no place at all for violence in politics in America. None. Zero. And – we’ve reached a point where it’s – it’s become too commonplace, not assassinations, but to talk about it.

"For example, you know, the January 6th – you know, the attack on the Capitol, the – I – I – Lester, I got in this race early on in 2020 – for the 2020 race. I wasn't gonna run again because I'd lost my son. I didn't – you know? And – until I watched what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Those folks coming out of the woods with torches, carrying swastikas, singing the same Nazi bile that was accompanied by this Ku Klux Klan, and a young woman was killed. And – and it was a bystander. And – the president – then president was asked, ‘What do you think?’ He said, ‘The very fine people on both sides.’ Not fine people on both sides. No excuse. Zero.”

As WND recently documented comprehensively, Biden, Democrats, leftwing activists, and most of the national news media have continually, since 2016, likened Donald Trump, his policies, beliefs, and ideology to Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the Third Reich.

But Biden has something of a love affair with this particular “Trump-loves-Nazis” falsehood. He featured “the Charlottesville lies” in his acceptance address when the Democrats officially made him their presidential nominee in 2020. The Washington Post even weighed in, announcing that "For Joe Biden, Charlottesville defines the Trump presidency."

Biden has often falsely claimed, as he did again during Monday’s NBC interview, that Trump’s supposed pro-Nazi post-Charlottesville comments constituted his very reason for running for president. The fact that this “very fine Nazis” claim has been utterly and debunked by every side for years exerts no impact on Biden, who many longtime political analysts have described as a pathological liar.

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A Milwaukee homeless man was shot dead blocks away from the Republican National Convention Tuesday, after he was seen wielding a knife during an altercation with another man in a local park.

Identified by family members as Samuel Sharpe, he had reportedly been living in a tent encampment in King Park less than a mile from the RNC convention. Alexi Worley, a spokesperson in the convention's joint command center said there was nothing to suggest the shooting was connected to the event.

According to an eyewitness, he had at least one knife on him when police officers ordered him to drop his weapon.

"My friends … got into an altercation," the eyewitness told WISN 12 News.

"One had, maybe a four-inch blade, the police were up in the thing, they came out, told him to drop the knife, drop the knife, and he turned around because he didn't realize they were there … and when he turned back around, they shot him … to me that was murder, I just witnessed a murder by the police," the eyewitness said.

Other eyewitnesses said Sharpe was experiencing a mental health crisis, and alleged multiple police officers were involved with the shooting, while others said Sharpe refused to drop the knife.

A group of community activists gathered at King Park, outraged that officers from outside were involved in the shooting. The Fraternal Order of Police President Brian Steel, confirmed Columbus Police Department officers were involved in the shooting.

Alan Chavoya from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression told reporters the group had "warned" the city, Milwaukee Chief of Police Jeffrey Norman, and other officials, that "outside agitators" coming into the city for the convention, would cause a problem.

Fox News also reported a 21-year-old man was arrested wearing a ski mask and carrying an AK-47 pistol blocks away from the RNC event. The man was discovered by Homeland Security investigators and Capitol Police during a security sweep. As of this writing, charges were still pending.

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JERUSALEM – Israel's security services arrested three citizens Tuesday, suspected of committing security offenses – which Iran's intelligence apparatus is thought to have directed.

The three were arrested separately over the last two weeks, and the investigation revealed that following interrogation, one suspect – 21-year-old Elimelech Stern, a member of the Vishnitz Hasidic community in Ramat Beit Shemesh, approximately 20 miles or so west-south-west of Jerusalem – received his instructions over Telegram.

He was in contact with a profile under the name of "Anna Elena," where he was directed to hang posters, hide money in various locations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, deliver packages including some containing decapitated stuffed animals and dolls, as well as threatening messages to be delivered along with a knife, and placed at certain Israeli civilians' doorsteps.

He was also tasked with setting fire to a forest and more. It was also revealed Stern refused to either commit murder or arson.

Stern recruited two other Israelis – who have yet to be publicly identified – for his "missions," for which they received payment from "Anna Elena" in cryptocurrency – and sometimes for the sum of just a few hundred shekels.

His Iranian handlers told him via Telegram that "Anna" was living in London and she "was looking for brave people to carry out missions in Israel for pay ranging from 100 to 100,000 dollars."

Another message read, "I will test you with a simple mission of $100. If you do well and send me a video and photo of that work, and I can trust you, I will give you more missions with more reward."

During one exchange between the Iranian operatives and Stern, they wrote: "We need a brave man. Are you brave for a lot of money? I currently have 2 missions. One of them has a bonus of $7,000, and one of them has $350."

Stern expressed interest in the higher-paying mission, replying: "Tell me about the $7,000 one."

The Iranian operative responded, "Alright. First, you need to purchase two 20-liter containers at a gas station." It seems this may have been intended to be used to set the forest fire.

On Tuesday, Jerusalem's District Attorney's Office filed an indictment against Stern, charging him with contacting a foreign agent. Following their interrogation, the security services released his two accomplices, and they now await the prosecutor's decision about whether or not to indict them.

"Approaching Israeli citizens through social networks, under the false representation of the identity of the person making the request, is a well-known method of operation of the Iranian intelligence agencies," the Shin Bet and Israel Police said in the statement. They added since Oct. 7 there has been a significant uptick in Iranian intelligence agencies using Telegram as well as other social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and X.

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A leaked video of a conversation between former President Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows Trump criticizing what is presumed to be COVID-19 vaccines, and the effects he has personally seen.

"I agree with you, man. Something's wrong with that whole system, and it's the doctors you find," Trump can be heard telling RFK, who is well known for his criticism of vaccinations.

Trump goes on to note vaccine doses meant for small babies look like they are "meant for a horse."

"Remember I said I want to do small doses. Small doses. When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it's meant for a horse, not a you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby. It looks like you're giving, you should be giving a horse this, and do you ever see the size of it," Trump said.

Trump then went on to say he has seen many instances of babies suffering from adverse reactions to vaccines.

"It's so massive and then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I've seen it too many times. And then you hear that it doesn't have an impact, right? But you and I talked about that a long time ago. Anyway, I would love you to do something and I think it would be so good for you, and so big for you," Trump said.

Trump to RFK Jr on vaccines in leaked call: "I agree with you, man. Something's wrong with that whole system, and it's the doctors you find.

Remember I said I want to do small doses. Small doses. When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and… https://t.co/rCKavK2nGT

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) July 16, 2024

Trump goes on to say, "We're gonna win, you know, we're way ahead of the guy," referring to President Joe Biden's poll numbers.

Trump further stated Biden had called him after the attempted assassination at a Butler County rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

"He called me, and he said, how did you choose to move to the right?….I said I was just showing them a chart, I didn't have to tell him the chart of all the people pouring into our country, right? But I just turned my head to show the chart and something rocked me. It felt like a giant, like the world's largest mosquito, and it was, it was a bullet," Trump told RFK.

RFK has since apologized for the breach of confidentiality.