President Joe Biden has avoided taking a simple mental evaluation because the White House wants to avoid exposing the severity of the president’s mental decline, according to Dr. Ben Carson.
Carson is the former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under former President Trump and a highly-decorated neurosurgeon. The Yale-educated doctor said “it’s pretty obvious” watching Biden that the president’s mental acuity has fallen drastically in recent years.
“Just look at the different interviews over the years and compare the way he speaks now to the way he spoke, you know, five years ago, ten years ago. Obviously, a big decline. That’s not something that is normal,” Carson said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “There is a decline with aging and memory and various other things, but not to that degree. There is something else going on with him.”
Carson said the president could easily be evaluated for his short term memory. The White House refuses to put the president through the test, however, because Biden would likely fail.
“They’ll ask questions like, count down from 100 by 7s. They’ll ask you to name three objects, you can pick any three objects you want and tell them what they are, then they’ll ask you a whole bunch of other questions, and then they’ll say, ‘what were those three objects?’ just to test your short term memory,” Carson said, explaining the lack of rigor in the test. “They’re not difficult questions … but I can pretty much guarantee you that he wouldn’t be able to do that.”
Recent polls of Americans suggest that voters tend to agree with Carson’s observations about the president, or at least echo the doctor’s concerns. According to the results of a Deseret News/HarrisX <a href="https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/03/12/poll-donald-trump-joe-biden-mentally-fit-for-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> released earlier this month, 63% of registered voters are concerned that the 81-year-old president is not mentally fit enough to perform the duties of a U.S. president.
In polling results from last month, Biden did not perform any better. In a Quinnipiac University poll <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4481379-most-in-new-poll-say-biden-doesnt-have-physical-mental-fitness-for-another-term/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> on February 21, 64% of registered voters said Biden was not mentally fit enough to serve a second term. Just 34% said otherwise.
In an NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-age-fitness-top-list-voters-concerns-poll-finds-rcna137212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from early February, three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, expressed concerns about the octogenarian president’s mental and physical health as he campaigns for another four years in office.
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Age and fitness have become significant issues in the 2024 presidential race. Voters have expressed concerns about Biden’s opponent, former President Donald Trump, 77, as well, though not to the same degree. In the Deseret News/HarrisX, about half of voters, 51%, expressed concern about Trump’s cognitive ability.

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Retired neurosurgeon and former Trump cabinet member <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a> told The Daily Wire that diversity, equity, and inclusion <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(DEI)</a> programs would hamper American ingenuity and stand in the way of excellence.
Carson, who headed up the Department of Housing and Urban Development under former President Donald Trump, said on Monday that Americans would soon be feeling the negative effects of DEI in medicine. Carson, who became a world famous surgeon after growing up in poverty, said that everybody should be subjected to the same standards instead of focusing on identity.
“What we should be concentrating on is raising everybody to the appropriate standard rather than lowering the standards so that we can put more people in,” Carson told The Daily Wire. “The whole DEI argument is illogical if you are looking for excellence.”
Carson spoke about how he was being pressured at his own company for not having a certain percentage of women in higher level positions because he focused on experience and qualifications when looking to hire.
Speaking about his own experience as a child, Carson said he remembered going to Chattanooga and seeing signs designating certain spaces only for white or black people. He said that while much progress had been made, DEI might set back race relations.
“What DEI does is it takes one group and gives them an advantage over another group the same way it used to be in reverse,” he said. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, and all it’s going to do is exacerbate relationships rather than improve relationships.”
Carson said that the many companies adopting DEI programs and initiatives were “not taking the long view,” but instead trying to earn praise and accolades from activists. He said corporate heads knew that DEI would not be “conducive to excellence,” but were choosing to stick “their heads in the sand like an ostrich.”
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The former presidential candidate added that focusing on DEI would distract Americans from focusing on entrepreneurship and developing new inventions.
“You have to recognize that the United States of America is very unique in the sense that we developed an environment that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation,” he said. “That’s why 90% of the earth shattering inventions came out of the United States even though there was a lot of other world out there. And obviously, if we now change that environment, it’s going to have a deleterious effect on who we are and our leadership.”
Carson&#8217;s comments come as major medical schools have come under fire for incorporating the tenets of DEI into their curriculum and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reveals-how-ucla-med-students-are-taught-anti-white-anti-american-hatred" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching students</a> about things like colonialism and liberation during their time in medical school.

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Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson endorsed former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign during an Iowa rally on Sunday. 
Carson, who ran for the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nomination in 2016 and subsequently served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for nearly four years in the Trump administration, <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/4282613-ben-carson-endorses-trump-2024-at-iowa-rally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> the GOP frontrunner his “most confident and full endorsement” while introducing him at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa. 
“Benjamin Franklin was asked in 1787 after they finished the Constitutional Convention, ‘Sir, what do we have here? A monarchy or a republic?’ He said, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ The way we can keep it is we can put Donald J. Trump back in office,” Carson <a href="https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/dr-ben-carson-strongly-endorses-donald-trump-for-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the crowd.
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The former GOP candidate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOiWYEnjVA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the Biden administration’s border policies and told the crowd that under Trump, the United States had a secure border. Carson said it’s almost certain that terrorists have flowed through the border during Biden’s three years in office, quipping it would be “terrorist malpractice” if they weren’t already planning something. 
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He also touted Trump’s record on energy, the protection of freedom of speech, and the lower prices of consumer goods and gasoline during his administration. Carson said that during his 2016 campaign, he found that while most Americans had “common sense,” they didn’t always have the “courage” to say what they believed. 
“But one man had the courage to take on the political establishment and give the people a voice in Washington, with no concern about what it would cost him,” Carson said. “Donald Trump lost millions if not billions of dollars. And he’s been attacked constantly and demonized, and yet, he’s still there. They haven’t gotten rid of him. They’re trying to do everything in their power to get rid of him. Because he’s the biggest threat to the administrative state and to the swamp &#8212; I don&#8217;t call it a swamp, I call it a cesspool.”
On Truth Social, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111321131874065711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it was a “great honor” to receive Carson’s endorsement. The former president told the crowd he was confident that he would win Iowa because of his policies that he said helped farmers, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-iowa-republicans-caucuses-campaign-2024-89b7fee7f2cc8a2a14ac211e74e74ff7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
According to RealClearPolitics, Trump’s <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ia/2024_iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-8164.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling average</a> in Iowa is 48.8%, well ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 17.3% and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s 11.5%. Trump also holds the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lead</a> in the national GOP primary average of polls.

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The House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a>, now disbanded, released Social Security numbers belonging to hundreds of Americans, including former Trump staffers and other top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> officials.
After the committee’s last public meeting last month, it released a trove of official records, testimonies, transcripts, and other information that it collected as part of its 18-month investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. One of those documents was a spreadsheet containing nearly 2,000 Social Security numbers of people who visited the White House in December 2020.
Among the Social Security numbers on the list, since removed from January 6 files, was information associated with at least three Trump cabinet members, as well as some Republican governors and numerous officials and allies, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/06/social-security-numbers-jan-6-committee-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. Those people whose information was on the spreadsheet are now at an “elevated risk” to be victims of identity theft-related crimes, Identity Theft Resource Center COO James Lee said.
The committee appears to have not immediately notified officials of the leak. Ian Fury, a spokesman of South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem, whose information was on the removed document, said, “To my knowledge, we were not notified. The governor was not notified.”
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, whose information was also on the sheet, told the Post: “Whether it was a careless and sloppy handling of records or a deliberate disregard of decorum, either scenario is a perfunctory and callous display of government and a frightening reminder of the current state in Washington. … President Reagan was a savant indeed — the nine most frightening words to hear are ‘I am from the government and here to help.’”
The committee said that all information released to the public was first reviewed for sensitive personal information and that any release of sensitive information such as Social Security numbers was a mistake.
The January 6 Committee, which was stacked with Democratic lawmakers and included two former GOP lawmakers, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, investigated the January 6 riot at the Capitol with an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-bias-or-cheney-2024-j6-staffers-liz-cheney-trade-blows-over-final-committee-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasis</a> on former President Donald Trump’s role in the chaotic event. On December 19, at its last public hearing, the committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-j6-committee-recommends-criminal-charges-against-trump-over-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to recommend the Department of Justice charge the former president over the riot.
Trump “lost the 2020 election and knew it, but he choose to try and stay in office through a multi-part scheme to overturn the results and block the transfer of power,” committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said. “In the end, he summoned a mob to Washington and, knowing they were armed and angry, pointed them to the Capitol and told them to ‘fight like hell.’ There’s no doubt about this.”
The committee voted to recommend Trump be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped former war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith, who previously worked at the international criminal court at The Hague, as special counsel to take over two Department of Justice probes into Trump over the January 6 riot and a cache of classified documents Trump allegedly improperly stored at Mar-a-Lago.

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Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a>, a neurosurgeon and former Trump administration official, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> in an interview this week that wokeness came from political correctness that started back in the 1990s.
Carson made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Hannity&#8221; with guest host Tammy Bruce.
&#8220;You know, I talked, the first time I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1997, about the fact that political correctness, if we continued along that pathway, was going to destroy our nation, it has continued to get worse,&#8221; Carson said. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s morphed into wokeness. And we have a situation on our college campuses where students are afraid to express themselves, conservative students are.&#8221;
&#8220;College is supposed to be a place where you explore, and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you&#8217;re going. And basically, what&#8217;s happening is people are being shut down,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And it doesn&#8217;t have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know, big tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TAMMY BRUCE, FOX NEWS: Welcome back to this special edition of Hannity. Tis the season for extreme wokeness. At least that&#8217;s the case at one church in England, where the classic Christmas hymn “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” was rewritten to include left-wing lyrics like “God rests you queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still.” I&#8217;m sorry. We just can&#8217;t. I mean, come on. But there&#8217;s plenty of wackiness to go around back here at home, too, where our own U.S. Marines could soon be told not to address their superiors as “sir” or “ma&#8217;am.” In order to avoid — are you ready?m— misgendering them. The University of Pittsburgh was paid $2 million by the Marines to come up with recommendations like this one. Or for more woke madness, just look to Detroit, where a school board just voted to remove the name of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and former HUD Secretary Ben Carson from a public high school because he&#8217;s a Republican. And Dr. Ben Carson joins me right now. He is the founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. Dr. Carson, of course, this isn&#8217;t your first round at the rodeo, is it? You&#8217;ve been right in the arena, you know what the deal is, you continue to serve this nation. And these are petty things. But when it comes to, as an example, conservatives on campus, and the nature of, I think you&#8217;ve probably heard about Stanford issuing this list of forbidden words, and what, you know, was meant for, you know, their IT group and you couldn&#8217;t say “American,” because that, you know, would upset the rest of the countries in North America, it gets down to being kind of like a pathology, or a pathological obsession. What is your take on our direction here these days?
DR. BEN CARSON: Well, thank you, Tammy. And Merry Christmas. You know, I talked, the first time I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1997, about the fact that political correctness, if we continued along that pathway, was going to destroy our nation. It has continued to get worse. Now, it&#8217;s morphed into wokeness. And we have a situation on our college campuses where students are afraid to express themselves, conservative students are. College is supposed to be a place where you explore, and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you&#8217;re going. And basically, what&#8217;s happening is people are being shut down. And it doesn&#8217;t have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know, big tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech. And if the government is compliant with that, it&#8217;s the same as if they&#8217;re doing it. And we, the American people, should be outraged about that. Our freedoms come from God — that’s stated in our Declaration of Independence, and yet we&#8217;re allowing them to be taken away from us. And now, we also have a government that is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives. You know, liberty and community was about what the people could do, not what the government could do. And it&#8217;s impacting us tremendously. You look at the omnibus bill that was just passed, and all the pork that&#8217;s in there, and all the programs, you know, these are not programs that the government is supposed to be doing. These are things that we the people are supposed to be doing, and how we&#8217;re supposed to be working together in our communities to strengthen ourselves. And we&#8217;re allowing all of that to be taken away from us. We don’t — most people don&#8217;t even know their neighbors anymore, don&#8217;t even know what their names are, have no idea who they are. All of these things are changing us from the dynamic and innovative people that we used to be, we had a system that encouraged innovation, and entrepreneurship. And we — most of the big inventions in the world came from the United States of America. But if everybody is thinking the same way and saying the same things, where&#8217;s that out of the box thinking that&#8217;s going to allow us to continue to be that beacon?
BRUCE: Well, it&#8217;s, I think that&#8217;s part of the thing that they want that the Left wants to stop — is that they resent America being a beacon. They don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a good thing because we, of course, encourage human ingenuity and personal freedom and that is the problem for the Left, because Americans don&#8217;t like the Left in that regard. And you&#8217;re an example, sir, of what they don&#8217;t want to have be reflected as a role model and as a potential career. And this is where we start getting people erased. So thank you, Dr. Carson, for your perspective once again.</blockquote>

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Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a> is a paragon of the American dream: raised by a poor single mother who forced him to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a> books instead of watching television in his spare time, he was able to lift himself from poverty in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/detroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit</a> and become a renowned neurosurgeon. In response to his four years of service in the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a>, community members pressed the city’s school board to scrub his name from the school christened in his honor.
Carson reacted to the decision earlier this week during an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-carson-name-removed-detroit-high-school-ideology-trumping-purpose-institutions.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing this wokeness spreading throughout our community to the destruction of our community,” he remarked. “How does it do any good for us to demonize people with whom we disagree and to teach that to our children at a time when the math scores are down, the reading scores are down, academic performance is down?&#8221;
Residents began pushing for officials in the Detroit Public Schools Community District to rename the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine soon after the physician was confirmed to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2017. One board member said that residents of the impoverished rust belt city “don’t support” the Trump administration, according to an <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.detroitnews.com%2Fstory%2Fopinion%2Fcolumnists%2Fnolan-finley%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Ffinley-dps-cancels-ben-carson-sends-awful-message%2F69727506007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in The Detroit News. Board member Sherry Gay-Dagnogo said that she has “received so many requests” from community members about Carson’s name due to the “many of the disparaging remarks he made from the administration that he clings to,” according to a <a href="https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/28/23376807/detroit-public-schools-ben-carson-east-english-village-name-change-dpscd-finney-crockett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Chalkbeat Detroit.
The opposition occurs even though Carson, who is black, had widely been regarded as a model for students seeking to lift themselves from difficult circumstances. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a medical degree from the University of Michigan, later becoming the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University at the age of 33, even though such opportunities were difficult to attain for African Americans at the time. He pioneered the use of hemispherectomies to treat severe pediatric epilepsies and successfully conducted several high-risk operations on conjoined twins.
Last month&#8217;s vote to change the name of the high school, which is <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/michigan/districts/detroit-public-schools-community-district/benjamin-carson-high-school-of-science-and-medicine-147442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three-quarters</a> black, reportedly occurred even though the majority of students who responded to a recent poll did not want to change the school&#8217;s name. Among multiple students opposing the name change interviewed by Chalkbeat Detroit in September was junior Antavia Ellis: “That’s the whole reason I came to this school, because I want to become a surgeon.”
Dozens of staffers who worked under Carson in the federal government penned an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/worked-ben-carson-know-canceling-just-not-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> published by Fox News likewise condemning the move. “The truth is, Dr. Carson should have dozens of schools named after him,” they wrote. “We firmly believe removing the name of a man like this leaves us all the worse off for it, especially the students this political stunt purports to set an example for. We hope each student aspires to be the type of leader Dr. Carson is: a compassionate and humble man that cares deeply about the future of our children.”
The retired physician, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008, also leads the Carson Scholars Fund, which <a href="https://carsonscholars.org/scholarships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grants</a> college scholarships to students who demonstrate academic excellence and community service. A devout Seventh-Day Adventist, he often speaks of his faith as a critical factor behind his successes.

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Ben Carson Responds As Detroit School Board Votes To Remove His Name From Majority Black High School Even Though Students Wanted To Keep It

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Conservative commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/larry-elder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Elder</a> joined country music legend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Rich</a> and retired neurosurgeon Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a> in purchasing a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bank</a> meant to safeguard customers from the modern financial system’s tendency to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censor</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel</a> dissidents.
The three co-founders and stockholders, accompanied by former Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/country-music-star-john-rich-launches-patriotic-bank-with-ben-carson-and-larry-elder-will-never-cancel-law-abiding-customers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared regulatory hurdles</a> to acquire First State Bank of Elmore City, Oklahoma, the state’s first and oldest bank, and renamed the financial institution Old Glory Bank. Elder remarked during an interview with The Daily Wire that the organization seeks to promote genuine American values in the marketplace.
“We cannot rely on big companies to stand with middle America when it really matters,” the seasoned radio and talk show host commented. “My co-founders and I, along with some very smart executives in banking and technology, got together to do our own thing.”
The bank, which will be backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, plans to support first responders and the military, as well as offer no-fee accounts, free overdraft protection, and early direct deposit access. The company also created Old Glory Pay; Elder, a recent gubernatorial candidate in California, said that the payment system means the bank does not rely upon third-party entities to send or receive money, rendering customers truly “cancel proof.”
“If the hard Left shuts down payments and banking for middle America, they win and we lose,” the Sage of South Central added. “As my partner John Rich always says, ‘We have to run for the hills, but first, we have to build it’ … Middle America now has a ‘real’ bank that identifies with their values. Middle America also now has a payment solution that will never cancel them for their lawful activities.”
When asked how many customers have registered for accounts, Elder declined to share specifics, but asserted that interest thus far aligns with the team’s “expectation of the pent-up demand by those who have felt marginalized.”
News of established banking entities and payment platforms violating the principles of free expression have made national headlines. PayPal, which has deplatformed several organizations and commentators for their political views, recently unveiled a change to its acceptable use policy that would have banned the promotion of “misinformation” and drawn $2,500 penalties from account holders deemed to be in violation. Within one day of The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> on the change, however, PayPal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paypal-reverses-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation-after-daily-wire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed</a> the guidelines and insisted that the document had been published “in error.”
Elder remarked that large corporations and other institutions, such as academia, the entertainment industry, and the legacy media, can justify suppressing conservative content and their “ability to freely engage in commerce as an act of patriotism” by labeling those outside of leftist orthodoxy as “semi-fascists” and other pejoratives. “What ‘big’ companies continue to show us is that their loud and woke employees can tip the scales of leadership’s major decisions,” he continued. “We saw this at Disney. We see this at Facebook. We knew this was happening at Twitter, and now Elon has confirmed it. And, we see this is happening at banks and payment processors.”
Companies such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-doubles-down-after-zuckerberg-reveals-how-facebook-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> have sanctioned conservatives over their stances on controversial social issues, including the LGBTQ movement and vaccine mandates. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-gofundmes-trucker-convoy-targeting-says-about-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe</a> seized funds raised for trucker protests in Canada earlier this year, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-happy-about-getting-google-to-suppress-crisis-pregnancy-centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> began suppressing search results for crisis pregnancy centers. Only 40% of Republicans presently believe that banks and large corporations have a positive effect on the nation, marking an 18% decline from three years ago, according to a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/17/anti-corporate-sentiment-in-u-s-is-now-widespread-in-both-parties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Pew Research Center.
“Banking does not have to be a commodity; you should be able to bank with a bank that shares your pro-American values,” Elder contended.

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‘Doing Hard Things To Help Protect Middle America’: Larry Elder On The ‘Cancel Proof’ Bank He Launched With John Rich And Ben Carson

Larry Elder Discusses The ‘Cancel Proof’ Bank He Launched With John Rich And Ben Carson

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Country music legend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Rich</a>, conservative commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/larry-elder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Larry Elder</a>, and retired neurosurgeon Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Carson</a> purchased a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bank</a> in order to promote American values and oppose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel culture</a> in the financial system.
The three co-founders and stockholders cleared regulatory hurdles to acquire First State Bank of Elmore City, Oklahoma, the state’s first and oldest bank, and will rename the financial institution Old Glory Bank. According to a <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221116005087/en/Old-Glory-Holding-Company-to-Acquire-First-State-Bank-of-Elmore-City-Oklahoma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, the company will “never cancel law-abiding customers for their beliefs or for exercising their lawful rights of free speech.”
“It’s been dismaying to see the political weaponization of the financial system,” Rich commented. “Old Glory Bank was created to be the full banking solution for folks who still believe in freedom and the greatness of America.”
Old Glory Bank clients will be permitted to round up to the nearest dollar every time they make a transaction and donate the funds to charity, including Oklahoma nonprofit organization Folds of Honor, which provides academic scholarships for the spouses and children of fallen soldiers. Among other leaders in the venture is William Shine, the former co-president of Fox News and president of Fox Business News, who serves as executive chairman.
The bank, which will be backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, plans to openly support first responders and the military, as well as offer no-fee accounts, free overdraft protection, and early direct deposit access. Old Glory Bank Senior Regulatory Officer Bennett Brown said that “cutting-edge digital technology” will permit customers from across the nation to access the company’s services.
“Old Glory Bank will serve lower- and middle-income Americans and those Americans that other banks have marginalized and ignored, hard-working patriots who keep this country running every day,” added Carson, who worked as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University before leading the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration.
The venture comes as established financial institutions grow increasingly hostile toward free expression. PayPal, which has deplatformed multiple organizations and commentators for their political views, unveiled a change to its acceptable use policy two months ago that would have banned the promotion of “misinformation” and drawn $2,500 penalties from account holders deemed to be in violation. Within one day of The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> on the policy change, however, PayPal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paypal-reverses-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation-after-daily-wire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed</a> the guidelines and claimed that they had been published “in error.”
PayPal trended on social media after the retracted acceptable use policy garnered public attention, leading thousands of customers to balk at the move and cancel their accounts. The company’s stock price <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-paypal-stock-plummets-after-daily-wire-report-exposes-shocking-misinformation-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell precipitously</a> in subsequent trading.
Other companies, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/allie-beth-stuckey-suspended-from-twitter-after-challenging-fox-news-segment-that-went-viral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-doubles-down-after-zuckerberg-reveals-how-facebook-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook,</a> have sanctioned conservatives over their positions on controversial social issues, including transgenderism, vaccine mandates, and homosexuality. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-gofundmes-trucker-convoy-targeting-says-about-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe</a> seized millions raised for trucker protests in Canada earlier this year, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-happy-about-getting-google-to-suppress-crisis-pregnancy-centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> began suppressing search results for crisis pregnancy centers.
“Greater encroachment by large technology and financial companies into public speech will only exacerbate Americans’ increasing mistrust of such institutions,” members of the Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senators-confront-paypal-on-misinformation-policy-highlighted-by-daily-wire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a letter to PayPal executives. “Policies that empower companies to punish individuals’ beliefs by acting as arbiters of fact in our ever-changing news and public debate environment represent poor business decisions. Instead, large technology and financial institutions should focus on serving the needs of their customers without bias.”

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Country Music Star John Rich Launches Patriotic Bank With Ben Carson And Larry Elder; Will ‘Never Cancel Law-Abiding Customers’

Country Music Star John Rich Starts Patriotic Bank With Ben Carson And Larry Elder

This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
FBI Looking Into Northwest Electricity Substations Attacks
The FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-report-five-electricity-substations-targeted-in-pacific-northwest-days-after-north-carolina-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> there have been reports of apparent attacks against at least five electricity substations in Washington State and Oregon in November. The incidents followed what appeared to be deliberate attacks on two substations in North Carolina that resulted in the loss of power for tens of thousands of residents.
Biden Gets Blowback For Prisoner Swap
President Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-enemies-have-a-best-friend-in-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered some blowback</a> from his own party for his agreement to a one-for-one swap of WNBA star Britney Griner for infamous Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as “The Merchant of Death.”
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez called it a “deeply disturbing decision,” saying quote, “The Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griner’s of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called ‘Merchant of Death.’ Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.”
Former Marine Disappointed He Hasn&#8217;t Been Freed
Paul Whelan, the former Marine who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-understand-marine-vet-left-in-russian-prison-greatly-disappointed-after-griner-swap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN that he doesn’t understand why the Biden administration hasn’t done more to free him, saying, “I am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four year anniversary of my arrest is coming up. I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.”
Biden&#8217;s Approval Remains Low
President Biden’s <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-approval-rating-holds-underwater-130431600.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approval rating</a> remains at 43% among U.S. adults, about the same as last month. 55% of people disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while just 25% of people describe the economy as “good.”
Detroit School Board Changes Name Of Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine
The Detroit School Board recently voted to change the name of Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, named for famed neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. The new name will be Crockett Midtown High School of Science and Medicine. Carson commented this week on the name change.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they believe that to solve a problem, you redefine it,&#8221; Carson recently <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/worked-ben-carson-know-canceling-just-not-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Call it something else and it&#8217;s not a problem anymore &#8230; basically it depends on people being less than intellectually strong. That’s a good way of saying stupid. They know exactly what’s going on.&#8221;
Theranos Executive Sentenced
Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/tech/sunny-balwani-theranos-trial-sentencing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company’s blood-testing fraud. That punishment is slightly longer than that given to CEO Elizabeth Homes, who was his accomplice in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest scandals. The 57-year-old was convicted in July of fraud and conspiracy connected to the company’s faulty medical technology that duped investors and endangered patients.
DOJ Claims &#8216;Bureaucratic Incompetence&#8217; In Whitey Bulger Killing
&#8220;Serious mismanagement,” “bureaucratic incompetence,” and bad policy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-ig-mismanagement-bureaucratic-incompetence-bad-policy-contributed-to-prison-murder-of-former-most-wanted-fugitive-whitey-bulger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributed</a> to the death of Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
That’s according to a report from the Department of Justice Inspector General released Wednesday. Bulger was killed in the Hazelton prison by three inmates in West Virginia shortly after being transferred from a federal prison in Florida. Bulger was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list in 1999 until his arrest in 2011.
Weekly Jobless Claims Increase 
And, weekly jobless claims <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-jobless-claims-modestly-last-133803693.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> by 4,000 to 230,000 and long-term or continuing claims rose by 62,000 to 1.67 million — a 10-month high — as the labor market remains tight.
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Friday Afternoon Update: More Electricity Substations Attacked, Biden Slammed For Prisoner Swap, Weekly Jobless Claims Increase

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> issued a dire warning about free speech in America during a rare glimpse of Trump’s inner circle caught on camera.
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-the-trailer-new-documentary-my-dinner-with-trump-puts-viewers-at-table-with-45s-braintrust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Dinner with Trump</a>,” a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire+</a> documentary featuring footage shot at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., golf club, captures the former president talking with key advisers at a crucial time in his post-presidency. During one part of the exclusive dinner, Trump derides the legacy media, blaming them for the erosion of free speech.
“Ben, there’s never been a period of time like this. The country is going bad,” the former president said to his Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. “You have the media is shut, closed, not free, corrupt as can be, and probably scared. You cannot get the word out unless you’re really good, and we’re pretty good, and we’re getting the word out.”
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Trump added that in all of American history, the media has never been so corrupt, and it’s evidence of something far more dangerous. Carson jumped in, arguing that many Americans don’t realize how free speech can be taken away even without government intrusion. Carson’s warning seems prescient given fresh reports on how the FBI and other federal agencies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-tech-worked-closely-with-the-fbi-and-dhs-to-police-disinformation/">worked hand-in-glove</a> with Facebook and Twitter to censor conservatives under the guise of fighting “disinformation.”
“I don’t think people actually recognize what’s happening because we talk about liberties and freedom of speech. They think that that can only be taken away by the federal government,” Carson responded. “But the fact of the matter is Big Tech and the media take it away with a complicit government is exactly the same effect. And that’s what we have to make sure people understand.”
The extraordinary gathering took place in mid-2021, after Trump had been deplatformed by social media giants, continued to face unrelenting scorn from the legacy media, and battled accusations from top Democrats that he sparked the January 6 Capitol riot. The massive effort to silence and marginalize the 45th president makes the film’s insight into his mindset all the more compelling.
“If you do something spectacular, they don’t talk about it. If you do something not so good, they’ll make it into a travesty. If the other side does something bad, really bad, you will never see it,” Trump added. “You will never find it &#8230; they erase it, they cancel it. And there’s never been a period of time like that in our country’s history. There’s never been. And that’s the way communism starts. And that’s where communism goes. And we can’t let it happen. We’re not going to let it happen.”
WATCH:
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Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

‘We Can’t Let It Happen’: Trump Warns Inner Circle Of Free Speech Erosion In New Documentary

Trump Warns Inner Circle Of Free Speech Erosion In New Documentary

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When former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald Trump</a> held court over a dinner table with 17 members of his inner circle, a camera was there to capture a rare glimpse of the 45th president&#8217;s unguarded rapport with his braintrust.
“My Dinner with Trump,” a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire+</a> documentary featuring footage shot at Trump&#8217;s Bedminster, N.J., golf club, captures the former president talking with key advisers at a crucial time in his post-presidency. Trump’s penchant for delivering withering assessments of his adversaries is on full display in the 73-minute film, which premieres Thursday.
“They are corrupt people,” Trump says of Democrats. “They’re sick. And they’re corrupt. And we will win. And we have no choice but to win.”
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In other unguarded comments, Trump reveals part of a startling conversation he had with former President Obama about North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, likens current Pentagon Secretary Mark Milley to a bad-weather implement, and marvels at how the scandals of the Left always seem to evade the news cycle.
“If the other side does something bad, really bad, you will never see it, you will never find it,” Trump says. “They erase it, they cancel it, and there’s never been a period of time like that in our country’s history.”
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Daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, top adviser Kellyanne Conway, and Dr. Ben Carson, who served as Trump’s HUD secretary, are among the luminaries at the table.
The high-powered group’s deliberations and candid conversations on the slowing economy, border crisis, foreign policy, the Biden family, and more seem in some cases prophetic. The extraordinary gathering took place in mid-2021, after Trump had been deplatformed by social media giants, continued to face unrelenting scorn from the legacy media, and battled accusations from top Democrats that he sparked the January 6 Capitol riot. The massive effort to silence and marginalize the 45thpresident makes the film’s insight into his mindset all the more compelling.
Carson notes that Trump’s enemies in government teamed up with media outlets to silence Trump, an observation that seems prescient given <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-tech-worked-closely-with-the-fbi-and-dhs-to-police-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fresh reports</a> on how the FBI and other federal agencies worked hand-in-glove with Facebook and Twitter to censor conservatives under the guise of fighting “disinformation.”
“When we talk about liberties and freedom of speech, they think that that can only be taken away by the federal government, but the fact of the matter is, big tech and the media take it away with complicit government, it’s exactly the same effect,” the neurosurgeon says.
Others at the gathering included former White House press secretary and likely next governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders; key economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino; former Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf; top policy adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller; onetime spokesman Jason Miller; retired U.S. Army Three-Star Gen. Keith Kellogg; Trump&#8217;s Florida political consultant Susie Wiles; and senior adviser Kevin Hassett.
The group praises Trump&#8217;s leadership, with key trade adviser Robert Lighthizer telling Trump he is now the standard bearer for working class Americans, Kushner praising his father-in-law’s muscular foreign policy, and Miller noting that Trump’s efforts to secure the Mexican border, now effectively reversed by the Biden administration, stopped drugs, human trafficking, and terrorists in their tracks.
&#8220;When we came into office, it was a disaster,&#8221; Miller says. &#8220;We had…cartels… drugs… child smuggling, we had terrorists coming into our country. What you did in four years… you gave this country the most secure border that it has ever had, and it’s not even close.”

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SEE THE TRAILER: New Documentary ‘My Dinner With Trump’ Puts Viewers At Table With 45’s Braintrust

New Documentary 'My Dinner With Trump' Puts Viewers At Table With 45's Braintrust

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Famed neurosurgeon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-carson">Ben Carson</a>, who served as former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">President Trump’s</a> secretary of Housing and Urban Development, blasted the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, comparing the action to those of infamous communist tyrants Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.
Prior to serving under Trump, Carson had become famous for leading surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins who were joined at the back of the head and performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb.
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Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening. This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.
&mdash; Ben &amp; Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/1556835194799329282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening,” Carson tweeted. “This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.”
Mao Zedong, who ruled communist China with an iron fist, murdered roughly 45 million people between 1958 to 1962 with his “Great Leap Forward” policy, The Washington Post has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/">noted</a>. His “Anti-Rightist Campaign” between 1957 and 1959 featured the persecution of people who favored capitalism or opposed one-party rule and state-run collectivization.
As for Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro, Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression">asserted</a>, “As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights. Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”
In contrast, Abraham Lincoln exhorted in his timeless first Inaugural Address: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“Our Republic is one where we have the freedom to think, say, and believe what we want without fear of government intimidation, that includes the President. If we lose those basic freedoms, we lose it all,” Carson stated. “I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing.”
“Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up,” he warned.
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I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing. Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up. <a href="https://t.co/PzYR8xiXM3">pic.twitter.com/PzYR8xiXM3</a>
&mdash; Ben &amp; Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/1556835212306391041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ben Carson Compares FBI Raid To Communist Tyrants: ‘This Is The Way Of Mao And Castro’

Ben Carson Compares FBI Raid To Communist Tyrants: 'This Is The Way Of Mao And Castro'

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