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It was many years ago already, but at the Denver convention for Democrats when Barack Obama was nominated, he ranted and grimaced, and promised America was about to fundamentally change.
Since then, the evidence shows he wanted to push the United States into a socialist realm of government mandates and control – remember the demands in Obamacare?
But Democrats now have gone far beyond, according to a commentary from Chris Queen, an editor at PJ Media.
Now, he explained, Democrats now want "to end America."
"For starters, the left has put all its chips in on abortion. It only took a couple of decades for leftists to go from 'safe, legal, and rare' to 'shout your abortion.' Killing babies has become a rite of passage for left-wing women, and pushing abortion is now a non-negotiable talking point," he said.
In fact, it's one of the key talking points on which Joe Biden has based his presidency.
"It has become important to the Democrats to advocate for abortion as much as possible because fewer babies mean fewer future Americans (and potential Republican voters)," he explained.
Then there's the "LGBTQETC" movement.
Also a Biden priority, Queen explained it "is antithetical to human flourishing because gay and lesbian couples can't naturally produce children."
But, he said, "The transgender movement is even more pernicious because gender transition puts transgender individuals at high risk for infertility. Democrats don't care that transgender people are messes of chemicals, wrong hormones, and fake body parts, and they definitely don't care that they're rendering thousands of individuals unable to have children."
Third up is the border crisis created by Biden when he took office and trashed all of President Donald Trump's security plans.
"Allowing so many foreign nationals to flood into the country brings in many potential new voters, and the Democrats are gambling on these illegal aliens voting Democrat as soon as they're able to," he said.
And there are the attacks on American freedoms and rights.
"Leftists will never back off from gun control, and we've witnessed time and time again how soft Democrats are on crime," he said. "But the principle most under assault in the U.S. these days is free speech. This move began under the Obama administration when his IRS went after conservative organizations, but the Biden administration and its cronies in Big Tech have turned the suppression of speech into an art form, labeling anything that bucks its narrative as 'disinformation.'"
He warned, "You can't speak out against what's going on in this country without the left attacking you. During COVID-19, leftist authoritarians tried to quell your freedom of expression and assembly if you didn't line up for the vaccine and its endless boosters. If you speak up against letting kids undergo transgender treatments, the left says you want kids to die. If you stand up for the unborn, you're anti-woman. If you advocate for Judeo-Christian values, you're a Christian nationalist."
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A London-based journalist, working for the Palestinian agenda-promoting daily Rai Al-Youm, is calling for extremists to attack American interests wherever they are found.
It is the Middle East Media Research Institute that uncovered the comments from Abd Al-Bari Atwan, who works for the Rai Al-Youm publication.
He called on the "resistance," led by Iran and Hezbollah, to "strike at U.S. interests, not just Israeli interests."
He said that's because the U.S. provides Israel with weapons and is a "direct accomplice" in its "crimes."
The comments came in response to Israel's reaction to the Hamas terror attack on its civilians, in which 1,200 were butchered in often horrific ways, last October 7.
Israel has committed to removing the threat of terrorism from the Hamas terror group based in Gaza.
Atwan wrote, "U.S. President Joe Biden phoned Spanish chef José Andrés, founder of the World [Central] Kitchen charity, to express his condolences for the martyrdom of seven of his employees in a rocket attack carried out by an Israeli drone against their vehicles in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. Israeli President Isaac Herzog did likewise. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron summoned the Israeli ambassador and conveyed to him a letter of protest. All these contacts and condolences took place [only] because three of the seven fallen were British, Australian, and Polish citizens. No one expressed condolences for the deaths of the four Palestinians who were among the victims..."
He continued, "[Although] John Kirby, the White House spokesman [sic; he is White House National Security Communications Advisor] stated at a press conference that President Biden is furious about the deaths of the seven employees of the [World] Central Kitchen international aid organization, he also said that 'Washington will continue to ensure that Israel can defend itself.' This is the height of effrontery and bias in favor of the murderers..."
Atwan claimed, "President Biden is a direct accomplice in this extermination... not only by means of sending advanced missiles and stealth aircraft to the occupation state, but also because he gives [this state], and the massacres it carries out, protection and political support at the U.N. and worldwide. His claim that he had no advance knowledge of the missile attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, in which 14 senior commanders of the Qods Force were martyred, is a lie, in a desperate attempt to distance himself from this act of terrorism."
Then he demanded that the "resistance axis" retaliate against the U.S., hitting targets over the fact the U.S. is a "direct accomplice" in "crimes" in Gaza, south Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
"I am astonished at those who warn of the U.S.'s might and play up [the capability] of its weapons... These weaklings forget that this superpower was defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq, and will soon be defeated in Yemen, the sister who declared war on it and on its aircraft carriers in the Red Sea, the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, and the Arabian Sea."
He called on Arabs to devote all their "military and economic capabilities to this goal."
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Democrats repeatedly have lashed out at how they see it as inappropriate that the Republican party is covering some of President Donald Trump's legal fees.
It's fine, however, when they do it for Joe Biden.
The double standard has been revealed in a report from Axios, which noted, "President Biden used campaign donations to help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel's probe into his handling of classified documents."
Axios reported two people familiar with the matter confirmed that, and the statements aligned with a review of campaign finance records.
The payments were made through the Democratic National Committee, but the report said they are "at odds with the Biden campaign's recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees."
The special counsel concluded that there was ample evidence that Biden willfully and knowingly took government classified documents, to which he was not entitled as vice president, with him and kept them in his home, an office, and even in an unsecured garage. The council recommended, however, no charges based on Biden's status as a person with "diminished" capacities.
Trump has been accused of essentially the same offense, even after he explained as president he declared that those were personal documents. The difference is that a Democrat prosecutor has brought dozens of serious criminal charges against Trump over the issue.
The report explained financial filings from the DNC confirm it has paid "more than $1.5 million to lawyers or firms representing Biden during the probe."
But, the report pointed out, "The Biden team increasingly has attacked Trump for using campaign donations to pay for his myriad legal fights."
Those fights largely come from a series of allegations from Democrat prosecutors that give the appearance of singling out Trump and trying to prevent him from being on the 2024 presidential ballot.
"Asked about Biden's use of the DNC to pay his legal bills, DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd told Axios: 'There is no comparison — the DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors' money on legal bills — unlike Donald Trump, who actively solicits legal fees from his supporters and has drawn down every bank account he can get his hands on, like a personal piggy bank,'" the report said.
The report documented, "The DNC … mocked the RNC for picking up some of Trump's legal tab."
The Daily Mail was more blunt, stating, "President Joe Biden used campaign donations to pay his legal bills related to the investigation of his handling of classified documents."
And, "Biden and his allies have blasted rival Donald Trump for using donors' money to pay for his massive legal bills. But Biden is doing the same thing."
The Republican National Committee asked DNC chief Jamie Harrison to explain to donors why their money was spent on Biden's legal fees.
The report said, "The Republican National Committee had paid some of Trump's legal bills but since he became a presidential candidate in 2022, his legal bills have been paid from campaign donations to his Save America PAC. The RNC has now told donors none of their money will go to Trump's fights in court."
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Consumers in America have been paying significantly higher prices for goods and services since Joe Biden took office – and they're still going up.
So far, inflation has reached about 19% during Biden's tenure.
But, his promoters trying to build support for his Bidenomics and a second term say, wages also have been going up.
Might be. But not enough to keep pace, as a new report confirms that inflation-adjusted wages now actually are lower than when he took office.
A report from Fox Business confirmed the "average hourly pay today [is] below what it was in January 2021."
The White House focuses on one excerpt of the facts, that wage growth has outpaced inflation over the last year.
"Inflation is down two-thirds from its peak and annual core inflation is the lowest since May 2021. Wages are rising faster than prices over the last year and since the pandemic," Biden said just weeks ago.
"Prices for key household purchases like gas, milk, eggs, and appliances are lower than a year ago. Inflation is down while unemployment has remained below 4% for the longest stretch in more than 50 years," he claimed.
The report pointed out wages rose 4.1% in March from March 2023, but the "real" average hourly wage, as of Feb. 2024, was $11.11 per hour, down 29 cents from the $11.40 in Jan. 2021.
That's down 2.5%.
Under Biden's tenure, starting in April 2021, "American workers experienced 25 consecutive months of negative real wage growth, averaging -2.0%," the report said.
Inflation peaked at 9.1% under Biden, and as of the most recent numbers, consumer prices are up a "stunning" 18.59% under Biden.
Hourly earnings also are up, but only 15.9%, the report confirmed.
"Inflation creates severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, especially low-income Americans, who effectively take pay cuts when prices rise. Before the pandemic, workers were used to wages growing at a faster rate than inflation."
The report noted, "Former President Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, has called for additional tax cuts to stimulate economic growth and higher tariffs on imported goods to protect American jobs and boost manufacturing."
Biden's programs have included massive spending schemes – often in the trillions of dollars.
A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday said the consumer price index, a broad measure of everyday goods, rose 3.5% on an annual basis in March, and 0.4% month-over-month, up from 3.2% in February year over year.
Core CPI, which excludes energy and food, surged 3.8%.
"Indexes like the median CPI and trimmed-mean CPI remove outliers and they show inflation much higher than the headline, or even the core, inflation rates," explained E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
He told the Daily Caller News Foundation, "That tells us the rise in prices is widespread and not simply one or two volatile components jumping for a few months. We’re facing persistently high inflation — period."
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Officials in a second state, Alabama, now are warning that Joe Biden's name could be left off of the 2024 presidential election ballot because it appears his nomination by Democrats in his party will come after a legal deadline passes.
The Biden campaign, however, isn't worried, as a spokesman explained to Fox News that Democrats are counting on state officials' "ability to grant provisional ballot access certification" to their candidate.
The earlier situation, WND reported, developed in Ohio.
There, a law requires the names of nominees by Aug. 7, but the Democrats aren't even scheduled to meet to nominate Biden until Aug. 19.
The law came to the attention of Democrats recently when Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose notified them.
In a letter to Democrat party chief Liz Walters, LaRose confirmed, "The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office…"
The American Center for Law and Justice, which has fought on behalf of election integrity and ballot fairness, pointedly noted, "Remember when the far Left tried to disqualify President Donald Trump from state primary ballots? The ACLJ won at the U.S. Supreme Court to protect your right to vote for the candidate of your choice."
In fact, Democrats across America have spent months and likely uncounted dollars trying to get President Donald Trump banned from the 2024 presidential ballot.
They've pushed the "insurrectionist" talking point over the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, ever since those events happened.
They've worked at the state level, in Colorado, to obtain a ruling from an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that his name shouldn't appear. Two other states followed Colorado's agenda, but that agenda was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democrats even have assembled a long list of questionable claims against Trump – in court – to try to make sure Americans are not allowed to check his name on the ballot in November.
State officials in Ohio suggested that the Democrats will have to change the date of their nominating convention, or the state legislature must change state law to accommodate the party's blunder.
The issue is similar in Alabama, concerning a deadline.
But Fox reported a Biden spokesman assured the network that state officials will "grant provisional ballot access certification" before the Democrats meet.
Officials in Alabama pointed out the problem in letters to the Alabama Democrat Party and the Democratic National Committee. Secretary of State Wes Allen said the law there requires the nominations by August 15.
"It has recently come to my attention that the Democratic National Convention is currently scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which is after the State of Alabama’s statutory deadline for political parties to provide a certificate of nomination for President and Vice President on August 15, 2024," Allen confirmed. "The certificate of nomination must be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention and by the chair of the state executive committee of the political party making the nomination."
In fact, Allen explained, "If this Office has not received a valid certificate of nomination from the Democratic Party following its convention by the statutory deadline, I will be unable to certify the names of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President and Vice President for ballot preparation for the 2024 general election."
State officials in Ohio suggested that the Democrats will have to change the date of their nominating convention, or the state legislature must change state law to accommodate the party's blunder.
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A new documentary being released by the organization behind the American Greatness website, next week on April 17, is exposing the "four corrupt, politically motivated" prosecutors now pursuing cases against President Donald Trump.
The narrator of "Chasing Trump" explains, "They say they're upholding the law. But a close examination reveals politics of the very worst kind meant to influence the 2024 election."
He cites, "Four corrupt, politically motivated prosecutors. One target: Donald Trump."
Interviewed on screen is criminal defense attorney George Bochetto who explained the "highly aggressive" actions by the prosecutors.
"Can there be any doubt there's a sentiment of 'This is get Trump?'"
The video documentary is coming just as a trial is starting in which leftists are claiming Trump violated business regulations with a non-disclosure agreement, a common practice in business transactions.
The facts of the case were reviewed and then rejected for lacking evidence of wrongdoing before it was resurrected and turned into a felony case.
A comment from the Daily Mail said, "Trump allies will step up their attacks on prosecutors investigating the former president next week, with the launch of an online documentary accusing them of political activism and electioneering."
"'Chasing Trump' is an important documentary that exposes the leftwing prosecutors weaponizing the government to target my father," Donald Trump Jr. told DailyMail.com. "It's the first documentary to do a deep dive into the backgrounds of the prosecutors behind the four cases against him and is a must-watch for anyone who cares about preserving the rule of law and protecting our constitutional rights."
Among the subjects is Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor in Manhattan, who has created a list of 34 charges against Trump over that non-disclosure agreement.
Another subject is Fani Willis, a Georgia prosecutor who is bringing an organized crime case against Trump and a dozen others for their comments after the 2020 presidential election, which was subjected to multiple undue influences that likely benefited Joe Biden. Willis has been accused of racism in the case, and a judge already has confirmed she had the appearance of a conflict of interest for hiring her paramour to work on her anti-Trump allegations.
Then there's special counsel Jack Smith who is claiming Trump committed crimes by having documents from his presidency in his home after leaving office. Another special counsel found Joe Biden was in essentially the same position, but recommended against charging him because of his obviously "diminished" capacity.
Finally, there's New York Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned on the promise to "get Trump," even without any allegations of wrongdoing. She found a judge who agreed with her agenda and declared Trump guilty of fraud before the trial, which was only to establish damages. The judge, Arthur Engoron, then ordered a penalty of $454 million for Trump in the case that had no victims, no one losing money, and no one making any complaints.
The Mail explains the documentary "makes the case that Trump is being punished for taking on the status quo and echoes his constant refrain that he is subject to a witch hunt."
Even the judges in the cases cannot escape criticism, and one, Juan Merchan, who is hearing one of the cases, has a daughter to is an activist who benefits financially from her work for Kamala Harris and others who have attacked Trump.
The report said "Chasing Trump" is the first in a series to be produced by American Greatness.
The documentary is to appear on some streaming sites, including Rumble and X.
Curt Mercadenta, managing editor of American Greatness, explained to the Mail the video would shock anyone "who believed the legal system was free from partisan political considerations."
"With the 2024 election starting to heat up, Americans must have the opportunity to learn more about the truth behind the prosecutions targeting President Trump, along with the partisan prosecutors behind the cases," he explained.
And Mike Davis, of the Article III Project, said, "These four prosecutions against President Trump are nothing more than partisan political activism masquerading as the rule of law."
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Joe Biden's Department of Justice has refused to comply with a congressional request for audio recordings of special counsel Robert Hurt's interviews with Biden, and then its officials went even further, scolding members of Congress for asking for the information.
Hur is the prosecutor who was tasked with investigating Biden's possession of classified government documents, found stashed in his offices, home, and even unsecured garage.
Congress is investigating Biden now for possible impeachment.
While Hur found extensive evidence that Biden did, in fact, willfully and knowingly take classified documents to which he was not entitled, he recommended against charges, pointing out Biden's obviously "diminished" mental capacity.
Now the Daily Mail reports that while the DOJ, run by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, provided transcripts of those interviews, it refused to allow access to the recordings, and then punched back at members of Congress.
"We urge the committees to avoid conflict rather than seek it," charged Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte in a letter to members of Congress.
The DOJ claimed that releasing the audio of the interviews could make it harder in the future for prosecutors to get cooperation from witnesses.
Uriarte claimed the DOJ already had given Congress "the information you saw you need."
"To go further by producing the audio files would compound the likelihood that future prosecutors will be unable to secure this level of cooperation. They might have a harder time obtaining consent to an interview at all. It is not in the public interest to render such cooperation with prosecutors and investigators less likely in the future," he claimed.
The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees are among those involved in the investigation of Biden's behaviors as potential support for impeachment.
Among the pertinent issues are the Biden family's apparent influence-peddling operations, where members got millions of dollars apparently for nothing more than providing access to Joe Biden, the family's various international business schemes, and, not the least, Joe Biden's mental capacities.
Evidence suggests that at one point, when Biden was creating a post-vice presidency book, he told a ghostwriter about classified documents he had, and even read portions to the ghostwriter, who later deleted those recordings but has not been charged.
Congress had subpoenaed transcripts, notes, audio and video files of Hur's interviews, giving AG Merrick Garland until Monday noon to comply or risk contempt of Congress.
Hur interviewed Biden on October 8 and 9, 2023, then resigned as special counsel and left the DOJ shortly before testifying in Congress last month.
Hur confirmed he found Biden "willfully" retained classified material but stopped short of filing charges.
The report also confirmed what is known about Biden: He "became muddled about the dates he was vice president and could not even remember the year in which his son Beau died," the report said.
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There have been reports all across the nation of local jurisdictions misusing COVID-19 impact money distributed by the federal government, but now a report in The Federalist confirms an investigation has begun into a decision by officials in Madison, Wisconsin, to take $700,000 from that distribution and give it to illegal aliens.
The demand is from state Sen. Duey Stroebel, who said, "The decision to use pandemic relief money to assist illegal immigrants at the expense of Wisconsinites reveals the out-of-touch priorities of Madison politicians."
He's begun an open records request to review the city's "questionable" use of federal funding.
The report explained the issue, "It appears city officials decided to do an end-around with their portion of the nearly $2 trillion in so-called 'stimulus' funds that were handed out — and simultaneously dumped onto the untenable U.S. debt — by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in response to the Covid pandemic."
It documented how the Institute for Reforming Government’s Center for Investigative Oversight confirmed the city gave $700,000 from State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to illegal aliens.
The money reportedly went from the grants to various nonprofits that gave services to illegal aliens, even though they largely were "ineligible" to get direct federal or state aid.
The city had reported its projects address "the need to support programming, services, and outreach for persons in the community who are undocumented. The pandemic has had a profound impact on undocumented residents particularly around employment and housing."
It admitted, "These residents are not eligible, in some cases, to receive direct assistance provided by federal and state governments, and have been reluctant or unable, in others, to access resources for which they are eligible."
So, Madison officials said, they were funding agencies to "deliver direct assistance to undocumented individuals and families."
The intermediaries included, the report said, RISE Wisconsin Inc., the Latino Academy of Workforce Development, and the Community Immigration Law Center, the report said.
The Federalist pointed out that CILC is a known "left-of-center" legal team that works to "prevent deportation of illegal immigrants."
The city of Madison got more than $42 million in relief funding, of which some $24 million was used for government services. Another $22 million was for "communities … most impacted by the pandemic."
"It is troubling to learn that the city of Madison is funneling taxpayer dollars intended to help Wisconsinites to illegal immigrants. Taxpayers need answers," charged Jake Curtis, IRG's general counsel. "Our team at the Center for Investigative Oversight is committed to working with our state and federal partners to bring to light answers for the hardworking taxpayers of our state."
The report gave evidence that Democrat-led states gave out more than $500 million in COVID cash to illegals, including, sometimes, $1,000 cash handouts.
Stroebel warned, "Communities across this country are grappling with the consequences of the open border policies of the Biden/Harris administration. From the rise in fentanyl seizures at the southern border to the overwhelming of school services in Whitewater to the tragic murder of Laken Riley in Georgia, the immigration crisis is something that is impacting every state, including Wisconsin. The decision to use pandemic relief money to assist illegal immigrants at the expense of Wisconsinites reveals the out-of-touch priorities of Madison politicians."
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, of Wisconsin, blamed Biden and Democrats.
He said the "massive" spending package failed to include "clear requirements" for spending tax money.
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Democrats for years now have claimed that the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot at the U.S. Capitol was a full-fledged "insurrection."
That would include plans by the rioters to seize the government, its economy, its military, is executive branch, its legislature, its courts and international relations.
In fact, charges of "insurrection" are ostentatious by their absence from the hundreds and hundreds of court cases brought against those who protested, including the small number who vandalized the Capitol that day. And when leftists in several states, including Colorado, simply decided on their own and without evidence, that they would banish Trump from the ballot, the Supreme Court had to step in and rein them in.
The protesters that day were concerned over the undue influences on the 2020 election, which was hit by the $400 million plus that Mark Zuckerberg handed out to elections officials, who often used it to recruit Democrat voters. Never before had such a sum been injected into an American election.
Further was the FBI's interference, when it warned media corporations to suppress reporting on the Biden family scandals revealed in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.
Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime Democrat but running as an independent because of Democrat party allegiance to Biden as a candidate, says if elected president, he'd have a special counsel look at the disputes.
And he debunked the standard Democrat talking point against Trump and his voters.
"January 6 is one of the most polarizing topics on the political landscape. I am listening to people of diverse viewpoints on it in order to make sense of the event and what followed. I want to hear every side," he said.
"It is quite clear that many of the January 6 protestors broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot. Because it happened with the encouragement of President Trump, and in the context of his delusion that the election was stolen from him, many people see it not as a riot but as an insurrection.
"I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection. They observe that the protestors carried no weapons, had no plans or ability to seize the reins of government, and that Trump himself had urged them to protest 'peacefully,'" he said.
But he does have concern for how Joe Biden and his appointees have manipulated the situation.
"Like many reasonable Americans, I am concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment. That would fit a disturbing pattern of the weaponization of government agencies — the DoJ, the IRS, the SEC, the FBI, etc. — against political opponents," he warned.
"One can, as I do, oppose Donald Trump and all he stands for, and still be disturbed by the weaponization of government against him," he said. "As president, I will appoint a special counsel — an individual respected by all sides — to investigate whether prosecutorial discretion was abused for political ends in this case, and I will right any wrongs that we discover.
"Without the impartial rule of law, there is no true democracy or moral governance. That’s why John Adams, a staunch patriot, defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in court. If we betray justice in pursuit of an ideal, that betrayal will corrupt anything we accomplish," he said.
He said political opponents in America should be defeated "at the ballot box," rather than through "legal maneuvers and dirty tricks."
In fact, Democrats have launched a multitude of criminal charges, often on the shakiest of foundations, against President Trump, trying to hamstring his 2024 presidential campaign.
Kennedy said political parties now appear to be campaigning "on the demonization of their opponents and all who support them."
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Joe Biden created a border crisis and an obvious threat to national security when he took office and trashed President Donald Trump's border security measures like his "Remain-in-Mexico" practice and his construction of a border wall.
Since then, millions of illegal aliens, including terror suspects, have broken American law by coming into the country without permission.
At first, a long list of "sanctuary cities," so-called for their advocacy for and support of illegal aliens, took in the immigrants.
Then they started complaining about the cost. And lately, they've been demanding federal help with the costs and even have taken to telling those aliens to go somewhere else.
That has jurisdictions neighboring those sanctuaries, including the cities and counties around sanctuary city Denver, alarmed.
So, a report in the Washington Examiner explains, that officials in one county close to Denver have authorized the sheriff to fine bus companies $1,000 per passenger if they make an unscheduled stop to let people off.
Or the sheriff can seize the buses as "nuisances."
That's all happening in Douglas County, just south of Denver. The measure is precautionary, the report said, as no one so far has been letting illegal aliens off there.
"We want to be very proactive and make sure that these bus companies don’t think we’ll just bring them to Douglas County because we have no shelters in Douglas County," Commissioner Lora Thomas said.
She said there are "no funds" for housing and other services demanded by the illegals.
An estimated 40,000 illegals have arrived in Denver over the last year or so, and that has depleted the resources to pay for food, water, shelter and such.
"Denver initially welcomed the newcomers with open arms but has since admitted that caring for them has contributed to a $120 million budget deficit, strained city resources, and tested the kindness of businesses and residents, some of whom have been asked to open up their homes to strangers to help offset the costs," the report pointed out.
In fact, Denver officials already have told immigrants the city would pay for 20,000 one-way bus tickets to … anywhere.
Other nearby jurisdictions, Aurora and El Paso County, already have warned Denver not to send illegals their way, and residents in Lakewood, some 15 minutes west of Denver, held a protest against the idea of Denver sending the needy that direction.