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The movie “2000 Mules” came out last week. It was quite the eye-opener and jawdropper. We would invite those from all walks of life to take a look at this film because no matter who you are and what side of the isle you may be on, this is damning evidence. I don’t ever want to hear again that there is ‘no evidence of widespread fraud.’ This was a well-oiled heist of an election pulled off by some of the smartest criminals to ever walk the face of the earth. They were successful in not only stealing the 2020 Presidential Election, but also even more successful at covering it up by using the media to shut down voices of opposition.
Who knows if anything will ever be done about it, but at some point the people that are supposed to be in charge of this country are going to have to wake up and take it back over.
This country was not founded by tea-sipping Oligarchs. This country was founded by rebellious men that were willing to through the tea in the water and stand up for themselves. Unfortunately, their descendants have become weak and docile.
Maybe record-setting inflation would wake everyone up? Maybe if everyone’s property tax went through the roof and their gas prices became unaffordable? Maybe if they had rolling blackouts in energy? Maybe if there was a food shortage? Maybe if they were told by the government what they could and couldn’t say?
Biden’s bread line crisis? Anatomy of the American baby formula shortage
ByJohn Solomon JustTheNews.com
At the outset of his presidency, Joe Biden promised competence by a bigger, better government. A few days ago, one of his loyal allies exposed a gross incompetence by federal officials on Biden’s watch that defied that promise and inflamed a baby formula shortage now panicking parents nationwide.
Rep. Rose DeLauro, DConn., a reliable liberal ally, unveiled documents showing the Biden Food and Drug Administration was alerted by a whistleblower last fall about potential contamination issues at the Abbott Nutrition baby formula factory in Michigan and failed for months to act aggressively.
“The FDA reacted far too slowly to this report,” DeLauro said in releasing a letter to the Health and Human Services inspector general demanding an immediate investigation to an incident that has led to babies being sickened and dying and a belated recall that has emptied shelves of formula nationwide.
The congresswoman, the chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, laid out a four-month-long trail of federal bumbles and stumbles: the report came in Oct. 20, the whistleblower didn’t even get interviewed for two months, the plant didn’t get inspected until Jan. 31 and the recall didn’t get issued until Feb. 17.
“Why did the FDA not spring into action?” she implored during a congressional hearing. “Why did it take four months to pull this formula off store shelves? How many infants were fed contaminated formula during this time, by parents who trusted that the formula they were buying was safe? How many additional illnesses and deaths were there due to FDA’s slow response?” Now the bureaucratic stumbling has escalated into a national crisis, as video of bare shelves and panicked parents harken in America some of the same fears and images as the bread lines and rationing that befell the Soviet Union in the early 1990s just before its collapse.
The problems began even before the recall as inflation, labor shortages and supply chain slowdowns began putting pressure on the baby food staple last fall.
In November, baby formula was already substantially more expensive and supply shortages had already risen to 11%. By the first week of April, the shortages had soared to 31%, and last week the number stood at a stunning 40%, according to statistics kept by Datasembly. The escalating shortages have prompted major stores such as Target, CVS and Walgreens to ration supplies with purchase limits.
"This is a shocking number that you don't see for other categories," Datasembly CEO Ben Reich told CBS MoneyWatch on Friday.
The crisis has both political and personal consequences.
Many millennial and Gen Z child-bearing parents were part of the coalition that propelled Biden to his election win. And some parents are now facing life-anddeath consequences, especially for children with rare digestive disorders.
"If this doesn’t get fixed soon, I don’t know how my son will survive," Phoebe Carter, whose 5year-old son suffers from a rare digestive and immune system disease, told Politico on Saturday. "I just can’t stress that enough."
The poor and working class –whom Biden promised hope in his inaugural speech –are also disproportionately affected. A food bank in Seattle was so desperate to get some baby formula it recently held an emergency drive.
Alfredo Ortiz, president of the small business group Job Creators Net(Continued on page 16)
U.S. senator says Biden administration disinformation board likely illegal
By Bethany Blankley JustTheNews.com
Sen. Bill Hagerty, RTenn., says the creation of a board within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with combating "disinformation" is likely illegal.
Creating the board and hiring its new director without Congressional authorization violates several federal laws, Hagerty, R-Tenn., said. Knowingly and willfully violating one of them carries a $5,000 fine and up to two years in prison, he adds.
Hagerty sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying his “actions merit review by Congress, both as a general matter, as well as under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) and because the actions may be in violation of provisions of the Antideficiency Act.” He told Mayorkas that “you will comply with the requirements” of the CRA when it comes to the creation of DHS’ disinformation board because the law requires “any agency action that falls within the definition of a ‘rule’ must be submitted to Congress for review before it can take effect.” Creating the board and hiring its new director, Nina Jankowicz, “may also be a direct violation of provisions of the Antideficiency Act,” Hagerty wrote. The law prohibits “making or authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or authorizing an obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available in the appropriationorfundunlessauthorized by law.” Federal funding available for the board and for Jankowicz’s salary “is ‘none,’” he said, because “Congress explicitly defunded it, just weeks ago.” Citing a section of the fiscal 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Act, Hagerty said the law “specifically prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from using any funds provided by Congress to carry out Section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which means it defunded any action to ‘allocate or reallocate functions among the officers of the Department of Homeland Security or to establish, consolidate, or alter organizational units within the Department of Homeland Security.’” Hagerty also put Mayorkas on notice, writing: “As you know, an officer or employee, including you, who violates the Antideficiency Act ‘shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline,’ and, for willful violations, faces a criminal fine, imprisonment, or both.” A federal employee who willfully violates the Antideficiency Act “shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant, suspension from duty without pay or removal from office.” A federal employee who “knowingly and willfully” violates it “shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.” After receiving a wide range of criticism about the DHS’s disinformation board, Mayorkas hit the television circuit last weekend and testified before the Senate on Wednesday. DHS also published a fact sheet about its disinformation initiative, calling it an internal working group.
Initially, Mayorkas said DHS had been talking with secretaries of state and the new board’s focus would be on the upcoming midterm elections. But the fact sheet states its focus is on “disinformation spread by foreign states such as (Continued on page 16)
From the 45th President of the United States
Everyone knows the wisdom embodied in the saying “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The WSJ’s May 2, 2022 editorial argues that we should ignore the blatant fraud that took place in Wisconsin in the November 2020 election as detailed by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in his 136 page Preliminary Report issued on March 1, 2022. To ignore the fraud that Justice Gableman continues to uncover is to allow that fraud to be repeated. Justice Gableman’s Report revealed many illegal and unethical acts including Zuckerberg funded election bribery, illegal ballot drop boxes, and obstruction of evidence gathering. Gableman also revealed that the Wisconsin Election Commission shared access to Wisconsin’s registration system with Zuckerberg funded leftwing activists, disregarded Wisconsin law so that tens of thousands of nursing home residents could be exploited for their votes, and illegally encouraged Wisconsin voters declare themselves “indefinitely confined” under Wisconsin law, thereby avoiding Wisconsin’s voter ID requirements. These issues are far from “ghosts” as the editorial board claims. Here is alink to the Reportso that people can see it for themselves. I encourage everyone to read it. The fact that the WSJ editorial board came out with this hit piece the day after the nationwide premier of True the Vote’s movie, 2000 Mules, which proves a massive illegal ballot harvesting operation took place in the 2020 election— especially in key battleground counties like Milwaukee County—is also curious. Voters know that unless we fix what happened in 2020, those who stole the 2020 election will try to do it again in 2022. Ignorance is not bliss. Sky high inflation, threats of World War III, and the invasion across our borders are a direct consequence of the stolen 2020 election. What happened in 2020 can never be allowed to happen again!
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Texas opens probe into whether state lawyers’ group aiding illegal immigration
ByJohn Solomon JustTheNews.com
Opening a new front on the war against illegal immigration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a probe into whether the state bar is misappropriating charitablefundstoaidthe massive migrant crisis at the border.
Paxton said evidence he received from Rep. Troy Nehls, a Republican congressman from Texas, and other complainants gave him probable cause to open the investigation into the Texas Bar Foundation.
“Unfortunately, at the very time that our state is facing an unprecedented border crisis and our brave men and women are serving Texas in Operation Lone Star, it appears that the liberal State Bar’s handpicked cronies are misusing charitable funds to make the situation even worse,” Paxton said Friday.
“I will not let this illegal behavior continue any further. Thank you to Congressman Nehls and other concerned citizens for bringing this to my attention,” he added.
In a letter to Texas Bar Foundation, Paxton said he had received information that the group, the charitable arm of the state lawyers’ bar, “is knowingly giving donations to entities that encourage, participate in, and fund illegal immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. “Specifically, the complaints indicate the Texas Bar Foundation provides grants to organizations that support, fund, and encourage illegal immigration. The complaints allege this is an improper use of charitable funds such that funds are diverted from their intended purpose,” the letter added.
Paxton demanded the bar turn over to his investigators evidence that includes documentation showing:
*All grants to immigration-related charitable programs and organizations for the past 10 years;
*The monitoring, reporting and accountability requirements for use of those funds awarded to such organizations;
*the Foundation’s final accounting and reporting from the grantee organizations reflecting how the funds were specifically utilized;
*Board and/or committee meeting minutes discussing the awarding, monitoring, reporting and accounting of any such programs and/or grantee organizations.
*Names of appointees made to the Texas Bar Foundation by the current State Bar of Texas President Sylvia Borunda Firth. You can read the full letter here.
Alistair Dawson, the Chairman-Elect of the Texas Bar Foundation, said Friday the group has made more than $24 million charitable donations over the last half-century, does not use tax dollars, has done nothing wrong and will cooperate with the probe,
"The Foundation is extremely disappointed to learn that AG Paxton has decided to use taxpayer dollars on a fruitless exercise,” Dawson said in a statement, “Had AG Paxton taken the time to come and speak with us rather than issue a press release, I am confident that he would have found no wrongdoing on the part of the Foundation.
“Nevertheless, the Foundation is happy to cooperate and provide the AG's office with documents and information relevant to the investigation,” he added.
In an interview with John Solomon Reports podcast on Friday, Nels said the insure border that is now being crossed by more than 200,000 illegal migrants a month is likely to become a driving force in the mid-term elections and lead to a significant rebuke of Democrats starting with President Joe Biden.
"Go ahead sleepy Joe, continue down this path,” Nehls said. “And there will be that tsunami in 2022.. The American people don't agree with what's taking place at our southern border, and the 100,000 lives that are lost each year because of fentanyl."
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work, said the baby formula crisis follows a pattern of other economic failures by the Biden administration.
“The only thing the Biden administration seems to be efficient at is burying their heads in the sand,” he said. “These are the same bureaucrats that told us for months that inflation was only transitory and would resolve itself. Then they tried to tell small business owners that their supply chain issues had been resolved even though we could all see cargo ships backed up for miles at several ports nationwide.
”Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that they have failed to protect even the most innocent Americans from their incompetence,” he added.
The shortages are also raising fears that parents might be tempted to concoct their own formulas or water down current store-bought formulas to stretch supplies, two actions experts say are fraught with danger.
The FDA strongly urges parents not to make their own formulas, saying contamination and inadequate nutrients in homebrewed formulas can lead to everything from "severe nutritional imbalances to food-borne illnesses, both of which can be life-threatening."
"Making things at home off of a Google recipe is potentially very dangerous for your baby," Dr. Stephen Lauer, a pediatrician with the University of Kansas Health System, told WDAF TV station this week.
Meanwhile, parents are desperately pleading for help on social media.
"If the MSM can talk about the toilet paper shortage ever hour, they should be talking about the baby formula shortage at least. ...We ended finding the Amazon brand online but not everyone is so lucky to be able to feed that. Please share. This is every store!" Danielle Miller tweeted with a picture of an empty shelve of formula.
Disinformation Board
(Continued from page 15) in ‘disinformation for profit.’”
Russia, China, and Iran, or other adversaries such as transnational criminal organizations and human smuggling organizations. Such malicious actors often spread disinformation to exploit vulnerableindividualsandthe American public, including during national emergencies.” Mayorkas defended the Jankowicz selection despite numerous claims she’s made that have been proven to be false, while she labeled many Americans exercising their free speech as “disinformation launderers,” even labeling Loudon County, Virginia, parents who opposed curriculum being taught to their children as “disinformers’ engaged Twenty attorneys general demanded that Mayorkas immediately shut down DHS’ disinformation board, or working group, regardless of what it’s called, arguing it’s unconstitutional, illegal and un-American. If he doesn’t, they said they will take legal action.
Hagerty gave Mayorkas until May 16 to submit to Congress the rules and policies the DHS disinformation board would implement. He also instructed Mayorkas to submit a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, President Joe Biden, Congress, and Comptroller General of the United States that includes specific information about “the violation if it has indeed occurred.”
