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A board assembled by Meta, Facebook's parent company, has adopted the anti-Israel position that the slogan that long has threatened the very existence of the Middle East democracy, "from the river to the sea," actually is not "hate speech."

That means the call for the destruction of Israel is welcomed on the corporation's software platforms, including Facebook.

The Meta board confirmed that the slogan expresses "solidarity with Palestinians" but doesn't necessarily call for violence "or exclusion," even though that has been the express intent of the slogan for decades.

Meta said its advisory board found, "In upholding Meta's decisions to keep up the content, the majority of the board notes the phrase has multiple meanings and is used by people in various ways and with different intentions."

The report from Meta did admit that a "minority" on the board was concerned "that because the phrase appears in the 2017 Hamas charter and given the October 7 attacks, its use in a post should be presumed to constitute glorification of a designated entity, unless there are clear signals to the contrary."

It has been the Anti-Defamation league that has confirmed the phrase "inherently" calls for the elimination of Israel.

"It is fundamentally a call for a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, territory that includes the state of Israel, which would mean the dismantling of the Jewish state. It is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland," the organization has confirmed.

The anti-Israel activists at the Council on American-Islamic Relations praised the decision, and in the course of its statement redefined it.

The organization said it "welcomed a decision by Meta's (Facebook's parent company) oversight board that the use of the phrase 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' which some activists say they use to call for Israelis and Palestinians to live together in one state with equal rights, does not inherently constitute hate speech."

Actually, for Israelis and Palestinians "to live together in one state with equal rights," already is the status quo in Israel, which does not deprive residents of rights because of their beliefs.

The problem for Palestinians is that the Jewish nation, which features that level of equality, still exists.

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, in a prepared statement, said, "We appreciate Meta recognizing that the Jewish, Palestinian and other activists who sometimes use this phrase as their way of advocating for Israelis and Palestinians to live together in one state with equal rights are not engaging in hate speech."

He charged that there is "genocide in Gaza," apparently over Israel's response to the terrorists of Hamas who invaded Israel from Gaza last Oct. 7 and butchered some 1,200 innocent civilians, often in horrific ways.

But even leftist sources on the web confirm that "from the river to the sea" is a political phrase referring to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that has been used since its creation to mean that region, including Israel, should consist of one state.

As far back as the 1960s, the Palestine Liberation Organization used it to call for a "state … that would replace Israel."

The web explanation notes, "any pro-Palestinian activists consider it 'a call for peace and equality' after decades of Israeli military rule over Palestinians, while for many pro-Israeli activists it is seen as a call for the 'destruction' of Israel."

Hamas terrorists used it in their 2017 charter, prompting critics to charge is calls for the "removal or extermination" of the Jewish population there.

Sources actually do not agree on the origin of the phrase, and some claim it stems from different wording that was used over the years. Some claims suggest it advocates for Palestinian freedom from Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

But in 1969 the PLO said the phrase called for "a single democratic secular state that would replace Israel."

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A stunning coalition of so-called civilized nations is working to create exceptions to a United Nations proposal that would criminalize child pornography.

It is a LifeSiteNews report that documents the United States and European Union are leading Western nations in support for "exceptions to the criminalization of child pornography."

The issue is addressed in the international organization's draft "United Nations convention against cybercrime."

The report points out that the exceptions proposed include porn that does not involve a "real child" or is AI generated, or created in a "consensual relationship" for "private use." Such situations should not have to be prosecuted by governments, it explains.

Those exceptions are included in the document's Article 14, and now have earned the support of a stunning 91 nations, including the U.S. and the EU.

"This form of the treaty will take effect in the coming months if the majority of countries at the U.N. General Assembly continue to support it," the report said.

One delegate, from Austria, complained that further restrictions would conflict with her nation's agenda to consider children as young as 14 "legally able to consent to sexual activity with an adult."

She argued pictures that are "part of a legal and voluntary relationship should not be criminalized."

In the Daily Compass was the comment that the document would "open the door" to allowing legalized child sex abuse, and even child trafficking.

"Even if children as young as 14 could truly consent to sex with an adult, it is well known that many forms of coercion can be used whereby a child can claim to consent to a sexualized relationship in which their consent is truly lacking," the report said.

It was a coalition of delegates from Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo that organized votes from 51 nations to remove the pedophile protections.

The report noted, in fact, that a delegate from Russia demanded to know, "I would like to ask again, which rights are we protecting, those of criminals or those of victims?"

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U.S. Attorney Jonathan Ross for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced Thursday the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the largest known pharmacy burglary ring in DEA history.

"An indictment of 42 defendants who worked together to burglarize over 200 pharmacies, across 31 states, including more than 11 pharmacies located right here in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Today's announcement is the second public announcement about this case. In December, we announced phase one of operation #RichOffMeds," Ross said.

Ross added the December announcement highlighted the robberies of pharmacies in Arkansas, carried out by defendants from the Houston, Texas, area. The investigation has now moved on to the second phase, which has expanded from 20 pharmacies in Arkansas, to now over 200 pharmacies across 30 additional states.

"As we know, the opioid epidemic is still with us, 107,543 Americans died from drug overdose in 2023, of which 81,083 were due to opioids. Theft and illegal distribution of prescription, opioid, and other scheduled medications, fuels the addiction and overdose crisis throughout the United States," Ross said.

Theft and illegal distribution of opioid and other scheduled medications results in millions of dollars of proceeds to criminal organizations and escalates dangerous criminal activity.

"This case involves an organized crime ring from the Houston, Texas, area, that targeted independent, non-chain pharmacies throughout the United States for theft of opioid medication such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, other prescription drugs such as Xanax and Adderall, promethazine with codeine cough syrup," Ross said.

Ross said the perpetrators used the internet to scout rural pharmacy locations, traveling by rental car or commercial airline to these locations to carry out the burglaries.

On November 28, 2023, the Little Rock DEA, along with other state and local law enforcement partners located in Houston, arrested 18 organization members who were charged in the initial indictment. On July 2, 2024, a further 24 perpetrators were charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Most of these defendants appeared in the U.S. District Court in Little Rock Thursday, while the remaining defendants will appear in court in September.

"During the arrest operations in Houston, law enforcement seized 11 firearms, approximately $79,000 in U.S currency, and custom jewelry retailed at approximately $510,000, which are proceeds from the sale of stolen pharmaceutical drugs," Ross said.

Steven Hofer, special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Division for the DEA, said the investigation spanned over three years, and the arrests marked a significant victory in stopping criminal drug trafficking networks.

"This criminal organization prioritized money and greed over the safety and well–being of the American people. Millions of Americans rely on their prescription medications every day, and when those drugs are not available, the well–being of our communities suffer. These criminal groups wreaked havoc in the local communities, to bring easy money into their organizations," Hofer said.

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Citing the numbers of "knife crimes," authorities in one Western nation are vowing to crack down on the dangerous implements of destruction, much like political campaigns for years have blamed guns for crimes people commit with them.

It is Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, who has written at Gatestone Institute on the new scheming in Germany,

"There were 13,844 'knife crime' incidents in Germany in 2023, which the authorities are blaming on the existence of knives and not the perpetrators, who are reportedly mostly young Muslim men," he explained.

The dispute came to a climax when a Syrian Muslim refugee slashed the throats of several victims at the Festival of Diversity.

The immediate response was a government plan to ban more knives.

The column explained, "The ISIS terrorist was one of over a million migrants who had invaded Germany while claiming to be 'refugees.' The migrant was also one of the many scheduled to be deported, but was not. All that the Muslim terrorist had to do to evade deportation was leave government housing when the authorities came looking for him. And then when the military-age Arab Muslim migrant came back, the deportation order had expired and he couldn't be deported. Undeported Muslim refugees have been one of the largest sources of terrorism, crime and violence in Europe."

Three died and eight were wounded in the "Festival" attack, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised a response.

The column noted people in Germany now can carry knifes up to 4.7 inches long, and the proposal actually will limit blades to 2.4 inches.

"No one appears to have considered the possibility that Muslim terrorists on the way to killing as many infidels as possible might violate the law and carry a concealed knife of 4 inches or longer. Such thoughts are unthinkable," he noted.

Further, proposed are "knife-free" zones in certain locations.

The ideology parallels the arguments, and actions, that have been included in anti-gun campaigns, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent years.

And the move comes despite authorities admitting that "non-Germans" are "disproportionately represented" in knife crime statistics.

"Typical of this kind of violence was an altercation between two Arab Muslims, which ended with one of them stabbed in Magdeburg, migrants fighting with knives in a refugee center in Bavaria, and a litany of young foreign men confronting and stabbing each other all across Germany," the commentary said.

It's not even the only country pursuing such a political move, the report said.

"Creating 'knife-free' zones, limiting the length of knives that can be carried (except for newly purchased knives still in their plastic wrapping) and creating social media campaigns about the dangers of knives is the sort nonsense that the UK and other governments indulged in as a distraction from the reality of who is actually doing the stabbing (not to mention acid-throwing)," the report said.

He said the agenda is "much like the American liberal obsession with gun control."

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Texas just days ago confirmed that it has removed more than a million ineligible voters from its voter registration rolls.

And an election integrity watchdog now is pushing other states to address problems with their records as well.

The Washington Stand reports that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed "noncitizens, deceased voter and people who moved to another state" have been deleted.

That means they no longer can vote in Texas, short of a move back.

But with the November election not even three months away, J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation wants other states to make at least the same effort.

Or else they could end up in court.

"[W]hat if these one million ineligible voters were not removed from the voter rolls in Texas?" he commented during an interview on Washington Watch. "I will tell you that that would be called Michigan. … [W]e've been in litigation against Michigan because Secretary [of State] Jocelyn Benson won't remove at least 2[7],000 dead voters from the voter rolls. … We're now in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals against her. … [That] 27,000 [number] was only looking at people over the age of 70. So if you died at the age of 40 or 50 or 55 or 60, even in Michigan, we wouldn't have necessarily made that part of our lawsuit. So it's clearly more than 27,000."

Adams explained Texas is among the leaders in "making sure that the elections are clean."

"For example, they have a law there that if you just go out and register voters, you have to get training, you have to get deputized, and you can't engage in bad conduct. And of course, the Left challenged this law in court, and it was upheld," he said.

Nor, he said during the interview, are there grounds for leftist talking points that pursuing election integrity is "voter suppression."

"I always like to point out that 'suppression' is a fake word — it's not in any federal law. It's a made-up word by the Left … to attempt to blend the legal with the illegal. So if you have voter ID [laws], it's 'voter suppression.' If you clean voter rolls, it's 'voter suppression.' And it sounds very nefarious, [but] it doesn't exist in the law. What does exist is intimidation, coercion, and threats. There's no such thing as voter suppression."

He continued, "[S]tates that are cleaning their voter rolls are following federal law. States have an obligation to follow federal law and have a reasonable maintenance program that removes the dead and people who moved away. And kudos to [states like] Texas, Florida, [and] Ohio that have good laws in place and good practices to make our elections secure."

The report explained Adams highlighted Nevada as a problem that remains.

"It breaks my heart to see how bad things have gotten in Nevada, because you have automatic mail voting … where everybody on the voter rolls, even if they don't ask, gets a ballot mailed to them at their last known address, and those ballots are going out by the hundreds of thousands without request. And what we have found is that Nevada has lots of commercial addresses where those ballots are going improperly — strip clubs, casinos, bars, vacant lots, liquor stores. A Sonic drive-in in Las Vegas had a purported registered voter. We visited these places. … And what we did is we sued Clark County and also Washoe County, which is Reno. But Clark thankfully took steps to fix this problem."

Colorado is another state where leftists have set up a system for mail voting, where ballots are dispatched en masse.

He said sending ballots to all, including those "not alive anymore" can push the voting outcome.

"You had a U.S. Senate race with Adam Laxalt [that] was decided by only 7,000 votes. In that same race, we knew that 95,000 ballots went unaccounted for. We don't know what happened to them. Garbage cans, dumpsters, whatever. And so it's just the wrong way to be picking leaders by automatically mailing ballots to every single person on the list," he said.

He pointed out that his organization has 19 active lawsuits over election integrity.

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One of the overseas chiefs of the Hamas terror organization of Gaza, which last October 7 slaughtered some 1,200 Israelis in an open act of war against the Middle East democracy, now wants suicide attacks on Israel.

Confirmation comes in a report in Israel365News, which reported Hamas "leader abroad" Khaled Mashaal said, "We want to return to martyrdom operations."

It was during an address in Istanbul, Turkey, that Mashaal said, "Resistance operations in the West Bank are escalating despite the harsh conditions. … This is a situation that can only be addressed by open conflict. They are fighting us with open conflict, and we are confronting them with open conflict.'

Decades have passed without enforceable peace among the Muslims and Palestinians who often have insisted on the complete obliteration of Israel to satisfy their demands.

The closest in recent years has been the development of the Abraham Accords, which under then-President Donald Trump produced actual peace agreements involving Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.

Hamas, while being the elected government in Gaza, also has been designated as a terror organization by various groups.

It proved its terror basis last October when its soldiers infiltrated Israel and killed some 1,200 citizens, often in horrific fashion such as burning entire families alive. Since then, Israel's military has been on the march to remove that threat of terror from being repeated.

He claimed, in his recent address, "The enemy has opened the conflict on all fronts, seeking us all, whether we fight or not. The enemy says, 'I am crazy,' and it is up to the nation to assume its responsibilities. I reiterate my call for everyone to participate on multiple fronts in the actual resistance against the Zionist entity."

The reported noted, "The 'military wings' of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups took responsibility for a failed suicide bombing attack in south Tel Aviv earlier this month."

And in a statement, Hamas promised to promote suicide attacks "as long as Israel continues its massacre and policy of assassinations in Gaza."

In fact, in Gaza, Hamas often has set up its terror operations and bases in schools, in residential subdivisions, and other highly populate locations so that innocent civilians actually are in place as shields against an attack on its military resources.

Mashaal also condemned U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, and claimed that Americans are giving Israel weapons of "destruction."

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In today's "depraved" America there are "corrupt politicians, dishonest journalists and media outlets, broken social institutions, immoral religious leaders, unconstitutional government programs and policies," and more, according to a new report on the nation's beliefs.

"The depth of the depravity is shocking," explains the American Worldview Inventory No. 4 from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

"The deterioration of this once-great nation begs the fundamental question: How did we get here? What happened to so quickly introduce new philosophies of life and ways of living that radically depart from the historical Judeo-Christian moorings and consensus of America?" it notes.

And, according to veteran researcher George Barna, "The indisputable cultural decline is a direct result of the spiritual collapse of Christianity in the nation."

He's chief of research at the CRC, and his conclusions align with the oft-cited sermon illustration that when darkness is overtaking a society, the darkness is not to blame; it's only acting in its nature. The problem is with the absence of light.

The center's report said research now shows that "much of this steep cultural decline flows from the dramatic transformation in the evangelical community of the United States in the past 30 years. In reality, evangelicals are far fewer in number than typically reported, often are far less biblical in their thinking than one might think, and tend to vote in far fewer numbers than expected."

In fact, evangelicals choose lifestyles that are largely similar to that of their neighbors, who are not.

"Surprisingly, most evangelicals do not possess a biblical worldview—only about one-third do. In fact, the data strongly suggests that evangelicals are more likely to be shaped by the culture around them than they are to influence or 'evangelize' it," the report confirms.

Defined by the National Association of Evangelicals, such people are those "who recognize their sinful life, rely upon Jesus Christ for their redemption, and receive practical life guidance and wisdom from the Bible in their quest to live under the lordship of Jesus."

While media reports claim that anywhere from 25% to 40% of American adults are evangelicals, the CRC report said those figures are suspect, because they are based on self-reporting.

The report said the American Worldview Inventory 2024 suggests only 10% of adults qualify as evangelicals, using survey data consistent with the NAE description of evangelicals.

Members of that group actually are making lifestyle choices that are "significantly different than those of the non-evangelical population," as only 3% identify as LGBTQ, they are less likely to be recovering addicts, they are much less likely to have been part of an abortion, and more likely to be located in southern states.

Nine of 10 believe "God is the all-knowing, all-powerful, just, and perfect Creator of the universe who still rules the world today; God is the basis of all truth, and those truths are conveyed to us through the Bible; the purpose of life is to fully know, love, and serve God with all your heart and soul, mind and strength; the universe was created by God; Jesus Christ is an important guide for their life; that Satan exists—he is real and influential; all humans are born into sin and can only escape the consequences of sin through Jesus Christ," the report said.

But the report explained some differences:

A large share of the theologically-defined evangelical segment rejects a number of perspectives popular within other worldviews. One example is the view held by Secular Humanists, Wiccans, and Satanists, among others, that "as long as you do no harm to others, you can do whatever you want." While half of non-evangelicals have adopted such thinking, it is common to just one out of five evangelicals. In like manner, three-fourths of evangelicals dismiss the popular idea that animals, plants, water, and the wind all have a unique spirit.

That notion is embraced by almost six out of 10 adults who attend an evangelical church. Seven out of 10 adults who are not theologically-defined evangelicals—a group that is a full 90% of the nation's adult population—adopts this view. Beliefs about absolute moral truth are pivotal for any society. While evangelicals are far from monolithic on this point—and the disagreement on this matter within the evangelical camp is a matter of grave concern—about seven out of 10 evangelicals reject the idea that truth is subjective and individual.

However, almost half of the adults attending evangelical churches (44%) believe that there is no absolute moral truth that is pertinent to everyone in all situations. It is even more dire among the non-evangelical public: Just one out of every four people (24%) in that vast population reject the idea that moral truth is always subjective and conditional.

The report noted the troubling contradiction involves the part of the Christian community that embraces core biblical teachings but still fails to have a Christ-like philosophy.

"Part of the explanation lies in the fact that a biblical worldview demands a coherent spiritual perspective that results in a lifestyle robustly aligned with those beliefs. It is one thing to say you believe the Bible is God's word, and that it is true and relevant, but something else altogether to possess a comprehensive understanding of what the Bible says and consistently put those beliefs into practice."

It explained, "The study instead reveals that while evangelicals often get the 'big picture' of Christianity, they struggle to apply core principles to everyday situations, and are too often victims of catchy slogans and feel-good behaviors promoted by a culture propelled by competing worldviews."

But the failings are evident, it said, as "millions of evangelicals, do not vote (a practice of every good citizen and those seeking to serve their community); believe the animist and Eastern mystical perspective that that animals, plants, the wind, and water have unique spirits; do not pay much, if any, attention to news about politics and government that affects our lives; and who read the Bible on occasion, but not on a daily basis, even though the Bible encourages us to immerse ourselves in God's words to us."

It further warned about the responsibility held by Christians.

"Contrary to the media's depiction of the politics represented by people in evangelical churches, just one-third are very likely to vote in the 2024 general election, only half are consistently conservative in their socio-political views, and one out of every five prefers socialism to capitalism. "

Interesting in the study were the SAGE Cons—the Spiritually Active, Governance Engaged Conservative Christians.

"That segment represents 8% of all voters, but emerged as the biggest concentration of Trump voters in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. Nearly half of evangelicals (44%) qualify as SAGE Cons. Put differently, most SAGE Cons (55%) are theologically-defined evangelicals. The conservative political impulse of evangelicals was evident in the January study, when the Cultural Research Center asked which presidential candidate people would vote for. Nationally, Donald Trump led Joe Biden 36% to 31%, with 11% opting for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The picture was significantly different among evangelicals: 61% were backing Trump, 8% sided with Biden, and 10% backed Kennedy."

Barna said, "Identifying evangelicals and then developing an understanding of the mind and heart of the group is not a simple task. There is little uniformity to the belief patterns and lifestyle choices of evangelicals. The entire faith matrix of America is frighteningly complex. Other studies I have conducted underscore how unique each person's faith journey is, and that journey both shapes and is shaped by a person's belief structure and religious practices."

He noted journalists, the more influential ones, "do not have positive views of the Christian faith and Christians. They are therefore comfortable seeing evangelicals as a group to be feared, a group that seeks theocratic rule in America, and thus a group to be thwarted by all means for the sake of democracy."

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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook's parent company Meta, has delivered a letter to Congress stunningly confessing to censoring Americans on the orders of the Joe Biden administration – and in an effort to help him politically.

It's the second major election influence scheme Zuckerberg now is known to have pursued during that time period.

The newest confession came in a letter to Congress in which he stated, "Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor COVID-19 content, including humor & satire. … I believe the government pressure was wrong & I regret we were not more outspoken about it."

He also admitted downgrading information about the scandals uncovered in Hunter Biden's laptop, which he abandoned at a repair shop and which ultimately revealed the details of a number of family issues that have shocked Americans.

It was that laptop that dozens of former intel industry officials falsely claimed was Russian disinformation in another election influence operation when the FBI already knew it was factual.

Zuckerberg's earlier scandal was his delivery of $400 million plus, through foundations, to various local elections officials who largely used it to recruit leftist voters in leftist districts who would vote for Joe Biden.

The Daily Mail characterized Zuckerberg as admitting the censoring and then pointed out he "whines" about "pressure" from the White House.

He claimed his company would resist such pressure in the future.

The letter was to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan.

Zuckerberg wrote, "We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today."

He claimed to have told staff at the time he was against changing the content of the site because of pressure from "any administration."

In the letter, he also claimed that his cash handouts were intended to be nonpartisan. He confirmed that "some people believe this work benefited one party over the other."

A White House statement justified Biden's pressure on Zuckerberg.

"When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this Administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present."

The administration largely targeted what it called misinformation, disinformation and malinformation regarding COVID countermeasures, even though much of that banned information was accurate, and in fact revealed alternatives to the government-endorsed program that now has proven to have injured many people.

The Daily Mail confirmed, "He and his wife Priscilla Chan gave nearly $420 million to nonprofits that aided in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election , and heavily favored Democrat counties."

That money was used to fund "local governments to implement administrative practices, voting methods, data-sharing agreements, and outreach programs for the 2020 elections."

"Analysis shows Biden-winning counties were three times more likely to get funding from the organizations than Trump ones, and the Democrats were reportedly given a significant boost in key swing states through promotion of practices that have typically favored their vote tally, such as mail-in voting," the report confirmed.

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Former President Donald Trump is now referring to Kamala Harris, the current vice president and 2024 Democratic nominee for president, as "another dummy" who is "incompetent."

Trump made the comment Monday morning in Falls Church, Virginia.

"We can't have another dummy as a president, OK? We cannot have a dummy," Trump indicated.

"She can't talk," he said, adding Harris is "incompetent" as she continues avoiding interviews and news conferences.

Trump also slammed Joe Biden, and the possibility of rules changing for his upcoming debate with Harris on ABC Sept. 10.

"Where is our president? We don't even have a president," Trump said.

"We have a fascist person running who is incompetent and we have a president who is not even around."

"He went to California for a vacation because they threw him essentially out of the party. And then he came back home and said will he go to the White House? No, he went to Delaware to take another vacation.

"And you got Russia over there with nuclear threats. We don't have a president. We got to have a real president that's respected. So as to your question, I think it is disgraceful and I think ABC is a disgrace. I think having Donna Brazile sitting on that panel if she is the one that gave the answers and the questions to Hillary Clinton before a debate, I think ABC is really should be shut out.

"I'd much rather do it on NBC. I'd much rather do it on CBS, frankly. I think CBS is very unfair but the best of the group. And certainly I would do it on Fox. I'd even do it on CNN. I thought CNN treated us very fairly the last time. I think Jake Tapper was very fair and Dana Bash was very fair.

"But when I watched this interview of Tom Cotton, fortunately he's a total pro, he knows what he is doing and when I watched the round table after that, I said the hostility is crazy.

"So we're thinking about it. We're thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. The deal was we keep the same rules. Now all of a sudden they want to make a change in the rules because she can't answer questions. Why doesn't she do a couple of question — why doesn't she do something like I'm doing right now?

"She can't talk. We can't have another dummy as a president, OK? We cannot have a dummy."

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of a family with decades of adherence to the Democrat party in America, on Friday suspended his campaign and threw his support behind President Donald Trump because he simply could not agree with the nation's current Democrat party.

He criticized the party for abandoning – in fact, trying to destroy – democracy with a government-tech censorship campaign that he blamed for working to try to keep him off the ballot and to put President Donald Trump in jail.

He said Trump's commitment to work to end the Ukraine-Russia war is enough, alone, for him to support this year's GOP nominee.

He said Trump has asked him to help in a new Trump administration.

He said he met multiple times with Trump and found that he and Trump agree on "many" key issues.

They still will disagree on issues, Kennedy said, but on some subjects they plan to work together, like "ending the forever wars," "ending childhood diseases," "ending censorship," "getting the intel agencies" out of the industry of spying on Americans.

He said he tried to reach out to Kamala Harris' campaign, who refused to meet with him.

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Earlier, Kennedy's VP candidate, Nicole Shanahan, had suggested the campaign would stop, and would join forces with Trump.

The Independent said, "The most important question is how much of the Democrat or Republican vote may be freed up by a RFK Jr. exit. Just 1% of Democrats have said they are voting for RFK Jr. in YouGov's poll, compared to 3% of Republicans (including leaners). On average, a slightly higher amount of Republicans have supported him thus far. But the polls have been unable to clearly dictate whether more Biden or Trump 2020 voters have come out in support of Kennedy, with polls showing a mix of both."

It continued, "On average, various polls have shown that there is little to no change when Harris and Trump compete in a head-to-head (without third party candidates); but where there is a minimal boost, it tends to lean in favor of Trump by +1 or +2 points, not the other way around."

The analysis confirmed, "Where RFK Jr.'s decision may really matter most is the swing states. It can be difficult to pin down the RFK Jr. voters and where exactly they are most concentrated, so numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt due to polling constraints. But a Refield and Wilton poll (August 15) of 10 states shows that RFK Jr. has enjoyed a wider lead in some states than others. Specifically, he has the strongest support in New Mexico (8% of the vote), Florida (5%), Michigan (5%) and Nevada (5%)."

The Deseret News reported bluntly that Trump "will likely benefit the most" on a Kennedy move.

"A national Deseret News/HarrisX poll conducted at the beginning of August shows Kennedy languishing at the national level, with about 8% support. But he performs much better in Utah, a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted by HarrisX shows, where he has 15% support. Without Kennedy, Trump benefits both at the national and state level.\"

That result said without Kennedy, Trump was at 47% and Harris at 45%.

In a lengthy statement that included a detailed explanation of his dream of improving the American food supply and thus improving health across the nation, RFK said he hopes to be working in a Trump administration on that very project.

Kennedy, whose uncle John was president and father Robert F. was attorney general – before they both were assassinated – called his decision to break with the Democrat party "heart wrenching." But he said it was the Democrat party that actually left him.

He said he would leave his name on the ballot in states that are not likely to be swing states, in order for his supporters to vote for him. In swing states, he said, he'll take his name down, because to do otherwise would "likely hand the election to the Democrats."

He said Democrats used to be champions of the Constitution, champions of transparency, champions of the environment, the part of Democracy.

Not the current version.

"I left that party because it has departed so dramatically from the core values I grew up with," he said.

The party's egregious examples of failing democracy include pushing Joe Biden, with an apparent cognitive decline, under the bus to install Harris, who has not ever won any delegate vote herself.

He said in a fair system he could have won the election, but not under the current system of government censorship, unfair primaries, a media tainted by partisan agendas and more.

He said in "saving Democracy," the Democrat party actually is dismantling it.

"Lacking confidence in its candidate in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC has continued to wage a legal warfare against Trump and myself," he said.

Regarding Harris, the current vice president, he said, "Instead of showing us her substance and character, DNC and media organizations engineered a surge in popularity based on nothing. Only smoke and mirrors."

The party, he said, uses censorship and media control as well as the "weaponization" of federal agencies in its political battles.

That long has been a concern expressed by Trump, who has been targeted over and over with lawfare criminal and civil cases, often built on flimsy grounds, assembled by Democrats under the Biden administration against him.

Kennedy said, "When a U.S. administration colludes with or outright coerces media to censor political speech, it's an attack on the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest."

Media organizations, he charged, are "stenographers for the organs of power," and could have prevented "the demise of Democracy" had they remained unbiased.

He warned, "Oppressors don't censor lies. They don't fear lies. They fear the truth and that's what they censor."