The Department of Justice (DOJ) settled a lawsuit with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday, awarding the ex-FBI official his retirement and its benefits despite his 2018 termination.
The DOJ and McCabe reached a settlement in his wrongful termination lawsuit, effectively reversing former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to fire McCabe in March 2018.
“Politics should never play a role in the fair administration of justice and civil service personnel decisions,” McCabe said in a statement. “I am deeply grateful for Arnold &amp; Porter’s dedication to my case, and I hope that this result encourages the men and women of the FBI to continue to protect the American people by standing up for the truth and doing their jobs without fear of political retaliation.”
Sessions terminated the FBI deputy director two days before McCabe was expected to retire from the bureau. McCabe was terminated on March 16, two days before his 50th birthday and his accrual of a full pension. He kept the pension benefits he had accrued up to that point.
McCabe received over $700,000 in the settlement, most of which went toward paying McCabe’s attorney fees for his lawsuit, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe-wins-full-pension-in-wrongful-termination-lawsuit-settlement">The Washington Examiner</a>. The former FBI official was awarded a lump sum equal to the amount he would have earned had he made his full pension, however, roughly $2,000. McCabe also received a slew of other benefits from the settlement.
According to the legal team at <a href="https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2021/10/ap-obtains-litigation-settlement-restoring">Arnold &amp; Porter</a>, the DOJ agreed to:
<blockquote>rescind and vacate the removal of Mr. McCabe from the FBI and civil service;
record Mr. McCabe as having been employed continuously by the FBI from 1996 until his retirement on March 19, 2018 as the FBI Deputy Director and a member of the Senior Executive Service;
deem Mr. McCabe as having retired “in good standing” for the purposes of the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act; and
place Mr. McCabe into the federal retirement system as of March 19, 2018, restore his full retirement pension from that date forward, and provide various other retirement benefits.</blockquote>
At the time, Sessions <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/attorney-general-fires-ex-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-who-was-set-to-retire-sunday-1521252816">said</a> he fired McCabe after the DOJ inspector general and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that McCabe made unauthorized disclosures while speaking under oath on “multiple occasions.” McCabe has consistently denied the findings and claimed that his termination was political retaliation.
“This Settlement Agreement is not and shall not be construed as an admission by any Defendant of the truth of any allegation or the validity of any claim asserted in this lawsuit, or of any Defendant&#8217;s liability therein,” the 11-page settlement said.
The inspector general <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/o20180413.pdf">report</a> found that McCabe “lacked candor” on multiple occasions, including when meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and during an interview under oath with FBI agents. McCabe’s conduct violated multiple FBI codes, according to the report.
McCabe was also the source of the leak that publicly revealed an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The inspector general concluded that McCabe leaked the information under conditions not beneficial to the “public interest,” but “in a manner designed to advance his personal interests.” The report stated:
<blockquote>Lastly, we determined that as Deputy Director, McCabe was authorized to disclose the existence of the CF Investigation publicly if such a disclosure fell within the “public interest” exception in applicable FBI and DOJ policies generally prohibiting such a disclosure of an ongoing investigation. However, we concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF Investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior Department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception. We therefore concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in this manner violated the FBI’s and the Department’s media policy and constituted misconduct.</blockquote>
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Andrew McCabe

DOJ Agrees To Pay Andrew McCabe, Ex-FBI Official Fired Under Trump, $700K In Wrongful Termination Settlement

Department of Justice

A New York City judge has barred a father from visiting his 3-year-old daughter unless he is vaccinated against COVID-19 or submits to weekly tests.
Justice Matthew Cooper ruled in the divorce hearing allowing the father to visit his daughter in person while unvaccinated is “not in the child’s best interests,” according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/nyc-judge-suspends-dads-visits-with-kid-over-vaccination-status/">New York Post</a>. The father, who was unnamed in the court’s opinion, has already recovered from the COVID-19 virus.
“Here, in-person parental access by defendant is not in the child’s best interests, and there are exceptional circumstances that support its suspension,” Cooper wrote on October 7. “The dangers of voluntarily remaining unvaccinated during access with a child while the COVID-19 virus remains a threat to children’s health and safety cannot be understated.”
The father’s attorney, Lloyd Rosen, pushed back against the judge’s decision. Rosen defended his client’s skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccine while attacking Cooper’s reasoning as unscientific. The attorney pointed out that his client already has natural immunity to COVID-19 from his bout with the illness.
“My client is not a conspiracy theorist,” Rosen said. “He has concerns about the vaccine. He’s heard about side effects. He once had a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.”
Rosen also argued that the judge’s ruling was “absurd” and set an unrealistic precedent.
“This judge must feel that 80 million Americans who aren’t vaccinated are placing their children at imminent risk of harm and, therefore, the courts should intervene and remove those children from their parents,” Rosen said. “This is an absurd position to take.”
New York is home to some of the strictest COVID-19 protocols and regulations in the U.S. In August, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-announces-city-will-require-proof-of-covid-19-vaccination-to-enter-indoor-restaurants-work-out-inside-gyms">announced</a> that so-called “vaccine passports” would be needed in order to eat in restaurants or go to gyms. New York City was the first city in the country to adopt such measures. De Blasio said at a press conference:
<blockquote>Today I announce a new approach which we’re calling the “Key to NYC Pass.” The key to New York City. When you hear those words, I want you to imagine the notion that because someone is vaccinated, they can do all of the amazing things that are available in this city. This is a miraculous place, literally full of wonders, and if you’re vaccinated, all of that is going to open up to you. You’ll have the key. You can open the door…
The goal here is to convince everyone that this is the time. If we are going to stop the Delta variant, the time is now, and that means getting vaccinated right now.</blockquote>
“Not everyone is going to agree with this; I understand that,” de Blasio continued. “It’s going to guarantee a much higher level of vaccination in this city, and that is the key to protecting people and the key to our recovery. That’s why it’s the ‘Key to NYC.’”
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Vaccine

NYC Judge Blocks Unvaccinated Father From Seeing Daughter: ‘Not In The Child’s Best Interests’

COVID-19 Vaccine

New York City

British MP David Amess died Friday after an attacker fatally stabbed the 69-year-old lawmaker while he was meeting constituents outside London.
Amess was stabbed multiple times, according to his office, while he was meeting constituents inside a Methodist church in his district in Essex. Police recovered a knife from the scene and took one person, a 25-year-old man, into custody, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/british-lawmaker-david-amess-stabbed-and-killed-outside-london-11634307474">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Police confirmed that Amess had died from his injuries. Law enforcement also said that they are not looking for any other suspects in the killing. Essex police said in a <a href="https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/appeals/2021/october/leigh-on-sea-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder/?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=pmd_MvKkJNMWqczMkgDthffOxn.DE0CRHtFuSmSSxfbbSrY-1634309305-0-gqNtZGzNA3ujcnBszQiR">statement</a>:
<blockquote>A man has been arrested on suspicion murder after a man was stabbed in Leigh-on-Sea.
We were called to an address in Eastwood Road North shortly after 12.05pm today (Friday 15 October).
We attended and found a man injured.
He was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene.
A 25 year-old man was quickly arrested after officers arrived at the scene on suspicion of murder and a knife was recovered.
He is currently in custody.
We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.</blockquote>
Amess was a member of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. He was first elected to Parliament in 1983. Known for his staunch conservative views, he was a vocal critic of the European Union and backed Brexit, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/world/europe/conservative-mp-david-amess-stabbing.html">The New York Times</a>.
The attack and subsequent news of his death inspired an outpouring of support for the 69-year-old lawmaker.
“Horrific and deeply shocking news. Thinking of David, his family and his staff,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1448997172767334400">said</a> Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party and the main opposition to the Conservative Party.
Carrie Johnson, wife to Prime Minister Johnson, <a href="https://twitter.com/carrielbjohnson/status/1449013558050758659">tweeted</a>, “Absolutely devastating news about Sir David Amess. He was hugely kind and good. An enormous animal lover and a true gent. This is so completely unjust. Thoughts are with his wife and their children.”
Conservative MP and trade minister Penny Mordaunt <a href="https://twitter.com/PennyMordaunt/status/1449017011628089349">said</a>, “All my love and deepest sympathies are with David’s family, friends, staff and constituents. He served his community with his whole heart and he brought us all immense joy. An amazing, kind man who knew what mattered in life.&#8221;
Nigel Farage, former U.K. member of the European Parliament who was one of the leading voices for Brexit, <a href="https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1449016023433285634">tweeted</a>: “Desperately sad news about Sir David Amess being murdered doing his job as an MP. Awful for his family and friends, this is a real blow to the democratic process.”
Amess’s death is the second time in five years a British lawmaker has died from an attack. As the Journal reported:
<blockquote>In 2016, a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-lawmaker-injured-after-incident-in-parliamentary-constituency-1466085309?mod=article_inline">far-right extremist stabbed and shot</a> lawmaker Jo Cox while she was walking into a meeting with her constituents. She died of her injuries.
In 2010, Labour Party lawmaker Stephen Timms was stabbed while meeting with constituents by a woman who was associated with an Islamic extremist and who opposed Mr. Timms’s support for the Iraq war. Mr. Timms was stabbed twice but survived. In 2000, an aide to a Liberal Democrat lawmaker was killed defending his boss when a man armed with a sword stormed his constituency meeting.</blockquote>
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Conservative MP Dead After U.K. Church Knife Attack

United Kingdom

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s campaign paid tens of thousands of dollars more than was previously known to an ex-staffer who accused the governor of groping him.
Lujan Grisham’s campaign paid former staffer James Hallinan $150,000 as part of a settlement agreement after Hallinan accused Lujan Grisham of grabbing his crotch in front of several other staffers. Lujan Grisham has denied the accusation.
The settlement was first revealed in April after Lujan Grisham’s campaign revealed it had paid Hallinan $62,500, consisting of five monthly payments of $12,500, over his accusation. On Sunday, the campaign revealed that it had paid Hallinan an additional $87,500 as part of the settlement, according to the <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/2436809/govs-campaign-paid-875k-more-to-exstaffer.html">Albuquerque Journal</a>.
Campaign spokeswoman Kendall Witmer again denied Hallinan’s allegations in a statement, saying that the governor’s campaign settled the case to cut the expenses of a drawn-out legal battle and “prevent any distraction” from the governor’s work on COVID-19. The spokeswoman said, according to <a href="https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/new-mexico-governor-settles-harassment-claim-for-150k/6266347/">KOB4</a>:
<blockquote>The Governor, Dominic Gabello, and New Mexicans for Michelle unequivocally deny the false, dubious, and meritless claims made by Mr. Hallinan and feel certain the claims would have been disproved in court. The settlement resolved suspect and varied claims made by Mr. Hallinan, including his search for employment and clients following his tumultuous tenure on the 2018 campaign. The campaign reached this settlement in 2020 due to the expense of litigating business disputes and to prevent any distraction during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Lujan Grisham will continue to work tirelessly for the people of New Mexico, delivering on record economic growth, educational investment, and tax cuts for New Mexico’s families &#8212; all while leading the state through the COVID-19 pandemic.</blockquote>
Hallinan served as Lujan Grisham’s spokesman on her 2018 campaign. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-governors-campaign-settles-lawsuit-filed-by-man-who-said-she-groped-his-crotch">brought</a> his allegations against the governor public in 2019, claiming that Lujan Grisham poured a bottle of water down his pants before grabbing his crotch while laughing. Hallinan said the incident took place in front of a number of other campaign staffers. Lujan Grisham and her campaign have denied Hallinan’s claims.
Earlier this year, Lujan Grisham was involved in another scandal over after she was revealed to have spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on groceries, liquor, and dry cleaning for her personal use. As The Daily Wire reported at the time:
<blockquote>Grisham racked up a $13,500 tab during the last six months of 2020, according to financial disclosures <a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/spending-at-new-mexico-governor-s-mansion-during-pandemic-draws-scrutiny/article_67c1fb54-71ff-11eb-af7a-5b91cc72fd01.html">reported on</a> by the Sante Fe New Mexican. Her bill allegedly included $6,500 in luxurious groceries such as Wagyu beef and tuna steaks, as well as bottles of tequila, vodka, gin, wine, and beer.
Grisham or one of her surrogates allegedly spent $200 on alcohol during one visit to Sam’s Club and also used tax dollars to pay for her dry cleaning. People close to her were also reportedly receiving raises between $7,500 and $12,000 at the time.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/non-essential-store-opened-during-lockdown-to-sell-democrat-governor-lujan-grisham-jewelry-report-says">‘Non-Essential’ Store Opened During Lockdown To Sell Democrat Governor Lujan Grisham Jewelry, Report Says</a>
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Democrat NM Governor Paid Additional $87,500 To Settle Sexual Misconduct Case

YouTube suspended Steven Crowder’s channel for one week on Wednesday, claiming the conservative pundit and comedian violated the platform’s rules against hate speech.
YouTube’s counsel sent an email to Crowder’s attorney, William Richmond, informing him of the strike against Crowder’s account and explaining that a September 30 video uploaded to Crowder’s channel “targets the transgender community in an offensive manner,” according to a copy of the email. YouTube has blocked Crowder from posting videos to his main and auxiliary accounts for one week. The email said in part:
<blockquote>We write again on YouTube’s behalf regarding your client, Steven Crowder. YouTube has repeatedly instructed Mr. Crowder regarding its hate speech policy and warned him against continuing violations of that policy through content he uploaded to YouTube. YouTube specifically warned Mr. Crowder that videos he uploaded showed a pattern of recklessly targeting the LGBTQ+ community for abuse and insults. It warned that further uploading of content that targets, insults, and/or abuses the LGBTQ+ community would result in additional penalties.
On September 30, Mr. Crowder uploaded another video that YouTube has determined continues his prior conduct. The video entitled &#8220;“Special Guest ALEX JONES on &#8216;Great Reset&#8217; &amp; Joe Rogan TRIGGERS Leftists AGAIN!&#8221; contains a segment that targets the transgender community in an offensive manner, for example, by indicating that trans people pose a rape threat to women. Consistent with the recklessness provisions of its hate speech policy, YouTube has removed this video from the service and assessed a strike against the Steven Crowder channel. Per YouTube&#8217;s strikes policy, this results in a one-week upload freeze for the channel. Further violation of YouTube&#8217;s hate speech policy will result in additional penalties.</blockquote>
Crowder’s team is unsure of the exact reason for the strike and has requested time stamps from YouTube on the September 30 video earning the channel another strike. According to Crowder’s <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/steven-crowder-suspended-you-tube">website</a>: “During the September 30 show, we discussed a news article entitled ‘<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-female-inmate-pregnant-transgender-policy">Female inmate now pregnant after California pro-trans policy forces women&#8217;s prisons to house biological men despite prisoners&#8217; pleas, warnings: report</a>,’ and there was a short comedy sketch after that. The news article was a report on female prisoners becoming impregnated when they were forced to share cells with biological men.”
YouTube told The Daily Wire in a statement: &#8220;We removed content from and issued a strike to the StevenCrowder channel for violating our hate speech policy, through repeated targeting of the LGBTQ+ community. Hate speech is not allowed on YouTube, and in some cases, we remove content or issue other penalties–such as a strike–when a creator repeatedly targets, insults and abuses a protected group based on attributes such as sexual orientation or gender identity and expression across multiple uploads.&#8221;
Crowder responded on Twitter Wednesday: “A hard strike from YouTube and Wow… this is terrifying. We covered SPECIFIC, documented instances of rape. @YouTube says not allowed. All parents should take note. If you believe in the insane notion of biological sex, you will be silenced.”
YouTube’s latest strike against Crowder is at least the third of this year. In response to YouTube cracking down on his content, Crowder sued the platform in May. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-the-big-one-steven-crowder-sues-youtube-for-banning-views-of-half-the-country">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>“As of last Thursday, May 14, my lawyer Bill Richmond and I have filed a notice of a lawsuit against YouTube and are seeking an injunction to prevent them, to stop them from currently deplatforming us,” Crowder said. “We’ve officially sent a notice of a lawsuit. Very different level – this is the big one, boys and girls.”
Crowder’s account was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/steven-crowders-youtube-account-locked-demonetized-crowder-hints-action-weve-got-something-for-them">locked</a>, demonetized, and given a strike warning in March for allegedly spreading misinformation about the 2020 election. Crowder denied ever making any false claims on Monday’s show and noted that YouTube’s justification lacked a specific charge against Crowder.
Crowder said the first and second hard strikes against his channel were similarly vague, leaving the host and his attorney guessing at what could have triggered YouTube’s actions. The first strike came over an anniversary video of “15 days to slow the spread.” YouTube <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/youtube-removes-crowder-video">claimed</a> that Crowder violated its policy against spreading COVID misinformation.</blockquote>
This article has been updated with comments from a YouTube spokesperson.
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‘This Is Terrifying’: YouTube Suspends Steven Crowder For ‘Hate Speech,’ Covering ‘Transgender Community In An Offensive Manner’

YouTube

An associate of Hunter Biden shuffled money between his and President Joe Biden’s bank accounts while Joe served as vice president of the United States, new emails show.
Emails obtained from Hunter’s laptop and reviewed by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html">the Daily Mail</a> shed more light on the relationship between Joe Biden’s office while he was vice president of the United States and Hunter Biden’s consultancy, Rosemont Seneca. A June 2020 email shows that Eric Schwerin, a business partner at Rosemont Seneca, shuffled money between Hunter and his father’s accounts, casting doubt on the president’s claims that he had no knowledge of his son’s business ventures and overseas dealings.
The report also suggests that the president may be investigated by the FBI as part of its probe into Hunter’s tax affairs, according to experts.
The president has denied that he and his son discussed Hunter’s business ventures. Past emails obtained by Hunter’s Biden’s laptop, left at a computer repair store in Delaware and never reclaimed, suggest that Joe, while he was vice president, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-email-shows-joe-biden-allegedly-met-with-top-executive-at-ukrainian-gas-company-burisma-report">met</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-met-with-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-associates-while-he-was-vice-president-reports">with</a> multiple foreign officials who worked with Hunter, with at least one meeting being organized by Hunter.
On June 10, 2010, Schwerin emailed Hunter about taking money out of his father’s account to put it into Hunter’s. Schwerin said that the president owed his son the money.
“Your Dad’s Delaware tax refund check came today. I am depositing it in his account and writing a check in that amount back to you since he owes it to you. Don’t think I need to run it by him, but if you want to go ahead. If not, I will deposit tomorrow,” Schwerin wrote.
Other emails show that the Rosemont Seneca received special favors from the vice president’s office, according to the report. As the Daily Mail reported:
<blockquote>In yet more evidence of the deep commercial relationship between Hunter&#8217;s firm and the VP&#8217;s office during Joe&#8217;s tenure, Rosemont Seneca received special favors from the White House while Joe was in office, including dozens of tickets to exclusive 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue events and private tours for Rosemont Seneca clients or associates.
And when an aide to Senator Robert Menendez requested VP Biden host the U.S.-Spain Council&#8217;s 2010 annual meeting at his official Naval Observatory residence in Washington DC, they contacted Schwerin rather than Joe&#8217;s White House office.
Hunter and Schwerin then privately discussed the potential to ingratiate themselves with &#8216;CEOs of the major banks&#8217; if they helped arrange the request.</blockquote>
The FBI is currently investigating Hunter over his “tax affairs,” Hunter <a href="“I%20learned%20yesterday%20for%20the%20first%20time%20that%20the%20U.S.%20Attorney’s%20Office%20in%20Delaware%20advised%20my%20legal%20counsel,%20also%20yesterday,%20that%20they%20are%20investigating%20my%20tax%20affairs,”%20Biden%20told%20the%20outlet%20in%20a%20statement.%20“I%20take%20this%20matter%20very%20seriously%20but%20I%20am%20confident%20that%20a%20professional%20and%20objective%20review%20of%20these%20matters%20will%20demonstrate%20that%20I%20handled%20my%20affairs%20legally%20and%20appropriately,%20including%20with%20the%20benefit%20of%20professional%20tax%20advisors.”">revealed</a> in December. Former U.S. Intelligence Officer and Treasury Special Agent John Cassara told the Daily Mail that the FBI investigation into Hunter’s taxes could expand into his father’s finances, as well. Cassara said that the FBI investigation had not encompassed Joe Biden already because he is president.
&#8220;The information available publicly is very worrisome, particularly in the areas of corruption,&#8221; Cassara said.
George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley reacted to the report on Wednesday in an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-hunter-biden-finances-influence-peddling-investigation-turley">Fox News</a>, expressing surprise that the Department of Justice had not yet considered naming a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s financial ties with his son.
“The president has repeatedly said that he has no knowledge, no involvement in these investments. That has been contradicted by witnesses and emails,” Turley said. “With these disclosures, we have accounts being used to pay both Hunter and Joe Biden and money being reimbursed to Hunter Biden from an individual associated with a company called Rosemont Seneca. Now that’s a company that has been tied to payments from China and Russia. And so this is getting more and more serious. The question is why the Justice Department hasn’t considered the appointment of a special counsel.”
“You know, we know there&#8217;s a criminal investigation into the tax issues, possible money laundering. But there’s also serious questions about whether the Biden family conducted an extensive influence-peddling operation involving not just Hunter but his uncle and potentially the president of the United States. And what a special counsel can do is produce a report, and we’re really in a position where we need an independent report to be done,” Turley said.
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Hunter Biden

Report: Associate Shuffled Money Between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Accounts; President Potential Target Of FBI Investigation, Expert Says

Joe Biden

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and a Founding Father, from City Hall after nearly two centuries.
New York City’s Public Design Commission, each member of which is appointed by the mayor, is planning to loan the Jefferson statue to the New York Historical Society. The commission has listed the statue’s loan under its “consent” agenda, meaning the decision to remove the statue will not be open for public debate, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/de-blasio-booting-founding-father-jefferson-from-city-hall/"> New York Post</a>.
“The de Blasio administration will continue the progressive war on history as he, himself, fades away into a portrait on a City Hall wall,” Republican Councilman Joe Borelli told the Post. “I hope he is at least gone a couple hundred years before someone cancels him.”
Democrats and progressives sitting on New York’s city council have pushed for the statue’s banishment for over a year. Democratic Councilwoman Debi Rose said last year that Jefferson’s ownership of slaves justifies his bust’s expulsion from City Hall.
“His words are ‘all men are created equal’ but they were not matched by his action, which included the ability to sell, buy, mortgage and lease human beings,” Rose <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/18/pols-call-on-de-blasio-to-boot-thomas-jefferson-from-city-hall/">said</a> in June 2020. Her comments came weeks after the court-adjudicated murder of George Floyd, which set off protests and riots across the country over alleged systemic racism and calls to “defund the police.”
Rose signed a petition along with four other council members for de Blasio to remove Jefferson’s statue from City Hall.
“He believed black people to be racially inferior, said black Americans and white Americans could not live peacefully side by side and he fathered as many as six children with a woman he enslaved,” Rose said of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. “I believe the New York City Council should neither ignore nor glorify this dark side of American history.”
As Jefferson’s statue is under attack in New York City, Floyd has been memorialized in a bust unveiled in Brooklyn in June. Last week, the Floyd statue was defaced with paint. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-statue-defaced-with-paint-in-new-york-city">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>A statue that featured a bronze bust of George Floyd was defaced Sunday morning with a gray, water-based paint.
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/03/us/george-floyd-bust-defaced-confront-art/index.html">reported</a> that the statue was part of Confront Art’s “SEEINJUSTICE” exhibition, which also featured two other statues, all of which were opened to the public last Friday evening. The Floyd statue was defaced with paint around 10 a.m. Sunday morning, according to the New York Police Department.
“There’s video footage police were able to ascertain,” detective Frances Sammon told CNN. “They show a male ducking down under one of the statues. He then mixes something together, and, as he skates away, he throws a container of paint at the statue.”</blockquote>
Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020. He died after being arrested for allegedly passing fake currency at a convenience store. Prior to the incident, Floyd was arrested nine previous times, largely on drug and theft charges. In one instance, Floyd <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-mural-blown-apart-by-lightning-strike-officials-say">held</a> a woman at gunpoint while his accomplices robbed her home.
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Bill de Blasio

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Banishes Thomas Jefferson Statue From City Hall After 187 Years

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The Daily Wire gang &#8212; Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, and Candace Owens &#8212; appeared live on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Tuesday night for the latest episode of The Daily Wire: Backstage.
The gang covered the hottest topics of politics and sports of the day: COVID-19 lockdowns, former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s emails, President Joe Biden’s failing policies, the 2022 midterms, and more. The show also featured major announcements about the future of the company.
Later in the show, comedian Adam Carolla joined Boreing and Shapiro on stage to announce that Carolla is partnering with The Daily Wire to put on several comedy shows.
“We are going to call it ‘Adam Carolla: Truth Yeller’ because I tend to get fired up on stage,” Carolla said. The show itself will consist of three segments: a standup routine by Carolla, an interview segment with his guest, and an improv segment where Carolla comes up with a set based on a single word submitted by members of the audience.
At the Ryman, The Daily Wire premiered the trailer for its upcoming movie with Gina Carano. The movie, named “Terror on the Prairie,” is expected to come out March or April of 2022. The Daily Wire also premiered the trailer of another upcoming film, a thriller named “Shut In.”
The event started with an electric atmosphere as the crowd, roughly 2,800 people, broke out into chants of “Let’s go, Brandon,” essentially a less vulgar expression of opposition to Biden that has broken out at sporting events across the country in 2021. The Backstage opened with a standing ovation from the audience as Shapiro, Boreing, Klavan, Knowles, Walsh, and Owens walked on stage.
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To open up Backstage, The Daily Wire hosts and Boreing began with a discussion on COVID lockdowns and Biden’s recent orders mandating vaccines for federal workers and threatening large businesses with fines unless they vaccinate or test weekly all their employees for COVID-19.
The gang discussed the ongoing crisis at Southwest Airlines. The company has canceled thousands of flights in recent days amid speculation that the airline’s employees are protesting the company’s decision to abide by Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
“Look, I’m really glad that Southwest is coming out now and saying ‘No, please, we hate mandates; we hate Joe Biden; don’t yell at us.’ The fact is, Joe Biden actually did not make them do that,” Knowles said. “Joe Biden, he came out there, he said, ‘I’m going to have the Occupational Safety and Health Administration force this thing on the companies.’ But you know what the companies can do? You know what they can say? ‘Let’s go Brandon.’ They can say ‘Let’s go Brandon.’”
The Daily Wire crew moved on to sports and the release of Gruden’s emails. The former Raiders head coach resigned from the team Monday after leaked emails from roughly a decade ago sparked allegations of racism and homophobia. The ex-coach took heat from sports commentators and NFL players alike for his comments.
“There is something else that I think is deeply disturbing and frankly evil for the way that we approach how we treat other humans and that is the complete conflation of private and public,” Shapiro remarked. “It used to be in private spaces you would say things that are impolitic, you would say things that maybe you were thinking, but that didn’t belong in the public space. And there was just this acknowledgment that private and public were not exactly the same place.”
“Then it came to be seen that private was the more authentic you, right? The less authentic you were who you are in public. The more authentic you is the person you were in private, and so if we could uncover somehow who you were in private, then we would know the deep secret you, then we would know who you really are,” he continued. “And that’s a lie. Because who you are in private is typically lizard brain you.”
“Who you are in private is the person who is unconstrained, who doesn’t think about what they’re doing,” Shapiro said. “It’s the person who is actually the least authentic version of you because when you’re in public, you actually have to balance the lizard brain part of you with your prefrontal cortex, the part that says ‘Hey, maybe that’s a really bad idea and you shouldn’t do it.’ And that part is much more genuine in how you treat people.”
The gang moved back into politics, with Shapiro predicting that 2022 will be a “disaster for the Democrats” and that there will be a good chance that the disaster will follow the Democratic Party into the 2024 presidential election.
Walsh announced the death of public education in the U.S. Walsh, who has been an outspoken opponent of mask mandates and progressive curriculum in schools, said that the public education system is so far broken to be past the point of repair.
“When I show up to a school board meeting, I consider it like trying to patch a dam that is going to fail eventually. And there’s a real value in that because you are giving people time to get out from the flood zone, and that’s what I’m trying to do, but the school system itself is totally run by the system, and it’s a left-wing system,” Walsh said. “What that means is the ultimate solution is for us to take control of our kids’ education ourselves.”
“There’s an awakening where people are realizing, wait a second, I’m sending my kid to a government building for seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for 12 or 13 years of their formative years.’ That’s what I’m doing and that means the government has an enormous amount of control over it, not just what my kids are taught but the kinds of people they become,” he continued. “And I don’t think there is any time in the foreseeable future when we can actually trust the government to form and shape our kids, which means that the ultimate solution is that we take control as parents of our kids’ education.”
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At least 11 state-level school boards have distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after it pushed for federal law enforcement to crack down on “threats of violence and acts of intimidation” at local school board meetings.
State-level school boards in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia have issued statements blasting the NSBA over its September 29 letter to the Biden administration. School boards in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Texas have said that the NSBA did not reach out to them before writing to President Joe Biden, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/two-school-board-associations-denounce-nsbas-letter-to-doj">Washington Examiner</a>.
While recognizing “alarming incidents and comments which extend beyond civil civic discourse” at school board meetings, the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA) said the NSBA letter called for “federal overreach” and should be retracted.
“Several elements of your letter run counter to the tenets embraced by the FSBA, and this communication has caused serious concerns, conflict, and consternation for many of our members within the FSBA,” the FSBA <a href="https://spacecoastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FSBA-Letter-Response-to-NSBA-Letter-to-President.pdf">wrote</a> in an October 11 response. “Not only has it unnecessarily distracted from the important work being carried out by our members, it has strained important local and state collaborative relationships our members have worked hard to build and maintain for years.”
The Louisiana School Boards Association (LSBA) <a href="https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1609679/2021_LSBA_Update_NSBA_Letter_08OCT.pdf">wrote</a> in a letter “The LSBA was not consulted about the content of the letter. The LSBA does not agree with NSBA’s action. Our concern is that NSBA’s request and description of events is not a universal occurrence at all school boards, it fails to align with the standards of good governance, and it discourages active participation in the governance process. The NSBA’s request represents a huge step backwards in the collective advocacy efforts carried out by LSBA and other state associations in protecting and preserving openness, transparency, and local autonomy.”
The Missouri School Boards Association, which is not a member of the NSBA, <a href="https://ams.embr.mobi/Documents/DocumentAttachment.aspx?C=ZfON&amp;DID=GKHFI&amp;fbclid=IwAR2gcUC9a4cVnh24z0BcRIt_xgsi6-fVO-aeTeoeSHB8hPmet1jLzS7Y3oM">wrote</a>, “While we recognize that there are serious issues occurring around the country and in some communities in Missouri, we strongly disagree with the tone of the NSBA letter and especially with the call for federal involvement.”
The Virginia School Boards Association <a href="https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1447216693303029762">wrote</a>, “While the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) is a member of NSBA, it was not consulted about this letter, did not provide information to NSBA, and was not informed that the letter was being sent.” The VSBA went on to say policing of local school board meetings should be handled by local officials.
After the NSBA letter was sent, the Biden administration ordered the FBI to begin consulting with local law enforcement on how to respond to reports of threats and harassment against local school boards.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the FBI last week to begin investigating a recent spike in “harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school administrators. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-fbi-investigating-disturbing-spike-in-harassment-threats-against-school-administrators">published</a> the new directive in an October 4 memo.
“In recent months, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation’s public schools,” the memo said, without citing specific examples. “While spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution, the protection does not extend to threats of violence or efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.”
“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values. Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety,” it continued.
Garland said that FBI and DOJ officials should work with local and state officials to develop plans to “discourage” threats and potentially prosecute violators.
“The Department takes these incidents seriously and is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate,” Garland wrote, adding that the DOJ would announce a plan to combat the rise the threats “in the coming days.”
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Merrick Garland

State School Boards Blast NSBA Letter Calling On Biden Admin To Crack Down On School Board Meetings

The Florida Department of Health fined Leon County more than $3.5 million last week after it fired over a dozen workers for refusing to show proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
Florida sent a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/531888726/Leon-County-Notice-of-Violation#from_embed">letter</a> to Leon County administrator Vincent Long on Wednesday notifying him that the county has been found to have violated state law 714 times and would be fined $3.57 million. Long said he would fight the fines and “enforce its rights” against the state.
“By way of media reports, Leon County was made aware of a notice from the Florida Department of Health regarding the County’s vaccination requirement,” Long told <a href="https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/leon-county-fined-over-3-5m-over-vaccine-related-terminations">Fox 4</a>. “There is a genuine disagreement about the applicability of the statute and rule, and the County will enforce its rights using any remedies available at law, if necessary.”
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis blasted Leon County on September 13 for firing 14 employees who refused to show proof of vaccination.
“We are going to protect Florida jobs. We are not going to let people be fired because of a vaccine mandate,” DeSantis said at the time, according to Fox 4. “You don’t just cast aside people who’ve been serving faithfully over this issue over, what’s basically a personal choice on their individual health. We cannot let these folks be cast aside. We cannot allow their jobs to be destroyed and their families and livelihoods, potentially, to be destroyed as well.”
Gov. DeSantis signed legislation in May barring businesses and government agencies from requiring employees show proof of vaccination. The legislation also banned the enforcement of so-called “vaccine passport” policies by private and public organizations.
“Over the last year we’ve avoided protracted lockdowns and school closures in Florida because I have refused to take the same approach as other lockdown Governors. This legislation ensures that legal safeguards are in place so that local governments cannot arbitrarily close our schools or businesses,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/05/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-landmark-legislation-to-ban-vaccine-passports-and-stem-government-overreach/">said</a> at the time. “In Florida, your personal choice regarding vaccinations will be protected and no business or government entity will be able to deny you services based on your decision.&#8221;
The month before, while lawmakers in the Florida Legislature were working on the legislation, DeSantis issued an executive order banning vaccine passports. The Florida governor said that COVID-19 passports would create “two classes of citizens.” As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-gov-ron-desantis-delivers-on-promise-bans-vaccine-passports-with-executive-order">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>DeSantis noted that “the State of Florida is leading the effort to distribute the vaccine to elderly and vulnerable populations of the State and has successfully provided vaccines to nearly 3.5 million seniors,” that “many Floridians have not yet had the opportunity to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination, some have infection-acquired immunity, and others may be unable to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination due to health, religious, or other reasons,” and that “Florida seeks to ensure that every Floridian who desires a COVID-19 vaccine can obtain one, but such vaccines will not be mandated.”
DeSantis also stated that “requiring so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports for taking part in everyday life — such as attending a sporting event, patronizing a restaurant, or going to a movie theater — would create two classes of citizens based on vaccination.”</blockquote>
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Ron DeSantis

Florida Fines County $3.5M Over Vaccine Mandate

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Author Sally Rooney is blocking Israeli publishers from translating her latest book into Hebrew to show her support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Rooney stipulated in her statement that she was not against a Hebrew-language version of her book coming out, but the publisher could not be Israeli without first issuing a public condemnation of Israel’s Palestinian policies. She also stated that while many countries across engage in some form of human rights abuse, she was specifically reacting to “the call from Palestinian civil society” to support the BDS movement.
“I understand that not everyone will agree with my decision, but I simply do not feel it would be right for me under the present circumstances to accept a new contract with an Israeli company that does not publicly distance itself from apartheid and support the UN-stipulated rights of the Palestinian people,” Rooney said in her <a href="https://twitter.com/maricohen95/status/1447907515795128325">statement</a>.
“The Hebrew-language translation rights to my new novel are still available, and if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be very pleased and proud to do so. In the meantime I would like to express once again my solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality,” she concluded.
The BDS movement is widely considered to be antisemitic. Dozens of U.S. states have <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation">passed</a> or enacted legislation discouraging boycotts against Israel or condemning the BDS movement. The Anti-Defamation League, a progressive group, has <a href="https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/israel/anti-israel-and-anti-zionist-campaigns">said</a> that movements such as BDS “frequently [result] in antisemitism and discrimination against Jews.”
Israel is the only country in the world that has adopted Hebrew as its national language, and the Hebrew publishing industry is centered there, according to the <a href="https://www.jta.org/2021/10/12/culture/sally-rooney-israeli-publishers-cant-put-out-my-work-but-a-hebrew-translation-would-be-an-honour">Jewish Telegraph Agency</a>. Whether another publishing house could take Rooney’s manuscript and translate it into Hebrew is unclear.
Hebrew is deeply intertwined with Israel. The Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda revived the language, which had remained unspoken for centuries, in the late 1800s after coming to Israel. As <a href="https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/israelexperience/history/pages/hebrew-language-day-the-revival-of-the-language-of-the-bible.aspx">Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> explains:
<blockquote>A hundred and fifty years ago, Hebrew was not a spoken language. It was literally nobody&#8217;s mother tongue. Today, more than 9 million people speak Hebrew and, for the majority of them, it’s their native tongue. …
Eliezer Ben Yehuda was the driving force behind the revival of the ancient language and its transformation into its modern form. This visionary linguist, who was born in Lithuania in 1858, came to Israel in 1881 with a dream to transform Hebrew into a modern language and to make it the language spoken in every home in Israel. He settled in Jerusalem and dedicated his life to the realization of his dream.
Ben Yehuda campaigned to make Hebrew the language of instruction in Israeli schools, worked on expanding the Hebrew vocabulary so it could meet the demands of modern Israeli society, created the first modern Hebrew dictionary and edited the first Hebrew-language daily newspapers. His son, Itamar Ben-Avi, was the first child in modern times to grow up with Hebrew as his mother tongue.
Ben-Yehuda fashioned out of the ancient Hebrew structures over 300 new Hebrew words. Since then, more than 15,000 new words have been added, and we’re still counting.</blockquote>
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Sally Rooney

Author Sally Rooney Boycotts Israel, Bans Israeli Publishers From Translating Her Latest Book

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An Afghan interpreter who helped save President Joe Biden and two other U.S. lawmakers in 2008 has escaped Afghanistan with the aid of volunteers working to evacuate stranded Americans and U.S. allies from the country.
Aman Khalili and his family escaped from Afghanistan over the border to Pakistan last week, Khalili told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghan-interpreter-who-helped-rescue-joe-biden-in-2008-escapes-afghanistan-11633959319?mod=hp_lead_pos10">The Wall Street Journal</a>. After hiding from the Taliban for weeks under the care of various volunteer organizations, a group of military veterans smuggled the former U.S. interpreter and his family through numerous Taliban checkpoints and out of Afghanistan.
Khalili’s story recently appeared in the news after he pled for Biden to help save him and his family. Instead, Khalili was left in Afghanistan to the mercies of the Taliban after Biden withdrew U.S. forces from the country in August, leaving behind thousands of U.S. allies, Special Immigrant Visa-holders, and American citizens.
After Khalili’s story <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-interpreter-who-rescued-biden-in-2008-pleads-for-help-after-being-left-behind-dont-forget-me-here">appeared</a> in the Journal in an August 31 story, he was flooded with offers to help from volunteer rescue workers in Afghanistan and the Biden administration. However, despite the White House’s pledge to “get you out,” as Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/31/white-house-responds-plea-interpreter-who-helped-rescue-biden/5673787001/">said</a> on August 31, the Biden administration was minimally involved in extracting Khalili from Afghanistan. As the Journal reported:
<blockquote>The main drivers of the mission to save Mr. Khalili, his wife and five children were U.S. military veterans from Arizona who worked with the interpreter on the 2008 operation to rescue the stranded senators.
Although an array of high-profile people and U.S. officials said they would try to help evacuate him, it was a group led by an Afghan-American who worked as a linguist with elite U.S. forces in Afghanistan who carried out the ground operation that got Mr. Khalili safely out of the country.
“After 144 hours of driving day and night and getting through so many checkpoints my family was so scared, but right now this is a kind of heaven,” he told the Journal. “Hell was in Afghanistan.”</blockquote>
Rescue workers in Afghanistan have criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts in the country, from the evacuation efforts pre-withdrawal to the administration’s attempts to downplay some of the failures and consequences of pulling U.S. forces out of Afghanistan. Jean Marie Thrower, an Army veteran and volunteer with the Afghan Rescue Crew, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghanistan-rescue-worker-definitely-more-americans-left-than-biden-claims-im-appalled">blasted</a> the administration in late September, accusing it of hiding the true number of American citizens left behind in Afghanistan.
“Definitely, there are more than the hundred that is being stated. We have multiple groups working together with teams with rosters of people, and we continue to scrub those rosters to make sure we know where these people are at,” Thrower said. “I do want to say as a veteran, quickly, that I’m appalled at our administration and how they have disrespected Americans and our allies, as well as put our soldiers’ future operations in jeopardy.”
In late August when the U.S. military was still using Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport to direct evacuation operations, leaders of volunteer rescue teams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-causing-a-massive-f-up-for-private-evac-flights-out-of-afghanistan-organizer-says">ripped</a> the Biden administration for impeding evacuation efforts.
“What I am witnessing every day is the very best and the very worst of America,” Washington lobbyist Robert Stryk said. “I have seen the humanity of private citizens who are contacting me and pledging their time, monies, and in some cases their lives to bring our citizens and these Afghan patriots out of harm’s way, while at the time personally experiencing the Biden administration’s abject failure to protect its citizens and those Afghans that fought and worked alongside of us.”
“It’s morally reprehensible,” he added. “It’s been the U.S. private sector who has stepped in to save the blood and treasure the Biden administration is leaving behind.”
Former GOP Virginia Rep. Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL, added that the Biden administration was causing a “massive f***-up” in Afghanistan.
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