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Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump's chief for the Environmental Protection Agency, has announced plans to remove the foundation on which trillions of dollars of environmental rules are based.
He has announced a proposal that would remove the "endangerment" finding, from back in 2009, that claimed greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane actually "threaten" the public's health.
That concept is the base assumption on which myriad environmental rules, regulations and requirements are based.
A report at Fox Business explains the Barack Obama-era finding "serves as the legal foundation for a host of climate regulations stemming from the Clean Air Act."
Affected will be chemical plants, utilities, steel mills and more.
"With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers," Zeldin confirmed in a statement. "In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year."
He announced the looming change during an interview with the "Ruthless" podcast, calling the move against the green precedent one that will drive "a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion."
An estimated $54 billion spending for Americans each year will be saved because mandates like Joe Biden's forcing expensive electric vehicles on Americans will be scaled back.
"A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health," Zeldin said.
He said that's actually inaccurate.
"The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don't say … they say that climate change endangers human health, so because of these different mental leaps… then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed."
The announcement marked the beginning of a process through which the precedent actually will be dumped.
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A newly posted video online shows a police officer delivering Chick-fil-A food to a Doordash customer – because the delivery driver ignored a traffic ticket and was arrested en route.
"Hello sir, I got your Doordash. Your driver didn't take care of a traffic ticket," the officer explains.
The customer expresses gratitude and the officer continues, "He's going to jail. He's a good kid. Give him five stars."
He said, "He just didn't take care of a simple insurance ticket. He'll get out of jail real quick. Somebody's already on the way there. He'll just check in and leave."
The officer figured he would keep the situation from escalating, and deliver the food.
Actually similar situations have developed in multiple locations, sometimes officers deliver pizza when the driver gets caught and stopped, other times, other food.
Reports confirm officers who have made the extra effort to deliver to customers have been in Chicago, Arkansas, Arizona and several other states.
Reports said the latest video comes from body cam footage of a Rio Rancho, New Mexico, officer, Officer Steve Lucero, who "made sure the Chick-fil-A didn't get forgotten."
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Two senators are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate, and possibly prosecute, the manipulation of America's security apparatus by Barack Obama and team of his supporters.
The call is coming from Senate Republicans Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Cornyn, R-Teas
Their request has been directed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, to appoint a special counsel to investigate evidence released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who declassified papers she has characterized as showing plans by Obama and officials in his administration to hurt Trump.
The Washington Examiner reports both senators are on the Judiciary Committee.
They stated, in an announcement, "For the good of the country, we urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff, and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome."
They charged that evidence released by Gabbard has confirmed it is "evident that the entire Russia collusion hoax was created by the Obama administration to subvert the will of the American people."
There have been multiple calls for Obama and others to be investigated and even charged for making up stories about Trump and trying to undermine the agenda of a duly elected president.
"Gabbard has claimed Obama officials 'manufactured' evidence of 2016 Russian election interference and accused them of leading a 'treasonous conspiracy.' Gabbard revealed Wednesday she'd referred Obama and former senior aides to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution," the report noted.
A spokesman for Obama claimed the Democrat normally does not "dignify" White House statements with a response, but cited a Senate report from years ago that said Russians tried to influence the election but couldn't make a change in the results.
The Obama spokesman said the new allegations "are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction."
Cornyn said, "There's no question the Russians tried to do what the Russians always tried to do, but there's no evidence of collusion. There is evidence that members of the Obama administration essentially started a witch hunt against President Trump, which fell under the heading of the Russia hoax investigation."
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Riley Gaines, the former competitive swimmer turned activist for limiting women's sports to women, has swum from Alcatraz prison in California to shore while 31 weeks pregnant – raising some critical responses from her detractors.
According to Fox News, Gaines did the roughly 1.25-mile swim alongside U.S. Navy SEALs and combat veterans, as well as her husband, after getting clearance from her OBGYN.
She posted to social media a picture of herself after the swim, and quickly received vitriol. She said the act "broke the minds of liberals."
Then, on her podcast, Gaines read aloud a few comments and gave her take on each.
"'I guess putting your baby at a risk for click was a decision,'" Gaines read aloud. "I wonder where he got his doctorate. I didn't know Twitter had so many OBGYNs or doctors who suddenly know more about pregnancy and exercising while pregnant than my OB did, who cleared me to do this."
Another X user wrote: "Maybe not the best time to swim in the ocean then lol but what do I know."
"Nothing," responded Gaines. "You know nothing, at least about pregnancy and exercising while pregnant."
"I think I feel so great, and I have the entire time, because I have done things like this regularly, whether being pregnant or not being pregnant," Gaines said.
The following was Gaines favorite reply, she said:
"I love this one. This guy says – this is pretty amazing. He says, 'Imagine the torturous, horrific conditions for the fetus. Breathing, muscles squeezing, adrenaline overdosing, massive pressure on the cervix, womb, sack, and fetus. Then, the sloshing and incredibly loud noises. Quite the sadistic torture. Hope the fetus survives the mother's idiocy to be born, healthy. Poor baby …'
"First of all, my developing child in the womb is not a fetus, at this point. If she were to be born, obviously not ideal to be born nine weeks early and no one is to say for certain what will happen. But viability is 24-ish weeks."
Located on an island in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was a federal prison for several decades. The Trump administration is considering reopening the facility.
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There may, or may not, be a lot of new information coming out about convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his activities.
Those are suspected to include providing teenage girls to high-profile personalities including celebrities and politicians.
It appears a lot of the details long have been hidden – at least over the last four years when Democrats were in charge of investigatory procedures. The Trump administration first promised to release all the details, then concluded there was nothing more available, then reversed again and now is promising to release what's "credible."
And Trump's appointees just went a step further, promising a conversation with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for her involvement as an aide to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019, regarding sexually exploiting underage girls.
A report at the Liberty Daily explains Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche already has contacted Maxwell's legal team to assess her interest in speaking with prosecutors.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has confirmed that President Donald Trump has ordered the release of all credible evidence relating to the case.
She said if Maxwell has information about crimes committed against victims, the FBI and DOJ want to hear it.
Bondi said, "This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead."
Blanche said, "For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?"
A report at the Daily Caller News Foundation noted Blanche expects to meet with Maxwell "in the coming days."
House Democrats, who ignored their own party's inaction on the issue for years under Joe Biden, suddenly have begun insisting that Epstein-related information be released.
A commentary from noted opinion-writer Victor Davis Hanson has concluded, "The long and the short of it: There was never a list where he [Epstein] had a list of people who had engaged in pornographic or pedophilic behavior at his various residences. What the list implied was that in 2008, his first trial—and then again a few years later—there were a lot of testimonies in these indictments and convictions and text and evidence that was subpoenaed. So, names came up in text messages, emails, maybe some video on logs on the airplane. So, there's a long list, apparently, of over 170 people."
He noted names already available include Louis Freeh, former FBI director, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
"What am I getting at? All of these people had come in contact with this near-billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein. Apparently, he was close to Harvard University. He had a temporary office there. His modus operandi was to lavish money on political candidates, foundations, universities, celebrities, and entertain. And there was a subset in that group that engaged in pedophilic behavior," he explained.
He said, "I think Donald Trump is going to release all the information that the government has. There'll probably be 150 or 200 names. And we'll let the internet mob or individuals or Freedom of Information requests or lower court judges, they will adjudicate it and we will find out the particular statuses. The vast majority of people will be very innocent, that they didn't do anything wrong. But there will be some people that will have a cast, a shadow of doubt. And we'll have to find out."
He said Trump himself has plausible explanations for the photographs that show him with Epstein, with his decision some years ago to disassociated from Epstein.
"But for right now, I think he's salvaged this problem and aborted a controversy by just saying, 'Get this stuff out there and let the people decide.' It's the way it always should be in a democracy, in an open society," he said.
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A lot of accusations have been made against Democrats, particularly Barack Obama and his henchmen, John Brennan, James Comey and James Clapper, about what they did after President Donald Trump was elected to his first term to try to undermine him.
Russiagate, the Steele dossier, FISA warrants and a thousand other things may come into play.
But in essence newly declassified documents suggest they worked together to try to set up a campaign that would undermine the first term for the nation's duly elected president, and possibly prevent him from being re-elected.
Multiple referrals have been made already to the Department of Justice.
But now an expert, Mike Davis of the Article II Project, has confirmed the Democrats are unlikely to get a lot of protection from legal arguments like the statute of limitations, or even Obama's status as president when the events started developing.
In an interview with Benny Johnson, Davis explained Obama, "might be able to claim presidential immunity for his actions while he was the president of the United States, and they'll have to litigate that. It's unclear whether he'll ultimately get presidential immunity for this. But I'll tell you this: it's an ongoing criminal conspiracy. And presidential immunity covers his actions while he's the president of the United States.
"They don't cover his actions when he's the former president of the United States. And when he's participating in the cover-up of this conspiracy, then he doesn't have presidential immunity."
And about that statute of limitations, which for federal crimes generally is five years?
"Back in 2016, you had President Obama, and then-Vice President Joe Biden, and Clapper, and Comey, and Brennan, and so many other goons make up the Russian collusion hoax. They worked with Hillary's campaign, the DNC. You had Perkins Coie law firm. You made up the Steele Dossier. You made up the Russian collusion hoax. You were lying. You said that Trump and his campaign were colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. You fed this to the FISA Court as bogus evidence. So you lied to the FISA Court. You got an illegal spy warrant from this federal court. You spied on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. You continued to spy on Donald Trump when he was the president of the United States. You used his own FBI and his own CIA and other intel agencies to hobble his presidency.
"I remember when I went to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the beginning of his administration in 2017, and everyone was running around, including Senate Republicans, saying that Trump is a Russian asset because of this Russian collusion hoax."
The bottom line:
"So you say, 'Oh, this was 2016. We're well beyond the statute of limitations.' Guess what? You're not, because this is an ongoing criminal conspiracy. When you conspire, in order for the conspiracy to stop, you have to disavow — the conspiracy, the ends of the conspiracy have to end. It happens. They are covering up the conspiracy."
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A legal team at the Institute for Justice has dispatched a demand letter to officials in the town of Greers Ferry, Arkansas, insisting that they take down a surveillance camera that watches an innocent family 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The family, explains IJ lawyer Joshua Windham, "cannot enter or leave their own driveway without the city's camera capturing a picture of their movements."
The case involves Charlie and Angie Wolf, and the city's spy program.
The city contracted with a company to install automatic license plate readers, and the Flock Safety company did so, putting one just weeks ago across the street from the Wolfs' home and pointing it at them.
"As positioned, the camera captures their driveway and a good portion of their front yard," the IJ reported.
"After the camera was installed, Charlie reached out to the police chief to express his concerns and was told 'it's not moving.' The following month, the couple sent a letter to city council raising Fourth Amendment concerns and asking officials, once again, to move the camera. Then, in July, Charlie appeared before the city council to reiterate his concerns. At that meeting, city officials doubled down on their stance. City Attorney Blake Spears told Charlie: 'If you want the camera moved, my suggestion would be to get a court order,' and Police Chief Kallen Lacy added: 'We have no plans to move the camera,'" the IJ reported.
Among the concerns, Charlie Wolf said, is that, "Every time me, my family, friends, children or grandchildren come to, leave, play in the front yard or try to enjoy our private property, we are being photographed and added to a database without consent or violation of any law."
Windham said, "Simply put, the city has put the Wolfs under a state of constant surveillance, where they're effectively being treated as criminal suspects, even though they've done nothing wrong."
Of course the city has obtained no warrant for its spying.
The legal team pointed that already two state supreme Courts have concluded putting a surveillance camera in front of a home for months without a warrant is unconstitutional.
"Even if the camera wasn't located directly in front of the Wolfs' home, the decision to place several Flock cameras throughout the city may still violate the Fourth Amendment," the IJ pointed out. "In Carpenter v. United States, the United States Supreme Court ruled that using cell phone location data to retrace a person's past movements was a search that requires a warrant. Using cameras to capture the movements of every person who drives through the city is also a search that requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment."
The team pointed out that the Flock system already is being challenged in court for its presence in another city.
There a federal court denied that city's attempt to get the case dismissed "because the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged 'an injury caused by [the] installation and operation of the Flock camera'" and 'that a violation of [their] Fourth Amendment rights occurred.'"
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Fed-up with "bad people" pushing for the release of files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump on Wednesday unleashed a furious tirade against his own supporters, saying he no longer wants their support.
"I don't want their support anymore!" Trump exclaimed on Truth Social.
"My PAST supporters have bought into this 'bullsh**,' hook, line, and sinker."
His full statement reads:
"The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 "Intelligence" Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden's bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton's big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It's all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates.
Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this "bullsh**," hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.
I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country's history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Trump also told reporters Tuesday: "I don't understand it, why they'd be so interested. He's dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life, I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is."
"It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring. And I don't understand why it keeps going. I think really only pretty bad people including fake news want to keep something like that going. But credible information, let 'em give it. Anything that's credible, I would say let them have it."
He also said just before flying to Pittsburgh that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi should release more files if they were "credible."
"It's gonna be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release," Trump said, adding Bondi "has handled it very well."
On Wednesday, online journalist Nick Sortor noted: "I'm not sure this whole Epstein debacle could've been handled any worse."
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is now demanding a special counsel to probe the Epstein case.
"We need a special counsel. That has got to happen," she told journalist Benny Johnson.
"I hope it doesn't become a false idol to Republicans where we just lose sight of everything else, but that doesn't mean we don't want answers."
House Oversight Chair James Comer of Kentucky urged Bondi on Tuesday to begin exposing and arresting individuals connected to the Epstein network and its cover-up.
"Take the ball and run with it," Comer told Johnson. "People want to see accountability.
"There have been a lot of investigations. The Deep State has been exposed thanks to [CIA Director John] Ratcliffe and [FBI Director] Kash Patel. Let's start prosecuting these people. Let's set some examples out of some people."
Also speaking with Johnson, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia debunked a false narrative that House Republicans unanimously voted to block the release of the Epstein files.
"That is not true," she said, explaining it was merely a procedural vote to preclude Democrats from gaining control of the House floor.
"That means they could bring up anything. They could bring up impeachment articles against President Trump. They could bring up a whole package of insane, Democrat-agenda items and force votes on the House floor on these things."
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President Donald Trump is blasting his longtime political critic Adam Schiff, calling the Democrat senator from California "a scam artist" in the wake of new mortgage-fraud allegations.
In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said: "I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist.
"And now I learn that Fannie Mae's Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud.
"Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA.
"I always knew Adam Schiff was a Crook. The FRAUD began with the refinance of his Maryland property on February 6, 2009, and continued through multiple transactions until the Maryland property was correctly designated as a second home on October 13, 2020.
"Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice."
On Saturday, Schiff slammed Trump and his Department of Justice on MSNBC, saying: "Their modus operandi, and it comes from the top, the fish rots from the head, is Donald Trump whose real view, his life view, is yes he's crooked and yes he's a liar, but everyone is crooked, everyone is a liar, everybody does it. It's just that he's the crook and the liar of the GOP."
As WorldNetDaily reported in April, Schiff, most famous for leading impeachment efforts against Trump over disproven Russian collusion claims, announced he was writing to the White House to demand answers about allegations of insider trading.
In January, Schiff was caught on video sleeping during a Pam Bondi hearing.
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Faith-based organizations now are eligible to apply for emergency loans from the Small Business Administration, just like any other group across the nation, the SBA said in an announcement.
"The SBA is committed to ending the era of weaponized government that has systematically discriminated against Americans of faith – even denying them access to vital disaster relief in times of tragedy," SBA chief Kelly Loeffler said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner.
The report said they are eliminating a rule that previously had barred faith-based organizations from that loan program.
Loeffler said, "We are thrilled to announce our first-ever Center for Faith at the SBA to improve access to agency resources for the faith community, ensuring that all SBA programs are accessible to eligible Americans regardless of their religious affiliation. We are proud to uphold the principles of religious freedom that our nation was founded on – and look forward to forging lasting relationships that bring new small businesses into the SBA ecosystem."
The SBA called the previous rule the "Biden ban" even though the practice predated Biden's regime.
"The first Trump administration would not enforce existing SBA regulations on 'businesses principally engaged in teaching, instructing, counseling or indoctrinating religion or religious beliefs' that had been ineligible for SBA loans," the report said.
The decision was prompted by a 2016 Supreme Court ruling that confirmed a religion-based Missouri preschool and daycare could not be denied public benefits due to its religious component.
The federal funds are sought after tragedies because of the lower interest rates and better financing options than available from private lenders.