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The U.S. Secret Service rushed President Donald Trump off stage after gunfire erupted at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday.
"Someone just tried to ASSASSINATE President Trump," said U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
"The Democrats and the media are to blame for every drop of blood spilled today. For years and years, they've demonized him and his supporters.
The U.S. Secret Service, whose prime duty is to protect American presidents, said "the former president is safe."
"At approximately 6:15 p.m., a suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside the rally venue. U.S. Secret Service personnel neutralized the shooter, who is now deceased. U.S. Secret Service personnel quickly responded with protective measures and the former president is safe and being evaluated. One spectator was killed, two spectators were critically injured. This incident is currently under investigation and the Secret Service has formally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Trump himself posted a statement on his Truth Social page at 8:42 p.m., saying: "I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country.
"Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman said the former president "is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility."
The person believed to be the shooter is dead. One spectator at the rally has been killed, and a second is in serious condition, according to the Butler County district attorney.
NBC News reported: “Trump was about six minutes into his speech when he reached for the side of his face as popping sounds rang out over the rally. He then crouched down as Secret Service agents rushed the stage and surrounded him. He was quickly escorted into a vehicle, walking off the stage with agents on all sides.
"Trump pumped his fists in the air as he was escorted off of the stage. The crowd cheered as the former president raised his arms.
"Reporters on the scene saw smoke and heard what they initially thought were fireworks before everyone ducked and law enforcement encircled Trump."
At a briefing Saturday evening from Maryland, Joe Biden was asked if he thought this was an assassination attempt on Trump. He responded: "I have an opinion but I don't have any facts."
Biden issued a statement earlier online, indicating:
"I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.
"I'm grateful to hear that he's safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information.
Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
"I am not shocked by this," former FBI agent Nicole Parker said on Fox News.
"Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. … People will do anything they have to to take him out."
One woman at the scene told Fox News: "God gets all the glory that Trump was protected."
Just five days ago, Joe Biden stated in a conference call to major donors"it's time to put Trump in a bull's-eye."
"I'm abstolutely certain I'm the best person to be able to do that. So, we're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in a bull's-eye."
Former President Barack Obama reacted to the incident, saying: “There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.”
Mark Stone, a U.S. correspondent for Sky News, said of the incident, “You can hear as he begins the speech a few shots.
"He then appears to put his hand up towards his ear and then gets down on the ground. It will be standard procedure for someone who's been president, a former president, someone of this stature. They will have been told, there will be a procedure of what to do if this sort of thing happens.
"From what I can gather from looking at the footage, the shots seem to have come from the left-hand side as you look at him, because people are looking over to that side."
"This is an extraordinary moment. It is many, many years since an assassination attempt, if this is what it turns out to be, on a president.
"Ronald Reagan – there was an assassination attempt on him in the 80s – in Washington, D.C., in the Hilton Hotel. This is developing and it is incredibly serious."
Elon Musk took to X to say: "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery."
Donald Trump Jr. said: “He’ll never stop fighting to Save America ”
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was assassinated during the 1968 race for the White House, said: “Now is the time for every American who loves our country to step back from the division, renounce all violence, and unite in prayer for President Trump and his family.”
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First there was Joe Biden's introduction at a NATO news conference of Ukraine President "Putin."
Then came his reference to Vice President "Trump."
With those two statements, any Democrats' hopes of reassuring the American voting public of Biden's complete mental control and competence, in doubt since his disastrous presidential debate with Prsesident Donald Trump two weeks ago, exploded in their faces.
His Thursday appearance was panned as “disaster” on social media, according to Fox News.
"It is inexplicable the people advising this man continue to think that somehow he's not going to humiliate himself and this country. Why do they continue to allow this to happen?" said Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce.
Biden further trailed off while answering a news conference question and announced to the room he had a "list" of reporters on which to call.
"This press conference is a disaster. Joe Biden is not answering the questions," Fox News contributor Leo Terrell confirmed.
Biden, of course, already has enough Democrat delegates committed to him to be the 2024 candidate for his party.
Trump, expected to formally be named the GOP candidate next week, responded, "Crooked Joe begins his 'Big Boy' Press Conference with, 'I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.' Great job, Joe!"
Biden has told party members asking him to step down he will not.
"I am running and going to win again," he claimed.
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The Heritage Foundation has documented more than 1,500 proven cases of voter fraud in recent elections. Several public interest organizations have programs set up to sue states where officials refuse to remove dead voters from rolls. Multiple lawsuits have alleged, with evidence, that the number of illegal alien votes actually could have changed the outcome of an election.
Many states hand out voter registration forms to illegal aliens as they obtain a variety of other benefits for which they are qualified.
So why would Democrats coalesce against a campaign to make sure that only U.S. citizens are voting in U.S. elections, a plan pushed forward by the SAVE Act, recently approved in the U.S. House despite nearly every Democrat opposing it?
"They want to turn illegal aliens into voters," charged House Speaker Mike Johnson in a recent statement:
That actually would align with Joe Biden's immediate orders when he took office to trash literally all of President Donald Trump's border security plans and open the barrier for millions of illegal aliens to enter the U.S.
Millions have. Enough in numbers should they all vote to turn an election.
It is illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections, but the prosecution level, despite the cases uncovered by Heritage, remains low.
Newsweek explains the SAVE Act, for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, simply would require those registering to vote to provide evidence of U.S. citizenship.
The measure was adopted 221-198 by the House, with the support of only five Democrats and the opposition of nearly 200.
"Why are Democrats so adamantly against ensuring only American citizens vote in our elections?" Johnson said.
The plan also would have states set up programs to "identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens" and remove them from voter lists.
The problem, Johnson explained, is that there now is "no mechanism to ensure only those registering or voting are citizens."
Democrats claim that state requirements for voter registration, such as signing an affidavit of eligibility, are more than adequate to address the issue, but Republicans argue that migrants, given driver's licenses and other government documentation, also are automatically handed voter registration forms and there is no significant barrier for them to fill it out.
Leftists have claimed that illegal voting in American elections is very rare. That's a talking point that the White House has adopted.
But a spokesman for Johnson cited a 2014 study that estimated 6.4% of noncitizens voted in the 2008 general election, and 2.2% in the mid-term 2010 election.
Finding the results differ from their talking points, Democrats claim that the study was flawed, but it found that even that level of fraud could have changed the outcome of elections.
A spokesman for Johnson's office said even if voting by illegal aliens is rare, "that is not a reason to forego policymaking that would tighten enforcement against noncitizen voting."
The bill indeed has a small chance of becoming law as the Democrats are in the majority in the Senate. Further, Joe Biden has pledged himself to leaving unblocked so far as possible the pathways through which illegals might vote.
The crisis also has spilled over into a fight over the U.S. Census, where a legislative proposal would provide separate counts for citizens and non-citizens, and apportion congressional seats based only on the citizens count.
Just days ago, the New York Post issued a report that state offices in at least 46 states now are giving voter registration forms to illegals – without any proof of citizenship.
The report said, "Every state but North Dakota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming gives applicants for either welfare benefits, driver’s licenses, or in some cases, mail-in ballots federal voter registration forms without demanding proof of citizenship."
The report noted that while it's against the law to falsely claim citizenship, "there is currently no requirement on federal voting forms to provide proof of U.S. citizenship."
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, explained the opposition, "While Biden and radical progressive Democrats give ISIS and criminals an app to schedule their illegal entry, Republicans must fight any chance of illegal voter registration until we can mass deport.
"As President Biden has welcomed millions of illegal aliens through our borders, including sophisticated criminal syndicates and foreign adversaries, it is incumbent upon Congress to implement greater enforcement measures that secure the voter registration process and ensure only American citizens decide the outcome of American elections," Johnson said.
Ryan Walker, of Heritage Action, pointed out, "It is undeniable that the current structure makes it possible for illegal immigrants and non-citizens to vote — and the American people have no way of knowing how widespread the problem may be."
That report noted that federal prosecutions and state investigations and audits in recent years have confirmed "thousands of non-citizens are being registered."
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said, "Preventing non-citizens and illegal aliens from registering and voting in American elections should be a 100% issue in Congress. Unfortunately, Democrats have taken the stance that it never happens — which is false — so we shouldn’t give states the tools to ensure it doesn’t happen — which is absurd."
While illegal votes may or may not have been an influence in the 2020 presidential election, two other undue influences played significant roles. One was the $400 million plus Mark Zuckerberg handed over to elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
The other was interference by the CIA and FBI. The CIA knew that a statement prepared by ex-intelligence officials claiming the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation was a lie but didn't stop it. The FBI told publications to suppress the truthful information.
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Under President Donald Trump's tenure, there were howls of outrage from Democrats and their allies in the media that his administration was keeping illegal alien children in "cages" while their cases were processed.
Those reports almost uniformly failed to point out that the cages were built while Barack Obama was in the White House. Michelle Obama even went public in blaming Trump for what developed under her husband's management, complaining, "They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages."
A fact-checker, in fact, pointed out, "What she did not say is that the very same 'cages' were built and used in her husband's administration."
When the Biden administration resumed "holding migrant children in cages," the media went silent again.
But whistleblowers now are revealing the catastrophe that has developed for migrant children is much, much worse than "cages" with Biden in the Oval Office. Under his open borders policies, some 85,000 children have gone missing.
A report at the Daily Wire revealed whistleblowers told members of Congress that the Department of Human Services has lost "at least 85,000 children who crossed the border illegal as 'unaccompanied minors' after placing them with 'sponsors.'"
Those children may have been trafficked for forced labor or even prostitution, the U.S. Senate panel was told.
The children were handed over to "people who clearly were not their relatives and when there was evidence of abuse and trafficking" under Biden, the report said.
One whistleblower said when supervisors were alerted to "sadistic abuse" and evidence that the adults taking children were not relatives, "the Biden administration’s DHS Office of Refugee Resettlement took her off the job and retaliated against her."
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, blamed Biden for shoveling children out to homes of "poorly-vetted" volunteers to avoid putting them in "cages" as he had characterized President Trump's efforts.
The reality of Biden's efforts, however, meant that as many as 500,000 children were turned over to adults who sometimes were strangers, background checks were eased, and the single oversight effort was a telephone call to the children 30 days later – at a time which many simply had gone missing, the report said.
Republican senators held the hearing unofficially, as Democrats, in the Senate majority, refused to participate.
Tara Lee Rodas, with a 20-year career in government, volunteered to help with the incoming flood, and she reported Carmen, a Guatemalan girl of 16, "was sent by the Biden administration to live with someone who claimed to be her brother. But pictures on social media showed him touching her sexually; 'it was clear her sponsor was not her brother,' she said. Soon, Carmen was advertised on the sponsor’s social media with her shirt unbuttoned, looking drugged up. Her 'sponsor' also posted child pornography to social media," the report said.
Rodas said she now wonders if Carmen is safe.
A report at PJMedia said Republican Sens. Grassley, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and John Cornyn of Texas held the hearing.
The report noted other children were turned over to live with "known gang members."
In fact, the federal bureaucracy turned a child over to a known gang member even knowing there wasn't a relationship and about the gang member's affiliation, one whistleblower charged.
The results of Biden's programs, the whistleblower charged, were "a government-funded child sex trafficking scheme."
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A key expert in Parkinson's disease has visited the White House 10 times just over the last two years, according to a report Monday from Washington Examiner.
Joe Biden's health, both physical and mental, of course, is a key topic right now following his episodes of failed memory, inability to complete a word or a sentence and more. His recent catastrophic inability even to speak coherently during a presidential debate brought the issue to the headlines.
At 81 years old, 82 in just a few months, the possibility of a progressive affliction such as dementia certainly is a possibility. But there also are symptoms he's exhibited that are linked to Parkinson's.
Those include trembling, often starting in the hands, stiffness, slowness of movement, poor balance and coordination and speech difficulties.
The report said Biden's own physician "met with a top Washington, D.C., neurologist who specializes in Parkinson's…"
White House visitor logs show Dr. Kevin Cannard, of the Walter Reed Medical Center, met with Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor and others at the White House last January. And Cannard's name shows up on visitor logs 10 times after Nov. 15, 2022.
"It's highly likely they were talking about Biden," explained Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas. "He should only be [regularly] treating the president and the first family."
Jackson was the White House physician for both President Donald Trump and earlier, Barack Obama.
He repeatedly has issued warnings about the declining state of Biden's mental health.
He said O'Connor and Jill Biden are leading a "coverup" of Biden's problems.
The report noted Cannard late last year released a paper in the Parkinsonism & Related Disorders journal that focuses on the early stages of the affliction.
The White House explained a "wide variety of specialists" visit the White House for the "thousands" of military members who work on the grounds.
Biden repeatedly has refused to take any sort of cognitive test that would assess his mental capacities.
His aides have confirmed his time frame for being involved during the day is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., after which he's more like to have "miscues," the report said.
His deteriorating condition, evidenced by his actions in public, has prompted a long list of names to recommend he drop out of the 2024 presidential race, but he has refused.
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As Democrats continue to panic over who will be their 2024 presidential nominee due to Joe Biden's poor cognitive health, a parody video titled "Walk Like a Joe Biden," is resurfacing and making the rounds online.
The song, originally debuting last year on "Louder With Crowder," is a spoof of the smash 1980s pop hit "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles, who do not appear in the recent lampoon, despite prominent look-alikes.
The parody lyrics state:
The American president is doomed/
The little old man can barely move/
If he moves too quick/
Oh whey oh/
He'll topple just like a domino/
He's got that sinister smile/
And thinks he just might win the bet/
But he's just hanging on/
Oh whey oh/
Dangling like Hunter's cigarette/
Hunter types with their hookah pipes say/
Whey oh, whey oh, oh whey oh/
Walk like a Joe Biden/
And when he boards Air Force One/
He spins around and he hits the floor/
He's got the moves/
Oh whey oh/
He hits the deck, then he hits some more/
All the Dems are so sick of Joe/
They really would like to see him end/
He sh** his pants/
Oh whey oh/
When he went to the Vatican/
All the kids in the DNC say/
Whey oh, whey oh, oh whey oh/
Slide your feet up the street, hump your back/
Stiffen your arms, don't pull 'em back/
Life's hard you know/
Oh whey oh/
When entering sun the Cadillac/
If you wanna know where it stops/
It ends in dementia and the cops/
They sing and dance/
Oh whey oh/
When finding the confidential docs/
Then they arrest all his men/
While Putin laughs in the Kremlin/
And the Chinese know/
Oh whey oh/
He's owned by them and Ukrainians/
All the cops in the DOJ say/
Whey oh, whey oh, oh whey oh/
Walk like a Joe Biden/
Some online reaction includes:
"I swear I laughed so hard I was crying and I still have a gut ache lol, Damn good job, you all nailed it."
"This video deserves an Academy Award."
"You convey the incompetence and allude to the corruption. This is a masterpiece."
"Simply lovely parody, it's a shame it so accurately depicts the physical state of our corrupt and demented figurehead of a president. It's not going to get any better."
"Notice that when he turns around to shake hands the Invisible Man left already! "
"I grew up in the 80s and this parody ROCKS! You nailed it to the 'T' of how things are now!"
"Good stuff but the lyrics should have been 'Way old, way old.'"
"This is EPIC ... LOL ... Didn't make it 20 seconds and I was laughing so hard I had to restart it."
"That shuffle he does will come in handy when he's wearing leg irons."
"The most beautiful song I've ever heard."
"I'm a Democrat and I approve this message."
"You know, it's hard for a mummy to become a comic but Joe Biden has somehow managed it."
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After a disastrous presidential debate, President Joe Biden is back at it, this time on a Pennsylvania radio show, ranting about how he is proud to be the "first black woman" to serve a black president, before stating he was the first president to get elected statewide in Delaware.
Co-owner of Trending Politics Collin Rugg, shared part of the audio of the Biden interview, which shows Biden’s steady cognitive decline.
Of course, the response from social media users on X was swift and brutal.
This isn’t the first time Biden has gone on rants that were not well understood, after he famously told The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God during the 2020 presidential campaign, that if a black person doesn't vote for him, then they "ain't black."
However, graduating students from Howard University – a black research university located in Washington D.C. – called out Biden after he ranted during a speech.
"This is the worst graduation of my life, this is a campaign speech," one graduate is seen on camera saying, "We got this white man here Howard, what is going on?"
Another compilation posted on X in 2019 by 2022 Republican Arizona State House Nominee Christian Lamar shows some of the disparaging comments Biden has made about the Black community during his 50+ years in government.
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Apparently, all that would be needed now, to bring to a conclusion the discussion over Joe Biden's mental decline and whether he should be in the race for the 2024 election, is to put a speech on a teleprompter and have him read it.
At least that's the suggestion that can be taken from the Washington Post, which posted a commentary titled, "What if Biden spoke these words?'
Speculation about Biden's ability to continue as a candidate, or president, has exploded in the last week after his catastrophic performance at a presidential debate where he stumbled, mumbled, slurred, lost focus, stared into space, and worse.
President Donald Trump, at one point, told the moderators that he didn't have any idea what Biden said, "And I don't think he does either."
The White House has insisted that Biden is the candidate and will win, and legacy media outlets like the AP, who long have been his supporters, described him as sharp and focused but sometimes confused.
The Post even gave Biden "the words to say in a concession speech."
The Examiner explains that Biden, in fact, is facing questions from those within his own party about withdrawing.
It explained the speech references Biden's decades in the Washington establishment and "cited George Washington’s decision to step down from office 'though the Constitution at the time did not require it.'"
The proposed speech said, "Between now and November, I will do all I can to support the next Democratic nominee — and to encourage Americans to rediscover the optimism and energetic spirit that built this nation."
Some Democrats already have conceded that they expect Trump to win the election in November, and they're all right with that.
The White House has dismissed discussion of any issues regarding Biden's capabilities.
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Joe Biden has found himself in the embarrassing position of being schooled – publicly – on the U.S. Supreme Court after he made false claims about that body's recent ruling that President Donald Trump has immunity for his official acts in Congress.
Biden claimed that "for all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do."
In fact, a long list of leftists have said Biden now should call out the military, or send assassins, to "take out" Trump and the conservative justices on the high court.
But, explained Jonathan Turley, a recognized constitutional expert, law professor at George Washington University, and popular commentator who has represented members of Congress in court, Biden's wasn't telling the truth.
"President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States," he wrote.
While Biden previously has made false claims about the Constitution, "an address of this kind is particularly concerning in misleading citizens on the meaning of one of the most important decisions in history," Turley wrote.
He pointed out that the court took the "middle road" on Trump's claim to immunity, and Biden's claims simply are "not true."
"The court found that there was absolute immunity for actions that fall within their 'exclusive sphere of constitutional authority' while they enjoy presumptive immunity for other official acts. They do not enjoy immunity for unofficial, or private, actions," he said.
In fact, the court "separated cases into actions taken in core areas of executive authority, official actions taken outside those core areas, and unofficial actions. Actions deemed personal or unofficial are not protected under this ruling," he explained.
He continued, "President Biden’s hyper-ventilated response is crushingly ironic. He was vice president when President Barack Obama killed an American citizen without a trial or a charge. When former Attorney General Eric Holder announced the 'kill list' policy (that included the right to kill any American citizen), he was met with applause, not condemnation. The Obama-Biden administration then fought every effort by the family to sue the government. President Biden would have been outraged by any attempt of a Republican district attorney to charge him or President Obama with murder."
He said Biden's claim that "the law would no longer" define "the limits of the presidency" also was "untrue."
But Turley said, "What was most glaring for many civil libertarians was President Biden’s portrayal of himself as a paragon of constitutional fealty. He declared that 'I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers as I have for the last three-and-a-half years.' That was also untrue. President Biden has racked up an impressive array of losses in federal courts where he was found to have violated the Constitution."
Those include issues of his racial discrimination in federal programs, the nationwide eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his campaign to "forgive roughly half a trillion dollars in student debt."
Actually, Biden didn't "forgive" those loans, he simply transferred the indebtedness from borrowers to taxpayers.
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Joe Biden's vice president, Kamala Harris, has established a stunning record of nonaccomplishment.
Assigned to root out the causes of the flood of illegal aliens under Biden's open borders policy, she didn't.
Her speeches have been best known for her word salads, sometimes even more abstract than Biden's, such as her observation, multiple times in one paragraph, that the "passage of time" is significant, and her cackling laugh, unleashed at the most inopportune times.
Her approval ratings constantly have been underwater, sometimes by far.
But as vice president, her name clearly is a subject of discussion as more and more evidence is revealed about the exact nature of Joe Biden's mental and physical decline, which resulted in his recent "disastrous" debate performance.
But one former adviser to Bill Clinton noted that as unattractive as Biden has become to independent voters – those who are ready to swing back and forth and frequently are the deciders in an election, Harris is less attractive.
"Kamala Harris is more threatening to those swing voters than a dead Joe Biden or a comatose Joe Biden," former Clinton adviser Paul Begala said. "So if Joe has to go, it's gonna be Kamala and if it's Kamala, it's gonna be harder."
Analysts already have confirmed that if Biden is taken off the top of the Democrat ticket, election finance rules make it almost impossible to transfer the tens of millions of campaign dollars to another candidate, unless it would be Harris.
The Washington Examiner reported, "While top Democratic consultants debate the proper course of action for the party following President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance, many donors are skeptical of Vice President Kamala Harris’s appeal should she be tapped to replace Biden at the top of the ticket."