CORAL GABLES, Fla. — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida&#8217;s</a> first lady Casey DeSantis doesn&#8217;t blame parents for being skeptical of health officials who repeatedly flip-flopped on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coronavirus</a> guidance throughout the pandemic.
In an August interview with The Daily Wire following a &#8220;Mamas for DeSantis&#8221; event, DeSantis discussed how the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that parents look at political candidates and elections.
Many parents have become single issue voters, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/technology/anti-vax-parents-political-party.html">The New York Times reported</a>: parents skeptical of vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and the grandiose statements of public health officials, who vote for candidates they believe will stand up for their freedom and their children.
&#8220;They should be skeptical of the &#8216;health officials&#8217; during COVID because basically everything they told us was a lie!&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;They said, &#8216;Wear the masks it will stop transmission, take the vaccine, and you won&#8217;t get sick and you won&#8217;t transmit.’”
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&#8220;They were tying people&#8217;s jobs to the COVID vaccine when they knew that the science &#8230; wasn&#8217;t what they said it was,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;They have done an immense disservice to … society because they have been repeatedly wrong on so many things, but they haven&#8217;t had the fortitude to come out and admit that they were wrong,&#8221; Florida&#8217;s first lady said. &#8220;And so I think parents are very upset by that.&#8221;
She also deeply criticized health officials for mandating that children wear masks even when officials like former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, knew that masks weren&#8217;t really effective at stopping the spread of the virus.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like putting a chain link fence in front of a gnat thinking you are going to stop it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But they never acknowledged the ramifications of what those masks were doing to our kids, the emotional toll that it was taking, because never before have we taken away the ability of kids to see and receive a smile.&#8221;
And experts are now acknowledging developmental delays in children who were forced to mask for so long, the mother of three noted.
&#8220;Kids aren&#8217;t able to speak as well. They started some of those critical years in kindergarten, first grade, with a mask on their face and not the ability to be able to see their teacher.&#8221;
&#8220;It really is disgusting when you look at public officials who stand up there and take their mask off,&#8221; she continued, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/aft-president-randi-weingarten-apologizes-for-going-maskless-at-somos-retreat-in-puerto-rico/">specifically naming</a> American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, &#8220;and at the same time they were forcing and advocating for kids to be muzzled and teachers will be muzzled.&#8221;
&#8220;It was just an atrocity for what a lot of folks did to those kids,&#8221; she added, &#8220;and I am so proud of the governor to stand strong with no vax mandates and no mask mandates from the beginning.&#8221;

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Casey DeSantis: Parents ‘Should Be Skeptical’ Of Health Officials Who Lied During The Pandemic

Casey DeSantis Doesn't Blame Parents Who Are Skeptical Of Health Officials From The Pandemic

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Ron DeSantis

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Spurred by leftist culture wars to protect their children, mamas, grandmas, abuelas, and nanas may be some of the most pivotal voters in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida&#8217;s</a> upcoming midterm elections, according to Florida&#8217;s first lady, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/casey-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Casey DeSantis</a>.
Virginia&#8217;s recent gubernatorial race proved to the country just how vital a role mothers and grandmothers can play in elections. And in Florida, the governor&#8217;s team is leaning hard into the mom vote and urging women to come out and protect their children.
&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing when you come after a mama,&#8221; DeSantis said in an interview with The Daily Wire following her &#8220;Mamas for DeSantis&#8221; event in Coral Gables. &#8220;It&#8217;s another thing if you come after her kids.&#8221;
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DeSantis <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/first-lady-casey-desantis-launches-mamas-for-desantis-largest-movement-parents-florida-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> &#8220;Mamas for DeSantis&#8221; in late June, an initiative accompanying her husband&#8217;s reelection campaign to spur Florida&#8217;s &#8220;moms, grandmas, abuelas, nanas&#8221; to get involved in the governor&#8217;s 2022 re-election.
&#8220;People were coming out of the woodwork to support,&#8221; she shared, describing Florida&#8217;s mothers as &#8220;fired up.&#8221;
&#8220;We said, &#8216;how can we corral all of these folks together to try to march on behalf of the governor to have a slam dunk election?’”
At one of these &#8220;Mamas for DeSantis&#8221; events, hosted in August near Miami, mothers and grandmothers dressed in brightly colored outfits sipped mimosas as DeSantis chatted about her experiences as a wife and mother, her new initiative <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2022/07/15/first-lady-casey-desantis-makes-major-announcements-to-support-the-hope-florida-a-pathway-to-prosperity-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hope Florida – A Pathway to Prosperity</a>, and her strong support for her husband.
The ladies present were cheerful and avidly supportive of both Casey DeSantis and her husband. In interviews with The Daily Wire both before and after event, they shared that they are deeply concerned about progressive content being taught to children in schools: Critical Race Theory (CRT), gender ideology, progressive sex education.
They fear rising crime brought on by lax judicial systems and the border crisis.
They want lawmakers who &#8220;protect the innocence of our children&#8221; and who understand that parents, first and foremost, are in charge of their children&#8217;s upbringing.
And these women are confident that mothers can bring about strong change.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what people don&#8217;t know, how strong women can be, and a woman&#8217;s vote is very important,&#8221; one mother said.
&#8220;I think the worst mistake that this president did was to mess with us women, with our children,&#8221; another said of President Joe Biden, &#8220;because we as a women, we say, &#8216;You don&#8217;t mess with our children. These are my children, and we fight for them.’”
Many attribute Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s victory in Virginia to the parent-led rebellion <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/nbc-critical-race-theory-loudoun-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against ideological content in schools</a>, a movement which Youngkin particularly tapped into after Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he did not think “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
The ill-timed remark, made amidst national outrage over the Loudoun County Public Schools <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexual assault</a> cover up, would haunt McAullife for the rest of the election cycle as Youngkin&#8217;s team victoriously <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/11/03/meet-the-parents-behind-youngkins-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roused parents</a> across the state against the Democrat.
Team DeSantis seeks to also mobilize parents who are angry about leftist attempts at subverting education. But rather than building off a shocking incident like the Loudoun County case, the governor&#8217;s team seeks to create organic momentum through events such as the Coral Gables brunch, where Florida&#8217;s first lady urged mothers and grandmothers to get out and vote on the culture war issues that have become so critical.
Everywhere she goes, DeSantis shared with The Daily Wire, mothers ask her, &#8220;How can I get involved? How can I help support the DeSantis agenda? How can I support what he&#8217;s done on education?&#8221;
The Florida governor has repeatedly pushed back against gender ideology or CRT in education through legislation like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-signs-parental-notification-bill-shrugs-off-dont-say-gay-uproar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parental Notification Act</a>, which bans classroom discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation for little children.
&#8220;Florida is the place where woke goes to die,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-on-education-florida-is-the-place-where-woke-goes-to-die" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said August 16</a>. “We are not going to let this state descend into some type of woke dumpster fire. We’re going to be following common sense, we’re going to be following facts.”
The coronavirus pandemic has also significantly changed the way that parents look at political candidates and elections. Parents who formerly identified as Republican or Democrat now have become single issue voters, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/technology/anti-vax-parents-political-party.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times reported</a>: parents skeptical of vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and the grandiose statements of public health officials.
Casey DeSantis doesn&#8217;t blame them.
&#8220;Basically everything they told us was a lie!&#8221; she said, pointing to health officials&#8217; constant flip-flopping on masks, transmissions, and vaccinations.
&#8220;People have a right to be very skeptical,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When you talk about public health officials, they have done an immense disservice to the benefit of society because they have been repeatedly wrong on so many things, but they haven&#8217;t had the fortitude to come out and admit that they were wrong. And so I think parents are very upset by that.&#8221;
&#8220;It really is disgusting when you look at public officials who stand up there and take their mask off,&#8221; she continued, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/aft-president-randi-weingarten-apologizes-for-going-maskless-at-somos-retreat-in-puerto-rico/">specifically naming</a> American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, &#8220;and at the same time they were forcing and advocating for kids to be muzzled and teachers will be muzzled.&#8221;
&#8220;It was just an atrocity for what a lot of folks did to those kids,&#8221; she added, &#8220;and I am so proud of the governor to stand strong with no vax mandates and no mask mandates from the beginning.&#8221;
And the coronavirus virtual learning is what exposed many parents to what they were formerly unaware of — the ideological content their children were being taught.
&#8220;I think it really was COVID that allowed a lot of these moms to peer into the classroom for the first time and see what was being taught without their consent and behind their backs,&#8221; Florida&#8217;s first lady explained.

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Those who have been to a Catholic mass in the extraordinary form usually have a decided love or distaste for the Latin Mass. Incense swirls around the altar, where red and white clad altar boys kneel, heads bowed in reverence, and the priest intones the mass in Latin facing an ornate gold tabernacle.
Latin Mass parishes are usually bursting with large families. Chapel-veil wearing mothers run in and out to keep their little ones quiet. Children quietly fold their hands and follow their siblings up to the altar rail at communion time. And the choir fills the church with beautiful music evocative of many centuries past.
And so it was an event that <a href="https://twitter.com/RorateCaeli/status/1416000622843858953?s=20&amp;t=qYbtBzRyzkEqLrhk-0x4qg">pierced</a> the homes of traditionally devout Catholic families all over the world when the Vatican <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/16/pope-francis-restricts-latin-mass/">restricted</a> the celebration of the Latin Mass in parish churches in “the most stinging rebuke by a Pope against his predecessor in living memory.”
In a 2007 ruling, former Pope Benedict XVI <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/16/pope-francis-restricts-latin-mass/">had encouraged</a> priests to offer the Latin mass if their parishioners requested it, allowing parishioners to go around the priest to the bishop or even the Vatican if their request was denied. Before Benedict&#8217;s ruling, Latin Mass had been banned from parishes normal schedules and had to be requested of the bishop.
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Pope Francis said that his restrictions were intended to unite the church, insisting that the Latin Mass had become a rejection of Vatican II and rallied together those Catholics who favored the church before the council&#8217;s modern reformations. He claimed that allowing the Latin Mass so frequently would “injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division,” and his defenders <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/traditional-latin-mass-advocates-prove-pope-francis-was-right">agreed</a> that the Latin Mass “led to a distorted ecclesiology.”
But traditional Catholics strongly disagreed. Writer George Weigel, who prefers the “Norvus Ordo” or English form of the Mass, wrote that Pope Francis&#8217;s <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html">encyclical on the Latin mass</a> was “theologically incoherent, pastorally divisive, unnecessary, cruel — and a sorry example of the liberal bullying that has become all too familiar in Rome recently.”
“The lack of mercy shown here toward traditional Catholics, Benedict XVI, and the young laity and clergy drawn to the Latin Mass is stunning,” warned EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo. “This will create the division that Francis claims to cure through this ill advised and destructive new law.”
Author Michael Brendan Dougherty <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opinion/pope-francis-latin-mass.html?referringSource=articleShare">accused</a> Pope Francis of “tearing the Catholic Church apart.”
“For Catholics, how we pray shapes what we believe,” wrote Dougherty. “The old ritual physically aims us toward an altar and tabernacle. In that way it points us to the cross and to heaven as the ultimate horizon of man’s existence. By doing so, it shows that God graciously loves us and redeems us despite our sins.”
Bishops quickly informed dioceses which churches could or could not hold Latin Masses. Some are not allowed to advertise their Latin Masses or hold them in the main church. Priests <a href="https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2021/08/74503">have been disciplined</a> for disobeying.
The news spread like wildfire within Catholic circles but was met with relative indifference without. What could the secular world care for a lengthy, incense filled Catholic Mass celebrated in Latin?
And then actor Shia LaBeouf revealed that he had converted to Christianity, becoming a member of the Roman Catholic Church, while he was shooting the movie “Padre Pio.”
Not only that: he shared that the discarded Latin Mass played a major role in his conversion.
<h3>&#8216;Latin Mass Affects Me Deeply&#8217;</h3>
LaBeouf plays Padre Pio in his upcoming film, a humble friar born in southern Italy in 1887, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999 and then canonized in 2002. The saint is known for his concise commentary on the importance of prayer and the Mass in modern secular society.
“Today’s society does not pray,” he famously <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/50-wise-and-wonderful-insights-from-padre-pio">said</a>. “That is why it is falling apart.”
Padre Pio bore the stigmata on his body — the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, who was brutally beaten, whipped, and ultimately nailed to a wooden cross until he died, according to biblical accounts, because he claimed to be the son of God.
No conclusive scientific explanation has been given for the stigmata, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shia-labeouf-converts-catholicism-studying-padre-pio-movie">reports</a>, though it has been subjected to intense scrutiny by members of the medical community.
LaBeouf shared with Bishop Robert Barron that he lived in a monastery of Franciscan Capuchin friars and studied religious works of literature in order to better understand the saint. The actor was fighting thoughts of suicide as he began the project, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/12/shia-labeoufs-legal-team-denies-abuse-claims-by-ex-girlfriend-fka-twigs?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook">dodging scandals</a>, and reportedly at one of the darkest points in his life.
“I had a gun on the table. I was outta here,” LaBeouf told the bishop. “I didn&#8217;t want to be alive anymore when all this happened. Shame like I had never experienced before — the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe.”
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“I know now that God was using my ego to draw me to Him,” the actor said. “Drawing me away from worldly desires. It was all happening simultaneously. But there would have been no impetus for me to get in my car, drive up [to the monastery] if I didn&#8217;t think, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;m gonna save my career.&#8217;”
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LaBeouf said he encountered people who had sinned beyond his wildest imagination but were taking refuge in Christ. That gave him hope, he said, and made him feel like he, too, had permission to pursue piety.
And for his role, as he portrayed the famed priest, LaBeouf acted out the celebration of the Latin Mass.
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“While we were practicing Latin Mass, I was having genuine emotional experiences, and aside from the fact that as a Neapolitan speaker, [Pio&#8217;s] accent wouldn&#8217;t have matched Italian anyway, but it felt like that would have taken me out of this thing that felt very personal,” LaBeouf shared.
“Latin Mass affects me deeply, deeply,” the actor said.
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He echoed the frustrations of many traditional Catholics in describing modern celebrations of the Catholic Mass, which, since Vatican II, has sought to better include the congregation and to make the biblical texts and liturgical prayers more palatable to the public.
“It&#8217;s almost as though the church is trying to&#8230;activate the audience without putting the agency on the priest,” the actor said, adding, “Old Latin Mass put all the agency on the priest to be fully activated and that at that activation of the priest was supposed to activate the audience, the laity.”
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LaBeouf explained that silence and reverence of the Latin mass strongly resonated with him, drawing him closer to the mass rather than pushing him away.
“It feels like they&#8217;re not selling me a car,” he said of the extraordinary form, describing how brightly lit modern Catholic Masses with “guitars and stuff” often feel like they are “trying to sell me on an idea.”
“I always had a belief,” LaBeouf shared, “but never had a connection. Latin Mass gave me something where I felt connected,  which took me out of belief into connection.”
“As a person who&#8217;s involved in the arts, to deny some of the senses, it heightens some of the others, so when you put me in this rationalistic, logical, word, word, word, plot, plot, plot, it takes me out of the feeling realm,” he continued. “Whereas, Latin Mass puts me squarely in the feeling realm because I can&#8217;t argue the word because I don&#8217;t know what the word means, so I&#8217;m just left with this feeling that feels sacred and connected.”
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The actor said that he is “quite close” with Catholic actor and director Mel Gibson, who also appreciates the Latin Mass. When LaBeouf didn&#8217;t know how to find Latin Masses, he said that Gibson helped him.
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“He&#8217;s really into that traditionalist thing,” LaBeouf said. And at these Latin Masses he was attending, people began figuring out that LaBeouf was playing Padre Pio.
“They start coming up to you and and tugging at your shirt sleeve and saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t get it wrong. He&#8217;s the only one we have,” the actor explained. “You ship out with so much pressure that then you&#8217;re in front of the Mass, you&#8217;ve just gone through six, seven months of the shirt tugging, the introduction to the order, the introduction of who Pio was, and you&#8217;re standing in front of the Mass that he used to serve mass at, and you&#8217;re trembling with fear, and there&#8217;s no way you can actually find the agency that he had.”
<h3>The Response</h3>
LaBeouf&#8217;s interview with Barron has garnered over a million views on YouTube. Many of those who praised the interview drew on their own emotional experiences attending the traditional Latin Mass.
“I&#8217;m protestant and enjoyed this interview very much,” one commenter wrote. “Very touching and thought provoking. Now I&#8217;m interested in experiencing a Latin Mass.”
“I grew up in the post-Vatican II church and I never felt anything for it. During COVID lockdowns, I started praying and somehow discovered the TLM and for the first time in my life, I loved attending Mass,” wrote another.
“I found a traditional Latin Mass parish and joined, and I even went to confession after 45 years of being away. I love the Traditional Latin Mass, and I actually thank God for COVID, because it brought me back to the faith. If you never been to a TLM, find one and you will fall in love with Catholicism,” one said.
Responding to the strong reaction to LaBeouf&#8217;s remarks, the Vatican&#8217;s liturgy office said that he would welcome a conversation with LaBeouf.
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“I&#8217;d like to know why he thinks that, what is his experience of the celebration of the Mass,” English Cardinal Arthur Roche, one of the clergy spearheading the restriction of the Latin Mass, <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/vaticans-liturgy-head-latin-mass-convert-shia-labeouf-lets-talk">said</a>. “That&#8217;s what priests do; we try to talk to people.”
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But Roche also said that he hopes LaBeouf will find a similar experience in the Norvus Ordo form of the Mass, saying that the Mass “isn&#8217;t just something, a trait that belongs to the missal of 1962. It belongs to the reform.”
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“Reform of the liturgy was an enormous, long preparation prior to the council and the council is the highest legislation that exists in the church,” he continued. “Once that legislation comes into effect, it&#8217;s a very serious matter. You disregard that and you&#8217;re really putting yourself sideways towards the edges of the church.”
Roche described those who are reluctant to embrace the Vatican II reforms as “stubbornly opposing what the church has decreed,” saying, “that&#8217;s a very serious matter.”
He said, “In the end, people have to ask themselves, &#8216;Am I really a Catholic or am I more of a Protestant?&#8217;”
Catholics like Dougherty, a senior writer at National Review, believe that Vatican&#8217;s restrictions on the Latin Mass were done purposefully in order to “stamp out the old Latin Mass.”
“Pope Francis is using the papacy in precisely the way that progressives once claimed to deplore,” wrote Dougherty. “He centralizes power in Rome, usurps the local bishop’s prerogatives and institutes a micromanaging style that is motivated by paranoia of disloyalty and heresy. Perhaps it’s to protect his deepest beliefs.”
“I don’t know if bishops will adopt Francis’ zeal to crush the Latin Mass,” Dougherty muses. “I don’t know how painful they are willing to make our religious life. If they do, they will create — or reveal — more division in the church. The old slogan of the traditional Latin Mass movement comes to mind: We resist you to the face.”
One day, Dougherty emphasized, historians will look back on the move as the “worst spasm of iconoclasm in the church’s history — dwarfing the Byzantine iconoclasm of the ninth century and the Protestant Reformation.”
“Pope Benedict had temporarily allowed us to begin repairing the damage,&#8221; he writes. “What Pope Francis proposes with his crackdown is a new cover-up.”
LaBeouf did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story. “Padre Pio”, directed by Abel Ferrara, will premiere on September 2.
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Democratic candidates are refusing to define where they draw the line on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> as Republicans face scrutiny for softening their abortion rhetoric in a post-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roe v. Wade</a> landscape.
Refusals to define where Democrats stand on abortions allow Republicans to insist that their opponents support abortions without limits — a stance that many of these candidates have actually voted for through their support for the Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act.
“Democrats’ agenda of imposing abortion on demand until birth nationwide — including late-term abortions when unborn children feel excruciating pain, all paid for by taxpayers — is radical and out of step with 90% of the voters in this country,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told The Daily Wire.
“For Republicans, running from this issue and leaving the field to their opponents and the media, who will fill in the blanks, is a sure-fire losing strategy,” she added. “It’s time to go on offense and expose the Democrats’ extremism. Challenge them to name a single limit on abortion at any point in pregnancy that they would support.”
In Texas, gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke refused to say whether he supported a single restriction on abortion — including gruesome partial birth abortion procedures. “I trust women and their doctors to make their decisions about their body, about their healthcare, and about their future,” he insisted.
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AWFUL: <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetoORourke</a> supports no limits on abortion, won’t even speak against partial birth abortion. Let’s be clear what that means. He supports abortion until the time of birth, paid for by tax dollars. <a href="https://t.co/WfKBzWpmrD">https://t.co/WfKBzWpmrD</a>
&mdash; Jeanne F. Mancini (@jeannemfl) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeannemfl/status/1563224191062552576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tim Ryan similarly shrugged off the question in Ohio, saying he believed it should be up to the mother.
“Of course we don&#8217;t support abortion at the end of term, unless of course, there is extraordinary circumstance,” he said, before describing the late term abortion of a baby whose parents have already prepared a nursery.
“Tim Ryan is desperately trying to hide his radical position on taxpayer-funded late-term abortion because he knows his beliefs are too extreme for Ohio,” Republican Senate candidate JD Vance&#8217;s campaign told The Daily Wire on Wednesday.
“The idea that federal funding should go to kill a baby that&#8217;s 40 weeks old is acceptable in just two places: China and North Korea,” the Ohio candidate&#8217;s campaign added. “That&#8217;s the policy Tim Ryan supports, it&#8217;s the policy he has voted for. We&#8217;re going to make sure that Ohioans are aware of those positions, and they&#8217;re going to soundly reject that insanity come November.”
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Watch as Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan squirms when pressed over his support for abortion right up to moment of birth. <a href="https://t.co/3woHwOjflX">pic.twitter.com/3woHwOjflX</a>
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In Pennsylvania, John Fetterman admitted he did not believe there should be any limits on abortion. “I don&#8217;t believe so, no,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-democrat-there-shouldnt-be-any-limits-on-abortion">said</a> — comments which Dr. Mehmet Oz&#8217;s campaign manager Brittany Yanick told The Daily Wire are “extremely radical.” Fetterman did not respond to requests for comment.
Strong support for unlimited abortion has increasingly become a litmus test for Democratic politicians (during the most recent presidential election cycle, then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/08/sanders-pro-choice-essential-democrat/">insisted</a> that “being pro-choice is an essential part” of being a Democrat).
Pressure for Democratic candidates to fully support abortion was so strong during the election cycle that President Joe Biden <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/03/biden-abortion-life-conception/">abandoned his former support</a> for the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funding for abortions, after strong backlash from pro-abortion groups, left-wing activists, and his fellow candidates — including his now vice president.
This leaves Democratic candidates in a quandary: they face an increasingly ideological party demanding adherence to its abortion stances and an American public <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-opinion-poll-analysis/">largely opposed</a> to such <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/">radical measures</a>.
And rather than admit that they agree with the party line, many candidates (including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/02/biden-harris-abortion-election/">have opted</a> to avoid addressing specifics on abortion restrictions, as March for Life President Jeanne Mancini pointed out to The Daily Wire on Wednesday.
&#8220;Radical pro-abortion Democrats refuse to admit where they draw the line on abortion because they support an agenda of abortion on demand, up until birth, and paid for by taxpayers, which is wildly out of touch with <a title="https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/polls/americans-support-legal-limits-on-abortion.html" href="https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/polls/americans-support-legal-limits-on-abortion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/polls/americans-support-legal-limits-on-abortion.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1662056076763000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1_S9AZl2-c-zhRvYXgPcvK">71% of Americans</a>,&#8221; Mancini said.
&#8220;Women and children deserve better than the tragedy of abortion,&#8221; she added, &#8220;and elected representatives should take seriously their duty to represent and protect all their constituents, including the most vulnerable.&#8221;
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&quot;Are there any limits on abortion you would find appropriate?&quot; 
John Fetterman: “I don’t believe so, no.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WaYJke2I2J">pic.twitter.com/WaYJke2I2J</a>
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Meanwhile, GOP candidates are facing criticism for softening their hardline primary abortion rhetoric heading into the midterms. Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters removed the language “I am 100% pro-life” from his website, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/republicans-midterms?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top">Axios reported</a>, while candidates in Michigan, North Carolina, and Colorado all edited abortion language on their websites as well.
One of the top pro-life groups, the Susan B. Anthony List, <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/natl-pro-life-group-blake-masters-has-rightfully-centered-his-position-on-what-is-achievable-at-the-federal-level">was quick</a> to stand by Masters, saying that he &#8220;rightfully centered his position on what is achievable now at the federal level: a limit on abortions at a point by which the unborn child can feel excruciating pain.&#8221;
Masters&#8217; campaign told The Daily Wire that his website was updated to “draw a sharp contrast with Mark Kelly’s radical left-wing views on a number of issues.” That includes “Kelly’s support for extreme no-limits abortion policies,” Communications Director Zachery Henry said.
“Blake is 100% pro-life,” Henry emphasized on Wednesday. “That hasn’t changed.”
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Mark Kelly is lying about my views on abortion — the Democrats have to do that because their own position (no limits of any kind, ever) is so extreme. Here’s the truth. <a href="https://t.co/O2kqR9UcAB">pic.twitter.com/O2kqR9UcAB</a>
&mdash; Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1562813594588176388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Vance&#8217;s campaign website still promises that he is “100 percent pro-life” and believes that “abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience to be thrown away rather than a blessing to be nurtured.”
“Eliminating abortion is first and foremost about protecting the unborn, but it’s also about making our society more pro-child and pro-family,” the candidate&#8217;s website says, praising the historic Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization as one that “puts this new era of society into motion, one that prioritizes family and the sanctity of all life.”
Ryan, who has refused to say where he draws the line on abortion while accusing Vance of being a radical, also claims he is uninterested in “culture wars.” But video footage obtained by The Daily Wire suggests that Ryan is a staunch progressive who has been avoiding discussing the “culture wars” on the campaign trail because these issues “don’t serve us very well in Ohio.”
During a March private Zoom meeting, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-can-count-on-me-video-shows-tim-ryan-admitting-hes-avoiding-his-progressive-stances-on-culture-wars">admitted</a> that he will continue to vote with his progressive Democratic peers on abortion, LGBTQ and trans issues, and that he is winning former Republican voters by “keeping the message very much around economics” and “staying away from the culture wars, which don’t serve us very well in Ohio.”
“Will you be the advocate that we need on abortion rights, the advocate that we need on trans people’s human dignity and their human rights and on gay rights?” a viewer asked him.
Ryan responded by assuring the woman that he gave a floor speech mere days before on the <a href="https://timryan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-tim-ryan-votes-defend-womens-reproductive-health-freedoms">Women’s Health Protection Act</a>, noting that he heavily supported and voted for the legislation (which would codify a right to an abortion nationwide).
“I’ve been very vocal on these other issues that you mentioned,” he continued. “So you can count on me to be in the fight … I’m progressive. I’m going to vote that way. I’m going to support you in every way, shape, or form … You can count on me.”

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Anthony Ornato, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> official at the center of a hotly debated rumor about former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> actions on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6, 2021,</a> has retired.
Secret Service Special Agent Kevin Helgert confirmed to The Daily Wire on Tuesday that Ornato retired from the U.S. Secret Service on Monday “in good standing after 25 years of devoted service.”
“I did retire today to pursue a career in the private sector,” Ornato confirmed to multiple outlets. “I retired from the U.S. Secret Service after more than 25 years of faithful service to my country, including serving the past five presidents. I long-planned to retire and have been planning this transition for more than a year.”
Ornato <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/tony-ornato-leaving-us-secret-service/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would not tell CNN</a> who his new employer was but said he would not be working for Trump or any of Trump&#8217;s agencies.
“I plan to continue cooperating with the DHS OIG&#8217;s investigation,&#8221; Ornato told the publication. “My counsel have been in touch with the OIG, and they discussed but have not yet settled on a mutually convenient date for us to speak.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> aide during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/testimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the January 6 committee earlier this summer that Ornato had told her that an angry Trump &#8220;lunged&#8221; toward the head of his detail when agents refused to drive him to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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She also claimed that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the limousine and that the lead of the security detail, Bobby Engel, told him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.” At that point, Hutchinson claimed she was told that Trump allegedly lunged at the agent and assaulted him.
CNN reported in late June that a Secret Service official said Ornato disputes Hutchinson’s story — and that both Ornato and Engel are willing to deny the story. ABC also <a href="https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1541918674642259968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1541918674642259968%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftestimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Secret Service is prepared to deny the story. The federal agency insists that it will share its “first hand account with the Committee, on the record.”
“It’s not appropriate for us to make these comments in the media before we have a chance to address members of Congress,” Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service chief of communications, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-january-6-committee-didnt-verify-explosive-claim-that-trump-assaulted-an-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire</a> in late June.

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Tim Ryan has painted himself as a moderate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party">Democratic</a> candidate determined to represent the interests of the working families of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a>, insisting that he&#8217;s uninterested in &#8220;culture wars.&#8221;
Video footage obtained by The Daily Wire, however, suggests that Ryan is a staunch progressive who has been avoiding discussing the “culture wars” on the campaign trail because these issues “don’t serve us very well in Ohio.”
During a private Zoom meeting with the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus, he admitted that he will continue to vote with his progressive Democratic peers on abortion, LGBTQ and trans issues. Ryan did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.
“We’re keeping the message very much around economics,&#8221; Ryan said during the virtual March meeting. &#8220;You know, staying away from the culture wars, which don’t serve us very well in Ohio.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TimRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TimRyan</a> was specifically asked whether he will fight for abortion, LGBTQ and trans issues. 
His response: &quot;You can count on me to be in the fight…I’m progressive. I’m going to vote that way. I’m going to support you in every way shape and form…You can count on me.” <a href="https://t.co/j6S93imUWT">pic.twitter.com/j6S93imUWT</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1564691107451133952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“You keep mentioning that you’re not about the culture wars and you know you’re talking about these bread-and-butter issues for people,&#8221; a woman on the call asked him. &#8220;But as a young woman of reproductive age, as someone who identifies as queer and who has a lot of friends in the queer community, I just want to make sure, like, will you be the advocate that we need on abortion rights, the advocate that we need on trans people’s human dignity and their human rights and on gay rights?”
Ryan responded by assuring the woman that he gave a floor speech mere days before on the <a href="https://timryan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-tim-ryan-votes-defend-womens-reproductive-health-freedoms">Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act</a>, noting that he heavily supported and voted for the legislation (which would codify a right to an abortion nationwide).
&#8220;I’ve been very vocal on these other issues that you mentioned,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So you can count on me to be in the fight … I’m progressive. I’m going to vote that way. I’m going to support you in every way, shape, or form … You can count on me.”
The comments do not jive well with the Democratic senatorial candidate&#8217;s campaign messaging. In one of his first TV ads during the general election, Ryan warned the audience as he played darts: “You want culture wars? I’m not your guy. You want a fighter for Ohio? I’m all in.”
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Polls show Republican candidate JD Vance and Ryan are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-leads-ryan-ohio-senate-poll-dewine-whaley-2022-8">neck and neck</a> heading into the midterms.
&#8220;On TV screens all across Ohio, Tim Ryan plays the part of a moderate Democrat in his campaign commercials,&#8221; Vance told The Daily Wire. &#8220;In real life, Tim Ryan promises far-left liberals behind closed doors that he&#8217;ll be a fighter for the radical woke agenda that&#8217;s destroying the fabric of our society. And make no mistake, he has delivered on those promises in the form of his destructive voting record.&#8221;
“He has voted for taxpayer-funded late-term abortion, for transgender students to compete in girls&#8217; sports, and he approved tens of millions in funding for programs to indoctrinate America&#8217;s youth with toxic, racist propaganda,&#8221; the Republican candidate added. &#8220;Tim Ryan claims he takes no part in the culture wars, but his record proves that he is the face of woke, radical far-left extremism in Ohio.&#8221;
Ryan&#8217;s past voting record also indicates that he votes with some of the most radical members of the Democratic Party on culture war legislation.
In addition to his vote for the most pro-abortion legislation the House of Representatives has ever seen, he&#8217;s also voted for the Equality Act, legislation that would require that biological males who identify as transgender women be allowed to compete in girls sports.
Ryan voted for President Joe Biden&#8217;s “American Rescue Plan” in 2021, legislation that funneled <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/15m-american-rescue-plan-funds-went-anti-racism-social-activism-programs-kids?intcmp=tw_fnc">millions</a> into programs teaching children about &#8220;racial equity,&#8221; anti-racist&#8221; education, and &#8220;social activism.&#8221;
In 2002, Ryan also voted as an Ohio state senator against a bill that would expand the state&#8217;s sex offender registry to include sex offenders who were not yet 18. News reports from the time show that he said the bill lacked counseling provisions and would inhibit the rehabilitation of juveniles.
As recently as last week, Ryan would not say whether he supported a single restriction on abortion, insisting that an abortion should be a decision between a woman and her doctor.
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Q: &quot;What restrictions, if any, do you believe there should be on abortion?&quot;
OHIO DEMOCRAT TIM RYAN: &#8230;&#8230;
Q: &quot;So should there be some restrictions?&quot;
RYAN: &#8230;&#8230;
Q: &quot;It sounds like you&#39;re saying no restriction.&quot;
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&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1563890525362593795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘You Can Count On Me’: Video Shows Tim Ryan Admitting He’s Avoiding His ‘Progressive’ Stances On ‘Culture Wars’

Video Shows Tim Ryan Admitting He's Avoiding His 'Progressive' Stances On 'Culture Wars'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> senators are demanding that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> turn over its communications with the FBI regarding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s</a> laptop.
“The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden,” Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-johnson-seek-answers-from-fbi-justice-dept-facebook-about-suppression-of-hunter-biden-reports-after-fbi-warning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire. Mark Zuckerberg’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evidence-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-mounts-after-zuckerbergs-hunter-biden-laptop-revelation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admission</a> to podcast host Joe Rogan that Facebook decreased distribution of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election at the bidding of the FBI has sparked a massive backlash.
“The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” the FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-responds-to-zuckerbergs-bombshell-rogan-revelation-bureau-helped-bury-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement Friday night, adding that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”
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The lawmakers specifically requested all records between and among Facebook, the FBI, the DOJ, and government agency employees that referred to Hunter Biden, including but not limited to Russian disinformation, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the senators&#8217; investigation into Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings.
They also asked for the names of the DOJ, FBI, and Facebook officials who communicated “regarding Russian disinformation during the 2020 election” as well as those officials who made contact “during the 2020 election,” and “the dates of when Facebook decreased the distribution of articles relating to Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
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“Your revelation that Facebook took steps to censor information about Hunter Biden on its platform based on the FBI’s guidance raises even more questions about the FBI’s actions regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop,” the letter said.
“As you may know,” the senators continued, “whistleblowers have recently alleged to Senator Grassley that in August 2020, FBI officials initiated a scheme to downplay derogatory information on Hunter Biden for the purpose of shutting down investigative activity relating to his potential criminal exposure by labeling it ‘disinformation.’ Whistleblowers have also alleged to Senator Johnson that local FBI leadership instructed its employees not to look at the Hunter Biden laptop immediately after the FBI had obtained it.”
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.
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GOP Senators Demand Facebook Turn Over FBI Comms On Hunter Biden Laptop

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Here’s A Look At Some Of The Activists Who Protest Outside The Supreme Court Justices’ Homes

These Are Some Of The Activists Protesting Outside The Supreme Court Justices' Homes

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> serving on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 committee</a> investigating the Capitol riot don&#8217;t have much to say about reports that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> to censor the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> laptop story.
Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s admission to Joe Rogan that Facebook hid the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election at the bidding of the FBI has outraged most major Republicans. But Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) — who just lost her re-election bid — and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), both of whom have repeatedly cited their devotion to the Constitution in explaining their roles on the Jan. 6 committee, have yet to weigh in.
Neither representative responded to requests for comment from The Daily Wire asking them to weigh in on the news, which broke Thursday evening. They do not appear to have otherwise publicly discussed the revelation.
“We just kind of thought, hey, look, if the FBI, which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it’s like very professional law enforcement, they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously,” Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evidence-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-mounts-after-zuckerbergs-hunter-biden-laptop-revelation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Rogan</a>.
In the hours after news broke about Zuckerberg&#8217;s admission, Kinzinger tweeted about reports that former President Donald Trump&#8217;s social media platform is late paying its bills to RightForge, its web hosting company. He also <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1562940560473608192" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> pro-Trump Christian pastors.
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Cheney <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/21/no-evidence-of-political-motivation-behind-fbi-raid-of-mar-a-lago-cheney-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> in last week on the FBI&#8217;s raid of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago home, saying, “I’ve seen no evidence that there was any political motivation.”
“I was ashamed to hear Republicans immediately and reflexively attack the FBI agents who executed the search warrant. I was disgusted when I learned that President Trump had released the names of the agents when he released the unredacted search warrant, and that has now caused violence,” Cheney added. “This is a really dangerous moment.”
And Kinzinger <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-allies-inciting-base-against-fbi-kinzinger-1733862" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Trump of inciting his supporters against the FBI, saying in a CNN interview, “It&#8217;s ridiculous obviously for what the former president has done, in terms of saying, ‘This is an attack on my home, I did nothing wrong,’ and of course, from the little bit we know, it seems like there&#8217;s certainly good reasons for the FBI to have done what they did.”
“Yes, absolutely, 100 percent,” he responded when asked if he held Trump responsible for inciting his supporters to violence.
Kinzinger added: “Members of Congress, Senators, any Republican elected official out there that rushes to be the first on television or the first to Twitter to basically condemn the FBI — I&#8217;ll tell you as a guy who grew up in the right, and grew up as a Republican, there&#8217;s always been this strain of people who believe that the government is out there to get them, that the FBI represents that part of the government that&#8217;s out there to get people: This stokes that, it&#8217;s really dangerous, and I fear it could get worse unless people are way more responsible.”

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Cheney, Kinzinger Silent On News That Facebook Censored Hunter Biden Laptop At FBI’s Request

Jan. 6 Committee Republicans Silent Following News Facebook Censored Hunter Biden Laptop At FBI's Request

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) has now repeatedly been the target of “swatting” police calls claiming that someone was shot at her house.
The Rome, Georgia, Police Department said that they responded to false reports of shootings at the Georgia Republican&#8217;s home early Thursday morning, as well as early Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-police-response/index.html">according to CNN</a>. The local authorities are working in conjunction with the Capitol Police Department on the investigation, according to the publication.
“For safety reasons, the USCP does not discuss potential security measures for Members or any potential investigations,&#8221; the United States Capitol Police told The Daily Wire.
Thursday&#8217;s call was &#8220;received on what appeared to be a suicide crisis line from an internet chat,&#8221; the police statement said, noting that this second report was also confirmed to be false. The Rome Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
“With those phone calls, they were setting up a very serious, very dangerous scenario,” Greene <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/police-investigating-fake-shooting-report-that-prompted-armed-response-to-rep-greenes-home_4686383.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=digitalsub">said</a> in a media appearance earlier this week. “Not only did they put my life and my family’s life in danger, they also put the police officers’ lives in danger. And so whoever this person is, they deserve to be locked up.”
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Swatted again last night.
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1562789870271025155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The false reports constitute swatting, which is when a person prank calls authorities about a horrifying crime to lure a dramatic police or SWAT response to a location.
The Wednesday morning swatting caller lured police to the congresswoman&#8217;s home a little after 1 a.m., claiming that a subject had been shot multiple times, according to Rome Police assistant chief Debbie Burnett, who told CNN that police arrived at the address and &#8220;discovered this was the home of Marjorie Taylor Greene,&#8221; who &#8220;assured the officers there was no issue.&#8221;
Shortly afterwards, the Rome/Floyd County 911 dispatch &#8220;received a second call from the suspect who was using a computer generated voice stating that he/she was upset about Mrs. Greene&#8217;s political view on transgender youth rights,&#8221; the police told CNN.
This call likely referred to Greene’s Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act, which prohibits &#8220;gender affirming care on minors,&#8221; defining &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; as &#8220;performing any surgery for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex.&#8221;
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The Protect Children’s Innocence Act has been introduced.
Thanks to all of the original cosponsors.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMaryMiller</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffDuncan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJeffDuncan</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepBobGood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBobGood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRalphNorman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRalphNorman</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMattGaetz</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepTonyGonzales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepTonyGonzales</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepClayHiggins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepClayHiggins</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepBurgessOwens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBurgessOwens</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepTenney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepTenney</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Rep_Clyde?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Rep_Clyde</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepHarshbarger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepHarshbarger</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Lancegooden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Lancegooden</a> <a href="https://t.co/8P69HlQMbP">pic.twitter.com/8P69HlQMbP</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1560653989519441920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It also includes &#8220;any plastic surgery that feminizes or masculinizes the facial features&#8221; to correspond to a sex that is not their biological sex, &#8220;any placement of chest implants to create feminine breasts&#8221; for biological males, and &#8220;any placement of fat or artificial implants in the gluteal region&#8221; in attempts to change someone&#8217;s sex.
The legislation also bans the use of puberty blocking drugs, testosterone, and estrogen &#8220;for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex.&#8221;
Greene did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Targeted With Fake Shooting ‘Swatting’ Calls, Police Say

Authorities Investigating After Marjorie Taylor Greene Targeted With 'Swatting' Calls

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uber">Uber</a> is being accused of using abortion activism to cover up the company&#8217;s alleged mistreatment of women.
A new ad campaign launched Thursday by the conservative organization Consumer&#8217;s Research hones in on <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/uber-sued-by-more-than-500-women-over-sexual-assault-claims.html">allegations that female Uber passengers</a> in multiple states have been &#8220;kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked” by their Uber drivers.
Consumer&#8217;s Research accuses Uber of attempting to mask these allegations through its abortion activism — such as Uber&#8217;s promise to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/supreme-court-decision-roe-v-wade-6-24-2022/card/uber-lyft-others-to-support-employees-traveling-out-of-state-for-abortion-vtYQJSQ5KFZppFnOXQGF">cover travel expenses for employee out of state abortions</a> or <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/03/lyft-will-cover-legal-fees-for-drivers-sued-under-texas-abortion-law.html">the legal fees</a> of drivers sued under Texas&#8217;s abortion law (these drivers would only be held liable under the law if there was proof that the driver knew that his passenger was on her way to abort her unborn baby that had a heartbeat).
“Uber’s woke leadership is attempting to hide behind the fig leaf of funding abortion travel for employees rather than fixing serious problems such as sexual assaults on customers and subjecting pregnant workers to discrimination and unsafe working conditions,&#8221; said the organization&#8217;s executive director, Will Hild.
&#8220;The truth is that Uber’s behavior toward women has been nothing short of horrifying, and assuming that paying for abortion expenses is somehow going to make it all better is manipulative and extremely misguided,&#8221; he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a> pretends to care about women by helping pay for abortions, but we know the truth&#8230;
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That ad, which will air nationally, specifically in San Francisco where Uber is headquartered, and in prominent business hubs like New York City and Washington D.C, is part of the multi-million dollar <a href="https://consumersresearch.org/consumersfirst/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://consumersresearch.org/consumersfirst/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2u24df22Ky9XsuJ5N9exJG">Consumers First Initiative</a> honing in on woke capitalism at play in corporations like <a href="https://aboutblackrock.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://aboutblackrock.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1imQI0bz9unR0GUB-jbWZb">BlackRock,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWLSAdf48o" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DtDWLSAdf48o&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Sg3Ks-hmOi515Eg_kfDG-">Nike</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZe4uZR4l8" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DpEZe4uZR4l8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0711JOG9B_16nqDYs1MVId">Coca-Cola</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg89CSkoSuI" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DFg89CSkoSuI&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2R7KpOt3sWz0hrJ1nIUi5H">American Airlines</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4zTbGzWAJ0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3De4zTbGzWAJ0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ziX5qnumZM070phi6nWm3">TicketMaster</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rkg9HD9AMw" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D8Rkg9HD9AMw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1661531070737000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2sf7fMnb5olSW53Rkck_aH">Major League Baseball</a>.
&#8220;Uber pretends they care about women&#8221; by &#8220;helping pay for abortions,&#8221; the ad said. &#8220;But we know the truth. Protect your customers. Stop serving woke politicians.&#8221;
Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire. The company currently faces a lawsuit from hundreds of women claiming to have been assaulted by Uber drivers.
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The truth: <a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a>’s behavior toward women has been nothing short of horrifying.
And assuming that paying for abortion expenses is somehow going to make it all better is manipulative and extremely misguided.<a href="https://t.co/wiXffchbq3">pic.twitter.com/wiXffchbq3</a>
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“As early as 2014, Uber became aware that its drivers were sexually assaulting and raping female passengers; nevertheless, in the eight years since, sexual predators driving for Uber have continued to attack passengers, including the plaintiffs whose claims were alleged in today’s action,” the Slater Slater Schulman law firm said of the lawsuit in a July press release.
Following news of the lawsuit, Uber said that the company could not comment on pending litigation but promised to &#8220;keep safety at the heart of our work.&#8221;
“While the firm claims to be representing at least 550 women with cases — the law firm has only filed 12 to date,” Uber said at the time. “They have not been able to provide any critical incident details for us to identify a connection to the Uber platform.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnlyOnUber?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnlyOnUber</a> do women have to fear for their safety&#8230; 
Because <a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uber</a> would rather virtue signal about abortion than actually address the hundreds of reported sexual assaults that happen on their platform.<a href="https://t.co/wiXffchbq3">pic.twitter.com/wiXffchbq3</a>
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The law firm told CNBC that it had filed 24 claims as of late July, reiterating that it was representing 550 clients who are accusing Uber of sexual assault, and noting that at least 150 more assault claims are being investigated.
“The cases have been and will continue to be filed in multi-party complaints, which means they are not filed all at once as they would in a class action,&#8221; the firm said.
In its <a href="https://www.uber.com/newsroom/2022-us-safety-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second safety report</a>, released about two weeks before the lawsuit, Uber said that it had received 3,824 reports of sexual assault in 2019 and 2020. These sexual assault reports reportedly ranging from “non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part” to “non-consensual sexual penetration,” or rape, Uber said.

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Uber Accused Of Using Abortion Activism To Mask ‘Horrifying’ Behavior Toward Women

Ad Campaign Accuses Uber Of Using Abortion Activism To Hide Behavior Towards Women

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Conservative groups are condemning Walmart&#8217;s funding of “woke policies,” warning that “no self-proclaimed conservative official or conservative organization should accept funding from Walmart while it supports the policies of the woke left.” 
In the letter, sent Wednesday to Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart, leaders of some of the top conservative groups in the nation slammed news that the nation&#8217;s largest retailer has begun paying for employee abortions.
That list of leaders includes CPAC Executive Board Member William L. Walton, Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Woman for America (CWA), former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, the chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute, the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s President Kevin Roberts, and Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. 
“Surely as board members with a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders, you must understand the Walmart’s increasingly woke policies are alienating millions of your customers who will take their business elsewhere,” the letter, first obtained by The Daily Wire, warns. “Your founder Sam Walton would be appalled.”
“CPAC and other conservative leaders are changing tactics,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of CPAC. Once allies, these companies that fund Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood are as big an adversary as the woke socialist groups they support.”
“Large publicly held companies need to realize conservative groups and officeholders will no longer do their bidding,” he added. “We are shelving our polite silence and in full-on battle mode. After November, it will get much worse for these woke corporations.”
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The letter follows an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-will-pay-for-some-employee-abortions-out-of-state-travel-expenses-leaked-email-shows">August 19 memo</a>  stating that “effective immediately, the Walmart self-insured healthcare plans will cover abortion when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability.”
The memo appeared to be in response to the June overturn of Roe v. Wade, which sent the power to decide abortion back to the states. Walmart did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment as to why it is instated this policy.
“As the nation’s largest private employer and grocer, Walmart touches the lives of hundreds of millions of people throughout the freedom-loving world,” the letter said. “Yet, millions of American consumers do not realize that by patronizing Walmart, they are funding woke policies they morally oppose.” 
“A perfect example is abortion,” the letter continued. “In a recent revision to its leave policy, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-employees-rcna44063">Walmart will now provide virtually unrestricted abortion benefits</a>.”
The conservative leaders reminded Walmart that “in prior years, the company policy was to offer benefits related to abortion only in cases &#8216;when the health of the mother would be in danger if the fetus were carried to term, the fetus could not survive the birthing process, or death would be imminent after birth.&#8217;”
“This lawyer-engineered language specifying health in this context means abortion on demand and they know it,” the letter warned. “&#8217;Health risks&#8217; unrelated to the baby being carried to term covers mental stress, missing work, or any other reason whatsoever. Walmart is effectively providing funding to their 1.6 million employees and their dependents to cover abortion on demand, including expenditures for the abortion procedure and travel costs and when not available within 100 miles.”
The letter says that “Walmart-supported abortions” will increase in the next few years, meaning that “more babies laid at the altar of  &#8216;choice&#8217; because of” Walmart&#8217;s financial contributions.
“It also does not escape our attention that supporting such a heinous policy conveniently keeps women at their Walmart jobs rather than at home caring for themselves and their babies,” the letter adds. “Not only is your pro-abortion policy reprehensible, but your touting of a small increase in adoption benefits as a way to atone for what you know to be an immoral, anti-woman policy is offensive, especially for women. Why was the increase not offered before? Why now? Americans know why.” 
The conservative groups also pointed to Walmart&#8217;s pricey <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2022/07/22/walmart-org-center-for-racial-equity-update-focusing-on-food-to-advance-health-equity">racial equity</a> campaign and its “effort to punish Republicans for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election.”
“In the past, Walmart has relied on conservative organizations and office holders to further policies that benefited Walmart, its shareholders, and its customers,” the letter continued. “And when anti-capitalist politicians and activists attacked the company for its success and profitability, we stepped up to defend Walmart.” 
“We stood by the company because it was generally pro-family and because we embrace free enterprise and believe in the benefits of capitalism,” the conservative leaders said. “We can no longer tolerate your leftist policy agenda – particularly when it facilitates the harming of innocent human life.” 
Conservatives will neither condone nor forgive Walmart&#8217;s choice, the letter said.
“Conservatives who seek a government that reflects their values should take their business elsewhere,” it added. “And no self-proclaimed conservative official or conservative organization should accept funding from Walmart while it supports the policies of the woke left.”

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