A hallmark of the late Soviet period was that no one actually knew who was running the country. Leonid Brezhnev, who supposedly ordered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, could barely speak in public. There was a concerted effort by the Politburo to hide his decline, to the extent that they could. By the final few years, it was clear that Brezhnev wasn&#8217;t actually making any decisions at all. Then, when Brezhnev finally died in 1982, he was replaced with Yuri Andropov &#8212; who, from the moment he took office, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/11/world/us-doctors-believe-andropov-had-failing-kidney-when-he-took-office.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffering</a> from severe kidney failure that often led to his complete incapacitation. Of course, that fact wasn&#8217;t disclosed to anyone at the time. But after Andropov died a little over a year into his term, the Soviets released medical files revealing he had been on dialysis practically the whole time he was in office. At that point, Andropov was replaced by someone named Konstantin Chernenko. And you can probably guess how that went. For his part, Chernenko was *also* suffering from debilitating health problems &#8212; including heart failure and emphysema &#8212; from the moment he took over. And once again, these problems were hidden, at least until he died while in office after 13 months on the job. And once again, in those 13 months, he spent a lot of his time in the hospital, unable to perform his duties. Yes, the Soviet Union cycled through three mostly unaccountable, incapacitated leaders in rapid succession, all while hiding their respective conditions from the public. You don&#8217;t need to be a student of history to know how that worked out, or what happened to the Soviet Union a few years later. Everything collapsed.
For many years, it&#8217;s gone without saying that, in this country, we don&#8217;t want to emulate the Soviet model of governance. Instead of being governed by a shadowy Politburo or an unelected bureaucracy of some kind, we&#8217;ve always understood that it&#8217;s critically important to have a competent, healthy president at the head of the federal government. That&#8217;s why members of the Cabinet, as well as members of Congress, have a constitutional duty to remove the president if, during his term, he becomes incapable of serving. It&#8217;s also why White House doctors release regular reports about the health of the president. Any effort to subvert this model of transparency &#8212; to revert to a Soviet style of governance, where no one knows who&#8217;s in charge &#8212; can only be interpreted in one way: It&#8217;s an attempt to undermine and ultimately destroy the foundations of this country, just as the Soviet Union was destroyed. And the people responsible for any kind of effort like that should be imprisoned as traitors to this country, because that&#8217;s exactly what they are.
During Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency, we&#8217;ve known for some time that his handlers were hiding some of the most dramatic evidence of his mental decline. As egregious as this cover-up was, it wasn&#8217;t entirely effective because people could still observe many signs of Joe Biden&#8217;s decline in public. What we didn&#8217;t know, until yesterday, is that Biden&#8217;s handlers were almost certainly hiding another very important piece of information, which is that Joe Biden was also suffering from terminal, stage 4 prostate cancer that&#8217;s spread to his bones &#8212; an aggressive cancer that will almost certainly kill him in a matter of years, if not sooner. In other words, it&#8217;s the kind of disease that, if Joe Biden had been elected in November, would almost certainly mean that Kamala Harris would be installed as the president of the United States. And there&#8217;s very good reason to believe that they hid Joe Biden&#8217;s diagnosis from the public in an attempt to secure exactly that outcome.
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It’s just impossible to believe that Joe Biden went from a perfectly clean bill of health &#8212; which his doctor provided in 2024 &#8212; to having stage 4 cancer in a matter of six months. Pretty much every expert in the field is unanimous on this point. For example, NewsNation just spoke to a urologist named David Shusterman. Shusterman pointed out that prostate cancer is typically a slow-growing cancer that&#8217;s easily detectable by using a PSA blood test, long before it spreads. And as a president, Joe Biden would presumably be receiving these regular tests. Watch:
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According to this urologist, it&#8217;s &#8220;pretty much unheard of&#8221; to get a diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer out of the blue in a situation like this. Even in poor areas without good healthcare, he says, it&#8217;s the kind of thing that happens when patients don&#8217;t get regular screenings for many years. And then he states that Biden may have had this cancer for a period of five to ten years &#8212; before he was in office.
And that appears to be the consensus. As Steven Quay, a prominent doctor and scientist, <a href="https://x.com/quay_dr/status/1924208125349171299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>: &#8220;Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.&#8221;
In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Chris George, who serves as the medical director of Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program, offered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this assessment</a>: “I would assume that the former president gets a very thorough physical every year. I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last time it was checked. &#8230; It’s sort of hard for me to believe that he’s had a PSA within the past year, that was normal. .. It’s possible. It’s definitely possible, but that would surprise me … Usually prostate cancer doesn’t, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that’s usually a bad, bad sign. That’s an aggressive cancer for sure. But it does seem odd to me.”
This is about as close as you&#8217;ll get to a doctor who believes that the official narrative is plausible. But even he thinks they should&#8217;ve been checking Biden&#8217;s PSA levels, and he wants to know what they were. Here&#8217;s the problem: If you go back and pull up Biden&#8217;s medical reports, you won&#8217;t see anything about his PSA level. And at the moment, we have no indication of whether they were checking his PSA levels at all. In 2019, Biden&#8217;s doctors reported that he had an enlarged prostate, but no cancer. You&#8217;d think that, perhaps, that might trigger some extra urgency for regular PSA screenings, but apparently not. Then in 2024, Biden&#8217;s physician reported that he was &#8220;a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.&#8221; But again, nothing about the PSA levels. There&#8217;s also nothing in the reports to indicate he was being treated in any way for cancer.
At the same time, CNN just interviewed a doctor who stated that, when prostate cancer is being treated, symptoms can include cognitive impairment and fatigue &#8212; which are both symptoms that Joe Biden obviously displayed during the campaign. Watch:
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The urologist we showed earlier, Dr. Shusterman, said the same thing in his interview with NewsNation. These treatments can cause cognitive impairments. So that raises some more questions. Do we know that Joe Biden was receiving any of these cancer treatments that fried his brain and made him so tired that, according to his own aides, he wasn&#8217;t able to function after dark? At the moment, no, we don&#8217;t. But we also don&#8217;t have any reason to believe Biden&#8217;s handlers when they say he wasn&#8217;t taking these treatments &#8212; especially given all of their other lies, and given his behavior while in office. And that really would be the scandal of the century. Imagine if it turned out that Joe Biden was only senile because they were treating him for terminal cancer that they wouldn&#8217;t disclose. At this point, you can&#8217;t put it past any of these people.
In any event, it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the fact that they&#8217;re floating this possibility on CNN just a couple of days before the release of Jake Tapper&#8217;s new book, which goes in-depth about Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline. And that presents yet another reason to doubt the official narrative, which is that Biden&#8217;s cancer was suddenly discovered this week. It looks a lot like they&#8217;re releasing this diagnosis in order to change the subject and garner sympathy for Biden. In fact, David Axelrod has no problem admitting that. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a very thinly veiled command. He&#8217;s essentially saying, now that we&#8217;ve told you Joe Biden is dying, please stop talking about how we covered up his mental decline as well as his cancer. And of course, CNN and the other networks will follow David Axelrod&#8217;s command.
To be clear: Saving the news of Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis for *two days before the book release* in order to change the subject and garner sympathy is diabolical. I’ve never seen anything so cynical in my life. But that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing. They&#8217;d rather you don&#8217;t pay any attention to all of the evidence that they lied and deceived the public for several years, in one of the greatest scandals of American history. Watch:
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They don&#8217;t want you asking any questions about any of this. They genuinely believe that, now that they&#8217;ve told us Joe Biden has cancer, all of this will go away.
But it won&#8217;t go away. Instead, it&#8217;s just become a much more serious crisis, in fact. At this point, there are several questions that need to be answered immediately. First: When was Joe Biden actually diagnosed with cancer? Was he treated in any way for prostate cancer at any time while he was in office? If so, who knew about these treatments and participated in the cover-up? And did they secretly treat him — or did they not treat him, because the only way to keep it hidden was to do nothing about it? Or did they want the disease to kill him quickly after his re-election so that Kamala could take over?
We are well past the point where we can take any Democrat&#8217;s word for any of this. Cable news hits on CNN aren&#8217;t sufficient. At this point, we need Congress to step up and actually do something for a change. We need full congressional investigations into this cover-up. Put people under oath. Every staffer. Jill Biden. Everyone.
Whatever the case, it’s now clear that their plan to engineer the first female president was to push through a cancer-riddled dementia patient, get him re-elected by any means necessary, let him die, and then have her take over. That&#8217;s undeniable at this point. It’s the most ruthless, cold-blooded plot we’ve ever seen in American politics. These people are demons. Like their counterparts in the final days of the Soviet Union, they obscured vital information that every American is entitled to. In fact, the Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-joe-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that &#8220;Administration staffers referred to Biden’s close-knit team of top advisers as The Politburo.&#8221; So they knew what they were doing. They knew they were acting like Soviet puppet-masters. And they&#8217;re still doing it. They&#8217;re refusing to answer the ultimate question that we simply must have an answer to, which is this: Who was actually running the country for the past four years? Whoever it was, it certainly wasn’t Joe Biden. These people are still out there. Some of them may be in the government right now. If not, they&#8217;re certainly planning to return to power soon. And before that happens, every single one of them must be identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned like the traitors to this country that they are.

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Joe Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover-Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.

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Michael LaRosa — who once worked as former First Lady Jill Biden&#8217;s press secretary — went scorched earth on his ex-employer during a recent Fox News appearance, saying that President Joe Biden and his family were &#8220;allergic to transparency.&#8221;
LaRosa joined &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends: Weekend&#8221; on Sunday to discuss the recently-released audio of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with then-Special Counsel Robert Hur, and he commented specifically on how difficult it was for even those working for the Bidens in the White House — like himself — to get a &#8220;straight answer&#8221; out of anyone.
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Host Rachel Campos Duffy asked LaRosa about the Hur interview audio, specifically questioning him on how things might have changed if the Bidens had been unsuccessful in keeping the audio out of the public square even after the transcripts were released.
&#8220;If you only knew how hard it was — I mean, this was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I go back to my — and I&#8217;m just talking about like just in the East Wing [the First Lady&#8217;s office]. I mean, the very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired and I couldn&#8217;t get reporters straight answers because nobody would give me straight answers.&#8221;
&#8220;It was not intuitive to them, it was not their style, to be transparent about anything,&#8221; LaRosa continued. &#8220;They took days and months to be deliberative, and I&#8217;m talking about the small things. About when the dog bites occurred, or about the wedding with the grandkids. They got caught lying to the press about press coverage because they were so scared to be transparent about anything.&#8221;
LaRosa said he eventually got to the point where he had to consider the possibility that if they were unwilling to be even the slightest bit transparent on the little things, &#8220;My God, what would happen if there were big things?&#8221;
LaRosa&#8217;s comments came just two days ahead of the release of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; — the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-book-promises-to-deliver-bombshells-but-are-they-bombshells-if-everyone-already-knew" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive and physical decline</a> — and hours before Biden&#8217;s office revealed that he had an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive form</a>&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.

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Jill Biden’s Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: ‘Allergic To Transparency’

Jill Biden's Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: 'Allergic To Transparency'

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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod called the recently revealed details of President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline &#8220;stunning&#8221; in a Wednesday interview, and called Biden&#8217;s decision to seek re-election &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; on the part of both the former president and his family.
Speaking on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition, Axelrod laid into Biden’s inner circle and top Democrats for adapting the former president’s schedule to accommodate his &#8220;declining condition,&#8221; while simultaneously arguing to voters that he was fit to serve another term.
&#8220;What is clear is that they did everything they could to adapt his public appearances and adapt his schedule to his declining condition,&#8221; Axelrod said, adding that &#8220;it was an irresponsible decision on his part, and I have to say, on his family&#8217;s part.&#8221;
The former Obama strategist&#8217;s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5397210/biden-trump-election-original-sin-book">comments</a> were in response to revelations from excerpts of &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&#8221; a forthcoming book by CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
The senior CNN political commentator pointed to one of the most “troubling” incidents detailed in the excerpt, in which Biden reportedly failed to recognize actor George Clooney, a donor and friend of two decades, at a California fundraiser.
“The details behind it were troubling. The thing that I was struck by was the reporting on his schedule before this event, and the rigors of what he was up to, and people dismissing his kind of being vacant, not being able to identify George Clooney, a friend of two decades, when he saw him, dismissed it as a function of jet lag and fatigue.”
Axelrod later points to Biden’s inner circle dismissing incidents like these as a symptom of a &#8220;deeper issue&#8221; within Biden&#8217;s circle that enabled his continued candidacy despite clear signs of decline.
“What struck me was that when you are president of the United States. Fatigue and strain is your daily existence. The presidency is relentless. And this is why I said in 2022 that it was going to be hard to make the case that he should be president for four more years.”
Tapper and Thompson&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump?fbclid=IwY2xjawKR0X9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOYXJLc0lmZEVrbjVHZ2UxAR5goe6iYyOhoScB-4DQYuQYLkTkOruNaz_AWLHo8Qd0BMU2lJ8BLLGoiWcoqw_aem_OAsqiqfGfha4zoH5cuj5kw">paints</a> a picture of a widespread effort within Biden&#8217;s inner circle to conceal his deteriorating condition from public view, with insiders pursuing &#8220;aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.&#8221;
Axelrod avoided labeling this effort from Biden’s team as “lying,” as “they were motivated by a belief in him, by a desire to see him continue,” instead putting most of the blame squarely on Biden and his family for putting staff in that position in the first place.
Biden’s 2024 bid was “an irresponsible decision on his part, and I have to say, on his family&#8217;s part,” Axelrod said.
When asked about Biden&#8217;s recent media appearances, including his appearance on &#8220;The View,&#8221; where viewers noticed him trailing off mid-sentence, Axelrod suggested the former president was continuing to receive poor counsel from the same advisers who encouraged his reelection bid.
&#8220;All he&#8217;s doing is making the story larger,&#8221; Axelrod said. &#8220;If he&#8217;s concerned about President Trump and some of the things that President Trump is doing, then he should want the Democratic Party to be in a position to move on and do well in the midterm elections.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s office continues to defend his legacy. A spokesperson said that the former president &#8220;was a very effective president&#8221; and challenged critics to provide evidence of instances where &#8220;national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job.&#8221;
“Original Sin” is set to release in late May.

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Axelrod: Biden’s Reelection Bid Was ‘Irresponsible,’ Details Of Cognitive Decline ‘Stunning’

2024 Election

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Former President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday that he could have once again bested President Donald Trump if he had not opted to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election in late July.
Biden joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — with former first lady Jill Biden at his side — and the conversation turned to the 2024 campaign as the cohosts asked about his decision to exit the race and whether or not he regretted dropping out.
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Sara Haines commends Biden for his &#8220;selfless and very difficult decision&#8221; to get out of the race, but wanted to know what he thought was the reason for Harris&#8217;s defeat. 
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Cohost Sara Haines praised Biden for taking the &#8220;selfless&#8221; route and stepping aside, saying that Democrats hd been shocked when former Vice President Kamala Harris had then been unable to close the deal. &#8220;It was like 2016 all over again,&#8221; she complained, and then asked Biden why he thought Harris had not been able to beat Trump.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t surprised, not because I didn&#8217;t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She&#8217;s qualified to be President of the United States of America. I was surprised — I was surprised because they went the route of — the sexist route, the whole route,&#8221; Biden said, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen quite a successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn&#8217;t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race.&#8221;
Biden also told Haines that he&#8217;d spoken to Harris just a day earlier, although he would not say what they discussed.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin asks if Biden still thought he could have beaten Trump. 
He does: &#8220;Yes. He still got 7 million fewer votes.&#8221; 
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Biden — whose exit came on the heels of a disastrous televised debate with President Trump in late June — whether he believed he could have won if he had remained on the ballot through the end of the campaign, and he said that he did.
Griffin noted that Trump had won all of the battleground states and had increased his support in almost every demographic, but Biden was not deterred.
&#8220;Yes, he still got less — it wasn&#8217;t a slam dunk,&#8221; Biden claimed, suggesting that because Trump won the 2024 election with fewer votes than Biden got in 2020, he would have won if he&#8217;d stayed in the race.

President Biden Addresses NAACP Convention In Las Vegas

Yes, Joe Biden Still Thinks He Could Have Beaten Trump In 2024

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Kamala Harris

The View

Former President Joe Biden got only one question about his obvious cognitive decline when he made an appearance on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — and former first lady Jill Biden had to jump in and help him with his response.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who typically identifies herself as a Republican despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-host-of-the-view-admits-to-fawning-cohosts-she-voted-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporting</a> former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, took the most indirect route possible to the obvious question. Rather than basing it on hours and hours of speeches and public appearance where Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre-who-ordered-white-house-officials-to-cover-up-bidens-decline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive abilities</a> were clearly lacking, Griffin instead framed it around the numerous books that are now being written by insiders revealing what they knew and when they knew it.
&#8220;Since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out, deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities, in the final year of your presidency,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?&#8221;
&#8220;They are wrong. There&#8217;s nothing to sustain that, um, number one,&#8221; Biden began, before pivoting to give a rambling response that in no way addressed the point of Griffin&#8217;s question. &#8220;Number two, you know, think of what we were left with, we were left with a circumstance where we — uh — we had an insurrection? When I started, we — not since the Civil War.&#8221;
Biden then appeared to blame the pandemic — and one million dead Americans — on President Donald Trump, adding, &#8220;We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — uh — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we&#8217;re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won&#8217;t go into here in the interest of time &#8230; and so we went to work and we got it done, and you know one of the things that, well, that —&#8221;
The former president appeared to lose his train of thought then, prompting Jill Biden to jump in and answer the question for him — and she tried to suggest that the authors of the books did not know what they were talking about.
&#8220;You know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And they didn&#8217;t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he&#8217;d get up, he&#8217;d put in a full day, and then at night he&#8217;d — I&#8217;d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff &#8230; I think he was a great president.&#8221;
She concluded with a jab at President Trump, saying, &#8220;If you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.&#8221;
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Farah Griffin notes that Biden was pushed out by Democratic Party insiders and donors, including personal friends. &#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; 
Biden claims: &#8220;The only reason I got out of the race… <a href="https://t.co/Wtbjwp9UOY">pic.twitter.com/Wtbjwp9UOY</a>
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Griffin pushed back lightly, noting that Biden ultimately left the 2024 presidential race after some prodding from members of his own party — including former President Barack Obama, with whom he had served as vice president for eight years.
&#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; she asked.
Biden insisted that the only reason he&#8217;d left the presidential race was to avoid further division within the Democratic Party.

Former US President Joe Biden

Joe Biden Gets One Question About His Cognitive Decline. Jill Has To Help Him Answer It.

Alyssa Farah Griffin

WASHINGTON—First Lady Melania Trump honored female recipients with the &#8220;International Women of Courage Awards&#8221; on Tuesday afternoon, sharing that these awardees &#8220;prove that love can inspire extraordinary valor even in the face of vulnerability.&#8221;
The First Lady co-hosted the annual International Women of Courage Awards ceremony at the State Department with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Dressed in a long, leopard print trench coat, Melania focused on the unique capability of these female advocates, activists, and leaders to act in the name of love.
&#8220;Today, we celebrate courage —a strength that is based in love,&#8221; she said.&#8221;This truth is illustrated through our honorees, who prove that love can inspire extraordinary valor even in the face of vulnerability.&#8221;
&#8220;Their remarkable stories are a testament to the power of love in practice — for family, community, and our world,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is especially evident in places where their passion defies convention and when it has been shown at great personal risk of stigma, persecution, or harm.&#8221;
This is the fifth year that Melania Trump has attended the event. Her predecessor, Jill Biden, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-gives-international-women-of-courage-award-to-a-biological-man">previously gave</a> an International Women of Courage award to a man who identifies as a woman named Alba Rueda, Argentina’s Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and the first trans-identifying politician to hold a senior governmental position. Rueda had made a name for himself pushing pro-transgender policies in Argentina.
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Awardees at Tuesday&#8217;s event included human rights defender Henriette Da; Hamas hostage survivor Amit Soussana; womens&#8217; rights activist Major Velena Iga; Phillippines &#8220;Mama Ranger&#8221; Angelique Songco; human rights advocate Georgiana Pascu; women&#8217;s rights leader Zabib Musa Loro Bakhit; journalist Namini Wijedasa; and Yemeni advocate Amat Al-Salam Abdullah Abdo al-Hajj.
Additionally, the Madeleine Albright Honorary Group Award was given to the “Women Student Protest Leaders of Bangladesh.&#8221;
The First Lady described these awardees as &#8220;brave women&#8221; who have &#8220;refused to let fear or hardship define them.&#8221; She specifically singled out Pascu, saying that she &#8220;exemplifies love in action.&#8221;
&#8220;Georgiana is a &#8216;watchdog&#8217; who defends the dignity of Romanians whose voices cannot be heard,&#8221; Melania explained.
&#8220;She fearlessly enters facilities designated as &#8216;care centers&#8217; to rescue people with disabilities who are unwittingly held captive. In fact, Georgiana usually shows up unannounced and discovers the unimaginable — helpless adults and children bound, sedated, starving, and in extreme cases, dying. Thanks to Georgiana’s brave work, dozens of offenders have been charged with human trafficking, exploitation, and even organized crime.&#8221;
The First Lady also extended a message to women across the world who advocate on behalf of others.
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&#8220;Let us also take a moment to acknowledge those who persist in their struggles,&#8221; she said. &#8220;For each of them, love serves as a powerful catalyst, instilling a profound sense of purpose in their endeavors. To the women who are driven to speak out for justice, even though their voices are trembling. To the women who are motivated to rise up for their community, when all others remain indifferent.To the women who feel compelled to heal wounds caused by hatred – and cherish peace.&#8221;
&#8220;These extraordinary women illuminate the transformative power of love in shaping our world,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Their journeys remind us that true courage is born from a deep commitment to others, showing that love fuels the call for justice. Through their brave actions, they inspire us to embrace our own potential for change, teaching us that while courage drives us forward, it is love that lays the groundwork for lasting impact. Let their stories motivate us to take courageous steps, knowing that each act of love can spark a ripple of transformation.&#8221;

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Melania Celebrates Women At State Department Awards Ceremony: ‘Strength That Is Based In Love’

Melania Trump

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Longtime Democrat strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-carville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> unloaded on former President Joe Biden in a recent episode of the &#8220;Politics War Room&#8221; podcast, telling cohost Al Hunt that Biden would do well to simply return to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, &#8220;and stay there.&#8221;
Carville, who had been critical of Democrats leading into the November election and had often commented that they were leaning too far into &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology, said that Biden was solely responsible for the fact that the American people no longer care to hear from him.
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Wow, James Carville did not hold back on Joe Biden: &quot;What he&#39;s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there.&quot;
&quot;Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party&#39;s moving on.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/CajCL7xPhO">pic.twitter.com/CajCL7xPhO</a>
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&#8220;What he’s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Okay, just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there. And that’s not because we’re bad people or we’re mean people. It was all his doing. All his doing, this entire thing,&#8221; Carville said, noting that the Democratic Party was not interested in talking to Biden either.
Carville briefly mentioned Biden&#8217;s repeated claim that he could have beaten Trump in November if he&#8217;d remained in the race, and made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t buying it: &#8220;No one f***ing believes that at all!&#8221;
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&#8220;And then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;I mean, just look, guy — you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on, and it’s very sad, but that’s just where we are. And he created this himself. He has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody.&#8221;
Hunt said that he &#8220;really has no role to play in the national dialogue,&#8221; and would be better served to simply step back from the spotlight and focus on raising money to build a library.
Carville took that a step further, saying that if Biden did insist on playing a role in public politics moving forward, that it would be a negative role.

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James Carville: Biden ‘Has Nobody To Blame But Himself’ For Damaged Legacy

James Carville: Biden 'Has Nobody To Blame But Himself' For Damaged Legacy

House Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a>&#8216;s (D-CA) daughter, Alexandria Pelosi, took a swipe at first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> in a burgeoning clash between two of the most powerful families in Democrat circles.
In a recent interview, Jill Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-lashes-out-at-pelosi-after-2024-shiv-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced displeasure</a> with how Nancy Pelosi fueled a Democrat revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>. Now, Alexandria Pelosi has sounded off with a not-so-subtle Shakespeare reference.
&#8220;If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,&#8221; said Alexandra Pelosi, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/19/lady-mcbiden-alexandra-pelosi-first-lady-00199164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>&#8216;s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin. &#8220;There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is one of them.&#8221;
Martin&#8217;s report stressed that Alexandra Pelosi &#8220;made clear she was speaking only for herself,&#8221; but also noted the &#8220;deafening silence from the White House in response to a request for comment marks the culmination of the bitter feud between the president and onetime speaker, two of the age’s most prominent Democrats and the bookends of the party’s Obama-era high and Trump restoration low.&#8221;
Although he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
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During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — an interview on MSNBC’s &#8220;Morning Joe &#8221; — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden in which the first lady was quoted mentioning how she was thinking &#8220;a lot&#8221; about relationships and took a dig at Nancy Pelosi. &#8220;We were friends for 50 years,&#8221; Jill Biden said. &#8220;It was disappointing.&#8221;
As reported by Martin, Nancy Pelosi has received a wave of &#8220;messages, flowers and calls of concern from heads of state, colleagues in both parties and even royalty&#8221; since breaking her hip in Europe last month, but &#8220;it’s who she has not heard from that’s most remarkable, and that has infuriated Pelosi’s friends and family: Joe and Jill Biden.&#8221;
Martin wrote that he was informed that Nancy Pelosi has tried multiple times to speak with Joe Biden, only to be turned down. &#8220;She’s been told they’re not over it, don’t make more overtures because he’s blaming her,&#8221; an insider told the columnist. Martin&#8217;s report also noted that &#8220;Biden did briefly chat with Pelosi, her husband, Paul, and daughter Christine at a White House holiday party last month. But that encounter only served to remind them of the rupture.&#8221;

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Pelosi’s Daughter Disses Jill Biden In Growing Family Feud

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Nancy Pelosi

Ahead of her departure from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>, first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> voiced displeasure with Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) over how the prominent House Democrat fueled a revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the &#8220;keeper of the family grudges&#8221; — a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling &#8220;every slight committed&#8221; against the people that she loves.
&#8220;Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; in July with a shiv.&#8221;
Though he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — the MSNBC interview — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
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According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi went down:
<blockquote>&#8220;&#8216;Like I said,&#8217; Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, &#8216;I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.&#8217;
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
&#8216;It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — &#8216;
Jill pauses.
&#8216;We were friends for 50 years.&#8217; She is using her teacher’s voice now. &#8216;It was disappointing.'&#8221;</blockquote>
After Harris lost the presidential election to Trump, Pelosi appeared to blame the outcome on Joe Biden during an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-blames-kamalas-loss-on-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding, &#8220;The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.&#8221;
Pelosi also said: &#8220;And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.&#8221;
There had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-furious-at-you-pelosi-grilled-about-dem-mutiny-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Joe Biden was frustrated at Pelosi, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/biden-frustration-obama-pelosi-00173883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among others</a>, for pressing him to step aside. However, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-does-not-deny-democrats-forced-him-out-claims-he-wouldve-won" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in September that his relationship with Pelosi was &#8220;fine.&#8221; Joe Biden also claimed — as he has done <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-the-hell-knows-biden-gets-asked-if-he-would-have-the-vigor-to-serve-another-term" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple times</a> now — that he was &#8220;confident&#8221; that he would have beaten Trump in a rematch.

Jill Biden Lashes Out At Pelosi After 2024 ‘Shiv’ Moment

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NBC News chief political analyst <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbcs-chuck-todd-baffled-team-biden-pushed-for-debate-rules-that-make-trump-seem-more-presidential" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Todd</a> tore into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> after the president issued a pardon on Sunday to their son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, who was facing possible prison time over gun and tax crimes.
In a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/p/why-joe-biden-needs-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> with journalist Chris Cillizza, Todd said he knew &#8220;100%&#8221; the pardon was going to happen and insisted President Biden &#8220;needs therapy&#8221; because he has &#8220;not processed&#8221; the death of his older son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who passed away of brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015.
President Biden has an &#8220;issue&#8221; with Hunter Biden in which he blames himself for Hunter Biden&#8217;s struggles over the years, including drug addiction, &#8220;second-guesses everything&#8221; with raising Hunter compared to how he raised Beau, Todd contended.
Todd also reportedly said he believed that Biden was never going to stand for the possible &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> would be the one to pardon Hunter Biden.
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I talk to <a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chucktodd</a> every Monday for my newsletter. 
It&#39;s always a good conversation.
But, I thought Chuck NAILED it today on why the Hunter Biden trial really mattered when thinking about the Biden presidency and the pardon.
Watch the whole thing at the link in my bio. <a href="https://t.co/FzBUBKM1cI">pic.twitter.com/FzBUBKM1cI</a>
&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1863762907718197263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The conversation then turned to the summer, when a jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. Todd mentioned Beau Biden&#8217;s widow, Hallie Biden. After Beau&#8217;s death, she started a romantic relationship with Hunter. Her public disposal of Hunter&#8217;s gun <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/hunter-biden-beau-widow-gun-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led to</a> the firearm case against him.
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&#8220;I followed the Hunter Biden trial very closely. I read every transcript, all the testimony, because all that was made public. &#8230; You want to get angry? Just as somebody in — just all these mixed emotions,&#8221; Todd said.
&#8220;You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that’s Beau’s widow. And essentially, [Hunter] turned her into a crack addict. And this was all happening in 2017 and 2018. And Joe and Jill Biden were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president,&#8221; Todd continued. &#8220;When you talk about the word selfish &#8230; their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position it&#8217;s in now.&#8221;
Cillizza, a former CNN editor at large who now has a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a> called &#8220;So What?&#8221; on Substack, posted a clip of the discussion to X on Monday. Some of those who commented on the post noted how Todd appeared to be more defensive of the Bidens in the past.
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-january-15-2023-n1302361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with</a> Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; early last year in which Todd <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;went to the mat&#8221;</a> for Hunter Biden when the first son was under investigation but had not yet been charged with any crimes.
&#8220;Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed because I&#8217;ve yet to see anybody explain. It is not a crime to make money off of your last name,&#8221; Todd said at one point. At another, he said, &#8220;Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it&#8217;s part of your identity.&#8221;

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First Lady Jill Biden took delivery of the official White House Christmas tree just before the Thanksgiving holiday — but her announcement about where the tree had come from raised eyebrows.
Biden explained that the massive Fraser Fir had come from a family-owned Christmas tree farm in North Carolina — and that the family had nicknamed it &#8220;Tree-mendous&#8221; when it remained standing after thousands of their trees were lost during Hurricane Helene.
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“This one remained standing.&quot;
First lady Jill Biden received the 2024 White House Christmas tree, a Frasier fir from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, a community recently impacted by Hurricane Helene. <a href="https://t.co/CPqKq27kh9">pic.twitter.com/CPqKq27kh9</a>
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&#8220;Their farm is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a region that was recently devastated by Hurricane Helene,&#8221; Biden said of the more-than-60-year-old farm. &#8220;The Cartner family lost thousands of trees to the storm. But this one remained standing—and they named it &#8216;Tremendous&#8217; for the extraordinary hope that it represents.&#8221;
But critics were not impressed with Biden&#8217;s remarks, arguing that if the tree was a symbol of &#8220;extraordinary hope,&#8221; maybe the political elites should have left it where it stood.
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&#8220;This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it &#8216;remained standing&#8217; until the government showed up ready to help,&#8221; Erick Erickson posted.
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This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it “remained standing” until the government showed up ready to help. <a href="https://t.co/bBBZNFQEvd">https://t.co/bBBZNFQEvd</a>
&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1862297268226789703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;lol …They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy. It’s poetic,&#8221; RedState&#8217;s Bonchie added.
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lol…They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy.
It’s poetic. <a href="https://t.co/9Nmoex04xn">https://t.co/9Nmoex04xn</a>
&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1862298925480177911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis asked, &#8220;You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods?&#8221;
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You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods? <a href="https://t.co/JfLn7n3k5V">https://t.co/JfLn7n3k5V</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1862517977762947271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, let me get this straight. The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname &#8216;Treemendous&#8217; for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and dragged to the White House to be put on temporary display before getting tossed aside as, for lack of a better term, garbage?&#8221; another posted. &#8220;Who the hell thought that was a good idea? Speaking of symbolism, this move by Team Deep State is very on-brand.&#8221;
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So, let me get this straight.
The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname &#39;Treemendous&#39; for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and… <a href="https://t.co/yDttFwgWHO">https://t.co/yDttFwgWHO</a>
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Jill Biden Trashed For Getting White House Christmas Tree From Farm Impacted By Hurricane Helene

Jill Biden Trashed For Getting White House Christmas Tree From NC Farm Impacted By Hurricane Helene

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Melania Trump has turned down an invitation to meet with Jill Biden on Wednesday —  when President-elect Donald Trump will visit President Joe Biden — with sources reportedly close to Melania citing the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago as a key reason why.
Melania did visit and toured the White House with then-first lady Michelle Obama after Trump won the 2016 election.
“She ain’t going,” a source told <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-news/melania-trump-declines-to-meet-with-jill-biden-at-white-house-citing-mar-a-lago-raid-source/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting. &#8230;Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet.”
The FBI executed a search warrant and raided the Trumps’ Florida Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8, 2022, as part of its investigation into Trump’s handling of presidential documents. Mr. Trump was at Trump Tower in New York City at the time.
In September, Melania Trump posted a video on X in which she quoted the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated &#8230;”
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She followed by stating, &#8220;I never imagined my privacy would be invaded by the government here in America. The FBI raided my home in Florida and searched through my personal belongings. This is not just my story; it serves as a warning to all Americans, a reminder that our freedom and rights must be respected.”
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&mdash; MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1834937662207103146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Melania stated that the FBI “rummaged through my personal belongings.” Asked if that made her angry, she <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SeanHannity/videos/melania-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-made-me-angry-it-was-invasion-of-privacy/411406728648329/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled</a>, “Yeah, it made me angry. Yes. Invasion of privacy. The way it was done, I was really surprised. &#8230; I saw unpleasant stuff, that nobody wants to see it. And you get angry because, you know, nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff. Some person, I don’t even know who, or how many people, they went through my stuff.”
Roughly one month after the FBI raid, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109021143394347374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Truth Social, “I’ll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. I’ll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house. It has already been proven that so much has been wrongfully taken, it is not a &#8216;pretty thing.&#8217; So sad! The 4th Amendment, and much more, has been totally violated, a grave invasion of privacy. I will keep the American public informed on TRUTH!”
Trump’s confidential documents case was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-smith-c66d5ffb7ba86c1b991f95e89bdeba0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> in July by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

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Melania Turns Down Meeting With Jill Biden, Source Cites Mar-A-Lago Raid: Report

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