<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/question-if-joe-biden-were-your-dad-would-you-let-him-live-on-his-own/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>’s claim that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/second-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AR-15s</a> fire bullets at a velocity that is five times higher than that of other guns is being shot down by people who know guns.
Biden repeated the claim Friday in a speech to the National Education Association teachers union, even though it has been repeatedly debunked. Several rifles and even some handguns fire bullets at a higher velocity than the 2,700-3,100 feet per second of AR-15s.
“The speed of the bullet is five times that that comes out of the muzzle of most weapons,” Biden said, describing the popular hunting rifle as a “weapon of war.”
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Biden Lies Again!
Biden Repeats False Claims about AR-15 Velocity in Support of a Ban – JONATHAN TURLEY <a href="https://t.co/elhCZYP1oZ">https://t.co/elhCZYP1oZ</a>
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Although some mass shooters, including the Uvalde and Buffalo killers from earlier this year, have used AR-15-style rifles, most murders are committed with handguns. Advocates of more restrictive gun control laws describe AR-15s and AK-47s as “assault rifles,” although there is no technical definition for the term.
Biden has often repeated the claim that AR-15s shoot bullets at higher velocities than other guns. Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-09-02/biden-bungled-talking-point-ar15-muzzle-velocity-7193450.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post reported</a> that Biden had “bungled the statistic” after he made the same claim in late August.
“Biden was clearly wrong in his statement this week,” the Post wrote.
Biden has made other false claims about guns and the Second Amendment. In May of this year, he claimed that when the Second Amendment was enacted, it did not allow people to possess certain weapons.
“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” he said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
Historians pointed out that there was no truth to the claim.
AR-15s do fire bullets at high velocities, but nowhere near what Biden claimed, according to ballistics experts. When they exit the barrel, AR-15 bullets are traveling at about twice the speed of bullets fired from a typical handgun.
The White House is pushing hard for new gun control measures ahead of the midterm elections. Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on assault rifles.
“Do you know what an assault weapon is?” Harris said in May. “It was designed for a specific purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society.”
George Washington University law professor <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/26/president-biden-repeats-false-claim-about-the-second-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley wrote on his blog</a> that banning one particular type of gun would be problematic for courts if it cannot be established that the particular gun is no more powerful than others.
“There are good-faith arguments for gun control, including arguments that the Second Amendment does not create an individual right to bear arms,” Turley wrote. “We should continue to have that worthy debate but we should follow the rule of the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan that &#8216;everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.&#8217;”

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Biden Repeats False Claim About AR-15 Bullet Velocity In Call For Ban

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI whistleblower</a> warned that the bureau has been transformed from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence-gathering operation that spies on law-abiding Americans to help advance a political agenda and said thousands of agents and employees feel betrayed by the bureau’s leadership.
Kyle Seraphin told podcaster and radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-youtube-permanently-bans-dan-bongino/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> over a bombshell, two-part interview that agents are routinely directed to spy on Americans with little or no basis, the bureau’s management ranks are hopelessly politicized by inexperienced corporate climbers, and that hundreds of experienced agents are staying on despite their disgust simply to collect their pensions.
“The number of guys who say, ‘I don’t agree with what’s going on here, but I’ve got three years to retire,’ it’s heartbreaking,” said Seraphin, a five-year veteran and former Air Force member who is currently suspended without pay and unable to seek another job without quitting or getting the FBI’s permission.
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In one particularly poignant segment, Seraphin recalled being sent to Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of his orientation. New agents, he said, were told that the atrocity could not have happened without the participation of “minor government officials” supported by local and federal law enforcement.
“If anybody refuses to get with the program, it doesn’t happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The answer, ‘I’m just following orders,’ the Nuremberg piece, it doesn’t fly. We know better.”
Seraphin said he was adhering to that training when he came forward but is now being punished for doing so.
“We’re supposed to know that if they ask you to do something that is illegal, immoral, or unethical, following orders is not an excuse,” he said.
Seraphin said he believes he was already a marked man inside the bureau for refusing to get a COVID vaccination after having contracted the virus in late 2020. He was given a religious exemption, but he helped organize as many as 300 FBI employees who also objected to the government mandate.
But last November, after Attorney General Merrick Garland in testimony to lawmakers denied that the Department of Justice was targeting education-activist parents with law enforcement tools reserved for terrorists, Seraphin says he blew the whistle. Seraphin, who previously worked in the bureau’s Washington field office but by last year was stationed in New Mexico, went to his local member of Congress with an email that had been widely circulated within the bureau. The email, he said, relayed Garland’s orders to use Patriot Act counterterrorism tools to target parents at school board meetings through a tag called “EDUOFFICIALS.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsbas-first-draft-of-domestic-terrorism-letter-called-for-feds-to-sic-army-national-guard-and-its-military-police-on-parents-independent-review-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The scandal blew up</a> when it was revealed that the DOJ issued the orders after coordinating with the White House and the National School Boards Association to vilify as “domestic terrorists” parents who objected to the teaching of radical gender and race theories. The school board association later apologized as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25-states-have-now-left-national-school-boards-association-as-nebraska-departs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of state members left in protest</a>.
“That’s when you become part of political hatchet jobs, and I didn’t sign up for that, and nobody I know signed up for that either,” Seraphin said. “That’s not what people want to get involved in.”
Bongino praised Seraphin for coming forward and predicted that the whistleblower floodgates will open at the FBI.
“Having worked with a number of patriotic FBI professionals in the past, I knew it was only a matter of time before patriots like Kyle stepped forward to expose the unfortunate rot at the Bureau,” Bongino, a best-selling author and former U.S. Secret Service agent, told The Daily Wire.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says at least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-alleges-bureau-took-agents-off-child-sex-abuse-cases-to-pursue-political-probes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 whistleblowers have contacted his office</a> to complain about how partisan politics has infected the bureau and turned it against conservative Americans. Allegations include silencing investigations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s damning laptop</a>, manipulating crime statistics, and spying on law-abiding Americans. Recently, one whistleblower, Steve Friend, alleged that the bureau is under orders to inflate the number of domestic terrorism cases. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-suspends-whistleblower-who-criticized-bureaus-handling-of-january-6-investigations-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friend was suspended</a> after his name was leaked to a media outlet.
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&#8220;We now understand based on what we&#8217;ve learned that he&#8217;s been suspended, which appears to be some kind of retaliation,&#8221; Jordan <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/key-lawmaker-worried-fbi-whistleblowers-facing-retaliation-evidence">told</a> the John Solomon Reports podcast. &#8220;The law says that whistleblowers, agents coming forward as whistleblowers, are protected by the law. There&#8217;s not supposed to be retaliation.&#8221;
Seraphin said “more than people than you think” are coming forward and that many have left the bureau as, in their view, it has become part of a partisan agenda. He said agents qualify for pensions of up to $60,000 a year after putting in 20 years, and many that are more than halfway toward qualifying are just hanging on despite their disgust with leadership under Director Christopher Wray.
Seraphin said several agents he knows took part in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dan-bongino-explodes-over-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-offers-solution-to-fix-the-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 8 raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home</a>, which he said he would’ve refused to participate in.
“I’ve got friends that I don’t speak to after that,” he said. “I assume they were part of it. I don’t know what happened, but you guys forgot to throw the B.S. flag on that.
“You ask me to go raid President Obama’s house, you ask me to raid President Bush’s house, it’s not happening,” he continued. “It’s not happening. I’m sorry, it’s not happening. I’m not doing that. I’m going to be, probably pretty vocal. That’s probably going to be my last day.”

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FBI Whistleblower Reveals Widespread Disgust Inside Bureau In Bombshell Bongino Interview

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> woman who sabotaged the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dakota-access-pipeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dakota Access pipeline</a> and set fire to equipment to protest the controversial project was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to six years in prison.
Ruby Katherine Montoya, 32, who used a cutting torch to damage the oil pipeline in Iowa in 2016 and destroyed equipment over the next year, was also ordered to pay $3.2 million in restitution, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fires-crime-iowa-dakota-access-pipeline-11f0b30fc86fa2326d8e09fe526d9157" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press reported</a>.
“The sentence imposed today demonstrates that any crime of domestic terrorism will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted by the federal government,” U.S. Attorney Richard Westphal said in a statement.
Montoya, who conspired to damage an energy facility, worked with Jessica Reznicek to sabotage the pipeline and equipment used to work on it. In 2016, they torched a bulldozer and other heavy equipment in central Iowa, according to authorities. Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to similar charges. That sentence was upheld on appeal in June.
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Woman gets six years in prison for damaging Dakota Access pipeline <a href="https://t.co/BXdZpatrdJ">https://t.co/BXdZpatrdJ</a>
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Native Americans and environmentalists fought the $3.8 billion, 1,170-mile pipeline, which was completed in 2017. The opposition was similar to that faced by the Keystone XL pipeline, which President Joe Biden ordered stopped shortly after taking office.
Opponents, most of whom are against fossil fuels of any kind, claimed the pipelines pose a danger of oil spills. Some landowners also opposed the use of eminent domain to build the Dakota Access pipeline, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe claimed it passed over sacred lands. Even though the pipeline has been operational for five years, opponents are still demanding that the Biden administration shut it down.
Pipeline proponents say moving oil via pipelines is safer than by rail, creates jobs and boosts U.S. domestic energy production at a time when fuel prices have spiked.
The Dakota Access pipeline starts in the Bakken Formation shale oil fields in North Dakota and carries up to 750,000 barrels of oil per day south through South Dakota and Iowa and to a terminal in Illinois.

Environmental Activists Call On Biden Administration To Cancel Oil Pipeline Projects

Woman Who Sabotaged Dakota Access Pipeline Gets 6 Years In Prison, $3M Fine

Woman Who Sabotaged Dakota Access Pipeline Gets 6 Years In Prison

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Iowa

A conservative nonprofit known for trolling liberals took out a newspaper ad to mock residents of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/island-adventure-bill-maher-mocks-biden-left-over-marthas-vineyard-migrant-dump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha’s Vineyard</a> who sent 50 migrants packing after they were dropped off on the idyllic island on orders of Sunshine State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Governor Ron DeSantis</a>.
The ad, run in the Providence Journal, a major Rhode Island daily newspaper, channels the wealthy residents of Martha’s Vineyard and claims to support illegal immigration. However, the ad goes on to explain that the illegal immigrants aren’t welcome on the Massachusetts island.
“Our beautiful island home of Martha’s Vineyard is very small and the mansions have very expensive artwork, Persian rugs, and unchlorinated saltwater swimming pools that are very difficult to clean,” the ad explains. “For these reasons, we cannot accept any undocumented Americans at this time and respectfully ask they be sent to a working class community they can enrich with their global diversity and romantic poverty.”
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The mockery was triggered by the island denizens’ swift rejection of migrants flown there on September 14 by Florida. After just one overnight stay on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-calls-out-the-yard-sign-hypocrisy-of-marthas-vineyard">Martha’s Vineyard</a>, the migrants were bused out to the military’s Joint Base Cape Cod in Massachusetts as the state’s Governor Charlie Baker (R) declared an emergency and sent in the National Guard.
Although they quickly ushered the migrants out of their Tony town, Martha&#8217;s Vineyard residents lined up to pay them a teary farewell and one held up a sign saying their brief presence had &#8220;enriched us.&#8221;
DeSantis and fellow GOP Governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, have sent thousands of illegal immigrants to blue states and so-called “sanctuary cities” including New York, Chicago, and Washington. The Republican governors reason that their states do not support President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, so cities and states that do should bear some of the burden of absorbing them.
More than two million migrants have swarmed across the Mexican border since Biden took office and rescinded many of the border security policies of his predecessor, former President Trump.
<a href="https://forsanity.org/">Citizens For Sanity</a> says that its <a href="https://forsanity.org/">mission</a> is “to return common sense to America, to highlight the importance of logic and reason, and to defeat “wokeism” and anti-critical thinking ideologies that have permeated every sector of our country and threaten the very freedoms that are foundational to the American Dream.”

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Conservative Group Trolls Martha's Vineyard Residents With Newspaper Ad

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Democrat</a> insisted Wednesday that a cop was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 rioters</a> even though the claim has long been debunked.
Rep. Mondaire Jones, (D-NY), insisted at a House Judiciary Committee meeting that Capitol Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-medical-examiner-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-suffered-two-strokes-died-of-natural-causes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Officer Brian Sicknick</a> was bludgeoned by Trump supporters, a claim first reported &#8212; and then later corrected – by The New York Times. Jones’ initial comment was not caught on video, but Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., heard it and reacted.
“Did you say a police officer was bludgeoned to death by the crowd at the Jan. 6 riots?” Bishop asked Jones.
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Jones replied that he had in fact said “a police officer was bludgeoned to death,” but that he “did not say at the hands of who.”
“Who are you referring to, if you don’t mind saying?” Bishop pressed.
The Washington, D.C., Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Sicknick, who died the day after the riot, succumbed to natural causes after suffering two strokes.
As the pair went back and forth, it seemed clear that Jones sensed he was on shaky ground.
“Are you denying that at least one Capitol police officer was murdered in the midst of what happened on Jan. 6?” Jones shot back.
“Yeah, I think I am denying it,” Bishop replied. “I understood there were reports early on that Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher and that was subsequently debunked as false. He died of natural causes that were not connected to the event. Are we talking about the same person, Sicknick, or are we talking about somebody else?”
Jones pivoted to the unfounded claim that Sicknick’s death was indirectly cased by the rioters.
“You know, we’re talking about ‘but for’ causation of Officer Sicknick’s death,” he said. “And so I would hope you would at least concede at a minimum that Mr. Sicknick died as a result of what happened on Jan. 6 and I’m disappointed if you suggest otherwise sir.”
Jones later accused Bishop of nitpicking, saying that 138 Capitol and DC police officers were injured and that multiple Capitol police officers died as a direct result the riots. The deaths were possibly a reference to Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith and Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood, who both committed suicide in the days following the riot.
The New York Times reported on Jan. 8, citing &#8220;two law enforcement officials,&#8221; that Sicknick was beaten with a fire extinguisher and died hours later. A month later, the newspaper updated the story to say &#8220;law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit.&#8221;
Jones is not the first Democrat to repeat the false claim. It was included in the House Democrats’ second article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump over the riot.
The only people who died during the riot were Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by a Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd; Kevin Greeson, 55, and Benjamin Phillips, 50, who both suffered fatal heart attacks; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, whose death was attributed to an accidental overdose of amphetamines.

House Democrats Hold Special Judiciary Cmte Session To Craft Gun Legislation

WATCH: Dem Rep Melts After Falsely Claiming Jan. 6 Rioters Beat Cop To Death

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/navy-commander-admits-to-being-bribed-by-fat-leonard-giving-classified-info-to-foreign-defense-contractor/">Fat Leonard</a>,” the flamboyant defense contractor who admitted bribing top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-navy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Navy brass</a> with booze and hookers in a $35 million scheme and bolted while awaiting sentencing earlier this month, was nabbed in Venezuela on Tuesday morning as he tried to flee to Russia.
The Malaysian national, whose real name is Leonard Glenn Francis, was captured at the Caracas airport as he prepared to flee the South American country for Russia, Interpol said. Francis, 58, had been in U.S. custody, but earlier this month cut off his ankle monitor while under house arrest in San Diego and slipped out of the country, sparking an international manhunt.
“Francis Leonard Glenn had entered the country from Mexico with a stopover in Cuba, to then continue with his final destination to the federative republic of Russia, the fugitive was arrested at the Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía international airport when he was about to leave the country,”  Interpol Venezuela Director General Carlos Garate Rondon wrote in an Instagram post.
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Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to playing Navy officials with cash, prostitutes, and expensive dinners to help his Singapore-based ship servicing company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, land contracts. Prosecutors claim the company bilked the Navy out of $35 million for servicing ships. Francis was to be sentenced this month, after cooperating with prosecutors for years to secure convictions of dozens of people, including more than 20 Navy officers.
The plea deal called for Francis to repay the government the $35 million, but so far he has only repaid $5 million.
Last year, Francis bragged about his lucrative scheme in a <a href="https://fatleonardpodcast.com/">Project Brazen podcast series</a>.
“Everybody was in my pocket. I had them rolling around in my palm. I had the Navy by their balls. I turned my torpedo, my guns against them, because they betrayed me,&#8217; Francis says in one episode of a nine-part series.
Francis, who owns his own decommissioned U.S. war ship and is reportedly obsessed with American culture, described how he targeted Navy Commander Michael Misiewicz by providing him with prostitutes and infiltrating his inner circle of family and friends.
“They wanted to have the good life that they could not have,” Francis said. “They wanted the fine dining, the fine gifts, hotel rooms, sedans, luxury cars, watches, handbags, fancy meals, alcohol, cigars.”
But the Misiewicz operation was Fat Leonard’s downfall. When the Navy man’s wife, Marcy, confronted her husband about her suspicions he was cheating, he beat her. She reported him to Navy officials, who launched an investigation that uncovered damning emails.
Misiewicz was sentenced to over six years in prison.
Francis has claimed that senior admirals bribed were protected by the Pentagon.
“Some of the more senior admirals got handled by the Navy because then they can be brushed under the carpet, it&#8217;s little more than a slap on the wrist, they call it &#8216;different spanks for different ranks,” he said in the podcast series.

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‘Fat Leonard,’ Fugitive Who Bribed Navy Brass With Booze, Hookers, Nabbed After International Manhunt

'Fat Leonard,' Fugitive Who Bribed Navy Brass With Booze, Hookers, Nabbed After International Manhunt

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Hollywood star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matthew-mcconaughey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew McConaughey</a> is acting like he wants to be president.
The “Dazed and Confused” star, who has flirted with a gubernatorial run in his native <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a>, told attendees at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a>’s Dreamforce conference this week that he would “be arrogant not to” consider a White House run in the future. McConaughey, who has never publicly identified with either major party, did not say what his time frame would be but did not rule out 2024, <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/matthew-mcconaughey-talks-presidential-run-17456929.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to SFGate.com</a>.
&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;ll consider it in the future, I&#8217;d be arrogant not to, absolutely I would consider it,&#8221; said McConaughey, who won an Oscar for his role in “Dallas Buyer’s Club.” &#8220;If I got into any form of politics I&#8217;d be remiss not to also go in as an artist and a storyteller; help put a narrative together. You&#8217;re the CEO of a state and a nation, a lot of compartmentalization and choices to be made. They scare me but I&#8217;m not afraid of &#8217;em.&#8221;
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w <a href="https://twitter.com/joshua_bote?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joshua_bote</a>:
At Dreamforce in San Francisco yesterday, Matthew McConaughey told attendees a presidential run may be &#39;inevitable&#39; <a href="https://t.co/dSxoAFyfL2">https://t.co/dSxoAFyfL2</a>
&mdash; Eric Ting (@_ericting) <a href="https://twitter.com/_ericting/status/1572635591883526146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The annual conference is hosted by tech firm Salesforce and known for attracting celebrity speakers who address Silicon Valley liberals. McConaughey made his remarks in a discussion with Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff which covered the school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde and gun control as well as his general political beliefs.
But he said if he were to mount a presidential bid, it would be somewhat reluctantly.
&#8220;If that happened to me I would be pulled into it,” McConaughey, 52, said. “If I&#8217;m living right, which I&#8217;m trying to, we get pulled into things &#8230; it&#8217;s inevitable. I didn&#8217;t choose it, it chose me.&#8221;
McConaughey noted the extreme political polarization gripping the nation, but said there is room for someone who can reach out to reasonable folks on both sides.
&#8220;There&#8217;s definitely a greater divide now than there has been,&#8221; the “Failure to Launch” actor said. &#8220;One thing is we have to admit that part of that divide is the Kool-Aid we&#8217;re being sold. The divide is not as thick as we&#8217;re being sold; most of us are much more near the middle than we&#8217;re being told.&#8221;
McConaughey, who called for more gun control measures in the wake of the May 24 school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead, said both parties have good points – and big gaps – in their Second Amendment views.
&#8220;[To] the Left, this is about regulation, this is about keeping the weapon out of the bad guy&#8217;s hand, [to] the Right, this is about mental health, but each one of them would put a period after their argument,” he said. “You&#8217;re right, just put a comma after your argument. Both of your arguments are much closer to the solution than each of them independently.&#8221;
Despite sounding like a liberal on some issues, McConaughey, his wife Camila, and their three children left Malibu for Texas because the Lone Star State’s values match theirs, Camila said in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matthew-mcconaugheys-wife-opens-up-on-their-decision-to-leave-malibu-for-a-life-that-embodies-their-belief-system-in-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April interview with Fox News</a>.
“It’s been great,” the Brazilian model and designer said. “It really embodies our belief system, especially the ones I grew up with, like going to church every Sunday, saying ‘yes ma’am’ or ‘no, sir.&#8217;”

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Two U.S. veterans from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alabama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama</a> branded “soldiers of fortune” by Moscow after being captured <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fighting for Ukraine</a> have been spared their date with a firing squad after a Saudi-brokered prisoner swap.
Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, who were captured in June while defending Kharkiv, were at the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia after being freed in the exchange, a representative of their families told Reuters Wednesday.
“We are thrilled to announce that Alex and Andy are free,” the representative said in a statement. “We deeply appreciate everyone&#8217;s prayers and especially the close communication and support of our elected officials, Ukrainian Ambassador Markarova, and our members of the US embassies in Ukraine and Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Department of State.”
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JUST IN: Ten foreign fighters, including two Americans who joined the war effort in Ukraine before they were captured and held by Russian forces, were released as part of an exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine. <a href="https://t.co/gSAneEZIym">https://t.co/gSAneEZIym</a>
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The swap was part of a deal that also included five British nationals, one Moroccan, one Swede, and one Croatian. It was mediated by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi foreign ministry said. Ukrainian officials released an unknown number of Russian captives as their part of the deal.
Drueke and Huynh were the first known U.S. citizens to be captured by Russian forces. Huynh&#8217;s fiancé, Joy Black, told Reuters at the time the men signed up to fight after seeing television footage of the Russian invasion, which began February 24.
Drueke, of Tuscaloosa, and Huynh, of Hartselle, who both served in the U.S. military, did not know each other before joining the fight. They were captured in a village near Kharkiv, <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/07/14/how-2-american-veterans-ended-ukraine-prisoners-of-russian-armed-militants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Military.com reported in July</a>.
&#8220;A week ago, our team ended up isolated in the middle of a Russian offensive,&#8221; the men&#8217;s unit later posted in a June 15 tweet that announced their capture.
After they were taken prisoner, Drueke and Huynh were held in the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic, a region in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists.
Russian state TV aired interviews with the men in which they sympathized with Russia, but their families said they were under obvious duress.
“My name is Alexander Drueke, I am against war,&#8221; Drueke said in a video interview that Russia tweeted. “Ya protiv voyny,” he adds, Russian for “I am against war.”
Russia said shortly after their capture that they would face  a firing squad, because they were considered “soldiers of fortune,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11236125/Russia-releases-U-S-citizens-Alexander-Drueke-Andy-Huynh-prisoner-exchange-family-representative.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Daily Mail reported.</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Democrats</a> voted Tuesday to protect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/struggling-artist-hunter-biden-asks-for-lower-child-support-payments/">Hunter Biden</a> from a probe of the alleged influence-peddling schemes revealed by his abandoned laptop.
The House Oversight Committee voted along straight party lines to kill a “resolution of inquiry” proposal by Rep. James Comer (R-KY). The proposal followed a steady drip of text messages and emails from the laptop that appear to implicate President Joe Biden’s son as well as one of his brothers, and even raise questions about what Biden himself knew about potential corruption.
“[Democrats] are continuing in their coordinated effort to shield a potentially compromised President,” Comer said after the vote.
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The Democrats blocked any inquiry into the influence peddling scheme of Hunter Biden. If Republicans take the House as expected in the midterms, the Democrats now effectively took ownership of Hunter — a political proprietary claim that few would relish. <a href="https://t.co/GyhncHndlD">https://t.co/GyhncHndlD</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1572558958166183937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Kentucky lawmaker has warned that revelations from the laptop paint the entire Biden family as a national security threat. The computer, which was abandoned at a Wilmington, Delaware, computer repair shop, contain photos, videos, emails, and text messages which paint the president’s son as a drug-addled, venal degenerate but also raise troubling questions about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-spoke-with-hunter-about-dealings-with-chinese-oil-tycoon-voicemail-reveals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden’s own role in his son’s corrupt dealings</a>.
&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s family peddles access to the highest levels of government to enrich themselves, often at the expense of U.S. interests,&#8221; Comer said before the vote. &#8220;We need to know if President Biden has received a cut from these shady foreign business deals. If President Biden or his immediate family has, that is a national security threat, and he may be compromised.&#8221;
The House vote came after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-prosecutor-needs-special-counsel-status-to-protect-investigation-gop-senators-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33 Republican senators asked Attorney General Merrick Garland</a> to appoint a special counsel in the matter. While Democrats have managed to shield the Bidens for now, Republicans could be poised to capture the House, and possibly the Senate, in November, in which case some kind of Congressional investigation seems all but certain.
“Even if no criminal acts are charged, the foreign dealings of the Hunter and his uncle were clearly corrupt and leveraged access to Joe Biden to acquire windfall payments from governments and their surrogates,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote on his blog. “There is no good faith basis to refuse to investigate such a scheme designed to influence U.S. policy and policymakers.”
Hunter Biden accompanied his father on overseas trips when the elder Biden was vice president from 2008-2016, and struck lucrative deals with energy companies and investors in China and Ukraine. President Biden, in an interview that aired on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” Sunday, said his son’s dealings had no effect on national security.
“There&#8217;s not a single thing that I&#8217;ve observed at all from — that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter,” Biden said.
President Biden has previously insisted that he and his son never discussed any of Hunter Biden’s business dealings, a claim refuted by photos and messages on the laptop, White House visitor logs, and the claims of Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden associate who identified the president as “the Big Guy” who Hunter Biden’s emails referred to as getting a cut from his foreign business deals.
FBI whistleblowers have come forward to tell GOP lawmakers that the bureau’s top brass shut down any investigations into the laptop, which it obtained in late 2019, so as not to affect the 2020 election. A <a href="https://tippinsights.com/shock-poll-8-in-10-think-biden-laptop-cover-up-changed-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll by Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics</a> suggested that 79% of Americans believe President Trump likely would have won re-election if voters had known about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and that it was authentic.
The legacy media parroted Democrat claims the laptop, first revealed by the New York Post, was part of a Russian disinformation plot. But in recent months, outlets such as The New York Times and Washington Post have grudgingly admitted the laptop is authentic although they have not conducted meaningful reporting on its contents.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> isn’t a radical himself, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation acknowledges, yet somehow he is radicalizing young men by espousing mainstream beliefs that have only recently become “controversial” to the Left.
That was the cockeyed attack the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire</a> podcast and radio show host and best-selling author found himself defending against on his program Tuesday. Shapiro was responding to a Monday CBC article headlined, “‘It&#8217;s a slippery slope&#8217;: How young men fall into online radicalization,” which sought to blame him in part for the fact that some males become alt-right extremists after listening to him.
“Apparently it is fully OK to make a slippery slope argument when I say something that is not extreme, it&#8217;s possible to make the argument that somebody might view that and then see something that&#8217;s a little more extreme, a little more extreme, that eventually they end up being a Nazi,” Shapiro marveled.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/CBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBC</a> says I’m radicalizing young men, but can’t name any radical views I supposedly promote. They merely want to equate conservatism with extremism in order to silence those who dissent from Leftist orthodoxy. <a href="https://t.co/Xco9XsdyhD">pic.twitter.com/Xco9XsdyhD</a>
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Shapiro, an orthodox Jew who is reviled by the alt-right and often reciprocates the animosity, pointed out that his beliefs are well within the mainstream spectrum. The article specifically called Shapiro’s claim that transgender people suffer from a mental disorder “controversial.”
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“We have to pretend that men who say they are women are actually suffering from some sort of mind-bodymisalignment, and the problem is with their bodies,” Shapiro said. “So if you just chop off some body parts, then magically they&#8217;re a woman because their brain is the brain of a woman.
“Now, you might have to have a mental disorder to believe that, but that&#8217;s actually not science,” he added.
One line in the CBC article captures how it sought to say Shapiro is responsible for extremism – even though he is not an extremist.
“While Shapiro is not affiliated with any hate group, experts in media, gender studies and the radicalization of young men say that the commentator’s content is prevalent in online extremist communities,” author Brock Wilson wrote.
The “experts” are not named.
“And who are these experts?” Shapiro wondered. “Do they just sit in an Ivy League war room and discuss their expertise in front of students?
“They&#8217;re experts, by the way, in gender studies,” he continued. “Oh, well! Experts in gender studies, that must mean that they believe a bunch of crap that isn&#8217;t true&#8230;that is not a major that qualifies you for anything except being a professor in gender studies. That is a fully self-perpetuating cycle of uselessness.”
The “slippery slope” Shapiro is supposedly key to leads to dangerous alt-right views like the objectification of women and racism, ideals Shapiro said he has always vehemently rejected. The real objective of the article, and of much of the Left, Shapiro said in a Monday tweet, is to define speech and beliefs it disagrees with as “harmful” so that it can be silenced and even criminalized.
“Here comes the media attempt to get me banned from social media,” wrote Shapiro, who has 4.5 million Twitter followers and the nation’s biggest political podcast audience. “They can&#8217;t name which views of mine are particularly radical, so they just go for the &#8220;I&#8217;m radicalizing the youths!&#8221; Pathetic garbage from the Canada&#8217;s public broadcaster.”
Canada has become increasingly intolerant of free speech and unwilling to protect children from the mentally ill adults, Shapiro said. He cited the case of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-district-defends-trans-shop-teacher-whose-enormous-fake-breasts-spurred-internet-furor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender teacher in Ontario</a> who wears absurdly huge prosthetic breasts in the classroom. Video and images of the teacher went viral, prompting mockery, derision, and concern for the children of Oakville Trafalgar High School. But the school sprang to the defense of the teacher.
“We strive to promote a positive learning environment in schools consistent with the values of the HDSB and to ensure a safe and inclusive environment for all students, staff and the community, regardless of race, age, ability, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, cultural observance, socioeconomic circumstances or body type/size,” school officials wrote in an email to parents.
That, Shapiro said, is how backwards the Left has things.
“See, this is not extreme,” he said. “It&#8217;s not extreme to foist upon students sexual perverts. That&#8217;s what that is.”
“We&#8217;re not even talking about a person who just has gender dysphoria,” he continued. “We&#8217;re talking about a person the picture shows who&#8217;s wearing watermelon-sized breasts in front of high school students with fake nipples attached to them.”

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-dakota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Dakota</a> man who cops say was drunk when he ran on down and killed a teen in an alleyway claimed the 18 year old was a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican extremist</a>” and had been threatening him after an argument over politics, according to police.
Shannon Brandt, 41, was charged with vehicular homicide in the death of Cayler Ellingson Sunday in McHenry, a small town two hours northwest of Fargo. Citing court documents, WDAY reported that Brandt told police the death stemmed from an argument over politics.
&#8220;He was the one who called 911 to report the crash,&#8221; said North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind.
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Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told a dispatcher he had run down Ellingson, the site reported, citing a criminal complaint. Brandt, who police say was drunk, said Ellingson was part of a Republican extremist group and was urging others to attack Brandt after a political argument, the site reported.
Prosecutors allege Ellingson called his mom moments before he was killed to say Brandt, who she knows, was chasing him after an event described as a street dance. By the time the woman arrived at the scene, her son was dead in an alleyway. The heartbroken mother told police she does not believe her son knew his killer.
&#8220;We are still trying to determine what, exactly, transpired at the time of crash and prior to that as well,&#8221; Niewind said. &#8220;We do not know of any witnesses. We are still making attempts to interview potential witnesses from the street dance, people that were present prior to the crash happening.&#8221;
Brandt, who faces up to 20 years if convicted of the current charge, was initially held in the Statesman County Jail before posting $50,000 bond. He could face more severe charges as the investigation develops, police said.
“I have a job, a life and a house and things I don&#8217;t want to see go by the wayside — family that are very important to me,&#8221; Brandt told the judge, according to WDAY.
Ellingson’s loved ones set up a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/caylor-ellingson?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unknown&amp;utm_campaign=comms_gfm+caylor-ellingson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe</a> campaign to pay for his funeral and said his parents, Sheri and Cole, and his brother, Chase, are devastated.
“Chase and Cayler are the heart of Sheri and Coles life,” wrote Nicole Clifton Geiszler. “Unfortunately, in the early hours on Sunday, September 18, 2022 their lives changed forever. Cayler was taken way too soon from them and their other son, Chase. A thing no parent should ever have to endure in their life is to lose a child.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-canadas-justin-trudeau-gets-booed-in-london/">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</a> is facing a backlash from angry citizens inspired to level testimonial-style Twitter takedowns, with one of the most damning coming from his own half-brother.
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Kyle Kemper, who Trudeau’s mother had with her second husband, Fried Kemper, has joined the #TrudeauMustGo movement on Twitter, renewing his sibling feud. And while Kemper’s criticism of his half-brother is not entirely new, it seems to have hit a fever pitch.
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“I’m a 37 year old father of 4.5, entrepreneur, crypto OG &amp; proud Canadian,” Kemper tweeted Saturday, following a format sweeping the nation. “For 2 decades I’ve been calling BS on the corporatocracy and my brother Justin Trudeau  has become a captive in their scheme. It’s time #TrudeauMustGo and for Canada to become a sovereign nation again.”
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I’m a 37 year old father of 4.5, entrepreneur, crypto OG &amp; proud Canadian. For 2 decades I’ve been calling BS on the corporatocracy and my brother <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> has become a captive in their scheme. It’s time <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrudeauMustGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrudeauMustGo</a> and for Canada to become a sovereign nation again.🧵 <a href="https://t.co/XwaKiNRF29">pic.twitter.com/XwaKiNRF29</a>
&mdash; Kyle Kemper Ж (@kylekemper) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylekemper/status/1571278086326435840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau sparred with conservatives earlier this year when he push vaccine mandates on the country, sparking the Freedom Convoy movement that shut down Ottawa for weeks. He has survived an election challenge, but has faced growing opposition from citizens and rising conservative leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadians-are-hurting-conservative-party-leaders-lopsided-victory-presents-challenge-to-trudeau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierre Poilievre</a>.
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The “Trudeau Must Go” hashtag trended on Twitter over the weekend, after a Calgary engineer named Martin Belanger posted an emotional retort to Trudeau’s declaration earlier this year that people who don’t want the COVID vaccine “don’t believe in science, they are misogynistic, often racist” and should not be “tolerated.”
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Trudeau delivered the remarks in French, and Belanger said he was translating the clip when he realized the message was aimed at people like him. He responded with a tweet that went viral and sparked Kemper’s similar testimonial and thousands more.
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“I’m a 55 year-old Canadian,” Belanger’s tweet read. “I’m married, father to 4, university educated &amp; perfectly bilingual. I’m an engineer, solving problems for 35 yrs. I’m a volunteer hockey coach &amp; an avid outdoorsman. According to Trudeau, I’m an extremist who needs to be dealt with.”
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I&#39;m a 55 year-old Canadian. I&#39;m married, father to 4, university educated &amp; perfectly bilingual. I&#39;m an engineer, solving problems for 35 yrs. I&#39;m a volunteer hockey coach &amp; an avid outdoorsman. According to Trudeau, I&#39;m an extremist who needs to be dealt with. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrudeauMustGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrudeauMustGo</a> <a href="https://t.co/N9VDe8nPR0">pic.twitter.com/N9VDe8nPR0</a>
&mdash; Martyupnorth&#39;s fact-checking twin brother® 🚜 (@Martyupnorth_2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Martyupnorth_2/status/1569703193453694980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The effort spawned hundreds of similar tweets, where Canadians described themselves as well-meaning, hard-working, decent folks and ended their messages by saying Trudeau considers them extremists and the hashtag, “TrudeauMustGo.”
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“I am a surgeon and a poet. I was fired for voicing safety concerns about covid shots for children,” <a href="https://twitter.com/essaysbyfrancis/status/1571659658720583680?s=20&amp;t=IppzazpByiP83JWxNc-ZFw">wrote Dr. Francis Christian</a>. “I support freedom and truth. According to Trudeau I am a white (actually I am brown!) nationalist, racist and misogynist.”
“I&#8217;m a 35 year old father of 2, married to a ER nurse who was fired for not wanting to get the shots while pregnant with our third,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyVanderha1/status/1571703352580345856?s=20&amp;t=IppzazpByiP83JWxNc-ZFw">read a tweet from Jeremy Vanderhaar</a>. “I&#8217;m a tradesman in a small town. I stood with the truckers in Ottawa, and am everything socialite Trudeau hates.”
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Lawyer-turned YouTube sensation David Freiheit, who goes by Viva Frei online and is a fierce critic of Trudeau, said the movement is getting to the prime minister. He cited Trudeau’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/little-high-trudeau-mocked-over-hotel-lobby-bohemian-rhapsody-singalong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bizarre hotel lobby performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody</a>” while in England for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral as evidence.
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“The only reason Justin Trudeau would defile Bohemian Rhapsody so publicly and so proudly while in England for the solemn occasion of the Queen‘s funeral is to try and start another hashtag to supplant the #TrudeauMustGo hashtag,” Freiheit tweeted. “That’s how diabolical Trudeau is.”
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Kemper, in a lengthy thread, said he loves his brother, but repeated past criticism that Trudeau is listening to the wrong people and implementing misguided policies.
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“To my brother Justin Trudeau: I hold love and space for you,” Kemper tweeted. “Your words and actions over the past two years have been deplorable and morally repugnant. I believe you are acting under duress and it’s time for you to release yourself from the spells that bind you.”
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Trudeau and other Canadian liberals initially claimed the hashtag trended because it was propelled by “bots” sending out phony testimonials. The hashtag <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/lilley-liberals-dismiss-the-very-real-trudeaumustgo-campaign/ar-AA1216Vo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly garnered more than 500,000 tweets or interactions</a> before Twitter stopped displaying the figures over the weekend.
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