<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-gutfeld">Greg Gutfeld</a> labeled the media&#8217;s “lockstep anti-Trumpism” one of the “most destructive” movements of the last decade, making it clear that in his mind, “wokism” was not the only one.
In a rather lengthy piece he dropped Tuesday on <a href="https://x.com/greggutfeld/status/1874117618249957480">X</a>, the Fox News host wrote that when a person looks back at the “horrible decisions” made in the last ten years related to things like crime/illegal immigration chaos, COVID, and even the mental competence of President Joe Biden, they need not look further than how it was all “excused or denied” by the legacy media to justify their “irrational opposition” to President-elect Donald Trump.
“Crime. If you admitted that progressive policies energized criminality and cost many innocent lives &#8211; that would put you on the side of Trump,” Gutfeld wrote for one of his examples. “‘So, you can&#8217;t do that,’ decides the media, so theft and violence became routine. Recidivism exploded.”
“Immigration. If you admitted that unfettered illegal immigration stressed all our country&#8217;s systems, as well as introducing more violent crime — that would put you on the side of Trump,” he added. “‘You can&#8217;t do that,’ decides the media. So, it kept going, and people died.”
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the most destructive movement of the last ten years wasn&#8217;t just wokism. it was the media&#8217;s lockstep anti-trumpism. think about all the horrible decisions related to the biggest calamities we faced. they were excused or denied by the media, because of their irrational opposition…
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) <a href="https://twitter.com/greggutfeld/status/1874117618249957480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
“COVID. If you admitted that COVID came from China, likely a lab leak — then you were on the side of Trump,” Gutfeld continued. “‘So you [can&#8217;t] do that either — that would be racist,’ said the media. Instead, we embraced absurd notions about bat soup.”
Gutfeld pointed out that if a person reported on the idea that Biden “was unfit for office” that was just another example that “you were siding with Trump.”
He said those in the media decided that reports “must say that Joe is better than ever, and those who disagree are cruel,” which resulted in “a rudderless country sinking in chaos.”
“Looking back — it&#8217;s obvious. A mass delusion driven by bitterness, ego and an emotional infantilism brought this country to the brink,” the Fox News host said. “So when the media starts hitting the panic button, laugh at them. They caused this mess. We&#8217;ll clean it up. They no longer matter.”
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President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration suppressed information from U.S. intelligence agencies that indicated a lab leak in communist China was the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
Jason Bannan, who has a Ph.D. in microbiology, joined the FBI after the 9/11 attacks to bolster its expertise in matters related to biological weapons, chemical weapons, and more.
The FBI was the only government agency that assessed that a lab leak was the likely source of the pandemic, and had &#8220;moderate confidence&#8221; in their evaluation. Four other government departments said they believed the pandemic had a zoonotic origin — meaning that it came from animals — but they said they had &#8220;low confidence&#8221; in their assessment, according to The Wall Street Journal.
When National Intelligence Director Avril Haines briefed Biden in August 2021, three months after Biden ordered a 90-day review to determine where the pandemic came from, the FBI was not asked to attend the meeting.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/fbi-covid-19-pandemic-lab-leak-theory-dfbd8a51">told</a> The Wall Street Journal. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
The Wall Street Journal investigation found that officials in the Biden administration sought to keep certain information from becoming public about the lab leak theory, and that the FBI was not the only agency that thought the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab.
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Adrienne Keen, a State Department official who had worked privately for the U.N.&#8217;s World Health Organization (WHO), advocated for taking the WHO&#8217;s report on the origins of the pandemic seriously. China blocked the WHO from looking at key evidence to determine the origin of the outbreak and concluded that the pandemic had a zoonotic source.
The Trump administration withdrew from the WHO because it promoted disinformation from China about the pandemic, and it failed to hold China accountable for its numerous lies about COVID-19.
Keen left the State Department to become the director for Global Health Security for the National Intelligence Council, which was &#8220;given a central role in organizing the report&#8221; for Biden on the origins of the pandemic.
Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno, who served during the Trump administration, told Sky News last year that Keen &#8220;was very involved in discrediting the information that we were trying to present to the Secretary of State.&#8221;
&#8220;I had found out that apparently she was an outside advisor also to the World Health Organization, they are a political agency,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/us-intelligence-official-linked-to-who-was-critical-in-downplaying-covid-lab-leak-theory-during-joe-bidens-90day-probe-into-virus-origins/news-story/70cec8fe1513491a421d45b12b45a8e7">said</a>. &#8220;They&#8217;re a UN agency. So it&#8217;s just not appropriate to do work for a foreign power. And that would include the United Nations.&#8221;
FBI experts argued in favor of a thesis by Yu Ping, a scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that the exact coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was not native to Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, the report said. That specific coronavirus is found in bats located nearly a thousand miles away in Yunnan. The theory states that if the zoonotic origin theory is correct, cases of COVID-19 should have been first detected in the area between Yunnan and Wuhan where hundreds of millions of people live. No cases were detected there and the first cases were reported in Wuhan, not far from the WIV.
Keen strongly pushed back on this theory and claimed that the absence of cases was not relevant, the report said. She claimed that the Chinese did not have the surveillance tools to detect outbreaks in those areas — a claim that the FBI pushed back on.
Sky News noted that Keen did not respond to questions about whether she &#8220;disclosed the conflict of interest in working for the WHO to&#8221; the U.S. government.
Leading scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, which falls under the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that the coronavirus was genetically altered in a Chinese lab and that the pandemic originated in a lab leak. The center is responsible for analyzing health threats to the U.S. military, including infectious diseases, biological weapons, and more, The Wall Street Journal investigation reported.
WSJ continued:
<blockquote>Three scientists there—John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien—conducted a genomic analysis that concluded that the virus had been manipulated in a laboratory. Specifically they concluded that a segment of the “spike protein” that enables the virus to gain entry into human cells was constructed using techniques developed in the Wuhan lab that were described in a 2008 Chinese scientific paper. That was an indication, they argued, that the Chinese scientists were conducting “gain of function” research to see if the virus could infect humans.
Hardham was a Ph.D. and Navy reserve captain, while Cutlip, a longtime DIA scientist, had a doctorate in biomedical engineering and had served on a White House task force on the virus during the Trump administration. Chretien, a U.S. Navy doctor, had worked on biodefense for the White House and had been in charge of the pandemic warning team for the center.
They briefed their counterparts, including one of Bannan’s partners, an FBI agent with a Ph.D., on their initial findings. But in July 2021 they were instructed by a superior at the medical intelligence center not to continue sharing their work with the FBI, which they were told was “off the reservation,” according to people familiar with the matter. That order was earlier reported by The Australian.</blockquote>
The Australian&#8217;s Sharri Markson, who was also behind the Sky News segment, <a href="https://x.com/SharriMarkson/status/1694646897162785010">reported</a> last year that 90% of the information submitted by the National Center for Medical Intelligence for the report was cut out.
Then-DIA director Retired Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier did not answer questions from the Journal about whether he knew of the scientists&#8217; conclusions or efforts to censor them.
The DIA Inspector General’s office opened an investigation into the suppression of the scientists&#8217; work.
The Department of Energy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report">joined</a> the FBI last year in assessing that the pandemic came from a Chinese lab.
John Ratcliffe, the former director of the ODNI, says that the pandemic originated from the Wuhan lab.
&#8220;Listen the people that had the most access to the most intelligence, including myself and secretary Pompeo, are telling you that the most likely origin of COVID-19, of the Wuhan virus was what happened&#8230; Was a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/us-intelligence-official-linked-to-who-was-critical-in-downplaying-covid-lab-leak-theory-during-joe-bidens-90day-probe-into-virus-origins/news-story/70cec8fe1513491a421d45b12b45a8e7">said</a>. &#8220;So all of the people that had access to the most data, the most intelligence, will all tell you the same thing.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/musician">Music industry</a> celebs Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Marshmello, and others are being accused of misusing funds distributed during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> pandemic meant to help struggling artists survive ongoing shutdowns.
An extensive <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-chris-brown-covid-relief-funds-svog-grant-2024-12">report</a> from Business Insider noted that these musicians applied for and received funds after President Donald Trump signed the grant into law in 2020. Other musicians and groups mentioned in the report include Alice in Chains, Shinedown, hip hop duo Rae Sremmerd, and Steve Aoki.
The Shuttered Venue Operations Grant (SVOG) allowed artists to collect up to $10 million to cover “ordinary and necessary” expenses. As part of the agreement, they were required to make a good-faith statement to the Small Business Administration and show that their companies had lost a minimum of 25% of revenue between one quarter in 2019 and the same quarter in 2020, the outlet noted.
The report accused Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., of accepting $8.9 million through the SVOG and spending $1.3 million on private jets, more than $460,000 on designer clothes, and $2.14 million to pay a debt he owed to his former manager. He also stands accused of spending more than $175,000 on a music festival promoting his marijuana brand, GKUA.
BI alleged that Brown collected $10 million for his company, CBE Touring. From that, the rapper reportedly paid himself $5.1 million. He also reportedly used $80,000 to host his birthday party. 
Marshmello, whose real name is Christopher Comstock, was approved for a $9.9 million grant, the outlet noted. That money was allegedly all given to him as salary, which was permitted under grant conditions because it did not exceed the amount of money he made the previous year.
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DJ and record producer Aoki’s company, DJ Kid Millionaire Touring, allegedly spent $2.4 million of their approved grant money on payroll, including a $1.9 million chunk for Aoki himself. 
Shinedown band members reportedly took $8.3 million total and split $2.5 million three ways to pay themselves. Rae Sremmurd allegedly took $7.7 million in all.
The outlet noted that 13,000 groups received money from SVOG. The SVOG <a href="https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/shuttered-venue-operators-grant/about-svog">website</a> says the program included more than $16 billion in grants. Originally, musicians weren’t eligible for the grants, but that decision was later changed.
As of Thursday, none of the artists mentioned in the article had responded to requests for comment or publicly discussed the accusations.

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New York Jets QB <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-didnt-bow-down-aaron-rodgers-slams-journalists-who-he-says-are-still-upset-he-didnt-take-covid-jab">Aaron Rodgers</a> took a jab at critics of his game and said they should first reveal their vaccine status so that everything said after that can be “put in the right light.”
During ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday, Rodgers <a href="https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1869101645180895533" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before journalists, sportscasters, broadcasters, etc, discuss the status of his game or his quarterbacking skills, they need to state the status of their COVID vaccine.
“Say whatever the f*** you want about me. But just before you do it, whether you state your name, or your accolades … just state your vax status,&#8221; Rodgers explained. &#8220;So that anything you say afterwards gets put in the right light.”
“Because then when you say things about me, people can at least be like, ‘Oh, you are captured by the multi-billion dollar propaganda pysop and you are still upset about it,’” he added. “Just so everybody knows where you are coming from. Everybody knows, okay cool, you are twice-vaxxed Moderna with three boosters shots, and then &#8230; say what you want to say, I don’t care, whatever.”
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&#8220;I just got a PSA..
Just a quick reminder&#8221; 😂😂 ~ <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AaronRodgers12</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PMSLive</a> <a href="https://t.co/6dI6X86Hwp">pic.twitter.com/6dI6X86Hwp</a>
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1869101645180895533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
“I’m just saying a PSA &#8212; just please help everybody out who’s wondering ‘where’s this coming from’ including myself. &#8230; Then say whatever the hell you want to say about me, because I couldn’t give two s***s about it,” Rodgers continued. &#8220;All I care is that you put that little disclaimer out there … instead of your accolades that you need to have out there so desperately, just put your vax status as well, you know, since you care so much about it during the COVID years.”
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It was clear from the host’s mannerisms that he wasn’t exactly thrilled with the new PSA from Rodgers and said sarcastically, at one point, “This is good. This will settle it all down.”
It is the latest ribbing from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-didnt-bow-down-aaron-rodgers-slams-journalists-who-he-says-are-still-upset-he-didnt-take-covid-jab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL star</a> against journalists whom he previously said are “still mad I’m COVID MVP. Not just the two MVPs that I won because I didn’t bow down to the medical industrial complex and the mass formation psychosis and I decided to make a decision that was in the best interest of my health. They’re still trying to get their jabs in.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-says-hes-been-cast-as-the-villain-over-covid-stance">Rodgers</a> made headlines in 2021 when he was accused of misleading comments about his vaccination status, saying he was “immunized.” However, it was later revealed that he had not been vaccinated.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-didnt-bow-down-aaron-rodgers-slams-journalists-who-he-says-are-still-upset-he-didnt-take-covid-jab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I Didn’t Bow Down’: Aaron Rodgers Slams Journalists Who He Says Are Still Upset He Didn’t Take COVID Jab</a>

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As the fog of battle from the 2024 presidential race is lifting, it is becoming clearer that this election was not so much a referendum on Trump vs. Biden or Harris as it was a referendum on reality vs. absurdity. It was a chance for Americans to signal that they had reached their breaking point and simply could not tolerate any more lies. It was their chance to publicly reject the many mendacities they have been asked to swallow as &#8220;truth&#8221; over the last eight years or so. 
Despite Herculean efforts by the Democrats along with their governmental agency and media allies, the mask was pulled off of simply too many of the falsehoods, making a number of things clear:
<ul>
<li>No, national security interests were not the reason Hillary Clinton took a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-hillary-clinton-hammer-private-email-server-evidence-fbi-1806046" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hammer and BleachBit</a> to her subpoenaed hard drives and phones.</li>
<li>No, Trump was not a Russian asset — and yes, the Democratic party conspired with <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_federal_government_colluded_with_social_media_to_control_content_so_what.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the media, big tech, and governmental agencies</a>, to perpetrate that false narrative.</li>
<li>No, Joe Biden was not withholding a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billion dollars of U.S. aid</a> from Ukraine because a particular public prosecutor there represented some existential threat to either Ukraine or the United States.</li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">No, Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;vast experience&#8221; in energy and finance did not warrant being paid <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-received-250k-wire-from-beijing-with-beneficiary-address-listed-as-joe-biden-delaware-home">tens of millions of dollars</a> from foreign entities.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/fbi-verified-authenticity-of-hunter-bidens-abandoned-laptop-in-november-2019-irs-whistleblower-gary-shapley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop</a> was not Russian disinformation.</li>
<li>No, the COVID virus did not mutate from a pangolin in some Chinese wet market, and most likely was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-concludes-covid-19-pandemic-came-lab-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked from a Wuhan lab</a>; and Dr. Fauci&#8217;s claim that the U.S. was not funding Gain of Function research wasn’t true either.</li>
<li>No, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID &#8220;vaccine&#8221;</a> will not stop you from getting the virus; no, masks and six feet of distancing will not have a significant impact on the spread of the virus; and no, not everyone should receive the vaccine – in fact, large swaths of the population should avoid it altogether.</li>
<li>No, objecting to COVID policies at a school board meeting should not make you a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-targeted-parents-via-terrorism-tools-despite-garland-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“domestic terrorist.”</a></li>
<li>No, men cannot menstruate, give birth, or change sexes because they say so or by removing their genitals; and <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2021/12/28/ban-biological-males-from-competing-as-females-restore-fairness-to-womens-sports-commentary/">men participating in women’s sports</a> is neither fair nor inclusive.</li>
<li>No, surgically <a href="https://eppc.org/publication/gender-affirming-care-neither-affirming-nor-caring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removing genitalia from minors</a> is neither “gender affirming” nor “care;” it is butchery and malpractice.</li>
<li>No, DEI policies and practices are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cigarettes-dei-and-our-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not fair or helpful</a>, do not have anything to do with diversity, equity, or inclusion, and actually have the opposite impact of what supporters contend.</li>
<li>No, defunding the police is <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-movement-to-defund-the-police-is-wrong-and-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not a good idea</a>.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/9/22826356/jussie-smollett-jurors-verdict-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> was not attacked by a group of MAGA hat-wearing white supremacists. </li>
<li>No, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Sandman</a> the teen from Covington Catholic High School did not engage in a racist attack on a Native American man.</li>
<li>No, the ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter unrest of 2020 was not comprised of merely “mostly peaceful protests;” they included riots that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days-of-protests-19-dead/?sh=7bad05ac4de4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed 19</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/more-than-700-officers-injured-in-george-floyd-protests-across-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injured hundreds</a>, attacked and burned government buildings, and destroyed <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions of dollars</a> of property.</li>
<li>No, you weren’t crazy to question the results of the <a href="https://www.regnery.com/9781684513369/rigged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 presidential election</a> or how Democrats coordinated with government agencies, the legacy media, and big tech to sway the outcome. </li>
<li>No, the January 6 protests and riots were not an insurrection, officer <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/times-corrects-record-officer-sicknick-204024018.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sicknick</a> was not bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3115584/justice-department-ordered-answer-for-jan-6-killing-ashli-babbitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashley Babbit</a> did not deserve to be killed, and <a href="https://revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ray Epps</a> was clearly more than a mere private citizen.</li>
<li>No, President Trump did not call the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis of Charlottesville <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“very fine people.”</a></li>
<li>No, the southern border is not secure, and the fact that the number of illegal immigrants may have “slowed” for a given month or two is irrelevant as compared to the 12.8 million who were already here by October 2023, and the 2.6 million <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116727/witnesses/HHRG-118-JU01-Wstate-CamarotaS-20240111.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“increase”</a> since January of 2021.</li>
<li>No, anthropogenic climate change is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not the existential threat</a> claimed, and not nearly as dangerous as the <a href="https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/the-outrageous-cost-of-the-green-new-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramifications</a> of the actions proposed and taken to supposedly counter it.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/data-far-showing-inflation-isnt-going-away-making-things-tough-fed-rcna149621" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a> was not “transient” or under control, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-big-inflation-problem-prices-are-now-up-nearly-20-since-he-took-office-080049551.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slowing an increase</a> isn’t the same as an actual decrease, and the cost of living has <a href="https://money.com/how-bad-is-inflation-under-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soared 22%</a> under Biden.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/violent-crime-went-not-down-181230239.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crime</a> is not going down – and the false report claiming violent crime fell by 1.7% under Biden needed to be corrected to show a 4.9% increase.</li>
<li>No, Joe Biden is not &#8220;sharp as a tack&#8221; and in control.</li>
<li>No, when a full-term baby is delivered and then left to die on a delivery table it is not called abortion or reproductive rights.</li>
<li>No, only one political party is a threat to democracy, using the media, governmental agencies, and lawfare to censure, punish, attack, and imprison their political enemies specifically because they are political enemies, and it is not Trump or the Republicans.</li>
</ul>
Criticizing mistakes with hindsight is easy work of course, but the aforementioned lies and so many more were not mere mistakes. They were usually premeditated and intentional lies – created and perpetuated for the explicit purpose of deception – deception to the benefit of the deceiver – and usually to the disadvantage of the American public and the opposing party.
By November of this year, with the exposure of all of these lies and more, the bulk of the American public had surpassed their limit. Not only were they tired of having the truth hidden from them, but they were tired of being told that they were an enemy of freedom, the country and constitution, and decency if they were unwilling to believe and act in accordance with the lies. In this regard, the 2024 election had boiled down to a battle of truth vs. lies – and Americans had become exhausted with the steady and predictable stream of the latter – and from the same, predictable and discredited sources.
As one last validation that they had chosen correctly, Joe Biden extended the middle finger to America yet again, violating his vow that he would not pardon his son – a vow he didn’t break until after the election of course. Further, the usual suspects are now pushing the newest lie, that this is perfectly acceptable given the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/hunter-biden-pardon-decision.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“retribution-focused Trump administration.”</a>
Ever had one of those dreams after which you wake up and chuckle at the stupidity of your thinking in the dream – E.g., Why did I think that having a cup of coffee was a top priority when the house was on fire?” That’s where many Americans are now, asking themselves how they could have believed so many of the clear and obvious lies put in front of them – often for a period of years.
Some Americans and plenty of the media knew all of these were lies from the outset, but surely a large portion of both were shocked when each fabrication was eventually revealed. Perhaps now the public can look with clear eyes at a number of similar situations including those in the present and future.
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Dr. Greg Salsbury is former president of Western Colorado University, author of the 2006 award winning book &#8220;But What If I Live?&#8221; which predicted the 2008 meltdown, and the follow up book &#8220;Retirementology – Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy,&#8221; which topped Amazon’s “personal finance” category.
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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A House panel investigating the COVID pandemic referred former New York Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cuomo</a> to the Justice Department for investigation on Wednesday over “multiple criminally false statements” he allegedly made to lawmakers.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) made the criminal referral, alleging that Cuomo lied to the committee about his handling of COVID. Specifically, Wenstrup <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-select-refers-former-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-for-criminal-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Cuomo lied to House lawmakers about his knowledge of a report that was used to defend a New York policy that placed COVID patients in nursing homes.
At issue is Cuomo&#8217;s statements to lawmakers about his knowledge of a New York State Department of Health <a href="https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from July 6, 2020. The report was used to explain an <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier policy</a> put forward by the state telling nursing homes they could not deny admission to people who had a confirmed or suspected case of COVID.
Under Cuomo’s policies, there were around 15,000 COVID nursing home <a href="https://apnews.com/article/cuomo-covid-pandemic-nursing-home-deaths-6fb16b6239e0da7d49ae0dd8b99987c3">deaths</a>, which was a much greater number than the figure first reported by New York. According to House investigators, Cuomo lied to lawmakers about his role in reviewing and editing the July 6 report and lied about discussing other aspects of the report during an interview with lawmakers on June 11.
“Mr. Cuomo made multiple criminally false statements, including that he was neither involved in the drafting nor the review of the July 6 Report. Documents establish that statement to be false,” Wenstrup <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024.10.30-SSCP-Referral-of-Andrew-M.-Cuomo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to the DOJ. “Mr. Cuomo also testified that he did not have any discussions about the July 6 Report being peer reviewed. Documents show that statement to be false. And Mr. Cuomo testified that he did not know whether the July 6 Report was reviewed by persons outside of the NYSDOH. Documents again demonstrate that statement to be false.”
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Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/nyregion/cuomo-crime-covid-hearing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> all allegations of wrongdoing.
“This taxpayer-funded farce is an illegal use of Congress’s investigative authority,” Azzopardi told The New York Times. “The governor said he didn’t recall because he didn’t recall. The committee lied in their referral just as they have been lying to the public and the press.”
Wenstrup said that witnesses and documentation evidence backed up his panel’s assertions against Cuomo.
“Andrew Cuomo repeatedly lied to Congress, and he must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” Wenstrup said. “This deliberate and self-serving attempt to avoid accountability for the thousands of lives lost in New York nursing homes during the pandemic will not stand.”

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> (R-OH) contended during the vice presidential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/debates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> on Thursday that censorship poses a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221; and his Democratic Party rivals do not want to discuss it.
CBS News journalist Nora O&#8217;Donnell, a moderator in the debate, asked Vance if he would seek to challenge the results of the 2024 election after <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/10/vance-electors-2020-election-00178266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting</a> he would not have certified the last presidential contest without alternate electors.
Vance argued that he and his running mate, former President Donald Trump, are &#8220;focused on the future.&#8221; He discussed unwinding the &#8220;inflation crisis&#8221; as an example.
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Getting to the question at hand, Vance noted how Trump drew attention to &#8220;problems&#8221; in the 2020 election. Vance also said his personal stance was to debate those concerns &#8220;peacefully in the public square.&#8221;
After giving a reminder that Trump himself urged his supporters on January 6, 2021 — the day a Capitol riot disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election results — to &#8220;protest peacefully,&#8221; Vance turned his focus toward the current administration.
“I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately, it&#8217;s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about. It is the threat of censorship,&#8221; Vance said.
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Vance also said that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nominee, has been &#8220;engaged in censorship at an industrial scale&#8221; over COVID-19 and other things.
The comment follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-biden-harris-repeatedly-pressured-us-to-censor-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in a recent letter that the Biden-Harris administration &#8220;repeatedly pressured&#8221; his company to censor content related to COVID during the pandemic.
&#8220;That, to me, is a much bigger threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said protesters should peacefully protest on January the 6th,&#8221; Vance added.
Vance was facing Minnesota Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> in the debate.

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When Vice President Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, nearly 9 in 10 Americans said they had no opinion of the largely unknown Minnesota Governor.
Within hours of the selection, the legacy media began the task of explaining to the American people how the man they’d scarcely mentioned on their airwaves was actually one of the country’s preeminent Democratic leaders. Viewers were bombarded with breathless coverage of “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/arts/television/tim-walz-dnc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coach” Walz’s</a> “<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tim-walz-has-bde-no-not-that-one-the-psychology-behind-big-dad-energy-125956374.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Dad Energy</a>.” There were also glowing reports of the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/02/harris-walz-minnesota-policy-democrats-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressive utopia</a> he’d built for Minnesotans.
Wanting to see the results of Walz’s time in office for myself, I traveled to Minnesota to hear from the people who have lived under his leadership for the past six years.
The first person I spoke with was Liz Collin, a journalist who’s spent decades covering the state. As she walked us through the mostly empty downtown, with boarded up buildings and open drug use, Collin explained how the city has changed under Walz’s tenure, while taking exception to the media portrayal of the governor.
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“He’s being sold as this moderate ‘aw-shucks’ guy who will give us some dad jokes. But there’s never been a more radical governor — ever — in Minnesota history,” Collin said.
According to Collin, the turning point for the city — and state — came during the Black Lives Matter riots that engulfed Minneapolis and St. Paul following the death of George Floyd.
Those riots, which ultimately damaged or destroyed more than 1,500 properties and caused $500 million in damage to the Twin Cities, went on for more than three days and nights before Governor Walz finally deployed the National Guard.
In the aftermath, Collin says Walz’s anti-police rhetoric fueled a mass exodus from the state’s police force, most notably in Minneapolis, where hundreds of officers resigned or retired. “You have a police force in Minneapolis that’s down about 40% from where it was at the beginning of May of 2020.”
Now, Collin says, the few remaining officers in the city have been hamstrung with new “progressive” policies curtailing their ability to stop crime. Among other things, police in the city have been restricted from pursuing suspects of non-violent crimes, while another “use of force” policy required officers to contact a supervisor before placing a suspect in handcuffs.
“It’s almost as if police officers have become firefighters. Sort of waiting to put out the fire — whereas before there was proactive policing…and there was a respect and a bit of fear for the cops, but that dynamic has certainly changed.”
From 2019 to 2023, the homicide rate in Minneapolis increased by 50%, while the statewide rate jumped 54%.
According to Minneapolis businessman Greg Urban, those rising crime rates — and the lack of a visible police presence — have had devastating consequences for local businesses.
“Big cities have crime, even the best ones. But you also have the perception of crime and the perception of safety, and when you walk out and see police there is a perception of safety,” Urban told me. “In a large entertainment district, which this once was here in Minneapolis, you need that perception…there’s not that sense of vibrancy that there once was.”
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Urban, who once owned the popular Greg’s Saloon in the heart of the city, was forced to close his business due to rising crime and oppressive lockdown policies enacted by Governor Walz during the COVID pandemic.
Speaking outside of the now vacant building where his business once operated, Urban recounted fines he was forced to pay for trying to keep his saloon open, and lamented the “COVID snitch line” Walz opened, which allowed Minnesotans to report neighbors and local businesses violating stay at home orders.
“Tim Walz set up a snitch line, to where if you saw a COVID violation you could call in, he would dispatch his COVID police that he had set up. … There’s instances where Tim Walz put people in jail for as much as 90 days for violating one of his orders. He wasn’t messing around with this, he wanted this state locked down so tight, he would use his jails to do that.”
“This part of the city used to be packed,” Urban said, as we walked past another empty building, this one with the words “Black Lives Matter” spray painted on weathered plywood covering broken windows.
Today, rather than customers waiting outside of Greg’s Saloon, the only Minnesotans to be seen on the block are a pair of homeless men, one on his hands and knees digging for cigarette butts in a crack in the sidewalk.
An hour later, I’m three miles south of downtown, standing in a homeless encampment that’s taken over a vacant lot in a middle class residential neighborhood.
Walking up the street, I see three disheveled men slumped against a neighbor’s fence, looking like they might collapse at any moment, as others around them openly pass around needles and lighters.
The night before, neighbors told me paramedics had been on the scene to treat an overdose victim — a now common occurrence in the neighborhood. Days after my visit, I learned a 33-year-old man was gunned down during a fight in the encampment.
I meet Arne — who asked that I not use his last name — the man who owns the once vacant, now full lot, and has been trying unsuccessfully to build a new home there.
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Arne says he’s called the police repeatedly asking them to clear out the encampment, but has been told “there’s not much they can do.” Today, he’s come to the property armed with “No Trespassing” signs, hoping it will give law enforcement more power to remove the unwelcome residents.
According to Arne, since Governor Walz took office, police in the city have been rendered helpless in removing squatters and clearing out homeless encampments from private property like his.
As we speak, a half dozen masked individuals emerge from a car parked across the street. They make their way towards where we’re standing and form a line inches away from us, glaring at our crew.
“They’re trying to intimidate us, and that’s what they do,” Arne says. “You don’t get to just intimidate people like that. I talked to a lot of people and they were all too scared to come on camera. I’m not scared. I’m not going to be silenced … I’m speaking up for everyone else who is too scared to speak up.”
Next, I drive a few blocks down the street to the spot of George Floyd’s death — passing the burnt-out shell of what was once the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct Police Headquarters. Four years after the BLM riots that ravaged the city, the four-story building sits empty and boarded up, with bullet holes still visible in its exterior.
Arriving at George Floyd Square, I’m greeted by the charred remains of a gas station that once stood across the street from the convenience store where Floyd died.
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“Power To The People” and “Black Power” inscriptions emblazon the walls of the numerous vacant buildings surrounding the memorial to Floyd, which spans half a block.
Thousands of candles, flowers, and other mementos have been arranged on the sidewalk by activists making the pilgrimage to Floyd Square. Every few minutes, a new group of mourners arrives — some with tears in their eyes — pausing for a moment of silence, snapping photos, and lighting candles.
My final stop takes me to ‘Little Mogadishu,’ a portion of East Minneapolis home to roughly 50,000 Somali immigrants – one of the largest concentrations of Somalis anywhere in the Western world.
Little Mogadishu has long been plagued with elevated crime rates and poverty, but in recent years, has become home to one of the largest fraud operations in American history.
During the COVID pandemic, a number of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis operated Feeding Our Future, a fraudulent nonprofit that received more than $250 million from the Minnesota Department of Education’s administration of Federal Child Nutrition Programs.
Rather than providing meals for children, however, the non-profit redirected millions in taxpayer funds to dozens of individuals throughout the city. That money was used to purchase cars and homes – and according to David Gaither, a longtime Minnesota businessman and state legislator, fund terrorism in Somalia.
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“The largest single funder of Al-Shabab, the terrorist organization in Somalia, are the Minnesota taxpayers,” Gaither told me.
“The money that is taken in that fraud doesn’t stay here. Millions of dollars per month in cash are sent out the Minneapolis airport…It goes East, and it ends up in people’s hands that will do mischief and bad things to the United States.”
According to Gaither, Governor Walz was warned of fraud in the system, but failed to investigate the phony non-profit before hundreds of millions of dollars had been disbursed.
Now, Walz is being subpoenaed by the House Education and Workforce Committee for records related to the scheme.
As I prepare to leave Minneapolis, I talk with Scott, a lifelong Minnesotan with a message to Americans still curious about Walz.
“He gives the impression that he’s this moderate folksy leader. He is extreme in almost every respect. He fooled a lot of Minnesotans in the last two elections, we can’t let him fool the rest of the country.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote extensively about Robert Redfield in his scorching 2021 book, &#8220;The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and The Global War on Democracy and Public Health.&#8221; Kennedy denounced Redfield, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as both a &#8220;charlatan&#8221; and a &#8220;pretender,&#8221; and tore into him for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
So he was very surprised when Redfield emphatically endorsed his efforts to fight chronic disease in a Tuesday <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-has-plan-make-americas-children-healthy-again-its-good-one-opinion-1957026">op-ed for Newsweek</a>.
&#8220;I believe him,&#8221; wrote Redfield. &#8220;And I think President Trump will empower him. I support their noble effort to heal our children.&#8221;
Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign organized a lunch between the two men that same day at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., where they ended up chatting for over three hours, a person who was in the room told The Daily Wire.
Kennedy reportedly brought up the book first thing, jokingly apologetic that he was so tough on Redfield. When Redfield waved it off, saying he didn&#8217;t care, Kennedy asked him if he had actually read the book. Every page of it, Redfield responded — and he wished he brought it so Kennedy could autograph it.
They then proceeded to launch into a three-hour discussion on COVID, vaccines, chronic disease, and the future of America&#8217;s children.
A picture of the two men shared with The Daily Wire shows Redfield leaning on his hand, listening intently as Kennedy speaks over a steak lunch.
The first common ground the pair found together: Anthony Fauci.
Redfield and Kennedy had similar opinions about the NIH official, the person in the room said, spending about their first hour discussing the COVID pandemic and what had transpired. They came to the conclusion that the Trump team had been lied to, both by government bureaucrats and health companies, throughout the entire COVID response.
They also found common ground as they discussed mistakes that had been made in the deployment and development of the coronavirus vaccines. And the men reportedly agreed that the government never should have imposed a vaccine mandate.
The pair then turned to childhood chronic disease, and spent the two hours engaged in a serious discussion about what could be done to help American children. Redfield reportedly offered his help to Kennedy in whatever way the latter might need, and they plan to continue talking in the future.
&#8220;The first thing he said to me is &#8216;You got everything right,'&#8221; Kennedy said of the meeting.
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Redfield&#8217;s embrace of Kennedy follows the former presidential candidate&#8217;s August 26 endorsement of Trump, when Trump praised Kennedy’s “decades of work as an advocate for the health of our families and our children.”
“Nobody’s done more,” Trump said of Kennedy. “Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our foods.”
“That is why today, I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more,” Trump added. “We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/make-america-healthy-again-how-trump-and-rfk-are-making-wellness-a-winning-issue">previously reported</a> that the Kennedy endorsement is drawing a new crowd of voters to Trump: the health and wellness crowd, many of whom formerly voted independent or Democrat.
“I have been waiting my entire adult voting life for a presidential candidate to acknowledge how sick our country is,&#8221; influencer Courtney Swan told The Daily Wire earlier this month.
Swan was one of a cohort of high-profile health influencers and medical experts who descended on Capitol Hill this week to raise awareness about the spiraling state of American health during a roundtable discussion on &#8220;American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,&#8221; led by Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
For four hours on Monday, senators listened to the health experts and influencers express deep concerns about the state of American food, chronic diseases, and the difficulties that the average American mother faces as she tries to buy food for her kids that isn’t saturated with seed oils, food dyes, chemicals, and toxins. They argued that Americans are being poisoned by their food — and if lawmakers don&#8217;t take action, the United States could face a genocidal health collapse.  
 “If the current trends continue, if the graphs continue in the way that they are going, at best we are going to face profound societal instability, and decreased American competitiveness, and at worst, we’re going to be looking at a genocidal-level health collapse in our country, and the world,&#8221; argued Dr. Casey Means. 
Means and others pointed to troubling health statistics. Chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html">are the leading causes of death</a> in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the “leading drivers of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care costs.” Close to 30% of American teens <a href="https://diabetes.org/about-diabetes/prediabetes/adolescents-prediabetes-health-risk">are prediabetic</a>, more than 18% of young adults <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8485885/">have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease</a>, and cancer rates among young people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/health/cancer-colon-breast-screening-young-wellness/index.html#:~:text=Early%2Donset%20cancers%2C%20defined%20as,individuals%20to%20middle%2Daged%20people.">are rising</a>.
Experts have <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/7943/">predicted</a> that by 2030, almost half of United States adults will be severely obese, and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey <a href="https://now.tufts.edu/2022/07/05/only-7-american-adults-have-good-cardiometabolic-health">found that </a>93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy.
In one memorable moment during the roundtable, health activist Jason Karp ripped open two different boxes of Kellogg’s Fruit Loops on camera to demonstrate how many more food dyes are in U.S. cereal than Canadian cereal, telling the assembled lawmakers: “This is the brightness of artificial food dyes. Of course, Kellogg and other food companies will argue, children prefer this over this, just as they would prefer cocaine over sugar! That doesn’t make it ok.”
Fitness expert Jillian Michaels went on a now-viral tear as she described the chronic disease epidemic as an “extinction level event,&#8221; arguing that people have been “sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed” and that corporations are purposefully poisoning Americans for profit. 
“The buck must stop with you, while the American people tend to the business of raising children and participating in the workforce to ensure that the wheels of our country go round,&#8221; she told lawmakers. &#8220;They tapped you to stand watch. They tapped you to stand guard.&#8221;
&#8220;We must hold these bad actors accountable,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If this current trend is allowed to persist, the stakes will be untenable. We are in the middle of an extinction level event. The American people need help, they need heroes, and people of Washington, your constituents chose you to be their champion. Please, be the change.” 
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JUST NOW &#8211; JILLIAN MICHAELS GETS A STANDING OVATION, for this EPIC PRESENTATION about the Chronic Disease Epidemic, one she describes as &#8220;an extinction level event&#8221;. THIS IS A MUST WATCH
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On Thursday, Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/heres-how-trump-rfk-jr-team-up-make-america-healthy-again">published an op-ed in Fox News</a> expressing support for Kennedy.
&#8220;Food production is not only a matter of national security and well-being – and a sizable chunk of all economic activity – it is our birthright,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Today, with the leadership of President Trump and RFK Jr., America stands at the edge of a new dawn in sustainable, profitable and healthy farming that preserves our environment and supports this essential American industry.&#8221;
&#8220;Making America healthy again isn’t just about how we look on the beach, it’s about healing our culture and our nation from the ground up, and we must start with our children,&#8221; he added. &#8220;President Trump will lead us into this brighter, healthier future – and he chose the right man for the job in Robert Kennedy.&#8221;

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Weill Cornell Medicine is distancing itself from New York City&#8217;s former senior health advisor Jay Varma after the COVID czar was caught on tape discussing the &#8220;drug-fueled sex parties&#8221; he hosted while preaching COVID social-distancing practices.
The Daily Wire reviewed Varma&#8217;s public Cornell profiles on Monday, and discovered that the institution had scrubbed his name from the site. Archived webpages show that his <a href="https://pandemics.cornell.edu/people/jay-k-varma/">biography page</a> — which was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240919145241/https://pandemics.cornell.edu/people/jay-k-varma/">online as recently as six days ago</a> — as well as his <a href="https://directory.weill.cornell.edu/person/profile/jav4003">contact information page</a>, have both been removed.
In response to an inquiry on the website changes, Weill Cornell Medicine confirmed to The Daily Wire that Varma is no longer affiliated with the institution.
&#8220;Jay Varma was a full-time employee from September 2021 to August 2023 after which he continued as an unpaid advisor,&#8221; a Weill Cornell Medicine spokeswoman told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We were not aware of the alleged unethical behavior that occurred prior to his employment with us, and he is no longer affiliated with our organization.&#8221;
&#8220;As an institution that was on the frontlines during the pandemic, we firmly upheld all safety regulations to protect public health,&#8221; the spokeswoman added.
Varma&#8217;s sex parties were first revealed by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder, who <a href="https://x.com/scrowder/status/1836737026281836727">released video</a> last week showing Varma discussing how he violated city rules that he was publicly pushing by privately hosting orgies and dance parties with his wife. Crowder says an undercover operative recorded the videos between July 27 and August 14 in New York.
&#8220;I had to be kind of sneaky about it … because I was running the entire COVID response in the city,&#8221; Varma says in one of the clips.
“We went to some, like, underground dance party … underneath a bank on Wall Street … We were all rolling, we’re all taking molly [MDMA] and everybody’s high. And I was so happy because I hadn’t done that in like a year and a half,” he shares in another clip.
“But I was looking around being like, ‘F–k, I wonder if anybody sees me, they’re gonna be pissed.’ Because this was not COVID-friendly,” he adds.
Varma did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire. He has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/dr-jay-varma-nyc-health-advisor-sex-parties-pandemic/">admitted</a> that what he said in the recordings was true, and that he takes responsibility &#8220;for not using the best judgment at the time.&#8221;
The New York City Council Common-Sense Caucus has called on the City Council to hold a hearing addressing Varma&#8217;s &#8220;blatant hypocrisy&#8221; and &#8220;recklessness.&#8221;
&#8220;The public deserves answers,&#8221; the caucus said in a letter published Sept. 20.
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The Common Sense Caucus is calling on the City Council to hold a special hearing on the recent damning admissions by former <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BilldeBlasio</a> COVID-19 Czar Dr. Jay Varma about the city&#8217;s COVID response. (1/2) <a href="https://t.co/m9yd85pAYC">pic.twitter.com/m9yd85pAYC</a>
— NYC Council Common Sense Caucus (@NYCCCommonSense) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCCCommonSense/status/1837242854294290785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2024</a></blockquote>

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When Rob Schneider calls you from the car, you can’t help but wonder where he’s going.
The set of Happy Gilmore 2? A Los Angeles comedy club? One of the few bars on the West Coast where they still let David Spade drink for free?
I never did learn where Schneider was headed during our conversation — we had bigger things to talk about. Things like the First Amendment, Saturday Night Live, the Khmer Rouge, vaccine mandates, Alexis de Tocqueveille, and Shane Gillis.
If you think that’s a random smattering of topics, you may not be ready for Schneider’s new book. “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Do-Speak-America/dp/1546007865">You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America</a>,” is equal parts memoir, historical survey, and political polemic, all wrapped up in Schneider’s trademark irreverent humor. At times it feels like Schneider is trying to make the case for free speech through sheer force of will: his stream-of-consciousness narrative plows forward at a breakneck pace, flitting from childhood reminiscence to an exploration of Soviet propaganda and back to a funny Chris Farley anecdote all before you can say “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Fk_mDem4o">makin’ copies!</a>”
That the book is funny isn’t surprising. After nearly a decade on Saturday Night Live, Schneider moved to the big screen, starring in hit films like “The Hot Chick” and “The Benchwarmers,” and making countless memorable appearances alongside his close friend and former SNL cast mate, Adam Sandler.
The humor is a given. It’s everything else that’s shocking.
Schneider is hardly the first celebrity to get political, nor the first to get in trouble for doing so. That he moved from left to right is a bit more shocking, but not without precedent. What’s truly strange about Schneider is just how seriously he’s taking his political turn. “You Can Do It!” doesn’t just have arguments — it has information. It has citations and statistics and digressions on Stanley Milgram and Mikhail Bulgakov. At times it feels more like a college lecture hall than a 30 Rock soundstage.
What made Deuce Bigelow get so serious?
“I got into show business to avoid having to do stuff like writing a book,” Schneider told The Daily Wire, adding that doing so was “a pain in the ass.” It was after witnessing the “egregious attack on our civil liberties and the attack on free speech” perpetrated by Democrats and their media allies that Schneider decided to pick up the pen. But even then, he didn’t lose his sense of humor.
“We&#8217;re kind of f***ed as a country,” Schneider said. “And so I do feel a responsibility, even though it cost me money and cost me work, I feel like it is my comedic-patriotic duty to at least bring these things to attention.”
The importance of protecting free speech may be the stated focus of “You Can Do It!” But Schneider’s understanding of this “comedic-patriotic duty” is perhaps the most essential — and certainly the most interesting — thread of the book.
“As de facto intellectuals, comedians are the cultural rearview mirrors,” Schneider writes. “Our jokes reflect the essence of a particular time, place, and attitude, to remind us of the context of where we just came from.”
This is why it felt so wrong when, following Donald Trump’s election in 2016, and then the coronavirus pandemic 2020, comedians by and large abandoned their craft and began echoing liberal talking points.
“I think the low watermark of comedy in the 21st century was late night television, with these hosts who all had interchangeable monologues,” Schneider told The Daily Wire.
“Nothing to me was more egregious than the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xP6c9UqPcU">dancing syringes</a> on Colbert&#8217;s show. That to me, it wasn&#8217;t cringe. It was Soviet bloc. It seems like something out of the Khmer Rouge.”
Schneider says the preservation of free speech in America depends in a large part on the flourishing of comedy — honest, equal-opportunity, no-holds-barred comedy.
“If you can get people to see the absurdity” of a given figure or issue, Schneider told The Daily Wire, “and mock it and laugh at it, it is the best way to move its natural path towards tyranny so that it collapses.
“When the public is comfortable laughing at the government, then they are no longer in fear of the government,” he said.
This is what makes Schneider’s activism so refreshing. Unlike many celebrities who jump in the arena, he doesn’t think his fame entitles him to serve as a moral arbiter for the rest of us. Rather, he sees himself as a member of the comedian class, a role that comes with a certain obligation to challenge authority and speak truth to power.
“I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m 100% right in these things,” he says, “but the fact is we need to have discourse, we need to not shout each other down.”
That humility doesn’t mean Schneider is pulling punches. He says that “the Democratic Party needs to lose this election — and maybe two or three more — so that they can regroup and become a political party that isn&#8217;t undemocratic and authoritarian.” Republicans, he tells The Daily Wire, “are going to have to put on their big boy pants and change legislation” should they win in November.
If this doesn’t happen — if Democrats keep power and continue their assault on free speech, or if Republicans win but resort to ad hominem attacks — Schneider worries about what will come next.
“Western civilization is committing suicide,” Schneider tells The Daily Wire, adding that “the United States is the last bastion of freedom in the world.”
“If we go, so goes the world,” he says. “There will be no Marines to rescue the United States from another country, there will be no food drop. There is no Marshall Plan for the United States. We are it.”
Dire as that sounds, Schneider has hope for the future of the country. His spirits are buoyed by, among other things: Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission that the Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor content (“I don’t think Zuckerberg’s a bad actor”); Saturday Night Live’s decision to have Shane Gillis host after firing him for politically incorrect jokes (“How great was Lorne Michaels to do that?”); and The Daily Wire’s own Matt Walsh (“The one, rightful heir to Sacha Baron Cohen. I think Matt Walsh is a genius. I really do”).
But more than anything, Schneider is optimistic because he believes in America.
“This imperfect union was founded under God with a belief that we have done something special,” he says. “It is a union deserving of our forgiveness and deserving of our thanks, deserving of our gratitude and deserving of every attempt we can [make] for its preservation.”
To do that, “we must call out injustice. But in that call…we should have a reconciliation.”
“We have to be generous, and if our fault is that we are too generous, that is the price that we must pay, that is what this great nation calls upon us now to do,” Schneider says.
Before we spoke, I was ready for Schneider to go deep on all sorts of subjects — I had read the book, after all — but I wasn’t expecting such a serious meditation on American democracy. Thoroughly impressed and hoping for a good kicker, I asked Schneider if he had any parting thoughts he wanted to share. He didn’t even hesitate.
“The book’s also pretty funny.”

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Drea de Matteo doesn’t understand why people care about celebrity endorsements.
“In the past, I understood the value,” &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; star told The Daily Wire in a wide-ranging interview Thursday. “There was a rock and roll aspect to it, you know, you had all these musicians, there was a celebration of the country. I know now that there is no celebration of this country, and there&#8217;s no patriotism.”
Consider Robert De Niro, who held a press conference in March outside former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York City. De Matteo called it “one of the worst acting jobs” the “Goodfellas” star “ever did.”
“I really was like, do they have s*** on him? Because I don&#8217;t believe him right now. Even if he&#8217;s genuine and he really does mean what he is saying — why do people care?”
De Niro was one of many Italian-American celebrities who joined last weekend’s virtual  “<a href="https://paisansforkamala.com/">Paisans for Kamala</a>” event, the latest in a string of celebrity-studded, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dnc-held-an-irish-americans-for-harris-walz-event-it-was-awkward">ethnically-focused</a> Zoom calls hosted by the Harris-Walz campaign.
It was that event that inspired de Matteo to speak on the absurdity of celebrity endorsements.
“Look who became MADE men [and] women in the Corporate Mafia today,” she wrote on Instagram. “Congrats Paisans, Mussolini would be proud.”
De Matteo finds it hard to believe that any American, celebrity or not, would cast their lot with Kamala Harris. But she’s particularly shocked to find such support in Hollywood “Paisans.”
<div id="attachment_796049" style="width: 885px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-796049" class="size-large wp-image-796049" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-875x576.jpg" alt="" width="875" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-875x576.jpg 875w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-300x197.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-768x505.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-899959-2048x1348.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px" />Michael Imperioli and Drea de Matteo in &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; (Photo by HBO)</div>
“What&#8217;s interesting is Italians are generally known as being conservative,” she says. “They fought against the Sopranos, they picketed, they hated us, because they don&#8217;t like being associated with such corruption like that because they have a subculture, which is the mafia.”
But “we are now being dominated by…a sort of mafia government,” who “shake us down and govern like a mafia does in a neighborhood,” she told The Daily Wire.
“I made a snarky joke, but I mean, it is the truth, right?”
Snark and the truth. That’s pretty much what you get from de Matteo, a self-proclaimed  “hardcore liberal” who in recent years has found herself joining an increasingly large number of Americans dissatisfied with, and suspicious of, both American political parties.
It began for her, as it did so many others, during the COVID pandemic, when Americans found themselves with “nothing but time on our hands but to ask questions.”
“I don&#8217;t know what people were doing at home aside from baking bread. But for me…I really wanted to know what the hell was going on.”
“I feel like a lot of these celebrities are either tone deaf, and they don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on,” de Matteo says. And, like most “well-intentioned liberals,” if celebrities only understood the stakes of our current political moment, de Matteo is sure they would “abandon ship.”
That’s what she did, abandoning the Democratic Party after casting her first ever presidential vote for President Joe Biden in 2020.
“I had Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she admits. “I believed the hype. I listened to the real news! I didn&#8217;t do my own research.”
<div id="attachment_796043" style="width: 730px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-796043" class="size-large wp-image-796043" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-1402464289-1-720x576.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-1402464289-1-720x576.jpg 720w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-1402464289-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-1402464289-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-1402464289-1.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" />Drea de Matteo (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)</div>
But once she did, she realized that the Democratic Party she knew had changed. It was not the working class party of her childhood, which earned the support and respect of her family, including her mother, who canvassed for Geraldine Ferraro. It has become, she says, “the party of the wealthy.”
But wealth isn’t why de Matteo thinks so many celebrities support Democrats. To her, it’s really just a matter of groupthink.
“It feels sad to see how misinformed [celebrities] are,” she says. “If they&#8217;re not misinformed, then it makes me question their integrity as a human being and why they would want to hurt people on that level,” by endorsing Harris.
“We&#8217;ve been watching them try to dismantle anything from God to country to human sovereignty,” she says. “So I do feel like the celebrity aspect of it this time around is a clown show.”
<div id="attachment_796067" style="width: 807px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-796067" class="size-large wp-image-796067" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-797x576.jpg" alt="" width="797" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-797x576.jpg 797w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-300x217.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-768x555.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-1536x1110.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/GettyImages-105585438-2048x1479.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px" />(Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage)</div>
For her part, de Matteo is trying to make Americans realize there’s an alternative to this “clown show.” She endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s third-party candidacy, and is now raising awareness for <a href="https://jointheresistance.org/">Rescue The Republic,</a> a movement for political unity that features heterodox political figures like Kennedy, Russell Brand, and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
In Rescue The Republic — which is holding a massive Washington, D.C., rally on September 29 — de Matteo found the kind of old school patriotism that has animated her throughout her life.
“Since I was a little kid, if you asked me what my favorite colors are and I was like ‘red, white and blue!’ Everything is American flags,” she told The Daily Wire. “I think I might have been Betsy Ross in another life.”
To de Matteo, it seems like both parties have lost sight of what that flag represents: a radical, unprecedented freedom that goes above and beyond the petty partisan squabbles that define contemporary Washington and the party system. Freedom to her is rock and roll — it’s “psychedelic.”
She’s tried to recapture this spirit in <a href="https://ultrafree.co/">Ultrafree</a>, a streetwear line she launched in 2023 to “make freedom cool again.” She’s quick to note that Ultrafree is not another brand geared at conservatives, but rather any American who feels as she does: adrift, frustrated, but still hopeful about what this country can be.
“The pronoun for the whole movement is ‘we, the people,’&#8221; she says. “It&#8217;s not red, it&#8217;s not blue, no more labels … Ultrafree is really about critical thinking and not allowing your mind to be hijacked.”
If anything, de Matteo hopes to bring her fellow “hardcore liberals” into the fight for freedom by making them realize it isn’t a partisan issue.
“This isn&#8217;t just a conservative movement,” she says. “This is a movement by hippies and wild cards and lunatics like us as well. We wanna be free.”

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