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A second assassination attempt was made against former President Donald Trump on Sunday when a man identified as Ryan Wesley Routh pointed a rifle at him from the perimeter of his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a news conference Monday, that Florida will be conducting its own investigation into the incident, after Routh faced federal charges of felony possession of a firearm and possessing a gun with a defaced serial number.

"I did announce yesterday we're gonna be doing a state-level investigation. I understand that the feds are involved, but we do believe there were multiple violations of state law, we also believe that there's a need to make sure that the truth about all this, comes out in a way that's credible," DeSantis said.

DeSantis told reporters he doesn't think it's best to have the same people currently prosecuting Trump conducting the investigation of the assassination attempt.

"You know, I mean I look at the federal government, with all due respect to them, you know, those same agencies that are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction, are now going to be investigating this? I just think that may not be the best thing for this country. Nevertheless, they have their prerogative, and we have our prerogative, so we'll be making an announcement further along those lines in the ensuing days," DeSantis said.

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino stated during a congressional hearing held recently that the Secret Service had repeatedly nixed security requests from Trump to properly secure his locations. Bongino added the culture has changed since he worked in the Secret Service and has now become politicized.

"From the commentary directed at some of the agents in charge of the Donald Trump detail, which I have heard about, clearly, it appears that for the first time in American history we have a Secret Service that is making decisions that might not be all political, but may have a political tinge to them," Bongino said.

Bongino noted the Secret Service could have done much more to improve Trump's security detail, but they were reluctant because they did not want Trump to look like a "big shot."

"I would love to say 'Congressman that's the craziest thing I've heard,' but I tell you with a pure heart…I absolutely believe Donald Trump and an enhanced security posture he should have had, would have made him look more presidential, would have facilitated the logistical operation of him traveling. I think they [Secret Service] were concerned about optics, and making him look like a big shot or whatever word you wanna throw out there, and they were making some of these decisions based purely on grade-school level politics," Bongino said.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said in response that he didn't want to believe that agencies like the Secret Service and the FBI have become subject to political influence, but them doing so is very damaging to the U.S.

"I didn't want to believe it, but I didn't want to believe it with the FBI either, I didn't want to believe it with the NIH either. I mean, a lot of these agencies that have been, I think, subject to political capture, we want to believe they're above that…but just like in the military, just like at the FBI, I worry about the political capture happening at Headquarters, and then that culture in forming decisions, in a way that's very damaging to the country," Gaetz said.

Gaetz noted any devious intent that is found during the investigation into the Secret Service needs to be rooted out.

"\What Mr. Bongino just said, ought to be the most important work of the United States Congress, to figure out if these decisions were run of the mill incompetence…But if it's something even more darker and more devious than that, that must be rooted out. Because what we've seen at these other agencies of government is, it does not cure itself. It has to be excised, and that investigation is the most important work we can do," Gaetz said.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., released a whistleblower report on the first assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July. In the report, it states there was found to be a "compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years, all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding."

"On July 13, 2024, former President Donald J. Trump was nearly killed by an assassin's bullet while hosting a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Secret Service failed to prevent it. It was the most stunning breakdown in presidential security since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan," the report states.

The report exposed further instances where the Secret Service failed – which included the agent who was responsible for overseeing the Butler rally failing a key examination during their training as an agent; intelligence units who were supposed to pair with local law enforcement to handle suspicious people were missing; and the hospital that treated Trump after the shooting was also poorly secured.

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In the wake of the second assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in just two months, Democrats have been almost unanimous in claiming there's no room for political violence in America.

But that's not what all their party members have said in the past.

For instance, Del. Stacey Plaskett, the Democrat non-voting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, said, "He needs to be shot … stopped."

She's become a favorite of the party, being named as the ranking member of the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is examining how the Biden-Harris administration has turned the bureaucracies of the federal government into weapons of war, and warfare, against Trump and Republicans.

She boasts on her website that in that position she works "to ensure Democratic members of this Subcommittee focus on evidence-based inquiries and not wild conspiracy theories."

She states, "The Republican's (sic) attempt to derail the federal government's obligation to investigate and conduct due process on actions, organizations, and individuals that threaten our republic and create an anti-democratic environment will be met with strong resistance by Ms. Plaskett and her Democratic colleagues on the subcommittee."

She also was an impeachment manager for one of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's failed impeach-and-remove campaigns against Trump.

That wasn't the only threat to Trump, either.

One video has assembled more than two minutes of direct threats, often from politicians, entertainers and other public figures:

Among the comments:

"I'd like to punch him in the face."

"If we were in high school I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him," from Joe Biden

"When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"

"They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. That's a fact."

"Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?"

"I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."

The Trump campaign itself released a compilation of some of the threats, and identified those making the threats. They mostly are political or media figures or political operatives:

Kamala Harris: "Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms."

Harris: "It's on us to recognize the threat (Trump) poses."

Harris: "Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!"

Joe Biden: "It's time to put Trump in a bull's-eye."

Biden: "I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation!"

Biden: "There is one existential threat: It's Donald Trump."

Biden: "Trump is a genuine threat to his nation … He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."

Biden : "Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country."

Biden: "Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … and that is a threat to this country."

Tim Walz: "Are (Republicans) a threat to democracy? Yes … Are they going to put peoples' lives in danger? Yes."

Gwen Walz: "Buh-bye, Donald Trump."

Nancy Pelosi: "(Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen."

Jasmine Crockett: "MAGA in general – they are threats to us domestically."

Dan Goldeman: "He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated."

Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: "Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy."

Liz Cheney: "Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis."

Steve Cohen: "Trump is an enemy of the United States."

Maxine Waters: "Are (Trump supporters) preparing a civil war against us?"

Waters: "I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump) is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere."

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an "existential threat to our democracy."

Adam Schiff: Trump is the "gravest threat to our democracy."

Gregory Meeks: "Trump cannot be president again. He's an existential threat to democracy."

Dan Goldman: "Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy."

Jake Auchincloss: "What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy."

Abigail Spanberger: "Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real."

Annie Kuster: "Trump and his extreme right-win followers pose an existential threat to our democracy."

Becca Balint: "We cannot underestimate the threat (Trump) poses to American democracy."

Jason Crow: "Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy."

Michael Bennet: Trump is "a threat to our democracy."

Steven Horsford: "Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state."

Gave Vasquez: "Remove the national threat from office."

And more….

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Claims of a purposeful scheme to skew the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump are now intensified with the Sunday release of a sworn statement by a network whistleblower specifying the allegations.

The affidavit under penalty of perjury released by @DocNetyoutube indicates ABC coordinated with the Harris campaign to give her sample questions, along with assurances Trump would be fact-checked while Kamala would not, and favorable accommodations for the Democrat's appearance on screen.

The document, dated Sept. 9, one day prior to the debate and redacted in portions to conceal the whistleblower's identity, is from a Manhattan, New York, resident who has worked at ABC News for more than 10 years in "various technical and administrative positions."

"For the record, I do not endorse Donald Trump in his capacity as a candidate for the president of the United States," the whistleblower says.

"The intent of this affidavit is to address concerns about perceived biases within news reporting within my employer's debate that will be hosted on September 10, 2024."

The ABC employee says Harris received "particular accommodations including, but not limited to, the providing of a podium significantly smaller than that used by Donald Trump, and assurances regarding split-screen television views that would favorably impact Kamala Harris's appearance relative to Donald Trump."

The sworn statement continues: "It was agree that Donald Trump would be subjected to fact-checking during the debate, while Kamala Harris would not comparable scrutiny. This was widely known throughout the company that Donald Trump would be fact-checked. In fact, various people were assigned to fact check observations it was perceived candidate Trump would make during the debate.

"In fact, [the] Harris campaign required assurances that Donald Trump would be fact checked. This was done via multiple communications with the Harris campaign whereas the Trump campaign was not included in the negotiations. To my understanding, any rules negotiations and conversations pertaining to the debate should have had both the Trump and Harris campaign involved, the Harris campaign had numerous more calls regarding the debate rules without the Trump campaign aware or on the call."

The statement also indicates: "The Harris campaign was provided with sample questions that, while not the exact questions, covered similar topics that would appear during the debate."

"Furthermore, the Harris campaign imposed serious restrictions on the scope of questioning, including:

• No questions regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden.
• No inquires regarding her tenure as attorney general in San Francisco.
• No questions concerning her brother-in-law, Tony West, who faces allegations of embezzling billions of dollars in taxpayer funds and who may be involved in her administration if elected.

The whistleblower claims to have "observed a pronounced bias against Donald Trump within ABC News. Employees expressing favorable views towards him experience significant concerns about potential retribution."

The employee says the purpose of the affidavit is "to document and provide transparency regarding the issue of fairness and impartiality in the debate process and broader concerns about journalistic integrity at ABC News."

The conclusion of the sworn statement mentions copies of the sworn statement being sent via regular mail and FedEx to the whistleblower's home address, and a certified letter to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson dated Sept. 9, 2024, "to establish a record that the correspondence was sent before the debate commenced."

"Additionally, for further investigation, I have secretly recorded several conversations that will prove that the Harris Campaign insisted upon not only the Fact Checking of Donald Trump, but also insisted on what questions were not to be asked under any circumstances or else the Harris campaign would decline to participate in the debate."

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ABC, whose one-sided presidential "debate" has been described as a campaign contribution to the Kamala Harris agenda, is not saying whether it has reported, or will report, the event as that contribution.

It was Beth Brelje, an award-winning investigative journalist and elections correspondent for the Federalist, who wrote the ABC debate this week was a "90-minute ambush to boost Kamala Harris."

She explained, "Working as a team, ABC hosts David Muir and Linsey Davis propped up Harris and repeatedly tried to vanquish Trump by talking over him, cutting him off, and asking bizarre questions they did not ask Harris. At one point, Davis jumped in for Harris and offered a rebuttal to one of Trump's comments on abortion, a move beyond the scope of a moderator.

"It was not a debate, but a campaign contribution. That's not a big surprise from either moderator, as Muir hosts the most Trump-negative network news evening broadcast and Davis has a long track record of promoting Democrat talking points including stolen election claims from Hillary Clinton."

She cited their focus on Jan. 6, 2021, and their decision to essentially ignore the economy, which is the top voter issue.

"Not once did the moderators acknowledge the attempted assassination of Trump. Nor did they question Harris about the lax security the Biden-Harris administration provided for Trump on the campaign trail that contributed to the shooting," she said.

That leaves the formula simple: "In broadcasting, where advertising is sold by the second, time really is money. A 30-second commercial in the February Super Bowl cost $7 million. CBS charged $225,000 for a half-minute ad during a 2016 debate between former President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. CNN sold ad packages for the June 27 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden for a minimum of $1.5 million per package, which included two 30-second ads, plus a few online ads."

While ABC's charges weren't known right away, assuming a "lowball" figure of $225,000 for half a minute, the 90-minute campaign promotion "comes to a contribution to the Harris Walz campaign of at least $40.5 million."

Now Brelje reports that ABC isn't saying much.

"The Federalist asked ABC in an email if it reported the debate and the performance of its moderators as an in-kind contribution, or any other category of contribution, to the Harris presidential campaign. And if not, when does the company plan to do so? The company indicated that it saw the email but did not answer the questions," she wrote.

Meanwhile, ABC has been bragging about the "19 million total viewers" of the event, which "enriched" the Harris campaign with its "favorable political infomercial."

She wrote, "The Federal Election Commission (FEC) defines an in-kind contribution as a non-monetary contribution to a campaign. This sort of campaign donation is limited to the same value as a financial donation, but corporations are barred from making such contributions."

The FEC itself told the Federalist it would not comment on specifics.

Brelje described, "The result was a so-called debate that was just another in the long line of attempted Trump takedowns. It was a 90-minute advertisement for Harris in front of a record audience, and that makes it a high value in-kind donation from ABC to the Harris campaign."

There were further conflicts, too, as it was revealed moderator Davis was a sorority sister of Harris, and the ABC News chief, Dana Walden, was a "close personal friend" of Harris who introduced her to her now-husband.

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President Donald Trump has delivered a devastating slam to Kamala Harris in this year's presidential race, rejecting her demand for another debate.

"When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, 'I WANT A REMATCH.' Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats' Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate."

He continued on social media: "She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked and unvetted, and with Inflation bankrupting our Middle Class. Everyone knows this, and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe – it was discussed in great detail during the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris. She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS.

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Inflation across America was only about 1.4% on an annual basis when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime moved into the White House. Once they were there, it exploded to more than a cumulative 20%, and American voters long have stated plainly that the economy is their top issue in this election.

Tired of facing surging food, housing and energy costs, they are insisting that something be done to address the higher prices triggered by the trillions of dollars in spending demanded by the Democrats in the White House.

To that, when Harris was asked in Tuesday night's debate about whether consumers were better off than when she took office, she refused to answer.

She spoke, but it was a long explanation about her middle class upbringing and her desire or an "opportunity" economy, nothing that responded to the question.

Her waffling must have been noticed.

Because after the debate, a poll by the leftist CNN found that voters' confidence in President Donald Trump's economic plans went up. And their confidence in her plans went down.

At the ConservativeBrief, a report said, "A CNN poll taken immediately after the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris found that the percentage of voters who trust Trump more than Harris on the economy jumped from +16 percent to +20 percent."

The results showed that before the debate, voters gave Trump a 16-point advantage when measuring their trust of economic plans, preferring the GOP candidate's plan 53%-37%.

After the debate, they went for Trump 55%-35%.

Trump had warned during the debate, "We've had a terrible economy because inflation has — which is really known as a country buster. It breaks up countries. We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. Probably the worst in our nation's history. … everybody knows I'm an open book. Everybody knows what I'm going to do. Cut taxes very substantially. And create a great economy like I did before. We had the greatest economy."

In multiple polls and assessments, voters have told survey takers the economy is their top concern. Surveys show that gasoline, under Biden and Harris, is up 46.1%, electricity 30.7%, fuel oil 43.4%, airfare 21%, hotels 49.4%, groceries 21.5%, K-12 food 66.2%, transportation 32% and car insurance 54.9%

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Kamala Harris, who appeared on an ABC stage to debate President Donald Trump Tuesday night, has been accused repeatedly and credibly of being a liar. She's pulled out that infamous Charlottesville lie that even leftist Snopes has documented as fabricated multiple times.

Her penchant even has been memorialized in a parody of The Doors famed "Light My Fire."

Only these lyrics include: "You always say what is untrue, You are a master falsifier, When somebody fact-checks you, Like a chameleon you change your attire

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Kamala Harris largely has been silent on her plans, should she be elected in November, for America.

She's accepted only one interview so far, and her campaign site as recently as days ago essentially was void of plans.

Her one economic policy announced was a set of price controls for what she called "price gouging," after she adopted the ideology of a trick often used by repressive governments to make their economies look better than they are.

She might be asked about her plans during a presidential debate scheduled Tuesday; she might even answer.

But there's not a lot of reason to wonder, according to an expert: Her agenda will be just what America has seen over the last four years under a Biden-Harris administration, massive government spending, surging inflation (20% so far) that pushes the costs of food, housing and such into the stratosphere and more.

Paul Mueller, a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, said during an interview of "Washington Watch" that, "Harris is running a giveaway campaign."

According to a Washington Stand report, that would be more of what the nation has seen under the Biden-Harris regime.

"Of course, the Biden administration has been trying to cancel various forms of student debt for years now. And her approach, I think, to stimulating the economy is more of what we've seen over the past four years, which is extensive government involvement, huge amounts of spending. It's not really an organic growth within the economy," he explained.

Such artificial influences, he explained, cost consumers.

"When you subsidize people's ability to buy things — whether that's higher education or health care — and we give people money in the form of loans or grants or scholarships to do that, what it does is boosts demand. And so what we see over time in both of those areas is rising costs. The cost of higher education has grown much faster than everything else in the economy. The rate of increase for health care has increased very rapidly."

He specifically cited the Harris scheme to give a $25,000 credit for first-time home buyers, which is just going to "put upward pressure on the price of housing."

Even her idea to give small businesses a tax credit could end up backfiring on the nation.

"There are a lot of small business owners who maybe will close down their existing business and start a new one just to get the tax credit," he warned.

And some of the Harris plans simply were stolen by her campaign, from President Donald Trump. One, for example, is her sudden appreciation for the idea of not taxing tips, after Trump already had proposed that.

The report said only one of the economic plans from the two candidates could lead to "robust economic growth."

And it's not from Harris, who would take a hatchet to American families with price controls of food, eliminating tax cuts from 2017, raising the top tax rate to nearly 40%, surging corporate and capital gains taxes, and spending more money on Obamacare.

The report explained, "In a speech at the Economic Club of New York last Thursday, former President Trump proposed unleashing the power of the free market by maintaining the 2017 tax cuts and further slashing the corporate tax from 21% to 15%, cutting red tape, protecting U.S. manufacturing by raising tariffs on imported goods, clawing back all unspent funds from the Biden-Harris administration's Inflation Reduction Act, and making more jobs available to U.S. citizens by deporting illegal immigrants who lower wages and compete for jobs."

Mueller explained Trump's plans have the potential to spur "robust economic growth."

He also pointed out the national debt, some $32 trillion, which has exploded under Biden and Harris.

"So far, we are not seeing a lot of politicians raise their hand and say, 'I'm the guy that's going to give you less so we can save the future.' I think that might be what we need. We're not getting that from anybody at this point," he noted.

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As America prepares for the highly anticipated debate Tuesday between former President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, a former member of the Trump administration says Joe Biden's vice president "needs to be told what her policies are."

Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson said Harris "needs to be told what her policies are, because she doesn't really know what they are. Nobody else does either.

"Donald Trump doesn't have to prep because the truth is always the truth. You don't have to try to figure out what things will resonate with people, you just say who you are. He's very transparent. And I think the people will appreciate that. So it's going to be a widely watched debate. It's going to be a lot of fun."

Carson believes "Harris is going to to try to get under Donald Trump's skin. That's what the preparation is all about, how do you get under his skin."

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No, Jim Morrison is not back from the grave, but his smash hit with his rock group The Doors, "Light My Fire," has been resurrected into a Kamala Harris spoof called "Big Fat Liar."

Parody songmaker Brian Coyne created the reworked video mixing actual footage of The Doors' 1967 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" with news clips of Harris during her 2024 presidential campaign.

The 2024 lyrics state:

You always say what is untrue
You are a master falsifier
When somebody fact-checks you
Like a chameleon you change your attire

Kamala's a big fat liar
Kamala's a big fat liar
Liar, Liar, pants on fire!

The time for cackling is through
Joe Biden's condition is dire
Now the party turns to you
It's time to claim what you desire

Kamala's a big fat liar
Kamala is such a liar
Liar, Liar, pants on fire!

You said that you worked in fast food
And put potatoes in a fryer
I hope they have a job for you
Come November when you are FIRED!

Kamala's a big fat liar
Kamala's a big fat liar
Liar, Liar, pants on fire!

"Kamala Harris has become the poster child for flip-flopping on everything from her ethnicity to policy," said Coyne.

"She steals policy ideas form her opponent, Donald Trump, while having almost no policies of her own. No wonder she avoids interviews like the plague!"

The video has been viewed more than 716,000 times on YouTube alone since it was posted Sept. 2, collecting more than 3,200 comments, including:

"Never a truer word spoken!!! MAGA."

"I'm 70 years old and a child of the 60's but I was never a Doors fan but in this case I will make an exception. BRILLIANT!"

"This track should be released as a single a guaranteed Number 1 in America and probably the rest of the world."

"Parody song is perfect, so well done! I love that Jim Morrison is setting the record straight!"

"Song of the 21st Century!! Quadruple Platinum, Gold, Plutonium!!"

"I think even Jim Morrison could appreciate this."

"Watching this actually gave me chills. The hair stood up on my arms because it was so real."

"Trump should play this at all his rallies on the big screen! LOL! OMG! EPIC! Everyone would be singing it!"

"Wow this needs to be a campaign ad running 24/7."

Watch the entire parody video:

Watch The Doors singing "Light My Fire" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on CBS in 1967: