It is easy to forget the dystopian excesses of the Covid era: business closures, shuttered schools, and mask and vaccine mandates. A new development in Missouri v. Biden, a Covid-era lawsuit, serves as an important reminder of how precarious our basic freedoms become in the face of a perceived disaster. For the past four years, a coalition of state attorneys general, courageous scientists, and First Amendment advocates waged a counterattack against the federal government’s efforts to strong-arm social media companies into silencing those espousing views contrary to the government-approved narrative. 
Last week, the plaintiffs and the federal defendants submitted a consent decree to the court for approval. The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.477.1.pdf">proposed consent decree</a> is both a real win for free speech and a blueprint for further protections necessary to safeguard our First Amendment rights.
That need is underscored by another recent free speech victory by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Wins+Landmark+Free+Speech+Victory+In+Censorship+Lawsuit+Against+State+Department">The Daily Wire</a>, in which the State Department agreed to stop supporting efforts that targeted protected speech by American media outlets. That settlement also imposed ongoing compliance oversight, helping ensure the government cannot quietly return to the same tactics.
The core allegation in Missouri v. Biden was that senior officials across multiple federal agencies had engaged in an unprecedented campaign to coerce and pressure major social media platforms into censoring lawful speech. The plaintiffs argued that the Biden administration had effectively outsourced government censorship to private companies, leaning on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress content related to Covid origins and treatments, the Hunter Biden laptop story, and election integrity.
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For example, Rob Flaherty, the director of digital media in the Biden Administration, tried to coerce Meta into suppressing posts critical of the Covid vaccine on Facebook, accusing Meta of driving “vaccine hesitancy.” Flaherty even demanded that Meta explain what it would do to suppress anti-vaccine content on WhatsApp, a private messaging application. Flaherty made clear he was not speaking just for himself, but rather for, “the highest — and I mean the highest — levels of the White House.&#8221;
The case bounced between trial and appellate courts, including a stop at the Supreme Court, as judges evaluated the nuances of the thorny, at times novel, claims at issue in the case. With the change in presidential administrations, however, the federal government no longer was the adversary, though it was still the nominal defendant. 
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which condemned the types of censorship the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden had filed suit regarding. With a sympathetic administration in office, the plaintiffs were able to negotiate a consent decree rather than spend many more years embroiled in litigation.
The consent decree is focused on preventing the type of coercion, known as jawboning, that the federal government had used to do indirectly during Covid what it could not do directly: prevent Americans from speaking out in public about the major issues of the day. The parties agreed that the government would no longer take actions designed to bully social media companies into removing or suppressing content containing free speech. The consent decree further prohibits the government from directing or vetoing social media companies’ content moderation policies.
A critical limit in the consent decree, however, exposes the clear need for the government to take protective measures outside the confines of the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit. For technical legal reasons related to standing and jurisdiction, the consent decree is focused on the parties to the case. Rather than enjoin the federal government as a whole, the consent decree binds the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which engaged in some of the most blatant jawboning efforts during the Covid period. The consent decree further protects only the plaintiffs in the case, that is, the states and individuals who sued the government. (In a bit of poetic justice, two of the plaintiffs, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, withdrew from the case after accepting senior posts in the Trump administration.)
The Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs are not the only litigants who have prevailed in challenges to Biden-era free speech violations. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire">reported</a>, this week, a federal judge issued a consent decree in a challenge to the Biden-era State Department’s practice of partnering with outside organizations to label various outlets — including this one and the Federalist — as disinformation. The State Department agreed that it would no longer engage in efforts to suppress, censor, demonetize, or downgrade the constitutionally protected speech of Americans and domestic news outlets. 
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While these consent decrees are real victories for the plaintiffs who had the courage to take on the federal government in court, they will not stop a future administration from engaging in similar tactics that we saw during Covid, in the wake of the 2020 election, and throughout the Biden Administration. Americans as a whole deserve the robust protections the Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs earned in that litigation. 
Congressional action of any sort is admittedly a difficult feat. But there are few bedrock principles more important than those embodied in the First Amendment. If Congress wants to protect Americans’ free speech rights, the proposed consent decree in Missouri v. Biden is a useful roadmap. All federal agencies and officials, not just the select handful named in the proposed consent decree, should be prohibited from trying to control speech by telling social media companies what content is and is not allowed. And all Americans should be able to speak on social media with the assurance that the government cannot tell social media platforms to silence them.
The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden and their attorneys should be praised for bringing a landmark lawsuit in the face of tremendous government overreach and achieving a real victory in the process. Congress should follow suit by extending those protections to everyone else.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock is the Miles Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Liberty, and he is a partner at Sweigart Murdock, LLP in San Francisco, where he specializes in First Amendment and defamation law, political law, and civil rights.

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The ongoing legal battle between Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts over their seven-year-old daughter, Navy Joan, has reached a new level of friction in an Arkansas court. The dispute centers on <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15510483/Hunter-Biden-ghosted-daughter-Navy-Lunden-Roberts-stripper.html">allegations</a> that Biden has &#8220;ghosted&#8221; the child and failed to fulfill the unique terms of a 2023 settlement agreement.
Lunden Roberts recently filed to reopen the child support case, labeling Biden &#8220;classless&#8221; for cutting off all contact with Navy Joan in 2024. In response, Biden’s legal team submitted a blunt filing asserting that his lack of communication does not constitute a violation of the law. His lawyer argued that because the court order does not explicitly mandate him to speak to or visit the child, his silence is not punishable by contempt. This follows a brief period where the two had reportedly begun building a foundation through scheduled calls.
A central pillar of their <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/hunter-biden-baby-mama-luden-roberts-settle-child-support-dispute-with-first-sons-payments-slashed/">2023 agreement</a> was Biden’s commitment to provide Navy Joan with 30 of his original paintings or the proceeds from their sale. At the time, Biden’s art was valued as high as $500,000 per piece. Roberts claims Biden has failed to hand over the art, while Biden’s defense maintains that because the settlement did not establish a specific deadline, he is not currently in breach of the order. Meanwhile, the market value of his work has reportedly plummeted since Joe Biden left the White House.
Roberts cited a stark contrast between Navy Joan’s upbringing and that of Hunter’s other children. Her filings point to the Biden family’s exclusive lifestyle—specifically a 2025 Thanksgiving gathering in Nantucket—noting that Navy Joan is the only grandchild excluded from such family activities. Roberts argues that while the court cannot force Biden to be a &#8220;good dad,&#8221; it can ensure the child receives the same level of financial support as her half-siblings.
The relationship began in 2017, and Navy Joan was born in 2018. Although Hunter Biden initially claimed he had no memory of Roberts and denied paternity, a 2019 DNA test <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/nov/20/dna-test-shows-hunter-biden-father-arkansas-womans/">confirmed</a> he was the father. Despite this, he famously omitted Navy Joan from his 2021 memoir and successfully fought to prevent her from using the &#8220;Biden&#8221; last name.

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden admitted on a recent podcast that President Donald Trump is not, in fact, the next incarnation of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — but then he claimed that was only because Hitler, unlike Trump, had a &#8220;plan.&#8221;
Biden, during an interview on the &#8220;<a href="https://youtu.be/YRfS0YrKGRc?si=XrvxnaZYKJyHn_z1&amp;t=2143">Wide Awake Podcast</a>,&#8221; claimed that Trump differed from the German dictator largely because Hitler had been driven by &#8220;ideology&#8221; — whereas he believed Trump was only driven by &#8220;corruption&#8221; and a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; world view.
Biden began with a question — namely, how did the German people allow Hitler&#8217;s rise to power — and he suggested that the United States might be going through a similar situation.
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&#8220;I’m not saying that there is a Holocaust, and by the way, I’m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler. Because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan,&#8221; Biden claimed, adding, &#8220;Donald Trump is purely corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only cares about one thing, and that’s Donald Trump. And he is a clown in that respect,&#8221; he added, saying Trump was actually more like the &#8220;Butcher of Uganda,&#8221; Idi Amin.
Biden, who has spent most of his adult life profiting from his father&#8217;s political positions, went on to complain that President Trump&#8217;s family has continued to make money while he served as president. His comments echoed those of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-send-hunter-bidens-father-to-lecture-americans-on-trump-profiting-from-presidency">his father</a>, the former president, who made almost the same complaint days earlier.
&#8220;Has anyone noticed how much the Trump family has made while he’s been president? A reported $1.8 billion,” Biden began, his tone soft. He abruptly began shouting as he added, “Can you imagine if any other president in American history did that? Can you imagine what would happen?&#8221;
Grok provided the perfect response to the former president: &#8220;Biden’s claim overlooks his family’s multimillion-dollar deals with foreign entities during and after his VP tenure, per House investigations and bank records. Trump’s family businesses operated separately, with him donating his full presidential salary to charity—hardly equivalent profiteering.&#8221;
In addition to the fact that President Trump has donated his salary the entire time that he has been president, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-net-worth-us-presidents-before-after-office-1992975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports indicate</a> that Trump is the only president in recent history to see his net worth drop after a term or two in the Oval Office, as The Daily Wire previously reported. When Trump first took office in 2017, he had an estimated net worth of $3 billion — and when he left office in early 2021, his net worth had fallen to $2.3 billion.

Hunter Biden Admits Trump Isn’t Hitler, But It’s All Downhill From There

Hunter Biden Admits Trump Isn't Hitler, But It's All Downhill From There

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden had a blunt, two word response to first lady Melania Trump&#8217;s threatened $1 billion defamation suit over comments he&#8217;d made suggesting that she had ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein: &#8220;F*** that!&#8221;
Channel 5&#8217;s Andrew Callaghan, who gave the interview in which Biden made the offending claims, shared video on Thursday of Biden&#8217;s reaction to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melania-threatens-hunter-biden-with-1b-lawsuit-false-defamatory-disparaging">threat of a lawsuit</a>.
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Callaghan introduced the video posted Thursday by splicing in clips of Biden&#8217;s offending comments — and then turned the question over the Biden, saying that perhaps he was giving him the platform to apologize as the first lady had demanded.
&#8220;F*** that,&#8221; Biden laughed, and then after a brief pause, &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221;
The younger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youve-chosen-to-book-spectacle-chuck-todd-unloads-on-media-outlets-platforming-hunter-biden">Biden</a> had claimed during a YouTube interview with Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan that &#8220;Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.&#8221; He later added, according to the complaint, &#8220;Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and that’s how Melania and the first lady — and the president met.&#8221;
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Alejandro Brito, attorney for Melania Trump, sent a letter demanding an apology and threatening a lawsuit to Hunter Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, on August 6.
&#8220;These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums,&#8221; Brito wrote. &#8220;Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide.&#8221;
&#8220;Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,&#8221; Brito continued, threatening a $1 billion defamation suit if the demands were not met.
&#8220;Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,&#8221; he wrote.
Brito also noted that The Daily Beast, another outlet that had published the same claims based on information published by &#8220;serial fabulist Michael Wolfe,&#8221; had already apologized.
&#8220;The timing of this video is evident and underscores the actual malice behind the decision to publish it given the plain falsity of the statements,&#8221; Brito addressed Biden directly. &#8220;Given your vast history of trading on the names of others—including your surname—for your personal benefit, it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself.&#8221;

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First lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over claims the Biden scion made about Trump regarding the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Attorneys for Trump sent a letter demanding Biden retract statements he made about the first lady regarding Epstein in an interview on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan and published on YouTube earlier this month. The letter accused Biden of causing “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” to the first lady.
“This correspondence serves as a demand … that you immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” the letter says. The interview “has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide. Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
The letter, sent by Alejandro Brito, Trump’s litigation counsel, quotes two comments from Biden in the video in which he claims that Epstein first introduced Trump to President Donald Trump. In the video, Biden cites an article published on The Daily Beast written by “serial fabulist” Michael Wolff.
“Following receipt of our cease-and-desist demand letter just a week ago, The Daily Beast issued an apology to Mrs. Trump and retracted the false and defamatory statements contained in the Article by deleting it in its entirety,” Brito wrote. “Despite this, you have unjustifiably relied upon Mr. Wolff&#8217;s false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump and maliciously elected to republish them.”
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Biden must issue a public retraction of his comments and an apology to Trump, according to the letter. The message also tells Biden to save all evidence and communications related to the claims and the interview.
If the letter’s demands are not met, “Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages. You are on notice,” the letter says.
Biden appeared on the YouTube news show Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan twice in videos published on July 21 and August 5. The July <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M&amp;t=4278s">interview</a> ran for roughly three hours and has racked up over 3.6 million views. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WCtYDtgbM">video</a> released in August is shorter, running just over one hour, and has amassed nearly 1.2 million views. The offending comments appeared in the August video.

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Longtime &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd called out media outlets for continuing to book former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, saying that those who chose to give him a platform were choosing to &#8220;book spectacle&#8221; over substance.
Todd spoke up on his eponymous podcast — &#8220;The Chuck Todd-Cast&#8221; — after Hunter Biden gave a slew of interviews that essentially boiled down to expletive-laden attacks on anyone who either failed to support his dad all the way to the end or who had supported President Donald Trump in any way. Todd&#8217;s main objection to the interviews appeared to be that keeping the younger Biden on camera was not good for anyone — especially the Democratic Party.
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&#8220;I will never book Hunter Biden. I have no interest in what he has to say &#8230; I have a real problem with the folks that are booking him.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/TbH8B7Jc5t">pic.twitter.com/TbH8B7Jc5t</a>
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&#8220;I will never book Hunter Biden. I have no interest in what he has to say for a couple reasons. Number one, he’s not the candidate. He wasn’t on the ballot. Anything he says is in defense of his father. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but it doesn’t matter, he’s a son defending his father, and my guess is he’s going to defend him to the hilt,&#8221; Todd began. &#8220;So I just kind of think, you know, I take every one of his anger pieces of anger and criticism and I just sort of chalk it up to, yeah, he’s defending his dad and he loves his dad.&#8221;
&#8220;I have a real problem with the folks that are booking him. If you’ve chosen to book Hunter Biden, you’ve chose to book spectacle. You’re not interested in — and the two interviews that have gone viral were both designed to get attention, not to surface new facts, not to give you a better understanding of what may have happened. It was just, let’s give him a platform to settle some scores that maybe he wants to settle,” Todd continued.
His overall assessment was simple: &#8220;I don’t think this does Hunter Biden any good. I don’t think this does Joe Biden any good, it certainly doesn’t do the Democratic Party any good. That’s why it’s surprising to see the former DNC chair, start a podcast and decide that the best way to market it is Hunter Biden.&#8221;
In his recent interviews, Hunter Biden lashed out at actor George Clooney for writing the op-ed that kick-started a wave of Democrat calls for President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. Hunter also called out the Democratic Party, scolding them for folding under the pressure rather than having his dad&#8217;s back when it mattered.

‘You’ve Chosen To Book Spectacle’: Chuck Todd Unloads On Media Outlets Platforming Hunter Biden

'You've Chosen To Book Spectacle': Chuck Todd Unloads On Media Outlets Platforming Hunter Biden

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As you know, I’m a simple man — not as simple as you obviously, but still, there are times when the issues of the day grow too complex for me to comprehend. And, in those moments when I feel lost and confused, then, just like you, I look for answers in the wisdom and moral insight of men like Hunter Biden.
For example, take the recent controversies over illegal immigration. In my charming, dimple-cheeked innocence, I always thought, hey, no one is above the law, illegal immigrants have broken the law, ICE is authorized to enforce the law, so what’s the problem? But then, I consult the wisdom of Hunter Biden, who recently said, (and this is a real quote) “People are really upset about illegal immigration? Eff you&#8230; How do you think you have food on your effing table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your effing garden?”
And, of course, when I realized it was illegal immigrants who put food on our tables and wash our dishes and tend our gardens, I immediately had my wife deported.
But Hunter Biden is not our only source of political wisdom in this crazy world. We can also turn to Hollywood actors. Because surely, if Hunter Biden’s life is an example of probity to us all, then Hollywood actors have many important ideas. Jeff Daniels, for instance, is an actor so talented, he can make even the most implausible characters seem vividly real, like when he played James Comey as an honest man. 
A shallow observer like myself, or even a shallower observer like yourself, might look at the second Trump administration and see massive tax cuts, secure borders so my wife can’t sneak back into the country, billions in tariff revenues, low inflation, no nuclear weapons for Islamists who believe the end of days will come just as soon as they get nuclear weapons, and you might think, wow, I’m sure glad I voted for Trump.
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But not Jeff Daniels. Jeff says — and once again I’m not making this up. In fact, I couldn’t make this up — he says, “I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice. Because she would have done what Lincoln did.” And how can anyone disagree when you remember Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he said, “At what point do we uplift and highlight the consumer’s right to expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos.” Which Lincoln followed with that unbearable high-pitched cackling laughter of his. Or that might have been Kamala. I get them confused because Jeff Daniels can’t tell the difference.
And finally, after you’ve consulted Hunter Biden, and after you’ve studied the political thought of Hollywood actors, you can always turn to the searing insights of corporate comedians like John Stewart, who responded to the cancellation of fellow corporate comedian Stephen Colbert by saying, and once again, these are Stewart’s exact words, “Go eff yourself. Go eff yourself. Eff eff eff yourself. Go eff yourself.” 
Now friends, that kind of witty commentary on the news of the day, demonstrates the wisdom of having every single comedian hosting a corporation’s television show hold the exact same political opinion as every other comedian hosting a corporation’s television show, because if comedians with left wing opinions are not entitled to monopolize every single corporate comedy job in show business, that would mean that corporations should hire comedians with a range of opinions wide enough to entertain an audience large enough that their corporate employers won’t have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on network shows that get their asses kicked in the ratings by Greg Gutfeld on cable.
So in conclusion, if you ever find yourself lost on the winding road of life, remember, you only have to turn to an entitled, overpaid midwit spouting the received opinions of the Democrat party as if that were an act of daring or intelligence, and then you will truly know where our elites want the rest of us to go and what they want us to do to ourselves when we get there.
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613165536?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_3&amp;storeType=ebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Woman Underground.</a>” His most recent nonfiction release is “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Cain-Finding-Literature-Darkness/dp/0310368340/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=nMYjR&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_r=133-8344803-2786917&amp;pd_rd_wg=7a8J3&amp;pd_rd_r=5791ea0f-6d96-4732-9d6a-3a4e6b348bb5&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.</a>” (May 2025, Zondervan/HarperCollins). Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a>
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Border czar Tom Homan pulled no punches in his brutal roast of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, referring to him as the &#8220;former First Drug Addict&#8221; during a recent appearance on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; on Fox News.
Homan, a longtime Border Patrol officer who was named border czar by President Donald Trump, joined host Laura Ingraham to share his reaction to a recent Hunter Biden interview. During that interview, an emotional Hunter Biden had lashed out at President Trump&#8217;s border policies and suggested that all illegal immigrants in the United States should simply be allowed to remain. Homan disagreed.
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🚨 LMAO! Tom Homan just ROASTED Hunter Biden after Hunter said &#8220;f— you&#8221; to those who want immigration laws enforced.
&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks!&#8221; 🤣🔥
Homan is a national treasure. <a href="https://t.co/Okq5XsPGjF">pic.twitter.com/Okq5XsPGjF</a>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get your reaction, Tom, to one of your old friends who had a message for Americans who care about illegal immigration,&#8221; Ingraham teased the clip of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-defends-illegals-with-slew-of-f-bombs">younger Biden</a>.
&#8220;People are really upset about illegal immigration. F*** you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f***ing table? Who do you think washes your dishes?” he asked in the clip.
&#8220;Well, I do my own dishes,&#8221; Ingraham said as she cut away from the Biden interview. &#8220;But this idea that the fruit&#8217;s going to rot in the orchards, nobody&#8217;s ever going to have a lawn mowed again if we actually enforce our immigration laws &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks,&#8221; Homan shot back. &#8220;I just thank God every morning I wake up, and we&#8217;ve got President Trump in the Oval Office. And because of President Trump, in seven weeks, we got the most secure border in this nation&#8217;s history. And now we&#8217;re arresting public safety threats and national security every day across this country.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump accuses former President Barack Obama of treason over the Russiagate scandal as the Department of Justice and Congress seek to question Ghislaine Maxwell. Hunter Biden lashes out at prominent Democrats in a series of interviews, creating new headaches for a party trying to move on from its 2024 loss. A surge in domestic business investment and a new trade deal with the Philippines signal continued economic strength under the Trump administration. 
It’s Wednesday, July 23, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Trump Accuses Obama Of ‘Treason’ As Maxwell Faces Subpoena</h2>
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Topline: President Trump has accused former President Obama of treason based on newly released Russiagate documents, while both the Department of Justice and Congress are seeking to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. 
On Tuesday, President Trump claimed that documents recently declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard prove Obama’s guilt in orchestrating the scandal. “They have &#8217;em stone cold, and it was President Obama,” Trump said. “The leader of the gang was President Obama. … He&#8217;s guilty. It&#8217;s not a question… This was treason. This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election.” 
A statement from Obama’s office called the claims &#8220;ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.” 
Meanwhile, the DOJ and Congress are intensifying efforts to obtain more information from Ghislaine Maxwell. Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche said that while the DOJ stands by its findings that there is no Epstein “client list” and that he committed suicide, the department still wants to meet with Maxwell. In Congress, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, is leading the push to subpoena Maxwell to seek justice for Epstein’s victims. 
Transparency advocates are also pushing for the release of documents that remain sealed. Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, told The Daily Wire that his organization is demanding the release of government records on Epstein through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Fitton also said that President Trump should &#8220;intervene directly and direct the investigations himself&#8221; because the FBI and DOJ would otherwise be investigating their own handling of the case. 
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<h2>Hunter Biden’s Interview Fallout</h2>
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Topline: Hunter Biden has made waves in a series of candid interviews, defending his past actions and lashing out at prominent Democrats and media figures whom he blames for forcing his father out of the 2024 presidential race. 
In his first interviews in years, Hunter Biden, who received a full pardon from his father for firearms and tax convictions, dismissed his legal troubles and the controversy surrounding his laptop. He also defended his lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, for which he was paid an estimated $1 million annually, claiming he was &#8220;100% qualified&#8221; because of his wealth, connections, and education. 
Hunter saved his harshest criticism for Democrats who he says betrayed his father, Joe Biden. He blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for pushing him out of the presidential race and claimed the Democrats lost in 2024 because they &#8220;did not remain loyal.&#8221; He directed profanity-laced tirades at actor George Clooney — saying, “F*** him and everybody around him” — and at political strategists James Carville and David Axelrod. 
The interviews have caused a new headache for Democrats. According to the New York Post, leading party members want to move on from 2024 and view Hunter as a &#8220;personification of loss &#8216;that mainly helps Republicans.&#8217;” Carville published an op-ed calling for the party to unite behind a campaign to repeal Trump’s tax cuts. The hosts of the &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; podcast, whom Hunter also targeted, fired back, stating, &#8220;You were a liability and you should be ashamed.&#8221; 
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<h2>Investment Surges In U.S. Economy</h2>
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Topline: A significant spike in domestic business investment, coupled with a new trade deal and rising wages, indicates a strengthening American economy under President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill.&#8221; 
A new report from the Federal Reserve shows that American businesses are investing near-record amounts in Capital Expenditures (CapEx), a positive sign for future growth. Last quarter saw an 11% increase in business equipment production, following a 23% spike in the previous quarter. Excluding the pandemic, this represents the strongest six-month period for such investment in nearly 30 years. 
Joe Lavorgna, Counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, told The Daily Wire that the growth is a result of Trump’s policies. The &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; included retroactive expensing, faster permitting for energy projects, and made low tax rates permanent, all of which encourage businesses to invest in the U.S. This investment is contributing to a &#8220;blue collar boom,&#8221; with real wages for hourly workers rising nearly 2% in the last six months — the strongest growth for a president’s first six months in office in over 60 years. 
The trend of domestic investment was further highlighted on Tuesday when European pharmaceutical giant <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/astrazeneca-unveils-50-billion-us-investment-pharma-tariff-threat-looms-2025-07-21/">AstraZeneca</a> announced a $50 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing and research facilities, a move reportedly made to avoid Trump’s looming tariffs. 
Additionally, President Trump announced a major trade breakthrough with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winning-trump-secures-trade-deals-in-philippines-and-indonesia">the Philippines</a>, stating the country is &#8220;going OPEN MARKET with the United States, and ZERO Tariffs&#8221; in exchange for military cooperation.

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Hunter Biden is back.
There are a couple of reasons why that matters. One is that Hunter Biden is a stand-in for his father. When Hunter talks, Hunter is speaking for Joe Biden. And when he speaks for Joe Biden, he is speaking for the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
The second reason is that Hunter Biden&#8217;s exposure of the entire Left for the fraud that it is, because of his father, is quite incredible.
It is worthwhile to remember that Hunter Biden was part of that inner coterie of people surrounding Joe Biden who knew that Joe was unhealthy, mentally unwell, and who left him in place because they were essentially playing at the presidency. When you listen to Hunter, you should understand he was at least partially the actual president of the United States for several years.
So that makes Hunter’s interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 on YouTube important.
He said Nancy Pelosi drove Biden out of the race. “You know who did not want Kamala Harris to be president and did not want her to be the nominee?” Hunter asked. “Nancy Pelosi didn&#8217;t want her to be; none of Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s people wanted her to be. They wanted an open convention. They wanted a floor fight. I don&#8217;t know what the hell they wanted, but they wanted to be the ones to anoint whoever they were going to anoint to become the next president of the United States. … All I know is that they definitely did not want Kamala Harris, which undermined her, which undermined the campaign.”
He also took some swipes at people like George Clooney and David Axelrod, saying:
<blockquote>You know what George Clooney did? He was given the blessing by the Obama team or the Obama people and whoever else, and David Axelrod and whoever the f*** else. &#8230; ‘We are going to insert our judgment over yours.’ We, me, and James Carville, who hasn&#8217;t won a race in 40 f***ing years, and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama — and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys, the Pod Save America guys who were junior speechwriters on Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars, the Anita Dunns of the world, who&#8217;s made $40, $50 million off the Democratic Party &#8230; I don&#8217;t have to be nice. &#8230; What right do you have to step on a man who&#8217;s given 52 years of his life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in The New York Times to undermine the president?</blockquote>
Hunter also suggested that he was totally qualified to be on Burisma&#8217;s board. One of the kind of seamy realities about the last election cycle is that some of it was about Joe Biden&#8217;s age. A lot of it was about a widespread perception of the Biden family&#8217;s absolutely deep and abiding corruption.
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Hunter denied he had been put on the board of Burisma for any political reason, which, of course, is absolutely ridiculous. He had no experience in the energy sector. He couldn&#8217;t point out Ukraine on a map, and suddenly he was on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm?
It had nothing to do with his last name being Biden.
The last part of the interview was amusing — Hunter defending himself by making the argument that crack is somehow safer than alcohol, which is a hell of an argument.
But put all of this aside. Put aside the Biden administration and its corruption, the fact that Joe Biden was dead for several years, and that his family was essentially running the government. If you see Hunter as a stand-in for the Joe Biden moderate wing of the Democratic Party, things start to get interesting because Hunter Biden also spoke about policy.
There were two particular issues where Hunter Biden put specific focus: illegal immigration and Israel. These issues are the ones where Democrats are completely at odds with the American people, but they will not let it go. They are more likely to let go of the trans issue than to let go of illegal immigration and open borders, as well as the new flavor of the month, that Palestinians are the great victims in the Middle East, including Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, and all the rest of the terrorist groups.
If you&#8217;re trying to figure out the direction of the Democratic Party, if you&#8217;re trying to get out the divining rod and determine which direction the Democratic Party is going to move into, the more moderate side or the more radical side, here’s the key: the moderates are already caving to the radicals.
They may separate from the trans stuff because it&#8217;s been so wildly unsuccessful for them. But the root cause of the Democratic Party is a belief that America is a great victimizer in the world, and therefore, America ought not to have borders, and also America’s foreign policy should be to abandon any strong ally, as long as it is beneficial to the Democratic Party.
“All these Democrats say you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration,” he said. “How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you get food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who do you think is here, by the sheer, just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance, and he&#8217;s (Trump) somehow convinced all of us that these people are criminals? White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit violent crime than an immigrant.”
He actually concluded that statement by suggesting that we should actually force El Salvador to send back illegal immigrants. Which is funny, since the ones we&#8217;re sending to El Salvador are, by and large, people with actual criminal records.
This is vitally important because Hunter was Joe Biden&#8217;s partially functioning brain during the administration. This is the Democratic Party perspective on illegal immigration: America ought to be an open borders country because unfettered immigration, without any sort of real security, without any sort of concern about cultural assimilation, is an effective good.
That is something the Democratic Party deeply believes in. As we start discussing 2028 candidates understand, there will not be a Democrat on the stage who significantly calls for border security.
It&#8217;s not just with regard to immigration. The Democratic Party also realizes that the energy in its party is very much on the side of third-world-ism.
It&#8217;s the Zoran Mamdani belief that the Third World has been victimized by America and her allies, and therefore the Third World must have her revenge. Hunter was talking about the dramatic increase in antisemitism under his father&#8217;s administration and claimed the real reason for that is because of the Israelis. In other words, after Hamas murdered 1,200 Jews in Israel and took 250 hostage, a couple of dozen of whom are still being held hostage after a year and a half, it&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s fault that antisemitism broke out.
He quoted the noted hater of Israel, Tom Friedman, saying that the worst thing that&#8217;s happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government. “Jewish people globally, the threats to their lives, the anti-Semitism that it has generated,” he said.
The worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government, according to Hunter Biden. Then he bragged about how his father tried to hamstring Israel in its pursuit of getting back its hostages and ending Hamas, an actual, honest-to-god, American State Department-designated terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
“He took away the bunker-busting bombs from the Israelis,” he boasted. “He tried to curtail Netanyahu&#8217;s thing. He forced Netanyahu to open up shipping lanes and aid lanes at the Rafah crossing to be able to get food aid in. He put pressure over and over and over again. And now, by the way, that is not even remotely happening. What is happening is that they were bombing food lines. There is no one in there to be able to record it. &#8230;There have been more journalists killed at this war in Gaza than in any other war combined, and nobody&#8217;s doing anything about it.”
This is propaganda on behalf of Hamas, because the reality is that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the GHF, which has been actually facilitating the entry of aid into Gaza, has been denying Hamas access to the food, which is why Hamas is shooting people and then attempting to insinuate itself among the population in order to shoot at Israeli soldiers, who then respond. That is the reality.
But these are the parts of the Democratic base that the Democrats are trying to woo. It is very important to them, illegal immigration, and third-world-ism. There is no systemic immunity for the Democratic Party against the radical base.
It does not exist. So if you think they&#8217;re going to nominate somebody who&#8217;s quasi-moderate in 2028, you’re wrong.
It is not going to happen.

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Longtime Democratic Strategist James Carville let loose on his own party in a scathing op-ed, calling it &#8220;constipated,&#8221; &#8220;leaderless,&#8221; and &#8220;a cracked-out clown car&#8221; that was barreling down the road toward a &#8220;civilized civil war.&#8221;
Carville has often taken Democrats to task in recent years – particularly with regard to their obsession with &#8220;wokeness&#8221; — and his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opinion/carville-democrats-midterms-mamdani.html?smid=tw-share">column</a> in Monday&#8217;s edition of The New York Times was no exception.
&#8220;Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it,&#8221; Carville teased the column in an X post, acknowledging that there had to be some changes made within his party but calling on the people to try to keep it together at least until after the 2026 midterms.
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&#8220;Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,&#8221; Carville wrote.
Carville went on to lay out the divisions made obvious by the rise of Democratic socialists in places like New York City — Queens councilman turned Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, for example — and argued that the party would have to face a reckoning of sorts. It needed to happen, he conceded, but said that it should wait until after the 2026 midterm elections.
The solution, Carville claimed, would come in the form of a &#8220;savior&#8221; — one candidate who could bring about a New Democratic Party that brought both sides together. His assessment was that such &#8220;saviors&#8221; had arisen before in former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
&#8220;The Democratic Party is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war. It’s necessary to have it. It’s even more necessary to delay it. The only thing that can save us now is an actual savior, because a new party can be delivered only by a person — see Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No matter how many podcasts or influencer streams our candidates go on, our new leader won’t arrive until the day after the midterms in November 2026, which marks the unofficial-yet-official beginning of the 2028 presidential primary contest. No new party or candidate has a chance for a breakthrough until that day.&#8221;
Whether or not Carville&#8217;s message will be well-received by Democrats remains to be seen. If former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter is any indication, the likelihood is that it won&#8217;t.
&#8220;James Carville hasn’t won a race in 40 f***ing years,&#8221; the younger Biden said during a recent interview, sharply criticizing any Democrat who&#8217;d conceded that it was time for Joe Biden to bow out. &#8220;[David Axelrod] had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama.&#8221;

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Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election because they &#8220;did not remain loyal&#8221; to the presidential nominee, Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVqiWu1fLdg">said</a> in a podcast interview.
&#8220;We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;We had the advantage of incumbency. We had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down.&#8221;
The son of Joe Biden blamed top Democrats for abandoning his father, former President Joe Biden.
&#8220;They had clearly made a decision. And when I say they, I mean the speaker,&#8221; Hunter said, referring to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Hunter made the comments on the &#8220;At Our Table&#8221; podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee. Harrison interviewed Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the podcast&#8217;s first episode.
Hunter said the Democratic Party supported Biden, but Democrat elites rejected him.
&#8220;You know who stood by us? Who? Black caucus, Hispanic caucus, the progressive caucus, the Democratic Party,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the Democratic Party. You know who didn&#8217;t stand by us? The fundraisers, the elite, the people that are the insiders, the people that say they&#8217;re not part of the beltway, but you know where they are? They&#8217;re living in Beverly Hills telling you or me what it is that real people care about.&#8221;
Hunter rejected claims that his father experienced mental decline during his presidency.
&#8220;We watched him get old in front of our eyes. And that does not mean that you&#8217;re incapacitated,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;Your gate changes. It does not mean that you do not have the mental capacity to be able to do your job.&#8221;
Both Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-now-clear-there-was-a-conspiracy-bidens-doctor-pleads-the-fifth-as-gop-probes-cover-up">physician</a> and a top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-jill-biden-aide-joins-white-house-doc-takes-the-fifth-in-biden-health-cover-up-probe">aide</a> for former first lady Jill Biden have pleaded the Fifth in hearings about the state of Biden&#8217;s mental capacity, The Daily Wire previously reported.
Biden struggled to finish sentences and had to be helped off the stage after a debate with President Donald Trump in June 2024. The debate led to Biden stepping down as the presidential nominee.
But Hunter still said he thinks his father &#8220;could have won.&#8221;
&#8220;We could have survived if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that we decided that — people in the Democratic party — were not going to allow it to happen,&#8221; Hunter said.
Hunter said there was no conspiracy about his father&#8217;s mental state.
&#8220;What sells is the idea of a conspiracy. What sells is a cover up,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;Do you realize the daily touch points that he had with people — that, by the way were not necessarily loyal to him — every single day, hundreds of people every single day during that period of time. And you can&#8217;t get one of them to go on the record.&#8221;
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-year-after-biden-quit-race-mike-johnson-drops-14-minute-video-exposing-dem-cover-up-of-his-decline">released</a> a video supercut Monday of Democrats defending and covering up Biden&#8217;s clear mental decline.
Hunter said critics did not &#8220;understand&#8221; Biden.
“What I think is this is that in their hearts these people have a hole and they can&#8217;t understand that Joe Biden is actually who he says he is,&#8221; Hunter said.
Biden has been caught lying about himself multiple times, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-evidence-biden-slammed-for-once-again-lying-about-driving-an-18-wheeler">claiming</a> he used to drive 18-wheelers and appearing to claim his son Beau Biden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-claims-his-son-beau-died-in-iraq">killed</a> in Iraq.

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