World record hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut manhandled a protester mid-competition before winning his record 15th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Chestnut, 38, finished the event scarfing down 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes, beating out his next closest competitor by a full 20 dogs, according to <a href="https://theathletic.com/news/joey-chestnut-wins-nathans-hot-dog-contest/1ahPdS7Op1gl/">The Athletic</a>. Making his feat even more impressive, Chestnut won the vaunted Mustard Belt after grabbing a protester by the neck and throwing him down when the disruptor made his way on stage mid-contest.
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It’s unclear what statement the protester was attempting to make.
Chestnut’s win marks his 15th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest victory in 16 years in an undeniable tour de force in the sport of competitive eating. His mark of 63 hot dogs fell far short of his world-record-setting performance at last year’s contest when he finished 76 within 10 minutes.
Chestnut competed with a tendon injury in his leg, surprising fans on Friday when he showed up to the event&#8217;s official weigh-in on crutches and wearing a medical boot.
Miki Sudo, an eight-time Nathan’s champion, won the women’s division held on Sunday, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/joey-chestnut-wins-15th-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest/">New York Post</a>.
The annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest returned to its usual venue at Nathan’s in Coney Island, Brooklyn, this year for the first time since 2019.
“It’s beautiful to be back here,” Chestnut told <a href="https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/34193679/joey-jaws-chestnut-slowed-injury-captures-15th-fourth-july-hot-dog-eating-contest-title-eating-63-franks-buns">ESPN</a> in front of a crowd of supporters. The hot dog-eating legend said his injury slowed him down the stretch.
&#8220;It hurts, but I was in the zone for a little bit. I was ignoring it,” Chestnut said before the pain became too much and began to interfere with his eating.
Neighborhood resident Joe Manny celebrated the return of the event as a return to “normal” after the 2020 pandemic.
“I would always come to Coney Island every Fourth of July for this competition so being back in person as we emerge from the pandemic feels great because I didn’t think the world would get back to normal,” he told the Post.

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WATCH: Joey Chestnut Manhandles Protester While Scarfing Down 63 Hot Dogs In 15th July Fourth Contest Win

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Several Washington, D.C., and Virginia residents are suing the nation’s capital for prohibiting carrying concealed firearms on its public transportation busses and metro lines.
Three residents of D.C. and one Virginian filed a joint lawsuit last week demanding the city’s ban on concealed weapons on public transit be scrapped, according to the <a href="https://dcist.com/story/22/06/30/supreme-court-gun-ruling-could-threaten-strict-dc-gun-laws/">DCist</a>. The group filed the suit following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in  <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf">New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen</a>, which found a New York law limiting concealed carry licenses to those who could show “good moral character” and “proper cause” unconstitutional.
“Given the decisions in Bruen and Heller, The District of Columbia may not ban the keeping and bearing of arms for self-defense that are not unusually dangerous, deny individuals the right to carry arms in non-sensitive places, deny individuals of the right to keep and carry arms in an arbitrary and capricious manner, or impose regulations on the right to keep and carry arms that are inconsistent with the Second Amendment and the historical tradition of firearms regulation in the United States,” the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/580550922/Complaint-as-Filed-Metro">lawsuit</a> states.
“The regulation at issue in this case, runs afoul of the Second Amendment because it lacks any historical justification, is arbitrary and capricious, and unnecessarily infringes on the core right of self-protection,” it continues.
D.C. currently prohibits the open carrying of handguns and has numerous restrictions on where someone who is concealed carrying may go. The ban on concealed carry covers all public transportation as well as government buildings, the National Mall, hospitals, schools, universities, any business where alcohol is consumed, and others.
The lawsuit, however, only seeks to remove the ban on concealed carry weapons on public transportation. It also lays out distinct differences between public transportation systems and the other restricted areas.
The court filing comes as crime on the D.C. metro has hit historically high levels in recent years. Metro police <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/28/metro-police-crime-buses-train/">announced</a> in April that law enforcement would be increasing the number of officers patrolling metro lines. Crime still remains high compared to pre-pandemic rates, even after rates of serious crime on trains fell more than 30% from last year.

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Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn tore into the state of public education last week during a private college event in Tennessee.
Arnn’s comments were caught on a hidden camera at a private college event in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of the state capital of Nashville. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee attended the event as Arnn’s “special guest.” The recording of the event was obtained by a local Tennessee outlet, <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him">News Channel 5 Nashville</a>.
Tennessee and Hillsdale College currently have a working partnership. Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-partners-with-hillsdale-college-in-statewide-charter-school-initiative">announced</a> in January that Tennessee was partnering with Hillsdale College to build dozens of classical K-12 charter schools across the state.
During the nearly two-hour event, Arnn criticized the institutions currently directing and influencing state-run education, such as the Department of Education, various universities with accredited education programs, and the National Association of Education union. After Channel 5 published its story, Claude Pressnell Jr., president of Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, <a href="https://twitter.com/Pressnell/status/1542650038047739904">called</a> Arnn&#8217;s comments &#8220;incredibly disturbing&#8221; and an insult to educators.
Channel 5 reported clips of the event without publishing a full video of the event or Arnn’s comments. The Daily Wire was not able to obtain a full recording of Arnn’s comments, nor did Channel 5 respond to a request to share the full recording.
Channel 5 reported that Arnn “repeatedly mock[ed] the intelligence of public school teachers and question[ed] whether they really care about what is best for their students,” a characterization that both Hillsdale College and Lee’s office contest.
“Dr. Arnn was clearly criticizing the educational bureaucracy that has done a great disservice to both teachers and students by depriving them of the high-quality, content-rich education that makes for excellent teaching,” Hillsdale College spokeswoman Emily Davis told The Daily Wire in a statement.
“Hillsdale College has been in the serious business of education and teaching for more than 175 years. It wants what parents want: for as many children in America as possible to have access to high-quality educational options,” Davis continued. “The college’s approach to classical education in the liberal arts and sciences — combined with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue — is the very best at teaching the whole child, helping students understand the world, and preparing young people for a life of service and flourishing. We look forward to assisting in that noble endeavor in Tennessee.”
Lee spokeswoman Laine Arnold told The Daily Wire, “Critics dishonestly claimed that a recent event with Hillsdale College criticized Tennessee teachers when it did not. Criticizing activism and other Left-wing issues that creep into the classroom is entirely separate from sentiments about the value or performance of Tennessee teachers. Our respect and support for educators in Tennessee wasn’t up for debate then and it isn’t now.”
Arnn’s college is a Christian liberal arts school in southern Michigan well known for its refusal to accept federal funds of any kind to limit the influence the federal government has on its curriculum. The college is popular among conservatives and often advertises with right-wing broadcasters.
Arnn said of the National Association of Education (NEA): “They’re the biggest gorillas, and they have a monopoly on education.” Teachers unions, of which the NEA is the largest, are generally highly partisan with 94% of donations backing Democrats, according to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300">Open Secrets</a>.
NEA’s president, Becky Pringle, has been an outspoken critic of any display of religion in public schools, whether or not it is sanctioned by the school itself. She <a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyPringle/status/1541433171761315843">slammed</a> the Supreme Court’s recent decision to side with a Washington state high school football coach who was disciplined for praying at midfield after football games. Pringle denounced the coach’s action as “sectarian religious coercion.”
Later on in the event, Arnn criticized the university education system for teachers and the approach to education overall inherent in them. “Ed departments in colleges, if you work in a college, you’ll know this – unless you work in the Ed department, ours is different – but they are the dumbest part of every college,” Arnn said.
The Hillsdale College president went on to suggest that teaching is not a skill that needs to be taught at universities, so much as the knowledge and topics the teachers will need to master in order to teach their students.
“If you study physics, there’s a subject, right? How does the physical world work? That’s hard to figure out. Politics is actually the study of justice. What is justice? Some of the greatest books ever written are written about that. ‘Plato’s Republic’ is written about that. Literature – they don’t do it much anymore, but you can read the greatest books, the most beautiful books ever written. Education is the study of how to teach. Is that a separate art? I don’t think so,” Arnn said.
Arnn cited theologian C.S. Lewis’ book “The Abolition of Man,” which in part argues that a rejection of an objective morality leads to the collapse of society. “[Bad] education destroys generations of people. It’s devastating. It’s like the plague.”
“The philosophic understanding at the heart of modern education is enslavement and we have to break out of that,” Arnn said.
Arnn said that most teachers are currently taught to “do” something to children rather than cultivate their minds and souls.
“It’s an organized force. The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country, and they are taught that they are going to go and do something to those kids,” Arnn said. “Do they ever talk about anything except what they are going to do to these kids?
“My wife is English, and she’s a gardener,” he said, “and she doesn’t talk about what she is going to do to these plants. She talks about what they need, because if you give them what they need, they will grow. It’s not a manufacturing operation.”
“They’re messing with people’s children, and they feel entitled to do anything to them, and if you mess with that, they’ll call the FBI on you,” Arnn said at one point, an apparent reference to a Department of Justice action last year.
Last summer, outraged parents spoke out at numerous school board meetings across the U.S. in protest of continuing COVID protocols and the influence of LGBT and Critical Race Theory content on their children’s education. Amid the outrage, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-10-21/garland-defends-decision-to-mobilize-fbi-against-threats-to-school-board-members">mobilized</a> the FBI against threats to school boards in an act many Republicans denounced as an attempt to intimidate parents for pushing back against leftism.
Arnn also criticized the average university system and the rigor of obtaining a degree in education.
“In colleges now, what you hire now is administrators. You don’t get faculty anymore, you get kids to do that, if you can. And the administrators you hire are all diversity people. And that helps you, by the way, with your federal requirements that you have a certain number by color,” Arnn said. “And what do they do? What they do is tell everybody else what to do. And now, because they are appointing all these diversity officers, what are their degrees in? Education. It&#8217;s easy. You don&#8217;t have to know anything.”

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Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education: Here’s What He Said.

Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education. Here’s What He Said.

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Human smuggling operations led by Central American drug cartels have exploded since U.S. President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> took office, according to a former top Mexican immigration official.
Former Mexican immigration chief Tonatiuh Guillén said Friday that human smuggling industry south of the United States’ southern border has seen extreme growth recently as drug cartels and other smaller smuggling operations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration">transport people to the U.S.</a>
“Drug-trafficking organizations end up dominating the structure of migrant-trafficking groups,” Guillén told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/smuggling-migrants-to-the-u-s-is-big-business-11656680400?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1">The Wall Street Journal</a>. “There’s been a huge expansion in the last two years.”
Former Mexican intelligence chief Guillermo Valdés backed up Guillén’s claim, telling the WSJ: “Migrant smuggling has become an industrial business. Demand is huge and rising, and that means you need more and bigger transportation.” Valdés comment on “bigger transportation” is a reference to the use of vehicles such as the abandoned tractor-trailer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-biden-administration-can-end-trump-era-remain-in-mexico-policy">found</a> near San Antonio containing dozens of dead migrants believed to be part of a smuggling operation.
The human smuggling business south of the U.S. border well over a one-billion-dollar annual industry. According to a 2021 United Nations <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/mpi-wfp-mit_migration-motivations-costs_final.pdf">study</a>, migrants from just three countries – Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – pay roughly $1.7 billion a year to smugglers, known as coyotes, or drug cartels to transport them and their families to the U.S.
The tractor-trailer believed to be a human smuggling rig abandoned near San Antonio sparked a firestorm of criticism against the Biden administration’s handling of the immigration crisis ongoing at the U.S. southern border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) placed the blame of over 50 migrant deaths on the president.
“These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott <a href="https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1541596214705135617">tweeted</a> on Monday night after the tractor-trailer was found. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”
Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/joe-biden-san-antonio-deaths/index.html">called</a> the discovery “horrifying and heartbreaking” and denounced criticism of his border policies as “political grandstanding.”
Since taking office, Biden has reversed many of former President Donald Trump’s border policies while <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2022/05/27/border-asylum-biden/">placing</a> greater emphasis on screening and admitting asylum seekers than cracking down on illegal migration. While migration across the U.S. southern border <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-encountered-more-than-212000-migrants-in-july-further-debunking-bidens-claim-that-migration-is-seasonal">surged</a> in Biden’s first months as president, the number of deportations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deportations-have-dropped-90-percent-with-biden-in-office">collapsed</a>.
On Thursday, The U.S. Supreme Court greenlit one of the Biden administration’s latest efforts to scrap a Trump-era migration policy. The high court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-biden-administration-can-end-trump-era-remain-in-mexico-policy">ruled</a> in a 5-4 decision that Biden can repeal the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols policy, more commonly known as “Remain in Mexico.”
The policy required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while the U.S. processed their asylum claims. Instead, the Biden administration seeks to overhaul the immigration system to expedite asylum claims. In May, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2022/05/27/border-asylum-biden/">launched</a> new protocols for processing asylum claims that allows asylum officers to review claims and release claimants into the U.S. Rejected claims will be set aside for an immigration court to review at a later date.
The Biden administration has said that the new system will help deal with a backlog of hundreds of thousands of pending immigration cases. Critics says that the new processes will only worsen the ongoing immigration crisis.

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The U.S. Commerce Department blacklisted five <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">Chinese firms</a> for allegedly supporting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia">Russian</a> military this week.
The U.S. sanctions landed against the firms Tuesday, hitting Connec Electronic Ltd., King Pai Technology Co., Sinno Electronics Co., Winninc Electronic and World Jetta (H.K.) Logistics Ltd., according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-blacklists-five-chinese-firms-for-allegedly-helping-russias-military-11656538213?mod=e2tw">The Wall Street Journal</a>. The Commerce Department placed them on the “<a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-14069.pdf">entity list</a>” forbidding U.S. companies from doing business with them.
The new restrictions, a result of the firms allegedly aiding Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, come as the Biden administration denies that China has offered support for Russia’s military. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/06/28/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-en-route-madrid-spain/">told</a> reporters Tuesday that despite overtures of cooperation between Beijing and Moscow, China has not acted to support Russia “at scale.”
“For us, the number-one priority with respect to China, when it comes to the war in Ukraine, is that China not become militarily supportive of Russia through the provision of equipment. Number two is that they not engage in wholesale or systematic undermining or evasion of U.S. sanctions,” Sullivan said.
“And on both of those, thus far, we have not seen China act in a way inconsistent with those two principles and certainly not at scale with respect to the economic relationship,” he continued.
The Commerce Department’s action is the first taken against Chinese firms over the Russia-Ukraine war since its beginning in February. A representative at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., claimed that Beijing has only sought to promote peace in Russia.
“China’s position on the Ukrainian issue is consistent and clear. We have been playing a constructive role in promoting peace talks and have not provided military assistance to the conflicting parties,” the representative told WSJ.
Western leaders are closely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/world/asia/china-taiwan-ukraine-military.html">watching</a> how China treats Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, worrying that Russia’s invasion may be a precursor to China’s own invasion of neighboring Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping has long claimed that Taiwan is a part of China and should be brought under Beijing’s rule.
Concerns of China’s cooperation with Russia shot up after Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a 5,000-word <a href="https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/CASI/documents/Translations/2022-02-04%20China%20Russia%20joint%20statement%20International%20Relations%20Entering%20a%20New%20Era.pdf">joint-statement</a> in early February against the “further enlargement of NATO,” which Putin later cited as a reason for his invasion of Ukraine. Beijing also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-russia-china-coordinated-on-timing-of-ukraine-invasion">reportedly</a> had advanced warning from Russia that it intended to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the two countries coordinated the timing of the invasion to fall after the 2022 Winter Olympics, which China hosted.

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President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States will “stick with Ukraine to make sure they are not defeated by Russia.”
Biden refused to place any limits on U.S. assistance to Ukraine while speaking with reporters at a NATO Summit press conference in Madrid, Spain. The U.S. has given more than <a href="https://www.state.gov/450-million-drawdown-of-new-u-s-military-assistance-for-ukraine/">$6.1 billion</a> to Ukraine since Russia’s February 24 invasion, and the president said the U.S. will provide an additional $800 million in assistance soon.
“We are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,” Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI0qRc0I8I">told</a> reporters when asked about the future of the United States’ commitment to Ukraine. The president pointed to the drain that the war is having on Russia.
“They’ve had to renege on their national debt for the first time since the beginning, in almost well over a hundred years. They’ve lost 15 years of the gains they’ve made in terms of their economy,” Biden said. “They’re going to have trouble maintaining oil production because they don’t have the technology to do it. They need American technology. They’re also in a similar satiation in terms of their weapons systems and some of their military systems. So they’re paying a very, very heavy price for this.”
“I don’t know how it’s going to end but it will not end, but it will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine,” Biden added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/28/zelensky-maybe-tells-biden-he-wants-war-over-by-winter/">addressed</a> the G7 on Monday and reportedly told the countries&#8217; leaders that he needed their economic and military support to hopefully end the war by winter.
Russia has focused its military campaign in Ukraine’s Donbas region on the eastern edge of the country. Russia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/eastern-donbas-extremely-difficult-ukrainians-russia-intensifies-attacks">pounded</a> the region with artillery as Ukraine’s military has been hard-pressed to keep Russian forces at bay.
In a recent victory, Ukraine retook Snake Island in the Black Sea after Russian forces retreated from the island and concentrates its military efforts in the Donbas. Both sides confirmed the retreat on Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/world/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island.html">The New York Times</a>.
Zelensky has continued to rally support from NATO nations and the West by claiming that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be a precursor to a wider invasion of Europe if Ukraine should fall. NATO <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/world/europe/nato-to-significantly-increase-troops-assigned-to-its-eastern-flank.html">said</a> earlier this week that it is relocating forces to bolster security on its eastern borders nearest Russia.

Biden Refuses To Limit Aid To Ukraine: ‘Make Sure They Are Not Defeated By Russia’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">Texas</a> is adding a host of new checkpoints to inspect vehicles after dozens of migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer abandoned near San Antonio.
Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott">Greg Abbott</a> (R) announced the new security measures in a news conference on Wednesday. Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-least-42-people-found-dead-inside-truck-carrying-migrants-in-texas-reports">found</a> 46 people dead in the tractor-trailer Monday evening, and the number of dead has since risen to 51. The discovery is believed to be the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-people-taken-into-custody-after-deadliest-smuggling-incident-in-american-history">deadliest</a> smuggling event in American history.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) “will create and implement a checkpoint strategy beginning immediately where they will begin targeting trucks like the one that was used where these people perished,” Abbott said, according to <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/29/greg-abbott-texas-migrant-deaths-checkpoints/">The Texas Tribune</a>.
Texas officials declined to give exact locations of where the new checkpoints will be located. Abbott said he wanted to “surprise the cartels and the smugglers.” DPS Director Steve McCraw told reporters that the new stations would be located along “smuggling corridors.”
McCraw said that his agency would be moving some law enforcement from stations near international crossings “and mov[ing] them further out” to set up more sites for inspecting commercial vehicles.
Texas authorities took three people into custody Monday night in connection with the abandoned tractor-trailer. Some migrants were found alive in the rig on Monday and transported to a local hospital. Temperatures outside of the trailer had ranged from the 90s to the low 100s around San Antonio, and the trailer had neither air conditioning nor water. The ages of the dead ranged from teens to young adults, authorities said.
“All were the apparent victims of human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of human life,” U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Ashley C. Hoff said in a Tuesday statement. “The South Texas heat is brutal this time of year, especially given the recent record-high temperatures.”
The discovery of the bodies set off a string of accusations between the Abbott administration and the federal government. The Republican governor has been a vocal critic of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden’s</a> border policies, and earlier this year ordered the DPS to bus migrants to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c">Washington, D.C.</a>, in protest.
“These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott tweeted on Monday night. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”
Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> responded to Abbott on Wednesday.
“How the governor of that state responded really highlights part of the problem because his response when there are 50 dead bodies in his state is to go straight to politics,” Harris told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108390804/trump-tried-to-join-attack-on-capitol-our-interview-with-vp-harris-on-end-of-roe">NPR</a>. “Instead of dealing with the realities of the issue.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> spoke with his son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Hunter</a>, about a business deal Hunter struck with a Chinese businessman, a voicemail left by Joe to Hunter and found on the younger Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files">abandoned laptop</a> reveals.
The elder Biden, then out of office, called Hunter on December 12, 2018, soon after The New York Times published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html">story</a> on one of Hunter’s business partners, Ye Jianming, the chairman of the Chinese energy giant CEFC. Joe left a voicemail to his son saying he wanted to speak about the article, adding, “I think you&#8217;re clear,” according to a copy of the voicemail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10938637/Voicemail-Joe-Biden-Hunter-proves-president-DID-speak-Chinese-business-dealings.html">reported</a> by the Daily Mail.
The voicemail contradicts the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/joe-biden-claims-he-and-son-hunter-biden-never-talked-foreign-business/">White House&#8217;s</a> and the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/09/21/joe-biden-never-talked-ukraine-son-trump-needs-investigated/2401830001/">president&#8217;s</a> claims that he never spoke with his son about Hunter’s multiple overseas business dealings.
The president said on the voicemail: “Hey pal, it&#8217;s dad. It&#8217;s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it&#8217;s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you&#8217;re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you.”
The New York Times story included references to Hunter’s discussions with Jianming and one of Jianming&#8217;s top lieutenants, former CEFC vice-chairman Patrick Ho. Ho was arrested in the United States in 2017 and later sentenced to three years in prison for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Jianming was a prominent Chinese oil magnate before Chinese authorities arrested him in 2018. He has not been seen publicly since, and CEFC has fallen into bankruptcy.
Prior to his arrest, Jianming pursued a number of business deals in the United States, including with Hunter Biden, meeting with Hunter in a Miami hotel in 2017, per the Daily Mail. At the time, Hunter was managing an investment firm he helped found, Rosemont Seneca Partners.
A May 13, 2017, email found on a laptop Hunter abandoned at a computer repair store in 2019 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-china-email-source-verifies">showed</a> proposed equity splits among Hunter and his partners in any deal with CEFC. The email outlines “remuneration packages” for six people, including Hunter and Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the email. The email proposed a “20” split for “H,” which sources identified as Hunter, and a split of “10 held by H for the big guy?” Multiple sources, including Hunter’s former business partner <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/hunter-biden-grand-jury-witness-was-asked-about-deal-with-chinese-firm-and-the-big-guy/">Tony Bobulinski</a>, identified “the big guy” as Joe Biden.
After Ho was arrested in the U.S., his first call was to Hunter’s uncle, James Biden, according to The New York Times. Ho later hired Hunter to represent him on a $1 million retainer, as <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/spy-chief-of-china-laptop-recording-sheds-light-on-hunter-bidens-overseas-business">reported</a> by the Washington Examiner. A recording found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop from May 11, 2018, showed him talking about his relationship with Ho and complaining about The New York Times&#8217; interest in it at the time, the Daily Mail reported.
“I have another New York Times reporter calling about my representation of the, literally, Dr. Patrick Ho — the f***ing spy chief of China who started the company that my partner [Jianming], who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing,” Biden said in the 47-minute recording. “The richest man in the world is missing, who was my partner.”
According to the Washington Examiner, Hunter also spoke of Jianming and the Chinese tycoon’s disappearance: “He was missing since I last saw him in his $58 million apartment inside a $4 billion deal to build the f***ing largest f***ing LNG port in the world &#8230; and I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York from the U.S. attorney himself.”

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Joe Biden Spoke With Hunter About Dealings With Chinese Oil Tycoon, Voicemail Reveals

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<a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> spent more than $30,000 on escorts, many of those payments made to entities with Russian email addresses, from November 2018 and March 2019, according to documentation reviewed by <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-biden-russian-escorts-joe-payments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>.
The report said that Biden’s escorts were partly funded by his father, President Joe Biden, who sent Hunter $100,000 across multiple installments in December 2018 and January 2019. The Washington Examiner did not uncover any evidence that Joe knew about his son’s purchases of escort services, while some messages suggest that Hunter misled his father as to what he was spending the money on.
After the Examiner published the results of part of its investigation into records and messages contained on Hunter’s laptop, abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, Hunter reportedly emailed a Washington Examiner reporter: “What’s wrong with you?” Hunter did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Examiner before the article was published Monday. Neither did Hunter’s attorneys nor the White House.
A backup of Hunter Biden’s iPhone found on his laptop contained a number of messages to someone identified as “Eva,” who was affiliated with a foreign escort service called “UberGFE.” UberGFE appears to be located in Kyiv, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. It does business in Russia and the United States, according to information uncovered by the Examiner.
On the evening of January 18, 2019, Hunter Biden negotiated with Eva on the cost of keeping an escort for 16 hours. The price came out to $9,500, which Eva instructed Hunter to wire to an account with a Russian email address. That same evening, Joe Biden’s then-assistant Richard Ruffner sent Hunter $5,000 from Joe’s account and later texted Hunter that $5,000 was all that could be sent “because the weekly limit is $7,500.”
In another transfer, Joe Biden sent his son $20,000 to pay for Hunter to stay in a rehab clinic in New York City. While Hunter told his dad he was checking into the clinic, no documents were found that he had ever visited the facility. Hunter was also struggling with a mountain of debt during that period, at one point showing debts totaling more than $800,000.
“‘We can all sympathize with Biden’s love for his troubled son while recognizing that he was shoveling prodigious sums of money to Hunter Biden when the neon lights were flashing that Hunter was compromised and using the money to become ever more compromised — and with Russia, of all places,’” former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy told the Examiner.
“‘The context here is that Democrats put the country through two years of anxiety on the false, Democrat-fabricated claim that Biden’s predecessor was an agent of the Kremlin,’” McCarthy said. “‘And of course, when compelling evidence arose that Biden is actually entangled in his son’s foreign business dealings, despite having denied even discussing them, Biden apologists <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/joe-biden-unwittingly-helped-finance-hunters-trysts-with-russia-linked-escorts/article_400c3147-2d38-5c08-a20c-da32bcf33a40.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> with their standard deceptive deflection — it’s all Russian disinformation.’”
“‘Now, however, we learn that it was Russian information — Hunter’s reckless payments of thousands of dollars he’d received from his willfully blind father to sordid businesses with Russian email accounts — that Biden apologists were suppressing in the weeks before the 2020 election,’” he continued.
In a cellphone recording located on Hunter’s laptop, Hunter once <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hell-talk-about-anything-that-i-want-him-to-hunter-biden-talks-relationship-with-father-in-uncovered-audio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bragged</a> to a friend that his father would “‘talk about anything that I want him to.’” Hunter made the claim in a December 2018 conversation with British artist Phillipa Horan five months before Joe Biden announced his run for president of the United States.
“‘He’ll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in,’” Hunter said at the time. “‘If I say it’s important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform. My dad respects me more than he respects anyone in the world, and I know that to be certain, so it’s not going to be about whether it affects his politics.’”
Related: <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-claim-that-hunter-biden-did-not-profit-off-chinese-business-deals-docs-show-his-companies-made-millions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House ‘Stands By’ Claim That Hunter Biden Did Not Profit Off Chinese Business Deals. Docs Show His Companies Made Millions</a>
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‘What’s Wrong With You?’: Hunter Biden Lashes Out After Lavish Spending On Russia-Connected Escorts Revealed, Report Says

Hunter Biden Responds After Lavish Spending On Russia-Connected Escorts Revealed: Report

A U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty Friday to colluding with an extremist group to carry out an attack on his unit.
U.S. Army Private Ethan Melzer coordinated with members of the group Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a U.K. group with “neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and Satanic beliefs,” to attack his unit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-army-soldier-pleads-guilty-attempting-murder-fellow-service-members-deadly-ambush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. Melzer has been a member of the group since at least 2017.
“As he admitted in court today, Ethan Melzer attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully disclosing its location, strength, and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
“The defendant believed he could force the U.S. into prolonged armed conflict while causing the deaths of as many soldiers as possible. Melzer’s traitorous conduct was a betrayal of his storied unit and nothing short of an attack against the most essential American values. Thanks to the incredible work of the FBI and the U.S. Army, Melzer’s duplicity was revealed and his murderous attack thwarted,” he added.
Federal agents arrested Melzer on June 10, 2020, and charged the 22-year-old Louisville man with, &#8220;conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country,&#8221; the DOJ <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his-unit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. Melzer pleaded guilty to the charges and was expected to stand trial next month.
Melzer joined the Army in 2018 and, as a member of the O9A, sought to infiltrate the U.S. military. In October 2019, Melzer deployed to Italy with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. In May 2020, Melzer and his unit were reassigned to guard a military installation in Turkey.
After receiving the new assignment, Melzer began passing along classified information about his unit and its mission to members of the O9A to plan an attack on the U.S., an attack in which Melzer said he was willing to die in. “I would’ve died successfully,” he wrote to members of O9A.
“[Y]ou just gotta understand that currently I am risking my literal free life to give you all this,” Melzer told members of O9A. Melzer and the other O9A members referred to the object of their planning as a “jihadi attack” and “mass casualty” event.
At the same time, Melzer was also accessing and reading extremist materials from a number of groups, including O9A and ISIS. Melzer and members of O9A also passed messages along to someone Melzer believed to be a member of the al-Qaeda terror group.
Federal authorities tracked and arrested Melzer in part because of information passed through and access to messages granted by Joshua Caleb Sutter, a reported Satanist, and propagandist for the O9A who has worked as a paid informant for the FBI since 2004, according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a>. The FBI often uses such messengers as informants because they are typically well-connected within extremists’ communities but refrain from participating in criminal conduct.
Sutter’s involvement in the case has raised questions over the FBI’s role in taking down potentially deadly attackers.
“The confidential informant has been mismanaged for decades — that’s a very fraught enterprise, the idea that you’re going to go out and find people with firsthand knowledge of criminal activity and to the extent they’re cooperating with you, it’s because they’re betraying their colleagues,” former FBI agent Mike German, who infiltrated white supremacist groups in the 1990s, told Rolling Stone. “Where the FBI gets in trouble all the time is ignoring the crimes the informants are committing.”
“Originally, they must’ve thought signing up a propagandist who agreed not to engage in criminal activity was appealing,” German continued, referring to the FBI’s hiring of Sutter. “To the extent that this guy is sending this ideology into the ether for everyone to absorb — how many others are following through and acting on it?”

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U.S. Army Soldier Pleads Guilty To Planning ‘Jihadi Attack’ On His Own Unit

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that the high court should “reconsider” earlier decisions finding constitutional rights to contraception and same-sex relationships through a controversial legal theory.
Thomas ruled with the majority on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a highly-anticipated decision that overturned the 1973 decision in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade">Roe v. Wade</a>, which codified a right to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortion</a> in federal law. The same legal theory that supported a right to an abortion in Roe was also used in a handful of other cases to justify rights discovered through “substantive due process.”
Thomas wrote in a concurrence to Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion that “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”
“We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents,” he continued. “After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”
Thomas has been a longtime critic of “substantive due process,” a reading of the 14th Amendment that posits that the amendment’s due process clause applies to rights outside of strict legal procedures and rights not explicitly protected in the Constitution.
Thomas’ view of the 14th Amendment is that it “protects the processes by which your rights are adjudicated, not the actual rights themselves,” Jacob Meckler, a law clerk at the America First Legal Foundation, told The Daily Wire. For instance, the right to a firearm made explicit in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/second-amendment">Second Amendment</a> is a substantive right, whereas the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is a procedural right.
In the case of Dobbs, however, the right to an abortion was read into the Constitution under the 14th Amendment while lacking an explicit basis using the due process clause. The due process clause states: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Based on the reasoning in the Dobbs decision, the court should now revisit other cases based on the “substantive due process” theory, Thomas said. Notably, the justice wrote that the other legal rights based on the theory may still be valid, though the court must look for a different textual basis for them.
Thomas listed three such cases that he said should be reviewed. Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, enshrined a right to contraceptives. Lawrence v. Texas was decided in 2003 and read into the Constitution a right to certain private sexual conduct, namely the right to a same-sex relationship. Obergefell v. Hodges was decided less than a decade ago in 2015 and guaranteed a right for same-sex couples to marry.
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in Obergefell and a candidate for the Ohio state house, responded to Thomas’ concurrence in a statement to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-concurring-opinion-abortion_n_62b5c914e4b0cdccbe6aa6d2">The Huffington Post</a>.
“Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court justice appointed by humans, he is not the Supreme Deity,” Obergefell said. “The millions of loving couples who have the right to marriage equality to form their own families do not need Clarence Thomas imposing his individual twisted morality upon them. If you want to see an error in judgment, Clarence Thomas, look in the mirror.”
The majority opinion in Dobbs stresses that “this decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Alito later states that the act of abortion is “fundamentally different” to other substantive due process rights “such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage.”
If the decisions in Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell did happen to be overturned, the issue in each would, like abortion, revert to the states for regulation. It’s doubtful that such a case challenging those precedents will make it up to the Supreme Court anytime soon, however.

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‘Correct The Error’: Clarence Thomas Says SCOTUS Should ‘Reconsider’ Decisions On Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage

Clarence Thomas: SCOTUS Should ‘Reconsider’ Decisions On Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage

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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that longtime restrictions New York has placed on carrying concealed firearms violates Americans&#8217; Second and 14th Amendment rights.
The high court ruled 6-3 in favor of gun rights in the case of <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf">New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen</a>. The court heard oral arguments in the case in November, and the court’s conservative majority appeared to lean toward dismissing New York’s restrictions at the time. Thursday&#8217;s decision is the widest expansion of gun rights in more than a decade, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-strikes-down-new-york-law-on-concealed-weapons-11655995248?mod=hp_lead_pos1">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The case centered on a 1911 New York state law that <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-weighs-challenge-to-new-york-states-concealed-weapons-permit-law-11635931800?mod=article_inline">conditioned</a> the right to a concealed carry permit on “good moral character” and “proper cause.” The Supreme Court majority opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, took issue with the latter condition, which unlawfully forced New Yorkers to demonstrate “a special need for self-defense.”
“We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense,” Thomas wrote.
“New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms,” he added.
The Supreme Court’s decision against New York calls into question gun laws in at least eight other states and the District of Columbia, according to WSJ.
New York bans carrying handguns openly, making conceal carry the only option for residents who want to carry a handgun on their person outside of their own home. The Supreme Court case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by two New York residents, Robert Nash and Brandon Koch, who sued the state after they were denied concealed carry permits due to a lack of proper cause, as the 1911 law stipulated.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul reacted to the ruling in a blistering <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1539983179641229313">statement</a> on Thursday: “It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons.”
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested that rolling back New York’s concealed carry restrictions would result in a “wild,wild West” environment. New York’s concealed carry laws are some of the strictest in the United States.

SCOTUS Strikes Down New York Concealed Carry Restrictions

BREAKING: SCOTUS Strikes Down New York Concealed Carry Restrictions Restrictions

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