<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Hunter Biden</a>, after years of shady international business deals, cocaine addiction, and sex benders, now finds himself the son of a U.S. president, living in a hilltop <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-service-paying-30k-month-malibu-mansion-protect/story?id=83821498">Malibu mansion</a>, and selling his paintings for up to $500,000 each.
The associates who were along for the often lucrative, always wild, ride have not fared nearly as well. What follows is a list of some of Hunter Biden&#8217;s closest associates, based on the contents of his laptop and other records, and where they have wound up.
<h3>Ye Jianming: On death row in China?</h3>
Ye is former Chinese tycoon and founder of CEFC Energy. Hunter once asked Ye to wire $10 million for a business called SinoHawk Holdings, saying, &#8220;Please accept the best wishes from the entire Biden family,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/best-wishes-from-the-entire-biden-family-hunter-emailed-in-10m-chinese-request/">New York Post</a> reported.
“It’s been clear for some time that this is not just a Chinese commercial company, that they had some intelligence ties,” one expert told The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html">New York Times</a> of CEFC. Ye owned a $9 billion share in Russia&#8217;s state oil company and, through CEFC, donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. &#8220;Many who met Mr. Ye believed he was the grandson of a famous Chinese military leader; people in his hometown say he comes from a family of boatmen,&#8221; the paper said.
Ye was reportedly a former official for the China Association for International Friendly Contact, which a congressional report said had &#8220;dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting People&#8217;s Republic of China propaganda.&#8221; By 2018, he was being detained by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In a May 2018 video on his laptop, Hunter referred to Ye saying, “The richest man in the world is missing, who was my partner,” according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/spy-chief-of-china-laptop-recording-sheds-light-on-hunter-bidens-overseas-business">Washington Examiner</a>. In December 2018, Hunter wrote a frustrated email to his assistant Katie saying he was cutting her pay because of financial troubles. He referred to Ye: &#8220;If you haven’t noticed Katie my business partner is now a prisoner on death row in China.&#8221;
Ye&#8217;s current fate could not be confirmed, but he was last known to be in Chinese custody in 2018 for unspecified crimes, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html">The New York Times</a>. That was around the same time his top lieutenant, Patrick Ho (see below) was convicted of bribery by U.S. prosecutors.
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<h3>Ho &#8220;Patrick&#8221; Chi Ping: Sentenced to prison</h3>
Hunter Biden called Ho, a former Chinese government official who went on to work for Ye at CEFC, the &#8220;f***ing spy chief of China.&#8221; Ho was arrested at JFK Airport in New York in November 2017, and his first call from jail was to James Biden, the president&#8217;s brother. Ho paid Hunter Biden $1 million, purportedly to serve as his lawyer after he was convicted of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribing African leaders for oil rights. The African schemes often involved the relatives of politicians, according to court papers.
In the May 2018 video on his laptop, Hunter Biden complained that, “I have another New York Times reporter calling about my representation of the, literally, Dr. Patrick Ho — the f***ing spy chief of China who started the company that my partner [Ye], who is worth $323 billion, founded.”
Ho was released in June of 2020 and <a href="https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/171939/Patrick-Ho-removed-from-doctor-registration-for-a-year">returned</a> to Hong Kong.
<h3>Jason Galanis: Sentenced to prison</h3>
Jason Galanis comes from a notorious white-collar mob family. Galanis and several others &#8212; and, emails and promotional materials suggest, Hunter Biden &#8212; were involved in a venture called Burnham. Jason and others &#8212; but not Hunter Biden &#8212; were eventually convicted for a $60 million scam involving Burnham and an impoverished Native American tribe.
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<h3>Devon Archer: Sentenced to prison</h3>
Devon Archer is a former roommate of Chris Heinz &#8212; the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry &#8212; and business partner of Heinz and Hunter Biden. &#8220;Every great family is persecuted prosecuted in the US— you are part of a great family,&#8221; Hunter Biden told him in a March 2018 text after he was arrested for the Native American scam.
But things soured by May 2018, when in an audio tape on his laptop, Hunter Biden said &#8220;my best friend Devon has named me as a witness without telling me in a criminal case — and my father — without telling me,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wfmz.com/news/politics/court-document-shows-joe-biden-listed-as-possible-witness-with-son-in-fraud-case/article_e81f4410-d9e6-522a-8243-bd118078a867.html">RealClearInvestigations</a> reported. An SEC subpoena for Hunter Biden is also on the laptop.
Archer was convicted by a jury for the Native American tribe scheme, then had his conviction vacated by a judge, before that was reversed by an appeals court. In February, he was <a href="https://madisonrecord.com/stories/621592272-devon-archer-will-appeal-tribal-bond-fraud-sentence">sentenced</a> to a year and a day in prison and a forfeiture of $15 million.
While awaiting sentencing, Judge Ronnie Abrams allowed Archer to continue his international business junkets. &#8220;Abrams allowed Archer to visit China, United Kingdom, Jamaica, Italy, England, Spain, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Turks and Caicos islands, Ukraine, Serbia, and French Antilles,&#8221; the <a href="https://madisonrecord.com/stories/620941222-staff-working-for-jeff-cooper-request-light-sentence-for-devon-archer-former-hunter-biden-partner">Madison Record</a> reported.
At the time of sentencing, Archer was working for Jeff Cooper, a lawyer and longtime Biden family associate. An email on the laptop written during Joe Biden&#8217;s time as vice president appeared to explore <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-discussed-plans-for-a-business-that-would-include-joe-biden-emails-show">plans for Joe Biden</a>, Hunter Biden, and Jeff Cooper to work together after he left office.
According to a letter to the judge at sentencing, Archer was also working in senior management at Atomic 47, a company that helps immigrants send remittances back to their home countries &#8212; a business which stood to grow under Biden&#8217;s lenient immigration policies.
<h3>Bevan Cooney: Spilled on Hunter from prison</h3>
In 2019, Cooney was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bevan-cooney-sentenced-30-months-prison-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million">sentenced</a> to 30 months in prison for his role in the Native American scheme, plus $43 million in restitution. Cooney likely did not endear himself to Hunter Biden by providing the contents of his emails to journalist Peter Schweizer. He was released in May 2021, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
<h3>Telman Ismailov: Wanted for murder</h3>
Hunter Biden met with Ismailov, a Russian oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin, in Moscow in 2012, while his father was vice president, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/25/hunter-biden-met-with-russian-oligarch-now-wanted-for-murder/">New York Post</a> reported. The meeting also included three other oligarchs.
In 2017, Ismailov was accused of paying $2 million to commission the murder of two businessmen over a money dispute. His lawyer told Radio Free Europe that the charges were the result of &#8220;political and economic persecution,&#8221; and he was granted asylum by Montenegro.
Hunter Biden&#8217;s meeting was part of a trip seeking investors for Rosemont Realty, a business venture co-founded by Hunter Biden, Archer, and Heinz, the Post reported.
What did the oligarchs want out of the meeting? “The only reason someone — other than a crack dealer or a hooker — would want to meet Hunter Biden is to get to his dad,” Jim Hanson, president of the Security Studies Group, told the Post.
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Death Row Or Wanted For Murder: The Cursed Lives Of Hunter Biden’s Associates

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The National Education Association’s (NEA) <a href="https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/conferences-events/annual-meeting-and-representative-assembly">annual conference</a> is underway, and the teachers union is voting on calling for a national policy of mandatory masking, creating an enemies list, and rejecting the words &#8220;mother&#8221; and &#8220;father.&#8221;
The Chicago conference is chock-full of woke agenda items and progressive language involving issues that would seem to have little to do with the proper education of the nation&#8217;s children. The unabashedly leftist organization doesn&#8217;t even seem to recognize its own heterosexual male membership, at least according to one measure in circulation.
&#8220;NEA is a social justice union that is a majority female and trans and gender non-confirming folx,&#8221; one New Business Initiative (NBI) says, calling to &#8220;publicly stand in defense of abortion&#8221; and calling abortion limits an attack on &#8220;students, families, and communities.&#8221;
Another calls for &#8220;a national policy of mandatory masking and COVID vaccines in schools, as well as high-quality virtual education for immuno-compromised students and all families who want it.&#8221;
A third says the NEA will publicize its commitment to &#8220;young people&#8217;s right to learn about and develop their own sexual orientation and gender identity.&#8221;
A fourth promotes language that is &#8220;LGBTQIA+ inclusive,&#8221; including using &#8220;birthing parent&#8221; and &#8220;non-birthing parent&#8221; instead of mother and father.
One initiative calls for spending $140,000 on opposition research about the &#8220;largest 25 organizations that are actively working to diminish a students&#8217; [sic] right to honesty in education, freedom of sexual identify [sic], and teacher autonomy.&#8221;
NBIs are proposals that must be voted on by delegates in order to pass. NEA has previously been radical in what it passes. In 2019, it voted down a motion to &#8220;rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning.&#8221; It voted in favor, meanwhile, of &#8220;discussions around support for reparations&#8221; and incorporating &#8220;the concept of &#8216;White Fragility&#8217; into NEA trainings.&#8221;
Each year&#8217;s NBIs had previously been public on the NEA&#8217;s website, it but abruptly yanked last year&#8217;s offline after parents noticed that it has voted to approve a resolution to “oppose attempts to ban critical race theory” and to provide a study that “critiques . . . capitalism . . . and other forms of power and oppression.” That contradicted teachers&#8217; claim that CRT is not taught in schools.
This year&#8217;s NBIs were uncovered by Terry Stoops, a conservative education expert in North Carolina.
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NBI 37 calls for nationwide mandatory masking and COVID vaccines <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEARA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEARA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/neara2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#neara2022</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/neara22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#neara22</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEA</a> 3/14 <a href="https://t.co/amN97etWtY">pic.twitter.com/amN97etWtY</a>
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The NEA did not return a request for comment on why the NBIs are no longer public, and on the results of any voting.
The NEA has previously <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100823105309/http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm">promoted</a> Saul Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals,&#8221; highlighting his passage &#8220;If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power.&#8221;
The NEA is the largest labor group in the U.S., with more than three million members, including first lady Jill Biden. Its president is Becky Pringle.
As test scores have plummeted following teachers-union-demanded school shutdowns, the NEA urges placing less emphasis on test results that measure whether students are learning. An NEA &#8220;Policy Playbook&#8221; released just before the 2020 election says that &#8220;the over-emphasis on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage,&#8221; and focuses instead on &#8220;racial and social justice.&#8221;

March for Our Lives 2022

Teachers Union To Vote On Mandatory Masking, Enemies List, Rejecting Words ‘Mother’ And ‘Father’

NEA Teachers Union To Vote On NBIs Calling For Mandatory Masking, Creating Enemies List, Rejecting Words 'Mother' And 'Father'

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Virginia</a> school district turned a blind eye to horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/human-trafficking">sexual abuse</a> in a middle school in 2012, with staff members showing more compassion for an alleged attacker than for the victim, a new court filing alleges.
The allegations have come to light a decade later because the victim waited until she was an adult to sue and the case has been in the courts for the last three years. The explosive claims against Fairfax County Public Schools were revealed in a newly filed amended complaint and paint a disturbing picture of gang activity and sex trafficking in the area.
The events occurred when the girl, identified in court papers as B.R., was a 12-year-old student at Rachel Carson Middle School. One of her alleged attackers was an eighth grader called only C.K. in court papers, while other alleged attackers were unknown men who allegedly gang raped her in a closet in the school after C.K. bragged that he was grooming her for &#8220;friends&#8221; who would &#8220;make a lot of money&#8221; off of her, the complaint says.
The complaint says that C.K. waited for B.R. at the bus stop after school, brandished a knife, and “led Plaintiff to a secluded nearby area outside where he wrestled Plaintiff to the ground, held her there against her will, removed her clothing, and forced Plaintiff… to perform oral sex.” Similar events occurred on a near-daily basis for several days, until the girl&#8217;s mother heard a voicemail message in which her daughter&#8217;s tormentor crudely threatened to sodomize her, according to the complaint.
Although it was before the alleged gang rape and the girl had not yet told her parents the extent of the abuse she had allegedly endured, her parents went to school officials in February of 2012 to complain of persistent sexual harassment in the school halls, the voicemail from C.K., and so claim that C.K. had stolen $50 from B.R. Officials allegedly brushed her complaint aside.
“Assistant Principal S.T. told Plaintiff and her parents that C.K. ‘had a very hard life and been in enough trouble,’ and asked Plaintiff and her mother why they were trying to ‘ruin a young boy’s life,’” the complaint states.
Assistant Principal S.T. then visited C.K.&#8217;s home, where his mother told him that he was &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the $50. After that conversation, the assistant principal told B.R.&#8217;s parents that it appeared to be a &#8220;boy girl thing&#8221; in which B.R. was &#8220;sexually active&#8221; with C.K. The assistant principal returned the $50 while laughing that B.R. should take it back before she spent it on Christmas shopping herself, the complaint says.
The abuse got worse after she went to school officials, culminating in a student dragging her into a closet in the school building after school where she was &#8220;raped by three unknown males (Mike Roes 1 – 3) consistent with the modus operandi of human and sexual traffickers in the Fairfax community,&#8221; the lawsuit alleged.
In February 2012, B.R.&#8217;s parents began keeping her home from school, and she disclosed the full extent of the alleged sexual abuse. On March 5, her parents went to the police and spoke with Detective Fred Chambers – the former School Resource Officer for the middle school &#8212; who directed her to take a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (“SANE”) evaluation which “revealed she suffered contusions inside her anus thereby corroborating her report of rape and sodomy,” the suit says.
Yet the detective went on to accuse the girl of making a false rape accusation &#8220;despite his knowledge of corroborating evidence,” the complaint says. School officials began investigating the alleged victim, the complaint claims.
“Under the guise of a school investigation, and in the course and scope of his authority as principal of RCMS, Principal A.F. visited Plaintiff’s elementary school to dig up ‘dirt’ on Plaintiff,&#8221; it says.
Although little is known of the assailants alleged to have gang-raped the girl, the events happened at the same time that  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142300731/gangs-enter-new-territory-with-sex-trafficking">NPR</a> was reporting that the gang MS-13 was forcing children into prostitution in Fairfax. In 2014, FCPS warned of sex trafficking in a page on its website that included a <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/node/32026">video</a> saying one gang alone had attempted to recruit more than 800 girls in the county.
FCPS had a pattern of downplaying sexual misconduct so that the school system&#8217;s statistics looked better, the complaint says. &#8220;In effect, FCSB had a policy, custom, and practice of sweeping student-on-student sexual violence and sexual harassment under the rug,&#8221; it says.
Schools also required to disclose certain incidents in a statewide database. Loudoun County acknowledged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-schools-did-not-record-multiple-alleged-sexual-assaults-over-a-period-of-years-despite-state-law-records-show">failing to report</a> to the database properly after The Daily Wire pointed out that both the infamous bathroom rape and an earlier well-known locker room incident were missing.
In the 2011-2012 school year, when the Rachel Carson complaints were filed, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/discipline_crime_violence/11-12_annual_report.pdf">zero</a> sexual assaults and five sexual batteries across its 180,000 students. In the 2018-19 school year, the most recent before coronavirus disruptions, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/index.shtml">10 incidents</a> of &#8220;sexual battery against student.&#8221;
FCPS did not return a request for comment.

School System Downplayed Alleged Sexual Misconduct Against 12-Year Old, Citing ‘Hard Life’ Of Suspect, Suit Claims

Fairfax Schools Downplayed Rachel Carson Middle School Sexual Misconduct, Citing 'Hard Life' Of Suspect, Suit Claims

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As Democrats rage against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholic-church">Catholic Church</a> for its pro-life advocacy, federal dollars flowing to Catholic groups have simultaneously skyrocketed, thanks to the Church&#8217;s role in caring for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis">illegal immigrants</a> flooding across the border.
Catholic Charities USA and its affiliates across the country have long provided care for refugees, unaccompanied minors, and impoverished immigrants, with funding from taxpayers. As President Joe Biden’s soft-on-illegal-immigration policies have seen a monthly surge across the border roughly equal to <a href="https://grothman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2993">the population of Buffalo</a>, government agencies have relied on the religious group to provide shelter, transportation, and other services through dramatically increased federal grants.
The feds have granted Catholic Charities $300 million so far in fiscal year 2022 for migrant services including &#8220;refugee and entrant assistance&#8221; and an &#8220;unaccompanied alien children program,&#8221; according to a Daily Wire analysis of federal spending data. The funds come primarily from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, sometimes after first flowing through a state government. The fiscal year ends in September, meaning the year-end total is on pace to hit $400 million.
That&#8217;s four times what it was in 2010 and 2020. In between, the spending spiked &#8212; though not as high as now &#8212; as former President Barack Obama dealt with his own &#8220;migrant surge&#8221; and flood of refugees.
Even as the church helped illegal immigrants, a cause shared by the Left, it has incurred the wrath of leftists following the June Supreme Court ruling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">Dobbs v. Jackson</a>, which overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to restrict or even ban abortion.
Numerous churches have been vandalized or attacked in recent days. In West Virginia, the St. Colman Catholic Church, a historic site built in 1878, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-the-wake-of-roe-v-wade-attacks-on-churches-pregnancy-centers-escalate">burned to the ground</a>. In Houston, the Saco Company Catholic Store, which sells religious apparel, also caught fire. Authorities in Virginia responded to a Catholic church and found smoke, an accelerant, and profane graffiti saying &#8220;THIS WON&#8217;T STOP.&#8221;
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-403812" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1.png" alt="" width="2700" height="1800" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1.png 2700w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-300x200.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-864x576.png 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-768x512.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-1800x1200.png 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/catholic-migrants-1-1200x800.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 2700px) 100vw, 2700px" /></div>
Catholic Charities responded to the Supreme Court ruling by <a href="https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/press_release/ccusa-response-to-scotus-ruling-in-dobbs-v-jackson/">highlighting</a> that it also &#8220;provides social services to help women and girls during pregnancy and after the birth of a child. These social services include financial and material support; care and counseling during prenatal, postnatal and postpartum stages; adoption; and housing.&#8221;
Much of Catholic Charities’ federally-funded immigration work was classified as “refugee and entrant assistance,” a category that includes illegal immigrants who are not refugees but have simply entered the country. For example, in October 2021 HHS used emergency authorization from Congress to set aside <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_22ABTXRSSS_7590/">$73 million</a> over two years to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Worth, near the epicenter of the border crisis in Texas.
It also obligated <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2201DCRVMG_7590/">$38 million</a> to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee and entrant assistance, some of which has been doled out in recent months to Catholic Charities groups in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Tennessee, and Utah.
In April, Virginia&#8217;s Commonwealth Catholic Charities received <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_90ZU0325_7590/">$248,065</a> for &#8220;FY22 Residential (Shelter) Services for Unaccompanied Children.&#8221; In March, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta took <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_90ZU0355_7590/">$48,000</a> for &#8220;FY22 MRS Safe Passages II&#8221; under the category &#8220;Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.&#8221;
But a second factor leading to a sharply increased demand for Catholic social service providers was the bungled withdraw of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, followed by the airlifting of Afghan nationals who were classified as refugees into the U.S. In September 2021, the Department of State awarded the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SPRMCO21CA3291_1900/">$32 million</a> over one year to &#8220;provide initial relocation support services for Afghans paroled into the United States.&#8221;
Catholic Charities says it &#8220;provided resettlement services to almost <a href="https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/and-they-shall-know-us-by-our-love/#group-section-FAQS-ABOUT-OUR-WORK-uJhc3UlfI1">12,000</a> Afghan new arrivals in 36 states in 2021. Ukrainians also began to be resettled in early 2022.&#8221;
Catholic Charities did not return a request for comment for this story.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s analysis looked at grants (not contracts) to Catholic Charities and its affiliates and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for work dealing with refugees, entrants, or unaccompanied minors. It included prime grants and subgrants, but excluded subgrants when they would be duplicative. The fiscal-year analysis looked at amounts that were paid, not the total obligated amounts.

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As Dems Rage Against Catholic Church, Biden Admin Pays It Huge Bucks To Care For Migrants

As Dems Rage Against Catholic Church, Biden Admin Pays Catholic Charities Unprecedented Sums For Immigrants

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, pledged to use the state&#8217;s power to protect Supreme Court justices from rioters who may threaten them at their homes in the wake of a major abortion ruling.
&#8220;I am in regular contact with the Supreme Court Justices and my administration is in coordination with our mayors, and local and state police to ensure we are ready to take appropriate action if need be. Virginia will not stand for lawlessness or violence,&#8221; Youngkin said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1540382198678831107/photo/1">statement</a> shortly after the release of the court decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">overturning Roe v. Wade</a>.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s ruling is a landmark decision for our country. While I understand that people across the nation have strong beliefs about this ruling, Virginians must always respect the rule of law and I appeal to their civility on this historic day. Our administration is committed to protecting individuals&#8217; constitutional rights and ensuring Virginians are safe,&#8221; he added.
Multiple justices live in the Northern Virginia suburbs, and far-left protesters have targeted them &#8212; with one group even <a href="https://twitter.com/RuthSentUs/status/1534530178298150913">advertising</a> when and where Justice Amy Coney Barrett attends church and putting signs up where her daughter goes to school.
Posters around D.C. have, for the last week, encouraged people to riot when the Supreme Court issued its decision, while others called for a &#8220;night of rage.&#8221;
The <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/section18.2-419/">Code of Virginia</a> prohibits “picketing before or about the residence or dwelling place of any individual … in a manner which disrupts or threatens to disrupt any individual’s right to tranquility in his home,” though others have questioned such laws on constitutional grounds.
But far-left politicos from Fairfax County rejected Youngkin&#8217;s entreaties that local police “establish an expanded security perimeter” and limit “unauthorized vehicle and pedestrian access” around the residences of Justices Barrett,  Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, <a href="https://www.ffxnow.com/2022/05/12/fairfax-county-board-chair-rejects-youngkins-advice-for-supreme-court-justice-protests/">Fairfax Now</a> reported May 12.
After an armed man traveled to the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Maryland and was indicted for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-indicted-for-attempted-murder-of-a-justice">attempted murder</a> of a justice, Youngkin introduced an amendment to the state&#8217;s budget that would make it a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proposed-youngkin-amendment-would-make-it-a-felony-to-protest-outside-a-justices-home">felony</a> to try to influence or intimidate a judge with protests. Lawmakers blocked the amendment.
Youngkin, a Republican who last year won election in a generally blue-leaning state, signaled Friday that he will pursue a 15-week abortion ban. &#8220;We can build a bipartisan consensus on protecting the life of unborn children, especially when they begin to feel pain in the womb and importantly supporting mothers and families who choose life,&#8221; he said in a statement. He added that he has asked legislators to prepare a bill for &#8220;when the General Assembly returns in January.&#8221;

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Says He Will Protect Supreme Court Justices From Rioters At Their Homes

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">Biden Administration</a> is paying upfront cash or reimbursements to underage illegal immigrants or their relatives to cover their travel to communities across the U.S., a federal document obtained by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com">The Daily Wire</a> reveals.
The Department of Health and Human Services document, which deals with settling &#8220;unaccompanied minor&#8221; illegal immigrants in the U.S., says under the category &#8220;Sponsor Travel Support&#8221; that U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill if the minor can&#8217;t.
&#8220;Historically, [Office of Refugee Resettlement] had a 20% funding cap on travel for sponsors if a sponsor was unable to pay,&#8221; the document states. &#8220;This cap has been lifted and supplemental funding requests are now permitted. As of March 22, 2021, ORR can pay for the sponsor, UC [unaccompanied child], or escort&#8217;s travel upfront as well as reimbursements.&#8221;
That&#8217;s part of a &#8220;Transfer of Physical Custody&#8221; in which once HHS&#8217; Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) &#8220;approves an UC for release, the care provider collaborates with the sponsor to ensure physical discharge happens within 3 calendar days. Whenever possible, sponsors are expected to come to the are provider or to a designated offsite location with identification.&#8221;
The document says the &#8220;Unaccompanied Children Program&#8221; includes children who travel &#8220;to the United States seeking refuge from poverty&#8221; and that &#8220;By law, HHS ORR has custody and must provide care for each UC.&#8221; It says it has done so for more than 400,000 children.
It says it attempts to unite the children with sponsors such as relatives, but for nearly 8% of children, none can be found. Those children are released at age 18.
HHS&#8217; Administration for Children and Families, whose logo is on the document, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The last-mile unification expenses come on top of travel that taxpayers are already funding to bring illegal immigrants from the border to cities across the interior of the U.S. A Daily Wire investigation published this week used aircraft data to show hundreds of charter flights, affecting nearly every state, that appear to be ferrying illegal immigrants across the U.S pursuant to government contracts.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aircraft-records-reveal-secret-migrant-flights-across-u-s">Aircraft Records Reveal Secret Migrant Flights Across U.S.</a>
On Christmas night, for example, two flights carrying some 240 migrants from Texas landed in eastern Pennsylvania, prompting one lawmaker to observe that the border crisis was now a national problem. “Wilkes Barre and Scranton are now border cities as a direct result of the Biden administration’s policies,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/immigrant-children-land-at-scranton-airport-amid-lax-covid-19-protocols_4181367.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a>.
That analysis focused on small airlines offering charter services that appear to be running special immigrant-only planes for the government, including Avelo, iAero (Swift Air), World Atlantic, and Global Crossing.
&#8220;This is good money for the airlines, that&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want it to stop,&#8221; an airline employee with insight into the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. He said the migrant flights kept airlines like Avelo in business during the pandemic.
For months, illegal border crossings have been at record levels. Yet as of December 2021, there were <a href="https://www.axios.com/biden-ends-migrant-family-detention-border-immigration-b39f3e04-689a-486b-82de-7deb9412cea6.html">zero</a> migrant families held in U.S. detention centers.
Data on illegal immigrants under the Biden Administration has been so suspicious that a nonpartisan academic group that has long tracked immigration stopped processing data on what happens to minors who cross the border illegally because it has determined the data is “too faulty to be trusted.” It says the Biden Administration has ignored its warnings about flaws.
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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which is affiliated with Syracuse University, said 50,000 asylum files disappeared, allowing the Biden Administration to “falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown.”

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With families preparing to mark Fathers Day, the majority of kids in large swaths of the country will have nothing to celebrate, a Daily Wire analysis of newly released Census data shows.
On the black map above, all of the blue areas are where most kids don&#8217;t live with two parents.
At the state level, the disaster zone for intact families was Puerto Rico, where only 38% of children live with two parents. That is followed by the District of Columbia at 48%, and Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico, at between 55% and 57%, according to the Census data, which covers the years 2016-2020. All states’ two-parent percentages are visible on the map below.
<div id="attachment_397614" style="width: 898px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397614" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-397614 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kids-with-two-parents-by-state2-888x576.png" alt="" width="888" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/kids-with-two-parents-by-state2-888x576.png 888w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/kids-with-two-parents-by-state2-300x195.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/kids-with-two-parents-by-state2-768x498.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/kids-with-two-parents-by-state2.png 991w" sizes="(max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px" />Percent of kids living with two parents by state. Map by Luke Rosiak for The Daily Wire</div>
The rate was even more jarring at the local level. Rochester, New York, had the worst rate of two-parent households in the nation, at just over 1 in 4 families. Not far behind were Flint, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio.
In individual census tracts within many cities, it was much worse. Not only do most kids in those neighborhoods not have a dad – they may not even know anyone who does.  “Children are growing up not only not seeing their own fathers, but even other men fulfilling that role,” said the president of the <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/">National Fatherhood Initiative</a>, Chris Brown, who was born in Rochester.
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<td>Rochester, NY</td>
<td>26%</td>
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<td>Flint, MI</td>
<td>27%</td>
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<td>Cleveland, OH</td>
<td>28%</td>
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<td>Ponce, PR</td>
<td>28%</td>
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<td>Detroit, MI</td>
<td>29%</td>
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<td>Hartford, CT</td>
<td>31%</td>
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<td>San Juan, PR</td>
<td>33%</td>
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<td>Jackson, MS</td>
<td>33%</td>
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<td>Springfield, MA</td>
<td>33%</td>
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<td>Carolina, PR</td>
<td>34%</td>
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Such boys are statistically more likely to grow up and not take care of their own kids.
“There’s a phrase, ‘you can’t be what you don’t see,'&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;That has a huge bearing on what we see happening in communities across the country, which is the absence of men and fathers from communities in general.”
Single parenthood can spread like a contagion, he said.
“We see communities who are impoverished having very high rates of single parents. It builds upon itself, the more people you see making choices not to raise kids in married families, you get a network effect that grows,” he said. 
The normalization of single parenthood is not just a personal decision, because it affects the community at large. Studies indicate that children who grow up without a dad are more likely to grow up to commit crime, be unemployed, and require government assistance.
In 2011, the <a href="https://www.unidosus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/kidscount2010english_pubstore-1.pdf">National Council of La Raza</a>, a Hispanic advocacy group, sounded the alarm about the breakdown of the family in Puerto Rico. &#8220;Children living in single-parent families typically do not have the same economic or human resources available as those growing up in two-parent families. These children are more likely to live in poverty since single-parent families have only one potential wage earner,&#8221; it wrote.
But little changed, and the predictable result was continued poverty. In the years since, public agencies of the U.S. territory sought to declare bankruptcy &#8212; and sought a bailout from U.S. taxpayers.
The states with the highest rate of kids with two parents were predictable: Utah at 81%, Idaho at 76%, Wyoming at 74%, and North Dakota at 73%.
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<caption style="background: #0C4AA6; color: white; font-weight: bold;">Counties with the most kids with two-parent homes</caption>
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<td>Utah County, UT</td>
<td>88%</td>
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<td>Williamson County, TN</td>
<td>87%</td>
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<td>Forsyth County, GA</td>
<td>87%</td>
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<td>Hunterdon County, NJ</td>
<td>86%</td>
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<td>Loudoun County, VA</td>
<td>86%</td>
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<td>Geauga County, OH</td>
<td>85%</td>
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<td>Douglas County, CO</td>
<td>85%</td>
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<td>Dallas County, IA</td>
<td>85%</td>
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<td>Delaware County, OH</td>
<td>85%</td>
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<td>Rockland County, NY</td>
<td>85%</td>
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Brown said without a renewed cultural emphasis on the importance of intact families, the problem is unlikely to be solved. “There won’t be anything structurally in place to bring it back up if there is not the political will to promote two parent households,” he said.
The political Left increasingly seems to have abandoned that will. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">Black Lives Matter</a> notoriously promoted &#8220;disrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.&#8221;
After Virginia elected a Republican attorney general, <a href="https://www.cbs19news.com/story/45860897/miyares-announces-change-to-handling-child-support-cases">Jason Miyares</a>, last year, he found that his left-wing predecessor had gone so easy on scofflaw dads that the Division of Child Support Enforcement was seeking to dismiss cases against absent fathers who were refusing to pay child support in &#8220;egregious&#8221; ways.
“Children should never have to go without because the government is giving their parent a pass from responsibility. Parents subject to court orders will not be permitted to hide from their financial obligations to Virginia’s families,” he said.
In a previous installment in this series, The Daily Wire reported that well-funded Leftist groups have largely abandoned efforts to push for intact families, despite it being a surefire path to racial equity. Records from seven major philanthropic foundations indicate that the last pro-marriage grant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-organizations-decry-inequality-but-abandon-the-family-the-one-social-force-that-can-fix-it">was in 1997</a>. More recently, the Ford Foundation funded a report that complained that people were being &#8220;Pushed to the Altar&#8221; and questioned the benefits of intact families, and another that complained of how absent fathers were being burdened by a requirement to pay child support.

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The percentage of babies being born to married parents has increased for every <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/race">racial group</a> during the period of 2016-2020 compared to five years prior, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com">Daily Wire</a> analysis of newly released Census data.
The figure reverses a long downward trend and is a welcome bit of positive news this Father&#8217;s Day that could have major consequences for reducing poverty, crime, and racial inequality for a generation of children.
The improvement was particularly pronounced among blacks, whose legitimacy rates remain far below other groups but who saw the largest increase, from 33% to 38% over the five-year period.
Single-parent homes are the best predictor of many negative outcomes, so increasing the number of children with married parents has the potential to raise incomes, reduce crime, and increase academic accomplishment, said Christopher Brown, president of the <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/">National Fatherhood Initiative</a>.
“One of the best ways to attain racial equality is to have similar rates of married households,” he told The Daily Wire. “There is a mountain of data that shows how important two-parent households are, particularly married households, to family and economic and social well-being, across racial, cultural, and socioeconomic groups.”
He said it’s hard to modify most outcomes directly, but when people grow up with two married parents, the rest of the problems tend to take care of themselves. Married households are an example of “what can we do to put environmental factors in place that make healthier behavior easier,” he said.
<div id="attachment_397242" style="width: 431px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397242" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-397242" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/marriage-chart.png" alt="" width="421" height="278" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/marriage-chart.png 421w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/marriage-chart-300x198.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px" />Source: Daily Wire analysis of ACS</div>
The Census Bureau has postponed the release of the full once-a-decade Census, citing coronavirus. But in March, it released data from a detailed survey, known as the American Community Survey, given to a smaller set of Americans each year. The results are grouped into five-year segments for a larger sample size. The Daily Wire compared the five-year period ending with the year 2020 to the five-year periods ending in 2015 and 2010.
The below chart shows how much of racial inequality is attributable to the simple fact that households with one adult have half the earning potential of households with two adults: The percentage of households within a given demographic that are impoverished tracks almost exactly with the percent who are married.
<div id="attachment_397253" style="width: 378px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397253" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-397253" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/poverty-vs-marriage.png" alt="" width="368" height="264" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/poverty-vs-marriage.png 368w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/poverty-vs-marriage-300x215.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px" />Daily Wire analysis of 2016-2020 ACS</div>
The data also shows that marriage can be a nearly surefire ticket out of poverty for people of any race. Unmarried blacks had a 37% chance of poverty, a dismal statistic. But a black family headed by a married couple had only a 9% chance of being in poverty &#8212; making them vastly better off than unmarried households of whites or any other race.
<div id="attachment_398205" style="width: 555px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-398205" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-398205" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/married-vs-unmarried-poverty2.png" alt="" width="545" height="373" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/married-vs-unmarried-poverty2.png 545w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/married-vs-unmarried-poverty2-300x205.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px" />Daily Wire analysis of 2016-2020 ACS</div>
Wealthy Asians topped the marriage charts at 87%. But even when a child’s parents are married but poor, that child is more likely to grow up to be wealthy. Poor Asians&#8217; marriage rate of 62% is higher than the rate for Hispanics regardless of income, and higher even than wealthy blacks. More than a quarter of Asian American children who grow up in a household with an income in the bottom fifth <a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353">rise</a> to the top fifth by adulthood.
Ian Rowe, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who studies upward mobility and family structure, said much of how we perceive reality comes down to how we measure it. Most charts break things down by &#8220;blunt categories like race,&#8221; but not family status, leading people to perceive that minorities are oppressed.
Simply looking at the same data through the lens of family status would show a different picture: One where minorities who are married are doing quite well, and people of all races who are unmarried are not. This would give a more nuanced picture, but ideologues reject it because they want the “singular issue” to be “systemic racism,” he said.
&#8220;[Critical Race Theory proponent] Ibram Kendi says when he sees racial gaps in achievement, he sees racism, full stop. For those who want to perpetuate that narrative, they need to undermine [other] causalities,&#8221; said Rowe.
Federal education law requires that test score and graduation data be reported by race, but not family status. Since educators are presented with charts labeled by race, that is what they focus on.
&#8220;So you see initiatives like DEI to drive the ‘implicit bias’ out of teachers,” Rowe said. &#8220;If we were to do reporting based on family structure, you’d see instantaneously that there’s a far greater correlation to positive outcomes with two-parent households in virtually every category&#8230;If we wanted to actually seek solutions, we’d look at family status as a new prism of measurement.&#8221;
&#8220;You typically just hear that X percent of black kids are reading at proficiency. But if you saw [a chart showing the] distribution, you’d see there’s a not insignificant number of black kids at the top end performing well. So you’d start to see that maybe race is not the biggest factor here. Then you overlay family structure,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;This is the next frontier: Changing the way data is reported, to include family structure, can transform the way we see the problem and the interventions we use. One intervention would be teaching about the success sequence,&#8221; which holds that people who do certain simple behaviors including not having kids out of wedlock are almost guaranteed to avoid poverty, said Rowe, who previously ran charter schools in the Bronx.
Brown said it’s hard to know what accounts for the improvement in the proportion of births to married women, but that one possibility is simply that the rate had gotten so bad in recent decades that it couldn’t get much worse.

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The Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal used the 50th anniversary of the event to draw parallels with the events of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6">January 6, 2020</a>, with Carl Bernstein praising the work of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats">Democrats&#8217;</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee">January 6 Committee</a> and questioning the status of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a>.
Carl Bernstein also said that a remedy in the case of Richard Nixon — the specter of certain impeachment if he did not resign — no longer exists because impeachment has become purely political.
In a Washington Post live <a href="https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDqEeoZvGV">panel</a> moderated by reporter Dan Balz, Bernstein repeatedly pivoted from questions about his work in the 1970s to the current day.
&#8220;I want to go to today&#8230; the biggest story&#8230; a seditious criminal president of the United States who also almost won re-election&#8230; who staged an attempted coup such as you would see in a junta or a banana republic,&#8221; Bernstein said.
Bob Woodward chimed in: &#8220;In case there&#8217;s mystery, Carl&#8217;s talking about Trump.&#8221;
Woodward read a note from Nixon that said, &#8220;Never forget: The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.&#8221;
Balz then played a clip of a senator in the 1970s using language similar to Democrats&#8217; current rhetoric, saying the Watergate break-in and ensuing coverup amounted to an &#8220;undermining of our democracy.&#8221;
Bernstein praised the January 6 Committee, saying, &#8220;This committee has really got the goods, and we&#8217;re going to see a lot more.&#8221;
Questioned about the Oval Office tapes that convinced the public of Nixon&#8217;s role in Watergate, Bernstein downplayed the importance of such a high bar for evidence. &#8220;If there is one terrible legacy of Watergate, and there aren&#8217;t that many, it&#8217;s the notion of a smoking gun&#8230; you didn&#8217;t need a smoking gun, and that also goes to today.&#8221;
&#8220;What they&#8217;ve done is amazing, yet as you pointed out what Nixon did was concealed, with secret tape recordings, but a lot of what Trump&#8217;s done is out in the open. He says the election was stolen,&#8221; he said.
Bernstein also suggested that the Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy to partisanship.
Nixon &#8220;might well have escaped, and yet the Supreme Court said in a unanimous decision that the president of the United States must turn the tapes over. Let&#8217;s look at the Supreme Court situation today&#8230; one of the things that have happened is that the wife of a Supreme Court justice is now a part of the story,&#8221; he said, referring to Democrats&#8217; request for testimony from conservative activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ginni-thomas">Ginni Thomas</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s raised all kinds of questions about what she has told Justice Thomas,&#8221; Bernstein said.
On that, Woodward offered restraint. &#8220;We just don&#8217;t know about this, and we need to keep an open mind. She said she&#8217;s willing to testify&#8230; that&#8217;s tender territory. Somebody&#8217;s wife who&#8217;s on the Supreme Court. &#8230; They&#8217;re treading very carefully and I think wisely.&#8221;
But Woodward also called Trump a criminal. &#8220;It is a crime to subvert a legitimate function of government,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a clear, laid-down case of obstructing an essential and necessary function of government. What&#8217;s more necessary than certifying who&#8217;s the next president of the United States? &#8230; 1,000 people violently descended on the Capitol.&#8221;
Bernstein said, &#8220;Trump clearly committed a crime. The next level up is sedition. What is sedition? It is to encourage, foment an insurrection against the government of the United States. We have the first president in history who has tried to engage and produce an insurrection. What do you do with that? &#8230; We failed an impeachment before. Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, now has a huge decision to make. Is Donald Trump now going to be prosecuted as the leader of this conspiracy?&#8221;

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As the institutional Left has increasingly demanded “racial equity” – parity between races in everything from income to incarceration rates – it has simultaneously rejected the very thing that evidence suggests could move the needle most: encouraging households headed by two parents.
Children raised by one parent, which is the case for a disproportionate number of minorities, are far more likely to break the law and grow up poor, data shows. And while liberals in the past, including President Clinton, have lamented the breakdown of two-parent households, it is often embraced by modern leftist institutions such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">Black Lives Matter</a> which in 2020 called for &#8220;disrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.&#8221;
&#8220;Now it’s like they’re celebrating [single motherhood],” said <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/ian-rowe/">Ian Rowe</a>, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies upward mobility and family formation. &#8220;[Liberals are] saying we should have systems that cater to this, rather than the government saying it’s something to be avoided if possible. The government can never make up for what two married parents can provide for a child.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not just Black Lives Matter that seems to reject the traditional family structure. Well-funded, elite institutions that have traditionally shaped policy from the Left advance the same position through their donations. The Daily Wire analyzed the historical giving of seven of the nation&#8217;s largest philanthropic foundations: the Ford Foundation; Open Society Foundations; Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation; MacArthur Foundation; W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; and Hewlett Foundation. All help set the agenda on social issues in America by steering billions of dollars to woke social groups and causes that see the government, not the family, as key to raising children.
Philanthropic foundations like Ford and Kellogg were founded on a belief in social science, and that by studying how to impact human behavior, wealthy benefactors could make the world a better place. The foundations&#8217; admiration for the field is so great that four of the seven foundations jointly fund the Social Science Research Council, according to tax return data.
In recent years, they have made racial inequality a primary focus. When it comes to &#8220;equity,&#8221; &#8220;inequity,&#8221; and &#8220;equality,&#8221; there are nearly 6,000 grants totaling nearly $4 billion.
These dual priorities would seem to make encouraging intact families a natural fit: Few variables in social science so dramatically predict outcomes as the presence of two parents. Such positive outcomes would reduce racial inequality.
Yet the foundations have almost completely avoided the issue of family structure. Combined, the records showed $110 billion of giving across 131,000 donations. Almost none of it went to promoting marriage or fatherhood.
Only 59 donations, totaling $8.7 million, dealt with fatherhood. And even among these, the largest grant recipient actually appeared to work against intact families, complaining about how delinquent dads were being inconvenienced by being forced to pay child support. The Ford Foundation <a href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all?search=%26SearchText%3Dcenter%20for%20family%20policy&amp;page=0&amp;minyear=2006&amp;maxyear=2022">tasked</a> the Center for Family Policy and Practice &#8220;to analyze the impact of state and federal child-support policies and child-support debt on the ability of low-income, noncustodial fathers to achieve economic stability and build assets.&#8221; This and a similar grant totaled about half a million dollars. Then Kellogg paid it another <a href="https://www.wkkf.org/grants/grant/2015/06/making-all-the-ends-meet-a-two-generation-approach-for-children-and-their-mothers-and-fathers-p30319">half-million</a> to &#8220;inform policymakers&#8221; of the research.
In the 1990s, foundations made at least a few grants that promoted fatherhood, such as one to the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization to &#8220;expand and replicate a fatherhood responsibility program in cities,&#8221; and another to the Parent Resource Center to &#8220;strengthen parenting skills of high-risk teen fathers through participation in a 20-week group program.&#8221;
But by the 2000s, they appeared not just neutral but hostile to that line of thinking. In 2006, Ford paid $25,000 to a progressive think tank called Political Research Associates to write a pair of reports attacking the push for two-parent households. The first was titled &#8220;Pushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion.&#8221;
The second belied a sensitivity to the fact that working against intact families contradicted a large body of work in a field that foundations ordinarily exalted.
&#8220;Social science research is no more rigorous than the standards of the practitioners,&#8221; it <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/marriage-promotion-part-2.pdf">said</a>. &#8220;When those practitioners are using social science trappings to support their ideological positions, it is time for their flawed procedures to be exposed.&#8221;
&#8220;These two reports demonstrate the Right&#8217;s use of federal funds to exert social control and their use of agenda driven treatises, masquerading as science, to justify, and elicit support for, this ideological maneuvering,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;The rightist fatherhood movement relies on biased scholarship to support its assertion that a family is not complete without the presence of a father.”
It said that people who argue that marriage leads to prosperity are violating a &#8220;fundamental rule of social science&#8221; by &#8220;confusing correlation with causality&#8221;: One should not assume people are poor because of a lack of marriage when it could be that &#8220;they are unmarried because they are poor.&#8221;
Christopher Brown, president of the nonpartisan <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/">National Fatherhood Initiative</a>, said it took only common sense, not a doctoral degree, to reject that.
“Being poor doesn’t cause you to be unmarried,” he told The Daily Wire. “Obviously you have the potential to have more income earners when you have two parents instead of one, especially because income rates are usually measured at the household level.”
The data on foundation grants about &#8220;marriage&#8221; are similar. Since 2011, the foundations spent $5.6 million advancing and celebrating gay marriage rights. But one has to go back to <a href="https://www.wkkf.org:443/grants/grant/1997/06/african-american-couples-mentoring-proj-p0050757">1997</a> to find the last grant attempting to keep heterosexual couples married: A $20,000 donation to &#8220;Increase the likelihood of successful African-American marriages through development of a model African-American Couples Mentoring Program.&#8221;
Even if promoting marriage would do more in the longterm to achieve equality, superficial efforts – such as rejiggering the percentages of minorities on corporate boards – make donors feel good, Brown said.
“If you look at data on why people give to certain causes, it’s because they like to see the effect in terms of direct services. They want to ameliorate the symptoms so they can see the effect, rather than address the root causes,” Brown said.
Only one of the seven philanthropic foundations returned requests for comment.
&#8220;I see the logic in your connection but this is not a research area we are involved with as a philanthropic funder&#8230; We fund a lot of work around family engagement in an education context. Not the direction you are asking about,&#8221; Celeste Ford, a spokeswoman for the Carnegie Corporation, said.
<div id="attachment_397204" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397204" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-397204 size-thumbnail" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/rowe-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Ian Rowe. Courtesy American Enterprise Institute</div>
Rowe, who studies upward mobility and families, previously led charter schools in the Bronx and was deputy director of postsecondary success at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. He said what makes foundations&#8217; insistence on spending money on anything but family structure so remarkable is that their existing efforts – geared at “cosmetic” fixes rather than root causes – have little to show for them.
In 2017, Bill Gates <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/Council-of-Great-City-Schools">acknowledged</a> that despite 17 years of his foundation pouring money into education initiatives, &#8220;schools are still falling short on the key metrics of a quality education.&#8221;
&#8220;Melinda and I made public education our top priority in the U.S. because we wanted to do something about the disparity in achievement and postsecondary success for students of color and low-income students. That inequity persists today,&#8221; he said.
Gates said his &#8220;insights will change what we focus on over the next five years.&#8221; But nowhere in his 3,000 word speech did he say the words &#8220;parents,&#8221; &#8220;family,&#8221; or &#8220;father.&#8221;
Rowe, for his part, said &#8220;What I’m trying to do is encourage philanthropists is to take another look at how they’ve decided to spend their money, because it&#8217;s not working.&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post">Washington Post</a> just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-reporter-suspended-without-pay-after-coworker-criticizes-him-for-retweeting-a-joke">suspended a reporter</a> for retweeting a mildly sexist joke, but in the 1990s, it employed a self-professed gang rapist who wrote about his prior exploits in the newspaper&#8217;s own pages.
Ace reporter Dave Weigel, currently serving a month-long suspension without pay for the retweet, must marvel at the treatment afforded Nathan McCall, his predecessor at the far-left broadsheet. McCall began a decade-long stint at the paper in 1989, 11 years after he was released from prison for holding up a McDonald&#8217;s. By his own admission, McCall&#8217;s treatment of women was far worse than passing along a joke.
&#8220;We perfected the art of luring babes into those kinds of traps,&#8221; McCall <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/makes-me-wanna-holler">wrote</a> in his 1994 memoir, &#8220;Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America,&#8221; excerpts of which the Post published. &#8220;We ran a train at my house when my parents were away. We ran many at Bimbo&#8217;s crib because both his parents worked. And we set one up at Lep&#8217;s place and even let his little brother get in on it. He couldn&#8217;t have been more than eight or nine.&#8221;
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Today we have a 16-part thread in which she attacks colleagues &amp; characterizes <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> as a sexist,trauma-inducing hell-scape. Sexist? Dave Weigel lost a month’s salary for one dumb (albeit funny) retweet. Felicia has infinite license to embarrass, bully, shame &amp;harass. <a href="https://t.co/fdSB5H1A5v">https://t.co/fdSB5H1A5v</a>
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McCall&#8217;s hiring at the newspaper that broke Watergate was a story of redemption. He claimed to have turned his life around during a twelve-year prison sentence, during which he <a href="https://www.nathanmccall.net/biography/its-me-against-the-world/">read</a> Karl Marx and Malcolm X, but remained gripped by grievance, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/02/05/hope-for-a-dying-generation/ca8c0f7f-c88a-425c-9393-2c4699839580/">resenting</a> &#8220;suggestions that blacks enjoy being &#8216;righteous victims.&#8217;” McCall worked his way up, serving stints at the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before landing the prestigious gig.
The newspaper had no qualms about having a reporter on staff who, by his own admission, had committed serious crimes earlier in his life. In fact, in 1991 he wrote an article for the <a href="https://www.nathanmccall.net/articles/dispatches-from-a-dying-generation/">Post</a> that foreshadowed his soon-to-come memoir.
&#8220;From a shoplifting charge, to stealing an ice-cream truck, to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and, ultimately, to armed robbery, I’ve had my share of clashes with the law&#8230; When I was 19, in a running rivalry with some other thugs, I shot a man in the chest at point-blank range,&#8221; he wrote.
The paper granted McCall a leave of absence to write his autobiography, which included disturbing recollections of taking part in gang-rapes of girls as young as 13. The Post later ran excerpts from the book.
<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-393814 alignleft" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/nathan-mccall.png" alt="" width="517" height="365" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/nathan-mccall.png 517w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/nathan-mccall-300x212.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" />McCall, who is currently a lecturer in the Department of African-American Studies at Atlanta&#8217;s Emory University, left the Post in 1998, according to a resume. But the paper continued to publish pieces he contributed, including one lambasting then-President <a href="https://www.nathanmccall.net/washington-post/obamas-sister-souljah-moment-2/">Barack Obama</a> in 2011 for telling blacks to &#8220;stop complaining.&#8221;
A decade after that article ran, Weigel was suspended for retweeting a joke that claimed, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” The suspension came after Felicia Sonmez, a national reporter, complained of sexism. For days, she lashed out that the Washington Post management protects sexist behavior.
&#8220;Do you have any idea of the torrent of abuse I’m facing right now?&#8221; Sonmez wrote.
As an example, the Harvard grad cited that a Twitter account with 46 followers had written: &#8220;How can someone be so privileged that the biggest drama of their life was some tweet?&#8221; the critic wrote. &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t know actual sexism if it slapped your stupid face.&#8221;

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