President-elect Donald Trump has filed an amicus brief in a Texas court calling on a federal judge to &#8220;immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials&#8221; until an investigation of the Biden administration&#8217;s conduct regarding the border wall is complete, according to a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/trump-amicus-border.pdf">copy of the brief</a> obtained by The Daily Wire.
The brief, written for Trump by attorney John Sauer, who is poised to be Trump&#8217;s solicitor general in his second term, cites The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office">exclusive report</a> on video showing the Biden administration moving large quantities of border wall material off the southern border to be sold off to private parties in an auction.
&#8220;The outgoing Biden Administration’s reported &#8216;fire sales&#8217; of border-wall materials to private parties raise grave concerns about the legality of Defendants’ conduct and their compliance with this Court’s permanent injunction in this case,&#8221; the brief writes. &#8220;The Court should order an immediate stop of all such sales and perform a searching examination of the Government’s conduct—by ordering formal discovery if necessary—to ensure compliance with the Constitution, the law, and the Court’s orders.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s December 12 report found that the material was being hauled off by private contractors to an auction site, where bidding for entire segments of unconstructed wall started at just $5. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-bidens-border-wall-sale-is-almost-a-criminal-act-will-seek-restraining-order">said</a> at a press conference this week that the outgoing administration &#8220;is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar knowing that we’re getting ready to put it up.&#8221;
Steven Cheung, Trump&#8217;s top spokesman, said Trump filed the brief because of the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;egregious history of violating the law.&#8221;
&#8220;Any attempt by Biden officials to obstruct President Trump’s plan to build the Border Wall is unlawful, unconstitutional, and possibly criminal, as our brief argues,&#8221; Cheung said. &#8220;The Biden Administration has an egregious history of violating the law, especially in its catastrophic open-border policy, so the courts should review their actions here with particular skepticism.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office">EXCLUSIVE: Biden Races To Sell Off Border Wall Parts Before Trump Takes Office</a>
&#8220;President Trump will not be deterred from Building the Wall, securing our border, and Making America Great Again,&#8221; he added.
The amicus brief, filed in the Southern District of Texas, is in reference to cases brought by Texas and Missouri against the Biden administration regarding the sale of wall material. It argues that Trump has made clear his &#8220;support for building a system of border barriers at the southwestern border&#8221; and that &#8220;building the border wall is the clear and emphatic policy of the incoming Trump Administration.&#8221;
&#8220;Accordingly, President Trump is deeply troubled by recent reports that officials in the Biden Administration have been selling off border-wall materials at rock-bottom prices, especially during this lame-duck period,&#8221; the brief states.
&#8220;President Trump has a paramount interest in preventing any unlawful sell-off of border wall materials that may be occurring,&#8221; it says. &#8220;One of President Trump’s dominant priorities for the next four years—building the border wall—could be unlawfully hampered, delayed, or obstructed by such efforts.&#8221;
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The brief also references Trump&#8217;s mandate to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse, pointing to his creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. An investigation by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found that the Biden administration is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-calls-on-pentagon-to-halt-sale-of-border-wall-says-gov-recouping-just-02-of-taxpayer-cost">recouping just 0.02%</a> of the initial cost of the materials in its sale.
The brief also argues that the Biden administration&#8217;s argument in defense of the sale — that a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act passed in 2023 authorizes the sale — is wrong. The bill&#8217;s provision calls for &#8220;a plan to use, transfer, or donate to States on the southern border,&#8221; and was written by Republicans with the intent of stopping the administration from selling off border parts, according to congressional sources.
&#8220;That language does not mandate or authorize DoD to sell the excess border wall material at a steep discount to private parties,&#8221; the brief states.
The brief is in support of legal action taken earlier this week by Texas and Missouri, who also cited The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting in their call for a permanent injunction.
&#8220;Videos obtained by The Daily Wire show flatbed trucks hauling massive, unused border wall panels—each weighing over 16,000 pounds—away from construction sites in Arizona to government auction yards,&#8221; the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/PLAINTIFFS-OPPOSED-MOTION-TO-ENFORCE-PERMANENT.pdf">filing reads</a> before quoting a border patrol agent who blew the whistle to The Daily Wire. &#8220;The stated goal? Clear it all out &#8216;before Christmas.'&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s brief cites The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office">report</a> by James Lalino as an authority in the case. You can read the full amicus brief below.
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The spending bill up for debate in Congress to fund the government through the end of the year includes a provision that reauthorizes a State Department agency critics say is at the center of a government &#8220;censorship scheme.&#8221;
The bill would reauthorize the State Department&#8217;s Global Engagement Center, which was created to counter messaging spread by foreign actors such as violent terrorists abroad, but instead allegedly worked to suppress Americans&#8217; speech. Just last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-will-shutter-propaganda-agency-tied-to-domestic-disinformation-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GEC was preparing to shut down operations</a> because it had not been reauthorized by Congress. But the more than 1,500-page spending bill would give it at least one more year, leading to widespread criticism from Republicans.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-texas-ag-ask-court-to-block-state-departments-domestic-misinformation-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued the State Department</a>, along with The Federalist and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over GEC&#8217;s relationship with anti-“misinformation” outfits like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI). The suit alleges that those outfits were focused on suppressing American conservative media and that GEC&#8217;s support of these groups violated the First Amendment.
It’s just one unpopular provision in a massive spending bill that appears to be on its last legs. House Speaker Johnson (R-LA) is reportedly already moving on to a “Plan B” after conservative outrage over what’s included in the lengthy resolution.
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance released a joint statement on Wednesday afternoon calling for Republicans to propose a resolution “WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS” that includes disaster relief and support for farmers. The statement specifically called out the legislation&#8217;s &#8220;sweetheart provisions for government censors.&#8221;
“If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF,” the statement read. “It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.”
Johnson, tasked with negotiating the spending bill with a Democrat-controlled Senate, said the provision to fund GEC for another year was the result of compromise. He is opposed to GEC, his office says, and is committed to ending it.
&#8220;Speaker Johnson has killed multiple efforts to pass a 5-year reauthorization of the GEC during the past year, including as recently as the NDAA last week,&#8221; a Johnson spokesman said.
A source familiar with the negotiation says Democrats wanted to reauthorize GEC for five years, putting the next fight over its existence in 2029. The proposed provision would give GEC just a one-year lifeline, meaning the next time it would go up for reauthorization there will be unified Republican control of government.
Many conservatives on the Hill are furious about giving the controversial agency even those few months.
&#8220;This CR funds the censorship of conservative speech for the entire first year of the Trump administration,&#8221; wrote Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN). &#8220;Unacceptable!&#8221;
Its inclusion also earned the ire of Elon Musk, who used the GEC reauthorization to label the spending bill &#8220;a crime.&#8221;
&#8220;The more I learn, the more obvious it becomes that this spending bill is a crime,&#8221; Musk wrote on X. &#8220;It even includes funding for the worst illegal censorship operation in the entire government (GEC)!!&#8221;
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A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance:
The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.…
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Vivek Ramaswamy, who is set to be Musk&#8217;s partner at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, similarly called out the reauthorization of the &#8220;key player in the federal censorship state&#8221; in his call for lawmakers to vote against the spending bill.
Johnson&#8217;s office says their team believes that reauthorizing GEC for one more year could ultimately make the agency easier to kill, which it says is the goal. The State Department had disclosed to Congress, his office says, that it had plans to absorb the function of the GEC into the department&#8217;s existing bureaucracy before Trump took office.
&#8220;This bill ensures the incoming Trump Administration has the maximum ability and authority to determine how to handle the office, its authorities, and funding,&#8221; said the Johnson spokesman.
In exchange for the one-year reauthorization, Democrats agreed to scrap a new reporting requirement for small businesses that could have led to $10,000 fines and possible jail time for businesses that don&#8217;t report details about their ownership to the government, according to<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/09/treasury-department-fincen-boi-report-business-fines.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CNBC</a>.
The government would partially shut down on December 21 if no deal is reached. Musk says that a shutdown is an “infinitely better” option “than passing a horrible bill,” adding that he believes no legislation should pass until Trump takes office.
“No bills should be passed Congress until Jan 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office,” Musk wrote. “None. Zero.”

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The social media account for Kamala Harris&#8217;s failed presidential campaign has deleted a false post about political commentator Tim Pool, seemingly as part of a legal settlement that stemmed from a defamation lawsuit.
Pool announced on Friday that the Kamala HQ post, which falsely labeled Pool a &#8220;Trump operative&#8221; associated with Project 2025, was deleted. The post said that Pool was part of a plan to give Trump &#8220;unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins.&#8221; Pool sued in federal court, saying the false post caused him &#8220;reputational harm&#8221; that would take millions of dollars to undo.
Pool did not reveal the details of any legal settlement with the failed politician&#8217;s campaign, only that it has &#8220;been resolved to my satisfaction.&#8221;
&#8220;The lawsuit between I, Tim Pool, and The Kamala Harris Campaign has been resolved to my satisfaction,&#8221; Pool wrote alongside a screenshot of a now-deleted post. &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;
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The lawsuit between I, Tim Pool, and The Kamala Harris Campaign has been resolved to my satisfaction
Thank You<a href="https://t.co/zDfpd2dY7z">https://t.co/zDfpd2dY7z</a> <a href="https://t.co/7PcrB3YBD6">pic.twitter.com/7PcrB3YBD6</a>
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1865179804485517672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Asked for further details about the legal settlement, Pool said in a statement: &#8220;Hahahahahaha.&#8221;
Pool&#8217;s lawsuit sought a retraction, as well as damages and attorney&#8217;s fees. The deletion appears to be the retraction.
The rest of the posts from Kamala HQ appear to still be up on X, indicating that it was a specific action taken regarding the post on Pool. Making outlandish statements regarding the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025 became a central strategy of the Harris campaign.
Even CNN&#8217;s Daniel Dale, a fact-checker who rarely targets Democrats, said the campaign account was &#8220;repeatedly deceptive&#8221; on X.
&#8220;A social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been repeatedly deceptive,&#8221; Dale wrote for CNN. &#8220;The <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@KamalaHQ</a> account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.&#8221;
The account hasn&#8217;t posted since November 5, when Harris lost the presidency to Republican Donald Trump.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is out with a statement after it came under fire for exposing the identities of anonymous writers for Not The Bee, saying its decision to highlight their identities was made because it&#8217;s &#8220;dedicated to protecting the safety of trans and genderqueer individuals.&#8221;
The left-wing organization published a piece on Tuesday afternoon that highlighted the identities, hometowns, and even professions of writers published under pseudonyms on Not The Bee. The non-satirical partner website of The Babylon Bee publishes news stories that seem too absurd to be true to highlight the absurdity of the Left.
The website&#8217;s leadership, Seth and Dan Dillon, took aim at SPLC as a &#8220;smear factory&#8221; that was &#8220;doxxing&#8221; its writers &#8220;because they’re left-wing activists masquerading as journalists.&#8221; The SPLC confirmed as much in its statement, which uses left-wing talking points to justify its actions.
“The SPLC is committed to transparency and is dedicated to protecting the safety of trans and genderqueer individuals when they are publicly attacked,&#8221; the SPLC said in a <a href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/19/elon-musk-calls-splc-a-criminal-organization-after-doxing-claim/76428624007/">statement</a> to the Montgomery Advertiser. &#8220;Hateful content like the material created by Not the Bee writers works to dehumanize transgender individuals, the entire LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities, and people of color. This divisive commentary has no place in our society.&#8221;
Seth Dillon said on Wednesday morning that the statement was an admission that SPLC&#8217;s &#8220;dox-and-smear campaign against us wasn&#8217;t actually journalism, but an attempt to censor speech they don&#8217;t like.&#8221;
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Dillon in follow-up posts on X revealed that SPLC employees self-identified as journalists in emails to The Babylon Bee ahead of its story.
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The SPLC story revealed the identities of six authors from Not The Bee from around the country who contribute to the site. SPLC published their names, where they lived, and their professions, which ranged from fitness instructor to high school teacher.
The stated justification for exposing the identities of the writers in the article was the content they produced. One writer who was published under the name &#8220;Planet Moron,&#8221; for example, was exposed because he&#8217;s a &#8220;prolific writer on culture-war issues,&#8221; the SPLC stated.
The SPLC is well-funded, taking in hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out attacks for the Left. That funding has been the source of controversy, with tax forms showing much of its money stored in overseas tax havens.
According to its 2022 <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/630598743/202430449349301428/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax form</a>, it took in $170 million that year, and had about $700 million stashed away as “private investment funds.” $26 million was stored in “Central America and the Caribbean.” The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a> reported in 2019 that tax documents from 2014 showed it transferring millions of dollars to the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.
<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a>
SPLC now functions as a smear factory, allowing reputable groups like legacy media outlets to call center-right groups extremists without engaging in defamation because they attribute it to SPLC, a nominal expert, instead of saying it themselves. In 2012, a left-wing gunman stormed the conservative think tank Family Research Council because he saw it <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/28/morris-dees-splc-trump-southern-poverty-law-center-215312/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as “anti-gay” by SPLC. He was later convicted of terrorism for the attack.
In 2018, SPLC’s insurance company paid British activist Maajid Nawaz $3.4 million because the group falsely named him an “anti-Muslim extremist.” Last year, a judge ruled that a defamation suit from the Dustin Inman Society could proceed after SPLC called it an “anti-immigrant hate group… vilifying all immigrants,” when the Society says it simply opposes illegal immigration.

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SpaceX successfully completed one of the greatest engineering achievements in the history of space travel on Sunday morning, launching the Starship spacecraft and then returning the Super Heavy booster used for the launch back to the launch site.
The 232-foot Super Heavy booster blasted off at approximately 8:25 a.m. ET and returned to the launch site within minutes, where it was caught in mid-air by two massive metal arms that Elon Musk&#8217;s company refers to as its &#8220;chopsticks.&#8221;
The company said it was a mid-flight decision to attempt the return to the Texas launchpad. SpaceX engineers could be heard cheering on the livestream as its host heralded the &#8220;absolutely insane&#8221; achievement, saying it &#8220;looked like magic.&#8221;
WATCH: SpaceX&#8217;s Mechazilla catches Super Heavy rocket booster
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&#8220;This is absolutely insane!&#8221; the engineer said as the booster was caught. &#8220;On the first ever attempt, we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower. What an incredible feeling.&#8221;
The return of the booster to Earth is a major milestone for the future of space travel. The ability to reuse rocket parts for multiple spaceship launches drastically changes the economics of the industry, putting Musk&#8217;s dream to &#8220;revolutionize humanity&#8217;s ability to access space&#8221; in sight.
&#8220;With each flight building on the learnings from the last, testing improvements in hardware and operations across every facet of Starship, we’re on the verge of demonstrating techniques fundamental to Starship’s fully and rapidly reusable design,&#8221; SpaceX said ahead of the successful test. &#8220;By continuing to push our hardware in a flight environment, and doing so as safely and frequently as possible, we’ll rapidly bring Starship online and revolutionize humanity’s ability to access space.&#8221;
The first time SpaceX launched the Super Heavy booster was last April. There was no intention for it to return to the launchpad as it did this morning, and it exploded before it would have been able to.
A massive effort was undertaken to improve the rocket since then. One of the most important improvements was a rebuild of the Starship&#8217;s &#8220;heatshield,&#8221; designed for it to withstand the temperatures of reentry into the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The spaceship could be seen turning bright red as it flew through space, but the improved &#8220;heatshield&#8221; appeared to be holding up during flight.
The Starship remained in its test flight, which is expected to last just around an hour. It will attempt to land in the Indian Ocean. Unlike the booster, the Starship isn&#8217;t yet built to survive the landing.
More than three million people are tuned in to watch the livestream.
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One of the anti-racist activists featured in “Am I Racist?” is privately attacking the Matt Walsh film to her supporters as a “fascist Nazi white supremacy film,” according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/anti-racist-authors-saira-rao-regina-jackson-claim-they-were-conned-into-appearing-in-matt-walshs-fascist-nazi-white-supremacy-film-am-i-racist">The Post Millennial</a>. 
Rao, who has gained prominence in recent years for challenging white women to accept their racism, is warning her fans that she was “conned” into being a part of the film, and imploring them not to see the movie, a source who attended one of Rao&#8217;s events told the outlet. 
“By the way, we should tell you,&#8221; Rao told a group attending a virtual anti-racism book club, according to the source. &#8220;We haven’t even talked about this. We are the subjects of an upcoming Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro film. All the big cinemas are carrying this Nazi s***, Regal, AMC.&#8221; 
&#8220;Don&#8217;t go see it because nobody needs to pay that dude money, but Regina and I along with a crew of maybe half a dozen other people including Robin DiAngelo were conned into being part of this fascist Nazi white supremacy film,&#8221; she said, The Post Millennial reports. &#8220;So, anyway. You can Google it.&#8221;
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Rao and her business partner Regina Jackson offer what they call Race2Dinner, in which white women pay for a two-hour meal with the pair of anti-racism activists. The meals “require white women to participate in very direct, exceedingly difficult conversations” about racism. 
In &#8220;Am I Racist?,&#8221; Walsh attends one of these dinners and gets the white women to literally toast being racist, a clip of the film shows.
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In this scene from my upcoming film “Am I Racist?” I was honored to earn a seat at the table during a Race to Dinner session. I was even more honored to lead the women in a toast to racists. Tickets on sale at <a href="https://t.co/iJv1cNRoWV">https://t.co/iJv1cNRoWV</a> <a href="https://t.co/o7kriAG0X3">pic.twitter.com/o7kriAG0X3</a>
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Rao’s recent comments on the film came during a Race2Reading event, a virtual book club series that spun off from the dinner series, The Post Millennial explains. It occurred on August 14, and cost $50 to join.
The virtual event was advertised as &#8220;an enriching experience in an intimate setting.&#8221;
The Post Millennial&#8217;s Libby Emmons writes that it&#8217;s a shame Rao and Jackson&#8217;s followers won&#8217;t go see &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221;
&#8220;Undoubtedly, the dutiful white women will not go see the film,&#8221; Emmons writes. &#8220;If they did, they would see an honest account of their dinner series, where white women hang onto Rao and Jackson&#8217;s every word as tightly as they grip the stems of their wine glasses.&#8221;
The two women are the co-authors of &#8220;<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669854/white-women-by-regina-jackson-and-saira-rao/">White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better.</a>&#8221;
Rao and Jackson are not the only activists featured in the film attacking it as it hits theaters. Robin DiAngelo, the prominent anti-racist author of White Fragility, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robin-diangelo-breaks-am-i-racist-silence-says-she-got-played-by-borat-style-mockumentary">told her followers</a> on Thursday that she got played by &#8220;a Borat-style mockumentary&#8221; that is &#8220;designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.&#8221;
Another activist who appears in the film <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activist-featured-in-am-i-racist-moana-clip-rails-against-film-piece-of-s">called it</a> a &#8220;piece of s***.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/">Am I Racist?</a>&#8221; opens today in over 1,500 theaters.

Saira Rao

Saira Rao Privately Slams ‘Am I Racist?’ As ‘Nazi White Supremacy Film’

Anti-racism activist Robin DiAngelo is breaking her silence on the upcoming ‘Am I Racist?’ film, laying out how Daily Wire host Matt Walsh &#8220;deceived&#8221; her into appearing in what she describes as “a Borat-style mockumentary&#8230;designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.” 
In a note on her website titled “<a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/about-that-film/">About That Film</a>,” the &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; author says the “sequence of events” that ended with her taking $30 out of her purse to pay reparations to a black producer on set was “unsettling,” and that she figured out she “had been played” before the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7PA_kshZh0">trailer for the film</a> was released in July. 
“After reviewing the sequence of events and discussing it with colleagues, I realized that they had lied about their agenda and I had been played,” DiAngelo says. 
But it wasn’t until after seeing the trailer for the film, which opens in theaters across the country this Friday, that she realized the interview was not “meant to support the anti-racist cause.”
“It is not titled Shades of Justice nor is it meant to support the anti-racist cause,” DiAngelo writes. “It is a Borat-style mockumentary titled Am I Racist? and designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.”
<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/">Am I Racist? ONLY In Theaters Tomorrow—Get Your Tickets Now!</a>
DiAngelo is featured in the film, one of Walsh’s many interview subjects. Walsh, sporting a man bun, convinces DiAngelo she had a “powerful opportunity” to display her commitment to anti-racism by giving his black producer, Ben, money from her purse. 
In her statement, DiAngelo claims she detected the wig and other things that “felt off,” but thought that Walsh “seemed earnest.”
“When I arrived for the interview, a few things felt off,” DiAngelo writes. “The grips would not make eye contact with me and the interviewer, who was introduced as ‘Matt,’ appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig. Matt presented himself as someone new to antiracist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial.”
She says the reparations segment, however, “got weird.” Here’s how she remembers it: 
<blockquote>“Matt asked what I thought about reparations for Black Americans. I said that I agreed with reparations but that it was not my area of expertise. He then pulled up a chair and invited a Black crew-member who went by “Ben” to sit with us, took out his wallet and handed Ben some cash. He said that if I believed in reparations, I should also give Ben cash. While some Black people have asked white people to engage in reparations by giving directly to individuals, reparations are generally understood as a systemic approach to past and current injustice. The way Matt set this up felt intended to put Ben and I on the spot. Because Matt was pushing this on us, I expressed my discomfort and checked in with Ben, to be sure he was okay with receiving cash in this way. Ben reassured me that he was, so I went to my wallet and handed him my cash and the interview ended.”</blockquote>
DiAngelo confesses that she took $15,000 to do the interview, but has since donated the money to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. It is unclear whether she included the $30 reparations payment in her donation.
DiAngelo says she will not be &#8220;deceived&#8221; again, and that she will not see the film.
“This experience has reinforced for me how critically important it is to do in-depth background research before making yourself vulnerable to people you don’t know, or believing and sharing what you see online,” she says. “I have not seen the film nor do I plan to watch it, so I don’t know what they have used of my interview or how they have edited it. 
She also says that the agenda for the film is clear, quoting Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing’s statement that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is the “next pillar of the woke mind virus that’s about to topple.”
DiAngelo ends her statement with a prediction: “They will not prevail in their efforts to stop the work for racial justice.”
Walsh responded to DiAngelo&#8217;s statement on X, saying she was &#8220;correct&#8221; in her assessment of his intentions.
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My favorite part of this wonderful statement is that she says she noticed my “ill fitting wig” when she first sat down with me. And yet for some reason she still did the interview.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834351941717295182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh said his &#8220;favorite part&#8221; of the statement was her critique of his hair, and suggestion that she knew something was up the whole time.
&#8220;My favorite part of this wonderful statement is that she says she noticed my &#8216;ill fitting wig&#8217; when she first sat down with me,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;And yet for some reason she still did the interview.&#8221;
Am I Racist? opens on Friday in over 1,500 theaters. DiAngelo<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-activists-delete-x-accounts-ahead-of-am-i-racist-premiere?topStoryPosition=1"> deactivated her social media accounts</a> last month.

“Am I Racist?”

Robin DiAngelo Breaks ‘Am I Racist?’ Silence, Says She Got Played By ‘Borat-Style Mockumentary’

Am I Racist

Months after exposing how online service providers had become a “secret tool” to censor conservatives, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) unveiled legislation that would combat politically motivated censorship carried out by tech companies through “discriminatory terms of service policies.”
Cruz, who in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-exposes-the-lefts-newest-strategy-for-censoring-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April report</a> laid out how companies like Eventbrite withheld their services from conservatives over politics, says these powerful tech giants would have to be transparent about how they’re “weaponizing” terms of service to block conservatives from using their products.
“As my Committee investigation revealed, Big Tech is increasingly weaponizing their broadly-worded terms of service agreements to silence and deny conservatives access to essential business technology,” Cruz said on Thursday. “The free flow of information through freedom of speech is the bedrock of our democratic republic, which is why online service providers should, at the very least, be required to be transparent about their political discrimination.”
His legislation, the Transparency in Enforcement, Restricting, and Monitoring of Services, or <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/2024.07.31-TERMS-ACT-RIL24770.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TERMS Act</a>, would not only require public disclosure of terms of service, but also that companies give users advance written notice of termination or cancellation that explains how the user violated the acceptable use policy. 
The bill states that companies must disclose &#8220;the specific act or practice of the user that led to the decision to restrict the user.&#8221;
The legislative push comes after Cruz exposed how Eventbrite blocked organizations from using its service to plan events around <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>, the hit documentary film starring Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. The event company, which controls nearly half of the online event management market, claimed mere screenings of the film violated their Hateful Events Policy, and yanked pages for events across the country from its platform. 
Cruz revealed to The Daily Wire in April that these decisions were made without even seeing the film. 
“Eventbrite said that its decision to cancel the &#8216;What is a Woman?&#8217; event was based in a large part on their objection to the film itself,” Cruz said. “But then they couldn’t identify anything with the film that violated its terms of service.”
“They canceled the event without watching the movie,” Cruz explained, calling it “brazen abuse of power” that’s carried out in “an explicitly ideological leftist way to silence conservative voices while not silencing those voices on the left.”
Other conservatives targeted through terms of service that were identified by Cruz included Libs of TikTok, which was kicked off Slack without warning because its posts “incite hatred,” and Riley Gaines, who was also blocked from using Eventbrite for stating that women don’t have a Y chromosome. 
Walsh praised Cruz’s investigation in April, saying it confirmed everything he assumed about why Eventbrite targeted the film without explanation.
“Conservatives have long suspected they’re being deplatformed for fraudulent, politically motivated reasons,” Walsh said. “This congressional investigation confirms it.”
While Cruz seems to acknowledge that terms of service can be levied however private companies choose, he said the transparency still serves an important purpose. 
“The TERMS Act will force Big Tech to disclose its discriminatory policies upfront, allowing consumers to take their business elsewhere if they so choose,” Cruz explained.
He is joined on the legislation by Republican Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who are also members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.

Ted Cruz

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Makes Push To Stop Big Tech From Canceling Conservatives

Big Tech

Censorship

Matt Walsh

What Is A Woman

A congressional investigation has uncovered overt political bias in the leadership of an advertising coalition that’s being used to control online speech, according to a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/2024-07-10-GARMs-Harm-How-the-Worlds-Biggest-Brands-Seek-to-Control-Online-Speech.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Judiciary Committee report</a> released on Wednesday ahead of a hearing on whether advertisers are violating federal competition laws.
The report on the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM, accuses the group of attempting to influence what content appears online by starving disfavored content, or even entire platforms, of advertising dollars needed to survive. Internal emails obtained by the committee found that GARM’s leadership strategized how to use the coalition against news outlets, including The Daily Wire, with opposing views from its leadership.
“GARM and its members discussed a strategy of blocking certain news outlets like Fox News, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart News,” the report states, pointing to an email from a top executive associated with the coalition stating that he “hated their ideology and bulls**t.”
One of the lead organizations in the coalition, GroupM, the world’s largest media buying agency, admits in emails that The Daily Wire is “on our Global High Risk exclusion list, categorized as Conspiracy Theories.”
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-set-to-testify-to-congress-on-alleged-collusion-against-conservatives-in-ad-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro will testify</a> in the committee’s hearing on GARM, which will take place later on Wednesday. Last year, Shapiro described GARM as part of “a network of global elites who have created a universal framework full of guidelines and ratings designed to enforce ‘approved’ narratives and punish disapproved ones.”
<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/2024-07-10-GARMs-Harm-How-the-Worlds-Biggest-Brands-Seek-to-Control-Online-Speech.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE’S FULL REPORT: HOW THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BRANDS SEEK TO CONTROL ONLINE SPEECH</a>
GARM was formed by the World Federation of Advertisers in 2019, and was embraced as a “flagship project” of the World Economic Forum. Its stated goal is to create a “common understanding” in the advertising industry of “what harmful and sensitive content is” as well as “where ads should not appear,” basing it all on the importance of “brand safety” for its members.
The report exposes the political bias of Rob Rakowitz, GARM’s leader and co-founder, who in one email complains about people “advocating for freedom of speech online,” and about “extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution.” Rakowitz also criticizes the fact that the Constitution was written “by white men exclusively.”
“For an organization reliant on speech and persuasion in advertising, GARM appears to have anti-democratic views of fundamental American freedoms,” the report states, citing Rakowtiz’s emails.
Other entities targeted by GARM include Elon Musk’s Twitter, now X, after it was initially purchased by the tech billionaire. The report states that GARM tried to direct all of its members — corporate giants like Coca-Cola and Unilever who together account for 90% of global advertising dollars — to “stop all paid advertisement” on the platform after Musk purchased it. The report states that GARM “bragged about” the fact that Twitter was “80% below revenue forecasts” after its effort.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-set-to-testify-to-congress-on-alleged-collusion-against-conservatives-in-ad-industry?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ MORE: BEN SHAPIRO SET TO TESTIFY TO CONGRESS ON ALLEGED COLLUSION AGAINST CONSERVATIVE IN AD INDUSTRY</a>
GARM also worked to pressure Spotify over Joe Rogan’s podcast, the report shows, specifically over the host’s claims that young, healthy people didn’t need a COVID vaccine. Rakowitz, GARM’s leader, admits in private emails that threats like the one it made to Spotify “gets us into hot water by way of anticompetitive and collusive behaviors.”
The committee report concludes that “GARM likely violated federal antitrust laws,” claiming that it found “direct evidence” that it was “demonetizing certain viewpoints to limit consumer choice” and therefore harmed consumers.
“Colluding to suppress voices and views disfavored by the leading marketers at the world’s largest companies and advertising agencies is core to GARM’s founding principles,” the report states.
In the emails between Rakowitz and the GroupM executives, Joe Barone and John Montgomery, a plan appears to be hatched to closely monitor The Daily Wire in hopes that they find a reason to censor the outlet — it’s a strategy that was used to censor Breitbart, the GroupM executive explains.
“There is an interesting parallel here with Breitbart,” Montgomery wrote in an October 2021 email after he was asked about The Daily Wire. “Before Breitbart crossed the line and started spouting blatant misinformation, we had long discussions about whether we should include them on our exclusion lists. As much as we hated their ideology and bulls**t, we couldn’t really justify blocking them for misguided opinion. We watched them very carefully and it didn’t take long for them to cross the line.”
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He then recommends taking the same approach to The Daily Wire. “We should watch them carefully to make sure they don’t stoop below the GARM floor,” Montgomery writes, before being told by his colleague Barone that The Daily Wire was already on GroupM’s “Global High Risk exclusion list.”
Though the emails show Rakowitz discussing plans to censor specific outlets with GroupM, the committee report says he denied doing so in a transcribed interview with congressional investigators.
“When Mr. Rakowitz was asked by the Committee during his transcribed interview whether he discusses with GroupM its list of news outlets that are worthy of monetization, he denied doing so,” the report states. Rakowitz told the committee that he “won’t get into those conversations to keep myself compliant with our competition law policy.”
In addition to Shapiro, the CEO of GroupM, Christian Juhl, will also be a witness, Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/08/jim-jordan-grill-executives-accused-colluding-silence-conservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday.
The report outlines specific instances where GARM members used the coalition to get involved in U.S. elections — in one series of emails in October 2020, an executive for Unilever, which is based in the United Kingdom, tries to convince Facebook to take down a Donald Trump ad it viewed as misinformation. When Facebook explained that it has different standards for political speech, GARM leadership privately seethed.
“Honestly reprehensible,” Rakowitz wrote in an email to the Unilever executive, in reference to Facebook’s decision not to censor Trump.
The president of Unilever, a consumer goods giant that sits on GARM’s steering committee, will also testify at the hearing.
The message to Facebook, the emails obtained by the committee show, was that GARM wanted it to do more censorship — Rakowitz specifically wrote that the censorship efforts exhibited during COVID “should be the North Star” and urged it to do the same level of content moderation for elections.
“In other words, GARM pushed Facebook for coordinated action around the upcoming elections similar to the actions the platform took during the COVID-19 pandemic to censor speech,” the report states.
The committee report concludes that while any of these companies is free to advertise wherever they please, the collusion facilitated through GARM put it in violation of the law.
“Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court described collusion as “the supreme evil of antitrust.’ Today, this description remains true,” it states. “If collusion among powerful corporations capable of collectively demonetizing, and in effect eliminating, certain views and voices is allowed to continue, the ability of countless American consumers to choose what to read and listen to, or even have their speech or writing reach other Americans, will be destroyed.”

Rep. Jim Jordan

GARM Exposed: House Judiciary Report Says Ad Coalition Likely Broke Law To Silence Conservatives

Ben Shapiro

Elon Musk

Joe Rogan

The Daily Wire&#8217;s Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro is set to testify to Congress on Wednesday for its hearing on the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which is under investigation by the House Judiciary Committee for organizing its member organizations to work in coordination to demonetize disfavored news outlets.
The Judiciary Committee&#8217;s investigation into GARM began more than a year ago, when Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-03-22-jdj-to-rakowitz-rajamannar-garm.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to the head of GARM and its parent organization, the World Federation of Advertisers, to alert them that the committee believed GARM was &#8220;potentially violating U.S. antitrust law by coordinating their members’ efforts to demonetize and eliminate disfavored content online.&#8221; In the past year that investigation has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/docs-show-corporate-giants-are-colluding-to-demonetize-conservative-platforms-judiciary-committee-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotten more targeted</a>, with the committee specifically charging that GARM targeted conservative outlets including The Daily Wire, Breitbart, and Fox News.
Shapiro has also long had GARM in his sights — the advertiser coalition which controls 90% of global advertising dollars and counts the biggest corporations in the world as its members was the subject of the first episode of his Facts series. He described GARM as part of &#8220;a network of global elites who have created a universal framework full of guidelines and ratings designed to enforce ‘approved’ narratives and punish disapproved ones.&#8221;
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Also testifying at the Judiciary hearing will be executives at Unilever, a consumer goods giant, and GroupM, the world&#8217;s largest media buying agency. Both are on the steering committee of GARM, and have been scrutinized by Jordan&#8217;s committee.
Jordan in letters to GARM members has said that documents the committee has obtained &#8220;directly connect&#8221; the steering committee with efforts to suppress conservative news, and show that the censorship efforts are due to politics, not the so-called &#8220;brand safety&#8221; claims that GARM bases its existence on.
“Evidence the Committee has obtained suggests that GARM members, led by Steer Team members, are colluding to demonetize conservative platforms and voices,&#8221; Jordan wrote in public correspondence to the companies. &#8220;Further, this coordination does not always revolve around ‘brand safety’ and ‘harmful’ content as GARM publicly claims, but instead the desire to censor conservative and other views that GARM members disfavor.&#8221;
GARM is a relatively new creation, created by the World Federation of Advertisers in 2019. Its flagship creation was the Brand Safety Floor &amp; Suitability Framework, which it hopes will be used by the entire ad industry to address the &#8220;challenge of harmful online content.&#8221;
Just months after GARM was launched, it was announced by the World Economic Forum that it would become a flagship project of its “Platform for Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture.”
GARM’s stated goal is to create a &#8220;common understanding&#8221; in the whole industry of &#8220;what harmful and sensitive content is&#8221; as well as &#8220;where ads should not appear,&#8221; basing it all on the importance of &#8220;brand safety&#8221; for its members.
Shapiro has said that brand safety is &#8220;a dog whistle for censorship,&#8221; and that GARM has laid out subjective guidelines that can be used to censor news it doesn&#8217;t like.
&#8220;The framework lists subjective terms like hate speech as a problem — it says that anything surrounding transgenderism that they decide is dehumanizing or discussing what they deem to be a debated social issue in an insensitive way is off limits,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;The framework is deliberately vague, allowing those in control to pick and choose how they enforce it and against whom.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee under Jordan has already uncovered emails showing the White House pressuring social media giant Facebook to limit companies like The Daily Wire, which was the top publisher on the platform. In 2021 emails uncovered by Jordan&#8217;s committee, White House digital director Rob Flaherty suggested to Facebook that it &#8220;change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people.&#8221;
Members of the ad industry have called Jordan&#8217;s investigation an assault, complaining that the probe could have a “chilling effect” on its efforts to help companies responsibly spend their ad dollars.
The Judiciary Committee said the member companies know the Judiciary Committee has obtained evidence that will expose how &#8220;personal biases&#8221; drive its operations.
&#8220;These companies know the evidence collected shows that members of GARM have worked for years to spread their personal biases and censor conservative voices and journalists online,&#8221; a committee spokesman said. &#8220;These companies are simply trying to get ahead of the incriminating evidence before it becomes public.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee subpoenaed both GARM and the WFA after it failed to produce requested documents last year. The head of GARM, Rob Rakowitz, agreed to voluntarily appear for transcribed testimony after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-calls-in-head-of-advertisers-alleged-censorship-operation-using-antitrust-laws-to-target-woke-collusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called on by the committee</a> in April.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. (EST).

Ben Shapiro/Jim Jordan

Ben Shapiro Set To Testify To Congress On Alleged Collusion Against Conservatives In Ad Industry

Congress

House Judiciary Committee

Jim Jordan

Tyson Foods, the U.S.-based meat supplier that&#8217;s grown to be one of the world&#8217;s largest companies, offered shirts to employees for its annual Juneteenth celebrations that literally cross out &#8220;July 4&#8221; as the nation&#8217;s Independence Day.
Emails obtained by The Daily Wire show the poultry industry giant selling shirts for its annual Juneteenth celebration that say the holiday, marking the day in 1865 that African Americans in Texas learned that slavery had been abolished in the United States, is the nation&#8217;s true independence day.
&#8220;Juneteenth is my Independence Day,&#8221; reads one shirt offered, while another, under a crossed out July 4 date, states, &#8220;Juneteenth 1865 because my ancestors weren&#8217;t free in 1776.&#8221; Many of the shirts also incorporate the black power fist.
After The Daily Wire inquired about the shirts offered for the celebration, a source inside Tyson Foods says their Virginia office was ordered to cancel the sale and refund any employee who purchased a shirt. Days later, a spokesman for Tyson said it was &#8220;unaware of the t-shirt designs.&#8221;
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&#8220;Tyson Foods was unaware of the t-shirt designs proposed by a team member,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;Upon review, it was determined that the t-shirts do not meet the company&#8217;s dress code policy, and they will not be sold or distributed.&#8221;
It is unclear how the shirts violate the dress code policy. The company did not respond to follow-up questions.
The Arkansas-based corporation has faced criticism for years for embracing far-left politics. It <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tyson-foods-hiring-illegal-migrants-in-new-york-wants-more-theyre-very-very-loyal">openly declared</a> earlier this year that it wanted to hire as many illegal migrants as it could, even as it shut down a plant that employed over 1,000 people in Iowa, stating that illegal workers were &#8220;very, very loyal.&#8221;
Its website features a &#8220;<a href="https://www.tysonfoods.com/who-we-are/our-people/inclusion-diversity">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a>&#8221; tab that highlights the existence of multiple internal identity groups, including ones for &#8220;Latinx&#8221; employees and another &#8220;Pride&#8221; group.
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Numerous employees complained internally about the shirts offered for Juneteenth, which was made a national holiday by President Joe Biden in 2021. The shirts, according to the order form supplied to employees, were set to be created by a local vendor called Make It Happen Customz LLC.
The holiday, long celebrated locally in Texas, garnered nationwide attention as Black Lives Matter staged protests across the country in 2020 that were embraced by corporate America. Liberal commentators argued in 2020 that July 4 shouldn&#8217;t be celebrated because black Americans weren&#8217;t independent.
&#8220;Juneteenth — not the Fourth of July — was the real Independence Day,&#8221; wrote one author, further arguing that &#8220;it is difficult to take pride in being American&#8221; on July 4 because of the &#8220;intolerance and oppression&#8221; still present in society.

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A Republican congressman says the Biden administration is conducting a &#8220;politicized&#8221; prosecution against the Texas surgeon who blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital for conducting secret transgender surgeries, and is demanding transparency about why he was targeted, according to a Thursday letter obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra for all information regarding the decision to indict Dr. Eithan Haim, who was alerted by three armed agents at his house that he was being charged with federal crimes.
The exact charges to be brought remain unclear, even to Haim, as he awaits a formal hearing to learn about the charges. Crenshaw says in the letter that he&#8217;s &#8220;alarmed by the conduct&#8221; of the investigation into a whistleblower.
&#8220;This situation demands a thorough and transparent review to ensure that justice is served fairly and without political bias,&#8221; Crenshaw <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Crenshaw-Letter-to-DOJ-and-HHS_6_13_24.pdf">writes in the Thursday letter</a>, going on to demand all communication relating to both the investigation of Haim and the decision to indict him.
The letter specifies that it is seeking documents not only from the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services, but also from the Executive Office of the President.
Haim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life">revealed his identity</a> as the whistleblower in January, telling The Daily Wire he believed it was his &#8220;responsibility as a doctor to expose&#8221; what he saw at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, which continued to conduct sex-change procedures on children as it declared to the public that it halted the program.
READ HAIM’S FULL STORY HERE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-indicts-whistleblower-who-exposed-child-sex-change-surgeries-at-texas-childrens-hospital">A Doctor Blew The Whistle On His Hospital’s Transgender Clinic. Now The Feds Are Trying To Ruin His Life.</a>
Crenshaw told The Daily Wire that this is a prosecution that shouldn&#8217;t be happening.
&#8220;Flat out — the prosecutions should not be happening; that&#8217;s obvious to anyone following Dr. Haim&#8217;s story,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;Dr. Haim is a Texas doctor who took to heart his oath to do no harm.&#8221;
The Texas Republican said the Biden administration is &#8220;looking to make an example of him so that no one with a different viewpoint steps out of line.&#8221;
&#8220;The Left loves to champion a whistleblower, but when a doctor blows the whistle on the mutilation of children, Democrats conveniently forget their ‘principles,'&#8221; Crenshaw said.
Crenshaw&#8217;s letter indicates a belief that the investigation was carried out unethically, with the federal prosecutor pursuing a case without even reviewing evidence.
&#8220;A letter to Congress from Mr. Haim’s lawyers reveals that the DOJ prosecutor later admitted she had never reviewed the supposed evidence against Dr. Haim before considering him a target,&#8221; Crenshaw writes. &#8220;DOJ policy dictates that this must be done in advance. The DOJ prosecutor talked about aggressively prosecuting Dr. Haim, including charging him with a felony and trying him by jury even on a technicality. It appears that the prosecutor has now followed through on those threats and charged Dr. Haim with multiple felonies.&#8221;
Crenshaw said that this fight is about more than just Haim, and that the reason he&#8217;s being targeted is about precisely what he blew the whistle on.
&#8220;Americans do not want to see the next generation mutilated — that’s what this fight is about,&#8221; Crenshaw said.

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