Much like the media talking heads and elected Democrats who waited until former President Joe Biden was well clear of political risk before they admitted he was not in top form, a number of those in his inner circle kept mum on the subject until President Donald Trump had returned to the White House.
In closed door testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, more than a dozen former Biden aides fielded the usual questions that follow any political scandal or cover-up: Who knew what? And when did they know it?
The Oversight Committee released a report on Tuesday on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;autopen presidency&#8217; — which sought to determine what decisions were made directly by President Biden and how many times might the autopen have been used to sign his name without his understanding of the issue or his knowledge that it was even happening. In pursuit of that information, they heard from 14 former Biden aides — some of whom took the fifth, and some of whom revealed the concerns they had previously left unspoken.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, a few revealed that despite making the rounds on the cable news shows in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aide-defended-bidens-mental-capacity-dozens-of-times-heres-how-many-times-he-met-with-biden">Biden&#8217;s defense</a>, they had rarely spoken to the president, much less seen him in person.
Biden&#8217;s White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told Oversight that the president increasingly forgot names — even names of people he saw regularly, as his presidency progressed. He also recalled working to &#8220;reduce the number of steps&#8221; Biden would take in order to decrease the risk that he might fall.
Months prior to Biden&#8217;s exit from the presidential race, in early 2024, Zients had referred to Biden as &#8220;energized&#8221; and voiced his confidence in a successful reelection campaign.
Senior Communications Advisor Anita Dunn defended Biden even after his disastrous debate appearance on CNN, telling MSNBC that &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t his greatest debate,&#8221; but insisting that Biden &#8220;has been a great president, and that is the case he is going to take to the American people.&#8221;
But behind closed doors — and after Biden had stepped away from the public eye — Dunn told members of the committee, &#8220;I thought his voice was softer and that his childhood stutter reappeared.&#8221;
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Biden&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Ron Klain revealed the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnFD4sWPRE">exact moment</a> during the CNN debate that he&#8217;d exclaimed, &#8220;We&#8217;re f***ed!&#8221;: Biden had given a lengthy and nonsensical answer to a question, and had ended his ramble with the phrase, &#8220;We beat Medicare.&#8221;
Klain also noted that the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/biden-decline-impairment-president-house-report.html">debate prep sessions</a> had concerned him, but had not alarmed him in the same way that the final performance had.
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Just a few months earlier, Klain had been on MSNBC and <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/now-it-can-be-told-biden-insiders-who-publicly-praised-his-fitness-sang-a-different-tune-in-closed-door-testimony/">had insisted</a> that Biden continued to be &#8220;great in meetings in the White House.&#8221;
Mike Donilon, a senior campaign strategist, admitted to Oversight that he had been part of the White House&#8217;s and the campaign&#8217;s efforts to limit Biden&#8217;s travel and activities, saying at one point that it was &#8220;a lot to ask&#8221; to have the president fly from Europe to Los Angeles.
But at an <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/14/iop-donilon-biden-democrat/">event at Harvard</a> in February of 2025 — even after Biden had left the White House — Donilon continued to defend him. &#8220;I don’t know how much time any of those people spent with him—I know how much time I spent with him,&#8221; Donilon said at the time. &#8220;I know what I saw. What I can tell you is every time I saw Biden overseas, especially in Ukraine and NATO, he was the voice in the room.&#8221;
Former Biden Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-host-baffled-as-biden-press-sec-insists-she-saw-nothing-wrong-with-her-boss-how">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> has remained entirely consistent, saying even in interviews promoting her new book that she never saw anything to make her believe that Biden was not at the top of his game. When the Oversight Committee spoke with her, she stood firm in that position and repeatedly referred them to the memo provided by Biden&#8217;s official physician, Kevin O&#8217;Connor. O&#8217;Connor, when questioned, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) demanded Thursday that a radical pro-abortion organization provide answers on its involvement with the Biden administration’s targeting of peaceful pro-life protesters, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. 
In a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/10.16.25-CR-to-NAF-Gonen-re-DOJ-coordination.pdf">letter</a> to the National Abortion Federation, Roy gave the organization two weeks to provide documents and communications on its relationship with former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. The letter comes after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-fbi-worked-with-radical-pro-abortion-group-to-target-pro-lifers-emails-show">reported last month</a> about emails that appeared to show that a pro-abortion group had worked with Biden’s FBI and DOJ to investigate Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) cases. 
Under Biden, elderly grandparents, devout Christians, and other pro-life activists were sent to prison over FACE Act convictions. Republicans have argued that these prosecutions were politically motivated. Roy, the chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, is heading up an investigation into the abuse of the FACE Act. 
“Documents indicate that the Biden-Harris DOJ may have coordinated with radical anti-life groups, including the National Abortion Federation (NAF), to prosecute peaceful pro-life demonstrators,” Roy wrote, citing The Daily Wire. “This coordination raises significant questions about the Biden-Harris DOJ’s misuse of the FACE Act.”
The documents, which were obtained by the Functional Government Initiative, included an email from National Abortion Federation Security Manager Robert Ledogar saying that his organization has “been part of several FACE Act investigations working with [assistant U.S. attorneys] and the FBI in TN, FL, VA, CA, NY, MD, and NC.” The email also touted the “amazing relationship” between the NAF and the Biden administration. 
“The Biden-Harris Administration weaponized the federal government to target its political opponents, including by selectively enforcing the FACE Act against pro-life Americans,” Roy wrote to the NAF. “During the Biden-Harris Administration, DOJ used the FACE Act to target prayer and peaceful demonstration near abortion clinics while failing to prosecute criminals who vandalized or threatened pro-life pregnancy counseling centers.”
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Roy noted that the apparent relationship between the NAF and DOJ raised questions about testimony from National Abortion Federation lawyer Talcott Camp when she told Congress in May 2023 that she had no contact with the Biden administration related to the FACE Act. That testimony came five months after Ledogar bragged in January 2023 about the NAF’s relationship with the DOJ. 
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“Given her senior position at NAF, the Committee has questions about who was engaging with the Biden-Harris DOJ regarding FACE Act prosecution,” Roy wrote Thursday. 
It is unclear which specific FACE Act investigations the National Abortion Federation was involved in, but at least two of the states referenced by Ledogar had major FACE Act prosecutions. 
For example, six pro-lifers in Tennessee faced over 10 years in prison after they were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest">convicted</a> of violating the FACE Act and conspiring against rights. Three of the pro-lifers were sentenced to prison over that case, which involved a group of Christians singing and praying inside the hallway of an office building outside an abortion facility.
“To develop effective legislation ensuring that civil rights laws are not used to target Americans who engage in protected speech, the Committee must understand the extent to which the Biden-Harris DOJ worked with ideologically-aligned groups to target pro-life Americans,” Roy wrote. 
The House Judiciary Committee voted earlier this year to repeal the FACE Act, citing its disproportionate use against pro-life defendants. Since its inception, data obtained by Roy shows that over 90% of FACE cases have targeted pro-lifers, even though it is supposed to protect crisis pregnancy centers and churches as well.

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We already know that Joe Biden and his administration put America last. They allowed millions of illegal immigrants to pour over our border and let inflation run wild.
What is less known is how the Biden Administration manipulated data from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-states-benefited-from-2020-census-mistakes-as-red-states-suffered-losses">2020 Census</a> for the benefit of illegal immigrants to the detriment of Americans. 
The Biden administration was tasked with interpreting and publishing the results of the 2020 Census. To do this, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/census-bureau">Census Bureau</a> used a shady new privacy “formula” called “differential privacy” to manipulate raw data. This formula purposely inserts false demographic data into individual voting districts (called blocks for census purposes) in order to make it impossible to guess individual residents&#8217; identities within a census block.
The new methodology scrambled the populations of states and voting districts and deceived voters about the demographics of their own districts. By the Biden Administration’s own admission, the 2020 Census dramatically miscounted the population in fourteen states. Republican states were disproportionately undercounted while Democrat states were disproportionately overcounted.
If each state’s population was accurately reported by the 2020 Census, then Florida would have had two additional Congressional seats, Texas would have had one additional seat, and Minnesota, Rhode Island and Colorado all would have had one fewer member of Congress.
This clearly has massive political implications. The Biden Administration effectively cooked the books to make it easier for a Democrat to win the White House. If the 2020 Census was accurate, a Republican could win office by simply winning the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, with no need to win either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin.
These mistakes also meant that Americans went without the representation they rightly deserve. The error becomes grave when one considers that our founding fathers fought a revolution over the need for proper representation in government.
Even more aggravating is that differential privacy was adopted in part because it protects and empowers illegal aliens. John Abowd, one of the Census officials who architected differential privacy, <a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/process/disclosure-avoidance/differential-privacy.html">defended the method</a> as a way to shield illegal aliens.
Put simply: the Biden Administration bent over backwards to help illegals in a way that watered down the representation Americans deserve.
This must be resolved.
I sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week asking the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau to correct these errors and publish the original, untampered 2020 census data so that states can fully understand the apportionment errors that resulted from Biden’s cooked reports.
I’m confident that Secretary Lutnick will solve this and ensure that the Census Bureau abandons this flawed methodology. That these errors happened in the first place is an embarrassment. The 2010 census had no similar miscount.
Furthermore, it is crucial that the Census Bureau take steps to ensure that the 2030 Census does not allocate political power to illegal aliens. A procedural ruling from the Supreme Court stopped the 2020 Census from requesting citizenship status, but I believe that President Trump’s attempts to exclude illegal aliens from the census are an appropriate exercise of his duties to protect and defend the Constitution and enforce federal law. Counting illegal aliens as part of a state’s population means that states with more illegal aliens get more government funding and more voting power. This creates a perverse incentive structure that benefits sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.
Research from the <a href="https://cis.org/Press-Release/Immigration-Shifts-Political-Power">Center for Immigration Studies shows</a> that illegal immigrants captured in the 2020 Census redistributed 2 congressional seats and that the illegal immigrant population could redistribute up to 7 seats by 2030. This is unacceptable.
We used to be able to quickly build bridges in this country and accurately conduct a census. The government must be able to conduct the basic tasks that citizens rely on.
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U.S. Senator Jim Banks represents the state of Indiana. He serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and the Committee on Veterans&#8217; Affairs.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Former President Joe Biden is receiving radiation treatment for about five weeks for his advanced prostate cancer, according to a spokesperson.
&#8220;As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Biden has been taking a pill form of hormone medication, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/former-president-joe-biden-radiation-therapy-prostate-cancer-rcna237019?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=68ea5740399eb60001a9aacb&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">according</a> to NBC News.
The 82-year-old&#8217;s team <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/joe-biden-undergoing-radiation-in-new-phase-of-prostate-cancer-treatment-spokesperson-says/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">says</a> Biden is &#8220;doing well.&#8221;
Biden first disclosed his aggressive cancer diagnosis back in May, mere months after he left office. At the time, it was reported that Biden had metastatic prostate cancer that had moved from the prostate all the way to his bones.
&#8220;Cancer touches us all,&#8221; Biden said on X, back in May. &#8220;Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.&#8221;
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Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support. <a href="https://t.co/oSS1vGIiwU">pic.twitter.com/oSS1vGIiwU</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1924427587582828753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
The diagnosis brought well-wishes and prayers from both sides of the political aisle, but it also raised questions &#8212; specifically, when did Biden insiders know about the cancer and how long did they wait to tell the public?
As noted by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-was-senile-had-cancer-and-they-knew">Ben Shapiro</a>, prostate cancer is not a fast-moving cancer, and usually takes years to develop to the point of metastasis.
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There have also been questions surrounding Biden&#8217;s mental fitness and his use of the &#8220;autopen&#8221; while he was serving as president.
In June, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal">signed a memo</a> ordering an investigation into the matter, specifically calling for Counsel to the President to look into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden’s health issues while in office.
The memo directs officials to determine if “certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
Additionally, there&#8217;s a House Oversight Committee investigation into the matter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-was-senile-had-cancer-and-they-knew">Biden Was Senile, Had Cancer, And They Knew</a>

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Louisiana sued the FDA this week for allowing the unfettered mailing of abortion drugs across the country.
The suit, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952.1.0.pdf">filed</a> Monday by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, accused the FDA of enabling leftist activists to mail abortion pills into states like Louisiana, where chemical abortions are illegal. Murrill asked the court to strike down the FDA’s approval during the Biden administration of mail-order abortion pills.
“Every year, doctors and activists in states like California and New York mail a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved abortion drug called mifepristone to thousands of Louisiana residents for the express purpose of causing abortions in Louisiana that are blatantly unlawful,” the suit said. “This extra-territorial mailing of abortion drugs is illegal under state law—and it is the direct result of the Biden Administration’s 2023 agency action expressly facilitating this scheme. That action is the subject of this lawsuit.”
In 2023, the Biden administration changed the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for mifepristone, the drug used in over 60% of all abortions, allowing it to be sent through the mail.
Mifepristone works by starving an unborn child to death by cutting it off from the necessary nutrients provided by its mother. A different drug is then taken to induce labor and expel the deceased baby.
Murrill argued in the suit that the FDA’s regulations for mifepristone are “arbitrary and capricious” and violate the Comstock Act, a federal law that bans the mailing of abortion drugs. Joining the suit was Rosalie Markezich, a woman who says her boyfriend ordered illegal abortion pills from California and was then pressured into taking them to end the life of her unborn child.
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In response to a request for comment on the suit, the Department of Health and Human Services said that it does not comment on pending litigation. HHS did point The Daily Wire to its commitment to conducting a study on the reported adverse effects of mifepristone.
“The Biden administration removed mifepristone’s in-person dispensing rule without studying the safety risks. We are filling that gap. Last month, I joined [FDA Commissioner Marty Makary] in writing to state attorneys general, pledging to review all the evidence — including real-world outcomes — on the safety of this drug. Recent studies already point to serious risks when mifepristone is used without proper medical oversight,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1973866621245567344">said</a> earlier this month.
The suit comes after pro-life advocates were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifers-demand-answers-from-trump-admin-after-shocking-abortion-pill-approval?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pro-Lifers+Demand+Answers+From+Trump+Admin+After+‘Shocking’+Abortion+Pill+Approval">shocked</a> last week after the FDA approved a new generic mifepristone pill. Fifty-two Republican senators sent a <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-10/2025.10.09%20-%20Letter%20from%20Senator%20Graham%20et%20al%20to%20HHS%20and%20FDA%20re%20Mifepristone.pdf">letter</a> on Thursday to the FDA and HHS urging them to scrap the regulations that allow the mailing of abortion drugs.
The FDA has said that it was required by law to approve the new generic drug and noted that it was conducting a review of the Biden guidelines. On a press call on Wednesday, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said she was skeptical of that reasoning.
“This standard only seems to apply to this particular drug. It [has] certainly not been the standard for other drugs where there were questions that needed to be asked, that needed to get answers from those that were developing the drugs,” she said.

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The illegal immigrant shot and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-shot-and-killed-after-wounding-ice-agent-in-chicago">killed</a> by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Chicago last week was previously given a second chance of staying in the United States by the Biden administration, which granted him a deportation waiver despite a past arrest, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.
The Biden administration granted Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez reprieve despite his 2013 arrest by the Chicago Police Department for reckless driving, assault, speeding, and lacking a license and insurance, the sources said.
Villegas-Gonzalez struck the ICE agent with his vehicle on Friday while the feds were conducting an operation at Franklin Park.
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The suspect was asked to stop his vehicle, but continued driving, hitting the agent and “subsequently dragging him as he fled the scene,” an ICE spokesman <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/person-shot-after-ice-agent-apparently-dragged-by-vehicle-in-franklin-park-sources-say/3823259/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC 5 Chicago.
“Fearing for his life,” the agent shot the driver.
The ICE agent sustained severe injuries, but remained in stable condition after being dragged “a significant distance,” said Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
Former assistant ICE chief for New York Scott Mechkowski told The Daily Wire that Villegas-Gonzalez should’ve been deported more than a decade ago.
“The ICE agent&#8217;s split second decision to shoot saved his own life and possibly other lives when Villegas-Gonzalez floored it, dragging him. It was pure self-defense against a man who&#8217;d been shielded for years by Chicago&#8217;s insane sanctuary policies letting a 2013 assault suspect roam free,” said Mechkowski.
“Sanctuary cities don&#8217;t protect innocent people, they shield killers in waiting, and when enforcement finally fights back like our agents did, it’s the only thing standing between us and blood on the streets. He should have been removed in 2013,” Mechkowski added.
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The agent and suspect were taken to a hospital before Villegas-Gonzalez was pronounced dead.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-storm-hits-chicago-trump-launches-operation-midway-blitz">commenced</a> “Operation Midway Blitz” last week, flooding the Windy City with feds to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”
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Anti-ICE activists have flocked to the streets of Chicago in response to the effort. Federal agents forcibly removed some of the protesters who staged a recent sit-in at an ICE facility on Friday, ABC 7 Chicago <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-operation-midway-blitz-protesters-gather-outside-broadview-facility-amid-trumps-chicago-immigration-crackdown/17799687/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Trump has also vowed to send in the National Guard to support ICE’s efforts in Chicago, drawing backlash from Democratic leaders in the sanctuary city.
The president and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have sparred since the effort began.
“It’s disturbing that the President is hellbent on sending troops onto America’s streets. Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting. None of this is normal,” <a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1966495212437397801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pritzker</a> wrote on X Friday.

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EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Immigrant Fatally Shot By ICE Agent Received Deportation Waiver Under Biden

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Israel conducts a precision strike against senior Hamas leaders in Qatar after the terror group rejects a new peace proposal from President Trump. The Bureau of Labor Statistics admits it overcounted U.S. jobs by nearly a million last year in the largest downward revision in American history. Whistleblowers testify before Congress about firsthand UFO sightings as lawmakers from both parties demand the government stop its cover-up.
It’s Wednesday, September 10, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Israel Strikes Hamas Leaders in Qatar After Peace Deal Rejected</h2>
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Topline: Israel conducted a precision strike against senior Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, just a day after the terror group rejected a new ceasefire proposal from President Trump.
The strike targeted top Hamas officials who have been living and operating out of Qatar, which has served as a protected refuge for the terror group&#8217;s leadership. It appears to be the first time Israel has struck Hamas officials inside the country. Qatar condemned the attack as a &#8220;blatant violation of all international laws and norms.&#8221; The White House said the U.S. was notified of the attack ahead of time and, in turn, informed Qatar. President Trump &#8220;believes this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for peace,&#8221; said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The strike came shortly after Hamas rejected a new peace proposal from the Trump administration, calling it a &#8220;humiliating surrender document.&#8221; The proposal would have required Hamas to release all remaining hostages in exchange for Israel releasing thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
The events follow a separate Hamas terror attack in Jerusalem on Monday that killed six people and wounded 12 others.
<h2>U.S. Jobs Numbers Slashed in Largest Revision in History</h2>
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Topline: The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday announced that it had overcounted U.S. jobs by nearly one million last year, the largest downward revision in American history, confirming President Trump’s claims that the economy he inherited was far weaker than reported.
In its annual revision, the BLS announced that from March 2024 to March 2025, the economy added 910,000 fewer jobs than was initially reported. The more than 50% downward revision means the economy was adding only 70,000 jobs per month during that period, not 147,000. The White House said the news makes it &#8220;very clear that President Trump inherited a much worse economy &#8230; than ever reported&#8221; and proves that the Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest rate policy has been &#8220;far too restrictive.&#8221;
The massive revision reinforces the president&#8217;s push to overhaul the BLS, an agency he has accused of producing inaccurate data. &#8220;Much like the CDC, everything is wrong with the Bureau of Labor Statistics,&#8221; said Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), who is in charge of confirming Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the agency. &#8220;We need someone &#8230; to come in there and turn that place upside down.&#8221;
The shocking report makes it much more likely that the Fed will finally cut interest rates later this month, a move President Trump has been demanding for months.
<h2>Whistleblowers Testify to Congress About UFO Cover-up</h2>
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Topline: Military whistleblowers testified before a congressional task force on Tuesday about their firsthand encounters with UFOs, as lawmakers from both parties demanded an end to what they say is a decades-long government cover-up.
In the third congressional hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) since 2023, two veterans described their own sightings. One recounted seeing a &#8220;tic-tac-shaped object&#8221; emerge from the ocean, while another described a 100-foot-long triangular craft that flew within feet of him and interfered with his telephone before rapidly ascending with no sound or kinetic disturbance. In the hearing’s most shocking moment, a congressman shared a never-before-seen video of a Hellfire missile striking a UAP with seemingly no effect.
The hearing highlighted a growing bipartisan consensus that the government is hiding the truth about UFOs. &#8220;This is not science fiction,&#8221; said Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who is leading the task force. &#8220;This is about national security, government accountability, and the American people’s right to the truth.” Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz summed up the mood of the hearing, saying, &#8220;I do know when we’re being lied to, and we are definitely being lied to.&#8221;

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The jobs market during former President Joe Biden’s last year in office was much worse than previously reported, data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prebmk.nr0.htm">revised</a> job numbers showing that there were 911,000 fewer jobs than reported from April 2024 to March 2025. The Trump administration responded to the massive overcount by saying it demonstrated the need for new leadership at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “This is exactly why we need new leadership to restore trust and confidence in the BLS’ data on behalf of the financial markets, businesses, policymakers, and families that rely on this data to make major decisions.”
Last month, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fires-biden-appointed-labor-statistics-boss-after-major-revisions-to-jobs-reports">fired</a> BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of manipulating the jobs numbers for political purposes. Trump has nominated Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to take her place.
Leavitt added that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should respond to the news by cutting interest rates, saying that he had “run out of excuses” not to do so. Trump has been pressuring Powell to lower interest rates for months and has even floated the idea of firing the Fed chair.
The revisions indicate that the Bureau of Labor Statistics overcounted private sector non-farm jobs by 880,000 and government employment by 31,000. In the private sector, jobs were overcounted by 126,200 in retail trade, 110,300 in wholesale trade, leisure and hospitality by 176,000, professional and business service by 158,000, and manufacturing by 95,000.
“Considering these reports are the foundation of economic forecasts and major policy decisions, there is no room for such a significant and consistent amount of error. It’s imperative for the data to remain accurate, impartial, and never altered for political gain,” said Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
“Leaders at the bureau failed to improve their practices during the Biden administration, utilizing outdated methods that rendered a once reliable system completely ineffective and calling into question the motivation behind their inaction,” she added.

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Job Market Under Joe Biden Was Much Worse Than Previously Known

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A task force created by President Donald Trump has revealed countless examples of apparent government weaponization against Christians and other faithful Americans during the Biden administration years.
The Task Force to Eradicate Anti‑Christian Bias &#8212; which was created through an executive order and is chaired by Attorney General Pam Bondi &#8212; concluded in a preliminary report that during the Biden era, there were &#8220;numerous instances of anti-Christian bias.&#8221;
The report details the incidents, which came from a number of government entities, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-task-force-finds-numerous-instances-anti-christian-government-bias-under-biden">outlined</a> by Fox News.
The Department of Defense, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Department of Labor, for example, mishandled or denied requests for religious exemptions to the Biden COVID shot mandate. Notably, the Biden administration stood by the mandate until it was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court following a Daily Wire legal challenge.
Biden&#8217;s Department of Education also seemed to target Christian colleges, like Liberty University and Grand Canyon University, with outlandish multimillion-dollar fines. The report also noted Biden&#8217;s Department of Treasury de-banking many pro-Christian groups.
Other well known acts of anti-Christian bias were addressed in the report, such as the Biden administration&#8217;s clear weaponization of the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act against pro-life Christians. As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-rolls-back-bidens-aggressive-prosecution-of-pro-lifers">The Daily Wire</a>, Biden was able to lock up nearly a dozen peaceful pro-life protesters by, in part, using the FACE Act. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/2023-witnessed-continued-attacks-on-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-churches">dozens</a> of pro-life pregnancy centers and dozens of churches were vandalized or even set ablaze &#8212; with few delayed repercussions. &#8220;[The Biden] DOJ refused to apply the FACE Act to protect places of worship and crisis pregnancy centers,&#8221; the report asserts.
Another well-known example highlighted in the report is the Biden FBI memo targeting &#8220;radical-traditionalist&#8221; Catholics as &#8220;domestic terrorism threats.&#8221;
The report&#8217;s &#8220;conclusion&#8221; says that numerous investigations &#8220;remain in their early stages,&#8221; however, &#8220;the evidence uncovered is unmistakable: during the Biden Administration, people of faith, particularly Christians, were repeatedly subjected to anti-religious bias at the hands of their own government.&#8221;
&#8220;Attorney General Bondi and the Task Force are resolved to end that pattern once and for all,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Over the next twenty months, the Task Force will pursue its mandate with vigor, conducting robust investigations, enforcing the rule of law, and ensuring that the Trump Administration’s commitment to equal treatment of all faiths is fully realized.&#8221;
&#8220;By eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government, the Task Force is reaffirming a principle older than the Republic itself, that freedom of religion is not granted by government but guaranteed against it,&#8221; the report adds. &#8220;America must remain One Nation Under God if she is to remain Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All. The Task Force will never permit the federal government to be used as a weapon against faith.&#8221;
&#8220;The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over. Faith is not a liability in America—it is a liberty,&#8221; the report says.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-rolls-back-bidens-aggressive-prosecution-of-pro-lifers">Trump DOJ Rolls Back Biden’s Aggressive Prosecution Of Pro-Lifers</a>

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Bombshell DOJ Report Details Biden-Era Anti-Christian Attacks, Vows To End Weaponization

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Ian Sams worked as an aide and spokesman for former President Joe Biden, and was often asked to defend the president’s physical health and cognitive abilities – but according to recent testimony, Sams only actually met with then-President Biden face-to-face on two occasions.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Committee Chairman, laid out the details after hearing Sams’ testimony on Thursday — remarking in particular that he himself may have spent more time with Biden than Sams had.
“Ian Sams, a top Biden White House spokesman, just admitted to Congress he barely ever interacted with Joe Biden — yet he was the loudest voice insisting Joe was ‘fit,’” Comer captioned a video of himself speaking with reporters after Sams’ testimony.
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🚨 Ian Sams, a top Biden White House spokesman, just admitted to Congress he barely ever interacted with Joe Biden—yet he was the loudest voice insisting Joe was “fit.”
Ian parroted talking points from Biden’s handlers, not firsthand experience. <a href="https://t.co/ySil6MPcg5">pic.twitter.com/ySil6MPcg5</a>
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1958561904273584520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Ian Sams, who was the White House spokesperson for a significant amount of Joe Biden’s time as president, interacted with him two times,” Comer told C-Span. “I interacted more with Joe Biden than Joe Biden’s spokesperson.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesComer</a>: &#8220;Ian Sams, who was the White House spokesperson for a significant amount of Joe Biden&#8217;s time as president, interacted with him two times&#8230;I interacted more with Joe Biden than Joe Biden&#8217;s spokesperson.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/x47pgyXsk1">pic.twitter.com/x47pgyXsk1</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1958571479269867772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Think about this: I had more face time with Joe Biden than his own spokesman Ian Sams did. In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams did. Ian Sams had no standing to say Joe Biden was ‘on top of his game,’” Comer added.
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Think about this: I had more face time with Joe Biden than his own spokesman Ian Sams did.
In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams did.
Ian Sams had no standing to say Joe Biden was ‘on top of his game.’ <a href="https://t.co/WNpPLsq1zn">https://t.co/WNpPLsq1zn</a>
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1958590530306363429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The fact that Sams had no regular, in-person contact with his boss did nothing to deter him from putting up a vigorous defense of his capabilities — a defense that the public now knows was baseless.
As former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer pointed out, “In July 2024 the same Ian Sams said: ‘When I deal with him, he’s sharp. He’s asking tough questions.’”
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In July 2024 the same Ian Sams said:
“When I deal with him, he&#8217;s sharp. He&#8217;s asking tough questions.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/J27Dsul4nb">https://t.co/J27Dsul4nb</a>
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/1958617242691625107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comer released a full statement following Sams’ testimony:
<blockquote>Ian Sams frequently spoke publicly and with apparent authority about President Biden’s mental fitness and state of mind. However, Mr. Sams admitted he had very limited interaction with the President—identifying only two in-person meetings, one virtual meeting, and one phone call. In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with President Biden than Mr. Sams did.
Rather than drawing conclusions from firsthand experience, Mr. Sams received much of his direction from the White House Counsel and Biden’s inner circle. Mr. Sams repeatedly made broad public claims about the President’s cognitive condition, but he was not in a position to make these claims based on such limited contact.
Mr. Sams’s testimony raises serious questions about who is truly calling the shots in the White House. We will continue to press for answers to ensure full transparency for the American people.</blockquote>

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Mark Crosby arrived in court last week to attend the sentencing of the man who punched and kicked him in the head outside of a Baltimore Planned Parenthood prepared for his attacker to get a light sentence. 
Before the sentencing began, Crosby, 75, sat outside the courtroom holding up photos of his bloodied face as his assailant, 28-year-old Patrick Brice, paced nervously down the hall. Crosby also carried with him the blood stained shirt he was wearing when he was attacked and a list of peaceful pro-life protesters who were jailed during the Biden administration. 
Brice was convicted earlier this year of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges for attacking Crosby and then 84-year-old Dick Schaefer as they stood outside a downtown Baltimore Planned Parenthood facility urging women not to get abortions. Surveillance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-full-video-shows-lead-up-to-brutal-attack-of-elderly-pro-lifers-by-man-who-dodged-prison?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Full+Video+Shows+Lead-Up+To+Brutal+Attack+Of+Elderly+Pro-Lifers+By+Man+Who+Dodged+Prison">footage shows</a> Brice getting into an argument with Schaefer before tackling him to the ground and turning around and attacking Crosby. 
Crosby asked people standing outside of the courtroom, including reporters and supporters, if what happened to him looked like a misdemeanor. 
In the end, his prediction that Brice would get a light penalty came true. Baltimore City Circuit Judge Yvette Bryant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-brutally-beat-elderly-pro-lifers-dodges-prison-time?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Man+Who+Brutally+Beat+Elderly+Pro-Lifers+Dodges+Prison+Time">sentenced him</a> to just one year of home detention with work and other allowances, and three years of probation. 
&#8220;What about my rights and my well-being?&#8221; Crosby shouted as Bryant left the courtroom. 
Crosby later told The Daily Wire that he believed the light sentencing was because of the fact that Baltimore is a “criminal-friendly” city and run by pro-abortion officials. Crosby was represented by the Thomas More Society, which decried the sentencing. 
“This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion. It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only ‘offense’ was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion,” Thomas More Society President Tom Brejcha said.
“One of the victims was knocked unconscious. The other suffered broken facial bones and a lifelong eye impairment. This was an act of cowardice and cruelty, and sheer mayhem. This crime deserves far more serious consequences than a ‘get out of jail free’ card and a one-year home detention that amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.”
Brice&#8217;s sentancing contrasted sharply with those of the dozens of peaceful pro-life protesters who were prosecuted by the Biden administration. Many of those defendants were sentenced to years long prison sentences for violating the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). 
The law, signed by President Bill Clinton to supposedly guarantee access to both abortion facilities and crisis pregnancy centers, has been used disproportionately against pro-lifers. The Biden administration paired FACE charges with a Reconstruction-era conspiracy against rights law that allows for prison sentences of over 10 years. 
Biden’s Justice Department successfully prosecuted these cases across the country — from Michigan to Tennessee to Washington, D.C. — and got lengthy prison sentences for multiple defendants. 
One woman, Lauren Handy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison-over-protest-at-d-c-abortion-facility">was sentenced</a> to 57 months in prison for her role in an October 20 sit-in at the notorious D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility. Handy helped lead a protest inside the facility that involved the group singing, praying, locking arms in front of the facility’s staff entrance, and attaching themselves with ropes and chains to block doors inside the building.
They were convicted of FACE Act charges and conspiracy against rights.
Many of Handy&#8217;s co-defendants also received lengthy prison sentences including John Hinshaw (21 months in prison), William Goodman (27 months), Jonathan Darnell (34 months), Herb Geraghty (27 months), Jean Marshall (24 months), Joan Bell (27 months in prison), Paula Paulette Harlow (24 months), and Heather Idoni (24 months). 
Biden’s Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/seven-defendants-sentenced-federal-conspiracy-against-rights-and-freedom-access-clinic">claimed</a> that the protest “resulted in injury to a clinic nurse.” But the Thomas More Society, which defended Handy, <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/thomas-more-society-files-emergency-appeal-of-lower-court-decision-denying-lauren-handys-release-from-jail-pending-sentencing#:~:text=Lauren%20Handy%2C%20et%20al.,for%20Release%20Pending%20Sentencing%2C%20here.">argued</a> differently. 
“The only basis for a finding of the use of force was when an overzealous clinic worker rushed at the pro-life advocates and tried to forcibly remove them from the clinic waiting room, resulting in her twisting an ankle,” the legal group said. “There was no allegation that Ms. Handy or her co-defendants intended to harm anyone. In fact, Ms. Handy and her co-defendants were united in their commitment to non-violence.”
In another prosecution brought by the Biden administration, six pro-lifers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-demonstrators-found-guilty-face-up-to-11-years-in-federal-prison">were convicted</a> in Tennessee of the FACE Act and conspiracy against rights. Their protest involved the demonstrators signing, praying, and sitting in front of doors in a hallway outside of an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.  
Two of those defendants, including 64-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoned-pro-life-activist-says-hes-running-on-adrenaline-and-the-holy-ghost-after-trump-pardon">Calvin Zastrow</a> and 75-year-old Chet Gallagher, were sentenced to prison. Heather Idoni, one of their codefendants, was also sentenced to serve a prison sentence to run concurrently with her sentence from D.C.
Another FACE Act defendant was Bevelyn Williams, who was sentenced in New York to 44 months in prison.  
This all changed after Trump took office and he <a href="https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1386366/dl">issued pardons</a> for the FACE Act defendants, meaning that Handy and the other imprisoned pro-lifers were freed. The Justice Department also issued a directive to only enforce the FACE Act in cases of extreme violence.
Crosby believes that the Trump administration should get involved in his case and look at prosecuting what happened to him and Schaefer as a hate crime as he believes that he was targeted for his religious and political beliefs.

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People associated with the January 6 Committee who did not receive preemptive pardons from former President Joe Biden may be contacted to answer some questions, a Department of Justice (DOJ) official suggested on Sunday.
Ed Martin, the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ed-martin-planned-to-clean-up-dc-now-hes-setting-his-sights-on-the-whole-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weaponization czar</a> working under the supervision of Attorney General Pam Bondi, briefly spoke about probing the now-defunct panel at the end of an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377014112112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on Fox News</a>.
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BARTIROMO: What about the January 6 committee? Did they destroy evidence? Is there criminality there?
ED MARTIN: Of course. Trust me, a lot of people did not get a pardon that were involved in the select committee, and they ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox. <a href="https://t.co/xRelaTtlyp">pic.twitter.com/xRelaTtlyp</a>
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&#8220;Real quick, what about the January 6 Committee? Did they destroy evidence? Is there criminality there?&#8221; asked &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;Of course. We&#8217;re all in that, too,&#8221; Martin replied. &#8220;And, trust me, a lot of &#8230; people did not get a pardon that were involved in the select committee, and they ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox, because there&#8217;s a lot to be asked about.&#8221;
Biden announced during the final hours of his presidency in January that he <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/20/statement-from-president-joe-biden-15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> the lawmakers and staffers who served on the January 6 Committee, along with D.C. and U.S. Capitol police officers who testified before the Democrat-led panel, among others.
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&#8220;Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,&#8221; Biden said in a statement at the time. &#8220;Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.&#8221;
As the Trump administration is looking into whether aides improperly used autopen to sign off on executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, Bartiromo asked Martin if the pardons were legitimate.
&#8220;Well, yes, I&#8217;m the pardon attorney, so I have — I&#8217;m in that, too,&#8221; Martin said, referring to his other job at DOJ. &#8220;I can tell you we&#8217;re investigating how the pardons were granted. It was not like anything in the history of America what Joe Biden — not Joe Biden, his staffers did, not just with the autopen, but with faking him out on the memos.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;More to come, Maria. I&#8217;m telling you, Pam Bondi has let us loose, and when this comes out, it&#8217;ll take the whole of these people&#8217;s hoaxes down. And we&#8217;re doing it bit by bit. And it&#8217;s fantastic. It&#8217;s a great privilege.&#8221;

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