Have you ever wanted to learn how to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libya-was-hillarys-war-heres-proof-joshua-yasmeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantle an Arab nation</a>, thereby ushering in an era of slavery and unending anarchy in the 21st century?
Then boy has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a> got a class for you. Next fall, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with an even worse track record as Secretary of State, will be teaching a class on foreign policy at the elite (consider that term used loosely) college.
Columbia released a skit this week hyping up the new course, replete with the &#8220;authenticity&#8221; that Americans have come to expect from Clinton. In short, it is pretty corny:
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Want to be Inside the Situation Room with Secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>?
She and Dean Keren <a href="https://twitter.com/YarhiMilo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YarhiMilo</a> are co-teaching a new course on foreign policy decision-making at <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> this fall.
Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/Oif8rzUimC">https://t.co/Oif8rzUimC</a> <a href="https://t.co/dE83ptkTkl">pic.twitter.com/dE83ptkTkl</a>
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The class is titled &#8220;Inside the Situation Room,&#8221; and one can only speculate what that will entail.
Perhaps she will start by describing what she was really doing for those <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13-hours-brotherly-love-those-left-alone-fighting-daily-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13 hours</a> as Americans were under attack and killed in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2013, at the U.S. embassy.
Before she gets to that topic, she maybe will explain what went into her thinking when the U.S.-supported revolution overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
During former President Barack Obama&#8217;s first term, the U.S., alongside other NATO allies, decided that Gaddafi had to be removed from power. Clinton, as <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> by University of Tennessee Professor Glenn Reynolds, was the one who really strong-armed that foreign policy decision and made it happen. Gaddafi wound up being killed by Libyan rebels, and his body was dragged through the streets and mutilated.
Clinton was quite gleeful over this fact, despite the U.S. having told Gaddafi that it would not depose him if he peacefully surrender his &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; in 2003. For nearly a decade, he was a bit of an ally to the U.S. Here&#8217;s how Clinton reacted to the news:
&#8220;We came, we saw, he died,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, sounding tickled-pink.
What happened next? Libya descended to chaos. Since 2011, the nation has been destroyed by civil war as competing armed groups grapple for power.
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Perhaps even worse, open slave markets returned to the country. As pointed out by Reynolds in 2017, none of that was common in Libya before Clinton &#8220;got involved.&#8221;
In 2023, Libya is still in a state of disarray while Clinton is riding off to a cushy gig as a part-time professor.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 13: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses her new book, ‘Hard Choices: A Memoir,’ at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University June 13, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Libyan Slavery 101: Hillary Clinton To Teach Foreign Policy Decision-Making Course Next Fall At Columbia

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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton recently attended a Broadway show together, and someone reportedly left something near them in the aisle that sent an aromatic message.
The mother-daughter team was seated at the Shubert Theater to see the production of “Some Like It Hot,” the title of which may have been singularly appropriate considering the incident.
“Last week, when Hillary and Chelsea Clinton were in the audience, the lights came up for intermission and there were two human turds in the aisle just near the famous political duo,” a source told <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/03/20/fan-poops-in-aisle-near-hillary-and-chelsea-clinton-at-show/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> of The New York Post.
“The house crew dealt with it very appropriately and quickly, and Hillary and Chelsea and Chelsea remained in the theater for the second act,” the source added.
“There was an incident when Hillary Clinton and Chelsea attended,” another source echoed. “It was an elderly person and it’s rather sad, but yes, the house staff worked quickly to help resolve the situation and Act II started as scheduled.”
New York City does have a problem with excrement; a study conducted on Manhattan’s Upper East Side found high concentrations of bacteria from poop on indoor floors and carpets.
“We found numbers of bacteria that were absolutely astonishing,” chemistry professor Alessandra Leri, who co-authored the study, told <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/poop-bacteria-rampant-on-upper-east-side-streets-study-finds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>, asking rhetorically, “The real question was, even after the feces are ostensibly cleaned up, do the bacteria persist on the sidewalks?”
&#8220;30,000 bacterial cells per 100 milliliter of water. The EPA has a benchmark that cities use to close beaches and that benchmark is 110 cells for 100 milliliters of water,&#8221; Leri told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/study-of-new-york-city-sidewalks-finds-astonishing-levels-enterococci-e-coli-fecal-indicator-bacterium/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>.
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Trains transporting human waste from New York City have wound up in landfills across the South. The excrement has been transported in freight containers filled with “biosolids,” a dehydrated, treated version of the substance. In the past, New York City actually sent the excrement into the ocean, but in the past 30 years, they have sent it to landfills.
In April 2018, a train holding millions of pounds of excrement from New York got <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/poop-train-from-new-york-stuck-in-parrish-alabama.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stuck in Parrish, Alabama,</a> with a population of 982.
The train, stuck in a rail yard next to a softball field, forced people to stay indoors and little league games had to be rescheduled as a result.
<a href="https://apnews.com/28f5b0563b1441b6ac5d29f7dfd7f5f7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP reported</a> at the time that because New York had no room for its biowaste and could not dump it into the Atlantic Ocean because of federal law, it had transported its excrement to Alabama since 2017, as Alabama’s zoning laws were not as restrictive as New York’s. Thus the train was bound for the Big Sky Environmental landfill, roughly 20 miles east of Parrish.
The nearby town of West Jefferson, which was supposed to receive the excrement, and where trucks were supposed to transport the waste to the landfill, filed an injunction against the landfill in January to prevent the biowaste from being stored in the town’s rail yard, which terminated shipments coming to the town.
That meant shipments following the injunction wound up in Parrish. CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/parrish-waste-poop-train-alabama-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Parrish, which is only two square miles, had to host 10 million pounds of poop.

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Start Spreading The Poop: Hillary, Chelsea Get Nasty Surprise Watching Broadway Show

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If <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> had her way, restrictions placed on drag performances would become a thing of the past.
A reporter with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/style/catching-up-with-hillary-clinton-at-bob-fosses-dancin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times caught up</a> with Clinton at the opening night of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” on Broadway.
Clinton weighed in on the prospect that a show such as &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some Like It Hot</a>,&#8221; in which the male leads dress up like women to join an all-female band and hide from the mob after witnessing a murder, could face bans in certain states.
“It’s a very sad commentary on what people think is important in our country,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/style/catching-up-with-hillary-clinton-at-bob-fosses-dancin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton said</a>. “I hope that it goes the way of the dinosaur because people will recognize that it’s just a political stunt.”
The newspaper specifically cited in its report on Monday a new law in Tennessee placing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-gov-signs-bills-protecting-children-from-sex-change-procedures-drag-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restrictions on &#8220;cabaret&#8221; performances</a> but did not mention how the legislation was geared toward protecting children from sexually explicit drag shows.
A bill, <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0003&amp;ga=113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed into law</a> by Republican Governor Bill Lee this month, aimed to create &#8220;an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.&#8221;
As part of a recent wave of action by conservative lawmakers, a number of bills have been introduced in states across the country to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arkansas-senate-bill-classifies-drag-shows-as-adult-oriented-businesses-in-effort-to-protect-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent minors from being able to attend</a> drag performances. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-offers-family-friendly-alternative-to-ny-attorney-generals-drag-story-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Drag Story Hour” events</a> in particular have become a focus of criticism. Critics, including LGBTQ advocates, claim the legislative push is motivated by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/14/drag-shows-republican-bills-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bigotry</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/14/drag-shows-republican-bills-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false equivalencies</a> tying family-friendly events to more suggestive performances.
Clinton surmised such &#8220;absurd&#8221; restrictions might lead to a crackdown on performances from literary legends like William Shakespeare.
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&#8220;I guess they’re going to shut the state borders to anything that is Shakespearean?&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;Are we going to stop exporting any kind of entertainment?&#8221;
Clinton, who is the wife of former President Bill Clinton, is also a former U.S. senator, a former secretary of state, and a failed 2016 presidential candidate.
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Category is: stars, statements, &amp; legends! It&#39;s the first annual <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiveThemHill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GiveThemHill</a> drag pageant featuring <a href="https://twitter.com/TrinityTheTuck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TrinityTheTuck</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Peppermint247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Peppermint247</a>, &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/Alaska5000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Alaska5000</a> as <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> from different eras! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OneHillOfAShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OneHillOfAShow</a> <a href="https://t.co/b3E51x2do7">pic.twitter.com/b3E51x2do7</a>
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The Democrat <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clinton-gets-tipsy-and-throws-shade-at-bernie-sanders-and-trump-on-watch-what-happens-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines in 2020</a> for making an appearance on Bravo’s &#8220;Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen&#8221; in an episode that featured a &#8220;Give Them Hill&#8221; pageant featuring drag queens <a href="https://www.logotv.com/news/dd567z/hillary-clinton-watch-what-happes-live-drag-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who dressed up like Clinton</a> at different stages of her life.

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Hillary Clinton Hopes Drag Show Bans Go ‘The Way Of The Dinosaur’

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Students at a woman-only private liberal arts college in Massachusetts supported a non-binding referendum on Tuesday that would allow women who identify as men and &#8220;non-binary&#8221; individuals to apply to the institution.
Student body officials at Wellesley College, which includes alumnae Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright, voted unanimously last month to advance the Gender Inclusivity Ballot, which would allow students to &#8220;express their views&#8221; on the 150-year-old institution&#8217;s admissions policy while making its language more inclusive to such students. However, school officials said the student vote wouldn’t have any impact on the school’s policies or practices.
The college already accepts transgender-identifying students who were born male, but the controversial referendum expands the application process for women who identify as men.
&#8220;We&#8217;re just asking the administration to put on paper what&#8217;s already true of the student body,&#8221; Alexandra Brooks, the student body president, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/wellesley-college-trans-nonbinary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. &#8220;Trans men go to Wellesley, nonbinary people go to Wellesley, and they kind of always have.&#8221;
Elizabeth Um, a senior and president of the campus&#8217; pro-life group, Wellesley For Life, told the Times that she enrolled at the liberal arts college due to its close proximity to home and its identity as a women&#8217;s college.
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t think you can fit in here, then you have your pick of thousands of other coed colleges in the country or the world,&#8221; Um said. &#8220;We&#8217;re a women&#8217;s college. That&#8217;s the core identity of the school, and we can&#8217;t start watering that down.&#8221;
Um did not disclose to the outlet whether she opposed the referendum, noting that it would pass and speaking out against the ballot on campus would be &#8220;social suicide.&#8221;
Wellesley already admits &#8220;cis, trans, and nonbinary students—all who consistently identify as women,&#8221; the college&#8217;s president, Paula Johnson, wrote in a <a href="https://blogs.wellesley.edu/announcements/2023/03/06/affirming-our-mission-and-embracing-our-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> last week on the college website.
Johnson opposed the referendum and warned students that the results would not impact its admissions policy.
&#8220;We are not a &#8216;historically women&#8217;s college,&#8217; a term that only applies to women&#8217;s colleges that have made the decision to enroll men,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;We have chosen a different path, one that aligns with peer institutions, including Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr colleges.&#8221;
&#8220;In accordance with our admission policy, Wellesley admits applicants who identify and live consistently as women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth,&#8221; she added.
Roughly 2,500 students attend Wellesley college, which is located in the suburbs of Boston. It is not known how many of those students claim to be the opposite sex or &#8220;non-binary.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s important that all members of this community feel seen. Some transgender male and nonbinary students whose identities have evolved during their time here say they feel excluded by the College&#8217;s use of the words ‘women’ and ‘alumnae’ — and feel that their individual identities are not embraced,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;At the same time, many students who are committed to Wellesley&#8217;s mission as a women&#8217;s college and who identify as women have been publicly criticized for their view and have felt pressured to describe Wellesley as a historically women&#8217;s college.&#8221;
The Wellesley News editorial board disapproved of Johnson&#8217;s letter, calling it &#8220;the College&#8217;s transphobic rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;Transgender and nonbinary students have always belonged and will continue to belong at Wellesley, a historically women&#8217;s college,&#8221; they wrote in the <a href="https://thewellesleynews.com/2023/03/08/the-wellesley-news-editorial-boards-statement-on-president-paula-johnsons-recent-rmail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial</a>.

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All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes On Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans, Non-Binary Individuals To Apply

All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes On Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans, 'Non-Binary' Individuals To Apply

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Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secretary of Transportation</a> isn&#8217;t really into the day-to-day parts of his job. In fact, it seems that he would much rather be a figurehead who shows up for photo opportunities, based on a recent CNN interview with Mayor Pete himself.
&#8220;Buttigieg says what he’d rather be doing is trips like Monday’s: Opening the first new airport terminal in Kansas City since Vice President Spiro Agnew was there for a ribbon cutting &#8230; celebrating the groundbreaking on a record-busting $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in DeSoto, Kansas, and talking transportation programs with students at the University of Missouri,&#8221; the outlet <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/pete-buttigieg-ohio-train-derailment/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Those events are the things Buttigieg thought he was signing up for with the Cabinet job,&#8221; CNN added.
Instead, though, he has had to deal with crises such as supply chain hiccups, rail strikes, aviation woes, and that whole toxic train spill in East Palestine, Ohio, that has upended the lives of thousands.
Buttigieg&#8217;s message for his haters is simple: He knows how to shop better than they do, and they&#8217;re a bunch of frauds, he implied during the CNN interview.
“It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,&#8221; Buttigieg bemoaned to CNN.
&#8220;You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?&#8221; he threw in for good measure.
Buttigieg&#8217;s media therapy blitz also included a sit-down session with twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The two discussed unfair criticism from naysayers.
&#8220;When you read about your biography, your accomplishments, you&#8217;re often described as a trailblazer,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/buttigieg-clinton-downplay-criticism-following-ohio-derailment-discuss-breaking-glass?utm_source=sf&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=twjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Buttigieg at the event hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative University. &#8220;You are the first openly gay Cabinet member. You&#8217;re the youngest person to ever hold the office of the Secretary of Transportation. You&#8217;re one of the youngest people to make a serious bid for the presidency. So there&#8217;s no doubt that along the way being the first often requires knocking down some barriers, some misconceptions.&#8221;
Buttigieg replied, &#8220;Yeah, I mean, again, I&#8217;m humbled to have a word like &#8216;trailblazer&#8217; used when I&#8217;m sitting next to you and knowing all the cracks you put in that glass ceiling.&#8221;
During that conversation, he assured voters that he wasn&#8217;t going to &#8220;complain about any frustration associated with coming to an agency and having work to do every day and finding that you&#8217;re dealing sometimes with a noise machine that seems to have little to do with your day-to-day work and a lot to do with perceptions about your real or perceived role in presidential politics.&#8221;
&#8220;It would be very indecent of me to complain about that sitting next to you,&#8221; he added, which drew a cackle out of Clinton.
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There&#39;s a &quot;noise machine that seems to have little to do with your day-to-day work and a lot to do with perceptions about your&#8230;role in presidential politics,&quot; Pete Buttigieg tells Hillary Clinton.
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What has not seemed to cross Buttigieg&#8217;s mind is that he may be criticized because he stinks at his job, focuses on nonsense issues such as equity over merit, and has a general smarminess about him that no photo-op can fix — not because of his sexual orientation.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Dulles, VA – NOVEMBER 15: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), other Virginia politicians and Metro board member cut a ribbon at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia on November 15, 2022.

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In a shocking development, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James O’Keefe</a> announced last week that he was out at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a>, the investigative journalism group he founded over 10 years ago, after a conflict with the group’s board of directors. 
Under O’Keefe’s leadership, the group has taken on the biggest names in politics, journalism, tech, and healthcare, with a unique style of undercover videos and work with whistleblowers, all while earning the ire of the legacy media.
Project Veritas was officially launched by O’Keefe in 2011 as a non-profit organization with the goal of exposing corruption in public and private institutions. Since that time it has broken many major stories and shifted the narrative, from <a href="https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/new-hampshire-attorney-general-we-will-do-better-voter-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">influencing</a> election <a href="https://archive.ph/BJM18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">integrity</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a> to embarrassing CNN over its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-director-network-trying-to-help-blm-shootings-lose-a-little-steam-if-suspect-is-not-white" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coverage</a> of race. 
While some critics have labeled the style of Project Veritas’ work deceptive, much of the content revealed through the sting operations would not be known by following the traditional question-and-answer mode of journalism.
Here are five of the biggest stories put out by Project Veritas during O’Keefe’s tenure.
<h2>ACORN</h2>
The first major break for O’Keefe came with undercover videos filmed of activist group ACORN during the Obama administration. While the <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/investigation/acorn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACORN story</a> was released before Project Veritas was officially created, it shot O’Keefe to prominence and offered a preview of the kind of journalism O’Keefe and his team would follow.
In 2009, O’Keefe and Hannah Giles <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/story/acorn-officials-videotaped-telling-pimp-prostitute-how-to-lie-to-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> into ACORN [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now] offices and posed as a pimp and a prostitute. According to the videos put out by O’Keefe, ACORN staffers appeared to offer O’Keefe advice on how to avoid scrutiny of the IRS while running a brothel and discuss sex trafficking. 
The story exploded with a spokesman for the group calling the portrayal “false and defamatory.” Even President Obama <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002313.html">weighed</a> in, calling the actions in the video “inappropriate” and worthy of investigation. 
While an outside probe later <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/acorn_workers_cleared_of_illeg.html/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared</a> ACORN of illegal activity, the videos did lead to concrete action with Congress cutting funding for the group, and the IRS and the Census Bureau <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/us/politics/12acorn.html?_r=2&amp;scp=14&amp;sq=acorn&amp;st=cse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropping</a> their relationship with the activist organization. 
In the end, the group <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/us/23acorn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed down</a> in 2010, just months after O’Keefe’s investigation.
<h2>Hillary Clinton Campaign Story</h2>
During the vicious 2016 presidential campaign, Project Veritas put out several major videos, taken from groups associated with the Clinton campaign, that appeared to show Democrat operatives discussing their strategies to provoke violence at Trump rallies and other ethically dubious campaign tactics. 
For example, Democrat operative Scott Foval said in the videos that there was a “script” put out at Trump events to attempt to get the “crazies” to “bite.”
&#8220;It is not hard to get some of these assholes to pop off,&#8221; Foval <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498587397/sting-video-purports-to-show-democrats-describing-how-to-commit-voter-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of showing up to want to get into the rally in a Planned Parenthood T-shirt, or &#8216;Trump is a Nazi,&#8217; you know. You can message to draw them out, and draw them to punch you.&#8221;
Both Foval and Democrat activist Robert Cramer ended up <a href="https://archive.ph/SJjS0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing their</a> jobs as a result of the videos, though both claimed that their comments were taken out of context.
<h2>Google And Political Bias</h2>
In July 2019, Project Veritas released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-takes-action-against-whistleblower-who-james-barrett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a video</a> of Greg Coppola, a senior Google engineer, saying that the tech giant designed its algorithms in a way that was biased against conservatives. 
“I’ve been coding since I was ten [years old],” Coppola told Project Veritas in the interview. “I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what want them to do.”
“I think for a while we had tech that was politically neutral,” Coppola <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-takes-action-against-whistleblower-who-james-barrett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the video. “Now we have tech that really, first of all is taking sides in a political contest, which I think, you know, anytime you have big corporate power merging with political parties can be dangerous.”
Google has consistently maintained that it is politically neutral, but many conservatives remain unconvinced. 
According to Coppola, the crackdown by tech companies on conservative viewpoints began with the rise of Trump. Since Coppola’s comments, the battle between tech and conservatives has only grown fiercer. 
<h2>ABC Drops Interview With Jeffrey Epstein Accuser</h2>
One of the most explosive Project Veritas stories came in 2019, with the publication of a video obtained from an ABC insider showing host Amy Robach discussing her frustration that the network killed a story she wanted to do with an accuser of pedophile billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.
“I had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told, ‘Who’s Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story,” Robach said in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfwkTsJGYA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>.
She said that they had photos to back up the claims. “It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it is all coming out and it is like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it,” Robach added.
The network later <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-abc-news-and-amy-robach-respond-to-project-veritas-bombshell-epsteincoverup-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the material they had did not meet its editorial standards, but the video raised questions about media coverage of Epstein, who was often seen with the rich and famous before his arrest and subsequent death in jail.
<h2>Pfizer And The COVID &#8216;Cash Cow&#8217;</h2>
In January, Project Veritas put out a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-denies-conducting-covid-gain-of-function-research-in-delayed-response-to-veritas-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bombshell video</a> of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer</a> official appearing to describe either proposed or ongoing experiments by the pharmaceutical firm. The video, which quickly racked up millions of views, shows Pfizer’s director of research and development, Jordan Walker, divulging that the company has considered mutating COVID through “directed evolution” in monkeys to develop new vaccines.
The video quickly raised questions about what kind of research Pfizer was conducting, and its view of the pandemic with Walker referring to COVID as a potential “cash cow” for years to come. 
Days after the video, Pfizer denied that it was conducting gain-of-function style research on COVID, but many remained skeptical. Project Veritas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting">later released</a> a video where Walker appeared to admit that Pfizer was aware of potential side effects of the vaccine on women’s fertility. 
The Pfizer videos were representative of the work of Project Veritas during O’Keefe’s era: an undercover sting of one of the most powerful companies in America that few would dare attempt. 
The group&#8217;s tactics and targeting of powerful entities found it in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalism-is-on-trial-project-veritas-ordered-to-pay-democratic-consulting-firm-over-2016-sting-operation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crosshairs</a> of corporations, nonprofits, Democrat operatives, the legacy media, and even the federal government. In November 2021, O’Keefe’s home was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/politics/james-okeefe-project-veritas-ashley-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raided</a> by the FBI in connection with a stolen diary reportedly belonging to Ashley Biden.
O’Keefe’s ability to continue putting out narrative-shifting videos is part of what made it so shocking when he announced he was out at the company last week. The board accused him of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-releases-statement-on-why-james-okeefe-was-removed-from-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial mismanagement</a> and some of the group&#8217;s employees had accused him of poor behavior. Many of the group&#8217;s former whistleblowers, however, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-project-veritas-whistleblowers-speak-out-in-support-of-james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come out in support</a> of O’Keefe, through both videos and letters. 
While O’Keefe may be done with Project Veritas, he is not done with investigative journalism, already hinting at forming a new organization. 
“Our mission continues on. I’m not done,” he said in a recent video. “The mission will perhaps take on a new name.”
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A current <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> official, and former advisor to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> during her presidential runs, will speak to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European</a> officials in the coming week about countering “disinformation.”
The official, James P. Rubin, who is the special envoy and coordinator for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a>’s Global Engagement Center, will be in the United Kingdom until February 28, which will be followed by a trip to Belgium on March 1.
“In London, Special Envoy Rubin will meet with UK officials to solidify support for counter disinformation efforts. In meetings with UK counterparts, he will discuss efforts by Russia, the People’s Republic of China, and other actors who deploy disinformation to undermine democracy and national security around the globe, and how our nations can collectively counter threats in the information space,” the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/special-envoy-and-coordinator-for-the-global-engagement-center-rubins-travel-to-london-and-brussels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
During his London trip, which began on Thursday, Rubin will take part in the Phoenix Challenge Forum, a <a href="https://phoenix-challenge-new.webflow.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conference</a> that is put on in part by the Department of Defense and the U.K. Ministry of Defense.
The goal of the conference is to “drive knowledge collaboration and solutions across Defense and Security Organizations, Academia, Private Sector and International Partners to address complex issues related to Cognitive Security, Information Competition &amp; Conflict, and Malign Influence.”
In Belgium, Rubin will also speak with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/european-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Union</a> officials about countering “foreign disinformation.”
Rubin, <a href="https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/james-rubin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who was</a> a foreign affairs advisor for both the Clinton and Obama administration, was part of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 and 2016 presidential runs. During the 2016 campaign, Rubin suggested that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was working with the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails.
“So the idea that a candidate for president is aiding and abetting a foreign power in its intelligence operations is, as I said, unprecedented. We really don’t know how to describe it, except I think it’s the clearest possible evidence of being – of the fact that the nominee for the other party is unfit to be commander-in-chief,” Rubin <a href="https://2009-2017-fpc.state.gov/260592.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in response to Trump calling for Russia to release the emails.
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He also suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin was in support of Trump’s candidacy because Putin believed that Trump would have a more favorable foreign policy toward Russia.
Democrat claims about Trump colluding with the Russians ended up falling flat, as an investigation headed up by Robert Mueller found no evidence of any collusion. Subsequent studies have also found that Russia’s influence on the election was much less than previously claimed by Democrats and the legacy media.
Rubin also has worked as a <a href="https://www.politico.eu/author/james-p-rubin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributing editor</a> for POLITICO magazine where he blasted Trump and his foreign policy in several columns.

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A 33-year-old creator of a popular pro-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account is facing up to 10 years behind bars over memes the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) claims interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
Douglass Mackey, who went by the Twitter alias Ricky Vaughn, was charged about a week after President Joe Biden took office — some four years after the memes were posted. While the DOJ claims Mackey conspired to &#8220;injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate&#8221; people from exercising their constitutional right to vote, the accused&#8217;s attorney says the memes were satire and don&#8217;t fall under the statute Mackey is being charged with, which is <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 U.S. Code 241</a>.
&#8220;One of the arguments is that the conduct of issue does not fall within the scope of the statute as it&#8217;s written,&#8221; attorney James Lawrence told The Daily Wire in a phone interview. &#8220;I mean, this is a statute that was passed after the Civil War as part of the reconstruction process in the south to guarantee the rights of freed slaves to vote without fear of intimidation.&#8221;
Lawrence said the memes on Twitter were satire and purely speech, adding that &#8220;the conduct doesn&#8217;t fall within the scope of section 241.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_498101" style="width: 594px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-498101" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-498101 size-full" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/unnamed-1.png" alt="Douglass Mackey " width="584" height="381" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/02/unnamed-1.png 584w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/02/unnamed-1-300x196.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px" />Courtesy of James Lawrence</div>
According to reporter Luke O&#8217;Brien, Mackey&#8217;s account had enormous reach, <a href="https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2018-04-10/trumps-most-influential-white-nationalist-troll-has-vermont-roots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blending</a> mainstream conservatism with allegedly more extreme anti-Semitic posts. The MIT Media Lab&#8217;s quantitative analysis of social media and news influencers said Mackey&#8217;s Ricky Vaughan account &#8220;was more impactful &#8230; than several major media outlets and figures such as NBC News and The Drudge Report,&#8221; Vermont Public <a href="https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2018-04-10/trumps-most-influential-white-nationalist-troll-has-vermont-roots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
One of the memes the government zeroed in on from Mackey was reportedly published on November 1, 2016. It shows a woman holding an &#8220;African Americans for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-lands-professor-and-presidential-fellow-gig-at-columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Hillary</a>&#8221; sign with overlaid text reading, &#8220;Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 55925.”
Mackey apparently had numerous Twitter accounts but his most popular account with nearly 60,000 followers was openly pro-Trump. The account often used an avatar of actor Charlie Sheen&#8217;s character Ricky Vaughn from the movie Major League wearing a superimposed &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat. His Twitter banner was also a photo of Trump.
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Douglass Mackey, aka far-right influencer &quot;Ricky Vaughn,&quot; has been charged in Brooklyn Fed with 2016 election interference, with a scheme to limit black turnout.
The complaint cites this meme and BuzzFeed story. <a href="https://t.co/gN6AzrfSVW">https://t.co/gN6AzrfSVW</a>
Story soon <a href="https://twitter.com/LambeJerry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LambeJerry</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LawCrimeNews</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Z7Var5tXgU">pic.twitter.com/Z7Var5tXgU</a>
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According to the government, some 4,900 people texted the number, but it&#8217;s unclear how many people, if anyone, fell for the meme and did not cast the vote they intended to cast; or were merely participating in the joke.
Buzzfeed on Nov 2, 2016, one day after Mackey published the meme, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/twitter-doesnt-think-this-attempt-to-disenfranchise-voters-v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a screenshot of a response they received after texting the name &#8220;Hillary&#8221; to the 55925 number. It appeared to be from the Clinton campaign informing them that the ad they saw was not associated with &#8220;Hillary for America,&#8221; and directed them to &#8220;Hillary for America&#8221; via text.
On the same day, then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out that he had &#8220;fixed&#8221; the issue. The tweets were removed and Mackey&#8217;s account was suspended.
Other memes from Mackey reportedly said, &#8220;Join Hillary to fight Russia with our greatest asset: diversity,&#8221; and, &#8220;Vote for her. Vote from home. Post &#8216;Hillary&#8217; using #PresidentialElection.&#8221; There were also reportedly memes about celebrities backing Trump, meant to mock and rile-up Hollywood.
The charges have sparked some criticism about potential First Amendment implications going forward. Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, for example, criticized the Biden DOJ for the indictment.
It&#8217;s a &#8220;three-fer,&#8221; McCarthy <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-justice-departments-ridiculous-voter-disinformation-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;the prosecutorial creation of a crime Congress has not prescribed, the trivialization of civil-rights law, and the intrusion of government as a monitor of political speech.&#8221;
McCarthy told Fox News last year, &#8220;It&#8217;s really like a toe in the water for the FBI, in the end, to manage communications in election campaigns. And I think we&#8217;ve seen in the last few years how well the FBI&#8217;s involvement in our elections and our politics has worked out.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewCMcCarthy</a> Discussing The DOJ&#39;s Ridiculous Prosecution Of Doug Mackey For Making Memes Online
Former Federal Prosecutor Andy McCarthy: &quot;I&#39;d like to just say it&#39;s a ridiculous case Tucker, but actually it turns out to be a dangerous one in the end.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ULROMQobm4">pic.twitter.com/ULROMQobm4</a>
&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1357152990268846083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Lawrence similarly emphasized that this could impact all Americans, regardless of their political views.
&#8220;The reason why this is such an important case for all Americans, Left, Right, and center is, do we want the state, do we want the government to be involved in policing alleged misinformation and disinformation, particularly around our elections?&#8221; Lawrence posed.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t want the government&#8217;s nose in that tent,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This would arguably expand the scope of liability under section 241 in such a way that the government could use it to target other people&#8217;s speech, regardless, really, of their political ideology.&#8221;
Mackey has not received support from the Left-leaning ACLU or other free speech groups, which some have speculated is due to Mackey&#8217;s personal politics.
The 33-year-old has set up his own website, memedefensefund.com, for financial support, and Lawrence has been asking for prayer for his client and their efforts.
The trial is set for March 16, in the Eastern District of New York.

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A federal judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> has sanctioned former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and one of his attorneys over a lawsuit deemed frivolous against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> and 30 others.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-dozens-of-others-over-far-reaching-russian-collusion-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee, and dozens of others in March 2022. The former president alleged that the defendants orchestrated a plot to spread malicious and false information about Trump regarding his ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ordered Trump, his attorney Alina Habba, and Habba’s firm, Habba Madaio &amp; Associates, to pay a $937,989.39 fine for a lawsuit that “needlessly harmed” 31 people and entities “in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative.”
“Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks <a href="https://static.poder360.com.br/2023/01/trumop-clinton-20jan2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.&#8221;
“As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba,” the judge said.
Trump’s lawsuit accused a slew of Democratic groups, operatives, public officials, and others of “nefariously” abusing federal investigative power, media ethics, and the public’s trust to promote a conspiracy about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. “Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” Trump’s lawsuit said.
Middlebrooks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/trump-clinton-lawsuit-fine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw out</a> the case in September, dismissing Trump’s filing as a “political manifesto” disguised as a lawsuit filled with overwrought claims and hyperbole while lacking substance. The judge fined Trump’s legal team $50,000 over the lawsuit in November.
Many of the defendants together filed a joint request for further punishment against Trump, however. Clinton and others targeted in Trump’s suit asked Middlebrooks for additional sanctions against the former president.
Middlebrooks at the time agreed to consider the additional sanctions and warned Trump’s legal team that additional action may be taken against them by “the bar and disciplinary authorities” over the Trump lawsuit.

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Former Secretary of State <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> will join the faculty of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a>.
The elite school said in a Thursday <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-join-columbia-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> that Clinton will work on a “variety of major initiatives” with the university and begin engaging with students in the next school year. She will serve as a professor of practice at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, as well as a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects.
“I have had the great pleasure of knowing Hillary personally for three decades, since her early days as First Lady of the United States,” Columbia President Lee Bollinger remarked in a message to the school. “Given her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences, Hillary Clinton is unique, and, most importantly, exceptional in what she can bring to the University’s missions of research and teaching, along with public service and engagement for the public good.”
Clinton previously served as first lady alongside her husband, former President Bill Clinton, before representing the state of New York in the Senate and leading former President Barack Obama&#8217;s State Department. She mounted two unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016, succumbing on the latter occasion to dark horse candidate Donald Trump.
“I am honored to join Columbia University, and the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia World Projects,” Clinton said. “Columbia’s commitment to educating the next generation of U.S. and global policy leaders, translating insights into impact, and helping to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges resonates personally with me. I look forward to contributing to these efforts.”
Before her ascension to the Ivy League, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tv-review-says-hillary-clinton-series-lacks-depth-personality-and-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> recently for “Gutsy,” a series she hosted for Apple TV alongside her daughter, Chelsea Clinton. Among other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-gushing-to-megan-thee-stallion-over-wap-has-twitter-recalling-the-hot-sauce-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guests</a> on the show was Megan Thee Stallion, who collaborated on the vulgar song “WAP” with fellow artist Cardi B. Clinton revealed during the episode that she “admired the audacity and the kind of agency” exhibited by the rappers in their controversial tune.
Some have posited that Clinton may mount a third shot for the Oval Office should President Joe Biden refrain from running for a second term. Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-clinton-adviser-hillary-clinton-setting-up-2024-presidential-run-after-latest-shot-at-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speculated</a> that she could position herself as a “moderate candidate.”
Clinton’s new role at Columbia University is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-washed-up-leftists-who-found-homes-in-academia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of several offers</a> prominent Democrats have received from academia in recent years. Biden served as Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania ahead of his bid for the White House. The commander-in-chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-was-a-full-professor-for-four-years-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year that he served as a “full professor” at the school even though he never taught classes; a <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/joe-biden-penn-salary-lectures-20190712.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that Biden was nevertheless paid $371,159 in 2017 and $540,484 in 2018 and 2019.
More recently, former Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, one of the main impeachment witnesses against former President Donald Trump, received a visiting fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House in the fall of 2020. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) held a teaching position at Texas State University in the spring of 2021, while minister and activist Al Sharpton served as a “distinguished guest lecturer” at Tennessee State University.

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The White House on Monday played down a batch of newly released Twitter emails that reveal internal discussions about suppressing stories on Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop as &#8220;old news.&#8221;
Elon Musk&#8217;s release of the &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; has stoked conservatives, who see collusion between Democrats and social media platforms to suppress stories leading up to the 2020 election.
But White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/12/05/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-december-5-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> the files, calling them nothing more than a distraction.
&#8220;So, look, we see this as a — an interesting or a coincidence, if I may, that he would so haphazardly — Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction that is a — that is full of old news, if you think about it,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;And at the same time, Twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism on their platform, and how they’re letting it happen. And, you know, the president said last week: More leaders need to speak out and reject this. And it&#8217;s very alarming and very dangerous,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said.
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The reporter followed up, asking: &#8220;Is it the White House view that decisions at Twitter were made appropriately in terms of decisions to censor this reporting ahead of the election?&#8221;
Jean-Pierre got her dander up. &#8220;Let me — you see — you mischaracterize, actually, what I — what I actually said, and took it out of context when you asked your question.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, when I answered the question — and I already — I actually already addressed this — about how the White House and the administration is seeing what’s happening on Twitter, we were — we follow also what’s going on just like you guys are reporting it, just like you guys are seeing,&#8221; she said.
This is an old trick crafted by former President Bill Clinton &#8212; and perfected by his wife, Hillary.
As scandal after scandal popped up during President Clinton&#8217;s two terms, the White House would deflect and distract. First, they&#8217;d assign the scandal to a blue-ribbon commission, then say they couldn&#8217;t comment while the investigation was ongoing. They&#8217;d drag out the probe, release a fraction of the documents requested by investigators, and when finally forced to answer questions, they&#8217;d say, &#8220;What, that old thing!?&#8221;
Hillary Clinton ran the play to perfection with the attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. What was clearly a terrorist attack was at first characterized by Clinton as a protest spontaneously inspired by protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo over a YouTube video.
She knew that wasn&#8217;t true. In a phone call with the Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil the day after the attack, the then-Secretary of State <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/the-benghazi-timeline-clinton-edition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;we know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.&#8221;
But she never said that publicly. The massive scandal was occurring just two months before the presidential election, so then-President Barack Obama and his minions sought to bury the real story.
Obama and Clinton dragged their feet for the next six weeks, prompting a furious Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to say on October 28, &#8220;this is either a massive cover-up or incompetence,&#8221; and suggested that it was a scandal worse than Watergate.
&#8220;We know that there were tapes, recordings inside the consulate during this fight &#8230; So the president went on various shows, despite what he said in the Rose Garden, about terrorist acts, he went on several programs, including The View, including Letterman, including before the UN where he continued to refer, days later, many days later, to this as a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. We know that is patently false. What did the president know? When did he know it?&#8221; McCain <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57541807/face-the-nation-transcripts-october-28-2012-mccain-and-emanuel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221;
Obama won re-election, and he would eventually claim he immediately called the Benghazi attack &#8220;an act of terrorism&#8221; (The Washington Post&#8217;s fact checker <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-claim-he-called-benghazi-an-act-of-terrorism/2013/05/13/7b65b83e-bc14-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed</a> that &#8220;revisionist history&#8221;).
But Clinton played the game even better. She was scheduled to testify before Congress on December 20 about the attack, but days before that, it was reported that she had become dehydrated from the flu, fainted, and sustained a concussion. Her testimony was postponed.
After announcing she would step down as Secretary of State, she finally testified on January 23, 2013. She uttered this classic passage: &#8220;With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they&#8217;d, they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?&#8221;
What, that old thing? Asked and answered. The Biden White House has learned well.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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A Catholic bishop in Texas slammed Democrat Hillary Clinton on Friday after the twice-failed presidential candidate compared the abortion debate in the U.S. to Russian soldiers raping women in Ukraine.
At the Women’s Voice Summit held at the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas on Friday, Clinton went on to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-overturning-roe-wade-us-afghanistan-sudan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> America was like Sudan and Afghanistan with regard to abortion.
“We have come a long way on so many fronts but we are also in a period of time where there is a lot of pushback and much of the progress that has been taken for granted by too many people is under attack: literally under attack in places like Iran or Afghanistan or Ukraine — where rape is a tactic of war — or under attack by political and cultural forces in a country like our own when it comes to women’s healthcare and bodily autonomy,” Clinton <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hillary-clinton-compares-pro-lifers-to-iranian-regime-taliban-russian-war-criminals/">said</a>. “It’s so shocking to think that in any way we’re related to poor Afghanistan and Sudan, but as an advanced economy as we allegedly are, on this measure, we unfortunately are rightly put with them.”
“This struggle is between autocracy and democracy from our country to places we can’t even believe we’re being compared to,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-compares-pro-life-efforts-in-u-s-to-afghanistan-sudan">added</a>.
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Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, responded to Clinton&#8217;s remarks by encouraging people to ignore her.
&#8220;Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman,&#8221; Strickland <a href="https://twitter.com/Bishopoftyler/status/1598886352724049920">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity.&#8221;
The U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">overturned</a> the monumental Roe v. Wade case back in June that legalized abortion across America in 1973.
The 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization followed the early May leak of a draft opinion indicating which way the justices would likely rule. That leak prompted protests across the nation, particularly in Washington, D.C., and acts of vandalism at pro-life organizations, centers, and churches.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Roe and a subsequent case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe, both must be overturned, and the right to allow, deny, or restrict the right to an abortion must reside with states.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito wrote in his majority opinion, which was strikingly similar to the earlier leaked draft. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

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