Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, who now writes for the Washington Post, predicted that President Joe Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden before leaving office in January, despite saying repeatedly that he would not do so.
Hunter Biden will be sentenced next month on drug and gun charges, and faces tax charges in an upcoming trial.
Woodward said that research for his forthcoming book "War" revealed that the president's mind is frequently on Hunter Biden's future, and that he has talked about a pardon with close friends.
"He worries about, where is this going to go? He has said he would not pardon him. There are a couple of trials coming up. Quite frankly, I know enough about Biden I don't believe that. I think he will pardon his son," Woodward told The Late Show's Stephen Colbert.
Biden also has fears his son will relapse into drug use if he is sent to prison, or just from the stress of multiple trials.
Presidents have the ability to pardon or commute the federal prison sentence of anyone they want to, without restriction. It has even been suggested that former President Donald Trump could pardon himself from federal crimes if he is re-elected.
While Bill Clinton was president, he pardoned his brother Roger Clinton for a 1985 drug possession charge for which Roger had served one year in jail.
One drawback of a pardon is that Biden may harm his party's reputation and hurt chances in future elections.
But do we really think people will remember something that long, or care about it as much after some time has passed?
The American people have a relatively short attention span for negative political news or activity--maybe because there is so much of it.
No loving parent wants their child to go to prison, even if they deserve it.
It's likely that Trump would pardon his children if they were ever convicted of a federal crime, and would give as a reason that the charges were unfair.
While those who don't like Biden anyway will be angry that he let his son off the hook for a lot of bad things, others may understand that parental instinct to protect their children from harm.
Trump even said he could possibly pardon Hunter Biden, while noting that the First Son had been a "bad boy."
Vice President Kamala Harris teased her first executive actions should she win Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris announced on Friday that her first potential executive order would be to eliminate college degree requirements for specific federal jobs.
There has been a lot of speculation about what Harris will actually do in the event that she wins Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris has come under fire for flip-flopping on a handful of left-wing policies she once campaigned on before 2020. Her flip-flipping has earned her the ire of many leftists who want to see her enact radical policies if she becomes president.
Harris's plan to slash college degree requirements is far from a radical idea and likely won't excite many of her supporters who want to see her enact more radical changes.
Kamala Harris was as radical as they came when she was a Senator from California but when she was selected as President Joe Biden's running mate in 2020, Harris completely shed her radical image.
That issue has only gotten worse ever since Harris took over for Biden in July as she has become even more malleable and fluid in what she supports.
Harris announced her plans to slash degree requirements during an event at an IBEW local union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin. Harris was in Wisconsin in order to try and shore up her support base in a state she can't afford to lose as Republicans are making gains.
Harris stated during her appearance in Wisconsin that, "The press is always asking me, ‘What are you going to do on day one?’ One of the things I’m doing on day one — because I can do it by executive order — is I will eliminate unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs. And then I will challenge the private sector to do the same.”
Harris has been talking about reducing degree requirements for certain federal jobs to expand opportunities for individuals without a four-year degree.
Harris hopes to extend this idea to the private sector but obviously, she has no power to enact such policies. She wants to use the federal government to lead a change that will lead to less need for four-year degrees.
Harris's decision to confirm reducing degree requirements as her first executive action is a safe move designed to make her presidency seem as centrist as possible.
It is the other executive actions that Harris could take that would be absolutely catastrophic. Harris has repeatedly discussed using price controls to combat rising food costs, a policy that would have terrible consequences.
However, going into an election she isn't favored to win, Harris needs to play it safe and try and make Americans forget that she is an extreme radical.
The Trump campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the Washington Post for making “illegal corporate in-kind contributions to Harris for President.”
Trump's FEC complaint comes after a Semafor report on how the Washington Post pays to boost stories “critical of Trump as subscribers flee,” a story that mentions how the Washington Post “aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting dozens of articles related to the election."
Trump's complaint stated, "The facts support a reasonable inference that The Washington Post made, and Harris for President accepted, an illegal corporate contribution in the form of coordinated communications."
The mainstream media has been cooperating with Democrats for years but now it appears that they have crossed a serious line.
Trump's complaint continued saying, "Therefore, the Commission should find reason to believe a violation has occurred, conduct an immediate investigation, and assess an appropriate sanction for this corporate interference in our elections."
Trump deputy general counsel Gary Lawkowski accused The Washington Post of “conducting a dark money corporate campaign in opposition to President Donald J. Trump — pretextually using its own online advertising efforts to promote Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy.”
This FEC complaint is more bad news for The Washington Post after they angered leftists last week by refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President.
This led to a spree of subscribers leaving as the target audience for The Washington Post is decidedly leftist.
Reportedly, the decision not to endorse Harris came from the very top as Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was the one who gave the order to keep The Washington Post "non-partisan" this election cycle.
Bezos defended his decision saying, "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election," which may be true but that didn't make his leftist subscribers any happier.
So not only is The Washington Post seeing an exodus of subscribers, but they could also face serious litigation for violating The Federal Election Campaign Act.
The election has come down to the wire with just days to go and the mainstream media is doing everything in its power to boost Kamala Harris over the finish line.
The electioneering from The Washington Post is a fraction of what is happening right now as Democrats desperately try and stop Donald Trump from achieving victory.
Election fraud, voter suppression, and other shenanigans are afoot and the RNC and the Trump campaign are hard at work trying to stay on top of everything.
The question is, will it be enough to stop the Democrat machine and prevent four more years of Democrat rule?
U.S. District Judge Richard Myers dealt another blow to fair elections in the important swing state of North Carolina on Thursday, ruling that a case involving how to count absentee ballots should remain in federal prosecution and guaranteeing that it won't be resolved before the 2024 election.
Myers said in a two-page ruling that the State Board of Elections was correct to remove a lawsuit challenging the state election board's guidance to federal court, rather than return it to state court as requested by the RNC.
Republicans say the board's guidance goes against a state voting law passed last year that requires absentee ballots to be submitted in a sealed, two-envelope package to keep the ballot and required identifying information secure.
The guidance states that ballots missing the second, sealed envelope should still be counted.
The RNC, the state's organization, and a voter filed the suit in late September in state court, but it was removed to federal court in October.
The board said if it followed the RNC's demands it would have to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
There have been multiple legal challenges to North Carolina's voter rules in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
Last week, the appeals court ruled that the RNC's challenge to 225,000 overseas voter registrations in the state would also have to be heard in federal court, effectively barring any action there.
The only win the RNC has gotten is to prevent students and staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from using digital ID to vote.
It makes the state more of a toss-up than it would be, because there are potentially hundreds of thousands of voters on the rolls that shouldn't be.
Considering that the last election came down to three states and not more than 25,000 votes in any one of them, this is highly concerning.
RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump up 1.5% in North Carolina with just days until the election.
It's a bigger margin than he had over President Joe Biden in 2020, when he won the state by 1.34%.
Trump holds a slight lead in almost all of the seven swing states that are most at play in this year's contest, but most of his leads are within a poll's usual margin of error.
Video supposedly showing Vice President Kamala Harris yawning went viral due to a competing effort that claimed it was Harris, not Trump, who is exhausted.
Kamala Harris can be seen yawning while seated aboard her plane in a video that was shared by the Trump war room, as Breitbart News reported.
Kamala Harris's campaign recently launched an assault against the former vice president, claiming that the 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate was exhausted.
This attack came at a time when Donald Trump was canceling several interviews with mainstream media outlets. 'Yikes,' Trump war room posted sharing a video of Kamala Harris sitting inside her plane and yawning.
Kamala is exhausted — cracking under the rigors of a presidential campaign after she was installed as a nominee who didn't earn a single vote. Yikes! pic.twitter.com/MFgLlB4jiy
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
"Kamala is exhausted -- cracking under the rigors of a presidential campaign after she was installed as a nominee who didn't earn a single vote," the Trump supporter's handle posted.
Several MAGA handles shared the video and mocked the vice president.
"Kamala's constantly saying that Trump is exhausted.. here is Kamala yawning. She doesn't have the stamina to run our country. They would have to dig her back out of bed just like they have to with Biden," one wrote.
"Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump this exhausted," another wrote.
Just weeks ago the Harris campaign shared a video, asserting that it showed Trump nodding off at a campaign event, asserting that the 78-year-old presidential contender was too "exhausted" to run for office.
"An exhausted Trump appears to be falling asleep during his campaign event," the Harris campaign posted to its X account.
This is just one of many accusations leveled by the Harris campaign on Friday in an effort to portray Trump as "exhausted."
This comes after a story in Politico said that a Trump adviser had told the former president he was "exhausted" and was declining interviews.
"Being president of the United States is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world," Harris said to reporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, referencing the Politico report.
"And so, we really do need to ask if he’s exhausted being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?"
However, following the Harris video making the rounds, one user responded saying, "Kamala is seen falling asleep on her plane after an easy day campaigning. 18 years younger than Trump, and she can't keep up with him. Who's the exhausted one?"
The final battle lines have been drawn, and the two leading presidential candidates are raking in the last bits of support they can muster.
The more surprising of those elements ore the ones who reach across the political aisle and pick up the torch for a candidate that violates their political history.
Such was the case with former Republican President George W. Bush's daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush.
Barbara, named for her grandmother, and first lady in the first Bush administration under George H.W. Bush, is now stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend," Pierce Bush said, according to Breitbart News.
"I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights,” the former first daughter and first granddaughter went on.
Bush’s paternal grandfather, George H.W. Bush, sat in the oval office from 1989 to 1993, and her father, George W. Bush was president from 2000-2008.
Pierce Bush, 42, one of the twin daughters of the 43rd president, describes herself as an independent and does not fully identify with either major party, despite her Republican family background.
Also in 2017, Pierce Bush, a mother of two, expressed her support for Planned Parenthood at a fundraiser.
“I am proud to stand with Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they are from, deserve to live dignified, healthy lives, [but] … because it’s a really good investment,” she said at the time, per The Texas Tribune.
“We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are healthier, too.”
She has also defied Republican Party orthodoxy on abortion and same-sex marriage, as has her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush. In the 2024 cycle, both George W. and Laura Bush have declined to endorse.
First Lady Barbara Bush has a long-standing animosity against Republican contender Donald Trump and had also broken with the GOP on abortion, as all first ladies of the Republican party since Roe v. Wade had done.
Furthermore, former Vice President Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, and his daughter, former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), has consistently advocated for Harris during the campaign.
During the 2016 Republican primary, George W. Bush's brother, former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, famously engaged in a contentious debate with the real estate magnate.
However, George P. Bush, Jeb's eldest son, had expressed his admiration for Trump during his unsuccessful campaign for Texas attorney general in 2022.
Ten days before the 2024 presidential election, Republican nominee former President Donald Trump earned a key endorsement from Muslim leaders in the battleground state of Michigan.
"I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders," Trump told a thundering crowd at a rally in Novi, Michigan as he brought them on stage.
The leaders said they were supporting Trump because of his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and end wars everywhere.
"We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war!" Imam Belal Alzuhairi said.
"We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine," Alzuhairi said. "The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason."
"We're going to stop the wars, we're going to make the United States safe again, and we're going to make the world safe," Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi, the first Muslim-American and Arab mayor there, said.
"What a nice endorsement," Trump said after Bazzi’s speech. "These are great people."
The endorsement followed one by Detroit suburb Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib on October 20.
"Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time," Ghalib wrote in Arabic on Facebook. "I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next President of the United States, Donald Trump."
Trump met with Ghalib briefly before the endorsement, and Ghalib then said Trump "knew a lot about me before the meeting."
"We talked about various topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistics of votes in Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans in particular. We also talked about the situation in Yemen," Ghalib said.
Early voting is underway in Michigan, and a record 1.2 million voters have already voted there.
Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris leads Trump by .3% in Michigan, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, but Trump has momentum and could still pull ahead there.
Most pundits feel that the election is too close to call and that either candidate could win.
The Justice Department under President Joe Biden and his wanna-be successor Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has "absolutely" been going after their political opponents, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (OH) told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
Host Kristin Welker pointed out that two of Trump's former high-ranking staffers in the U.S. military came out and called him fascist last week, which she apparently considered incriminating.
“Let me ask you about what we heard this week," she said. "Donald Trump’s chief of staff former General John Kelly, said he is a fascist. Mark Milley also called him a fascist. When two four-star generals who worked so closely with Donald Trump called him a fascist why shouldn’t voters believe them, senator?”
But Vance had a response ready for her that explained perfectly well why they might have done so.
Vance said, “I think Mark Milley and John Kelly are disgruntled employees. The very things they accused Donald Trump of people who were in the room at the time some of those comments have made have said explicitly Donald Trump did not say the things he was accused of."
Trump has been the victim of numerous allegations that were later refuted by others who witnessed what actually happened.
Most recently, he was accused by The Atlantic of complaining about paying for a military funeral of a murdered female soldier.
The magazine quoted anonymous sources who told them that Trump said, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican" when he got the bill for the funeral of Vanessa Guillén after offering the family to help paying for it.
Supposedly, he also ordered his chief of staff at the time Mark Meadows not to pay the bill.
Guillén's sister spoke out after the story broke to dispute its allegations.
“I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics – hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members,” she wrote. “President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”
An attorney for the family, Natalie Khawam, and Meadows also disputed the account, with Khawam saying,
After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story. More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder … for cheap political gain.
As for the accusations of fascism, Vance argued effectively that Trump's previous tenure disproves the entire narrative.
"Donald Trump was president for four years. If he was what John Kelly said he was then why did Donald Trump deliver peace and prosperity? He didn’t arrest his political opponents as Kamala Harris and her Department of the Justice have in fact done," Vance said.
Former President Donald Trump made the bold claim that he could win New York in November and flip a Democrat stronghold.
During a tele-rally Saturday night with House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Trump made the bold claim that he could be the first Republican candidate to win New York since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
The virtual rally with Stefanik went out to nearly one million Trump supporters to push early voting and hopefully push Republican momentum in New York.
Trump has a growing support base in New York and is holding a massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City where thousands are expected to attend.
While New York is a Democrat state run be Democrats, many citizens are fed up and there is a growing movement for Trump that he is kindling.
Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in all the major swing states and his momentum is growing so strong that his strategists are eying vulnerable blue states.
The vaunted "Blue Wall" has cracks in the foundation and Trump believes that New York, his home state, is one of those compromised links.
During his tele-rally with Stefanik, Trump stated, "We want to get everybody out [to vote] because we think we could actually win New York. We’re leading, as you know, in all the swing states, and I think we’re leading potentially very big. We set a record in early voting, and a lot of them were voters that don’t vote that much, which is pretty amazing."
Trump went on to discuss the significant policies that he could make for New York as President which will reverse a serious decline that has hit the Empire State.
Harris's support in New York has declined significantly compared to President Joe Biden's support in 2020. Biden won New York 76-23 in 2020 but Harris is down to 66% support.
While it is a long shot, it's not entirely out of the question that Trump could break a decades-long trend and win a key Democrat state.
Trump has an opportunity to do many historic things in this election. The momentum is firmly in his favor and if current polling is accurate, Trump is set to have a "Reaganesque" win in November.
Harris represents the stagnation and failure of the Biden presidency that has caused so much suffering and hardship for Americans.
Trump is promising a return to his first term which many Americans fondly remember as some of the best years of this century.
While the election is still likely to be deadly close, there is a lot of optimism around the Trump campaign which is in stark contrast to the doom and gloom plaguing the Harris campaign.
Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson has revealed that he's backing former President Trump to win back America's White House in 2024. A recent video shows Mel Gibson being asked about the presidential race while he was at the airport in Los Angeles.
"I don't think it's gonna surprise anyone who I vote for," Mel Gibson said.
Gibson then joked that Donald Trump would be a "pretty good guess." Mel was then asked what "the world would be like" if Donald Trump was able to get into office for a second term.
The "Lethal Weapon" star almost seemed more concerned about the dangers of Kamala Harris:
"I know what it'll be like if we let her in," Gibson said. "That ain't good. A miserable track record, an appalling track record, no policies to speak of, and she's got the IQ of a fence post."
If you've been paying attention, you're probably not too surprised that Mel Gibson is going with Donald Trump. The "Hacksaw Ridge" director was spotted making conversation with Donald Trump at a Dana White-owned UFC event in 2023.
Mel Gibson may be one of the biggest names, but he's far from the only star in America who's endorsed Trump recently. The list is growing longer as more and more celebrities realize what's at stake for the future of America.
Ever since RFK Jr. dropped from the race, the "Shazam!" star has been open about who he wants to vote for. He even served as a moderator for a recent Trump Campaign event.
"In a perfect world, in whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby," Levi told the audience. "But we don’t live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a very broken one. We live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff, and we’re here to stop that."
"We are going to take back this country. We are going to make it great again, we’re going to make it healthy again. And so I stand with Bobby and I stand with everyone else who is standing with President Trump. Of the two choices that we have, and we only have two, President Trump is the man that can get us there," Levi added.
Despite the famous actor previously discussing some reservations he had about Donald Trump, Dennis Quaid is leaving no doubt about who he's voting for in 2024.
"As president, the only thing I liked about Trump was everything he did," Quaid said. "It just makes sense. I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw as — more than politics — I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our constitution."
Kid Rock is another of Donald Trump's most famous supporters. When Trump experienced his assassination attempt, Kid Rock was one of the people vocal about his support for the former president.
Do you think that these celebrity endorsements like Mel Gibson will help tip the scales in Trump's favor? For the sake of America, let's hope so.