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It was all over the headlines only months ago when the Joe Biden administration sued Grand Canyon University, the largest Christian school in the nation, as part of what school officials described as a coordinated attack by Biden.

It was the Federal Trade Commission that filed a lawsuit against the school, making allegations that it didn't reveal how long it would take for doctoral students to finish its accelerated program and marketed itself as a nonprofit.

The Department of Education, earlier claiming misinformation about the doctoral program, announced a fine of $37.7 million against the school.

Now a report from the Georgia Star News confirms that a state investigation has confirmed there's no proof of any wrongdoing by the school.

So the federal agencies decided to continue their agenda against the Christian organization anyway.

The report revealed a review from the state auditor, through the Arizona State Approving Agency, found that risks identified by Biden's allegations "could not be substantiated, which means the private nonprofit's students can still use GI bill funding to pay tuition."

The report said University President Brian Mueller told KSTAR, "They said, 'Zero findings. Not a single one. Not one.'"

School spokesman Bob Romantic said in an interview with The College Fix that the audit covered all three allegations charged by the Biden regulators.

But he said the school still is being "targeted" by "systemic attacks … against GCU that we believe are retaliation for filing our lawsuit against the DOE."

The school sued after the Department of Education brought out a list of its complaints and announced that $37.7 million fine.

Then the FTC sued, claiming telemarketing and marketing violations, concerns that now have been addressed by the state investigation.

Mueller suggested Biden is "maliciously targeting" the school, the report explained.

While the FTC claims the school misrepresented its cost, the report said "A degree calculator function on their website currently states the average number of continuation courses required for past students for each doctoral degree program in clear, red font above the program’s price listings."

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In Lower Manhattan, near the ports, a mob was shouting, “Down with King Washington” and singing the French national anthem. Others shouted, “Vive Genet.”

It was the summer of 1793 and a “whirling mob of fanatics” was parading up and down the street and cheering the French Revolution. Before long such rallies would turn into violent fistfights with American Patriots who opposed the rise of the radical globalist Left.

Some in the mob dressed like the radical sans-culotte mobs ravaging Paris while others in the streets of Philadelphia had deployed mock guillotines.

At the peak of his popularity, Genet challenged George Washington for the allegiance of the American people and helped create what would become the Democratic Party.

Citizen Edmond Genet, as French revolutionaries were styled, had arrived as the emissary of his regime, not to Washington, but to the American Left. The rotund radical with a balding hairline had already been expelled from Russia and was working on a revolution in America.

American leftists had watched enviously as French radicals imprisoned and killed anyone who stood in the way of their cause, as heads rolled from the bloody maw of “Madame Guillotine” and churches were replaced with “Temples of Reason.” At the Festival of Unity and Indivisibility, one of the holidays of the new Cult of the Supreme Being, a giant papier-mache statue of the Goddess of Nature, modeled on the Egyptian goddess Isis, had been erected.

Now it was their turn, but George Washington stood in the way.

In the National Gazette, associated with the faction that would become the Democrats, cartoons showed Washington being led to the guillotine while another entry, "A Funeral Dirge for George Washington," put the image into words.

John Adams described how leftist riots stirred up by Genet, the envoy of the French revolutionary regime, had sent “ten thousand People in the Streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his House, and effect a Revolution in the Government, or compel it to declare War in favor of the French Revolution.”

Jacques Pierre Brissot, who had appointed Genet and was in charge of foreign policy, preached that "France has been called to lead a gigantic revolution and worldwide uprising to liberate the oppressed peoples of the world."

"All Europe will be Gallicized, Communized, and Jacobinized."

Brissot, whom Marx would credit with coining the concept that property is theft for stating that “exclusive property is a theft against nature,” envisioned a grand transformation of humanity.

America would also have to be “Communized” and “Jacobinized” through the Democratic Societies that would pursue the radical and globalist agenda of the French Revolution.

The birth of the Democratic Party

Five years away from death, George Washington rode out to battle as, for the first and last time in American history, a sitting president led the troops in the field.

His real enemy was the Democratic Societies.

“We are ready for a state of revolution and the guillotine of France," the leader of the Mingo Creek Democratic Society had threatened during the “Whiskey Rebellion.”

Washington rode out to fight because he feared America was about to follow France’s example. He described the violence as "the first formidable fruit of the Democratic Societies; brought forth I believe too prematurely for their views, which may contribute to the annihilation of them."

But while the Whiskey Rebellion was put down, the power of the radicals was growing.

The Democratic Societies that so troubled Washington had taken their name from Genet. While the founders of the Philadelphia club had wanted to name it after the Sons of Liberty, as a tribute to the revolutionary past, Genet had proposed calling them Democratic Societies.

The one issue, more than any other, that led to the emergence of the Democrats was the French Revolution.

Theodore Roosevelt later described them as "Democratic societies on the models of the Jacobin Clubs of France" and their influence as “noxious” and “distinctly evil.”

"We are lovers of the French nation," the Democratic Society of New York had declared. "We esteem their cause as our own."

A toast at the Democratic Society of Philadelphia envisioned "the San Culottes of France,” creating a “temple of liberty" that will "have the whole earth for its area, and the arch of heaven for its dome," envisioning the French Revolution spreading across the world to America.

Historian Charles Downer Hazen noted, "The Democratic clubs … also played an important part in introducing French leveling principles in the revolutionary vernacular. It was through them that the word ‘democrat’ was ushered into our politics.”

"These societies were instituted by the artful & designing members (many of their body I have no doubt mean well but know little of the real plan)," Washington had warned, "instituted by their father, Genet,” and behind them, “under popular and fascinating guises, the most diabolical attempts to destroy the best fabric of human government.”

Genet, the French radical, would later marry the daughter of George Clinton – the second Democratic-Republican vice president of the United States. Genet’s Democratic Societies were no longer just a radical movement, they were the ruling party of the country.

The most diabolical attempts to destroy the best fabric of human government became a movement, a party, and then another party that we know today as the Democratic Party.

In 1794, George Washington was describing how the Left still operates today, disguising its intentions, using front groups, and operating through a veil of secret societies.

230 years later nothing has changed.

We are still fighting George Washington’s fight against the Left. It’s a war for truth, faith, and liberty that has gone on for a quarter of a millennium.

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In George Orwell's famous novel, "1984," an oppressive government – symbolized by the phrase "Big Brother" – is continually spying on everyone and manipulating how and what they think.

In many ways, today's Central Intelligence Agency seems to be America's version of "Big Brother" – or perhaps even to exceed it. By multiple reliable accounts, the CIA has been involved in everything from manipulating the media, to trafficking drugs, to flipping governments, to controlling Hollywood, even to participating in the assassination of a U.S. president. And of course, spying on Americans.

Recruiting journalists for spy work
It started long ago. Operation Mockingbird was "a CIA project that recruited journalists to write fake stories promoting government ideas while dispelling communist ones" – or at least that is how it started. The operation began in the 1950s, recruiting "American journalists into a propaganda network," but was expanded to include influencing foreign media as well.

During the 1970s, the U.S. Senate established the "Church Committee" to examine potential abuses by the CIA, the NSA, the FBI and the IRS. Finally, in 2007, about 700 pages of documents pertaining to scandals and misconduct of the agencies during the 1970s were declassified and released by the CIA, and nicknamed "The Family Jewels."

A 1996 Senate Select Committee Intelligence Report details the use of journalists, clergymen and Peace Corps members in intelligence operations. Commenting on the report, former ABC news anchor Ted Koppel stated: "The gathering of intelligence is a difficult, dangerous, and sometimes dirty operation. That is not my judgment. That is what we have repeatedly been told by senior intelligence officers. … When, as they sometimes do, U.S. intelligence officers circumvent or even break American laws, they must reckon with the possibility that they will one day be held to account. If their arguments are persuasive … Congress can be expected to be lenient. … If the CIA must on occasion use the role of an American journalist to conceal one of its operatives and to protect the greater national interest, it will do so, regardless of what is decided by Congress. But let that continue to be in the knowledge that a free press is being endangered and that American law is being broken."

Participating in the assassination of an American president
Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose uncle, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, recently stated: "There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder. … I think it is beyond reasonable doubt at this point. … The evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder, and in the cover-up."

Why would the CIA participate in the assassination of a U.S. president? The answer may never be fully known. However, many cite the fact that President Kennedy, in overseeing the CIA's extensive campaign of terror attacks and covert operations intended to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba – known as "Operation Mongoose" – changed the planned invasion site and manipulated the CIA's top-secret mission, which resulted in the project being a total failure, numerous deaths, and the disastrous Bay of Pigs incident in the 1960s. Operation Mongoose's goal of overthrowing Castro involved the coordination of American intelligence, Cuban exiles and organized crime. In the middle of the operation, "Kennedy, … hiding the hand of the U.S. government," made the decision to "cancel the air strikes set to destroy the remaining fleet of Cuban bombers," interfered with artillery and weapons drops, and caused multiple deaths of CIA contract pilots, according to the CIA's own website.

The money, muscle and influence of organized crime helped John F. Kennedy win the closely contested 1960 election, investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh contends in a new book on the Kennedy presidency.

And once Kennedy was inaugurated, Robert F. Kennedy, his brother and attorney general, refused to pursue FBI evidence into widespread voting fraud, Hersh alleges.

In "The Dark Side of Camelot," Hersh claims that the Mafia was brought into the Kennedy presidential campaign – and helped the Democrat carry the key state of Illinois – mainly at the instigation of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., founder of the family political dynasty.

Mafia bosses wanted Castro out of Cuba because they had lost lucrative investments in Cuban casinos when the communists took over. With Kennedy wrecking the whole operation, a CIA-tied Mafia boss reportedly claimed he put a "hit" on Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy, the president's attorney general, decided to team up with the FBI and go after the Mafia. In 1968, while running for president himself, Robert Kennedy was also assassinated.

HistoryHit.com recounts some of the history of that era, citing Mafia boss Sam Giancana, the head of the infamous Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966:

Known for his unstable behavior and hot temper, Giancana rubbed shoulders with everyone from dangerous underworld criminals to high-profile figures such as Phyllis McGuire, Frank Sinatra and the Kennedy family.

… Born in New York to Italian immigrant parents, he climbed through the ranks of the Chicago underworld and was later recruited by the CIA in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, some suggested Giancana had been involved as payback for the president's crackdown on organized crime.

The House Select Committee in the mid-'70s couldn't rule out that JFK was killed by the Mob.

Drug trafficking
Then there is the problem of the CIA and drug trafficking. In 2008, journalist Eric Margolis reported: "Experience in Indochina and Central America suggests that CIA, the principal paymaster for U.S.-backed Afghan warlords, may be more deeply involved in the drug trade than we yet know. Author Alfred McCoy wrote a brilliant study in his ground-breaking `The Politics of Heroin' in which he documents how first French, then American intelligence was drawn into the heroin trade in Laos and Vietnam as a way of supporting anti-Communist guerilla fighters. The same thing happened in Central America where CIA collaborated with cocaine-dealing members of the anti-Communist Contras."

Sabotaging Russian/Ukrainian peace talks?
When Russian President Vladimir Putin twice offered to negotiate with Ukraine in late 2022, it was CIA Director William Burns, reported CNBC, who claimed "the CIA's assessment was that Russia was not yet serious about real talks." Would the CIA's interference with Russian/Ukrainian peace have anything to do with the 12 known CIA bases in Ukraine along the Russian border? Or with Putin's claim of 26 U.S. bio-labs in Ukraine, deemed Russian propaganda by mainstream media and denied by the Pentagon, only to have credible U.S. voices – summarized in this tweet by former Congress member and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard – affirm that indeed "there are 25 to 30 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine"? All even though the Pentagon denied their existence, a deep state claim strongly refuted by Tucker Carlson.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump claims he will stop the war in 24 hours if elected president again. Does this represent any kind of threat to the CIA?

Working against presidential candidates
On July 27, 2022, former President Donald Trump gave a fiery Washington, D.C. speech detailing Biden's blunders and failures promoting America's demise and creating a "cesspool of crime." Trump signaled his intention to run for president again in 2024. Just 12 days later, Aug. 8, 2022, Biden's DOJ raided Trump's home at Mar-a-Largo.

After Trump's Nov. 7, 2022 statement that he would be making a "very big announcement" concerning running for the presidency again, two days later on Nov. 9, 2022, during a rare press conference, Biden suggested that if former President Trump opts to run in 2024, he would not make it to the White House.

To many, Biden's words sounded like a threat.

Biden continued, saying, "We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he – under legitimate efforts of the Constitution – does not become the next president again."

After Hunter Biden finally admitted "the laptop from hell" was his on March 17, the very next day, Trump said he would be indicted in New York, based upon alleged hush money" claims of a porn star. Then on June 8, an FBI document revealed Joe Biden took a $5-million-dollar bribe from the Ukrainian company Burisma, and the very next day Trump was indicted over the Mar-a-Largo presidential documents regarding which all presidents retain special privileges. Then on July 31, Devon Archer testified concerning the Biden crime family, and the next day Trump was indicted over the January 6 Capitol riot. Then on August 11, a Hunter Biden special counsel was announced, while the very next day, it was announced that Trump would be indicted in Georgia.

Most damaging of all, perhaps, as a House GOP report documents, the Biden campaign, with CIA assistance, convinced 51 intelligence operatives to sign a document stating that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, when in reality, they knew it was Hunter's. Their aim, it is now undeniably clear, was to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. As West Virginia's secretary of state put it, speaking for many: "The election was stolen, and it was stolen by the CIA."

The New York Post published a poll showing that 79% of Americans – 4 out of 5 – agreed that "'truthful' coverage of Hunter Biden's laptop would have changed [the] 2020 election."

CIA will work 'actively against Trump and the Republicans'
Concerning the 2024 election, "The CIA has become politicized and will work to stop Donald Trump from becoming president in 2024," warns Georgetown University professor and former CIA analyst Dr. John Gentry, according to an MSN report.

The author of "Neutering the CIA," Gentry writes, "My guess is that the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like."

Just recently, on the March 21 broadcast of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," the host allowed what could be construed as assassination threats to be spoken against Trump by Democratic Party strategist James Carville, who stated, "Biden is not the best attack politician. … there are a lot of people to do what I call 'the wetwork.'" "Wetwork," explained Fox News reporter Alexander Hall, "is often used as a euphemism for murder or assassination. The term alludes to spilling blood."

"That's a CIA term," Carville said. "Take a guy out." Added Cooper, the show's host, "Sounds like a mob hit."

Influencing Hollywood
"The CIA has been working with Hollywood since the 1950s," originally to influence audiences to fight communism during the Cold War, notes The World, the website of the long-running international public radio show of the same name.

In the 1990s, the CIA formally hired an entertainment industry liaison to court "favorable treatment in films." By 1996, the CIA hired one of its veteran officers, Chase Brandon, "to work directly with Hollywood studios and production." Brandon stated, "It took us a long time to support projects that portray us in the light we want to be seen in."

Especially since 9/11, "American screenwriters, directors and producers have traded positive portrayal of the spy profession in film or television projects, for special access and favors at CIA headquarters," reports The Atlantic.

Indeed, the CIA has worked on a long list of productions, including "The Sum of All Fears," "Alias," "24," and "Homeland," getting "their preferred image across" to "boost recruitment interest."

Spying on Americans
In February 2022, Senators Ron Wyden, D.-Ore., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., called upon the CIA to make "extensive declassifications" concerning the agency's "bulk surveillance program that crossed over to the domestic front, stretching, if not outright violating, the legal ban on the agency carrying out domestic operations."

By law, the CIA is prohibited from operating on U.S. soil at all. Actions like "warrantless collection of Americans' records" suggests the CIA was collecting data on Americans at least as early as May 2014. This operation was kept from the public, Congress, and even the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, showing CIA overreach, willingness to act illegally, and contempt for oversight.

As columnist Roger L. Simon notes, "Since 2017 we have become increasingly aware of the CIA sticking its nose into practically everything from healthcare to the private lives of Americans in a manner that is more than arguably illegal."

And Michael Waller, author of the 2024 book "Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains," points out in an Epoch Times interview that Barack Obama brought his much-heralded "change" to the Central Intelligence Agency by appointing John Brennan as its head in March of 2013. Brennan had voted in 1976 for Gus Hall – the general secretary of the Communist Party USA – for president of the United States. Under the guise of diversity, equity and inclusion, CIA chief Brennan reached down into the organization and promoted those who followed his radical ideologies. Those promotions to middle and upper management generated still more appointments, until today the entire nerve center of the CIA is run largely by this new breed.

Tellingly – and to many, chillingly – on President Obama's final visit to the CIA before leaving office, as the Washington Post reported, the outgoing president stated: "We live in dangerous times. I am going to need you more than ever."

Of course, if Donald Trump wins November's presidential election, the kind of CIA Obama needs "more than ever" may not be there, as Trump has promised to dismantle the deep state if he again occupies the White House. As Waller says, the CIA must be radically changed in its command and control, while maintaining the agency's proper legal function.

"You have to just really go down to the root of the rot," he said. "It's like a cancer patient. You have to cut out the parts that are beyond repair." For example, one of those "rotten parts" might be the new CIA/intel community focus on encouraging transgenderism in its ranks.

Continuing his cancer analogy, "Big Intel" author Waller concludes, "You have to heal the parts that are repairable, and you might have to have some transplants here and there, or you will lose the patient."

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Dozens of U.S. military chaplains have joined together to challenge what a report in the Federalist describes as the military's decision to "punish" their faith.

The case, Alvarado v. Austin, how is pending before U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and concerns the decision by the Department of Defense to continue defying the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that rescinded the military's COVID shot mandate.

"The DOD continues to violate the law by failing to rescind its punishments of conscientious objectors such as denied training and deployments required for promotions," the report explains the petition charges.

"In addition, of course, denying soldiers’ religious exercise violates the First Amendment’s guarantee that all Americans can freely exercise their faith in their everyday lives," the report said.

Their problem is that the abortion component is deeply embedded in the COVID-19 shot regime.

Many are tested using cells from the kidneys of a baby girl likely aborted many years ago, but whose body parts were used to create a line of cells that scientists have maintained for decades.

Scientists call the girl HEK 293, for "human embryonic kidney" and the individual experiment in a series.

The Federalist notes that COVID-19 vaccines were tested on cells made from HEK 293's kidney, and some of the shots have HEK 203 cells inside them.

For that, among other reasons, the report explains, Capt. Rob Nelson, an Air Force chaplain, couldn’t accept those treatments despite massive pressure from the military.

He told the Federalist, "I have five [children], and it breaks my heart to think of this. This girl continues to be violated as her cells are replicated over and over again."

38 military chaplains have a petition pending that charges the DoD is violating the NDAA law rescinding shot requirements.

Army Col. Brad Lewis, part of the coalition, told the Federalist the chaplains believe military members "have a right to believe what they believe and no one can say otherwise. It’s the same reason we can’t have a religious test for federal positions. As a chaplain, my job is to make sure the free exercise of religion is allowed, that nobody infringes upon that inalienable right."

The plaintiffs charge that while there are procedures to allow for the religious rights of Norse pagans, turban-wearing Sikhs, kosher Jews, and more, the military has refused virtually all requests for shot waivers.

The Department of Defense, under the radically pro-abortion Joe Biden, told the high court it has stopped punishments imposed "solely" for conscientious objectors to vaccines, the report said.

And it claims the shot demands have stopped, so there essentially is no case.

Lewis disagreed, telling the publication, "By denying religious exemptions, what the military has done is set about the removal of people who are willing to stand on conviction."

His rejection of the experimental shots triggered a retaliation, in that the military left him with no orders on his graduation from the War College, sentencing him to 11 months in student housing without an assignment.

"My career was ended by those 11 months of unrated time," Lewis charged.

With the military's refusal to allow him to "use his high-level, taxpayer-provided War College training," he's now filed for retirement.

To the Federalist, Army spokeswoman Heather Hagan said, "The Army does not comment on ongoing litigation."

The shot objectors also have cited, besides the integral component abortion provides in the shots, concerns about "damaging human health and reproductive capacity, ignoring natural immunity, the ethics of allegedly emergency decrees, the lack of informed consent, and heavy-handed manipulation tactics that include refusing to acknowledge any potentially legitimate conscience objections to the shots whatsoever," the report said.

The report also documented how the military would pressure chaplains, claiming prominent religious leaders supported the shots and mandates.

"The Department of Defense is hostile to religion," Art Schulcz, the lawyer for the chaplains, told the Federalist.

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Politicians, especially those who have been gifted by voters with the right to occupy the Oval Office for a term or two, often make huge sums afterward with books.

The online site Brooksy, for example, now lists the "10 best books on President Obama." Not the 10 books on his presidency … the 10 BEST books.

Joe Biden's legacy, however, is moving in another direction, after a major publisher abruptly canceled its plans for a book about his term in office.

A report at Politico notes in a "further reflection of the soft market for books about President Joe Biden, publisher Simon and Schuster has withdrawn its contract with Alex Thompson, Axios' national political correspondent, for a book about the Biden administration."

The project was supposed to be published early this year and likely would have been a benefit to Biden's attempt to gain control of the White House for another four years.

Plans were for it to be "a comprehensive book on Biden's presidency."

The report explained, "Simon and Schuster’s decision comes as a series of Biden books have sold relatively poorly — compared, at least, to the standards set by many best-sellers about predecessor DONALD TRUMP. Thompson is now actively engaged in talks with other publishers and is still working on the draft, according to a person close to him."

It continued, "GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI’s 'The Long Alliance' has sold around 1,500 hardcover copies, according to NPD BookScan, while CHRIS WHIPPLE’s 'The Fight of His Life' has sold around 5,000 and FRANKLIN FOER‘s 'The Last Politician' around 12,000. That compares to the nearly 1 million copies that MICHAEL WOLFF’s Trump-focused 'Fire and Fury' sold, also per NPD BookScan, and the more than 400,000 copies sold of BOB WOODWARD and ROBERT COSTA’s 'Peril.'"

A report at the Post Millennial cited the "lack of market interest" in a Biden book.

"People don't buy Biden books," the report explained.

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Over the last few months, especially in light of record-setting numbers of illegal aliens entering the U.S. under Joe Biden's open borders policies, even White House officials were beginning to think that they may have to crack down on the criminal activities on the border.

That's no longer a priority.

A report at Daily Caller News Foundation notes that Biden is thinking about granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

"Biden and his administration are weighing several ideas to take a tougher stance on the southern border crisis and illegal immigration amid criticisms he has thus far failed to act on either," the report said. "The administration could start doling out green cards to illegal immigrants who have long stayed inside the United States, thereby giving them amnesty to stay in the country, three people familiar with the planning told Politico."

This plan would give aliens who have been living in the U.S. for more than 10 years access to the cancellation of a removal program provided that they have relatives who would suffer if they were deported, the report said.

Then Biden would give out green cards, which grants permanent residency permission.

Three officials reported, in a Politico report, that would represent a larger effort by Biden to take action on behalf of illegal immigrants who have long stayed inside the U.S., similar to Barack Obama's highly controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals agenda.

The Politico report noted that Biden had been discussing executive actions on the border "to curb migration."

However, Biden did nothing and that's about what should be expected in the future, the report said.

"Inside the White House, aides do not feel a sense of urgency like they did before, even as the issue of immigration remains a chief concern for voters," the report said.

"The administration’s change in posture is owed, in part, to the downtick in migration numbers following a record-breaking number of illegal crossings in December. There remain questions about whether any action taken by the White House would pass legal muster. But while internal conversations around policy moves have continued, Biden aides also note that media coverage is less intense than it was earlier this year."

One source told Politico, "They’re in that pretty classic mode of, nothing is on fire right now."

Politico noted Biden still could move forward, but no specific action that previously was considered has yet been confirmed – or ruled out.

But the attitude now, the report said, is that Biden "has some space to deal with the matter."

The speculation by observers is that Biden's team thinks the politics turned in their favor by the rejection in Congress of a border deal, and the House focus on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the report said.

The invasion by illegal aliens, however, remains a hot topic in this 2024 election year, with large numbers of Americans putting that as their biggest concern.

Republicans have pointed out that Biden deliberately opened the border, and then publicized his plans to accept all illegals who arrived when he took office and canceled President Donald Trump's mostly effective security measures.

They point out that if Biden wanted a secure border, he simply could restore those programs.

Biden has claimed Congress has to act before he can do anything.

The Daily Caller News Foundation report said Biden also has been considering more support for states and cities that have seen hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens dumped on their streets.

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A bond demanded by a leftist judge in New York who decided in a case that had no victims that President Donald Trump committed fraud and should be fined almost half a billion dollars has been slapped down by an appeals court.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the ruling means the court will block the collection of Engoron's judgment, a punishment demanded by New York Attorney General Letitia James as the answer to her campaign promise to "get" Trump if Trump's companies can post a bond of $175 million in 20 days.

The original deadline for the bond was Monday. And Trump's lawyers already had offered to post a bond of $100 million to appeal Engoron's punishment.

Trump said, "Judge Engoron has refused to obey the decision of the Appellate Division relative to the Statute of Limitations. This is a confrontation between a Judge and those who rule above him - A very bad situation in which to place New York State and the Rule of Law!

"Engoron has disrespected the Appellate Division and its very clear and precise ruling. He should be made to do so, and at the same time, release the GAG ORDER. This is the 5th time in this case that he has been overturned, a record. His credibility, and that of Letitia James, has been shattered.

"We will abide by the decision of the Appellate Division, and post either a bond, equivalent securities, or cash. This also shows how ridiculous and outrageous Engoron’s original decision was at $450 Million.

"I DID NOTHING WRONG, AND NEW YORK SHOULD NEVER BE PUT IN A POSITION LIKE THIS AGAIN. BUSINESSES ARE FLEEING, VIOLENT CRIME IS FLOURISHING, AND THIS MUST BE RESOLVED IN ITS TOTALITY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!"

Earlier in the case, Trump, and many other experts in real estate, guffawed when Engoron claimed Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida was worth only $18 million. In reality, real estate values in the exclusive neighborhood could make it worth 50 times that much, or more.

"How did the Attorney General of the State of New York force this Corrupt Judge to do that to help her narrative - AND WHY?" he posted.

Trump has reported nearly $500 million in cash. Fox News reported his company, Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, is set to become public after a merger on Monday. The company will trade on the Nasdaq as "DJT." Trump owns more than 78 million shares of the stock, valued at nearly $4 billion."

Engoron's decision came without any jury after months of James' claims about activities that commercial real estate brokers have described as ordinary.

Trump and his companies have denied any wrongdoing. The appeals decision will allow him to continue running the company, something James opposed, while the appeal is being considered.

"Trump's defense also brought in expert witnesses, including New York University accounting professor Eli Bartov, who reviewed the Trump financial statements at issue in the case and said he found no evidence of accounting fraud," the report said.

Trump's lawyers had explained a week ago bonding companies were unable to consider a bond of that magnitude.

There also had been arguments against Engoron's financial demands based on the constitutional principles against excessive punishment, and equal access to the courts, meaning Engoron's demands might have been established simply to prevent Trump from being able to appeal his ruling.

The report noted that legal analysts had predicted James "will most likely move to seize former President Donald Trump's bank accounts" without a bond being provided.

They said the bank accounts likely would be more readily seized than property, with its complicated ownership status.

WND reported earlier that a commentary published at the Washington Examiner warned the agenda pursued by James and Engoron was turning America into a "3rd World" country with their attack on Trump.

They worked together to come up with a $450 million penalty for Trump and his business through an archaic fraud law – despite the fact there were no complaints against Trump, no one lost any money, all the loans were repaid, and the factors involved essentially included routine real estate deal procedures.

"The biggest casualty of this grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power will be America. We are losing the one thing that separates us from Third World countries: equal justice under the law," explained Elizabeth Stauffer, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation Academy and a contributor to multiple publications.

She pointed out that James repeatedly has threatened that if Trump cannot pay the fine plus interest, she will move to seize his New York assets.

The appeals court's decision to suspend Engoron's decision and allow a bond means Trump's case then can be heard by appeals judges.

The commentary pointed out, "Not only was this a victimless crime, according to George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, but during the trial, 'witnesses [loan officers] testified that they wanted to do more business with Trump, who was described as a ‘whale’ client with high yield business opportunities.'"

And the ramifications already have started, with Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary perceiving the Democrats’ abuse of the legal system against Trump as an "attack on America."

"The reason this is the No. 1 economy on Earth is because we have laws and we have due process. And we have property rights. It attracts capital from all around the world. All of that is being shaken to the core here. It has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point, in my view, and it is completely bipartisan. This is an attack on America. No one is going to put any money to work in New York in these amounts until this thing settles down. The whole world is watching, and everybody’s waiting for one thing we haven’t got yet: adult supervision," he said.

Stauffer suggested given the goals established by James and Engoron, "What investor, foreign or domestic, would risk buying property in New York? Or in any other Democratic-run U.S. city? James is going for immediate gratification here and ignoring the unintended medium- and long-term consequences that will surely follow. "

"O’Leary is right. Love him or hate him, this is bigger than Donald Trump. The biggest casualty of this grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power will be America."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

A church in Arizona has sued the city of San Luis for its suddenly "hostile" attitude to a much-used food distribution ministry after a new mayor was elected.

The action, brought by First Liberty Institute and the law firm Snell and Wilmer, seeks a preliminary injunction in a filing in federal court in Arizona, "urging the court to stop the City of San Luis from blocking Gethsemani Baptist Church from distributing food to the poor.'

That ministry, nearly 25 years old, "fills a critical need" in the city "because no other food ministries exist within the city."

Over the years, "the city often celebrates or even participates in the church’s ministry efforts."

Then a new mayor came into office.

"Although the church had operated the food ministry in the same manner for approximately twenty-three years without complaint, the city suddenly turned hostile, bombarding the church with a series of accusations that the church’s use of its property and semi-trucks [to deliver food] violate the city’s zoning code, and threatening to take enforcement action if the church does not cease its operations."

The church explained it has been doing nothing illegal, and it promised to work through issues that could develop in the future, but city officials "refused to even discuss a solution that would allow the ministry to continue—even resorting to citing the church’s pastor for passing out food to just a few hungry people."

"It’s unconscionable that the city of San Luis won’t allow Gethsemani Baptist Church to continue its 25-year mission of providing food for the hungry, hurting people in the surrounding communities," explained First Liberty senior counsel Jeremy Dys.

"People who take action to care for the hungry should be encouraged and affirmed, not threatened and fined."

The church is located just blocks from the Mexico border and distributes hundreds of thousands of pounds of food and other household needs to the most vulnerable families in its area.

It uses semi-trucks to deliver food to its parking lot, from which it is handed out.

When a "new mayor" came to office, the city "sent letter after letter, moving the goalposts and not even allowing the church to benefit from laws already on the books. But even while the city has relentlessly worked to stop the church from parking its truck or storing and distributing food, the city turns a blind eye as commercial trucks and businesses regularly violate the same city codes in the same zoning district. Even after switching to smaller trucks in an attempt to comply with the city’s demands, the city continues to enforce its 'desist' order, preventing the church from ministering," the legal team explained.

The city's attacks have been so intense that recently when a "third-party truck accidentally parked in front of the church for just five minutes, the city cited the pastor again instead of the driver."

The complaint states that the city is "engaged in efforts of increasing severity to clamp down on the church, but throughout the same period, defendants have not enforced the same ordinances against similarly situated secular organizations that also use semi-trucks and store food in the same residential zone. Defendants are wielding city ordinances as a cudgel in a persistent lawfare campaign to stop the church's ministry activities."

That, the case charges, puts the city in violation of both federal and state law.

A key to the case appears to be the city's claim that the free food distribution is a "commercial" operation because it accepted "small donations" from those individuals wanting to support the ministry.

The city most recently called the church a "public nuisance" for giving away food and household items to residents who had needs.

And, the complaint charges, city officials informed the church that they intended to shut down the food distribution entirely.

At the same time the city allows, "Within blocks of the church, 18-wheeler semi-trucks and other commercial vehicles from FedEx, furniture stores, buses, food trucks, a tow truck company, and a local Head Start program are frequently seen parking, loading, and unloading on residential streets and residences—sometimes, for hours or days at a time."

The city stands accused of violating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and U.S. Constitution, and Arizona state law.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

An analysis at Bloomberg Law says that the Supreme Court appears "likely" to side with a former councilwoman from Texas who sued city officials for arresting her "in retaliation" for her opposition to a city manager.

The analysis pointed out that justices "on both sides of the court's ideological line" expressed opinions that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had stepped over the line in requiring her "to point to a situation exactly like hers that didn't result in an arrest to claim she was retaliated against."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The administration of Joe Biden on Tuesday made sure that former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was put behind bars for refusing to kowtow to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan commission she set up essentially to blame Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

"Every person who has taken me on this road to that prison is a friggin’ Democrat and a Trump-hater," explained Navarro, who now is the highest-ranking former member of former President Donald Trump’s administration to be jailed.